Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la tierra/geociencias

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  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
    Air quality is personal. Its management is highly so. Asthmatic or air-pollutant-sensitive individuals depend on accurate air quality forecasts to help manage their daily activities.  However, the adverse effects of poor air quality on public health and visibility extend far beyond the daily time horizon. Pneumonic and cardiac vascular responses of individuals in all age groups...
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    59,74 €

  • Polarimetric SAR Techniques and Applications
    Carlos López-Martínez / Juan Manuel Lopez-Sanchez
    An increasing number of spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems have been equipped with polarimetric capabilities: ALOS and ALOS-2, Radarsat-2, TerraSAR-X, Envisat-ASAR, Sentinel-1a/b, etc. Future mission will still present this type of diversity: RCM, SAOCOM, Cosmo-Skymed 2nd generation or PAZ. Polarimetry allows sensitivity to the structural and geometric properties...
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    59,61 €

  • Innovative Strategies and Frameworks in Climate Change Adaptation
    Alexander G. Flor / Alexander GFlor / Benjamina Gonzalez Flor
    The changes the earth is currently undertaking has been at the forefront of scientific discourse in recent years. Humans as a species have needed to react to these changes and shift their behavior accordingly. Innovative Strategies and Frameworks in Climate Change Adaptation: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that examines the relationship bet...
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    216,16 €

  • Coastal Sea Levels, Impacts and Adaptation
    Extreme sea levels can lead to hazardous events, such as coastal flooding, erosion, or salt water intrusion, with-wide ranging environmental, societal, and economic consequences. In combination with climate-driven sea-level rise, and, potentially, additional changes in storminess, dynamic wave contributions, and tidal dynamics, the adverse consequences of extreme oceanographic ...
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    75,97 €

  • Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Geoinformatics
    Saro Lee
    Recently, a need has arisen for prediction techniques that can address a variety of problems by combining methods from the rapidly developing field of machine learning with geoinformation technologies such as GIS, remote sensing, and GPS. As a result, over the last few decades, one particular machine learning technology, known as artificial neural networks, has been successfull...
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    59,81 €

  • Climate Change and Global Warming - Exposed
    Andrew Johnson
    The weather is something which affects all of us, every day of our lives. It dictates our long and short-term plans. In the UK, the weather is the "default topic" of conversation for strangers and friends alike. Though it has obvious and far reaching importance, most people don't know very much about the weather. These days, they don't take time to observe it and probab...
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    13,82 €

  • Exploration Science
    Dr Peter T Scott
    About Exploration ScienceHave you wondered what the science of geology is all about?Together we will explore of the surface and sub-surface of the Earth, the sub-branches of geology, including mineralogy, petrology (rocks), palaeontology (fossils), geochemistry, seismology (earthquakes), engineering geology, and many more.The scientific method used by all scientists as well as ...
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    30,12 €

  • Fossils, Dinosaurs and Cave Men
    Patrick Nurre
    This textbook is a high school, semester study of the differences between the Biblcal and secular views of fossils, dinosaurs, and cave men.  Topics include the cause and mechanism for a global flood, the geologic time table, living fossils, the Tower of Babel, modern classification of dinosaurs, and more.  Students will also learn to interpret the geologic column from a Biblic...
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    43,86 €

  • Checklist of Papuasian Orchids
    Paul Ormerod
    This is the most comprehensive account to date of all Papua New Guineas wild orchids and will no doubt prove to be the essential reference to PNG's orchids for all botanists, ecologists and orchid enthusiasts for decades to come. All types and relevant data including where published are listed and the herbariums where they are kept. All synonymous names, where published and...
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    59,91 €

  • Adventures in Earth Science
    Dr Peter T Scott
    ADVENTURES in EARTH SCIENCE is not just an in-depth textbook but a series of adventures across seven continents and beyond in the sciences of astronomy, geology, meteorology and oceanography. It has been written with over forty years of experience in studying, researching and teaching earth science. Whilst it has been designed for senior high school and junior university or col...
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    142,25 €

  • The 1980 Eruption of Mt. St. Helens
    Don J Easterbrook
    On March 27, 1980 St. Helens suddenly began to erupt steam and ash. These eruptions continued sporadically for the next seven weeks and Dr. Easterbrook made frequent flights to the mountain to observe the eruptive activity. On May 18, 1980, he flew to St Helens at 5:30 a.m. and flew in tight circles a few hundred feet above the summit crater for 2-1/2 hours, photographing the s...
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    17,46 €

  • A Brief History of Geology
    Kieran D. O’Hara / Kieran DO'Hara / Kieran DO’Hara
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    43,10 €

  • My Experiments with Volcanoes
    Thomas Augustus Jaggar
    My Experiments with Volcanoes, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of sc...
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    18,91 €

  • Reign of the Beast
    Adrian Desmond
    In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man’s institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ’Devil’s Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robe...
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    41,76 €

  • How to save our world
    Paul Arthur van Doorn
    worldMany books have been written about how we might save life on Earth. Some people believe that saving the Earth will cost 125 billion dollars while others claim that 1000 billion dollars will not be enough to achieve that goal. The solution as described in this book will not cost a penny! Indeed, all people will get the possibility for enlarging inner wisdom and material we...
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    22,50 €

  • Reign of the Beast
    Adrian Desmond
    In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man’s institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ’Devil’s Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robe...
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    60,00 €

  • Advancements in Climate and Smart Environment Technology
    The world faces escalating environmental and healthcare challenges, from climate change to managing natural resources and providing efficient medical services. These issues are complex, often requiring intricate modeling and intervention from domain experts. Traditional analytical methods need help to cope with the complexity and scale of these challenges, leading to inefficien...
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    386,44 €

  • Advancements in Climate and Smart Environment Technology
    The world faces escalating environmental and healthcare challenges, from climate change to managing natural resources and providing efficient medical services. These issues are complex, often requiring intricate modeling and intervention from domain experts. Traditional analytical methods need help to cope with the complexity and scale of these challenges, leading to inefficien...
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    294,47 €

  • Time
    Abdoul khoudouss Kamara
    Abdoul Koudouss Kamara is a Mauritanian mining engineer, born in 1938, who lives in the United States. His research in the prediction of events by calendar periodicities dates back to the 1970s. Having lost his sight in 1990, his work was greatly slowed down.Abdoul K. Kamara is also a practitioner of esotericism. ...
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    23,50 €

  • Climatic Changes
    Ellsworth Huntington
    Embark on a journey through time and climate with Ellsworth Huntington’s groundbreaking work, ’Climatic Changes’. In this insightful study, Huntington explores the dynamic relationship between climate and civilization, offering a fascinating glimpse into the ways in which environmental factors have shaped the course of human history.Drawing upon evidence from geological records...
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    18,86 €

  • Earth
    Kent Horner
    It is a reflection of living through doing and coming to a conclusion about what we are meant to be while we are here on this small world we call Earth.It is up to you to make up your mind about that, for only you can decide which direction you want to take.I only hope this small book can help you to make up your mind. ...
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    16,78 €

  • Role of Rock Mineralogy and Oil Composition in Wettability Alteration
    Mohammad Alqam
    Previous studies have documented that increased oil production during the injection of immiscible CO2 is mainly due to oil viscosity, oil swelling and the increase in dissolved gas. This study will attempt to focus and fill this gap by investigate the role played by rock mineralogy, brine composition, carbonated water and polar compounds present in a crude oil on rock wettabili...
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    46,61 €

  • Plate tectonic history of the Indian Ocean 1
    Magloire FABIEN
    The Mesozoic split of East-Gondwana (EG) was controlled by N-S convection currents (CC) made up of three branches. The fragmentation occurred in five periods, each period being preceded by mid-oceanic ridge closings and jumps. The process started with the side interaction of the newly formed off-South African E-W CC with EG in Lower Cretaceous. Aptian rifting activities occurre...
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    60,26 €

  • The Weather Observer’s Handbook
    Stephen Burt
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    158,51 €

  • The Weather Observer’s Handbook
    Stephen Burt
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    66,52 €

  • The geology of South Kivu in DR Congo
    Christian SEKIMONYO SHAMAVU / Moise KAJANGWA BANZI
    Kamituga is a mining town in the province of Sud-Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kamituga lies to the east of the Bulega mining region, on the western slopes of the Mitumba mountain range. The current population is over 260,000. Kamituga is a mining center and an important communications hub on the RN2 national road, and is the economic pool of the wes...
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    60,13 €

  • Sustainable Anthropology
    Danny Francis Gómez R.
    The present research has as its substantive purpose the study of Latin American sustainable biolaw, as principles Framework to the Human Rights Council in the United Nations 2018; establishing the basic obligations of States under human rights law in relation to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment based on the postulates of the author J. Knox. It...
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    60,13 €

  • Unearthing Aluminum
    Fouad S. Al Kaabi / Mustafa A. Abdulkareem / Raghad A. Hussein
    This book delves into the process of extracting aluminum compounds from kaolin clay, specifically focusing on the synthesis of aluminum phosphate (AlPO4). Kaolin clay, a naturally occurring mineral abundant in the Earth’s crust, serves as a rich source of aluminum, making it a valuable material for various industrial applications. The process involves several steps, including b...
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    110,42 €

  • Atlas of Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Age Plant Fossils of Central Appalachian Coalfields Volume 2
    Thomas McLoughlin
    This book is a picture guide to fossil plants and a few fossil marine organisms found in close association with the coal measures in the central Appalachian region. The fossils are sorted by groups and the specimens sampling site locations are listed by coal seam horizon and geographic location. Short descriptions of each group of fossil types are provided. This publication has...
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    19,10 €

  • 'Traditional Communities'
    Vivian Karinne Morais Rodrigues
    This book analyzes the ways in which territory is used and appropriated in the riverside environments of the Uraricoera River, based on the study of territory, territorialities and traditional communities. It seeks to understand the spatial practices of the 'ilheiros' (occupants of the islands) and their participation in the process of territorial production. Multiple dimension...
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    92,31 €