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 | Christchurch 22.2: Beyond the Cordon(Hardback With dust jacket )The Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011 was one of the worst natural disasters in New Zealand's history. This 208-page, book is chock full of stunning, evocative photographs shot by police photographers. They were primarily taken throughout the rescue operation and they were pretty much the only photographers allowed to remain and work inside the cordoned area of the CBD.....
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 | Ken Ring's 2012 Predict Weather Almanac for New Zealand(Spiral bound)Farmers, fishermen, gardeners, skiers and anyone who works outdoors or just wants to know what the weather is going to do cannot be without Ken Ring's Predict Weather almanac for 2012. The 2012 almanac has the must-have features as the earlier volumes, with day-per-page forecasts including gardening advice and moon position information, as well as isobaric, rain potential and frost/snow....
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 | Spills And Spin: The Inside Story of BP(Paperback)In April 2010, the world watched in alarm as millions of barrels of crude oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico following a catastrophic explosion at BP's Macondo well. As spring turned to summer and the accident developed into one of the worst oil spills in history, alarm gave way to disbelief and anger. Why had this happened? Why....
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 | Volcanoes of Auckland: The Essential Guide(Paperback)From Rangitoto to One Tree Hill, North Head to Mangere Lagoon, the city of Auckland is defined by the volcanoes it is built upon. For tens of thousands of years, volcanoes have profoundly shaped the area's geology and geography. And for hundreds of years, volcanoes have played a key part in the lives of Maori and Pakeha - as sites....
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 | Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories(Paperback)The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water -- the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved into the most important and most travelled....
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 | Great Barrier Island (Revised Ed)(Paperback)First publishd in 2001 and now extensively revised, this book describes Great Barrier Island's history and natural features, including flora, fauna, habitats and endangered species, both terrestrial and marine. Profusely illustrated, it is an esential resource for all visitors to what Sir Peter Blake called 'probably my favourite island in the whole world'.
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 | When a Billion Chinese Jump(Paperback)An essential and incisive discussion on China today - a country on an environmental precipice that will affect the entire world. When a Billion Chinese Jump tells the story of China's - and the world's - biggest crisis. With foul air, filthy water, rising temperatures and encroaching deserts, China is already suffering an environmental disaster. Now it faces a stark....
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 | The River Dee, Its Aspect and History, Etc.(Paperback / softback)Title: The River Dee, its aspect and history, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around....
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| The Soudan(Paperback / softback)Title: The Soudan: its history, geography, and characteristics ... A lecture delivered ... February 19th, 1884.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints....
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 | The Story of Stuff(Electronic book text)We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world's population, we're consuming 30 percent of the world's resources and creating 30 percent of the world's waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which....
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 | Organizational Facets of GIS(Hardback)This book seeks to illuminate the organizational and social dimensions of Global Information Systems.
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 | Organic Indoor Air Pollutants(Hardback)Still the only book with a dedicated chemical-analytical point of view on indoor air quality, this new edition has been completely revised, now featuring 12 chapters which are all new. This includes topical subjects such as human responses, or emissions from electronic devices.
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| Innovative Soil-Plant Systems for Sustainable Agricultural Practices. Biological Resource Management in Agriculture.(Electronic book text)The participants of the June 2002 workshop share recent research on the role of plant diversity in sustainable agriculture, the link between microbial diversity and soil health, changes in the soil rhizosphere, methods for environmental assessment, and efficient management practices. Topics of the 3
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| Applied Environmental Economics(Electronic book text)The complex real world interactions between the economy and environment form both the focus of and main barrier to applied research within the field of environmental economics. However, geographical information systems (GIS) allow economists to tackle such complexity head on by directly incorporating diverse data sets into applied research rather than resorting to simplifying and often unrealistic assumptions. This innovative....
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| A Survey of Palestine Under the British Mandate,19201948(Electronic book text)This book is an historical study of the survey and mapping system of Palestine under the British Mandate. It traces the background and the reasoning behind the establishment of the survey programme, examines the foundations upon which the system was based, and strives to understand the motivation of those who implemented it. This study shows that the roots of the....
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| Soil Chemistry(Electronic book text)Comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the basics of soil chemistryAlthough only a meter in depth over the earth's surface, soil is key to sustaining life-affecting air and water quality, the growth of plants and crops, and the health of the entire planet. The complex interplay among organic and inorganic solids, air, water, microorganisms, and plant roots in soil is the subject....
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| Should Prometheus Be Bound?(Electronic book text)This book proposes a critical analysis of the new corporate responsibilities in a globalizing world. It is built around the creative and entrepreneurial power of the business firm and the new opportunities and challenges offered by science and technology, globalization and deregulation. Rather than focusing on tools, techniques and existing practices, it is the first to offer a conceptual and....
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| The Business Case for Sustainability(Electronic book text)Most academics and certainly most sustainability managers agree that research on the 'business case' for sustainability has been very inconclusive. In fact many have simply decided that the business case for sustainability is elusive. This book goes further than ever before in trying to be more specific about the economic rationale for corporate sustainability, by approaching this issue on an....
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| Cap Regimes and the European Countryside(Electronic book text)This book reviews assessments on the environmental effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and assesses the contribution of agricultural policy to environmental quality in the EU. It focuses on the role of agricultural policy in reducing harmful effects and/or creating benefits to the physical environment, landscape and nature. Emphasis is given to comparative studies, rather than any limited to....
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| Nonlinear Physical Oceanography(Electronic book text)This graduate and research-level book applies the methodology of dynamical systems theory to investigate the physics of the global ocean circulation, e.g. the dynamics of the Gulf Stream separation and the El Nino/Southern Oscillation phenomenon. It also deals with the numerical methods for applying bifurcation analysis to large dimensional dynamical systems, which arise through discretization of ocean models. Systematic analysis....
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