Sentences with phrase «planet facts book»

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With over 250 species inhabiting our planet, this book explores the many different types of monkeys from the smallest Pygmy Marmoset to the largest Mandrill, and provides all the facts you wanted to know and more.

This book conveys not only the facts but also the excitement of the scientific explanation of our world, from the origin of the universe to the present reality of our planet.

This is further enhanced by the fact that MvC3 is powered by Capcom's impressive proprietary MP Framework engine, which has in the past run Dead Rising, Lost Planet, and Resident Evil 5, though for MvC3 they've given the visuals a new cel - shaded, comic book - style lick of paint.

Author Sneed B. Collard III presents those facts and a panoramic view of life at the turn of the last millennium in a new book from Houghton Mifflin, 1,000 Years Ago on Planet Earth.

Little Book Of The Solar System Facts: A folded book on one sheet of paper which creates 6 pages plus front and back covers including a diagram of the solar system to label and information to complete about each plaBook Of The Solar System Facts: A folded book on one sheet of paper which creates 6 pages plus front and back covers including a diagram of the solar system to label and information to complete about each plabook on one sheet of paper which creates 6 pages plus front and back covers including a diagram of the solar system to label and information to complete about each planet.

The fact that I can carry an entire library on my cellphone and purchase practically any book in existence wirelessly from vritually anywhere on the planet is fundamentally Earth shattering to the way we read.

In nonfiction books, the author explains facts and concepts to readers (ex: dinosaurs, volcanoes or planets).

(In fact, Lonely Planet officials have said in recent days they haven't found any errors in the three books Kohnstamm contributed «on - the - ground research» to that are still in print, adding, «We're confident that the vast majority of our information is sound and accurate.»)

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

As I wrote in my first book on global warming, in 1992, we are the first life form we know of on Earth that has risen to be a planet - scale influence and is also aware of that fact — or slowly absorbing it.

Because the temperature gradient in a planet's troposphere is the state of thermodynamic equilibrium which the Second Law of Thermodynamics says will evolve, the planet's supported surface temperature is autonomously warmer than its mean radiating temperature, so warm in fact on Earth that we need radiating gases (mostly water vapour) to reduce the gradient and thus cool the surface from a mean of about 300K to about 288K, this being confirmed by empirical evidence (as in the study in my book) which confirms with statistical significance that water vapour cools rather than warms, all these facts thus debunking the greenhouse conjecture.