Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación

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  • 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 €

  • Rewild or Die
    Urban Scout
    Rewild or Die is a collection of essays written by Urban Scout exploring the philosophy of the emerging rewilding renaissance, in which civilized humans are thought to be 'domesticated' through thousands of years of sedentary, agrarian life. This way of life is believed to be the root of all environmental destruction and social injustice. Rewilding is the process of un-doing th...
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    16,82 €

  • E-Learning for Geographers
    Technological advances have created the ability to put lectures, tutorials, and student activities online for academic instructors. However, for most teachers, especially those accustomed to traditional delivery methods, this creates a daunting task that involves radical re-skilling and effort. E-Learning for Geographers: Online Materials, Resources, and Repositories draws less...
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    255,96 €

  • Handbook of Research on Modernization and Accountability in Public Sector Management
    The effects of recent economic and financial crises have reached an international scale. A number of different nations have experienced the fallout of these events, calling into question issues of accountability and reform in public management. The Handbook of Research on Modernization and Accountability in Public Sector Management is an essential scholarly publication that foc...
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    374,24 €

  • 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 €

  • Checklist of Papuasian Orchids
    Paul Ormerod
    This is the most comprehensive account to date of all Papua New Guineas wild orchids and will no doubt prove to be the essential reference to PNG's orchids for all botanists, ecologists and orchid enthusiasts for decades to come. All types and relevant data including where published are listed and the herbariums where they are kept. All synonymous names, where published and...
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    59,91 €

  • Awakening into Unity, The Complete Series Reader
    Lee Temple
    The Global Awakening project integrates widely accepted scientific, spiritual, and environmental perspectives to reveal our profound collective journey from the Big Bang to the present day—so we can understand, at the deepest core level, who we truly are, what we’re made of, and how we’ve come face to face with the greatest humanchallenge of all time—global climate change. In s...
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    80,38 €

  • 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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    26,71 €

  • Grass Left Standing
    Maureen Stine
    Embark on a transformative journey through nature with Grass Left Standing: A Park Interpreter’s Road Map to Forest Bathing. Discover the art of forest bathing, a restorative sensory exploration that encourages mindfulness and rejuvenation. Through guided sequences, experience the harmony of rest and wandering, interspersed with facilitated group gatherings and solitary reflect...
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    14,18 €

  • A Brief History of Geology
    Kieran D. O’Hara / Kieran DO'Hara / Kieran DO’Hara
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    43,10 €

  • ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY IN URBAN PROTECTED AREAS
    Charles Gemaque
    The Utinga State Park (PEUT) is one of the few green areas with the function of preserving biodiversity left over from the urbanization process in Belém. Added to this is the fact that the effectiveness of controlling the use of the park is directly linked to maintaining the quality of the water supply, since it is home to the city’s so-called 'water barn'. In this context, the...
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    85,33 €

  • My Experiments with Volcanoes
    Thomas Augustus Jaggar
    My Experiments with Volcanoes, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of sc...
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    18,91 €

  • The Icoaraci waterfront in Belém do Pará
    Erick Afonso Santiago Ramos
    In cities, areas used for activities such as leisure, tourism, gastronomy, entertainment and other joint practices are spaces where there is intense social interaction between different groups, who have different interests behind their practices. Regardless of their use, whether more or less frequent, they tend to establish territories through daily processes, which change thei...
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    76,19 €

  • Reign of the Beast
    Adrian Desmond
    In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man’s institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ’Devil’s Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robe...
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    41,76 €

  • How to save our world
    Paul Arthur van Doorn
    worldMany books have been written about how we might save life on Earth. Some people believe that saving the Earth will cost 125 billion dollars while others claim that 1000 billion dollars will not be enough to achieve that goal. The solution as described in this book will not cost a penny! Indeed, all people will get the possibility for enlarging inner wisdom and material we...
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    22,50 €

  • Reign of the Beast
    Adrian Desmond
    In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man’s institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ’Devil’s Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robe...
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    60,00 €

  • Advancements in Climate and Smart Environment Technology
    The world faces escalating environmental and healthcare challenges, from climate change to managing natural resources and providing efficient medical services. These issues are complex, often requiring intricate modeling and intervention from domain experts. Traditional analytical methods need help to cope with the complexity and scale of these challenges, leading to inefficien...
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    386,44 €

  • Advancements in Climate and Smart Environment Technology
    The world faces escalating environmental and healthcare challenges, from climate change to managing natural resources and providing efficient medical services. These issues are complex, often requiring intricate modeling and intervention from domain experts. Traditional analytical methods need help to cope with the complexity and scale of these challenges, leading to inefficien...
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    294,47 €

  • Time
    Abdoul khoudouss Kamara
    Abdoul Koudouss Kamara is a Mauritanian mining engineer, born in 1938, who lives in the United States. His research in the prediction of events by calendar periodicities dates back to the 1970s. Having lost his sight in 1990, his work was greatly slowed down.Abdoul K. Kamara is also a practitioner of esotericism. ...
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    23,50 €

  • Climatic Changes
    Ellsworth Huntington
    Embark on a journey through time and climate with Ellsworth Huntington’s groundbreaking work, ’Climatic Changes’. In this insightful study, Huntington explores the dynamic relationship between climate and civilization, offering a fascinating glimpse into the ways in which environmental factors have shaped the course of human history.Drawing upon evidence from geological records...
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    18,86 €

  • Tent City, Seattle
    Tony Sparks
    Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United StatesTent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter but a home. In 2000 it became one of the first organized, peer-operated tent encampments in the city, a type of community that has become more common throughout the West Coast and the United States in the interveni...
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    135,10 €

  • Determining intense rainfall equations for the municipalities of Sergipe
    Geizon Rabelo de Santana
    The author, Geizon Rabelo de Santana, shows how he determined heavy rainfall equations from precipitation data. In this research he determines the equations for the state of Sergipe, Brazil. The main aim of this research is to determine the relationship between the intensity, duration and frequency of heavy rainfall in the form of equations. Almost all the municipalities in Ser...
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    76,25 €

  • The Agrarian Question and Food Security
    Lucas Guedes Vilas Boas
    The book QUESTÃO AGRÁRIA E SEGURANÇA ALIMENTAR discusses the reverberations of the insertion of capitalist practices and relations of production and labor in agriculture and, consequently, in food. Based empirically on field research carried out in the municipality of Nepomuceno-MG, one of the largest coffee producers in Brazil and the world, the work addresses the subordinatio...
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    58,41 €

  • Earth
    Kent Horner
    It is a reflection of living through doing and coming to a conclusion about what we are meant to be while we are here on this small world we call Earth.It is up to you to make up your mind about that, for only you can decide which direction you want to take.I only hope this small book can help you to make up your mind. ...
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    16,78 €

  • Role of Rock Mineralogy and Oil Composition in Wettability Alteration
    Mohammad Alqam
    Previous studies have documented that increased oil production during the injection of immiscible CO2 is mainly due to oil viscosity, oil swelling and the increase in dissolved gas. This study will attempt to focus and fill this gap by investigate the role played by rock mineralogy, brine composition, carbonated water and polar compounds present in a crude oil on rock wettabili...
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    46,61 €

  • Current fluvial dynamics of Oued Lakhdar
    Abdellah Elouiazzani / Mohamed Elghachi
    This work focuses on the study of current fluvial dynamics in the Oued Lakhdar watershed, with an emphasis on mapping and analysis. This basin is located at the north-eastern tip of the Haut-Atlas mountains, and extends mainly over the province of Azilal, with a limited extension into the province of Kelaa Sraghna. Covering an area of 3120.9 km² and a length of 100.69 km, the W...
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    94,93 €

  • Initial training of geography teachers and PIBID
    Michael Wellington Sene
    Initial teacher training is a milestone in a teacher’s professional life. In it, teachers learn a set of skills necessary for their practice, although it is not only this period that conditions teaching professionalism, which is also imbricated in pre-professional experiences and the socialization of work at school. In this sense, there is a complexity implicit in the teacher t...
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    84,42 €