Urbanization Books

• World Development
  HIV and AIDS
  Infectious Diseases
  Health Policy
  STD
  Environmental Policy
   
  

  Global AIDS: Myths And Facts : Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pendemic

  AIDS is the most devastating communicable disease in history, and structures of poverty and injustice are magnifying the crisis in underresourced countries. More than 36 million people are infected ...  > read more
• Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Fossils
  Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
   
  

  The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

  The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a ...  > read more
• Extinction
  Sun
  Dinosaurs
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Astronomy
  Fossils
   
  

  The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science

  Nemesis is the name given by scientists to a (theoretical) small companion star to our sun. Every 26 million years, Nemesis's orbit brings it close enough to the sun to bombard our solar system with ...  > read more
• Fossils
  Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Frogs and Reptiles
  Earthquakes
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
   
  

  Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California

  One of the most geologically complex and diverse states, California spent much of the age of dinosaurs under water. While most of the fossils found in the state are those of reptiles that lived in ...  > read more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Nature
  Women's Health
  Cultures
   
  

  Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus

  "Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been ...  > read more
• NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Policy
  Solar System
  Space Probes
  Eris (Xena)
   
  

  ROVING MARS: SPIRIT, OPPORTUNITY, AND THE EXPLORATION OF THE RED PLANET

  Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASAs Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves ...  > read more
• Nature
  Environmental Issues
  Environmental Policies
  Climate
  Early Climate
  Earth Science
   
  

  Quaternary Environments

  The second edition of this authoritative introduction to the global environmental fluctuations of the Quaternary period has been thoroughly revised and updated, and now includes two new chapters: one ...  > read more
• Anthropology
  Archaeology
  Civil Engineering
  Urbanization
  Cosmology
  Land Management
   
  

  The Last Giant Of Beringia: The Mystery of The Bering Land Bridge

  "A tale of science, adventure, and personality that evolves into a complete review of the history and knowledge of Beringia.... I recommend it to everyone." -The Times (London) The intriguing theory ...  > read more
• Space Station
  NASA
  Space Policy
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
   
  

  We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race

  How Apollo commander Stafford defused the Cold War in space by leading the way to Soviet/US cooperation. What an amazing career—Tom Stafford attained the highest speed ever reached by a test ...  > read more
• Sustainability
  Environmental Issues
  Environmental Policies
  Global Warming
  Computer Modeling
  Climate
   
  

  The Limits to Growth

  In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global ...  > read more

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