ISBN: 0309121841, 9780309121842
Author: Committee On A Strategy To Mitigate The Impact Of
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: capabilities, measurement, lost, program, restructuring, recover, strategy, record, climate, npoess, spacecraft, elements, ensuring
Pages: 190
Published: 2008-08-25
Category: Weather, Environment, Outdoors & Nature,
List Price: 43.00 USD

In 2000, the nation's next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch in 2008. By November 2005, however, it became appare......

ISBN: 078811185X, 9780788111853
Author: Unknown
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Keywords: handbook, complete, tobacco, cured, flue
Pages: Unknown
Published: 1993-09
Category: Reference, Outdoors & Nature,
List Price: 40.00 USD

ISBN: 0792342941, 9780792342946
Authors: Stefano Guerzoni, r. Chester,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: science, technology, library, environmental, mediterranean, desert, dust, across, impact
Pages: 406
Published: 1996-11-30
Category: Weather, Environment, Outdoors & Nature,
List Price: 194.00 USD

The atmosphere is an important pathway for the transport of continentally-derived material to the oceans. In this respect the Mediterranean Sea is of special importance because its atmosphere receives inputs of anthropogenic aerosols from the nort......

ISBN: 0374113270, 9780374113278
Authors: Robert Frenay,
Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Keywords: living, things, inspired, machines, coming, systems, pulse
Pages: 576
Published: 2006-04-04
Category: Conservation, Outdoors & Nature,
List Price: 30.00 USD

• Rating: 80%

Pulse is not about dance music, not about heart rates—and not about electromagnetic fields. What it does describe is a sea change in human affairs, a vast and fundamental shift that is about to transform every aspect of our live......

ISBN: 0873498992, 9780873498999
Authors: Frank James,
Publisher: Krause Publications
Keywords: concealed, carry, guide, comprehensive, handgun, defense, effective
Pages: 232
Published: 2004-12-15
Category: Shooting, Hunting & Fishing, Outdoors & Nature,
List Price: 19.99 USD

• Rating: 80%

- Discussion of concealed carry handgun selection and use, with thorough explanation of laws and safety precautions- Features a look at handgun holsters- Contains listings of custom pistolsmiths, schools and training academies, and holster ma......

ISBN: 0878423761, 9780878423767
Authors: Ronald J. Taylor, kathleen Ort,
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Keywords: america, north, wildflowers, desert
Pages: 360
Published: 1998-07
Category: Deserts, Ecosystems, Outdoors & Nature,
List Price: 24.00 USD

ISBN: 0963824880, 9780963824882
Authors: Merlin D. Tuttle, annika Keeley,
Publisher: Bat Conservation International
Keywords: bats, texas
Pages: 71
Published: 2002-12-01
Category: Conservation, Outdoors & Nature,
List Price: 9.95 USD

• Rating: 80%

Texas has thirty-two bat species, more than any other state. Bats rank among the stateOs most beneficial and fascinating allies. The majority eat insects, with just one colony consuming billions in a single night. Others are essential pollinators of ......

ISBN: 0521049830, 9780521049832
Authors: Martin R. Perrow, anthony J. Davy,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: restoration, principles, volume, handbook, ecological
Pages: 464
Published: 2008-01-28
Category: Conservation, Outdoors & Nature,
List Price: 53.00 USD

This two-volume handbook is a comprehensive account of the rapidly emerging and vibrant science of the ecological restoration of habitats and species. Ecological restoration aims to achieve complete structural, functional, self-maintaining biological......

ISBN: 0292706340, 9780292706347
Authors: John D. Mceachran, janice D. Fechhelm,
Publisher: University Of Texas Press
Keywords: scorpaeniformes, tetraodontiformes, volume, mexico, gulf, fishes
Pages: 1014
Published: 2006-01-02
Category: Fish, Field Guides, Outdoors & Nature,
List Price: 125.00 USD

• Rating: 100%

From reviews of Volume 1: "[This] book is, by far, the best and most complete reference on Gulf of Mexico fishes to date. With the completion of a second volume, it will stand as the benchmark for this region for many years to come. . . . This ref......

ISBN: 0312339003, 9780312339005
Authors: Dr. Stephen J. O'brien,
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Keywords: ancestors, secrets, genetic, cheetah, tears
Pages: 304
Published: 2005-04-01
Category: Endangered Species, Outdoors & Nature,
List Price: 15.95 USD

• Rating: 80%

The history of life on Earth is dominated by extinction events so numerous that over 99.9% of the species ever to have existed are gone forever. If animals could talk, we would ask them to recall their own ancestries, in particular the secrets ......