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List Price: £34.99
Our Price: £25.00
Author:
Peter A. Burrough, Rachael A. McDonnell
By OUP Oxford
 An excellent text book and technical reference source, 1999-08-25
Having used this book both as an MSc level text book and as a technical reference book in the commercial sector, I can strongly recommend "Principles of Geographical Informations Systems" as a must for any serious GIS user's book shelf. Suitable for any level of GIS experience, it is well-structured, easy to understand and, most importantly, technically strong. It successfully introduces the fundamental principles of GIS, as well as extensively tackles more technical issues such as the use of spatial statistics in interpolation, error propagation and fuzzy set theory.
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Open University
By Butterworth-Heinemann
learn the origins of the ocean floor, 2002-02-27
This book is great to give you an introduction into the sea floor and its Geology. It is broken up into easy to read sections ideal for those who want to get the information easly it also has questions to help in your learning experience.
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Author:
Simon Conway Morris
By Cambridge University Press
A very stimulating read on evolutionary theory , 2008-08-03
I first became aware of Simon Conway Morris' work 16 years ago, through reading the late Stephen Jay Gould's book 'Wonderful Life', which gives a florid account of the discovery of the soft-bodied faunas of the Burgess Shales, and the lessons they held about diversity and evolutionary divergence in the early Cambrian. Being specialised in a part of geology which rarely makes use of palaeontological data, I was long overdue an update on evolutionary theory and found Conway Morris's new book very helpful.
The presentation is masterly. I found the multiple, heavily-researched examples of convergence very striking, and also enjoyed the 'relaxed-yet-erudite' style of presentation. I'd like to see what some of my friends who are involved in modelling of evolutionary processes might make of these ideas in analytical terms, and that's something I intend to pursue.
Unlike some of the other reviewers, I didn't find the last two chapters discordant: the frequent mention in the earlier chapters of the unease which evolutionary biologists feel when they sense the unwelcome 'ghost of teleology looking over their shoulders' made these chapters a necessity. The points made in them are presented without prejudice, but also without moral cowardice. If anything they were a bit abbreviated and I'd have appreciated a lengthier exposition of some of the key arguments. I sense some of the negative comments on these chapters in the other reviews derive from the very unease at the recrudescence of teleology which Conway Morris comments upon ... This isn't something I personally feel uneasy about. Geology is surely mature enough as a subject now to confront the as-yet-unexplained with confidence.
I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the evolution of life, the emergence of consciousness and intelligence, and any interest whatsoever in the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe.
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Author:
C.W. Fetter
By Pearson Education
The Bible, 2000-05-21
Elegant and comprehensive introduction to classical hydrogeology. Fetter's other book Contaminant Hydrogeology completes the pair. Unlike most scientific texts, this is an engrossing and highly engaging read - a real page turner. But remember, there is no money in hydrogeology in the UK...
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Author:
M Anton
By Columbia University Press
The best book ever on hard to find prehistoric cats!!!!!!!!!, 1999-06-20
I never expected the book would be such an impressive accumulation of information and pictures. Everything about this book was done with such detail that nothing I've see so far compares to it. The pictures depict not just the details of each prehistoric cat (and the marsupial convergent evolution 'versions') but presents them in scale to the present and extinct cats to give us an clear idea of the size of these animals. Both author and artist have to do a sequel now that a new sabertooth species was just found in Florida.
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Author:
Aubrey Meyer
By Green Books
A concise work that offers hope and practicalities, 2001-12-19
This briefing is about the dangers presented by global warming. It explains how they arose, what the international community is doing about them and how, just possibly, humanity may head off the worst dangers. Against international sluggishness the method proposed (Contraction and Convergence - C & G) aims to show what can be done, right now, to curb the emission of greenhouse gases whilst creating sustainability and equity for the worldwide community.
Governments now recognise the 'devastating trend' of Global Warming but todate, no international census has been formed on how to rectify the problem, stop the increase in damages and create a fair and just deal for every single person on this planet, whether they live in the prosperous north or developing south. It recognises that such massive changes can only take place globally, and the author (a member of the Global Commons Institute (GCI) shows how international policy makers diverge in their aims. A
According to the GCI the equality-of-access-to the emission rights aspect of C &G is the only option to offer any success. The briefing travels through how the climate crisis developed and the strategies to combat these trends: how nations are blocking the equity and survival strategy that seems a sensible approach to halting and averting global tragedy. A short but concise work that offers hope and practicalities to enable us and our descendants to achieve a world in which to enjoy a future.
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