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Is the Temperature Rising?: The Uncertain Science of Global Warming by S. George Philander 9780691050348
RRP: $68.25$54.09Most of us have heard the dire predictions about global warming. Some experts insist that warming has already started, and they warn of such impending disasters as the sea level rising to flood coastal cities. Others, however, have issued loud... -
Soil Chemistry Daniel G. Strawn 9781119515180
RRP: $126.65$111.38Provides comprehensive coverage of the chemical interactions among organic and inorganic solids, air, water, microorganisms, and the plant roots in soil This book focuses on the species and reaction processes of chemicals in soils, with applications to... -
The Island in Imagination and Experience Barry Smith 9781910192795
RRP: $25.33$16.77From Treasure Island to Robben Island, from the paradise of Thomas More's 'Utopia' to Napoleon's purgatory on Elba, islands have proved irresistible to mankind's imagination since time immemorial. Self-confessed islomane Barry Smith explores how islands... -
Space by Peter Merriman
RRP: $70.18$62.58Space is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse fields as philosophy, physics, architecture, sociology, anthropology, and geography.The text examines the influence of... -
Snow Avalanches: Beliefs, Facts, and Science by Francois Louchet 9780198866930
RRP: $101.40$96.25This book provides a critical update of the most recent and innovative developments of avalanche science. It aims at re-founding avalanche science on clear scientific bases, from field observations and experiments up to mathematical and physical analysis... -
Collins Primary Geography Teacher's Book 5 (Primary Geography) by Stephen Scoffham
RRP: $58.50$55.59Collins Primary Geography has been developed to provide full coverage of the national curriculum requirements for geography in the primary school. The Teacher's Guide contains a wide selection of follow-up work and encourages reinforcement of... -
The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change by David Archer 9780521732550
RRP: $72.13$62.69An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades. The history of the Earth's climate has been probed by drilling into polar ice sheets and sediment layers of the oceans' vast depths, and great advances... -
Deep Carbon: Past to Present by Beth N. Orcutt 9781108477499
RRP: $136.48$126.56Carbon is one of the most important elements of our planet, and ninety percent of it resides inside Earth's interior. This book summarizes ten years of research by scientists involved in the Deep Carbon Observatory, a global community of 1200 scientists... -
City Worlds by John Allen 9780415200707
RRP: $93.58$81.53For the first time in history, half of the worlds population is living in mega-cities. Never before have we confronted such a geography of the worlds people.Analysing cities through spatial understanding, City Worlds explores how different worlds within... -
The Invention of Disaster: Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability JC Gaillard 9781032162720
RRP: $74.08$65.09This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to unpack why... -
A First Course in Turbulence by Henk Tennekes 9780262536301
$116.43This is the first book specifically designed to offer the student a smooth transitionary course between elementary fluid dynamics (which gives only last-minute attention to turbulence) and the professional literature on turbulent flow, where an advanced... -
Weather: A Concise Introduction by Gregory Hakim 9781108404655
RRP: $120.33$106.29From a world-renowned team at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, Weather: A Concise Introduction is an accessible and beautifully illustrated text covering the foundations of meteorology in a concise, clear,... -
Water Justice by Rutgerd Boelens
RRP: $136.48$125.39Water justice is becoming an ever-more pressing issue in times of increasing water-based inequalities and discrimination. Megacities, mining, forestry, industry and agribusiness claim an increasingly large share of available surface and groundwater... -
Weather, Climate and Climate Change: Human Perspectives by Greg O'Hare
RRP: $115.03$110.37A timely and accessible analysis of one of the most crucial and contentious issues facing the world today - the processes and consequences of natural and human induced changes in the structure and function of the climate system.Integrating the latest... -
Tides: A Scientific History by David Edgar Cartwright 9780521797467
RRP: $171.58$136.87This book, first published in 1998, provides a history of the study of the tides over two millennia, from the primitive ideas of the Ancient Greeks to present sophisticated space-age techniques. Tidal physics has puzzled some of the world's greatest... -
Scientific Principles for Physical Geographers by Ian Bradbury 9780582369368
$102.34Science for Geography and Environment introduces students (and academics who need to brush up their knowledge!) to scientific principles in a lively and accessible way, allowing them to proceed through the text at their own pace. The book is structured... -
Great Geological Controversies by A. Hallam 9780198582199
RRP: $163.80$145.04Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Moorlands of England and Wales: An Environmental History 8, 000 BC-AD 2, 000 by I.G. Simmons 9780748617319
RRP: $60.45$50.80This is a history of the moorlands and the part they have played in English and Welsh history over ten millennia. Ian Simmons combines the perspectives of natural science, archaeology, social history and historical geography, and draws on forty years of... -
Volcanism by Hans-Ulrich Schmincke 9783540436508
RRP: $214.48$195.64Volcanic eruptions are the clear and dramatic expression of dynamic processes going on in planet Earth. The author, one of the most profound specialists in the field of volcanology, explains in a concise and easy to understand manner the basics and most... -
Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet by Donald R. Prothero
$28.55Aliens. Ley lines. Water dowsing. Conspiracies and myths captivate imaginations and promise mystery and magic. Whether it's arguing about the moon landing hoax or a Frisbee-like Earth drifting through space, when held up to science and critical thinking,... -
Structural Geology Algorithms: Vectors and Tensors by Richard W. Allmendinger 9781107401389
RRP: $97.48$82.93State-of-the-art analysis of geological structures has become increasingly quantitative but traditionally, graphical methods are used in teaching. This innovative lab book provides a unified methodology for problem-solving in structural geology using... -
Earth System History by Steven M. Stanley
$156.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319154028Author Steven M. StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co LtdPublisher Macmillan Learning -
Tourism and Sustainability: Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World Martin Mowforth 9781138013261
RRP: $97.48$85.61By January 2015 the world's richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world's population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever... -
The Deep Hot Biosphere by Thomas Gold 9780387985466
$61.91Does there exist, deep within the earth's crust, a second biosphere-- composed of very primitive, thermophilic (heat-loving) bacteria, and containing more living matter than the entire surface? This idea, first proposed by the author in the early 1980s,... -
Lectures in Geochemistry by Alexey B. Ptitsyn 9780367733612
RRP: $42.88$37.71This 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... -
Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction by Ben Wisner 9780415523257
RRP: $140.38$124.12The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art... -
Chicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami: The Story of the Largest Known Asteroid to Hit the Earth by David Shonting 9783319818979
RRP: $87.73$61.82This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 Km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of asteroids and the likelihood of future Earth-impacts... -
Earth Transformed by William F. Ruddiman
$86.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464107764Author William RuddimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co LtdPublisher Macmillan Learning -
Earth's Climate Evolution Colin P. Summerhayes (Southampton Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock, UK) 9781118897393
RRP: $128.60$113.04To understand climate change today, we first need to know how Earth's climate changed over the past 450 million years. Finding answers depends upon contributions from a wide range of sciences, not just the rock record uncovered by geologists. In Earth's... -
Introduction to Geochemistry: Principles and Applications Kula C. Misra (University of Tennessee) 9781405121422
RRP: $101.30$90.01This book is intended to serve as a text for an introductory course in geochemistry for undergraduate/graduate students with at least an elementary level background in earth sciences, chemistry, and mathematics. The text, containing 83 tables and 181... -
Collector's Guide to the Zeolite Group by Robert J. Lauf 9780764346750
RRP: $37.03$24.71Among rock-forming minerals, the zeolite group is large and widespread, and is enormously important to industry. Zeolites form excellent crystals. The group is structurally complex and notable for its ability to exchange cations with surrounding... -
Geopoetics in Practice by Eric Magrane
RRP: $72.13$63.43This breakthrough book examines dynamic intersections of poetics and geography. Gathering the essays of an international cohort whose work converges at the crossroads of poetics and the material world, Geopoetics in Practice offers insights into poetry,... -
Globalization and Social Change: People and Places in a Divided World by Diane Perrons
RRP: $134.53$116.84Globalization and Social Change takes a refreshing new perspective on globalization and widening social and spatial inequalities. Diane Perrons draws on ideas about the new economy, risk society, welfare regimes and political economy to explain the... -
Urban Geopolitics: Rethinking Planning in Contested Cities by Jonathan Rokem
RRP: $77.98$68.37In the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studies agenda. However, this research is frequently based on similar case studies on a few selected cities in America and Europe and all too... -
The New Catastrophism: The Importance of the Rare Event in Geological History by Derek V. Ager 9780521483582
RRP: $97.48$80.09Rare and violent events through geological time are the theme of this readable and thought-provoking view of the Earth's history. The evidence for such episodes and rare 'catastrophic' happenings has been gleaned from the geological record of the... -
Mechanics Of Scour In The Marine Environment, The by B. Mutlu Sumer
RRP: $148.20$130.96This book treats the subject of local scour around different kinds of marine structures, exposed to waves and/or currents. The first, major part of the book is devoted to marine pipelines, describing in detail all kinds of scour scenarios, and also... -
Popular Geopolitics and Nation Branding in the Post-Soviet Realm by Robert A. Saunders
RRP: $81.88$71.66This seminal book explores the complex relationship between popular geopolitics and nation branding among the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, and their combined role in shaping contemporary national image and statecraft within and beyond the region... -
Rock Fractures in Geological Processes by Agust Gudmundsson 9780521863926
RRP: $140.38$125.39Rock fractures control many of Earth's dynamic processes, including plate-boundary development, tectonic earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and fluid transport in the crust. An understanding of rock fractures is also essential for effective exploitation of... -
Soil Science: Methods & Applications by David L. Rowell 9780582087842
$158.50Offers a practical introduction to the various basic methods of assessing the properties of soil. Each method is explained in a concise and accessible manner, providing useful guidance on how each method might be used in a practical situation.Book... -
Key Concepts in Economic Geography by James T. Murphy 9781847878953
RRP: $74.08$60.61"A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous...