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Michael Mann Our fragile moment
how lessons from the earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis
"For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has proven it can manage just fine without human beings. Then came the first proto-humans, who emerged just a little more than 2 million years ago - a fleeting moment in geological time. What is it that made this benevolent moment of ours possible? Ironically, it's the very same thing that now threatens us - climate change. The drying of the tropics during the Pleistocene period created a niche for early hominids, who could hunt prey as forests...
Engels | 306 pagina's | Scribe, London | 2023
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Or Graur Supernova
Engels | 212 pagina's | The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2022
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Simon Morden The red planet
a natural history of Mars
Engels | 273 pagina's | Elliot & Thompson, London | 2022
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Stephen Hawking My brief history
Autobiografie van de natuurkundige Stephen Hawking (1942-).
Non-fictie
Engels | 127 pagina's | Bantam Books, New York | 2013
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Christopher Dewdney 18 miles
the epic drama of the atmosphere and its weather
Engels | 272 pagina's | Bloomsbury Sigma, London | 2019
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Frank Close Eclipses
what everyone needs to know
Engels | 187 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2019
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David H. Devorkin | Robert W. Smith The Hubble cosmos
25 years of new vistas in space
Fotoboek van het heelal, ter gelegenheid van het 25-jarig bestaan van de Hubble-telescoop.
Engels | 222 pagina's | National Geographic, Washington, D.C. | 2015
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Heather Couper The history of astronomy
Non-fictie
Engels | 288 pagina's | Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY | 2007
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30-second meteorology
the 50 most significant events and phenomena, each explained in half a minute
Engels | 160 pagina's | Ivy Press, Lewes, East Sussex | 2016
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Tomasz Szczęsny How to curb climate change?
on the basis of the history of the climate
Engels | 197 pagina's | Austin Macauley Publishers™, London | 2024
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Raymond T. Pierrehumbert Planetary systems
a very short introduction
Engels | 140 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2021
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Jenann Ismael Time
a very short introduction
Engels | 111 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom | 2021
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Sam Kean Caesar's last breath
the epic story of the air around us
Non-fictie
Engels | 372 pagina's | Black Swan, London | 2018
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Janna Levin How the universe got its spots
diary of a finite time in a finite space
Engels | 208 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton | 2023
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Gregory Hakim | Jérôme Patoux Weather
a concise introduction
Engels | 268 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingom | 2018
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New Scientist A journey through the universe
a traveller's guide from the centre of the sun to the edge of the unknown
Engels | 228 pagina's | John Murray Learning, London | 2018
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Richard S. Ellis When galaxies were born
the quest for cosmic dawn
Engels | 223 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton | 2022
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William T. Vollmann Uncentering the earth
Copernicus and The revolutions of the heavenly spheres
Monografie over de Poolse astronoom (1473-1543), zijn meesterwerk en de tijd waarin hij leefde.
Non-fictie
Engels | 295 pagina's | Atlas Books, New York | 2007
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Ulinka Rublack The astronomer & the witch
Johannes Kepler's fight for his mother
Hoe de beroemde astronoom zijn moeder beschermde tijdens haar proces als heks in Duitsland van de 17e eeuw
Engels | 359 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2016
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Robin Kerrod Hubble
the mirror on the universe
Beelden van de ruimtetelescoop.
Non-fictie
Engels | 192 pagina's | Firefly Books, Richmond Hill [etc.] | 2003
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