104 pages , BookBaby , 2012-03-07 Humanity Incorporated is an invitation to begin the long overdue conversation about creating a sustainable future for ourselves and our children. It offers a simple and practical solution to every ill in our ailing world. This is an opportunity to grow as individuals and as a species, through our mutual, ongoing collaboration. We must ma...[Read More]
243 pages , Springer Science & Business Media , 2001-05-18 This book sets forth a set of truly controversial and astonishing theories: First, it proposes that below the surface of the earth is a biosphere of greater mass and volume than the biosphere the total sum of living things on our planet's continents and in its oceans. Second, it proposes that the inhabitants of t...[Read More]
245 pages , Oxford University Press , 2009-04-16 Astrobiology of Earth studies the fortuitous combination of numerous cosmic factors that together produced the special environment which enabled the emergence, persistence and evolution of life on our own planet, culminating in humanity. This environment has been subject to constant and chaotic change during life's 3.6 bil...[Read More]
128 pages , 1977 Discussion of our planet's life-sustaining environment, based on the ancient Greek concept of the four elements - earth, air, fire, water.
32 pages , The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc , 2018-07-15 The biosphere refers to the parts of Earth where life exists or where known life has existed in the past. The biosphere is comprised of the atmosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere because life exists in each of those three spheres, from birds in the sky to fish in the water to worms in the dirt. Food chains represent...[Read More]
337 pages , Geological Society of America , 2006-01-01 "The history of Earth's early atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere, from Hadean through Proterozoic time, is one of geology's enduring puzzles. Ore deposits provide important insights into this history because they contain elements and minerals that are highly sensitive to the geochemical environment in which they ...[Read More]
288 pages , Hachette UK , 2015-04-09 The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over 3,000 km below the earth's surface an extraordinary inner world the size of Mars awaits us. Dive through the molten iron of the outer core and eventually you will reach a solid sphere - an iron-clad world held within a metal sea and unattached to any...[Read More]
356 pages , MIT Press , 2003 A comprehensive overview of Earth's biosphere, written with scientific rigor and essay-like flair. In his latest book, Vaclav Smil tells the story of the Earth's biosphere from its origins to its near and long-term future. He explains the workings of its parts and what is known about their interactions. With essay-like flair, he examines the ...[Read More]
578 pages , Academic Press , 2011-08-22 Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Second Edition, examines the various subsystems that play a role in the evolution of the Earth. These subsystems include such components as the crust, mantle, core, atmosphere, oceans, and life. The book contains 10 chapters that discuss the structure of the Earth and plate tectonics; the orig...[Read More]
88 pages , Britannica Educational Publishing , 2011-05-01 Contained in the immensity and depths of the Earth?s oceans, many of the planet?s species and resources thrive far away from the reaches of human civilization. With expanses that have yet to be discovered and enormous reservoirs of untapped potential, oceans provide fodder for all manners of research. This informa...[Read More]
224 pages , Routledge , 2012-10-02 The Reader is the first comprehensive history of the noosphere and biosphere. Drawing on classical influences, modern parallels, and insights into the future, the Reader traces the emergence of noosphere and biosphere concepts within the concept of environmental change. Reproducing material from seminla works, both past and present, key...[Read More]
552 pages , Wiley-Liss , 2002 Biodiversity of Microbial Life places the importance and novelty of the diversity of the microbial world in perspective with the biodiversity of plants and animals. Microbial diversity has driven the evolution of all life on Earth as well as the nutrient cycles, which are key to the operation of the biosphere. Microorganisms live in all ecos...[Read More]
