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GCSE Geography Fieldwork for OCR: Fieldwork: 2018 by Andy Owen 9781912190058
£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912190058Author Andy OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Insight & PerspectivePublisher Insight & PerspectiveWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 245mm... -
Why Study Geography? by Alan Parkinson 9781913019150
RRP: £12.99£11.95Are you considering studying geography at university, having fallen in love with the subject at school? Are you a fan of in-depth discussion and independent research? Are you looking to support responsible citizenship? Are you ready to develop a... -
CBAC Safon Uwch Hanes - Canllaw i Fyfyrwyr Uned 3: Canrif yr Americanwyr, tua 1890-1990 (WJEC A-level History Student Guide Unit 3: The American century c.1890-1990 Welsh language edition) Haydn Davey 9781510482067
£12.69Exam board: WJECLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Build, reinforce and revise the historical knowledge and exam skills required for WJEC AS/A-level History.Matched to the... -
The Northern Highlands: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy
RRP: £6.99£4.84Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019 The rocks of northern Scotland tell of turbulent events involving continental collisions that unleashed cataclysmic forces, creating a chain of mountains, the remnants of which we see today on both sides of... -
Staithes: A Place Apart by Gloria Wilson 9781907206634
RRP: £20.00£16.43In photographs, artworks, and words Gloria Wilson celebrates the rugged fishing village where she was brought up, and from which she set her course to a career recording, both visually and verbally, the North Sea fishery she loves. She writes: In this... -
Earth Materials 2nd Edition: Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology by Cornelis Klein
£51.45This concise, accessible, market-leading textbook brings together the wide-ranging fundamentals students need to understand rocks and minerals, and shows them how they relate to the broader Earth, materials and environmental sciences. Designed... -
The Floating Egg: Episodes in the Making of Geology by Roger Osborne
RRP: £18.99£13.61The Floating Egg begins with the search for an alchemist's secret, and ends with the re-imagination of a past world. Each chapter is connected to a particular corner of north-east England, and each explores the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into... -
Landscape by John Wylie
RRP: £43.99£38.44Landscape is a stimulating introduction to and contemporary understanding of one of the most important concepts within human geography. A series of different influential readings of landscape are debated and explored, and, for the first time, distinctive... -
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean by Christina Gerhardt
RRP: £30.00£24.29"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York "An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities... -
CBAC Safon Uwch Hanes - Canllaw i Fyfyrwyr Uned 4: Yr Almaen Natsiaidd, tua 1933-1945 (WJEC A-level History Student Guide Unit 4: Nazi Germany c.1933-1945: Welsh language edition) Gareth Holt 9781510482012
£12.69Exam board: WJECLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Build, reinforce and revise the historical knowledge and exam skills required for WJEC AS/A-level History.Matched to the... -
The Vanishing Ice: Diaries of a Scottish snow hunter by Iain Cameron
RRP: £12.99£9.26There are few more beautiful places than Scotland's winter mountains. But even when most of the snow has melted, isolated patches can linger well into summer and beyond. In The Vanishing Ice, Iain Cameron chronicles these remarkable and little-seen... -
Sedimentary Structures John Collinson 9781780460628
RRP: £50.00£45.75Now enhanced with colour photographs and illustrations, this thoroughly revised fourth edition of Sedimentary Structures enhances its status as a major textbook in geology. Since its first publication in 1982, Sedimentary Structures has established and... -
Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden
RRP: £10.99£7.77The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty yearsIn 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been... -
Physical Geography in Diagrams 4th. Edition by Ron B. Bunnett
£37.25There are around 500 two-colour line diagrams and over 120 photographs making this one of the most highly illustrated geography books available. The text is centred around these illustrations which are used to explain geographical principles and concepts... -
Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide Christopher Reddy 9781032377803
RRP: £23.99£20.99Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide identifies the principal challenges that scientists face when communicating with different stakeholder groups and offers advice on how to navigate the maze of competing interests and deliver... -
Between Earth and Paradise: An Island Life by Mike Tomkies
RRP: £9.99£6.70After giving up a hectic life as a journalist in Europe and Hollywood in the late 1960s to return to his boyhood love of nature, Mike Tomkies moved to Eilean Shona, a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. There he rebuilt an abandoned croft... -
Introducing Mineralogy John Mason 9781780460284
RRP: £18.99£17.34People have been fascinated by minerals since prehistory. The attractions of minerals lie in their colours, their beautiful crystals and the discoveries of their uses and the metals that can be obtained from them. Minerals receive attention from a wide... -
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn 9780330391955
RRP: £10.99£7.93An extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave the clouds the names by which they are known to this day. By creating a language to define... -
National 4 & 5 Geography: Global Issues, Second Edition Calvin Clarke 9781510429383
£23.42Exam Board: SQALevel: National 4 and National 5Subject: GeographyFirst teaching: August 2017First exam: Summer 2018Meet the individual needs of every student with this Second Edition textbook, updated for the revised N5 specification and designed to... -
In Search of Ancient Tsunamis: A Researcher's Travels, Tools, and Techniques by James Goff 9780197675984
RRP: £27.49£23.20In Search of Ancient Tsunamis takes readers on a journey through the science of tsunamis and acts as a "how to" guide in the geology, geomorphology, anthropology, and archaeology of these devastating phenomena. The book draws on examples from around the... -
Collins Primary Geography Pupil Book 5 (Primary Geography) by Stephen Scoffham
RRP: £9.99£9.35Collins Primary Geography has been developed to provide full coverage of the national curriculum requirements for geography in the primary school. The four Key stage 2 primary geography books provide a progressive, skills based scheme for the... -
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability by Jacob Doherty
RRP: £25.00£19.59Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what... -
How to Write an Emergency Plan David E. Alexander 9781780460130
RRP: £35.00£31.73The world is becoming more hazardous as natural and social processes combine to create complex situations of increased vulnerability and risk. There is increasing recognition that this trend is creating exigencies that must be dealt with. The common... -
Global Geomorphology by Michael A. Summerfield 9780582301566
RRP: £61.99£60.60The plate tectonics revolution in the earth sciences has provided a valuable new framework for understanding long-term landform development.This innovative text provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of global geomorphology, with the... -
Fundamentals of Hydrology Tim Davie 9780415858700
RRP: £43.99£38.84The third edition of Fundamentals of Hydrology provides an absorbing and comprehensive introduction to the understanding of how fresh water moves on and around the planet and how humans affect and manage the freshwater resources available to them. The... -
Fringed With Mud & Pearls: An English Island Odyssey by Ian Crofton
RRP: £20.00£8.87One of the Daily Telegraph's 20 Books Perfect for Travel Scotland has its rugged Hebrides; Ireland its cliff-girt Arans; Wales its Island of Twenty Thousand Saints. And what has England got? The isles of Canvey, Sheppey, Wight and Dogs, Mersea,... -
A Field Guide to British Rivers George Heritage (Dynamic Rivers Consultants, UK) 9781118487983
RRP: £64.95£56.52Temperate rivers are influenced by many factors including geology, climate, soils, sediment type, flow, as well as human activity. The complex interactions of the non-anthropogenic controlling factors have led to a wonderful diversity of river type... -
Volcano: Nature and Culture by James Hamilton
RRP: £16.95£16.46Though largely benign, volcanoes erupt continuously across the world. The eruption of Mount St Helens in 1980 and Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 exemplify the dramatic physical violence of volcanoes, and their potential for local destruction and global... -
Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse by Paul Farley
RRP: £12.99£9.49Presenting the best poems from the nationwide Places of Poetry project, selected from over 7,500 entries Poetry lives in the veins of Britain, its farms and moors, its motorways and waterways, highlands and beaches. This anthology brings together... -
Non-Motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning in Africa Winnie V. Mitullah (University of Nairobi, Kenya) 9781472411402
RRP: £135.00£117.28What challenges do pedestrians and cyclists face in cities of the developing world? What opportunities do these cities have to provide for walking and cycling? Based on in-depth research conducted in Cape Town (South Africa), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and... -
Up and About: The hard road to Everest by Doug Scott
RRP: £14.95£11.51'A full and fascinating portrait of one of the great figures of mountaineering.' - Michael PalinAt dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington's epic... -
Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data by Kenneth Field
RRP: £51.99£44.25First place winner in Educational Products at the 2021 International Cartographic Conference Maps are ubiquitous, yet maps are not made equally, nor are they read equally. Every map is a product of its maker and its reader, and maps are rarely right or... -
Woodland Habitats by Mark Frater 9780415180900
RRP: £41.99£36.75Woodland habitats explores the history and ecology of British woodland and explains why they a re such a valuable resource. It examines the wide range of different types of woodland habitats and the typical species that live within them. It offers a... -
Ice Rivers by Jemma Wadham
RRP: £20.00£13.10Longlisted for the Wainwright PrizeShortlisted for the Richard Jeffries AwardThe story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has devoted her career to the glaciers that cover one-tenth of... -
Conversation Analysis by Ian Hutchby
RRP: £18.99£16.87Talk is a central activity in social life. But how is ordinary talk organized? How do people coordinate their talk in interaction? And what is the role of talk in wider social processes? Conversation Analysis has developed over the past forty years as a... -
Minerals: A Very Short Introduction by David J. Vaughan
RRP: £8.99£6.45Minerals existed long before any forms of life, playing a key role in the origin and evolution of life; an interaction with biological systems that we are only now beginning to understand. Exploring the traditional strand of mineralogy, which emphasises... -
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis 9780571234790
RRP: £12.99£8.56Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during... -
Weather Almanac 2022: The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers by Storm Dunlop 9780008469894
RRP: £16.95£9.69The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers. A fascinating month-by-month collection of facts, figures and explanations related to UK weather alongside details of famous meteorologists and their influence. Discover historical... -
Geographies of Consumption by Juliana Mansvelt 9780761974307
RRP: £42.99£37.77This critical introduction to consumption and its geographies provides an engaged summary of the consumption literature and demonstrates that consumption is intimately related to the production of space in everyday life. In Geographies of Consumption... -
Essential SQA Exam Practice: Higher Geography Questions and Papers: From the publisher of How to Pass Sheena Williamson 9781510471788
£10.53Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: GeographyFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA Higher Geography exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every...