Deserts A Very Short Introduction Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 26 November 2009

Preface; 1 Desert Climates; 2 Desert Landscapes; 3 The Nature of Deserts; 4 People and Deserts; 5 Deserts Connections.

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 26 November 2009

Deserts make up a third of the planet's land surface, but if you picture a desert, what comes to mind? A wasteland? A drought? A place devoid of all life

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 17 January 2019

For millions of years reptiles have walked, crawled, and slithered over the face of our Earth. From the mighty dinosaurs who dominated the land, the pterosaurs who took to the

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 01 March 2018

Geophysics is the physics of the Earth. Central to the Earth Sciences today, it encompasses areas such as seismology, volcanism, plate tectonics, gravitational anomalies, and the Earth's magnetic field (present

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 11 October 2018

Vast, majestic, and often stunningly beautiful, glaciers lock up some 10% of the world's freshwater. These great bodies of ice play an important part in the Earth system, carving landscapes and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 26 March 2020

Systems biology came about as growing numbers of engineers and scientists from other fields created algorithms which supported the analysis of biological data in incredible quantities. Whereas biologists of the

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 36,6 Mb
• Release Date : 27 February 2020

The oceans are our planet's most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. They cover 71 percent of its surface; support a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms, from microscopic

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 27 February 2020

Energy is vital for a good standard of living, and much of the world's population does not have enough. Affordable and adequate sources of power that do not cause climate

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 26 April 2012

Rivers have played an extraordinarily important role in creating the world in which we live. They create landscapes and provide water to people, plants and animals, nourishing both town and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 12 March 2018

The proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change,