Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
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
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Condition: New
€ 53.40
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 39.04
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 95.27
€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602230255
- ISBN
- 9781602230255
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.24
€ 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
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 35.94
€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University Press of Colorado United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607325536
- ISBN
- 9781607325536
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.64
€ 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
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 59.45
€ 59.45
Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964-...
Williamson, Adrian; Levitt, Annette Shandler
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
€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674654761
- ISBN
- 9780674654761
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Condition: New
€ 51.69€ 48.09
€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700612857
- ISBN
- 9780700612857
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 34.86
€ 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. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802048967
- ISBN
- 9780802048967
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.70
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.70
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 62.16
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.17
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.71
€ 31.99
€ 27.71
Paperback. Editor(s): Crimmel, Hal. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: RNF; TQSW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607813750
- ISBN
- 9781607813750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.43
€ 25.99
€ 23.43
Paperback. How humans transformed mountains and other elevated areas into culturally rich living places through tangible and intangible social practices Editor(s): Scheiber, Laura L.; Zedeno, Maria Nieves. Num Pages: 264 pages, 33 illustrations, 24 maps. BIC Classification: HDDA; JHMC; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607814337
- ISBN
- 9781607814337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.66
€ 58.66
paperback. An examination of the effects of violence on an urban center and how it shapes both the physical and cultural landscape of a city Series: Jewish Life, History, and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 85 b&w photos, 10 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBH; GTB; JFFE; JFSG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780292728820
- ISBN
- 9780292728820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.13
€ 26.99
€ 25.13