|
Showing 1 - 9 of
9 matches in All Departments
Hilltops surrounded by farmland in southern Wisconsin turn out to
be the eroded remnants of an ancient archipelago. An island in the
Yellow Sea where Korean tourists flock is the peak of a flooded
mountain rising from a drowned continental shelf. From a
mountaintop shrine to Genghis Khan in Inner Mongolia, the
silhouette of a Silurian seascape can be spotted. On the shores of
Hudson Bay, where polar bears patrol the Arctic tundra, a close
look unveils what was a tropical coastline encrusted with corals
nearly 450 million years ago. The geologist Markes E. Johnson
invites readers on a journey through deep time to find the traces
of ancient islands. He visits a dozen sites around the globe,
looking above and below today’s waterlines to uncover how
landscapes of the past are preserved in the present. Going back 500
million years to the Cambrian through the Pleistocene 125,000 years
ago, this book reconstructs how “paleoislands” appeared under
different climatic conditions and environmental constraints.
Finding vestiges of prehistoric ecologies, Johnson emphasizes the
complexity of island ecosystems and the importance of preserving
these significant sites. Inviting and accessible, this book is a
travelogue that takes readers through time as well as space.
Islands in Deep Time shares the adventure of exploring striking
locations across geologic eras and issues a passionate call for
their conservation.
Hilltops surrounded by farmland in southern Wisconsin turn out to
be the eroded remnants of an ancient archipelago. An island in the
Yellow Sea where Korean tourists flock is the peak of a flooded
mountain rising from a drowned continental shelf. From a
mountaintop shrine to Genghis Khan in Inner Mongolia, the
silhouette of a Silurian seascape can be spotted. On the shores of
Hudson Bay, where polar bears patrol the Arctic tundra, a close
look unveils what was a tropical coastline encrusted with corals
nearly 450 million years ago. The geologist Markes E. Johnson
invites readers on a journey through deep time to find the traces
of ancient islands. He visits a dozen sites around the globe,
looking above and below today’s waterlines to uncover how
landscapes of the past are preserved in the present. Going back 500
million years to the Cambrian through the Pleistocene 125,000 years
ago, this book reconstructs how “paleoislands” appeared under
different climatic conditions and environmental constraints.
Finding vestiges of prehistoric ecologies, Johnson emphasizes the
complexity of island ecosystems and the importance of preserving
these significant sites. Inviting and accessible, this book is a
travelogue that takes readers through time as well as space.
Islands in Deep Time shares the adventure of exploring striking
locations across geologic eras and issues a passionate call for
their conservation.
With Russia's inability to improve conditions in Chechnya and the
international community's failed attempts to negotiate a diplomatic
resolution to the conflict, Islamic extremism in Chechnya is
growing precipitously and risks spilling over into the neighboring
republics of Ingushetia, Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria and the
neighboring country of Georgia. The question this paper addresses,
therefore, is: does the unresolved Chechen conflict and the spread
of Islamic extremism warrant U.S. intervention? As this paper's
analysis of the conflict demonstrates, the answer to this question
is a resounding -yes. In fact, this paper argues that if the United
States does not use its influence to resolve the Chechen conflict
and thus preempt the growth of Islamic extremism in the North
Caucasus, Chechnya risks devolving into a major front in the GWOT.
The only thing that keeps Chechnya from morphing into a major front
in the GWOT today is the secular Chechen separatist leadership that
continuously struggles to control, with varying degrees of success,
the rebellious Islamic extremist faction within its movement. The
pro-Moscow Chechen security and Russian military forces'
heavy-handed tactics and almost daily human rights abuses against
the Chechen people do not help the already volatile situation. The
only nation capable of reversing the downward spiral of Chechnya
into a major front in the GWOT is the United States. The United
States, as a close GWOT ally and economic partner to Russia, has
the influence to negotiate an end to the Chechen conflict and deter
the Islamic extremists' aspirations of a greater Islamic state in
the North Caucasus. This paper recommends the following six-point
peace initiative as a framework from which the United States can
intervene to resolve the Chechen conflict: Six Point Peace
Initiative. 1. Define the Threat: The United States needs to engage
the Russian and Chechen leaders by first brokering an agreement on
the definition of the threat in
"Superman, Hairspray and the Greatest Goat on Earth" is a
collection of essays and stories about simple things: the trauma of
shopping for shoes with a woman, of being surrounded by literally
thousands of vengeful, man-eating bears in the Great Smoky
Mountains, of a life-long obsession with empty hairspray cans, and
of a little girl's relentless search for a live unicorn. This is a
Saturday-in-the-rain book. Maybe it will jog a few memories of your
own, take away a little stress, and prompt you to pay the author
what he considers the ultimate compliment: "You're really not well,
are you?"
|
You may like...
Higher
Michael Buble
CD
(1)
R459
Discovery Miles 4 590
|