Earth : portrait of a planet / Marshak, Stephen, 1955- author.

Columbia University Earth Institute sustainability primers.

Strength of Soil -- Lateral Earth Pressure: At-Rest, Rankine, and Coulomb -- Lateral Earth Pressure: Curved

women, When The Village Sleeps is also a powerful call to respect the earth that nurtures human life

planet -- Greenhouses and other worlds -- Energy-balanced model for planet Earth -- Snowball Earth -- All

radiation -- Energy balance of the Earth -- Earth-sun motion -- Sun position -- Insolation -- Solar resource

sections covering oceans and climate in the Earth system. Each chapter also focuses on the human aspect of

and cotrol -- Energy and change -- Planet earth and beyond -- Systems and control.

-Latitude Climates -- SYSTEM AND CYCLES OF THE SOLID EARTH -- Earth Materials and the Cycles of Rock Change -- The