Earth Sciences

Questioning Geography introduces students to the fundamental debates that animate geography today. Each of the chapters focuses on a key issue that has divided or galvanised geographers in their work. Covers both human and physical geography. Includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989333139Author Glenn WolffFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Dca, Inc.Publisher Dca, Inc.Weight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Global Physical Climatology, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the science of climate and climate change that spans the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface, and the interactions among them. It begins with a basic introduction to the...

Copies are supplied by TSO's on-demand publishing serviceBook InformationISBN 9780118801225Author J.R. EarpFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint British Geological SurveyPublisher British Geological Survey

Written by an engineer-sailor-oceanographer, and based on the premise that all who go to sea will benefit from a broader interpretation of seamanship, this book attempts in simple terms to explain the ocean as an operating environment, how boats and...

Our attitudes towards `nature' and the countryside are fickle. The conservation movement, despite enjoying its highest membership ever, has achieved only limited success over the last one hundred years of campaigning. Can conservationists now shake off...

All Earth Science students need to understand the origins, environments, and basic processes that produce igneous and metamorphic rocks. This concise introductory textbook provides students with the essential knowledge needed to understand how petrology...

The third edition of Gordon Bonan's comprehensive textbook introduces an interdisciplinary framework to understand the interaction between terrestrial ecosystems and climate change. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying ecology,...

A practical guide to assist staff in supporting families who need help with the task of parenting their children. This support may be required because families are lacking informal networks of support or because of professionals' worries about the levels...

Social and economic histories of the long eighteenth century have largely ignored women as a class of landowners and improvers. 1700 to 1830 was a period in which the landscape of large swathes of the English Midlands was reshaped - both materially and...

This textbook, derived from courses given by three leading researchers, provides advanced undergraduates and graduates with up-to-date coverage of space physics, from the Sun to the interstellar medium. Clear explanations of the underlying physical...

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and...

An eye-opening introduction to the complexity, wonder, and vital roles of coral reefs "Part memoir, part popular science, part call to action on climate change, the book makes a compelling case for why coral reefs deserve more attention. Sale's argument...

Booklet and accompanying 1: 25 000 scale geological map in a walletBook InformationISBN 9780852725757Author A. R. FarrantPage Count 68Imprint British Geological SurveyPublisher British Geological Survey

This book is a brief summary of the course of lectures in Geochemistry for undergraduate and graduate students from other than Geological Departments (chemists, biologists, ecologists and naturalists). It describes the Earth's structure and some...

Chemical Oceanography: Element Fluxes in the Sea focuses on the use of chemical distributions to understand mechanisms of physical, chemical, biological, and geological processes in the ocean. After an introduction describing observed chemical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975598Author Richard PrestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389679373Author Frederick Albert CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

This book uses a decolonial Black feminist lens to understand the contemporary significance of the practices and politics of indifference in United States higher education. It illustrates how higher education institutions are complicit in maintaining...

Humans have treasured diamonds for their exquisite beauty and unrivaled hardness for thousands of years. Deep within the earth, diamonds grow. Diamonds the size of footballs, the size of watermelons - billions of tons of diamonds wait for eternity a...

This modern climatology textbook explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.Reviews`A fine text for students wishing to understand the physical processes ocurring near the earth's surface...

Children's Geographies is an overview of a rapidly expanding area of cutting edge research. Drawing on original research and extensive case studies in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia, the book analyses children's experiences of playing,...

How is it that, in the course of everyday life, people are drawn away from greenspace experiences that are often good for them? By attending to the apparently idle talk of those who are living them out, this book shows us why we should attend to the...

Mankin Mak's textbook provides a self-contained course on atmospheric dynamics. The first half is suitable for senior undergraduates, and develops the physical, dynamical and mathematical concepts at the fundamental level. The second half of the book is...

All Earth Science students need to understand the origins, environments, and basic processes that produce igneous and metamorphic rocks. This concise introductory textbook provides students with the essential knowledge needed to understand how petrology...

Winner of the 2018 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology!Enterprising Nature explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. To view Jessica's animation...

Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486488189Author George ChristakosFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516957323Author Jim JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

In the context of great economic turmoil and uncertainty, the emergent conflict between continued globalisation and growing economic nationalism means that a geographical economic perspective has never been so important. An Introduction to Economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983652373Author Antonio ZamoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Zamora Consulting, LLCPublisher Zamora Consulting, LLCWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm)...

This book is an illustrative introduction to metamorphic rocks as seen in the field, designed for advanced high school to graduate-level earth science and geology students to jump-start their observational skills. In addition to photographs of rocks in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888651761Author Roland StullFormat PaperbackPage Count 942Imprint Sundog Publishing, LLCPublisher Sundog Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 2136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952260394Author Stephen William HurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint One Off PublishingPublisher One Off PublishingWeight(grams) 717g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992565213Author James MaxlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Terrella PressPublisher Terrella PressWeight(grams) 712g

The sedimentary record on Earth stretches back more than 4.3 billion years and is present in more abbreviated forms on companion planets of the Solar System, like Mars and Venus, and doubtless elsewhere. Reading such planetary archives correctly requires...

This handbook presents an indispensable compilation of fundamental facts and figures about the Earth. It brings together reliable physical, chemical, biological and historical data in a series of 145 easy to read tables, supplemented by maps, charts and...

Learn everything you need to know to start your colony with this straightforward, highly visual guide for beginning beekeepers. Featuring more than 120 color photos, Beginning Beekeeping will teach any beginner how to foster and maintain healthy,...

The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century,...

Authoritative, accessible, and updated introduction to sedimentary rocks for undergraduate students Sedimentary Petrology provides readers with a concise account of sedimentary rock composition, mineralogy, texture, structure, diagenesis, and...