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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning

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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning

paperback. From blue skies to raging hurricanes, from ice storms to droughts, North Carolina's weather varies widely from season to season and from day to day. This book provides a layperson's guide to the state's weather and climate, and an introduction to the science that describes it. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 photos, 22 drawings, 38 figures, 23 tables, 38 maps, index, full colour throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; RBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 649.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Univ of North Carolina Pr United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780807856253
ISBN
9780807856253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.18

Hardcover. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in California rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonald's. This book seamlessly weaves the biology and ecology of Alaska pollock with the history and politics of the fishery. Num Pages: 280 pages, 33 halftones, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; KNAF; PSPM; PSVW1; RNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226022345
ISBN
9780226022345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RNK; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 171 x 20. Weight in Grams: 930.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299291549
ISBN
9780299291549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; RBKF; WNCS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299294540
ISBN
9780299294540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.07

Hardcover. Environmental debates often pit the protection of nature against economic growth. This book reveals that environmentalism has unsuspected roots in consumerism that extend deeper than our everyday dilemmas. It tells of an early confrontation that set the stage for Silent Spring, pushing the dawn of environmental politics back several decades. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; 3JH; 3JJ; RNK; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700614868
ISBN
9780700614868
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.40

Paperback. A thoroughly updated third edition of an urban politics classic. Analyzes the problematic trends facing America's cities and older suburbs and assesses what's needed to put America's urban crisis back on the national agenda. Series: Studies in Government and Public Policy. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; JPP; JPV; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700619276
ISBN
9780700619276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.35

Hardcover. Compelling essays on Alaskan bears by a writer whose work "Publishers Weekly" calls "captivating, lyrical, and bewitching." In this beautifully written natural history, she describes black, brown, and polar bears and their behavior across a wide range of interactions with each other, their environment, and especially human society. Num Pages: 440 pages, , black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; HBJK; RNK; WNCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 146 x 38. Weight in Grams: 839.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700619351
ISBN
9780700619351
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.89

Paperback. The career of controversial San Francisco publisher James Mason Hutchings, the tireless promoter whose efforts were essential to establishing Yosemite's place in the American imagination and to its preservation. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; BGT; HBJK; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700619672
ISBN
9780700619672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.91

Hardcover. Num Pages: 172 pages, 20 illustrations, 5 maps,. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; RNKH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 273 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700622276
ISBN
9780700622276
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.41

Paperback / so. Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 Num Pages: black & white illustrations, maps, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBLH; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469600864
ISBN
9781469600864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.11

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 34, 12 colour illustrations, 3 maps, 19 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK; RNK; RNP; TQK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 799.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501700606
ISBN
9781501700606
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.17

Paperback. Why communities and institutions need to work together to reduce disaster risk Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JFFN; RNF; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780773539921
ISBN
9780773539921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 45.69

Paperback. Following orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. This title combines the narrative highlights of the Lewis and Clark journals. It explains their triumphs and terrors. Editor(s): Moulton, Gary E. Num Pages: 497 pages, 6 illustrations, 13 maps, index. BIC Classification: HBJK; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
497
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803280397
ISBN
9780803280397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.68

Paperback. Nature of the Outer Banks: Environmental Processes, Field Sites, and Development Issues, Corolla to Ocracoke Num Pages: 174 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807872345
ISBN
9780807872345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.88

Paperback. Editor(s): O'Neill, Karen M.; Abs, Daniel J. van. Num Pages: 250 pages, 10 photographs, 14 maps, 11 figures, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RNR; RPC; TNF; TQ. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813573762
ISBN
9780813573762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.72

Paperback. In the 1990s the field of ecocentrism began to establish and define itself. Arguing that the field has matured to the point where it requires a thorough critique and new theoretical underpinnings, this text suggests ways ecocentrism can become more sophisticated in its methodologies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919065
ISBN
9780813919065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.52

Paperback. Here, Scott Herring studies work on American National Parks from a wide spectrum of creative minds, from early figures such as Muir and Thomas Moran to later observers of the parks such as Ansel Adams, Sylvia Plath, Edward Abbey, and Rick Bass. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922577
ISBN
9780813922577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.49

Hardcover. Across the Continent is an examination of Lewis and Clark's expedition. Essays look at the global politics that provided the context for the expedition and at the interest in science that grew from it and justified its undertaking. It considers the legacies of it on Native Americans and the control of the expansion of the American Empire. Editor(s): Seefeldt, Douglas; Hantman, Jeffrey L.; Onuf, Peter S. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; JPSL; RGR; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press Charlottesville
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813923130
ISBN
9780813923130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.85

Paperback. Tracing the history of parking, this study with a range of interesting illustrations, discusses the role of parking in downtown revitalization efforts and, by contrast, its role in the promotion of outlying suburban shopping districts and its incorporation into our neighborhoods and residences. Num Pages: 308 pages, 80 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RPC; RPT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
1st Pbk. Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925196
ISBN
9780813925196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.16

Hardcover. A combination of environmental history, travel writing, literary criticism, and memoir, this book features a pivotal figure who is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded as America's first environmentalist. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBTB; RNA; WTLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925769
ISBN
9780813925769
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.26

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