What Makes Our Earth Unique
Author: Om Books Editorial Team
Publisher: Om Books International
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Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 9385273434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWHAT? Get answers to all the questions you have about Solar system!
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Author: Om Books Editorial Team
Publisher: Om Books International
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Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 9385273434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWHAT? Get answers to all the questions you have about Solar system!
Author: Keith Ruttle
Publisher: Kaeden Books
Published: 2016-01-15
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781611815269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarth is unique because every corner of the oceans and continents is filled with life. It is the only place in the universe where life of any kind is known to exist. Lifeexists on Earth because every part of Earth's environment is just right to support it. GRL: RNonfiction
Author: Peter D. Ward
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-05-08
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0387218483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life on Earth and to what could possibly happen elsewhere in the universe. Everyone who has been thrilled by the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets and the indications of life on Mars and the Jovian moon Europa will be fascinated by Rare Earth, and its implications for those who look to the heavens for companionship.
Author: Philippe Bertrand
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-04-21
Total Pages: 573
ISBN-13: 3030677737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarth is, to our knowledge, the only life-bearing body in the Solar System. This extraordinary characteristic dates back almost 4 billion years. How to explain that Earth is teeming with organisms and that this has lasted for so long? What makes Earth different from its sister planets Mars and Venus? The habitability of a planet is its capacity to allow the emergence of organisms. What astronomical and geological conditions concurred to make Earth habitable 4 billion years ago, and how has it remained habitable since? What have been the respective roles of non-biological and biological characteristics in maintaining the habitability of Earth? This unique book answers the above questions by considering the roles of organisms and ecosystems in the Earth System, which is made of the non-living and living components of the planet. Organisms have progressively occupied all the habitats of the planet, diversifying into countless life forms and developing enormous biomasses over the past 3.6 billion years. In this way, organisms and ecosystems "took over" the Earth System, and thus became major agents in its regulation and global evolution. There was co-evolution of the different components of the Earth System, leading to a number of feedback mechanisms that regulated long-term Earth conditions. For millennia, and especially since the Industrial Revolution nearly 300 years ago, humans have gradually transformed the Earth System. Technological developments combined with the large increase in human population have led, in recent decades, to major changes in the Earth's climate, soils, biodiversity and quality of air and water. After some successes in the 20th century at preventing internationally environmental disasters, human societies are now facing major challenges arising from climate change. Some of these challenges are short-term and others concern the thousand-year evolution of the Earth's climate. Humans should become the stewards of Earth.
Author: Michael D. Lemonick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0802779026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they began to find planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. More than eight hundred planets have been found since then, yet none of them is anything like Earth and none could support life. Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Science writer Michael Lemonick has unique access to these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, and Mirror Earth unveils their passionate quest. Unlike competitors in other races, Geoff Marcy, Bill Borucki, David Charbonneau, Sara Seager, and others actually consult and cooperate with one another. But only one will be the first to find Earth's twin. Mirror Earth tells the story of their competition.
Author: Guillermo Gonzalez
Publisher: Regnery Gateway
Published: 2020-01-07
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1684510775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarth. The Final Frontier Contrary to popular belief, Earth is not an insignificant blip on the universe’s radar. Our world proves anything but average in Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards’ The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery. But what exactly does Earth bring to the table? How does it prove its worth among numerous planets and constellations in the vastness of the Milky Way? In The Privileged Planet, you’ll learn about the world’s life-sustaining capabilities, water and its miraculous makeup, protection by the planetary giants, and how our planet came into existence in the first place.
Author: David Waltham
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1848316887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience tells us that life elsewhere in the Universe is increasingly likely to be discovered. But in fact the Earth may be a very unusual planet – perhaps the only one like it in the entire visible Universe. In Lucky Planet David Waltham asks why, and comes up with some surprising and unconventional answers. Recent geological, biological, and astronomical discoveries are bringing us closer to understanding whether we might be alone in the Universe, and this book uses these to question the conventional wisdom and suggest, instead, that the Earth may have had ‘four billion years of good weather’ purely by chance. If Earth-like worlds don’t have natural stabilising mechanisms, then intelligent observers such as ourselves will only ever look out onto those rare planets where, like the Earth, all the bad things that could have happened to the climate have fortunately cancelled each other out. So before you prepare to meet the aliens, consider that we are probably alone ...
Author: Jonathan Schell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780804737029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese two books, which helped focus national attention on the movement for a nuclear freeze, are published in one volume.
Author: Peter Kennard
Publisher: Tate
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781854379849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains no words: instead it tells its story in the universal language of photomontage, long the favoured medium of radical artists. The author is one such, whose work has consistently questioned power structures and injustice, from his anti-nuclear works of the 1980s to his powerful works in response to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This photo-essay in seven chapters, combining new works, made together with Tarek Salhany, with iconic images from throughout the author's 40-year career. It makes a powerful statement about the impending eco-crisis, the arms race and the injustices of the power structures dominating today's world.
Author: Hugh Ross
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2016-09-06
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 149340539X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Latest Scientific Discoveries Point to an Intentional Creator Most of us remember the basics from science classes about how Earth came to be the only known planet that sustains complex life. But what most people don't know is that the more thoroughly researchers investigate the history of our planet, the more astonishing the story of our existence becomes. The number and complexity of the astronomical, geological, chemical, and biological features recognized as essential to human existence have expanded explosively within the past decade. An understanding of what is required to make possible a large human population and advanced civilizations has raised profound questions about life, our purpose, and our destiny. Are we really just the result of innumerable coincidences? Or is there a more reasonable explanation? This fascinating book helps nonscientists understand the countless miracles that undergird the exquisitely fine-tuned planet we call home--as if Someone had us in mind all along.