The Earth from the Air: Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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Arthus-Bertrand's aerial photographs have been assembled into a daybook, using 170 shots from his original volume plus 195 new ones. Each image has a story to tell – most with ecological or social themes, which when viewed collectively present the ecosystem and our relationship to it in all its complicated glory. Our current partner charities in the UK are READ International, the National Literacy Trust, Room to Read.

Since 1750, human activity has increased the concentrations various greenhouse gases, most importantly carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. The remaining gases are often referred to as trace gases, [12] among which are other greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. The result of a five-year airborne odyssey across five continents and sixty countries, this special 10th anniversary edition features an updated text and over 100 breathtaking new photographs.However, ionization in the mesosphere largely ceases during the night, so auroras are normally seen only in the thermosphere and lower exosphere. A classic of its kind, this book will heighten everyone's awareness of today's urgent ecological issues. billion years ago during the Great Oxygenation Event and its appearance is indicated by the end of the banded iron formations. The large-scale structure of the atmospheric circulation varies from year to year, but the basic structure remains fairly constant because it is determined by Earth's rotation rate and the difference in solar radiation between the equator and poles.

Almost every plate is double page, reproduced in sumptuous vibrant colour, with helpful fold-out notes for each shot. The troposphere is bounded above by the tropopause, a boundary marked in most places by a temperature inversion (i.ISBN 978-1-4987-5428-6 , which cites Allen's Astrophysical Quantities but includes only ten of its largest constituents.

Biography: Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a world-renowned aerial photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist. This image shows the Moon at the centre, with the limb of Earth near the bottom transitioning into the orange-colored troposphere. Main article: Atmospheric temperature Temperature trends in two thick layers of the atmosphere as measured between January 1979 and December 2005 by microwave sounding units and advanced microwave sounding units on NOAA weather satellites. French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand can be forgiven for looking down on the world when his latest global survey, The Earth from the Air, 365 Days bears such bold witness to the variety of our lives and our planet. More compact than the original The Earth from the Air, but somehow no less heavy, Arthus-Bertrand's glossy portrait-diary of privileged panoramas formalises the concept of looking at a single piece of art each day by arranging yet another stunning array of bird's-eye glimpses of the lives we lead, and the multitude we don't and never will.A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce.