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Author: Clive Gifford
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781741699838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA busy, can-you-find, virtual puzzle book with link to GoogleTM Earth! It's jam-packed with things to spot, puzzles to solve and mysteries to uncover. Along the way you will visit some of the most wonderful places on the planet-click on to GoogleTM Earth to see the places for real and to find vital clues.
Author: Clive Gifford
Publisher: Kingfisher
Published: 2011-09-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780753467213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreat Global Puzzle Challenge with Google Earth(TM) by Clive Gifford, illustrated by William Ings is an amazing illustrated tour of some of the most interesting places on Earth. Each spread focuses on one destination, and the amazingly intricate artwork gives readers a visual flavour of the place, with masses to look at and discover the more you look. There are links from one place to the next – historical, geographical, natural history or just simple proximity – for example, there is an ancient Egyptian obelisk in NY's central park, with two sister obelisks in Paris and London. Find the one in the Central Park using GoogleTM Earth co-ordinates and it gives you the clue to where you will be going next. The pyramids at the Louvre in Paris will whisk you off to the temples of Ancient Egypt, then find a connection from the Colosseum of Ancient Rome to the hot plains of Tanzania that team with wildlife, from flocks of flamingos to herds of wildebeest to prides of lions. The crater is actually a collapsed volcano; this knowledge then helps speed you to Mount Fuji and Tokyo. . . and so on. In each location you have to find a souvenir to take with you. You will also need to solve a puzzle with the help of GoogleTM Earth to collect co-ordinates for your final secret location – again on GoogleTM Earth. For instance, the puzzle tells you to visit the Statue of Liberty on GoogleTM Earth and to count the number of points on its crown. This number is one of the co-ordinates you need to find your final destination at the end of the book.
Author: Richard W. Mansbach
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9780395843901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helene Hovanec
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781402707162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHelp! A mad scientist has unleashed a throng of deadly robots on the world--and only by joining the characters and solving every one of these science-based puzzles can kids stop the destruction and save humanity. Learning about anatomy, astronomy, nature, secret codes, and more becomes a delightfully challenging game when these scientific subjects are woven into a thrilling and stylishly illustrated story. There's art throughout, created in a cool 1950's sci-fi style, and each puzzle focuses on a different topic. Through crosswords and riddles, word games and word searches, all kinds of fascinating facts emerge. Best of all, on the last page a "grand finale" uses all the solutions from other puzzles in the book.
Author: Anne M. Blackburn
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe collected thoughts of global environmental leaders.
Author: Christoph Lindner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-14
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1317554434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex relationship between globalization and garbage in locations such as Beirut, Detroit, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Naples, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Tehran. In particular, the book examines how, and under what conditions, contemporary imaginaries of excess, waste, and abandonment perpetuate – but also sometimes counter – the imbalances of power that are frequently associated with the global metropolitan condition. This interdisciplinary collection will appeal to the fields of anthropology, architecture, film and media studies, geography, urban studies, sociology, and cultural analysis.
Author: Paul Wapner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-04-03
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1509532145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected as one of The Progressive’s ‘Favourite Books of 2020’ Wildness was once integral to our ancestors' lives as they struggled to survive in an unpredictable environment. Today, most of us live in relative stability insulated from the vicissitudes of nature. Wildness is over, right? Wrong, argues leading environmental scholar Paul Wapner. Wildness may have disappeared from our immediate lives, but it’s been catapulted up to the global level. The planet itself has gone into spasm - calving glaciers, wildfires, heatwaves, mass extinction, and rising oceans all represent the new face of wildness. Rejecting paths offered by geoengineering and de-extinction to bring the Earth under control, Wapner calls instead for ‘rewilding’. This involves relinquishing the desire for comfort at all costs and welcoming greater uncertainty into our own lives. To save ourselves from global ruin, it is time to stop sanitizing and exerting mastery over the world and begin living humbly in it.
Author: David Beerling
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0191580171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment, in recording hidden facets of Earth's history, and in helping us to predict its future. His account draws together evidence from fossil plants, from experiments with their living counterparts, and from computer models of the 'Earth System', to illuminate the history of our planet and its biodiversity. This new approach reveals how plummeting carbon dioxide levels removed a barrier to the evolution of the leaf; how plants played a starring role in pushing oxygen levels upwards, allowing spectacular giant insects to thrive in the Carboniferous; and it strengthens fascinating and contentious fossil evidence for an ancient hole in the ozone layer. Along the way, Beerling introduces a lively cast of pioneering scientists from Victorian times onwards whose discoveries provided the crucial background to these and the other puzzles. This new understanding of our planet's past sheds a sobering light on our own climate-changing activities, and offers clues to what our climatic and ecological futures might look like. There could be no more important time to take a close look at plants, and to understand the history of the world through the stories they tell.
Author: Kirstin Dow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-05-04
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 0520966821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis highly acclaimed atlas distills the vast science of climate change, providing a reliable and insightful guide to this rapidly growing field. Since the 2006 publication of the first edition, climate change has climbed even higher up the global agenda. This new edition reflects the latest developments in research and the impact of climate change, and in current efforts to mitigate and adapt to changes in the world’s weather. The atlas covers a wide range of topics, including warning signs, vulnerable populations, health impacts, renewable energy, emissions reduction, personal and public action. The third edition includes new or additional coverage of a number of topics, including agreements reached in Copenhagen and Cancun, ocean warming and increased acidity, the economic impact of climate change, and advantages gained by communities and business from adapting to climate change. The extensive maps and graphics have been updated with new data, making this edition once again an essential resource for everyone concerned with this pressing subject.
