Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
Hardback. Examines how China's three late imperial dynasties - the Yuan, Ming, and Qing - conquered, colonized, and assumed control of the southwest. This book also highlights the response to China's colonization of the southwest. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 2 b/w illustrations, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLC; HBLL; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025912
- ISBN
- 9780674025912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.96
€ 54.99
€ 45.96
Hardback. One linchpin of China's expansion has been township and village enterprises (TVEs), a vast group of firms with diverse modes of ownership and structure. This book explores the emergence and success of rural enterprises. It also examines how ordinary rural residents have made sense of and participated in the industrialization engulfing them. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KN; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674027831
- ISBN
- 9780674027831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.79
€ 45.99
€ 37.79
Hardback. Looks at various aspects of the science of tsunamis. This book covers the dynamics of geophysical processes involved in tsunami generation, propagation, and inundation, along with the statistical and geophysical properties of tsunami recurrence, and their application to tsunami forecasts and warnings. Editor(s): Bernard, Eddie N.; Robinson, Allan R. Series: The Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas. Num Pages: 462 pages, 20 color illustrations, 159 line illustrations, 12 tables. BIC Classification: RBKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 957.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 462
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031739
- ISBN
- 9780674031739
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.64€ 138.78
€ 157.64
€ 138.78
Paperback. Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis, avian flu: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. How can we steer a path between willful inaction and reckless overreaction? This work explores how we might prevent these and other worst-case scenarios. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JFFC; RNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 202 x 23. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032514
- ISBN
- 9780674032514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.10
€ 45.99
€ 38.10
Paperback. Discusses the biology and plight of right whales, including their reproduction, feeding, genetics, and endocrinology, as well as fatal run-ins with ships and fishing gear. Employing individual identifications, acoustics, and population models, this title presents history of this animal. Editor(s): Kraus, Scott D.; Rolland, Rosalind M. Num Pages: 576 pages, 34 color illustrations, 116 halftones, 48 line illustrations, 21 tables. BIC Classification: RNK; WNCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 976.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674034754
- ISBN
- 9780674034754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.85
€ 34.99
€ 29.85
Hardback. Num Pages: 342 pages, 21ill. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 30. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- y First edition
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072626
- ISBN
- 9780674072626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.04€ 53.45
€ 58.04
€ 53.45
Hardback. Any viable strategy for sustaining the world's oceans must reflect the relationships among all ecosystem components, human and nonhuman species included. This title offers a synopsis of the conservation approaches that are being translated from theory to action on a global scale. Series: The Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas. Num Pages: 458 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: RBKC; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 188 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1194.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 458
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072701
- ISBN
- 9780674072701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.28€ 164.28
€ 187.28
€ 164.28
Hardback. Series: East Asian Monograph. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674119628
- ISBN
- 9780674119628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.90
€ 38.99
€ 32.90
Hardback. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: RG. Dimension: 236 x 162. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674119802
- ISBN
- 9780674119802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.41€ 55.14
€ 60.41
€ 55.14
Hardcover. Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay's ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; RGBP; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674281417
- ISBN
- 9780674281417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.16
€ 47.99
€ 40.16
Paperback. Can we live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth, and all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them? Extinction of the great apes threatens to become a reality within a few human generations. Stanford tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: PSVW79; RNCB; RNKH1; WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416840
- ISBN
- 9780674416840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.66
€ 35.99
€ 30.66
Paperback. The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. Kennedy follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBJM; HBTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674503861
- ISBN
- 9780674503861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.90
€ 35.99
€ 30.90
Hardback. Series: East Asian S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14tabs. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674898165
- ISBN
- 9780674898165
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 35.75
€ 42.99
€ 35.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 151 pages. BIC Classification: RG. Dimension: 273 x 211. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1962
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 151
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674910959
- ISBN
- 9780674910959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.40
€ 13.99
€ 13.40
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: RG. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674970526
- ISBN
- 9780674970526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.93
€ 45.99
€ 37.93
Paperback. Providing a synthesis of sexual selection, this work describes the theory and its development; examines models, methods, and empirical tests; and identifies unsolved problems. It discusses such topics as the selection and evolution of mating preferences; relations between sexual selection and speciation; constraints on sexual selection; and more. Series: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology. Num Pages: 624 pages, 10 halftones 110 line illus. BIC Classification: PSAJ; PSVS; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 857.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691000572
- ISBN
- 9780691000572
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.00€ 64.02
€ 83.00
€ 64.02
Hardcover. An introduction to the physics and chemistry of Earth's atmosphere, this book explains the science behind some of the critical environmental controversies. It covers both the chemistry and physics of the atmosphere with an account of relevant aspects of ocean science and treats atmospheric science and the climate as an integrated whole. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8 color plates. 290 b/w illus. BIC Classification: RBKC; RBP; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 203 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1085.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691006918
- ISBN
- 9780691006918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.65€ 108.47
€ 144.65
€ 108.47
Hardcover. What if Troy was not destroyed in the epic battle immortalized by Homer? This work brings the scientific evidence to bear on biblical accounts, mythology, and the archaeological record to explore how ancient and modern earthquakes have shaped history - and, for some civilizations, seemingly heralded the end of the world. Num Pages: 328 pages, 98 halftones. BIC Classification: RBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 167 x 23. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691016023
- ISBN
- 9780691016023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.30
€ 30.99
€ 22.30
Paperback. Addresses the fundamental effects of space on the dynamics of individual species and on the structure, dynamics, diversity, and stability of multispecies communities. This book highlights the importance of space to five topical areas: stability, patterns of diversity, invasions, coexistence, and pattern generation. Editor(s): Tilman, David; Kareiva, Peter M. Series: Monographs in Population Biology. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 halftones, 81 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: PSVS; RGM; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691016528
- ISBN
- 9780691016528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 104.34€ 79.38
€ 104.34
€ 79.38
Paperback. Synthesizing studies of parental care in a wide variety of animals, this book provides general answers to the following important questions: Why does the extent of parental care vary so widely between species? Why do only females care for eggs and young in some animals, only males in others, and both parents in a few? Series: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PSVS; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025162
- ISBN
- 9780691025162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 109.08€ 82.56
€ 109.08
€ 82.56