James Powell

Thomas R. Scott

Earth, Space, Matter, and Time

Universe As It Really Is

As his health begins to fail, a historian in the year 2084 sets out to document the irreparable damage climate change has wrought on the planet over the course of his life. He interviews scientists, political leaders and ordinary people all around the world who have suffered its catastrophic effects, from devastating floods and mass droughts to war and famine. In a series of short chapters, we learn that much of New York has been abandoned, 50 million Bangladeshis are refugees and half of the Netherlands is under water. This is all fiction. But it is rooted in scientific fact. Written by a professor of geochemistry, James Lawrence Powell, THE 2084 REPORT accurately chronicles the future we will face if nothing is done to address the climate crisis. A vivid portrait of climate change and its tangible impact on our lives, THE 2084 REPORT is a powerful prophecy and urgent call to action.

A History of Climate Change from the Future

2084 Report

As his health begins to fail, a historian in the year 2084 sets out to document the irreparable damage climate change has wrought on the planet over the course of his life. He interviews scientists, political leaders and ordinary people all around the world who have suffered its catastrophic effects, from devastating floods and mass droughts to war and famine. In a series of short chapters, we learn that much of New York has been abandoned, 50 million Bangladeshis are refugees and half of the Netherlands is under water. This is all fiction. But it is rooted in scientific fact. Written by a professor of geochemistry, James Lawrence Powell, The 2084 Report accurately chronicles the future we will face if nothing is done to address the climate crisis. A vivid portrait of climate change and its tangible impact on our lives, The 2084 Report is a powerful prophecy and urgent call to action.

A History of Global Warming from the Future

The 2084 Report

Aircraft Radio Systems

William A. Barnett

George E. Tauchen

Papers from a 1988 symposium on the estimation and testing of models that impose relatively weak restrictions on the stochastic behaviour of data.

Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics

Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods in Econometrics and Statistics

Bank of Canada

A History of the Canadian Dollar

In Mysteries of Terra Firma, James Lawrence Powell tells an engrossing three-part tale of how we came to understand the ground on which we walk, and how that ground holds the key to the greatest secrets of deep space and time. Naming his profound stories Time, Drift, and Chance, he tells of the three twentieth-century revolutions in thought that created the amazing science of Earth -- and of all planets to the edge of the universe. The riddle that drove the first revolution is obvious and yet in 1904 remained impenetrable: how old is Earth? An encounter between the imperious Lord Kelvin and a New Zealand farm-boy-turned-physicist, Ernest Rutherford, set the stage for the solution and launched a golden century of geology. As a result, scientists learned that if the 4.5 billion years of geologic time were compressed into a single twenty-four-hour period, Homo sapiens would have arrived only in the last second. The geological Revolution of Time reveals how long the ground on which we walk has existed, and how briefly we have trod that ground. In the early twentieth century, German meteorologist and polar explorer Alfred Wegener proposed a counterintuitive, heretical theory: that terra firma is not so firm; instead of being fixed in place, continents drift. In 1926, petroleum geologists convened in New York City to discuss Wegener's radical idea, where it was met with outrage and skepticism: "If we are to believe Wegener's hypothesis we must forget everything which has been learned in the last seventy years and start all over again," one attendee said. Forty years later, a new generation did exactly that. The Revolution of Drift, the second part of Powell's narrative, showed us how the ground on which we walk moves. Throughout geologic time, meteorites have incessantly bombarded everything in the solar system. Far from serene and predictable, the planets are ruled by random violence on an unimaginable scale. Once a mountain-sized meteorite flew through space, struck the Earth, killed the dinosaurs and two-thirds of all species, and spared the small hamster-sized creature that happened to be our ancestor. The chance of that happening again is essentially zero. So, the final revolution in Powell's history of a golden century of geology is the Revolution of Chance. Simply put, this revolution in thought has transformed our understanding of how lucky we really are. If we can learn so much from considering no more than the rocks beneath our feet, what will we learn when we begin walking on other planets? Mysteries of Terra Firma is both charming in its storytelling and staggering in its implications. Discovering the ground on which we stand is a fascinating journey into our past -- and our future.

The Age and Evolution of the Earth

Mysteries of Terra Firma

A guide for those new to programming with the Lazarus IDE (the Lazarus Integrated Development Environment) and Free Pascal.

A Beginner's Guide to Programming with the Lazarus IDE

Graphs are about connections, and are an important part of our connected and data-driven world. A Librarian's Guide to Graphs, Data and the Semantic Web is geared toward library and information science professionals, including librarians, software developers and information systems architects who want to understand the fundamentals of graph theory, how it is used to represent and explore data, and how it relates to the semantic web. This title provides a firm grounding in the field at a level suitable for a broad audience, with an emphasis on open source solutions and what problems these tools solve at a conceptual level, with minimal emphasis on algorithms or mathematics. The text will also be of special interest to data science librarians and data professionals, since it introduces many graph theory concepts by exploring data-driven networks from various scientific disciplines. The first two chapters consider graphs in theory and the science of networks, before the following chapters cover networks in various disciplines. Remaining chapters move on to library networks, graph tools, graph analysis libraries, information problems and network solutions, and semantic graphs and the semantic web. Provides an accessible introduction to network science that is suitable for a broad audience Devotes several chapters to a survey of how graph theory has been used in a number of scientific data-driven disciplines Explores how graph theory could aid library and information scientists

A Librarian's Guide to Graphs, Data and the Semantic Web

Paul Johnson

Jim Powell

Contains biographical portraits of the men and women throughout history who have fought for liberty and freedom.

A 2,000-year History, Told Through the Lives of Freedom's Greatest Champions

The Triumph of Liberty

Jason Rodriguez

An entertaining and unusual graphic novel anthology features a collection of illustrated short stories based on real-life vintage postcards, encompassing contributions by Harvey Pekar, Phil Hester, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Tom Beland, Michael Gaydos, and other talented writers, both established and newcomers. 25,000 first printing.

True Stories that Never Happened

Postcards

Earth, our wonderful planet that nourishes humanity and keeps us alive as we hurtle through space, is in danger. Without Spaceship Earth, humans would just be tiny particles of cosmic dust drifting aimlessly through the universe. The danger we face? The Sixth Mass Extinction. Over the last Billion years, Earth has experienced 5 Mass Extinctions caused by enormous asteroid impacts, massive volcanic eruptions, and other events. Each of the 5 extinctions wiped out most of Earth's life forms, leaving only a small fraction that survived. The 5th Extinction 60 million years ago, caused by an asteroid 10 miles in diameter impacting the Earth, wiped out the dinosaurs, leaving our ancestors, a few small mammals, to take over the planet. The Sixth Extinction, if it occurs, will be very different. Instead of some natural event, humans will be the cause. It is inevitable if we keep burning fossil fuels, dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The planet is already warming, sea levels rising, droughts and crop failures, deadly heat waves, etc. By 2100 we will be deep into the Sixth Extinction and Billions of humans will die. Spaceship Earth describes 3 new critical technologies that can prevent the 6th Extinction, provided we implement them. The first technology is beamed clean energy to Earth from Space Solar Power Satellites in orbit. Using StarTram Maglev to launch payloads into orbit at 1/100th the cost of rockets. Beamed solar power is unlimited, 24/7, and much cheaper that power from fossil fuels. The second is desalination of hundreds of billions of gallons of very low cost fresh water using ocean thermal energy to evaporate sea water. The ICE/DESAL process can provide ample fresh water for food crops and people in drought areas. The third is an economically practical system that can remove Billions of tons of carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere and bury it underground, preventing global warming and the 6th Mass Extinction.

How Long Before We Crash?

Spaceship Earth

Ray Powell

Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: Economics First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Build knowledge of Economics through active learning with the latest Powell textbook, featuring quantitative skills practice and brand new case studies. This textbook has been fully revised to reflect the 2015 AQA A-level specification, giving you up-to-date material that supports your teaching and will enable your students to: - Develop subject knowledge with topic-by-topic support from Ray Powell and James Powell, who both have extensive experience in teaching and examining - Demonstrate awareness of current issues in Economics through brand new case studies that also help build analytical and evaluative skills - Use the language of economics to explain important concepts and issues effectively, with key terms identified throughout the text and glossaries for both microeconomics and macroeconomics - Build quantitative skills with worked examples - Stretch and challenge their knowledge with extension materials - Prepare for exams with practice questions and activities throughout

AQA A-level Economics Book 2

Georges Simenon

Julian Symons

John Mortimer

Twelve tales of holiday mystery, mayhem, and murder feature the works of John Mortimer, Georges Simenon, Julian Symons, James Powell, Alice Scanlan Reach, C.M. Chan, and six other notable writers

James Powell

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