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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: PBT; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 189 x 13. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631136880
ISBN
9780631136880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.89

Paperback. The landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region varies dramatically from parched desert lowlands to semiarid tropical forests and frigid subalpine meadows. This book looks at the relationships of plants and animals with the land and people, through time and across landscapes. Editor(s): Phillips, Steven John; Comus, Patricia Wentworth; Dimmitt, Mark Alan; Brewer, Linda M. Num Pages: 590 pages, 432 b/w line illustrations and photos, 24-page color insert. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 1KLCM; RGBA; RNC; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
590
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520287471
ISBN
9780520287471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.94

Hardback. Presents the story of the role that East African savannas played in human evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region, and how these relationships might shift as the climate warms, the world globalizes, and human populations grow. Num Pages: 416 pages, 9 b/w photographs, 16 line illustrations, 18 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFG; RG; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 151 x 30. Weight in Grams: 688. People, Wildlife, and Change in East Africa. 416 pages, Illustrations, maps. Presents the story of the role that East African savannas played in human evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region, and how these relationships might shift as the climate warms, the world globalizes, and human populations grow. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1HFG; RG; RNK. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 30. Weight: 692.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273559
ISBN
9780520273559
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.86

Hardback. Explains our understanding of human origins, tells how climate determined our spread, and describes the barriers that delayed and directed migrating people. The author explores the rich and complex ways in which our anatomy, physiology, cultural diversity, and population density vary from region to region in the areas we inhabit. Num Pages: 328 pages, 56 line illustrations, 3 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: JHMP; RGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520272118
ISBN
9780520272118
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.47
€ 65.54

Hardback. Suitable for students, scientists, engineers, environmental managers, and policy makers, this book reviews scientifically rigorous literature directly relevant to understanding, managing, protecting, and restoring wetland ecosystems of North America. Editor(s): Batzer, Darold P.; Baldwin, Andrew H. Num Pages: 408 pages, 179 color illustrations, 85 line illustrations, 32 tables. BIC Classification: 1KB; PSAF; RGBF; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1375.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271647
ISBN
9780520271647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.72
€ 112.66

Hardback. If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world's ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. This book helps you explore both the positive and the negative sides of the relationship between cities, the environment, and the future of global biodiversity. Num Pages: 288 pages, 76 b/w scattered photos. BIC Classification: RGC; RNC; RNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520270152
ISBN
9780520270152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Explores the beach - one of the planet's most dynamic environments - from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. This book tells how beaches work, explains why they vary so much, and shows how dramatic changes can occur on them in a matter of hours. Num Pages: 302 pages, 344 color illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: RBGD; RGBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 180 x 18. Weight in Grams: 826. A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline. 302 pages, illustrations. Explores the beach - one of the planet's most dynamic environments - from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. This book tells how beaches work, explains why they vary so much, and shows how dramatic changes can occur on them in a matter of hours. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: RBGD; RGBP. Dimension: 255 x 180 x 18. Weight: 826.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520268722
ISBN
9780520268722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. This title argues that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. Editor(s): Borneman, John; Hammoudi, Abdellah. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFS; JHMC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520257764
ISBN
9780520257764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.36

Hardback. Discusses distinctive corner of California - its desert, the driest and hottest environment in North America. This title illuminates the desert's intriguing flora and fauna as he explores a controversial, unresolved scientific debate about the origin and evolution of its unusual ecosystems. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; PS; RBX; RGBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520256163
ISBN
9780520256163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.25

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 19 b/w photographs, 32 line illustrations. BIC Classification: PSAF; RGBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520247284
ISBN
9780520247284
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.47
€ 65.36

Paperback. Offers a geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits of contemporary globalization, which can be seen as representing the third of three distinct historical moments of US global ambition. Series: California Studies in Critical Human Geography. Num Pages: 586 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
586
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520243385
ISBN
9780520243385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Introduces the readers to 155 national forests across the country. This book describes the natural features, wildernesses, scenic drives, campgrounds and hiking trails of our national forests in Alaska, Nevada, Arizona and Oregon. It includes logistical information about size and location, facilities, attractions and associated wilderness areas. Num Pages: 391 pages, 63 color illustrations, 9 b/w photographs, 71 maps, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; RGBL; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
391
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520239678
ISBN
9780520239678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.31

Paperback. Focused exclusively on native and naturalized vascular plants of California's southeastern deserts, the "Desert Manual" provides illustrations for more than 200 desert taxa, keys to identification, distributional information and 128 colour photographs. Editor(s): Baldwin, Bruce G.; Boyd, Steve; Ertter, Barbara J.; Patterson, Robert W.; Rosatti, Thomas J.; Wilken, Dieter H. Num Pages: 640 pages, 128 color photographs, more than 1,000 line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; GBC; PSTS; RGBA; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520227750
ISBN
9780520227750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.30
€ 46.08

Paperback. Traces the rich legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of different groups of people - conquistadors, corporate executives, subsistence farmers - over the centuries. This book argues that we cannot defend the Amazon's array of plants and animals without comprehending its astonishing human and cultural diversity. Num Pages: 332 pages, 41 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; DSB; GTB; HBJK; RGBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520226425
ISBN
9780520226425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardcover. This is an account of the voyage of a mostly Hawaiian crew, in a reconstructed ancient double canoe, from Hawaii to New Zealand. They did this without the aid of navigational equipment, and with the aim of proving that their ancestors had done just the same thousands of years earlier. Illustrator(s): Rhodes, Richard. Num Pages: 401 pages, 84 figures, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKP; JHM; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 784.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
401
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520080027
ISBN
9780520080027
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Hardback. Based on keynote addresses presented at the International Aeolian Conference in Oxford in July 1998, this book is the latest title in the British Geomorphological Research Group series. Editor(s): Goudie, Andrew S.; Livingstone, Ian; Stokes, Stephen. Series: British Geomorphological Research Group Symposia Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: RBG; RGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471985730
ISBN
9780471985730
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 414.66

Hardback. Land contamination is of global concern with many of the world's industries potentially harming the environment and human health. This book takes into account the different groups involved in contaminated land management and offers a flexible learning approach based on practical experience and research. Series: Modules in Environmental Science. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: RB; RG; RNP; TN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471985600
ISBN
9780471985600
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.01

Hardback. This volume consists of twenty chapters addressing different aspects of the theme of fluvial processes and environmental change. The overall coverage is broad; scientifically, (from modelling to alluvial dating), geographically (from arid zone flash--flooding to glacial meltwaters) and in time (from contemporary process studies to the Quaternary). Editor(s): Brown, Antony Barrington; Quine, Timothy. Series: British Geomorphological Research Group Symposia Series. Num Pages: 426 pages, maps. BIC Classification: RBGD; RGB; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 179 x 29. Weight in Grams: 906.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471985488
ISBN
9780471985488
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 423.57

Paperback. Focusing on the evolving geography of the advanced capitalist economies of Europe, North America, and the Pacific Rim, this comparative international reader presents some relevant papers published in this discipline. The text is divided into five sections. Editor(s): Bryson, John R.; Henry, Nick; Keeble, David; Martin, Ron. Num Pages: 494 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; KC; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 192 x 25. Weight in Grams: 906.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
494
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471985280
ISBN
9780471985280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 116.50

Hardback. This text maps out new networks of information and power, and presents an overview of one of the strongest growing areas in geography, namely technology. It is covered in three parts: conceptualizing electronic space; global electronic commerce; and urban, regional and national development. Editor(s): Wilson, Mark I.; Madison, James; Corey, Kenneth E. (both Michigan State University, USA). Num Pages: 284 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: RGCM; TB; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 20. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471984276
ISBN
9780471984276
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 247.74

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