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Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth
Springer 2012; US$ 179.99Seismic waves - generated both by natural earthquakes and by man-made sources - have produced an enormous amount of information about the Earth's interior. In classical seismology, the Earth is modeled as a sequence of uniform horizontal layers (or spherical shells) having different elastic properties and one determines these properties from travel... more...
Living in a Dangerous Climate
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 22.00Unique, thought-provoking journey from early humans' evolutionary response to climate change to today's global crisis, for general reader and students. more...
Reading the Archive of Earths Oxygenation
Springer 2012; US$ 179.99Earth's present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction of global-scale geological and biological processes punctuated by several extraordinary events and episodes that perturbed the entire Earth system. One of the earliest and arguably greatest of these events was a substantial increase... more...
Water Governance
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00This insightful book explores urban water governance challenges in different parts of the world and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of public run, privatised, and public - private partnership managed water facilities. The contributors expertly discuss various types of public and private water governance architectures as well as identify... more...
The Embattled Wilderness
University of Georgia Press 2013; US$ 24.95Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky is one of our most important natural landscapesand one of the most threatened. Covering fourteen thousand acres of some of the most diverse forest region in temperate North America, it is a haven of biological richness within an ever-expanding desert created by mountaintop removal mining. Written by two people... more...
Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Wiley 2013; US$ 80.00Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series . Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Record-Breaking Enterprise presents an overview of some of the significant work that was conducted in immediate response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. It includes studies of in situ... more...
Basic Geological Mapping
Wiley 2004; US$ 32.95Designed to be carried in the field, this pocket-sized how-to book is a practical guide to basic techniques in mapping geological structures. In addition to including the latest computerised developments, the author provides succinct information on drawing cross-sections and preparing and presenting 'fair copy' maps and geological diagrams. Contains... more...
The Chronologers' Quest
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 44.00This book investigates the methods used to determine the Earth's age, from James Ussher and John Lightfoot examining biblical chronologies, to Arthur Holmes and Clair Patterson investigating radioactive dating of rocks. It will be of interest to those with little scientific background, and students and scientists in the earth sciences. more...
Geology and Ecosystems
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2007; US$ 139.99Includes the analysis of the relationship between the different geological, hydrochemical, hydrogeological, and engineering-geological processes and the processes within surface ecosystems. This book is intended for scientists and professionals interested in the Earth's environments and environmental protection. more...
The Mantle and Core
Elsevier Science 2005; US$ 113.95Though largely inaccessible, the geochemistry of Earth's mantle and core can be examined through a wide variety of approaches. Volume 2 focuses first on "remote" sensing using evidence from cosmochemical, seismic, petrologic and geochemical approaches. Mantle composition is then examined in detail through descriptions of mantle samples brought to Earth's... more...









