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The Nature Of Ice
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Author : Robyn Mundy
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2009
The Nature Of Ice written by Robyn Mundy and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
A compelling novel of hope, love, and loss set in the startlingly beautiful landscape of AntarcticaCapricious, the nature of ice; as impetuous as faithless deeds. So easy to forget that sea ice is only a veneer, inherently flawed, skin-deep as desire, so transitory as to be scattered out to sea, displaced by ocean, dispersed by wind?gone in the lapse of a day. Freya has come to Antarctica ostensibly to undertake a photographic expedition to retrace Frank Hurley's iconic photographs?but also to escape a stifling relationship. Once s.
Ice
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Author : Mariana Gosnell
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2011-04-27
Ice written by Mariana Gosnell and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-27 with Nature categories.
Like the adventurer who circled an iceberg to see it on all sides, Mariana Gosnell, former Newsweek reporter and author of Zero Three Bravo, a book about flying a small plane around the United States, explores ice in all its complexity, grandeur, and significance.More brittle than glass, at times stronger than steel, at other times flowing like molasses, ice covers 10 percent of the earth’s land and 7 percent of its oceans. In nature it is found in myriad forms, from the delicate needle ice that crunches underfoot in a winter meadow to the massive, centuries-old ice that forms the world’s glaciers. Scientists theorize that icy comets delivered to Earth the molecules needed to get life started, and ice ages have shaped much of the land as we know it.Here is the whole world of ice, from the freezing of Pleasant Lake in New Hampshire to the breakup of a Vermont river at the onset of spring, from the frozen Antarctic landscape that emperor penguins inhabit to the cold, watery route bowhead whales take between Arctic ice floes. Mariana Gosnell writes about frostbite and about the recently discovered 5,000-year-old body of a man preserved in an Alpine glacier. She discusses the work of scientists who extract cylinders of Greenland ice to study the history of the earth’s climate and try to predict its future. She examines ice in plants, icebergs, icicles, and hail; sea ice and permafrost; ice on Mars and in the rings of Saturn; and several new forms of ice developed in labs. She writes of the many uses humans make of ice, including ice-skating, ice fishing, iceboating, and ice climbing; building ice roads and seeding clouds; making ice castles, ice cubes, and iced desserts. Ice is a sparkling illumination of the natural phenomenon whose ebbs and flows over time have helped form the world we live in. It is a pleasure to read, and important to read—for its natural science and revelations about ice’s influence on our everyday lives, and for what it has to tell us about our environment today and in the future.
Ice
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Author : Klaus Dodds
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2018-06-15
Ice written by Klaus Dodds and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-15 with Nature categories.
In Ice, Klaus Dodds provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, natural, and geopolitical history of this most slippery of subjects. Beyond Earth, ice has been found on other planets, moons, and meteors—and scientists even think that ice-rich asteroids played a pivotal role in bringing water to our blue home. But our outlook need not be cosmic to see ice’s importance. Here today and gone tomorrow in many parts of the temperate world, ice is a perennial feature of polar and mountainous regions, where it has long shaped human culture. But as climates change, ice caps and glaciers melt, and waters rise, more than ever this frozen force touches at the core of who we are. As Dodds reveals, ice has played a prominent role in shaping both the earth’s living communities and its geology. Throughout history, humans have had fun with it, battled over it, struggled with it, and made money from it—and every time we open our refrigerator doors, we’re reminded how ice has transformed our relationship with food. Our connection to ice has been captured in art, literature, movies, and television, as well as made manifest in sport and leisure. In our landscapes and seascapes, too, we find myriad reminders of ice’s chilly power, clues as to how our lakes, mountains, and coastlines have been indelibly shaped by the advance and retreat of ice and snow. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Ice is an informative, thought-provoking guide to a substance both cold and compelling.
The Forms Of Water In Clouds Rivers Ice Glaciers
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Author : John Tyndall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
The Forms Of Water In Clouds Rivers Ice Glaciers written by John Tyndall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Water categories.
Ice Formation
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Author : Howard Turner Barnes
language : en
Publisher: New York : Wiley
Release Date : 1906
Ice Formation written by Howard Turner Barnes and has been published by New York : Wiley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Ice categories.
Ice
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Author : Klaus Dodds
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Ice written by Klaus Dodds and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Electronic books categories.
In Ice: Nature and Culture, Klaus Dodds provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, natural and geopolitical history of ice, revealing how throughout history human communities have made sense of ice.
The End Of Ice
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Author : Dahr Jamail
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2019-01-15
The End Of Ice written by Dahr Jamail and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Science categories.
As seen in The New York Times, Men’s Journal, Smithsonian.com, and The Guardian The author who Jeremy Scahill calls the “quintessential unembedded reporter” visits “hot spots” around the world in a global quest to discover how we will cope with our planet’s changing ecosystems After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, Jamail embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis—from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest—in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice. In The End of Ice, we follow Jamail as he scales Denali, the highest peak in North America, dives in the warm crystal waters of the Pacific only to find ghostly coral reefs, and explores the tundra of St. Paul Island where he meets the last subsistence seal hunters of the Bering Sea and witnesses its melting glaciers. Accompanied by climate scientists and people whose families have fished, farmed, and lived in the areas he visits for centuries, Jamail begins to accept the fact that Earth, most likely, is in a hospice situation. Ironically, this allows him to renew his passion for the planet’s wild places, cherishing Earth in a way he has never been able to before. Like no other book, The End of Ice offers a firsthand chronicle—including photographs throughout of Jamail on his journey across the world—of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile planet while we still can.
Ice Ages
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Author : Ian Wolfram Cornwall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970-01-01
Ice Ages written by Ian Wolfram Cornwall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970-01-01 with Glacial epoch categories.
A Farewell To Ice
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Author : P. Wadhams
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
A Farewell To Ice written by P. Wadhams and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Nature categories.
Ice, the magic crystal -- A brief history of ice on planet Earth -- The modern cycle of ice ages -- The greenhouse effect -- Sea ice meltback begins -- The future of Arctic sea ice the death spiral -- The accelerating effects of Arctic feedbacks -- Arctic methane, a catastrophe in the making -- Strange weather -- The secret life of chimneys -- What's happening to the Antarctic? -- The state of the planet -- A call to arms
The Telescope In The Ice
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Author : Mark Bowen
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2017-11-14
The Telescope In The Ice written by Mark Bowen and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with Science categories.
IceCube Observatory, a South Pole instrument making the first actual observations of high-energy neutrinos, has been called the “weirdest” of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved. Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. It employs a cubic kilometer of diamond-clear ice, more than a mile beneath the surface, to detect an elementary particle known as the neutrino. In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos and thus gave birth to a new field of astronomy. IceCube is also the largest particle physics detector ever built. Its scientific goals span not only astrophysics and cosmology but also pure particle physics. And since the neutrino is one of the strangest and least understood of the known elementary particles, this is fertile ground. Neutrino physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and IceCube is at the forefront. The Telescope in the Ice is, ultimately, a book about people and the thrill of the chase: the struggle to understand the neutrino and the pioneers and inventors of neutrino astronomy.