A new environmental movement is emerging to help combat threats to America's oceans and coasts, with hundreds of local and regional groups as well as dozens of national and international organizations being formed. The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide represents a comprehensive guide to this new ""Blue ......
The Earth's biological, chemical, and physical systems are increasingly shaped by the activities of one species-ours. In our decisions about everything from manufacturing technologies to restaurant menus, the health of the planet has become a product of human choice. Environmentalism, however, has largely failed to adapt to this new reality. ......
Provides numerous examples of radiation's uses in agriculture, medicine, electricity generation, industry, transportation, public safety, environmental protection, space exploration, archaeology and the arts. This book looks at many areas of science, industry, and medicine through tapping the incredible potential of Marie Curie's initial insights.
Investigates the worlds of visual thinking, insight, and creativity made possible by computer graphics and information visualisation technologies. This book argues that, with the spread of powerful computers, we are moving from a world based on words and numbers to a world where high level work in all fields involves insights based on computers.
Assessing the Impacts of Fertilizer Use on Food Production and the Environment
Nitrogen is an essential element for plant growth and development and a key agricultural input-but in excess it can lead to a host of problems for human and ecological health. Across the globe, distribution of fertilizer nitrogen is very uneven, with some areas subject to nitrogen pollution and others suffering from reduced soil fertility, ......
Aims to provide a grounding in science literacy for the general lay reader. This book reviews the major contributions of the different branches of science - including biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, and geology - and shows how they all lead to a unified conception of our place in the universe.
Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World
While a number of gases are implicated in global warming, carbon dioxide is the most important contributor, and in one sense the entire phenomena can be seen as a human-induced perturbation of the carbon cycle. The Global Carbon Cycle offers a scientific assessment of the state of current knowledge of the carbon cycle by the world's ......
Dispelling The Myths And Understanding The Reality Of Science
Explains the scientific facts and concepts that are useful for an understanding of our material universe. This book examines sixteen standard myths about the nature of science, demonstrating that much of what passes for logical argumentation consists of the repetition of cliches and current folklore.
Many technological marvels have sprung from quantum physics. Describing the history of the quantum revolution, this work introduces us to the major players in this history. It offers biographical details that shed light on the important discoveries of: Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, and others.
