Author: Daniel Long Miller
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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The Other Half of the Globe
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Author: Edward O. Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1631490834
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." —Jedediah Purdy, New Republic In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed—such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others—Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1631490834
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." —Jedediah Purdy, New Republic In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed—such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others—Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).
The Works of Aphra Behn: v. 4: Seneca Unmask'd and Other Prose Translated
Author: Janet Todd
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351259180
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the fourth volume in a set of seven which comprises a complete edition of all her works.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351259180
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the fourth volume in a set of seven which comprises a complete edition of all her works.
The Laboratory; Or, School of Arts ... Compiled from German, and Other Foreign Authors. Illustrated with Copper Plates ... The Third Edition, with Additions of a Great Number of Valuable Receipts; Particularly, a Short Plain and Easy Introduction to the Art of Drawing in Perspective
The Laboratory, or School of arts ... The second edition. To which is added, an appendix ... Translated from the High Dutch. Illustrated with copper plates. Compiled and translated by Godfrey Smith
Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics with the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moone and eclipses
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics
Author: James Ferguson
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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An Elementary Course of Natural and Experimental Philosophy
Author: Thomas Turner Tate
Publisher:
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Publisher:
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Optics, Geography, Astronomy, and Dialling
Author: James Ferguson
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Category : Eclipses
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eclipses
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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The Laboratory; Or, School of Arts
Author:
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Category : Formulas, recipes, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Formulas, recipes, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description