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The Global Casino: An Introduction to Environmental Issues by Nick Middleton
RRP: £47.99£44.60The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, the book... -
Dangerous Neighbors: Volcanoes and Cities by Grant Heiken
RRP: £29.99£23.80What are the real risks posed by a volcanic eruption near a city - what is fact and what is myth? How have volcanic eruptions affected cities in the past, and how can we learn from these events? Why do communities continue to develop in such locations,... -
The Unfamiliar Garden: The Comet Cycle Book 2 by Benjamin Percy 9781473690158
RRP: £9.99£7.16'Debris from a comet drops a fabulously valuable new metal . . . turning it into a bloody, brawling boomtown. Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing' - International bestselling author Stephen King on The Ninth MetalNamed a Most Anticipated... -
The Companion to Development Studies by Vandana Desai 9781444167245
RRP: £64.99£58.76The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary... -
Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and What We Can Do About It by Genevieve LeBaron 9781509513673
RRP: £15.99£14.41Over the last decade, the world's largest corporations - from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever - have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. Yet, by most measures, across many sectors and regions, severe labour exploitation... -
Tambora and the Year without a Summer: How a Volcano Plunged the World into Crisis by Wolfgang Behringer 9781509525492
RRP: £25.00£16.78In 1816, the climate went berserk. The winter brought extreme cold, and torrential rains unleashed massive flooding in Asia. Western Europe and North America experienced a 'year without a summer', while failed harvests in 1817 led to the 'year of famine'... -
A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
RRP: £16.99£12.28A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of... -
Climatology by Robert V. Rohli 9781284119985
£63.70Welcome to the exciting journey of learning about one of the most widely discussed sciences. Praised for its detail and accuracy, Climatology continues to lead as the most comprehensive presentation of our dynamic climate system. The Fourth Edition... -
The City Cultures Reader by Iain Borden
RRP: £54.99£48.72Cities are both products of culture, and sites where culture is made and received. By presenting the very best of classic and contemporary writing on the culture of cities, The City Cultures Reader provides an accessible overview of the diverse material... -
Ancient Denvers: Scenes from the Past 300 Million Years of the Colorado Front Range by Kirk Johnson 9781555915544
RRP: £11.95£8.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555915544Author Kirk JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Chicago Review Press - FulcrumPublisher Chicago Review Press - FulcrumWeight(grams)... -
Deep Life: The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond by Tullis C. Onstott 9780691202822
RRP: £20.00£15.94The thrilling quest for subsurface life on Earth and other planetsDeep Life takes readers to uncharted regions deep beneath Earth's crust in search of life in extreme environments, and reveals how astonishing new discoveries by geomicrobiologists are... -
Geography Coloring Book by Wynn Kapit
RRP: £21.48£19.24For introductory courses in Geography. This unique educational tool introduces the countries of the world and the states of the United States to students. Each section begins with a plate containing a political map, a physical map, and regional maps... -
A Key for Identification of Rock-Forming Minerals in Thin Section by Andrew J. Barker
RRP: £37.99£33.38Structured in the form of a dichotomous key, comparable to those widely used in botany, the mineral key provides an efficient and systematic approach to identifying rock-forming minerals in thin-section. This unique approach covers 150+ of the most... -
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined - and redefined - nature by Beth Shapiro
RRP: £10.99£7.00A Times Best Book of 2021 From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs - the human history of remaking nature. Virus-free mosquitoes, resurrected dinosaurs, designer humans - such is the power of the science of tomorrow. But the idea... -
The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands by Alastair Bonnett
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Extraordinary... A fascinating and intelligent book.' Sunday TimesNew islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disappearing or fragmenting because of rising sea levels. It is a... -
Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places by Edward W. Soja
RRP: £33.95£30.38Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political developments in the late twentieth century, scholars have begun to interpret space... -
Methods in Human Geography: A guide for students doing a research project by Robin Flowerdew 9780582473218
RRP: £54.99£52.88First published in 2004. This text is an essential guide to current research approaches in human geography, covering all aspects of undertaking a geography research project, from the selection of an appropriate topic through to the organisation and... -
Oceans Rising - A Companion to "Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation" by Daniela Zyman
£23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796098Author Daniela ZymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 298mm * 232mm... -
Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World by Jerry Brotton 9781780239293
RRP: £15.99£15.24Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World -Africa and... -
The Making of a Cultural Landscape: The English Lake District as Tourist Destination, 1750-2010 by Jason Wood
RRP: £49.99£43.50For centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape. It is therefore surprising that there has so far been no in-depth critical examination of the Lake District from a tourism and heritage... -
The Waterside Ape: An Alternative Account of Human Evolution by Peter H. Rhys Evans 9780367145484
RRP: £25.99£22.63Why are humans so fond of water? Why is our skin colour so variable?Why aren't we hairy like our close ape relatives?A savannah scenario of human evolution has been widely accepted primarily due to fossil evidence; and fossils do not offer insight into... -
Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology by Myron G. Best 9781405105880
RRP: £98.95£88.13Igneous and metamorphic petrology has over the last twenty years expanded rapidly into a broad, multifaceted and increasingly quantitative science. Advances in geochemistry, geochronology, and geophysics, as well as the appearance of new analytical... -
Woodland Habitats by Mark Frater 9780415180900
RRP: £39.99£35.06Woodland 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... -
Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defence of Growth, Progress, Industry and Stuff by Leigh Phillips
RRP: £16.99£14.61Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to farmers' market heirloom-tomato-mongers to Prince Charles... -
Rural Development: Putting the last first by R. Chambers 9780582644434
£35.74Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people's knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty... -
Edinburgh: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy 9781780273716
RRP: £6.99£4.84An ancient and long-extinct volcano lies at the heart of Scotland's capital. It roared into life some 350 million years ago and has been a source of fascination since it was first studied in earnest during the Enlightenment by James Hutton, one of the... -
Sedimentary Rocks in the Field: A Colour Guide by Dorrik A. V. Stow 9781874545699
RRP: £47.99£41.81Ideas and concepts in sedimentology are changing rapidly but fundamental field work and data collection remain the basis of the science. This book is intended as a guide to the recognition and description of sedimentary rocks in the field. It aims to... -
Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World's Oceans by Deborah Rowan Wright 9780226824086
RRP: £12.00£10.16A counterintuitive and compelling argument that existing laws already protect the entirety of our oceans-and a call to understand and enforce those protections. The world's oceans face multiple threats: the effects of climate change, pollution,... -
Air: The Restless Shaper of the World by William Bryant Logan 9780393345391
RRP: £12.99£11.46Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live, exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and rise, make clouds and fall again, fertilizing the dirt. Twenty thousand fungal spores and half a million bacteria travel in a square... -
Basic Environmental Data Analysis for Scientists and Engineers by Ralph R.B. Von Frese 9781032475066
RRP: £43.99£38.44Classroom tested and the result of over 30 years of teaching and research, this textbook is an invaluable tool for undergraduate and graduate data analysis courses in environmental sciences and engineering. It is also a useful reference on modern digital... -
Physical Geography by Robert Gabler
£76.49Take a unique look at the Earth as you examine its natural processes, complex systems and the reciprocal relationship between people and Earth s natural environment. Written by three of today's most respected geographers, Petersen/Sack/Gabler s PHYSICAL... -
On the Nose: A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite's Most Iconic Climb by Hans Florine 9781493077205
RRP: £14.99£11.26Hans Florine embodies the genius of "and"-collaborative and competitive, fast and safe, audacious and disciplined, visionary and quantitative. The themes that run through Florine's 101 ascents of Yosemite's most iconic route can benefit people who will... -
Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become a Way of Life by Celine-Marie Pascale 9781509548248
RRP: £17.99£16.04For the majority of Americans, hard times have long been a way of life. Some work multiple low-wage jobs, others face the squeeze of stagnant wages and rising costs of living. Sociologist Celine-Marie Pascale talked with people across Appalachia, at the... -
Dorset and East Devon: Landscape and Geology by Malcolm Hart
RRP: £18.99£15.71The Dorset and East Devon region is characterized by a variety of beautiful landscapes and a wealth of exciting geology, including such features as Lulworth Cove, Durdle Door, Chesil Beach, the fossil-laden cliffs of Lyme Regis and the red cliffs of East... -
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... -
Future of Exploration,The: Discovering the Uncharted Frontiers of Science, Technology, and Human Potential by Chris Ranier 9781647229177
RRP: £35.00£22.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647229177Author Chris RanierFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
The Globalization Reader by Frank J. Lechner 9781119409946
RRP: £32.95£30.14An introduction to the issues surrounding the complex and controversial realities of today's interconnected world, the revised sixth edition Since its initial publication, The Globalization Reader has been lauded for its comprehensive coverage of the... -
Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes by Laurence Robb
RRP: £47.95£42.78A comprehensive account of ore-forming processes, revised and updated The revised second edition of Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes offers a guide to the multiplicity of geological processes that result in the formation of mineral deposits. The... -
Life Lessons from Explorers: How to scale life's summits and think like an explorer by Felicity Aston
RRP: £12.99£8.60Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from the feats attained by the most revered names in... -
Tuzo: The Unlikely Revolutionary of Plate Tectonics by Nick Eyles
RRP: £34.00£29.33Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada's most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet. In 1961, a Canadian geologist named John "Jock" Tuzo Wilson...