Earth Sciences

From the Blurb: On August 26 and 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatau erupted, ejecting more than four cubic miles of debris and creating a huge plume of g...

Winner of the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) Award for Planning Excellence for a Planning Publication! “Planning Canadian Communities…is being recogni...

The shifting continents of the Earth are heading for inevitable collision. Two hundred and fifty million years from now, all the landmasses on this planet w...

This third edition provides a concise yet approachable introduction to seismic theory, designed as a first course for graduate students or advanced undergra...

The Regional Geography of Canada divides Canada into six geographic regions: Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Western Canada, Atlantic Canada, and the Ter...

A recognized leader in the field offers an extremely clear and accurate presentation of thermodynamics, focusing on conceptual models.Categories: Science &a...

Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition is now fully revised and updated to reflect the latest changes in world geography, including the annexation of Cri...

this Magisterial Survey Of The Historical Geography Of The West Indies Is At Bottom Concerned With The Causes And Consequences Of Three Complex And Inter-...

This Fully Illustrated, Nonfiction Book For Middle Readers Focuses On Earthquakes, How They Happen And What You Need To Know.--Categories: Science & Mat...

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, in...

The sixth edition of WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY offers you a rich cultural and physical geographic understanding of the world's eight regions. In the text's "...

This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about development. It integrates the recent scholarship of cultural studies within the existing framew...

Epoch-making political events are often remembered for their spatial markers: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the storming of the Bastille, the occupation of T...

Explore The Vestiges Of The Hamlets And Villages That Have Been Swallowed Up By Toronto’s Relentless Growth. Over More Than Two Centuries, Toronto Has Bal...

THE CHANGING EARTH: EXPLORING GEOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, is a leader in the Introductory Geology course. The content of the sixth edition is based on the best-s...

Deserts and Desert Environments focuses on geomorphic systems, providing a comprehensive introduction to the physical, biological, temporal, and human com...

In 1999, Photojournalist Gary Braasch Began A Journey Around The World To Observe And Document Environmental Changes Resulting From The Warming Of Our Plane...

With This Edition, Planning Canadian Communities Begins Its 34th Year Of Analysis Of The Public Endeavour Of Community Planning In The Cities, Towns, And Re...

this New Book Brings Together Leading Scholars From Around The World To Provide An International And Interdisciplinary Overview Of Twentieth-century Devel...

Describes The Evolving Pattern Of Settlement And The Changing Relationships Of People And Land In Canada From The End Of The 15th Century To The Late 1860s ...

The fourth edition of the highly successful The City Reader brings together the very best of publications on the city. Classic writings by such authors as...

This Book Is Aimed At Non-science-major Undergraduates And Is Tightly Focused On The Problem Of Anthropogenic Climate Change. The First Half Of The Book Foc...

This colorful textbook explains how the biological and nonbiological systems of the Earth function in synchrony. It walks through the stages of Earth's his...

Regions Of Canada -- Canada's Physical Base -- Canada's Historical Geography -- Canada's Human Face -- Ontario -- Québec -- British Columbia -- Western Can...

Planet Earth needs its own lawyer. James Thornton is that lawyer. Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The UN? Governments? Activis...

The New York Times Bestselling Author Jonathan Safran Foer Re-evaluated His Meat-based Diet--and His Conscience--in His Powerful Memoir And Investigative Re...

Bringing together contributions from over two dozen specialists in the field, this text explains how the resource and environmental management process works...

Geography: A Modern Synthesis (Harper & Row series in geography)Categories: Science & Math Earth Sciences GeographyGeneral

For introductory Physical Geography courses.The only text to focus thematically on landscape appreciation, this best-seller fosters a solid understanding of...

Based upon the bestselling Third Edition, this new edition of Physical Geography introduces O.W. Archibold (University of Saskatchewan) as co-author, and fe...

Diversity Amid Globalization is an exciting contemporary approach to World Regional Geography that explicitly acknowledges the geographic changes that accom...

This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the...

the Latest Edition Of This Highly Successful And Popular Textbook Has Been Completely Revised And Updated To Include The Latest Developments In Biogeograp...

"Offering a fully integrated, systems-based approach to physical geography, the new Third Edition of Alan and Arthur Strahler's highly successful text incor...

FUNDAMENTALS OF WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY is specifically designed for the one-semester or one-quarter course. The text focuses on each region as a whole, em...

Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective , Third Edition, is an introduction to the rich, fascinating, and extremely topical field of en...

Natural Hazards focuses on hazards as the interface between humanity and its needs for space and resources, as well as on the ongoing geologic processes of ...

This Fourth Edition of a well-established text on physical geography provides rigorous coverage of the topic at the undergraduate level. It includes a full-...

Maps provide information on world politics, climate, vegetation, soil, population, gross national products, languages, religions, health, agriculture, natur...

1. The Colonial River -- 2. Making An Industrial Margin -- 3. Taming A Monster Of Ingratitude -- 4. Refuge And Subsistence In An Urban Borderland -- 5. Char...

Global Warming: The Hard Science presents a comprehensive, qualitatively rigorous, and critical discussion of the science underlying the global warming issu...

This new book brings together leading scholars from around the world to provide an international and interdisciplinary overview of twentieth-century devel...

Radiative Transfer Is Important To A Range Of Disciplines, From The Study Of Greenhouse Warming To Stellar Atmospheres And Ocean Optics. This Text Provides ...

What made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built envir...

Designed for introductory physical geography courses, this accessible text focuses thematically on landscape appreciation, conveying an understanding of Ear...

Computer simulation has become an important means for obtaining knowledge about nature. The practice of scientific simulation and the frequent use of uncer...

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In 1919, the Town Planning Institute of Canada (TPIC) brought together the founders of a new discipline committed to improving cities and those who live in ...