Earth Sciences

This innovative book marks a significant departure from tradition anlayses of the evolution of cultural landscapes and the interpretation of past environments. Maps of Meaning proposes a new agenda for cultural geography, one set squarely in the context...

The last thorough revision of Rutley's Elements of Mineralogy appeared as the 23rd Edition in 1936. In subsequent editions, an effort to keep abreast with the great progress in the science was made by small (and often awkward) modifications and,...

This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide variety of social movements, on-the-ground experiments,...

A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth. This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian conceptions of the...

Waves and flows are pervasive on and within Earth. This book presents a unified physical and mathematical approach to waves and flows in the atmosphere, oceans, rivers, volcanoes and the mantle, emphasizing the common physical principles and mathematical...

The oceans are an integral and important part of the climate system. The Oceans and Climate introduces the multi-disciplinary controls on air-sea interaction - physical, chemical and biological - and shows how these interact. It demonstrates how the...

Collins 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780118845472Author D. MillwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint British Geological SurveyPublisher British Geological Survey

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998283272Author Patrick NurreFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Northwest TreasuresPublisher Northwest TreasuresWeight(grams) 216g

Fully updated and expanded, this new edition provides students with an accessible introduction to marine chemistry. It highlights geochemical interactions between the ocean, solid earth, atmosphere and climate, enabling students to appreciate the...

This guide enables students of human geography to take a critical look at the set of practices, hardware and software that are together described as GIS. A guide to GIS for students of human geography. Outlines the distinct approaches to inquiry...

Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography. The authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440107849Author Laura A WhitlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 210mm * 3mm

This is a textbook for non-atmospheric specialists who work in the coastal zone. Its purpose will be to help coastal environmental, engineering, and planning professionals to understand coastal atmospheric processes. This in turn will allow more...

In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300-1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps...

This completely revised second edition of Gender and Environment explains the inter-relationship between gender relations and environmental problems and practices, and how they affect and impact on each other.Explaining our current predicament in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062043566Author Kenneth C DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119393252Author Martin EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change, its...

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art introduction to the novel and fast-evolving topic of in-situ produced cosmogenic nuclides. It presents an accessible introduction to the theoretical foundations, with explanations of...

In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and `overdetermined' character of identity. Further, in attempting to avoid essentialism, people have...

"Encyclopedia of Weather" features: spectacular color photographs, detailed diagrams, beautiful graphics, and maps; easy-to-understand text that is packed with enough detail for scientists yet accessible in classrooms from the junior high school level...

Providing a concise, up-to-date presentation of current knowledge of climate change and its implications for society as a whole, this new edition has been thoroughly updated and extended to include the latest information. The text describes the...

Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects...

'Unfold a map of North America,' Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, 'and the first thing to grab your eye is the bold shift between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains.' In this absorbing book, Meldahl takes readers on a 1000-mile-long field trip back...

This new edition of Mark Z. Jacobson's textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and science of the major air pollution and climate problems that face the world today, as well as the energy and policy solutions to those problems...

Originally published in 2005, this book covers the closely related techniques of electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) specifically from a geological viewpoint. Topics discussed include: principles of electron-target...

This concise, sophisticated introduction to planetary climates explains the global physical and chemical processes that determine climate on any planet or major planetary satellite--from Mercury to Neptune and even large moons such as Saturn's Titan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228816676Author Dwardu CardonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 203g

Waves and tides, wind and storms, sea-level rise and shore erosion: these are the forces that shape our beaches, and beach lovers of all stripes can benefit from learning more about how these coastal processes work. With animation and clarity, The Beach...

Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in three contemporary first world cities in an attempt to map the real geographies of colonialism and postcolonialism as manifest in modern society. From London, the one-time heart of the empire, to...

It's been more than fifty years since Harold Garfinkel created the field of ethnomethodology--a discipline that offers a new way of understanding how people make sense of their everyday world. Since his book Studies in Ethnomethodology published in 1967,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523285068Author Nishi SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Marine Geochemistry offers a fully comprehensive and integrated treatment of the chemistry of the oceans, their sediments and biota. The first edition of the book received strong critical acclaim and was described as 'a standard text for years to come.'...

The book provides a valuable guide to the evaluation and understanding of ground and environmental conditions of sites and their surrounds. This is done through a series of annotated block models and supporting photographs of common geological and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782940481309Author Diccon BrewesFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint HelvetiqPublisher Helvetiq

Most of us have heard of green belts - but how much do we really know about them? This book tries to separate the fact from the fiction when it comes to green belts by looking both backwards and forwards. They were introduced in the mid-twentieth century...

Unequal City examines some of the dramatic economic and social changes that have taken place in London over the last forty years. It describes how London's changing industrial structure, particularly the shift from an industrial to a services-based city,...

Thermal Physics of the Atmosphere offers a concise and thorough introduction on how basic thermodynamics naturally leads on to advanced topics in atmospheric physics. The book starts by covering the basics of thermodynamics and its applications in...

This textbook is a self-contained introduction to tides that will be useful for courses on tides in oceans and coastal seas at an advanced undergraduate and postgraduate level, and will also serve as the go-to book for researchers and coastal engineers...