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  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
    Air quality is personal. Its management is highly so. Asthmatic or air-pollutant-sensitive individuals depend on accurate air quality forecasts to help manage their daily activities.  However, the adverse effects of poor air quality on public health and visibility extend far beyond the daily time horizon. Pneumonic and cardiac vascular responses of individuals in all age groups...
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    59,74 €

  • Polarimetric SAR Techniques and Applications
    Carlos López-Martínez / Juan Manuel Lopez-Sanchez
    An increasing number of spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems have been equipped with polarimetric capabilities: ALOS and ALOS-2, Radarsat-2, TerraSAR-X, Envisat-ASAR, Sentinel-1a/b, etc. Future mission will still present this type of diversity: RCM, SAOCOM, Cosmo-Skymed 2nd generation or PAZ. Polarimetry allows sensitivity to the structural and geometric properties...
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    59,61 €

  • Inorganic Pollutants in Wastewater
    This book, 'Inorganic Pollutants in Wastewater: Methods of Analysis, Removal and Treatment' extensively investigates the most recent improvements in the area of inorganic pollutants analysis, removal and treatment of wastewater by utilizing different materials such as natural polymers, husks, graphene and carbon nanotube composites, fruit cortex etc. It covers photocata...
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    144,10 €

  • Warden Force
    Terry Hodges
    A collection of 12 award-winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. Season 7 episodes:Skin-Head Fred - Wardens tangle with a murderous, meth-cooking, game-killing, Neo Nazi.Spreaders - Wardens target a highly intelligent, super-wary commercial lobster pirate.Deadly Intent - An alert w...
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    12,00 €

  • I Don’t Believe in Asteroids
    Kevin Kite / Michelle McCauley
    Climate change, income inequality, modern parenting, greed, and materialism-the world is going to hell so you might as well laugh. In I Don’t Believe in Asteroids, Kite and McCauley show you the way. Their irreverent, on-point comics will have you cracking up and crying all at once. Kite’s art is brilliant and bright, even as the text is jarring and penetrating. This is a grea...
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    20,33 €

  • SUN POWER
    NEVILLE WILLIAMS
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    24,27 €

  • DEVOURING DRAGON
    CRAIG SIMONS
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    18,17 €

  • Eco-History. an Introduction to Biodiversity and Conservation.
    D. Rotherham Ian / DRotherham Ian / Ian D. Rotherham / Ian DRotherham
    AN ACCESSIBLE INTRODUCTION TO BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND THE ECO-CULTURAL NATURE OF LANDSCAPESKey issues are addressed in short, focused chapters, supported by a detailed thousand-year timeline based on the British Isles.Rotherham is convinced that to conserve wildlife or ecology, and to heal the wounds of human impacts, we must understand our own history and how, over coun...
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    50,84 €

  • Animals
    Sarah Johnson
    The fourth volume in the reader series, ’Themes in Environmental History’.Comprising essays selected from Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history through theoretical essays and case studies. The readers are attracting increasing interest from course-organisers. Animals examines human relat...
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    38,85 €

  • 3D Recording and Modelling in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
    The book derives from the experiences of the authors as lecturers and tutors at different international summer schools on reality-based surveying and 3D modelling in the field of archaeology and cultural heritage. The book is organized in three main sections. The first part aims to introduce and discuss the contribution of geomatic techniques in archaeology and more generally i...
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    88,00 €

  • Conservation Song
    Wapulumuka Oliver Mulwafu
    Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colon...
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    50,75 €

  • Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Investigation
    Alison Whipple / Robin Grossinger / San Francisco Estuary Institute
    This report describes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Study, which was conducted to provide foundation information to develop sound large-scale restoration efforts in the Delta. The report documents early 1800s pattern and process in the Delta. Historical habitat type extent and distribution are described, the landscape context explored, and driving hydrolog...
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    57,41 €

  • Indigenous Knowledge
    Sarah Johnson
    The third volume in the reader series, ’Themes in Environmental History’.Comprising essays selected from our journals, Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history, by means of theoretical essays and case studies. Indigenous Knowledge investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures in...
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    38,83 €

  • Bio-Invaders
    Sarah Johnson
    We are pleased to announce a new series ofenvironmental history readers, suitable for students.Comprising essays selected from our journals,Environment and History and Environmental Values,each inexpensive paperback volume will address animportant theme in environmental history, combiningunderlying theory and specific case-studies. The firstvolume, Bio-invaders, investigates th...
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    39,21 €

  • Digging Deep in the Garden
    John Walker
    “John Walker is asking the sort of questions you don’t usually find asked in gardening magazines.” A celebrity gardener’s ‘wobble’ over climate chaos… the effect genetically modified crops might have on our gardens and allotments… how adopting a vegan-organic approach can make growing more compassionate… why pesticides must be consigned to the history books.In this diverse, liv...
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    8,09 €

  • Bees of California
    Bees provide food through the simple but essential act of pollination. There are thousands of bee species in North America, but bees are dying. This book is a collaboration between student artists, scientists and writers at the University of California concerned with bee decline. This book is intended for readers with an interest in contemporary poetry, art, nature, and gardeni...
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    15,54 €

  • Coastal Sea Levels, Impacts and Adaptation
    Extreme sea levels can lead to hazardous events, such as coastal flooding, erosion, or salt water intrusion, with-wide ranging environmental, societal, and economic consequences. In combination with climate-driven sea-level rise, and, potentially, additional changes in storminess, dynamic wave contributions, and tidal dynamics, the adverse consequences of extreme oceanographic ...
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    75,97 €

  • Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Geoinformatics
    Saro Lee
    Recently, a need has arisen for prediction techniques that can address a variety of problems by combining methods from the rapidly developing field of machine learning with geoinformation technologies such as GIS, remote sensing, and GPS. As a result, over the last few decades, one particular machine learning technology, known as artificial neural networks, has been successfull...
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    59,81 €

  • Climate Change and Global Warming - Exposed
    Andrew Johnson
    The weather is something which affects all of us, every day of our lives. It dictates our long and short-term plans. In the UK, the weather is the "default topic" of conversation for strangers and friends alike. Though it has obvious and far reaching importance, most people don't know very much about the weather. These days, they don't take time to observe it and probab...
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    13,82 €

  • Exploration Science
    Dr Peter T Scott
    About Exploration ScienceHave you wondered what the science of geology is all about?Together we will explore of the surface and sub-surface of the Earth, the sub-branches of geology, including mineralogy, petrology (rocks), palaeontology (fossils), geochemistry, seismology (earthquakes), engineering geology, and many more.The scientific method used by all scientists as well as ...
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    30,12 €

  • Fossils, Dinosaurs and Cave Men
    Patrick Nurre
    This textbook is a high school, semester study of the differences between the Biblcal and secular views of fossils, dinosaurs, and cave men.  Topics include the cause and mechanism for a global flood, the geologic time table, living fossils, the Tower of Babel, modern classification of dinosaurs, and more.  Students will also learn to interpret the geologic column from a Biblic...
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    43,86 €

  • EXTREME WEATHER
    BONNIE SCHNEIDER
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    19,28 €

  • Tutu’s Rainbow World
    Joseph Kaifala
    Joseph Kaifala was born in Freetown. Now a Human Rights lawyer in the USA and author of “Free Slaves, Freetown and the Sierra Leonean Civil War” his poetry deals with Africa’s poverty, armed conflicts and the suffering of its child soldiers.   ...
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    11,99 €

  • Adventures in Earth Science
    Dr Peter T Scott
    ADVENTURES in EARTH SCIENCE is not just an in-depth textbook but a series of adventures across seven continents and beyond in the sciences of astronomy, geology, meteorology and oceanography. It has been written with over forty years of experience in studying, researching and teaching earth science. Whilst it has been designed for senior high school and junior university or col...
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    142,25 €

  • The 1980 Eruption of Mt. St. Helens
    Don J Easterbrook
    On March 27, 1980 St. Helens suddenly began to erupt steam and ash. These eruptions continued sporadically for the next seven weeks and Dr. Easterbrook made frequent flights to the mountain to observe the eruptive activity. On May 18, 1980, he flew to St Helens at 5:30 a.m. and flew in tight circles a few hundred feet above the summit crater for 2-1/2 hours, photographing the s...
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    17,46 €

  • Horse Ownership Responsible Sustainable Ethical
    Jane Myers / Stuart Myers
    With horse ownership comes great responsibility; we have a responsibility to manage our horses to the best of our ability and to do this sustainably and ethically.Horse keeping has changed dramatically in the last 30 to 40 years and there are many new challenges facing contemporary horse owners. The modern domestic horse is now much more likely to be kept for leisure purposes t...
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    8,98 €

  • Documentación y difusión de información ambiental. UF0734.
    Pilar González Molina
    Puede solicitar gratuitamente las soluciones a todas las actividades en el email tutor@tutorformacion.esCapacidades que se adquieren con este Manual:Aplicar las técnicas de documentación sobre información ambiental.- Describir las diferentes técnicas de recopilación, sistematización, archivo y actualización de la información ambiental.- En una actividad de información ambiental...
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    15,55 €

  • Cinematic Ecosystems
    Motivated by the exigency of climate change, ’Cinematic Ecosystems: Screen Encounters with More-than-Humans in the Era of Environmental Crisis’ takes cinema to be an audiovisual form whose creation and meaning are deeply connected to more-than-human worlds. As part of the third wave of ecocinema studies, this collection gathers contributions on multiple cinema forms from an int...
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    99,03 €

  • Direito à alimentação
    Lidianne Kelly Lopes
    A presente obra tem por objetivo investigar as decisões colegiadas do Supremo Tribunal Federal entre os anos 2010 e 2020, contemplando 10 (dez) anos de constitucionalização da alimentação, que foi elevada à categoria de um direito fundamental social, inserido na CRFB/88, por intermédio da Emenda Constitucional nº 64/2010. O que possibilitou a autora propor 3 (três) molduras em ...
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    16,12 €

  • Sketches of Western Canada 1873-1899
    George Mercer Dawson
    Landscapes, rivers, resources, geology, indigenous peoples...  all these subjects were of interest to geologist-explorer George M. Dawson (1849-1901) as he travelled the prairies, Rockies, British Columbia, Yukon and beyond.These sketches are collected from his personal notebooks at McGill University Archives and his field notebooks at the National Archives from his work with t...
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    32,46 €