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Majestic River: Mungo Park and the Exploration of the Niger by Charles W. J. Withers
RRP: €35.70€23.44One of the greatest stories of world exploration ever told. By the late eighteenth century, the river Niger was a 2,000-year-old two-part geographical problem. Solving it would advance European knowledge of Africa, provide a route to commercial... -
Soil Erosion and Conservation R. P. C. Morgan (Cranfield University) 9781405117814
RRP: €79.67€68.79Soil Erosion and Conservation provides a comprehensive treatment of the processes of soil erosion, the methods that can be used for their control, and the issues involved in designing and implementing soil conservation programmes. Features of the... -
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Stephen Webb 9783319132358
RRP: €26.18€23.79Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least... -
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston 9780812975598
RRP: €23.80€17.10Apologies 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... -
Glacier: Nature and Culture by Peter G. Knight
RRP: €20.17€14.59As major actors in the unfolding drama of climate change, glaciers feature prominently in Earth's past and its future. Wherever on the planet we live, glaciers affect each of us directly. They control the atmospheric and ocean circulations that drive the... -
Unearthing the Underworld: A Natural History of Rocks by Ken McNamara
RRP: €21.42€20.73Unearthing the Underworld reveals the hidden world of rocks - the secret-keepers of past environments, of changing climates and the pulse of life over billions of years. Even the most seemingly ordinary stone can tell us much about the history of this... -
Geostatistics Explained: An Introductory Guide for Earth Scientists by Steve McKillup 9780521746564
RRP: €57.11€47.02A reader-friendly introduction to geostatistics for students and researchers struggling with statistics. Using simple, clear explanations for introductory and advanced material, it demystifies complex concepts and makes formulas and statistical tests... -
Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell by John L. Casey
RRP: €21.41€14.64Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. In Dark Winter, author John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place... -
Ancient Denvers: Scenes from the Past 300 Million Years of the Colorado Front Range by Kirk Johnson 9781555915544
RRP: €14.22€9.64Apologies 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)... -
Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster by Prof. Keith Smith
RRP: €67.82€59.99The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge material from the physical and social... -
Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts - A defence of growth, progress, industry and stuff Leigh Phillips 9781782799603
RRP: €20.22€17.39Economic 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... -
Hydrogeology: Groundwater Science and Engineering Alain Dassargues 9780367657147
RRP: €46.40€41.20This text combines the science and engineering of hydrogeology in an accessible, innovative style. As well as providing physical descriptions and characterisations of hydrogeological processes, it also sets out the corresponding mathematical equations... -
The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos by William A. Dembski
RRP: €31.54€25.55Science and Faith Can-and Do-Support Each Other Science and Christianity are often presented as opposites, when in fact the order of the universe and the complexity of life powerfully testify to intelligent design. With this comprehensive resource that... -
Future of Exploration,The: Discovering the Uncharted Frontiers of Science, Technology, and Human Potential Terry Garcia 9781647229177
RRP: €41.65€26.69Apologies 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 -
Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene by Bruce Clarke
RRP: €24.98€21.86A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory's intersections with neocybernetic systems theory Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the 1970s by atmospheric chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist... -
How Nature Works: the science of self-organized criticality by Per Bak 9780387987385
RRP: €47.59€33.71and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the critical state-where anything can happen within well-defined... -
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy by Gary Nichols
RRP: €60.63€55.58Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Comprehensive textbook on all aspects of sedimentology and stratigraphic principles Sedimentology and Stratigraphy introduces the reader to the subjects and provides tools for the interpretation of sediments and sedimentary... -
Geochemical and Biogeochemical Reaction Modeling by Craig M. Bethke
RRP: €69.01€59.70An indispensable primer and reference textbook, the third edition of Geochemical and Biogeochemical Reaction Modeling carries the reader from the field's origins and theoretical underpinnings through to a collection of fully worked examples. A clear... -
Land and Wine: The French Terroir by Charles Frankel
RRP: €22.61€19.16A tour of the French winemaking regions to illustrate how the soil, underlying bedrock, relief, and microclimate shape the personality of a wine. For centuries, France has long been the world's greatest wine-producing country. Its wines are the global... -
Goethe on Science: An Anthology of Goethe's Scientific Writings by Jeremy Naydler
RRP: €17.84€13.03Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is most famous for his work on colour theory, but he was also an accomplished all-round scientist, studying and writing on anatomy, geology, botany, zoology and meteorology. This book draws together, in Goethe's own words, his... -
Python Recipes for Earth Sciences Martin H. Trauth 9783031077210
RRP: €59.49€50.73Python is used in a wide range of geoscientific applications, such as in processing images for remote sensing, in generating and processing digital elevation models, and in analyzing time series. This book introduces methods of data analysis in the... -
Practical Handbook of Thematic Cartography: Principles, Methods, and Applications Nicolas Lambert 9781032474472
RRP: €52.35€45.74Maps are tools used to understand space, discover territories, communicate information, and explain the results of geographical analysis. This practical handbook is about thematic cartography. With more than 120 colorful amazing illustrations, numerous... -
Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences: A Comprehensive Approach to Remote Sensing, Climate Science and Geosciences Gustau Camps-Valls (University of Valencia, Spain) 9781119646143
RRP: €137.98€119.21DEEP LEARNING FOR THE EARTH SCIENCES Explore this insightful treatment of deep learning in the field of earth sciences, from four leading voices Deep learning is a fundamental technique in modern Artificial Intelligence and is being applied to... -
Iceland from the West to the South by Wolfgang Fraedrich 9783319908625
RRP: €33.31€30.52The book thoroughly describes Iceland's geological development and its current geological processes, taking into account both geographic and geo-ecological aspects. Furthermore, it includes suggested excursions especially for individual tours. The most... -
A Primer on Fourier Analysis for the Geosciences by Robin Crockett 9781316600245
RRP: €44.02€37.78Time-series analysis is used to identify and quantify periodic features in datasets and has many applications across the geosciences, from analysing weather data, to solid-Earth geophysical modelling. This intuitive introduction provides a practical... -
Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740 Barbara Kennedy (University of Oxford) 9781405101882
RRP: €61.82€53.74This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the past 250 years. Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and... -
Ecotoxicology by Peter G. C. Campbell
RRP: €53.54€48.89Ecotoxicology offers a comprehensive overview of the science underpinning the recognition and management of environmental contamination. It describes the toxicology of environmental contaminants, the methods used for assessing their toxicity and... -
Central England by B.A. Hains 9780118800884
RRP: €8.33€7.65Regional Geology Guides provide a broad view and interpretation of the geology of a region.Book InformationISBN 9780118800884Author B.A. HainsFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint British Geological SurveyPublisher British Geological Survey -
Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History by Donald E. Canfield 9780691168364
RRP: €20.22€16.24The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield--one of the world's leading... -
Climate and Ecosystems by David Schimel 9780691151960
RRP: €33.32€25.94How does life on our planet respond to--and shape--climate? This question has never been more urgent than it is today, when humans are faced with the daunting task of guiding adaptation to an inexorably changing climate. This concise, accessible, and... -
Data Science for the Geosciences by Lijing Wang 9781009201414
RRP: €118.99€104.49Data Science for the Geosciences provides students and instructors with the statistical and machine learning foundations to address Earth science questions using real-world case studies in natural hazards, climate change, environmental contamination and... -
Bedrock Geology of the UK: North by P Stone 9780852726051
RRP: €17.85€16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852726051Author P StoneImprint British Geological SurveyPublisher British Geological Survey -
The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth: Understanding Our World and Its Ecosystems by Rachel Ignotofsky
RRP: €21.41€14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580413Author Rachel IgnotofskyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press -
Paleoclimate by Michael L. Bender 9780691145556
RRP: €35.70€27.72Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one extreme, Earth has been glaciated from the poles to the equator for periods that may have lasted millions of years. At another, temperatures were once so warm that the... -
Geology: A Self-Teaching Guide Barbara W. Murck 9780471385905
RRP: €19.03€13.48Take a learning journey through billions of years of Earthhistory This indispensable guide to the fundamentals of geology is theideal way to introduce yourself to all the basics, from rocks,minerals, and fossil fuels to earthquakes, volcanoes, and... -
Geochemistry William M. White (Cornell University) 9781119438052
RRP: €82.05€73.66A Comprehensive Introduction to the "Geochemist Toolbox" - the Basic Principles of Modern Geochemistry In the new edition of William M. White's Geochemistry, undergraduate and graduate students will find each of the core principles of geochemistry... -
The Highlands Controversy: Constructing Geological Knowledge through Fieldwork in Nineteenth-Century Britain by David R. Oldroyd 9780226626352
RRP: €71.40€68.48The Highlands Controversy is a rich and perceptive account of the third and last major dispute in nineteenth-century geology stemming from the work of Sir Roderick Murchison. The earlier Devonian and Cambrian-Silurian controversies centered on whether... -
The Ice Age by Juergen Ehlers
RRP: €53.54€49.48Nothing new from the Ice Age? Far from it! Barely ten years have passed since the first edition of this book was published, but in that time researchers around the world have developed new methods and published their findings in scientific journals... -
Deep Life: The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond by Tullis C. Onstott 9780691202822
RRP: €23.80€19.39The 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... -
Linear Algebra for Earth Scientists by J. Douglas Walker 9781032555942
RRP: €109.47€94.96Linear Algebra for Earth Scientists is written for undergraduate and graduate students in Earth and Environmental sciences. It is intended to give students enough background in linear algebra to work with systems of equations and data in geology,...