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Livre des champignons pour recueillir - Le carnet pour tous les cueilleurs de champignons (French, Paperback): Cueilleur de... Livre des champignons pour recueillir - Le carnet pour tous les cueilleurs de champignons (French, Paperback)
Cueilleur de Champignons Journal
R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Livre de champignons a collectionner - Collecte et documentation des champignons (French, Paperback): Cueilleur de Champignons... Livre de champignons a collectionner - Collecte et documentation des champignons (French, Paperback)
Cueilleur de Champignons Journal
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Livre des champignons pour recueillir - Cueillez des champignons et n'oubliez plus jamais les meilleurs itineraires.... Livre des champignons pour recueillir - Cueillez des champignons et n'oubliez plus jamais les meilleurs itineraires. (French, Paperback)
Cueilleur de Champignons Journal
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Livre des champignons pour recueillir - Le livre pour les cueilleurs de champignons ! (French, Paperback): Cueilleur de... Livre des champignons pour recueillir - Le livre pour les cueilleurs de champignons ! (French, Paperback)
Cueilleur de Champignons Journal
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pilz-Buch zum Sammeln - Pilze sammeln und nie wieder die besten Routen vergessen (German, Paperback): Pilzesammler Tagebuch Pilz-Buch zum Sammeln - Pilze sammeln und nie wieder die besten Routen vergessen (German, Paperback)
Pilzesammler Tagebuch
R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
One Hundred Mountains of Japan (Hardcover): Kyuya Fukada One Hundred Mountains of Japan (Hardcover)
Kyuya Fukada; Translated by Martin Hood
R1,455 R1,131 Discovery Miles 11 310 Save R324 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

“Nowhere in the world do people hold mountains in so much regard as in Japan,” writes Fukada Ky?ya in the afterword to this book. “Mountains have played a part in Japanese history since the country's beginnings, and they manifest themselves in every form of art. For mountains have always formed the bedrock of the Japanese soul.” In One Hundred Mountains of Japan, Fukada pays tribute to his favourite mountains. Originating as a series of magazine articles about a personal selection of mountains, the work became an instant classic when it was first published in book form in 1964. More recently, Japan’s national broadcasting company has turned the original Nihon Hyakumeizan into a memorable TV series. Consisting of one hundred short essays, each celebrating one notable mountain and its place in Japan’s traditions, the book is an elegantly written eulogy to the landscape, literature and history that define a people. Fukada was bemused by his book’s success: “In the end, the one hundred mountains represent my personal choice and I make no claims for them beyond that.” Yet, half a century after he set down those words, his mountains have become an institution. Marked on every hiking map, his Hyakumeizan are today firmly embedded in the mountain traditions they grew out of. Now available in English translation, One Hundred Mountains of Japan will serve as a guide for a new cohort of hikers and mountaineers. It also opens up new territories for students of Japan’s literature, folklore, religions, and mountaineering history – in short, for mountain-lovers everywhere.

Il Manuale Per Diventare Un Perfetto Cercatore Di Funghi - Come Saper Individuare I Boschi Da Funghi, Una Fungaia, E Tornare a... Il Manuale Per Diventare Un Perfetto Cercatore Di Funghi - Come Saper Individuare I Boschi Da Funghi, Una Fungaia, E Tornare a Casa, Finalmente Felice, Con I Funghi Nel Cesto E Non a Mani Vuote (Italian, Paperback)
Angelo Giovinazzo
R833 Discovery Miles 8 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Impresiones - En Navidad (Spanish, Paperback): Merche S Calle, Juan Enrique Gomez Impresiones - En Navidad (Spanish, Paperback)
Merche S Calle, Juan Enrique Gomez
R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pass Portrait - Grossglockner - Austria 2504M (Hardcover): Stefan Bogner, Jan Baedeker Pass Portrait - Grossglockner - Austria 2504M (Hardcover)
Stefan Bogner, Jan Baedeker
R1,221 R853 Discovery Miles 8 530 Save R368 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The 'Grossglockner', Austria's highest mountain at 3,789m, is one of the most important summits of the Eastern Alps - and not only because it is so important for alpine tourism. At the end of the 18th Century, it had been explored and nobody less than Arch Bishop Salm-Reiffenscheidt-Krautheim was the first to ascend in 1800. Today, with more than 5000 ascents per year, it is a very popular destination for climbers. But even for those who do not want to climb, the fascination of this mountain is hard to escape. There is no better way to investigate than from the 'Grossglockner' High Alpine roads. The road leads across both mountain passes Fuscher Toerl and Hochtor, crossing the main Alpes from Salzburg to Carinthia, with turnoffs to the Edelweiss peak and the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-height. The road as an adventure trip and its 12% ascent has to be well managed. Who would be more capable to report about all this than Stefan Bogner, the master of the automobile photo books? With fuel in his blood and a sensitive feel for history, but also with accelerator and brake, he provides a portrait of one of the most exciting and most visited Alpine roads. Text in English and German.

Calgary - City of Animals (Paperback): Jim Ellis Calgary - City of Animals (Paperback)
Jim Ellis
R671 R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Save R83 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How have our interactions with animals shaped Calgary? What can we do to ensure that humans and animals in the city continue to co-exist, and even flourish together? This wide-ranging book explores the ways that animals inhabit our city, our lives and our imaginations. Essays from animal historians, wildlife specialists, artists and writers address key issues such as human-wildlife interactions, livestock in the city, and animal performers at the Calgary Stampede. Contributions from some of Calgary's iconic arts institutions, including One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, and the Glenbow Museum, demonstrate how animals continue to be a source of inspiration and exploration for fashion, art, dance, and theatre. The full-colour volume is beautifully illustrated throughout with archival images, wildlife photography, documentary and production stills, and original artwork.

Histoire d'un ruisseau (French, Paperback): Elisee Reclus Histoire d'un ruisseau (French, Paperback)
Elisee Reclus
R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Iluzie Sau Realitate? - Reflectii Si Fantezii Despre Misterul Vietii Si Comunicarea Temporala (Romanian, Paperback): Constantin... Iluzie Sau Realitate? - Reflectii Si Fantezii Despre Misterul Vietii Si Comunicarea Temporala (Romanian, Paperback)
Constantin M N Borcia
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
:    One Square Inch of Silence (Rare Edition) (Chinese, Paperback): Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann : One Square Inch of Silence (Rare Edition) (Chinese, Paperback)
Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann
R1,577 Discovery Miles 15 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Going to Extremes (Paperback): Nick Middleton Going to Extremes (Paperback)
Nick Middleton
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Going to Extremes writer, presenter and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton visits Oymyakon in Siberia, where the average winter temperature is -47 degrees and 40% of the population have lost their fingers to frostbite while changing the car wheel. Next he travels to Arica Chile where there have been fourteen consecutive years without a drop of rain and so fog is people's only source of water. Going from the driest to the wettest, he visits Mawsynram in India which annually competes for the title with its neighbour Cherrapunji. However, Nick discovers even here, that during the dry season, there is water shortage and one entrepreneur has started selling it bottled. Finally his journey takes him to Dalol in Ethiopia known as the 'hell hole of creation' where the temperature remains at 94 degrees year round. Here Nick will join miners who work all day with no shade, limited water and no protective clothing. The book and series consider how and why people lives in these harsh environments. How does Nick's body react to these contrasting extremes? He looks at the geographical and meteorological conditions. He meets local characters and discovers the history of these settlements to find out how they ever became populated. He looks at the way both the population, and the flora and fauna, have adapted physically to the climate, and also considers the psychological impact of living under such conditions.

Sacred Geography - Deciphering Hidden Codes in the Landscape (Hardcover): Paul Devereux Sacred Geography - Deciphering Hidden Codes in the Landscape (Hardcover)
Paul Devereux
R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

Explore the latest scientific research behind the ancient forms and patterns of sacred sites around the world, and discover the long-lost mystical connection our ancestors had with our planet. Since ancient times humans have honoured places of power in the landscape to gain healing, wisdom and access the world of spirit. In this book, expert author Paul Devereux draws on the evidence from the disciplines of sacred geometry, archaeology, archaeoastronomy and archaeoacoustics to map out the hidden meaning in ancient sites and landforms. Through this thoroughly-researched and comprehensive key to the ancient patterns of sacred sites and landscapes around the world, you'll discover how our ancestors were intimately connected with the land in mind, body and spirit. This title covers: power places - investigating magnetic and other natural forces at sacred sites; understanding shamanic landscapes - the meaning of the Nazca lines and other giant ground markings; the new science of archaeoacoustics - echo and 'ringing' stones found at prehistoric sites; and, cognitive archaeology - a new approach to archaeology and its radical findings. Featuring the latest scientific and archaeological research, and containing satellite imagery, maps and diagrams that provide new insights into ancient sites, "Sacred Geography" allows you to see the landscape through the eyes of our ancestors and reconnect with the natural world once more.

Soils and Geomorphology (Paperback, 3rd edition): Peter Birkeland Soils and Geomorphology (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Peter Birkeland
R5,500 Discovery Miles 55 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the third edition of well-received upper-level text by a leading soils geologist. The text discusses field applications such as the use of soils in recognizing climate change, estimating the age of geological deposits, and dealing with environmental problems such as acid rain. In this third revision Birkeland incorporates the considerable amount of new research that has taken place since the last edition in 1984, expands the sections on applications and paleosols, and adds new "how to" appendices on soil descriptions.

California Rivers and Streams - The Conflict Between Fluvial Process and Land Use (Paperback, New): Jeffrey F. Mount California Rivers and Streams - The Conflict Between Fluvial Process and Land Use (Paperback, New)
Jeffrey F. Mount
R1,214 Discovery Miles 12 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This text provides an overview of the physical and biological processes that shape California's rivers and watersheds. It introduces relevant basic principles of hydrology and geomorphology and applies them to an understanding of the differences in character of the state's many rivers. It then builds on this foundation by evaluating the impact on waterways of different land use practices-logging, mining, agriculture, flood control, urbanization, and water supply development. Water may be one of California's most valuable resources, but it is far from being one we control. In spite of channels, levees, lines and dams, the state's rivers still frequently flood, with devastating results. Almost all the rivers in California are dammed or diverted; with the booming population, there will be pressure for more intervention. The author argues that Californians know little about how their rivers work and, more importantly, how and why land-use practices impact rivers. The forceful reconfiguration and redistribution of the rivers has already brought the state to a critical crossroads. This text forces an evaluation of our use of the state's rivers and offers a foundation for participating in

Coastal Bottom Boundary Layers And Sediment Transport (Hardcover): Peter Nielsen Coastal Bottom Boundary Layers And Sediment Transport (Hardcover)
Peter Nielsen
R2,610 Discovery Miles 26 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is intended as a useful handbook for professionals and researchers in the areas of Physical Oceanography, Marine Geology, Coastal Geomorphology and Coastal Engineering and as a text for graduate students in these fields. With its emphasis on boundary layer flow and basic sediment transport modelling, it is meant to help fill the gap between general hydrodynamic texts and descriptive texts on marine and coastal sedimentary processes. The book commences with a review of coastal bottom boundary layer flows including the boundary layer interaction between waves and steady currents. The concept of eddy viscosity for these flows is discussed in depth because of its relation to sediment diffusivity. The quasi-steady processes of sediment transport over flat beds are discussed. Small scale coastal bedforms and the corresponding hydraulic roughness are described. The motion of suspended sand particles is studied in detail with emphasis on the possible suspension maintaining mechanisms in coastal flows. Sediment pickup functions are provided for unsteady flows. A new combined convection-diffusion model is provided for suspended sediment distributions. Different methods of sediment transport model building are presented together with some classical models.

Groundwater Pumping Tests (Hardcover, 5th): William C. Walton Groundwater Pumping Tests (Hardcover, 5th)
William C. Walton
R7,926 Discovery Miles 79 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Groundwater Pumping Tests is a practical book details concepts, techniques, field work, case studies, and microcomputer models-information designed to improve accuracy and reliability. Too frequently, groundwater pumping test design and analysis ignore well storage capacity, delayed gravity yield, well partial penetration, and aquitard storativity impacts without proving them negligible. As a result, erroneous conclusions are reached concerning aquifer system hydraulic characteristics, boundaries, and discontinuities. Pumping test data often is filtered arbitrarily without adequate justification in attempts to match inappropriate aquifer models and field conditions. Antecedent water level trends and water level adjustments for changes in barometric pressure and surface water stages frequently are ignored in calculating drawdown and recovery. Finally, manual graphic analysis supplemented with microcomputer programs is, to an excessive extent, being replaced by fully automatic microcomputer analysis without critical examination of interpretative methods in program algorithms and their limitations. This book will focus needed attention on the facets mentioned above.

Killing the Hidden Waters (Paperback): Charles Bowden Killing the Hidden Waters (Paperback)
Charles Bowden
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the quarter-century since his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, was published in 1977, Charles Bowden has become one of the premier writers on the American environment, rousing a generation of readers to both the wonder and the tragedy of humanity's relationship with the land. Revisiting his earliest work with a new introduction, "What I Learned Watching the Wells Go Down," Bowden looks back at his first effort to awaken people to the costs and limits of using natural resources through a simple and obvious example-water. He drives home the point that years of droughts, rationing, and even water wars have done nothing to slake the insatiable consumption of water in the American West. Even more timely now than in 1977, Killing the Hidden Waters remains, in Edward Abbey's words, "the best all-around summary I've read yet, anywhere, of how our greed-driven, ever-expanding urban-industrial empire is consuming, wasting, poisoning, and destroying not only the resource basis of its own existence, but also the vital, sustaining basis of life everywhere."

GIS Cartography - A Guide to Effective Map Design, Third Edition (Paperback, 3rd edition): Gretchen N. Peterson GIS Cartography - A Guide to Effective Map Design, Third Edition (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Gretchen N. Peterson
R1,629 Discovery Miles 16 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the publication of the bestselling second edition 5 years ago, vast and new globally-relevant geographic datasets have become available to cartography practitioners, and with this has come the need for new ways to visualize them in maps as well as new challenges in ethically disseminating the visualizations. With new features and significant updates that address these changes, this edition remains faithful to the original vision that cartography instruction should be software agnostic. Discussing map design theory and technique rather than map design tools, this book focuses on digital cartography and its best practices. This third edition has completely new sections on how to deal with maps that go viral and the ethics therein; new presentation ideas; new features such as amenities, climate data, and hazards; the new Equal Earth projection; and vector tile design considerations. All chapters are thoroughly updated with new illustrations and new sections for datasets that didn't exist when the second edition was published, as well as new techniques and trends in cartography. New in the third edition: A true textbook, written with a friendly style and excellent examples explaining everything from layout design to fonts and colors, to specific design considerations for individual feature types, to static and dynamic cartography issues. Thoroughly updated with new features such as points of interest, climate data, hazards, and buildings; new projections such as the Equal Earth projection and the Spilhaus projection; and vector tile design considerations such as label placement techniques and tricks for making world-class basemaps. Includes over 70 new map examples that display the latest techniques in cartography. Reflects on new developments in color palettes; visualization patterns; datums; and non-static output media such as animation, interaction, and large-format cinematic techniques, that weren't available for the second edition. Defines and illustrates new terms that have made their way into the profession over the last few years such as story maps, flow maps, Dorling cartograms, spec sheets, bivariate choropleths, firefly cartography, Tanaka contours, and value-by-alpha. In this third edition, author Gretchen Peterson takes a "don't let the technology get in the way" approach to the presentation, focusing on the elements of good design, what makes a good map, and how to get there, rather than specific software tools. She provides a reference that you can thumb through time and again as you create your maps. Copiously illustrated, the third edition explores novel concepts that kick-start your pursuit of map-making excellence. The book doesn't just teach you how to design and create good maps, it teaches you how to design and create superior maps.

Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Wilfried Hagg Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Wilfried Hagg
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This textbook covers all important aspects of mountain glaciers, from their formation and their importance as water reservoirs to the threat posed by current global warming. Glaciers themselves can also pose a threat to humans and represent a natural hazard in populated mountain areas in the form of ice avalanches and glacial lake outbursts. In addition, however, they are also important landscape formers and have helped to shape large parts of the present-day relief of the Earth, which is one of the classic fields of work of geomorphology and geology. In the individual chapters, the current state of research is presented in a comprehensible manner and illustrated with concise examples, photos and graphics. The book offers a compact introduction for all students of geosciences, curious mountaineers and laymen interested in nature.

Land Abandoned to the Sea - The Managed Realignment of Coastal Areas (Paperback): Stuart Oliver Land Abandoned to the Sea - The Managed Realignment of Coastal Areas (Paperback)
Stuart Oliver
R1,271 Discovery Miles 12 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment of the coast, as a means of coping with these changes. With a specific focus on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, Stuart Oliver analyses the cultural and social implications of managed retreat and proposes managed realignment as a practical way in which society can rethink itself, addressing the new realities of the environment and a move towards developing a more sustainable relationship with it.

Climate, Environment and Disaster in Developing Countries (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Narayan Chandra Jana, R.B. Singh Climate, Environment and Disaster in Developing Countries (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Narayan Chandra Jana, R.B. Singh
R4,067 Discovery Miles 40 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The world is currently experiencing changes in climate and environment that often lead to natural disasters. Nearly three million people worldwide may have been killed in the past 20 years by natural disasters. In total, 90% of the natural disasters and 95% of all disaster-related deaths occur in the developing countries. Recently such problems have accelerated due to LULC change, biodiversity degradation, increased tourism, urbanization and climate change. This book, consisting of 27 chapters, explores the topics of climate, environment and natural disasters in developing countries. It is essential to discuss these diverse issues in the field of geography as it encompasses interdisciplinary topics. The range of issues on national, regional and local dimensions is not only confined to geography but also concerned to other disciplines as well. Therefore, this book is a valuable source for scientists and researchers in allied fields such as climatology, disaster management, environmental science, hydrology, agriculture, and land use studies, among other areas. Furthermore, this book can be of immense help to the planners and decision-makers engaged in dealing with the problems of climate, environmental change and natural disasters in developing countries.

International Handbook of Population and Environment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Lori M. Hunter, Clark/Gray, Jacques Veron International Handbook of Population and Environment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Lori M. Hunter, Clark/Gray, Jacques Veron
R4,642 Discovery Miles 46 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This handbook presents a timely and comprehensive overview of theory, data, methods and research findings that connect human population dynamics and environmental context. It presents regional summaries of empirical findings on migration and environmental connections and summarizes environmental impacts of migration - such as urbanization and deforestation. It also offers background on the health implications of environmental conditions such as climate change, natural disasters, scarcity of natural resources, as well as on resource scarcity and fertility, gender considerations in population and environment, and the connections between population size, growth, composition and carbon emissions. This handbook helps readers to better understand the complexities within population-environment connections, in addition to some of the opportunities and challenges within environmental demography. As such this collection is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and policy analysts in the areas of demography, migration, fertility, health and mortality, as well as environmental, global and development studies.

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