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Introducing Mineralogy John Mason 9781780460284
RRP: $39.88$36.41People have been fascinated by minerals since prehistory. The attractions of minerals lie in their colours, their beautiful crystals and the discoveries of their uses and the metals that can be obtained from them. Minerals receive attention from a wide... -
How to Write an Emergency Plan David E. Alexander 9781780460130
RRP: $73.50$66.63The world is becoming more hazardous as natural and social processes combine to create complex situations of increased vulnerability and risk. There is increasing recognition that this trend is creating exigencies that must be dealt with. The common... -
Global Geomorphology by Michael A. Summerfield 9780582301566
RRP: $130.18$127.26The plate tectonics revolution in the earth sciences has provided a valuable new framework for understanding long-term landform development.This innovative text provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of global geomorphology, with the... -
Pennines and Adjacent Areas by N. Aitkenhead 9780852724248
RRP: $37.80$34.78Regional Geology Guides provide a broad view and interpretation of the geology of a region.Book InformationISBN 9780852724248Author N. AitkenheadFormat PaperbackImprint British Geological SurveyPublisher British Geological Survey -
How to Read the Landscape by Robert Yarham
RRP: $31.48$24.68An easily accessible, highly illustrated guide to the geology, geography and geomorphology that form landscapes. Interest in the environment has never been greater and yet most of us have little knowledge of the 4 billion years of history that formed... -
Natural History of Tenerife Philip Ashmole 9781849952255
RRP: $73.50$62.62Tenerife is a remarkable island, dominated by Mount Teide, an active volcano higher than any mountain in mainland Spain. The island has extraordinary volcanic landscapes, and thousands of species of plants and animals that are found only there. The... -
Water and Peace: A journey through the world's most explosive conflict zones in search of deep water Dr Alain Gachet 9781529426885
RRP: $52.50$34.40In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace.With the growing impact of climate change, an estimated one third of the world's population lacks fresh water. By 2050 it could well be over... -
Southern Scotland: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy
RRP: $16.78$11.47The south of Scotland has a long and turbulent geological past. Perhaps most notably, it marks the place where, 432 million years ago, an ocean, once as wide as the north Atlantic, was compressed by a convergence of ancient lands and then ceased to be. ... -
Soil Grown Tall: The Epic Saga of Life from Earth by Gregory J. Retallack 9783030887414
RRP: $69.28$53.42This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology. It includes line art and color illustrations to visualize the topic for the informed layperson or... -
Geology of Snowdonia by Matthew Bennett
RRP: $35.68$34.63Snowdonia has a great story to tell, of ancient oceans, mountains, volcanoes and climate change. The mountain landscape of Snowdonia is the result of everything that has happenend to it over geological time - the product of the ancient landscapes that... -
Northern England by P. Stone 9780852726525
RRP: $37.80$32.09This new, fully revised, 5th edition of the "Northern England 'Regional Geology' Guide" describes the wide variety of rocks, with a geological history spanning almost 500 million years, which underlie Northumberland and Durham, the English Lake District... -
Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World by Dorrik Stow
RRP: $25.18$17.70This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Named after a Greek sea nymph, there is a sense of mystery about such a vast, ancient ocean, of which all that remains now are a few little pools, like the Caspian... -
Lake District Mountain Landforms by Peter Wilson 9781904244561
RRP: $42.00$30.85Written with fell walkers and other countryside enthusiasts in mind this thoroughly engaging and absorbing book shows that there is much more to the Lake District than simply 'stanes and watter'. Have you ever wondered why Scafell is different from... -
Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?: An MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science by Ian Hutchinson
RRP: $44.08$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845477Author Ian HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)... -
The Holocene: An Environmental History Neil Roberts (University of Plymouth) 9781405155212
RRP: $79.70$70.90The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago. This period has witnessed a shift from environmental changes... -
Mountains: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Price
RRP: $18.88$13.55Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface and are home to about 12 percent of the global population. They are the sources of all the world's major rivers, affect regional weather patterns, provide centres of biological and cultural diversity,... -
Geodynamics by Donald L. Turcotte 9780521186230
RRP: $132.28$118.55Essential reading for any Earth scientist, this classic textbook has been providing advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the fundamentals needed to develop a quantitative understanding of the physical processes of the solid earth for over... -
The Earth After Us: What legacy will humans leave in the rocks? by Jan Zalasiewicz
RRP: $41.98$31.54What would alien visitors in the far future, piecing together the history of earth, find of our brief reign? What clues will we leave? What fossils? Just as we have gained knowledge of the past, of ancient climates and the activities of creatures long... -
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell 9780316260206
RRP: $41.98$24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316260206Author Jeff GoodellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition by Andrew H. Knoll 9780691165530
RRP: $35.68$25.20Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly... -
Handbook of Geotechnical Investigation and Design Tables: Second Edition Burt G. Look 9781138001398
RRP: $203.68$177.35This practical handbook of properties for soils and rock contains in a concise tabular format the key issues relevant to geotechnical investigations, assessments and designs in common practice. There are brief notes on the application of the tables... -
James Hutton: The Founder of Modern Geology by Alan McKirdy 9781910682449
RRP: $31.48$26.36Thoroughly revised and expanded from the 2012 edition (twice the number of pages, almost double the number of illustrations) this book pays tribute to the man and his diverse works and achievements. James Hutton (1726-1797) was one of the first... -
Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History by Susan M. Gaines 9780195176193
RRP: $96.58$80.28In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules in ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll, presumably from plants that had lived millions of years in the past. Many years later this insight was revisited and the term... -
The Living Origin of Rocks and Minerals by Walther Cloos 9781782501732
RRP: $35.68$25.79An increasing number of enthusiasts are attracted by the rich variety of rocks and minerals around us, and new ways of looking at them.In this book, Walther Cloos views the Earth as a living organism, with different kingdoms of nature -- mineral, plant... -
Volcanoes and the Making of Scotland by Brian Upton
$87.00Scotland's mountains and glens retain the secrets of the long and frequently violent geological history that has gone into their making. Volcanoes have played a major role in the creation of Scotland and while the youngest, a mere sixty million years... -
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 9780552151740
RRP: $20.98$17.28Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has... -
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud
RRP: $73.50$58.25Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are... -
Hands-on Palaeontology: a practical manual by Stephen K. Donovan
RRP: $52.48$47.06A comprehensible reference manual for palaeontologists on many aspects of their science. Topics discussed range from the esoteric, such as palaeoecology and preservation, to the practical, such as the storing of specimens and photography.Book... -
The Old Red Sandstone, or, New Walks in an Old Field by Hugh Miller 9781910682258
RRP: $63.00$50.76WINNER OF THE RESEARCH CATEGORY IN SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2023 This edition of The Old Red Sandstone is the first truly new one for a century. It comes in two volumes: Volume 2 reprints the original, and now rare, first edition in facsimile... -
The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis by Christina Conklin
RRP: $46.18$31.98A beautiful and engaging guide to global warming's impacts around the world Our planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and communities are faltering. Despite these dire... -
River Planet: Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis by Martin Gibling
RRP: $84.00$80.12River Planet introduces readers to the epic geological history of the world's rivers, from the first drop of rain on the Earth to the modern environmental crisis. The river journey begins with the first evidence of flowing water four billion years ago... -
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Jay Gould
RRP: $62.90$61.01Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and... -
Patient Safety Now: Applying Concepts, Theories, and Ideas for Creating a Safe Environment by Suzette Woodward
RRP: $83.98$73.63Over the past decade or so, we have seen a multitude of improvement programmes and projects to improve the safety of patient care in healthcare. However, the full potential of these efforts and especially those that seek to address an entire system has... -
Essential Maths for Geoscientists: An Introduction by Paul I. Palmer
RRP: $75.50$69.11Essential Maths for Geoscientists An Introduction Essential Maths for Geoscientists: An Introduction is an accessible, student-friendly introduction to the mathematics required by those students taking degree courses within the geosciences. Clearly... -
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George Andrews
RRP: $31.48$25.31Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon and can even tip entire planets over... -
Scotland's Mountain Landscapes: A Geomorphological Perspective Colin K. Ballantyne 9781780460796
$87.00The diversity of Scotland's mountains is remarkable, encompassing the isolated summits of the far northwest, the serrated ridges of Skye, the tor-studded high plateau of the Cairngorms and the rolling hills of the Southern Uplands. Born on ancient... -
Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey
RRP: $35.68$35.49A tour of the Solar System's tallest, hottest, coldest and weirdest volcanoes - and a look inside what makes them erupt. The volcano - among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena. However, Earth isn't the only... -
S & S Guide to Rocks and Minerals by Simon & Schuster 9780671244170
RRP: $52.50$35.30Practical, concise, and easy to use, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals contains everything that the rock and mineral enthusiast needs to know. This field guide is divided into two large sections -- one devoted to minerals and one to rocks,... -
Scotland's Beginnings: Scotland Through Time by Michael Taylor
RRP: $10.48$9.11What would we have seen if we looked out over the landscape of Scotland at its very beginning, before the impact of mankind? What would it be like to swim in the Jurassic sea? Or stand early one morning in the dragon-fly haunted coal forests of the... -
Spatio-Temporal Models for Ecologists James Thorson 9781032531014
RRP: $161.68$141.65Ecological dynamics are tremendously complicated and are studied at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Ecologists often simplify analysis by describing changes in density of individuals across a landscape, and statistical methods are advancing...