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Fundamentals of Soils by John Gerrard 9780415170055
RRP: $93.58$82.31Fundamentals of Soil provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to soils and the workings of soil systems. This text is the only one of its kind to provide an attractive, lively and accessible introduction to this topic. Featuring learning tools... -
Electron Microprobe Analysis and Scanning Electron Microscopy in Geology by S. J. B. Reed
RRP: $81.88$68.66Originally 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... -
Flare Star by Dwardu Cardona 9780228816676
$129.25Apologies 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 -
Place/Culture/Representation by James S. Duncan
RRP: $107.23$93.83Spatial 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... -
Climate Analysis by Chester F. Ropelewski 9780521896160
RRP: $87.73$81.08Sensational images and stories about variations in Earth's climate and their impacts on society are pervasive in the media. The scientific basis for these stories is often not understood by the general public, nor even by those with a scientific... -
Harold Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology: Legacies and Prospects by Douglas W. Maynard 9780190854416
RRP: $79.93$72.77It'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,... -
Britain's Cities: Geographies of Division in Urban Britain by Michael Pacione
RRP: $105.28$92.18Uneven distribution of life is a dominant feature of the city. Major social, economic and spatial divisions are apparent in terms of income and wealth, health, crime, housing, and employment. This text offers an introduction to current processes of urban... -
Marine Geochemistry Roy Chester (University of Liverpool) 9781405187343
RRP: $107.15$93.78Marine 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.'... -
Geomodels in Engineering Geology: An Introduction by Peter Fookes 9781849951395
RRP: $68.25$61.13The 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... -
Unequal City: London in the Global Arena by Chris Hamnett
RRP: $105.28$91.40Unequal 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,... -
Green Belts: Past; present; future? John Sturzaker (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 9781138339392
RRP: $85.78$74.96Most 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... -
Young People, Place and Identity by Peter E. Hopkins
RRP: $85.78$74.96Young People, Place and Identity offers a series of rich insights into young people's everyday lives. What places do young people engage with on a daily basis? How do they use these places? How do their identities influence these contexts? By working... -
The Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate Change: A Complete Visual Guide by Juliane L. Fry 9780520261013
RRP: $77.90$65.97"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... -
Woodlands by Anne Horsfall 9781904349112
RRP: $11.60$10.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904349112Author Anne HorsfallFormat PaperbackImprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
Gender and Environment Susan Buckingham 9781138894525
RRP: $70.18$61.80This 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... -
Discovering the Deep: A Photographic Atlas of the Seafloor and Ocean Crust by Jeffrey A. Karson 9780521857185
RRP: $187.18$171.46The deep oceans and global seafloor are truly Earth's last frontier. They remain largely unexplored, yet are critical to our survival on this planet. This magnificent, full-color volume transports you to bizarre landscapes hosting exotic life forms that... -
Mantle Convection for Geologists by Geoffrey F. Davies 9780521198004
RRP: $81.88$74.76Mantle convection is the fundamental agent driving many of the geological features observed at the Earth's surface, including plate tectonics and plume volcanism. Yet many Earth scientists have an incomplete understanding of the process. This book... -
Mountain Weather and Climate by Roger G. Barry
RRP: $140.38$118.19Mountain Weather and Climate is an all-encompassing textbook describing mountain weather and climate processes. Results from several major field programs have been incorporated into this edition, including the European Alpine Experiment, studies of air... -
Place and the Politics of Identity by Steve Pile
RRP: $107.23$93.05In 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... -
Undocumented Migration Roberto G. Gonzales 9781509531806
RRP: $31.18$28.10Undocumented migration is a global and yet elusive phenomenon. Despite contemporary efforts to patrol national borders and mass deportation programs, it remains firmly placed at the top of the political agenda in many countries where it receives hostile... -
Chemical Fundamentals of Geology by R. Gill 9780412549304
$176.03The second edition of this innovative book provides 'geo-relevant' chemistry in a highly accessible format. The environmental, geological and topical relevance has been enhanced, providing the ideal text to explain the relevance of chemical fundamentals... -
An Introduction to Tides by Theo Gerkema 9781108464055
RRP: $79.93$68.37This 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... -
Resilience in the Anthropocene: Governance and Politics at the End of the World David Chandler 9781138387447
RRP: $72.13$63.43This book offers the first critical, multi-disciplinary study of how the concepts of resilience and the Anthropocene have combined to shape contemporary thought and governmental practice. Faced with the climate catastrophe of the Anthropocene, theorists... -
After Childhood: Re-thinking Environment, Materiality and Media in Children's Lives Peter Kraftl (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) 9781032237602
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book offers a new approach for theorising and undertaking childhood research. It combines insights from childhood and generational studies with object-oriented ontologies, new materialisms, critical race and gender theories to address a range of... -
Orogenesis: The Making of Mountains by Michael R. W. Johnson
RRP: $140.38$128.84Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide - either forcing material upwards to form mountain belts such as the Alps or Himalayas or causing one plate to be subducted below the other, resulting in volcanic... -
The Planetary Scientist's Companion by Katharina Lodders 9780195116946
RRP: $56.53$38.98This is a comprehensive and practical book of facts and data about the Sun, planets, asteroids, comets, meteorites, the Kuiper belt and Centaur objects in our solar system. Also covered are properties of nearby stars, the interstellar medium, and... -
Planetary Climates by Andrew Ingersoll 9780691145051
RRP: $58.50$45.42This 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... -
The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future by Laurence C. Smith 9780452297470
RRP: $46.80$31.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452297470Author Laurence C. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *... -
Theory of Satellite Geodesy: Applications of Satellites to Geodesy by William M. Kaula 9780486414652
RRP: $21.43$15.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486414652Author William M. KaulaFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Thermodynamics of Natural Systems: Theory and Applications in Geochemistry and Environmental Science by Greg Anderson
RRP: $122.83$108.91Thermodynamics deals with energy levels and energy transfers between states of matter, and is therefore fundamental to all branches of science. This new edition provides an accessible introduction to the subject, specifically tailored to the interests of... -
Periglacial Geomorphology Colin K. Ballantyne (University of St Andrews) 9781405100069
RRP: $130.55$114.68A FASCINATING AND INFORMATIVE EXPLORATION OF PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES, PAST AND PRESENT, AND THEIR ROLE IN LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION Periglacial Geomorphology presents a comprehensive introduction to the processes that operate in present periglacial environments... -
Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City by Jane M. Jacobs 9780415120074
RRP: $107.23$93.05Edge 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... -
Home SOS: Gender, Violence and Survival in Crisis Ordinary Cambodia by Katherine Brickell
RRP: $48.73$42.53Drawing on 15 years of fieldwork and over 300 interviews, Home SOS argues that the home is central to the violence and gendered contingency of existence in crisis ordinary Cambodia. Provides an original book-length study which brings domestic violence... -
Spaces of Work: Global Capitalism and Geographies of Labour by Noel Castree
RRP: $120.90$97.50Spaces of Work is an accessible examination of the role of labour in the modern world. The authors critically assess the present condition and future prospects for workers through the geographies of place, space and scale, and in conjunction with other... -
Introduction To Coastal Engineering And Management (Third Edition) by J. William Kamphuis 9789811208980
RRP: $107.25$92.04This book is based on the author's 49 years of experience as a practicing coastal engineer and 34 years as professor of coastal engineering and management at Queen's University. The book is therefore thoroughly practical in nature, but it also reflects... -
Shipboard Operations H I Lavery 9780750618571
RRP: $107.23$93.05This book covers the knowledge of shipboard operations required by candidates for professional qualification as Chief Officer and Master Mariner. It deals with the basic routines and procedures, and the many regulations governing their use, for the safe... -
After Suburbia: Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century by Roger Keil 9781487523534
RRP: $58.48$52.46After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on... -
Radical Political Economy: Critique and Reformulation Andrew Sayer (Lancaster University) 9780631193753
RRP: $97.40$84.77With the rise of the New Right, the demise of state socialism, and the development of concerns over the nature of modernity, the reception of Marxist and radical theories of capitalist society has become, to say the least, skeptical. In this book Andrew... -
Material Concerns: Pollution, Profit and Quality of Life by Tim Jackson
RRP: $50.68$44.13Material Concerns offers new perspectives on key environmental issues - pollution prevention, ecological economics, limits to sustainability, consumer behaviour and government policy. The first non-technical introduction to preventative environmental... -
A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by Bert Bolin
RRP: $115.03$103.12How did the global climate change issues emerge? The issue of human-induced global climate change became a major environmental concern during the twentieth century. In response to growing concern about human-induced global climate change, the UN...