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Island of Grass by Ellen Wohl 9780870819636
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £17.43Island of Grass tells the story of the Cathy Fromme Prairie Natural Area, a 240-acre preserve surrounded by housing developments in Fort Collins, Colorado. This small grassland is a remnant of the... -
Rivers in the Landscape by Ellen Wohl 9781119535416
RRP: £65.95Booksplease Price: £59.17Rivers are the great shapers of terrestrial landscapes. Very few points on Earth above sea level do not lie within a drainage basin. Even points distant from the nearest channel are likely to be... -
Dead Wood: The Afterlife of Trees by Ellen Wohl 9780870715273
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Dead Wood explores the life and afterlife of three trees growing along a river: a spruce in the Colorado Rockies, a western red cedar in Washington, and a balsam poplar in Canada. Each tree is... -
Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources by Ellen Wohl 9783319651231
Booksplease Price: £51.20This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river. Rivers are commonly regarded from a very simplistic perspective as conduits for downstream flows of water. In this... -
Something Hidden in the Ranges: The Secret Life of Mountain Ecosystems by Ellen Wohl
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £15.31Something Hidden in the Ranges is designed for readers interested in natural and environmental history and specifically the natural history of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. We all see the... -
Landscapes on Fire: Impacts on Uplands, Rivers, and Communities Ellen Wohl 9781394235131
RRP: £134.95Booksplease Price: £119.23Explores the effects of wildfires on land, water, vegetation, wildlife, and humans Across the world, wildfires are increasing in frequency, extent, and severity, driven by changes in land use and... -
Of Rock and Rivers: Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West by Ellen Wohl 9780520257030
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £25.97This beautifully written and deeply personal collection of essays paints a progressive view of the American West as seen by a geologist. Ellen Wohl traces her twenty years of living and conducting... -
A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers by Ellen Wohl
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have... -
A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers Ellen Wohl 9780226007601
Booksplease Price: £27.92"A World of Rivers" explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world. Ranging from the Yellow River in China to Central Europe's Danube, the book... -
Saving the Dammed: Why We Need Beaver-Modified Ecosystems by Ellen Wohl 9780190943523
RRP: £48.49Booksplease Price: £42.57The ability of beavers to create an abundant habitat for a diverse array of plants and animals has been analyzed time and again. The disappearance of beavers across the northern hemisphere, and what... -
Following the Bend: How to Read a River and Understand Its Nature by Ellen Wohl 9780691272474
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40An engaging and thought-provoking introduction to river scienceWhen we look at a river, either up close or while flying over a river valley, what are we really seeing? Following the Bend takes... -
Disconnected Rivers: Linking Rivers to Landscapes by Ellen E. Wohl 9780300194708
Booksplease Price: £33.01This important and accessible book surveys the history and present condition of river systems across the United States, showing how human activities have impoverished our rivers and impaired the... -
Rivers Over Rock: Fluvial Processes in Bedrock Channels by Keith J. Tinkler 9780875900902
RRP: £60.95Booksplease Price: £55.30Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 107.Bedrock river channels are sites of primary erosion in the landscape, fixing the baselevel for all... -
Virtual Rivers: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range by Ellen E. Wohl 9780300183108
Booksplease Price: £26.37Sparsely settled mountain areas of the world, such as Colorado's Front Range, give an impression of wild, untouched, and unchanging nature. Yet in many cases mountain rivers that appear to be... -
Transient Landscapes: Insights on a Changing Planet by Ellen E. Wohl 9781607323686
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £38.81Landscape-the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place-is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient Landscapes introduces this idea of a... -
Where the River Flows: Scientific Reflections on Earth's Waterways by Sean W. Fleming 9780691191829
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and usRivers are essential to every aspect of civilization, from brewing beer to building computers, yet how many of us understand... -
Gold Metal Waters: The Animas River and the Gold King Mine Spill by Brad T Clark
Booksplease Price: £26.61Gold Metal Waters presents a uniquely inter- and transdisciplinary examination into the August 2015 Gold King Mine spill in Silverton, Colorado, when more than three million gallons of subterranean... -
River Dynamics: Geomorphology to Support Management by Bruce L. Rhoads 9781107195424
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.68Rivers are important agents of change that shape the Earth's surface and evolve through time in response to fluctuations in climate and other environmental conditions. They are fundamental in... -
Geomorphology in the Anthropocene by Andrew S. Goudie 9781107139961
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £60.76The Anthropocene is a major new concept in the Earth sciences and this book examines the effects on geomorphology within this period. Drawing examples from many different global environments, this... -
Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America George Frazier 9780226838793
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £17.54The inspirational story of grassland rivers-and the people who paddle and protect them. The North American grasslands that once covered vast areas of the central United States are now our most...