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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “anders omstedt”
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  • A Philosophical View of the Ocean and Humanity

    Second Edition

    by Anders Omstedt ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an overview of major threats to our blue planet. But also tools for connecting facts and values to change our often destructive behavior towards nature. The solutions to achieving an ocean in harmony with man are within us, where compassion, curiosity, empathy, courage, and creativity are needed for sustainable change. Therefore, with this book, I want to arouse your curiosity ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Connecting Analytical Thinking and Intuition

    And the Nights Abound with Inspiration

    by Anders Omstedt ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book demonstrates how analytical thinking and intuition can be systematically connected and trained. It is illustrated by figures and photographs and includes creative and stimulating exercises.We are living in a world of increasing complexity, in which perceiving reality accurately is increasingly important and difficult. Society’s need to address “global grand challenges” requires that the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Climate Impacts on the Baltic Sea: From Science to Policy

    School of Environmental Research - Organized by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

    by Marcus Reckermann ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Baltic Sea area is an old cultural landscape with a well developed international framework for monitoring, assessing and managing its marine ecosystems. It provides a good case study for other regions where such management is being set up. The chapters in this book are based on lectures given at a summer school on the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm in the summer of 2009. They cover a range of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • A Philosophical View of the Ocean and Humanity

    by Anders Omstedt ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is about the ocean and about the future. It is written in two modes, a concerned analytical scientific mode and an intuitive artistic mode in which the ocean is given a voice. The disconnect in the relationship between human dependency on and feelings about the ocean is examined in a dialogue between these two modes. The book illustrates how science and the arts can be connected to ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Guide to Process Based Modeling of Lakes and Coastal Seas

    by Anders Omstedt ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This new edition of Guide to Process Based Modeling of Lakes and Coastal Seas brings the modeling up to date, taking into account multiple stressors acting on aquatic systems. The combination of acidification and increasing amounts of anoxic waters associated with eutrophication puts severe stress on the marine environment. The detection and attribution of anthropogenic changes in coastal seas are ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Coral Reefs of the Gulf

    Adaptation to Climatic Extremes

    Edited by Bernhard Riegl, Sam J. Purkis ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Coral Reefs of the Gulf: Adaptation to Climatic Extremes is a complete review and reference for scientists, engineers and students concerned with the geology, biology or engineering aspects of coral reefs in the Middle East. It provides for the first time a complete review of both the geology and biology of all extant coral areas in the Gulf, the water body between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East

    Past and Future Projection

    Edited by Jan Harff, Kazimierz Furmańczyk, Hans von Storch ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book discusses sea-level and coastline changes. These topics are becoming increasingly important for populations living along the edge of the world’s oceans and seas, especially in areas where eustatic sea-level rise is superimposed on isostatic subsidence and storm-induced coastal erosion. This is the case at the southern and eastern Baltic Sea coast: in the south, glacio-isostatic ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • A Treatise of Human Nature

    by David Hume ...
    My design in the present work is sufficiently explained in the Introduction. The reader must only observe, that all the subjects I have there planned out to myself, are not treated of in these two volumes. The subjects of the Understanding and Passions make a compleat chain of reasoning by themselves; and I was willing to take advantage of this natural division, in order to try the taste of the ... Read more

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  • When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    by Michael J. Benton ...
    "Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure. . . . It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference." —James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to GaiaToday it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Maps, the Oceans & Continents : Third Grade Geography Series

    3rd Grade Books - Maps Exploring The World for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    Geography is a big subject to study as it encompasses boundaries set by man. How do you make it a friendly topic for young children? You break down concepts into easy to understand bits, of course! Top that with a presentation composed of vibrant images and great layout. Secure a copy of this educational book today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Republic

    by Plato ...
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”Plato's best-known work, and one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically, The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy.Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and his students and fellow ... Read more

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  • Climate and the Oceans

    by Geoffrey K. Vallis ...
    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. Climate and the Oceans offers a short, self-contained introduction to the subject. This illustrated primer begins by briefly describing the ... Read more

    $29.59 USD