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  • Victims of the Environment
    James D. Wright / Joseph A. Pereira / Peter H. Rossi
    The research reported in this volume was designed to provide estimates of the extent of damages and injuries from certain natu­ ral hazards inflicted on households in the United States. In addi­ tion, it reports on sources of aid proffered to households and the extent to which there are differences among households in the receipt of help. This volume ...
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    132,83 €

  • Geoid Determination
    This book will be based on the material of the lecture noties in several International Schools for the Determination and Use of the Geoid, organized by the International Geoid Serivice of the International Association of Geodesy. It consolidates, unifies, and streamlines this material in a unique way not covereed by the few other books that exist on this subjext. More specifica...
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    45,64 €

  • Retirement Migration
    Caroline Oliver
    This book offers a grounded and theoretically robust analysis of retiring abroad as a modern day rite of passage. Clearly and interestingly written, this book pertains to a topic that cuts across a number of pertinent contemporary themes. ...
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    73,39 €

  • Handbook of Optical Design
    Daniel Malacara-Hernández / Zacarías Malacara-Hernández
    This classroom-tested reference is an invaluable resource for students, engineers, and scientists in the field of optical technology and applications. In one volume, it covers the fundamentals of geometric optics and their application to lens design. The book incorporates classic aspects along with modern methods, tools, and instruments. It offers practical details and specific...
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    266,44 €

  • Shanghai Gone
    Qin Shao
    Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, but that transformation has come at a grave human cost. This compelling book is the first to apply the concept of domicide—the eradication of home against the will of its dwellers—to the destruction of neighborhoods, families, and life patterns and the first to study grassroots resistance to do...
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    55,22 €

  • Population and Society
    Alan Marshall / Clare Holdsworth / Nissa Finney
    An up-to-date, student focused introduction that will be adopted on sociology, human geography and population studies modules across the social sciences. ...
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    70,38 €

  • Diseñando para un mundo complejo
    Guillermina Féher de la Torre / John Thackara / Jorge Eduardo Suárez Correa
    ¿Será posible manejar simultáneamente el cambio climático, la crisis financiera, el agotamiento de los recursos y el petróleo? Se necesita ser muy creativo para lograrlo, e imaginar un futuro sustentable y prometedor, dando pasos desde el diseño. Para establecer soluciones viables no se requiere un gran desarrollo, cambio o mejora, se necesitan innovaciones radicales que ya est...
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    9,88 €

  • Take My Date, Please!
    Richard W. Wiener / Richard WWiener
    After decades of being married, author Richard Wiener, now in his 60s, found himself on the journey to find that elusive perfect woman and last date. He went into this experience as a naïve, hopeful guy who thought he’d find the right girl easily. That didn’t happen. Instead, he had many dates that started out good but eventually went wrong ... really, really wrong ...Wiener fi...
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    14,20 €

  • Muffled Voices
    Declan Umege
    Tembeli is a beautiful island in Muzanga located somewhere in the heart of the Niger Delta, an island so lavishly blessed by nature with natural and material resources. The people lived in perfect harmony until Oilgate, a multinational Oil company struck its first oil well in Tembeli.Ever since then, things have never been the same in Tembeli.For long, the people found it thems...
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    27,24 €

  • Muffled Voices
    Declan Umege
    Tembeli is a beautiful island in Muzanga located somewhere in the heart of the Niger Delta, an island so lavishly blessed by nature with natural and material resources. The people lived in perfect harmony until Oilgate, a multinational Oil company struck its first oil well in Tembeli.Ever since then, things have never been the same in Tembeli.For long, the people found it thems...
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    17,62 €

  • Urban Regeneration in the UK
    James Evans / Phil Jones
    Fully updated throughout, and with a new chapter looking at regeneration and large scale schemes like the London 2012 Olympics, this is a new edition of a popular and well established book. It’s widely adopted across urban regeneration and planning courses, and is well thumbed by practitioners in the field too. ...
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    71,32 €

  • Chemistry of Marine Water and Sediments
    This book is a collection of all the lectures by the professors attending the 3rd 'Interna­ tional School on Marine Chemistry' held in Ustica (Palermo, Italy, September 2000), under the auspices of the United Nations and the Italian Chemical Society. The School was organized by the University of Palermo in co-operation with the Natural Marine Reserve ...
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    268,06 €

  • Water and Aqueous Solutions
    Arieh Ben-Naim
    The molecular theory of water and aqueous solutions has only recently emerged as a new entity of research, although its roots may be found in age-old works. The purpose of this book is to present the molecular theory of aqueous fluids based on the framework of the general theory of liquids. The style of the book is introductory in character, but the r...
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    65,33 €

  • A Worm in the Apple
    David Leigh
    Tasmania is known worldwide for its clean, green and pristine environment. It is a place where discerning and environmentally savvy tourists visit. The largest tract of temperate rainforest in the southern hemisphere and the last known wilderness areas exist, alongside some of the finest wines, cheeses and produce anywhere on earth. Unfortunately, the big end of town moved i...
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    27,64 €

  • OCEAN SURFACE WAVES (2ND ED)
    STANISLAW R MASSEL / Stanislaw R. Massel / Stanislaw RMassel
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    307,17 €

  • Banffshire
    W. Barclay / WBarclay / William Barclay
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    35,11 €

  • Isle of Wight
    Telford Varley
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    35,10 €

  • Merionethshire
    A. Morris / AMorris
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    34,98 €

  • Linlithgowshire
    T. S. Muir / TSMuir
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    35,07 €

  • Ross and Cromarty
    William J. Watson / William JWatson
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    35,09 €

  • Cumberland
    J. E. Marr / JEMarr
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    34,96 €

  • Rutland
    G. Phillips / GPhillips
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    32,49 €

  • Balancing between Trade and Risk
    The balancing act between trade and risk regulation will be increasingly important to students of law and social sciences as we move to a shared, interdisciplinary understanding. This systematic and genuinely interdisciplinary book examines the trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade to aid a true understanding of the global, international and supranational dimensio...
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    254,28 €

  • Acid Earth
    John McCormick
    Acid rain was one of the major environmental issues of the 1980s. But while industrialized countries have taken measures to reduce the emissions that lead to acidification, the problems have not gone away. Trees are still dying, lakes are still being made uninhabitable; buildings are still corroding; and human health is still suffering. The most worrying trend is the repetition...
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    78,69 €

  • Atlas of Nepal in the Modern World
    Michael Sill
    Nepal is associated, in most people’s imagination, with Everest (Sagarmatha to the Nepalese), vivid plants and picturesque villages and people. The truth, as always, is other. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, surrounded by big and powerful neighbours. It is immensely diverse, ranging from the great mountains to the north through the trans-Himalaya, a high barren...
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    52,00 €

  • British Politics and the Environment
    John McCormick
    Britain has an immense range of environmental law and the reputation for largely ignoring it. John McCormick describes the fascinating story of the political growth of that law, and the pressures, the compromises, the parliamentary and civil service opportunism that allowed the edifice to grow over the greater part of a century.He tells the story of the absolute change in polit...
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    78,83 €

  • Child Slaves
    Peter Lee-Wright
    In Portugal, 12-year-olds manufacture clothes destined for British chain-stores. In Brazil, children work more than nine hours a day glueing shoes for sale in the West. This book, based on research done with the co-operation of the Anti-Slavery Society for a recent major BBC television documentary, exposes the scandalous exploitation of children’s labour and services throughout...
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    78,41 €

  • OCEAN SURFACE WAVES (2ND ED)
    STANISLAW R MASSEL / Stanislaw R. Massel / Stanislaw RMassel
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    110,56 €

  • Handbook of Geoscience
    Frank R. Spellman / Frank RSpellman / Melissa L. Stoudt / Melissa LStoudt
    Written in an engaging, highly readable style, it is ideal for students, administrators, legal professionals, non-science professionals and general readers with little or no science background, the handbook is a user-friendly overview of our physical, biological and ecological environment that offers up-to-date coverage of the major scientific fields that in combination form th...
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    214,96 €

  • Confronting Animal Exploitation
    As animal exploitation increases, animal liberation issues are of growing concern, as seen through the rise of veganism, academic disciplines devoted to animal issues, and mainstream critiques of factory farms. Yet as the dialogues, debates and books continue to grow, the voices of 'street level' activists--not academics, journalists or vegan chefs--are rarely heard. This ...
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    42,59 €