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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913167103Author Jim LangleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Oxford Alpine ClubPublisher Oxford Alpine ClubWeight(grams) 570gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Get the New Edition of Louisiana & Mississippi's Best-Selling Bird Guide Learn to identify birds in Louisiana & Mississippi, and make bird-watching even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide, bird identification is simple and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439102084Author Charles FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Rubbish. Waste. Trash. Whatever term you choose to describe the things we throw away, the connotations are the same; of something dirty, useless and incontrovertibly 'bad'. But does such a dismissive rendering mask a more nuanced reality? In Rubbish...

Prepare to dive to the depths of the sea with 100-foot-long giant squid, travel through space after the meteorites shooting into our atmosphere and join a dangerous expedition to Antarctica to find the Emperor Penguin egg. Discover fleas dressed by nuns,...

For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered,...

Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an on-line restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to the Environment to put you on the road to environmental...

The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of the most complete pictures of any ancient vertebrate...

"Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'Who hears the fishes when they cry?' Maybe we need to go down to the river bank and try to listen." In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky,...

The rose is the world's favourite flower - and always has been. It is the greatest floral symbol of love and romance the world over, and touches people's hearts at many points in their lives as the flower most often chosen to celebrate significant...

"Guides readers toward the road less consumptive, offering practical advice and moral support while making a convincing case that individual actions . . . do matter." -Elizabeth Royte, author, Garbage Land and BottlemaniaLike many people, Beth Terry...

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide...

Stephen Green-Armytage's Extraordinary Chickens is back in a new chunky format. With gorgeous colour photographs and informative text, Green-Armytage surveys more than fifty breeds from around the world, capturing with his camera chickens of all sizes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367564490Author Sally HawkinsPage Count 395Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans belong...

This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395967010Author Sue HubbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 249g

Landscape change and habitat fragmentation are key factors impacting biodiversity worldwide. These processes have many facets, each of which is usually studied in isolation. The Tumut Fragmentation Study has run for over 11 years and yielded extensive...

An authoritative and wide-ranging new edition of A Dictionary of Weather containing almost 2,000 entries on all areas of the subject. Provides clear definitions and illustrative examples of terminology taken from meteorology, forecasting, and climatology...

Walking along the water's edge, who among us has not stopped to admire the evocatively patterned, shaped, and multihued stones that beckon? Fun to collect and free for the taking, beach stones are objects of contemplation, beauty, and sentiment. This...

In mythology, art history and religious iconography, the apple has been imbued with every imaginable human desire. It has been a symbol of love and beauty, of temptation, of immortality, peace, death and poison, of sin and redemption. From Adam and Eve...

When the forces that give our planet life exceed our ability towithstand them, they become disasters. Together they have shaped ourcities and architecture, elevated leaders and toppled governments, influencedthe way we think, feel, fight, unite and pray...

An Introduction to Molecular Ecology combines theoretical concepts with practice-driven examples to showcase the latest molecular and genomic techniques and their impact on the study of ecology. The opening chapters introduce the essential molecular...

In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parrenas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parrenas tells the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585423576Author Catherine Feher-ElstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm)...

Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. In...

Venison is experiencing an unprecedented growth in popularity as a delicious, healthy, and increasingly available dish.Here are more than fifty recipes from the senior chef/lecturer in Culinary Arts at Westminster Kingsway College, England. In this...

Drawing on the collaborative expertise of three senior scholars, The Journalism Manifesto makes a powerful case for why journalism has become outdated and why it is in need of a long-overdue transformation. Focusing on the relevance of elites, norms and...

Historically animal law has been a piecemeal legislative process of amendments and repeals. The slow progress of the legislation has finally resulted in the introduction of the two main criminal statutes affecting animals, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685397012Author Ken ShelfFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 199mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639831824Author Philip van den BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint HPH PublishingPublisher HPH Publishing

The lives of bees are interwoven with our own, but how much do you know about them? Which scents do bees prefer? How do bees transport pollen? How far can bees fly? Do specific colours attract bees? Do bees prefer native flowers? Bees are a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620053461Author James KavanaghPage Count 12Imprint Waterford Press LtdPublisher Waterford Press Ltd

Over the past two centuries, industrial societies hungry for copper - essential for light, power, and communication - have demanded ever-increasing quantities of the metal. Born with a Copper Spoon examines how the metal has been produced, distributed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909850545Author Steve White-ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Laburnum PressPublisher Laburnum Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760899035Author Danielle CelermajerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

From crowded train stations to quiet woods and from city centres to our own back gardens, birds remind us that nature is everywhere. But do you know which is the king of the birds? Has anyone ever told you how the brave swallow got its forked tail? And...

Bats are highly charismatic and popular animals that are not only fascinating in their own right, but illustrate most of the topical and important concepts and issues in mammalian biology. This book covers the key aspects of bat biology, including...

This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass extinction that happened about 65 million years ago, and...

Identify Texas mammals with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by family and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information. Whether you happen upon an animal track or actually see wildlife in nature, interacting with mammals is a thrill...