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Hands-on Palaeontology: a practical manual by Stephen K. Donovan
RRP: $52.48$47.06A comprehensible reference manual for palaeontologists on many aspects of their science. Topics discussed range from the esoteric, such as palaeoecology and preservation, to the practical, such as the storing of specimens and photography.Book... -
The Old Red Sandstone, or, New Walks in an Old Field by Hugh Miller 9781910682258
RRP: $63.00$50.76WINNER OF THE RESEARCH CATEGORY IN SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2023 This edition of The Old Red Sandstone is the first truly new one for a century. It comes in two volumes: Volume 2 reprints the original, and now rare, first edition in facsimile... -
River Planet: Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis by Martin Gibling
RRP: $84.00$80.12River Planet introduces readers to the epic geological history of the world's rivers, from the first drop of rain on the Earth to the modern environmental crisis. The river journey begins with the first evidence of flowing water four billion years ago... -
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Jay Gould
RRP: $62.90$61.01Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and... -
Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind by Lyall Watson 9781681373690
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373690Author Lyall WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Dust by Michael Marder
RRP: $20.98$19.64Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking... -
Geographical Thought: An Introduction to Ideas in Human Geography by Anoop Nayak 9780132228244
RRP: $92.38$89.59Geographical Thought provides a clear and accessible introduction to the key ideas and figures in human geography. The book provides an essential introduction to the theories that have shaped the study of societies and space. Opening with an exploration... -
Patient Safety Now: Applying Concepts, Theories, and Ideas for Creating a Safe Environment by Suzette Woodward
RRP: $83.98$73.63Over the past decade or so, we have seen a multitude of improvement programmes and projects to improve the safety of patient care in healthcare. However, the full potential of these efforts and especially those that seek to address an entire system has... -
Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land by Andrew Painting
RRP: $62.90$41.73Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring... -
Air-Sea Interaction: Laws and Mechanisms by G. T. Csanady 9780521796804
RRP: $132.28$115.19Air-Sea Interaction: Laws and Mechanisms, first published in 2001, provides a comprehensive account of how the atmosphere and the ocean interact to control the global climate, what physical laws govern this interaction, and its prominent mechanisms. In... -
Place and Placelessness by Edward Relph
RRP: $107.10$86.81First published forty years ago and still widely referenced, Edward Relph's Place and Placelessness has taken its place as a classic of the phenomenological approach to the study of place and has influenced a generation of scholars. For this reprint... -
Lakes: A Very Short Introduction by Warwick F. Vincent
RRP: $16.78$12.16From the mysterious depths of Lake Vostok, Antarctica, to tropical floodplain lakes, inland seas, hydro-reservoirs and the variety of waterbodies in our local environment, lakes encompass a huge diversity of shapes, sizes, depths, colours, and even... -
Essential Maths for Geoscientists: An Introduction by Paul I. Palmer
RRP: $75.50$69.11Essential Maths for Geoscientists An Introduction Essential Maths for Geoscientists: An Introduction is an accessible, student-friendly introduction to the mathematics required by those students taking degree courses within the geosciences. Clearly... -
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George Andrews
RRP: $31.48$25.31Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon and can even tip entire planets over... -
An Introduction to the Blue Humanities by Steve Mentz 9780367763664
RRP: $75.58$66.55An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of... -
Scotland's Mountain Landscapes: A Geomorphological Perspective Colin K. Ballantyne 9781780460796
$87.00The diversity of Scotland's mountains is remarkable, encompassing the isolated summits of the far northwest, the serrated ridges of Skye, the tor-studded high plateau of the Cairngorms and the rolling hills of the Southern Uplands. Born on ancient... -
Advances in Microbial Ecology by Bernhard Schink 9780306461750
RRP: $188.98$188.73Volume 16 of Advances in Microbial Ecology has a difficult history. Nearly halfway through its completion, Gwynfryn Jones had to resign as managing edi tor for health reasons, and he asked me to take over. I want to thank Gwyn for his dedicated work in... -
Blizzards Michael Woods 9780761344056
RRP: $17.85$14.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761344056Author Michael WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Lerner BooksPublisher Lerner Publishing Group -
Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five Oceans by Josh Young
RRP: $27.28$17.18The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world's oceans - the ultimate frontier of our planet. A feat that is new addition to the Guinness Book of World RecordsHumankind has explored every continent on... -
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years by S. Fred Singer 9780742551244
RRP: $39.88$30.07Singer and Avery present-in popular language supported by in-depth scientific evidence-the compelling concept that global temperatures have been rising mostly or entirely because of a natural cycle. Using historic data from two millennia of recorded... -
It's The Sun, Not Us: How Global Warbling and Green Ideology have Hijacked Science by L D Den Boer 9781525550195
RRP: $35.68$25.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525550195Author L D Den BoerFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm -
Rocks, Gems and Minerals by Paul R Shaffer
RRP: $18.88$11.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582381329Author Paul R ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Golden Books Adult Publishing GroupPublisher St Martin's Press -
The Dictionary of Physical Geography David S. G. Thomas (University of Sheffield, UK) 9781118782330
RRP: $75.50$68.61This fully-revised comprehensive fourth edition covers the whole field of physical geography including climate and atmosphere, geomorphology, biogeography, hydrology, oceans, Quaternary, environmental change, soils, remote sensing and GIS. This new... -
Climate: Soul of the Earth by Dennis Klocek 9781584200949
RRP: $63.00$44.84In this original book, Dennis Klocek considers climate to be an expression of Gaia, and presents climate as the soul of Earth within which human beings live and develop. The cosmic destiny of Earth, he argues, is intimately connected with human destiny... -
First Woman: Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere by James Fleming 9780198862734
RRP: $69.28$59.60Clouds are the spark plugs in the heat engine of the tropical atmosphere, and heat from the tropics drives the planet's general circulation. Atmospheric scientists didn't know this in the 1950s, but Joanne Simpson, the first American woman to earn a Ph.D... -
Animal Studies: The Key Concepts by Matthew R. Calarco
RRP: $50.38$44.08Prefaced with a brief introduction to the field of animal studies, the text explores the key influential terms, topics and debates which have had a major impact on the field, and that students are most likely to encounter in their animal studies classes... -
Eco-Cities by Federico Cugurullo
RRP: $77.68$68.31This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities. The narrative is threefold and delves first into the eco-city,... -
Jet Stream: A Journey Through our Changing Climate by Tim Woollings
RRP: $72.43$53.47A number of extreme weather events have struck the Northern Hemisphere in recent years, from scorching heatwaves to desperately cold winters, and from floods and storms to droughts and wildfires. These events have fuelled intense discussions in... -
S & S Guide to Rocks and Minerals by Simon & Schuster 9780671244170
RRP: $52.50$35.30Practical, concise, and easy to use, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals contains everything that the rock and mineral enthusiast needs to know. This field guide is divided into two large sections -- one devoted to minerals and one to rocks,... -
Scotland's Beginnings: Scotland Through Time by Michael Taylor
RRP: $10.48$9.11What would we have seen if we looked out over the landscape of Scotland at its very beginning, before the impact of mankind? What would it be like to swim in the Jurassic sea? Or stand early one morning in the dragon-fly haunted coal forests of the... -
Regionalism Contested: Institution, Society and Governance Henrik Halkier 9780754643616
RRP: $283.50$247.13As we move further into the 21st century, the prominence of regions can no longer be taken for granted. A certain skepticism has developed with regard to the feasibility of marginal regions achieving self-sustained growth and states have maintained their... -
The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World by Miles Ogborn
RRP: $65.10$63.40The institution of slavery has always depended on myriad ways of enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, no repressive tool has been as pervasive as the... -
Romeyn B. Hough. The Woodbook. The Complete Plates by Klaus Ulrich Leistikow
RRP: $63.00$47.36Culled and assembled by Romeyn Beck Hough between 1888 and 1913 in what still remains a stunning and unparalleled achievement, American Woods-originally published in 14 volumes, with actual specimens mounted on card stock-is a work of breathtaking beauty... -
Global Warming: The Complete Briefing by Sir John Houghton
RRP: $88.18$78.37How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? Sir John Houghton's definitive, full colour guide to climate change answers these questions and more by providing the best and latest... -
Most Unimaginably Strange: An Eclectic Companion to the Landscape of Iceland by Chris Caseldine
RRP: $63.00$44.00For all who yearn to travel to the home of the sagas, a beautifully illustrated companion to the terrain of Iceland-from puffins to ponies, glaciers and volcanoes to legendary trolls. Described by William Morris as "most unimaginably strange," the... -
Planetary Geology: An Introduction Claudio Vita-Finzi 9781780460154
RRP: $84.00$76.59Recent planetary missions by NASA, the European Space Agency and other national bodies have reaffirmed that geological processes familiar from our studies of the Earth operate on many solid planets and satellites. Common threads link the internal... -
Blue Planet, Blue God: The Bible, The Ocean, and Us by Meric Srokosz 9780334056331
$46.18The ocean dominates the surface of the earth and is in the pages of the Bible too. The Bible offers a view of the sea and the life it supports which affirms its intrinsic value to God as a good, and indeed essential, part of creation. At the same time,... -
50 Things to Do at the Beach by Easkey Britton 9781616899950
RRP: $37.70$29.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616899950Author Easkey BrittonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Princeton Architectural PressPublisher Princeton Architectural PressWeight(grams)... -
CBAC TGAU Daearyddiaeth Ail Argraffiad (WJEC GCSE Geography Second Edition Welsh-language edition) Andy Owen 9781398387102
$72.89Develop students' subject knowledge and skills. This fully revised edition features updated case studies, practice questions and clear presentation of key terms.> Contains coherent coverage of every core and optional theme in a single volume, with clear... -
Discover QGIS 3.x: A Workbook for Classroom or Independent Study by Kurt Menke 9780998547763
$127.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998547763Author Kurt MenkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Locate PressPublisher Locate PressWeight(grams) 216g