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Worldwide Destinations Casebook
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 39.95Worldwide Destinations: the geography of travel and tourism casebook provides over 40 comprehensive case studies of international tourism destinations. A companion text to the core textbook Worldwide Destinations 4th edition, these cases contextualise the learning and provide real life illustrations of the theories covered. Cases are drawn from... more...
Oceanography and Marine Biology
CRC Press 2007; US$ 199.95Provides reviews that summarize results of research in basic areas of marine research, exploring topics of special and topical importance while adding to new areas as they arise. This volume features contributions from experts involved in biological, chemical, geological, and physical aspects of marine science. more...
The Agulhas Current
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 189.99The Agulhas Current is one of the major currents of the world ocean. In the network of currents that connect the major ocean basins, it forms a key link. This linkage may be of critical importance in the way the ocean affects the earth's climate and climate change. Based on the research findings of 60 years, the author describes the origins of... more...
Thin Layer Chromatography in Chiral Separations and Analysis
CRC Press 2007; US$ 199.95Investigation and control of chirality ranks among the most difficult separation tasks. This book presents information on this important field. It also discusses the problem of chirality in general and the technical possibilities of carrying out enantiomer separations in detail. more...
Sound Images of the Ocean
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 169.99Offers a comprehensive overview of acoustic imaging applications in the various fields of marine research, utilization, surveillance, and protection. This book employs 400 sound images of the sea floor and of processes in the sea volume, contributed by more than 120 marine experts from 22 nations. more...
Arabian Deserts
Springer 2006; US$ 169.99Providing coverage of the deserts of Arabia, this volume describes distinctive landforms of Arabia deserts. It deals with different types of desert found there, including those formed by great sand seas, dunefields, evaporites, clay pans, stony plains, volcanic flows, desert plateaux and mountains, deltas, and desert islands. more...
Antarctica
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 179.99Contains sixty articles arranged in eight thematic sections refering to geological and geophysical results of Antarctic research. This book considers the Precambrian of the East Antarctic shield and its geological history, as well as sub-ice topography, geophysics and stratigraphy, sedimentology, and geophysics of the surrounding Southern Ocean. more...
Marine Surface Films
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 129.99Describes air-sea interaction experiments, and presents remote sensing applications with sea slicks and crude oil spills. This book deals with the research in this field - the influence of marine surface films on mechanisms dominating energy and mass transfer across the ocean/atmosphere interface. It also offers basic chemical insights. more...
The Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean
Springer 2006; US$ 249.99Provides an account of the structure and dynamics of this important component - Near-Surface Layer - of the ocean. This book develops the relevant physics and thermodynamics. It gives a treatment to the surface microlayer, upper-ocean turbulence, fine thermohaline structure, coherent structures, and high wind-speed regime. more...









