Garish, colorful, luscious, lavishly detailed, sculptural, oftenprovocative, sometimes scandalous: that is how we can describe theimpressive oeuvre of the American photographer David LaChapelle, whoca...
In this book, the author has given some introduction to the nature of complexities and processes within Earth Sciences and some of these are modelled through probabilistic and statistical methods usin...
This book provides an exposition of a large spectrum of geological, geochemical and geophysical problems that are amenable to thermodynamic analysis. It also includes selected problems in planetary sc...
Advances in Geosciences is the result of a concerted effort in bringing the latest results and planning activities related to earth and space science in Asia and the international arena. The volume ed...
The 32 research papers in this volume examine the mode and nature of igneous, metamorphic, tectonic, sedimentological and biological processes associated with the evolution of ophiolites in Earth's hi...
Neutron Applications in Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences offers a comprehensive overview of the wide ranging applications of neutron scattering techniques to elucidate the fundamental material...
Gwenni Morgan has a gift: she can fly in her sleep. When a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, she resolves to uncover the secrets of his disappearance and return him to his children. Although she faithf...
"Earth as an Evolving Planetary System" presents the key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle over the last four billion years. It examines the role of plate ...
Battered and bruised, suffering grievous loss, the Company enters the great city of Instruere. They have to warn the Council of Faltha of the Destroyer's threat, and have no idea of the depth of treac...
Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky is a detailed study of the medicine of Hildegard of Bingen, a medieval mystic, theologian and composer, who also wrote a practical medical text. Although there h...
Many scientific papers and popular articles have been written on the topic of space tourism, describing everything from expected market sizes to the rules of 3-dimensional microgravity football. But w...
This timely book provides a comprehensive insight into the challenges facing humanity and Earth in the 21st century. It opens with a discussion on the domination of all of the continents and oceans by...
This book gives an overview of the world’s literature on analytical data and theoretical concepts of the regularities of rare earth elements (REE) in ultramafic and mafic rocks of different chemical a...
This volume provides an overview of luminescence and micro-Raman properties, respectively, of the earth and planetary materials. It is unique in that it is the first proceedings volume of its kind pre...