Dry times [[electronic resource] ] : blueprint for a red land / / Mark Stafford Smith and Julian Cribb

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791346303321
• Autore: Stafford Smith Mark
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., c2009
• ISBN: 0-643-10181-0; 1-283-15547-8; 9786613155474; 0-643-09803-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CribbJulian
• Disciplina: 333.7360994
• Soggetti: Arid regions ecology - Australia; Arid regions agriculture - Australia; Biodiversity - Australia; Sustainable development - Australia; Natural resources - Australia - Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-159) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Dramatic deserts -- Spreading deserts: past and future -- What drives deserts? -- Desert survivors -- Living off a lean landscape -- Dry but smart: tomorrow's desert business -- Surprising settlements -- Tantalising technologies -- Desert democrats -- Deserts and our future.
• Sommario/riassunto: Deserts can teach us new ways to live, manage scarce resources, cope with a harsh climate, isolation and a lack of water and energy.

Danny Dunn and Heat Ray

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910153621403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wildside Press
• ISBN: 1-4794-2407-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (89 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): AbrashkinRaymond; WilliamsJay
• Soggetti: Search and rescue operations; Forest fires
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Danny is soaring above Midston in a plane with his pilot friend when he catched sight of a man stranded in a field and helps rescue him. The man happens to be millionaire Gledway Pippit, who is interested in Professor Bullfinch's new heat ray -- but Danny and the Professor must prove to him that the invention can be useful.One afternoon, Danny's friend Irene is listening to her short-wave radio when she hears about a forest fire nearby. Danny realizes that the Professor and Mr. Pippit drove their cars in that direction. Soon the police spot the men -- but they are surrounded by fire! Danny things he knows how to rescue them and put the heat ray to practical use. But can he do it in time?Danny Dunn and the Heat Ray is the seventh novel in the Danny Dunn series of juvenile science fiction/adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.