Environmental Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781443423007Author Diane AckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439206478Author Daniel MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990898597Author Samuel SafranFormat PaperbackImprint San Francisco Estuary InstitutePublisher San Francisco Estuary InstituteWeight(grams) 744g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274749Author Siddharth SareenFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013276002Author Oivind StrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997238228Author Rita Schmidt SudmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Pentimento PressPublisher Pentimento PressWeight(grams) 708g

Not a day goes by that humans aren't exposed to toxins in our environment - be it at home, in the car, or workplace. But what about those toxic places and items that aren't marked? Why are we warned about some toxic spaces' substances and not others? The...

Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atmospheric issues on a spectrum of scales from body to place to planet. The chapters analyze...

Seattle, often called the “Emerald City,” did not achieve its green, clean, and sustainable environment easily. This thriving ecotopia is the byproduct of continuing efforts by residents, businesses, and civic leaders alike. In Seattle and the Roots of...

Conquering Nature provides the only book-length analysis of the environmental situation in Cuba after four decades of socialist rule, based on extensive examination of secondary sources, informed by the study of development and environmental trends in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692293744Author San Francisco Estuary InstituteFormat PaperbackImprint San Francisco Estuary InstitutePublisher San Francisco Estuary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615942186Author San Francisco Estuary InstituteFormat PaperbackImprint San Francisco Estuary InstitutePublisher San Francisco Estuary...

Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as...

The Limits of Participation: Members and Leaders in Canada's Reform Party provides an historical account of the Canadian Reform Party, which shattered the established pattern of Canadian party politics in the late twentieth century. Faron Ellis provides...

In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "March to the East." In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996353687Author J Emil MorhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Cloudripper PressPublisher Cloudripper PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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Known for tackling the most pressing issues that face our world, the Worldwatch Institute has dedicated the 2011 edition of its flagship report to a compelling look at the global food crisis, with particular emphasis on what innovators globally can do to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806169149Author Michael M GearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

Water is essential to human life, as mythology, religion, and history alike have recognised. Its availability has been a key determinant in patterns of settlement and agriculture, but its crucial role in shaping the layout and economic development of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998924434Author Erica SpotswoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint San Francisco Estuary InstitutePublisher San Francisco Estuary InstituteWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990898504Author San Francisco Estuary InstituteFormat PaperbackImprint San Francisco Estuary InstitutePublisher San Francisco Estuary...

How much is a cleaner environment worth? For policy makers, that question used to go largely unanswered. Many economic activities cause environmental degradation, entailing real costs to the economy and to people's welfare. Knowing the extent of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013268847Author Stephan AhbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998924427Author Scott DusterhoffFormat PaperbackImprint San Francisco Estuary InstitutePublisher San Francisco Estuary InstituteWeight(grams) 290g

In the half century after World War II, California’s Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields and orchards into the nation’s most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. How Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley and came...

The convertors would spew it out,"" employee Arturo Hernandez recalled, referring to molten metal. ""You'd see the ground, the dirt, catch on fire. . . . If you slip, you'd be like a little pat of butter, melting away."" Hernandez was describing work at...

The Late, Great Lakes is a powerful indictment of man's carelessness, ignorance, and apathy toward the Great Lakes. With the longest continuous coastline in the United States, they hold one-fifth of the world's freshwater supply. Author William Ashworth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692149713Author Susan ZakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 570Imprint Markham PressPublisher Markham PressWeight(grams) 735g

The evidence continues to mount: melting ice caps, rising temperatures, increasingly frequent natural disasters. As the devastating effects of global warming come into sharper focus, societies must work to both mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt...

In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As an important research center of the so-called Green Revolution in agricultural science and...

Examining specific environmental debates, this study suggests the environment is a concept and a set of cultural values constructed by our use of language. It explores how genres such as nature writing have influenced discourse, and investigates the...

Much environmental deterioration - the greenhouse effect, deleption of the ozone layer and acid rain - has an intrinsic international dimension. The lack of a supra-national authority requires that countries agree on the decision to co-operate for...

California has a worldwide reputation as a pioneer of innovative policies for the control of air pollution by motor vehicles. Autos, Smog and Pollution Control analyses the difficulties which have been encountered in developing and implementing these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994882813Author Yildiz H IlkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint IndependentPublisher IndependentWeight(grams) 712g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998924441Author Sean BaumgartenFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint San Francisco Estuary InstitutePublisher San Francisco Estuary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998924410Author Julie BeagleFormat PaperbackImprint San Francisco Estuary InstitutePublisher San Francisco Estuary InstituteWeight(grams) 240g

Improving urban air quality has become a policy priority for the European Union, national governments and city authorities as more evidence comes to light of the harmful health effects of road traffic pollution. This book clearly illustrates how to work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970611529Author Ann McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint International Center for Art Intelligence, IncorpoPublisher International Center for...

Many historians of late have portrayed upper-class southerners of the antebellum period as inordinately aristocratic and autocratic. Some have even seen in the planters' family relations the faint yet distinct shadow of a master's dealings with his...