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Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 80.00Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) can be key to planning decisions by identifying the effects of new developments on views and on the landscape itself. This fully revised edition of the industry standard work on LVIA presents an authoritative statement of the principles of assessment. Offering detailed advice on the process of assessing... more...
Starkey's Book of States
Bitingduck Press 2007; US$ 9.95Inspired by a children's geography primer, The Arrow Book of States , Starkey?s Book of States was conceived in response as a contemporary poetic atlas. Written over the course of several years, the collection includes fifty poems evoking the landscape or mood of each of the fifty states. In poetry which is by turns wistful and sardonic, comic... more...
Oceanography And Marine Biology: Volume 27
CRC Press 1989; US$ 215.00Interest in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues continues to increase, creating a demand for authoritative reviews that summarize recent research. more...
Regional Satellite Oceanography
CRC Press 1996; US$ 69.95This work addresses the whole range of problems relating to the application of satellite technology to studies of regional seas and sea phenomona - the Gulf Stream, the Kuroshia Current - and coastal zones. It argues that to emphasize global applications is to fail to take into account fundamental idiosyncracies specific to the regional perspective.... more...
Oceanography and Marine Biology: Volume 42
CRC Press 2004; US$ 219.95Interest in oceanography and marine biology and the relevance of those fields to global environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews that summarize recent research. This series has catered to this demand since its foundation, by the late Harold Barnes, four decades ago. It is an annual consideration of basic areas of marine research;... more...
Oceanography and Marine Biology
CRC Press 2005; US$ 219.95This volume of the annual review, edited by Gibson (Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, UK), Atkinson (U. Marine Biology Station Millport, U. of London, UK), and Gordon (Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory), includes ten papers that range in subject and taxonomical and geographic area. The papers discuss the ecology of cold deep sediments; the devolution of more...
Progress in Tourism Marketing
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 109.00The aim of this book are two-fold: (1) to evaluate the current progress of theoretical approaches to tourism marketing and (2) to show the ways to further develop the concept of tourism marketing for application within tourist destinations and individual businesses and evaluate its potential impact on performance improvement. The structure is based... more...
The Barrier Zones in the Ocean
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 189.99Geochemical barrier zones play an important role in determining various physical systems and characteristics of the oceans, e.g. hydrodynamics, salinity, temperature and light. In this book, each of the 40 barrier zones covered are illustrated and defined by physical-chemical parameters. Among the topics discussed are the processes of inflow, transformation... more...
Metalliferous Sediments of the World Ocean
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 179.99Describes the distribution, composition and accumulation rates of contemporary and ancient metalliferous sediments and their components in the oceans and the Red Sea. This book is aimed at geologists, ore geologists, marine geologists and geochemists, oceanographers including paleo-ceanographers, as well as at undergraduate and graduate students. more...
Sailing Alone Around the World
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 5.95As the first person to ever complete a single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, Joshua Slocum recounts his pioneering feat in Sailing Alone Around the World (1899), an engaging memoir of his adventures aboard the sloop Spray . An immediate success, the book has inspired countless later travelers. Slocum, a master of understating his achievements,... more...









