Väder, Klimat & naturhistoria

This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text is geared toward students at a variety of levels. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide ...

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Årets Trädgårdsbok 2013 i nytryck! Håkan Wallander är professor i markbiologi och har stora kunskaper om det organiska material som täcker en stor del av jordens yta: nämligen jord. Gemensamt för lerjord och sandjord, jord med lågt och högt PH-vär...

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En mörk kväll 2009 i den lilla staden Tring strax utanför London. En ung maskerad man tar sig in genom ett fönster till stadens naturhistoriska museum och stjäl hundratals små fågelkroppar, som funnits i museets ägo sedan 1800-talet. Århundradets ...

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This updated and enhanced seventh edition of ESSENTIALS OF METEOROLOGY is written by the most widely read and authoritative author in introductory meteorology-Donald Ahrens. Ahrenss ability to explain relatively complicated ideas in a student-frie...

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This book is designed for students and professionals who want to understand and apply basic meteorological concepts, but who don't need to derive equations. To make this book accessible to more people, equations have been converted into algebra. W...

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Trees are familiar components of many landscapes and have been vital in determining the ecology of our planet as well as the development of human cultures and communities. Yet how much do we really understand about how they work? This updated and ...

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Noise from cars, trains, and aeroplanes can be heard at large distances from the source. Accurate predictions of the loudness of the noise require accurate computations of sound propagation in the atmosphere. This book describes models that can be...

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This is a fully up-to-date and comprehensive photographic field guide to the snakes of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Lavishly illustrated with 387 color photographs, it includes coverage of all 122 snake species found in these regions....

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER `Origins by Lewis Dartnell stands comparison with Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens... A thrilling piece of Big History' James McConnachie, Sunday Times 'A sweeping, brilliant overview of the history not only of our species b...

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The relationships of individual trees to the connected ecosystems in their vicinities are considered by the author of Pulitzer finalist "The Forest Unseen" over the course of repeated visits, from an Amazonian ceibo which reveals the tur...

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Vädret intresserar oss svenskar i allmänhet och båtmänniskor i synnerhet. Våra tv-meteorologer blir kändisar och det utkommer ständigt nya populärvetenskapliga böcker i meteorologi. Moln är ett nytt sätt att ta sig an ämnet, den belyser detta vard...

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»Glöm växlande molnighet och svaga vindar. Nu är det ångande heta värmeböljor och våldsamma känslostormar i prognoserna. Åtminstone när Nils Holmqvist presenterar vädret.« - Aftonbladet Att under sin livstid uppleva stormar, värmeböljor, skyfall, ...

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The context for understanding global climate change today lies in the records of Earth s past. This is demonstrated by decades of paleoclimate research by scientists in organizations such as the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), the Antarc...

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»Glöm växlande molnighet och svaga vindar. Nu är det ångande heta värmeböljor och våldsamma känslostormar i prognoserna. Åtminstone när Nils Holmqvist presenterar vädret.« Aftonbladet Att under sin livstid uppleva stormar, värmeböljor, skyfall, ot...

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10 years on from the first, groundbreaking, Planet Earth, we use the most incredible advances in technology and scientific discovery to bring you the most exciting and immersive picture of our world's wildlife yet. With over 250 breathtaking photo...

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In our technology-driven, workaday world, connecting with nature has never before been more essential. A Wilder Life, a beautiful oversized lifestyle book by the team behind the popular Wilder Quarterly, gives readers indispensable ideas for inter...

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Bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben, invites you to reconnect with nature As soon as we step out of the door, nature surrounds. Thousands of small and large processes are taking place, details that are long often fascin...

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This book examines the claims of human induced global warming made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) using proper journalistic and investigative techniques. It explains how it was a premeditated, orchestrated deception, using...

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As a consequence of recent increased awareness of the social and political dimensions of climate, many non-specialists discover a need for information about the variety of available climate models. A Climate Modelling Primer, Fourth Edition is des...

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An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of `High Tide'. Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temp...

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A richly illustrated and up-close look at the secret lives of spiders and other arachnids The American Southwest is home to an extraordinary diversity of arachnids, from spitting spiders that squirt silk over their prey to scorpions that court one...

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Andrew Scott, who played a key role in identifying fossilized charcoal, describes the profound impact of fire through Earth history, from its role in mass extinctions and the spread of flowering plants, to early hominid use of fire, and the role o...

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Evolution: The Whole Story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. Each chapter of this accessible and lavishly illustrated book takes a major living group and presents thematic essays discussing t...

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Throughout history, the weather has been both feared and revered for its powerful influence over living creatures. Not only does it control our moods, activities, and fashions, but it has also played a crucial role in broader issues of cultural id...

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Written by Dr David Rothery, a volcanologist, geologist, planetary scientist and Professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University, Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to...

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The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield--one of the world's lead...

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This text gives a simple view of the structure of the boundary layer, the instruments available for measuring its mean and turbulent properties, how best to make the measurements, and ways to process and analyse the data. Its main applications are...

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Urban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what constitutes an urban ecosystem. It develops a comprehensive terminology for the subject using scale and...

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