Download or read book Planetary Energies as Stepping Stones to Cosmos written by Kurt Abraham and published by Lampus Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Planetary Economics written by Michael Grubb and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well do our assumptions about the global challenges of energy, environment and economic development fit the facts? Energy prices have varied hugely between countries and over time, yet the share of national income spent on energy has remained surprisingly constant. The foundational theories of economic growth account for only about half the growth observed in practice. Despite escalating warnings for more than two decades about the planetary risks of rising greenhouse gas emissions, most governments have seemed powerless to change course. Planetary Economics shows the surprising links between these seemingly unconnected facts. It argues that tackling the energy and environmental problems of the 21st Century requires three different domains of decision-making to be recognised and connected. Each domain involves different theoretical foundations, draws on different areas of evidence, and implies different policies. The book shows that the transformation of energy systems involves all three domains - and each is equally important. From them flow three pillars of policy – three quite distinct kinds of actions that need to be taken, which rest on fundamentally different principles. Any pillar on its own will fail. Only by understanding all three, and fitting them together, do we have any hope of changing course. And if we do, the oft-assumed conflict between economy and the environment dissolves – with potential for benefits to both. Planetary Economics charts how.

Download or read book Thermodynamics of the Earth and Planets written by Alberto Patiño Douce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides an intuitive yet mathematically rigorous introduction to the thermodynamics and thermal physics of planetary processes. It demonstrates how the workings of planetary bodies can be understood in depth by reducing them to fundamental physics and chemistry. The book is based on two courses taught by the author for many years at the University of Georgia. It includes 'Guided Exercise' boxes; end-of-chapter problems (worked solutions provided online); and software boxes (Maple code provided online). As well as being an ideal textbook on planetary thermodynamics for advanced students in the Earth and planetary sciences, it also provides an innovative and quantitative complement to more traditional courses in geological thermodynamics, petrology, chemical oceanography and planetary science. In addition to its use as a textbook, it is also of great interest to researchers looking for a 'one stop' source of concepts and techniques that they can apply to their research problems.

Download or read book A Time for Magick written by Maria Kay Simms and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astrology is the Queen of Timing! One of the great benefits you can gain through astrological knowledge is the ability to choose the appropriate time for your purposes. A Time for Magick shows you how to work toward your magickal, spiritual, or mundane goals in harmony with the movements of the planets. Here you will learn easy techniques for planning ahead with astrology. You'll gain a new understanding of the themes of the Sun, Moon, and all eight planets of basic astrology: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. More significantly, you'll learn to conjure planetary energies within yourself, and to use those energies creatively and advantageously in your life. In this book, you'll discover: • Rituals with spellworkings for the Sun, Moon, and each of the planets • Guided meditations for each of the planets • Perpetual planetary hour tables and how to use them • Interpretations for your planetary hour of birth • How to read and use an astrological calendar Don't wait and wonder what the planets may mean to your fate. Take charge of your destiny by directing planetary energies to your best advantage! "Maria Kay Simms has a rare gift for taking a complicated topic and distilling the most essential data for the reader. Whether you are a professional astrologer, a practicing Wiccan, or someone who wants to improve your timing in life, A Time for Magick has valuable information for you. Whatever you want---love, health, wealth, happiness---is more likely to be achieved if you make the right moves at the right times. A Time for Magick shows you how to do that---quickly and easily." Maritha Pottenger author of Complete Horoscope Interpretation and Planets on the Move

Download or read book Awakening Astrology written by Molly McCord and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Awakening Astrology, professional astrologer and intuitive business coach Molly McCord offers a clear, accessible guide for those seeking an introduction to astrology that is simultaneously easy to grasp yet still full of powerful information. Every natal astrology chart has wisdom to offer, but the array of planets, houses, and signs can be bewildering and often overwhelming. Awakening Astrology cuts through this confusion by taking a deeper look at just the five key planets—Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars—that are most fundamentally connected to your core personality energies."--Amazon.com.

Download or read book Planetary Health written by Samuel Myers and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere. Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves provides a readable introduction to this new paradigm. With an interdisciplinary approach, the book addresses a wide range of health impacts felt in the Anthropocene, including food and nutrition, infectious disease, non-communicable disease, dislocation and conflict, and mental health. It also presents strategies to combat environmental changes and its ill-effects, such as controlling toxic exposures, investing in clean energy, improving urban design, and more. Chapters are authored by widely recognized experts. The result is a comprehensive and optimistic overview of a growing field that is being adopted by researchers and universities around the world. Students of public health will gain a solid grounding in the new challenges their profession must confront, while those in the environmental sciences, agriculture, the design professions, and other fields will become familiar with the human consequences of planetary changes. Understanding how our changing environment affects our health is increasingly critical to a variety of disciplines and professions. Planetary Health is the definitive guide to this vital field.

Download or read book Integrating New Planetary Energies written by Mary Jo Gilsdorf and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mythastrology written by Raven Kaldera and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2004 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2005 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) 1st Runner Up in Non-Fiction category! In ancient times, priests, poets, and astrologers studied the movements of the planets to understand the cycles of life. Mars, Venus, Neptune - the planets themselves are named after gods and goddesses of civilizations past. MythAstrology is a guide to understanding the expression of planetary energies through the signs of the zodiac. Explore the many myths that you may be living, their lessons, and their rewards and difficulties by discovering your own astrological mythology. All you need is a copy of your astrological birth chart and this book to form a complete astromythological profile of yourself and your friends and family. Deepen your understanding of ancient myth, modern astrology, and your own psyche.

Download or read book Planetary Improvement written by Jesse Goldstein and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that “green capitalism” is more capitalist than green. Entrepreneurs and investors in the green economy have encouraged a vision of addressing climate change with new technologies. In Planetary Improvement, Jesse Goldstein examines the cleantech entrepreneurial community in order to understand the limitations of environmental transformation within a capitalist system. Reporting on a series of investment pitches by cleantech entrepreneurs in New York City, Goldstein describes investor-friendly visions of incremental improvements to the industrial status quo that are hardly transformational. He explores a new “green spirit of capitalism,” a discourse of planetary improvement, that aims to “save the planet” by looking for “non-disruptive disruptions,” technologies that deliver “solutions” without changing much of what causes the underlying problems in the first place. Goldstein charts the rise of business environmentalism over the last half of the twentieth century and examines cleantech's unspoken assumptions of continuing cheap and abundant energy. Recounting the sometimes conflicting motivations of cleantech entrepreneurs and investors, he argues that the cleantech innovation ecosystem and its Schumpetarian dynamic of creative destruction are built around attempts to control creativity by demanding that transformational aspirations give way to short-term financial concerns. As a result, capitalist imperatives capture and stifle visions of sociotechnical possibility and transformation. Finally, he calls for a green spirit that goes beyond capitalism, in which sociotechnical experimentation is able to break free from the narrow bonds and relative privilege of cleantech entrepreneurs and the investors that control their fate.

Download or read book Planetary Diversity written by Elizabeth J. Tasker and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thirty years have seen an irrevocable change in the field of planetary science with the discovery of the first planets around stars other than our own Sun. While approximately twenty percent of the exoplanets we have discovered are close in size to the Earth, the similarity of their surface environment to our home world remains unknown. This book presents an exploration of the potential diversity of rocky planets through a quantitative study of how planetary processes change as properties deviate from the Earth. Changes in four specific properties are considered: the presence of a magnetic field, the production and loss of internal heat, planetary composition and volatile abundance.

Download or read book Principles of Planetary Climate written by Raymond T. Pierrehumbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the reader to all the basic physical building blocks of climate needed to understand the present and past climate of Earth, the climates of Solar System planets, and the climates of extrasolar planets. These building blocks include thermodynamics, infrared radiative transfer, scattering, surface heat transfer and various processes governing the evolution of atmospheric composition. Nearly four hundred problems are supplied to help consolidate the reader's understanding, and to lead the reader towards original research on planetary climate. This textbook is invaluable for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science, astrobiology, and physics. It also provides a superb reference text for researchers in these subjects, and is very suitable for academic researchers trained in physics or chemistry who wish to rapidly gain enough background to participate in the excitement of the new research opportunities opening in planetary climate.

Download or read book Planetary Habitability written by KANE and published by Programme: Aas-Iop Astronomy. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding planetary habitability is one of the major challenges of the current scientific era, and is a vast inter-disciplinary undertaking that combines planetary science, climate science, and stellar astrophysics. This book provides an overview of the many processes that influence the energy balance of planetary surface environments and control the sustainability of temperate conditions. These factors include such aspects as the influence of stars, the atmospheres and interiors or planets, and the orbital dynamics of planetary systems. Also described are the concepts behind the habitable zone, lessons learned from solar system data, and the vast opportunities that are provided by exoplanet discoveries, both now and into the future. Key Features: Summarises current exoplanet discoveries relevant to habitability Aimed at graduate students and researchers with an interest in exoplanets and astrobiology Describes the primary factors that influence the habitability of a planet Emphasises the need for in situ data in our solar system Covers the degeneracy of geosignatures and biosignatures

Download or read book Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet written by Thomas Murphy, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook for general-education college course on the physics of energy and its role in the broader context of society. Topics include exponential growth, economic growth, population, the role of space exploration, energy units, thermal energy, fossil fuels, climate change, hydroelectricity, wind power, solar power, biological energy, nuclear energy, comparison of alternative energy options, the role of human psychology, prospects for a plan, and adaptation strategies. Appendices include refreshers on math and chemistry, selected answers from end-of-chapter problems, and worthwhile tangents. Contains 195 graphics, 70 tables, a glossary, bibliography, and index.

Download or read book Astrological Numerology A Practical Guide for Energy Healing and Personal Transformation written by Nick Creighton and published by nick creighton. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the transformative power of astrological numerology with this comprehensive guide. "Astrological Numerology" delves deep into the mystical correlation between the positions of celestial bodies and numerical values to offer unique insights into personal healing and growth. This book empowers readers to: Understand the fundamental principles of astrology and numerology. Explore how these principles interconnect and influence one another. Apply practical techniques to harness these energies for personal transformation. Achieve greater self-awareness, healing, and spiritual enlightenment. Each chapter includes easy-to-follow, actionable steps and exercises that guide you through personal energy assessments and healing practices. Whether you are a beginner curious about metaphysical sciences or an experienced practitioner looking to deepen your knowledge, this guide provides valuable insights that can significantly impact your journey towards a more fulfilling life. Bullet Points (Key Features) Comprehensive Guide: Extensive coverage of both astrological and numerological concepts. Practical Exercises: Hands-on activities to practice and integrate the teachings. Expert Insights: Written by a seasoned expert in the field of metaphysical sciences. Beautifully Illustrated: Includes diagrams and illustrations to enhance understanding. Transformative Techniques: Methods for energy healing and personal growth.

Download or read book Dynamic Astrology written by John Townley and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move beyond a static interpretation of your natal chart to an understanding of how planetary cycles affect such things as one's career, finances, and opportunities. John Townley discusses the principles of dynamic astrology and shows how the cycles of the planets and important degrees in your chart play a continuing role in your life.

Download or read book Astrocartography for Beginners written by Hermes Astrology and published by Hermes Astrology. This book was released on 2024-10-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the mysteries of the universe with "Astrocartography for Beginners." This essential guide introduces you to the fascinating world of astrocartography, a unique branch of astrology that explores how different locations on Earth influence your personal energies and life experiences. Inside this book, you'll discover: Fundamentals of Astrocartography: Understand the basic principles and how it differs from traditional astrology. Creating Your Astrocartography Map: Step-by-step instructions on how to generate and interpret your own astrocartography chart. Understanding Energetic Zones: Learn about the various lines on your map—like the Sun, Moon, and Venus lines—and what they mean for your life journey. Practical Applications: Explore how to choose travel destinations, career paths, and even places to live based on your unique map. Case Studies and Personal Stories: Real-life examples that illustrate the transformative power of astrocartography. Whether you're a complete novice or looking to deepen your astrological knowledge, this book offers valuable insights and practical tools to help you navigate the cosmic influences that shape your life. Start your journey of self-discovery and empowerment today!

Download or read book Introductory Notes on Planetary Science written by Colette Salyk and published by Programme: Aas-Iop Astronomy. This book was released on 2020 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planets come in many different sizes, and with many different compositions, orbiting our Sun and countless other stars. Understanding their properties and interactions requires an understanding of a diverse set of sub-fields, including orbital and atmospheric dynamics, geology, geophysics, and chemistry. This textbook provides a physics-based tour of introductory planetary science concepts for undergraduate students majoring in astronomy, planetary science, or related fields. It shows how principles and equations learned in introductory physics classes can be applied to study many aspects of planets, including dynamics, surfaces, interiors, and atmospheres. It also includes chapters on the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets, and the physics of planet formation. Key Features Covers a wide range of planetary science topics at an introductory level Coherently links the fields of solar system science, exoplanetary science, and planet formation Each chapter includes homework questions Includes python templates for reproducing and customizing the figures in the book