Download e-book for iPad: Hurricanes and Climate Change: Volume 3 by Jennifer M. Collins,Kevin Walsh

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"Unfold a map of North America," Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, "and the very first thing to snatch your eye is the daring shift among the good Plains and the Rocky Mountains. " during this soaking up e-book, Meldahl takes readers on a 1000-mile-long box journey again via greater than a hundred million years of deep time to discover America’s so much superb and scientifically exciting landscapes.

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This edited quantity expands the scope of threat administration past finance to incorporate assets and setting matters in China. It offers the state of the art methods of utilizing possibility administration to successfully deal with assets and atmosphere. either case reviews and theoretical methodologies are mentioned.

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Why do quaking aspens develop in admired clumps instead of randomly scattered around the panorama? Why and the way does a rufous hummingbird drop its metabolism to one-hundredth of its common price? Why do bull elk develop these huge, immense antlers? Using his adventure as a biologist and ecologist, George Constantz illuminates those notable slices of mountain lifestyles in undeniable yet attractive language.

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This file updates prior experiences that measured in fiscal phrases the level of organic losses as a result of overfishing globally. the recent estimates verify those 'sunken billions' at $83 billion every year. The record extra exhibits transparent direction may end up in the restoration of those enormous losses, together with via major relief in worldwide fishing overcapacity.