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The Last Beach by Orrin H. Pilkey 9780822357988
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £73.01The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current... -
The Rising Sea Orrin H. Pilkey 9781597261913
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.80This is the authoritative book on sea level rise and its coastal consequences. On Shismaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face... -
Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining by Orrin H. Pilkey
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world's sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to... -
Global Climate Change: A Primer by Orrin H. Pilkey 9780822351092
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engages in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written dozens... -
Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining by Orrin H. Pilkey 9781478018797
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to... -
Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores by Orrin H. Pilkey
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other... -
The World's Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline by Orrin H. Pilkey 9780520268722
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.85Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet's most dynamic environments - from... -
Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change by Orrin H. Pilkey 9781478025443
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth’s climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly... -
Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores by Orrin H. Pilkey 9781478005063
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £92.24The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other... -
Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change by Orrin H. Pilkey 9781478020660
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth's climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly... -
Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future by Orrin H. Pilkey 9780231132121
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form... -
Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future by Orrin H. Pilkey 9780231132138
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form... -
Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change by Orrin H. Pilkey 9780231168458
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.67Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to... -
Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change by Orrin H. Pilkey 9780231168441
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to... -
The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Restless Ribbons of Sand by Orrin H. Pilkey 9780822322085 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £9.20The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands is the latest volume in the series, Living with the Shore. Replacing an earlier volume, this thoroughly new book provides a diverse guide to one of... -
The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline by Wallace Kaufman 9780822305743
Booksplease Price: £34.13Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you-all thrown up in... -
Living with the East Florida Shore by Dinesh C. Sharma 9780822305149 [USED COPY]
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £8.00More than one transplanted Floridian has paid $150,000 for a beautiful condominium with a sea view only to learn that, to keep the building from becoming part of the view, considerable additional... -
How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels by William J. Neal 9780807855102
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.93Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the... -
Living with the South Carolina Coast by Gered Lennon 9780822318095 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £8.80Living with the South Carolina Coast is the latest volume in the Living with the Shore series that comprehensively investigates the status of a specific state's coastal region. Completely revising a... -
Living with the Coast of Alaska by Owen Mason 9780822320098 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £1.01Facing two oceans and three seas, Alaska's coastline stretches through bays, fjords, and around islands for 45,000 miles. Living with the Coast of Alaska, a new volume in the Living with the Shore... -
A Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast: Including the Jersey Shore, Cape May, Delaware Bay, the Delmarva Peninsula, and the Outer Banks by Patrick J. Lynch 9780300246469
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.39A beautifully illustrated field guide to the Mid-Atlantic region, from the Jersey Shore to Cape Hatteras The Outer Banks of North Carolina and the beaches of the Mid-Atlantic Coast are among the... -
The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable Planet by Jill S. Schneiderman
Booksplease Price: £58.69Soil contamination . . . public lands . . . surface and groundwater pollution . . . coastal erosion . . . global warming. Have we reached the limits of this planet's ability to provide for us? If so,...