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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning

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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning

Paperback. Reports the results of a study based on financial and technical analyses of more than 150 green buildings in the United States and ten other countries. This book analyzes the costs and financial benefits of building green on both large and small scales, and addresses the role of the built environment in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: AMCR; KCN; RN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 266 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597266680
ISBN
9781597266680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, colour illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597266840
ISBN
9781597266840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.34

Paperback / so. Illustrator(s): Vinyeta, Kirsten R. Num Pages: 179 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: RNF; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 213 x 13. Weight in Grams: 443.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597268042
ISBN
9781597268042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.16

Paperback. In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out. This title captures the irony - and tragedy - of America's water crisis. Num Pages: 396 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RNFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597268165
ISBN
9781597268165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40

Paperback. On her deathbed, Sue asked her sister for one thing: to write about the connection between the industrial pollution in their hometown and the rare cancer that was killing her. Fulfilling that promise has been Nancy Nichols' mission for more than a decade. This title tells the story of her investigation. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597268219
ISBN
9781597268219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.04

Hardback. Explores the relationship between science and practice in ecological restoration. Despite the often distinct cultures and methodologies of scientists and practitioners, this title shows how each has a vital role in effective restoration and offers suggestions for improving working relationships. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Island Press United States
Edition
3
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597269636
ISBN
9781597269636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.27

paperback. Explores the history of wilderness preservation politics in the United States. This title recounts that American pioneers originally viewed the wilderness as an enemy to destroy but with the rapid decline in natural resources in the nineteenth century, citizens realized their error and began to enact revolutionary environmental policies. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; RNKH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Alaska Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602230255
ISBN
9781602230255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.24

hardcover. Russia encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire eighteenth century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to define and develop the enormous region comprising northeastern Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska. This book focuses on this foundational period in Arctic cartography. Translator(s): Black, Lydia T. Series: Rasmuson Library Historic Translation Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 75 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBTP; RGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 274 x 188 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1326.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Alaska Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602232518
ISBN
9781602232518
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; JHMC; RNPG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Alaska Press United States
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602232662
ISBN
9781602232662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GBC; RNK; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University Press of Colorado United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607325536
ISBN
9781607325536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.64

Hardback. The authors examine how far internal policies in the European Union move towards the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 80-95 per cent by 2050, and how or whether the EU's 2050 objective to 'decarbonise' could affect the EU's relations with a number of external energy partners. Editor(s): Dupont, Claire; Oberthur, Sebastian. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPSN2; KCN; RND; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137406828
ISBN
9781137406828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.43

Hardback. This book examines the increasing role of development organizations in securitization processes and argues that the new security-development counter piracy framework is (re)shaping political geographies of piracy by promoting disciplinary strategies aimed at the prevention and containment of gendered and racialized actions and bodies in Somalia. Num Pages: 209 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137434227
ISBN
9781137434227
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.45

Hardback. In this book, Adrian Williamson investigates the processes by which Thatcherism became established in Tory thinking, and questions to what extent the politician herself is responsible for Thatcherism within the Conservative Party. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 395 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; KC; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137460257
ISBN
9781137460257
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.76

paperback. The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose humanity never disappears in her analysis. With her penetrating critical gift, Vendler assesses American poets from T. S. Eliot to Charles Wright. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674654761
ISBN
9780674654761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.69
€ 48.09

Paperback. Environmental history has traditionally told the story of Man and Nature. This book reintroduces gender as a meaningful category of analysis for environmental history, showing how women's actions, desires and choices have shaped the world and seeing men as gendered actors as well. Editor(s): Scharff, Virginia J. (Professor of History, University of New Mexico, USA). Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBT; JFSJ; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700612857
ISBN
9780700612857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.86

Paperback. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history. Series: Themes in Canadian History. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 12. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802048967
ISBN
9780802048967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

paperback. In order to experience the naturalness and freedom of the parks, we must embrace the very forms of regulation that we closely associate with places we consider to be artificial, restrictive, and alienating. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780802081827
ISBN
9780802081827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

hardcover. The first systematic treatment of the spatial dimensions of the colonization of the prairie west, Improved Earth is a unique and thorough study certain to provoke new debates about the way space and time are imagined. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCS; 3JH; 3JJ; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802087829
ISBN
9780802087829
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.16

Paperback. Editor(s): Reuss, Martin; Cutcliffe, Stephen H. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, tables. BIC Classification: RN; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929897
ISBN
9780813929897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.69

Hardcover. Editor(s): Johnson, Markes E.; Ledesma-Vazquez, Jorge. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RBKC; RGBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 284 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1125.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816525300
ISBN
9780816525300
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.30

Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Edition
2
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817317348
ISBN
9780817317348
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.09

"T""he Everest Effect" is an accessibly written cultural history of how nature, technology, and culture have worked together to turn Mount Everest into a powerful and ubiquitous physical measure of Western values. Series: Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFS; RGC; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817318932
ISBN
9780817318932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.09

Paperback. Editor(s): Grossman, Zoltan; Parker, Alan. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RNK; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870716638
ISBN
9780870716638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.17

Paperback. How has the human-nature relationship changed over time in Japan? How does Japan's environmental history compare with that of other countries, or that of the world as a whole? This volume attempts to answer these questions through a series of case studies by leading Japanese and Western historians, geographers, archaeologists, and climatologists. Editor(s): Batten, Bruce L.; Brown, Philip C. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations, colour insert, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HDP; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870718014
ISBN
9780870718014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.71

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