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  • Causes of Climate Changeby Ashok Malik

    Rajat Publications 2008; US$ 50.00

    This book, the first in the series of this four book volume on climate change, deals, exclusively with the exploration of the causes of climate change. The increase in the emission of green house gases and the subsequent enhanced greenhouse effect, is the root of this problem, and the human activities and processes which cause these are quite comprehensively... more...

  • Spellman's Standard Handbook for Wastewater Operators, 1by Frank R. Spellman

    CRC Press 2010; US$ 94.95

    Retaining the same successful and proven format used in the bestselling first edition, Spellman's Standard Handbook for Wastewater Operators: Volume I, Fundamental Level, Second Edition contains the necessary information to successfully study for and pass currently administered certification examinations. Primarily designed to provide a readily... more...

  • A Blueprint for a Safer Planetby Nicholas Stern

    Random House 2009; US$ 22.66

    * Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we live in the next thirty years - how we invest, use energy, organise transport and treat forests - will determine whether these risks become realities. * Although poor countries - the least responsible... more...

  • Mother Countryby Marilynne Robinson

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 21.99

    At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently... more...

  • Seeds of Empireby Tom Brooking; Eric Pawson

    I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 80.00

    The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of food and raw material, so all over the Empire indigenous plants were replaced with English grasses... more...

  • Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Changeby Akimasa Sumi; Kensuke Fukushi; Ai Hiramatsu

    Springer 2010; US$ 229.00

    In recent decades, there has been a growing awareness of how intricate the interactions are between human beings and the environment. Fortunately, progress has been made in understanding this relationship, and new technologies have been effective in addressing environmental problems. However belatedly, there has been an acknowledgment of the incompatibility... more...

  • Species Richnessby Jonathan Adams

    Springer 2010; US$ 149.99

    This is a readable, informative and up-to-date account of the patterns and controls on biodiversity. The author describes major trends in species richness, along with uncertainties in current knowledge. The various possible explanations for past and present species patterns are discussed and explained in an even-handed and accessible way. The implications... more...

  • Energy, the Environment and Climate Changeby Peter E. Hodgson

    World Scientific Publishing Company 2010; US$ 129.00

    This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood, hydro, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, ocean thermal, and tidal; are... more...

  • Turned Out Niceby Marek Kohn

    Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 13.11

    From 'one of the best science writers we have', a stark and authoritative vision of Britain after a century of global warming. more...

  • Disaster Educationby Rajib Shaw; Koichi Shiwaku; Yukiko Takeuchi

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011; US$ 114.95

    This is the first book of its kind on disaster risk reduction education. A ready reference for practitioners in the field this book describes and demonstrates different aspects of disaster risk reduction education in an easy-to-understand form with current academic research and practical field experiences included throughout. more...