Geography Books

Cet ouvrage montre en quoi la région est à la fois une échelle incontournable et un instrument essentiel pour l'aménagement des territoires et le développement des sociétés. L'analyse, originale et inédite, s'appuie sur un corpus interdisciplinaire et...

Hearts in the Ice is a story of adventure and action, courage and connection, sustainability and survival. Hilde and Sunniva will take you inside their personal accounts of a year of surviving and thriving in a rustic trappers cabin 140 km away from the...

Wildflowers of the Lake Mead Region is a full-color field guide to over 100 of the more common wildflowers, shrubs, and cacti found in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, as well as in the surrounding Mohave Desert. Arranged by flower color, the book...

As the title suggests this is a collection of individual but interconnected reflections concerning humans and their surroundings. The book starts with a consideration of human 'world views' - the way that humans conceive of themselves in relation to...

The Centre for Fortean Zoology [CFZ] is the only professional, scientific and full-time organisation in the world dedicated to cryptozoology - the study of unknown animals. Since 1992, the CFZ has carried out an unparalleled programme of research and...

The Poetics of Land is the result of Marc Hatzfeld's personaljourney of discovery where West Bengal became a microcosmin his attempts to understand the mythic notions of land inthe context of globalised development. It was first conceivedin 2008 when...

"During a residence of eleven years in Greece I have formed the habit of writing to certain periodicals descriptions of my journeys. The occasion for making a book out of these articles was the suggestion on the part of many members of the American...

"The love of adventure, the expectation of the unexpected, have ever prompted men stout of heart, and ready of resource, to brave the perils of wilderness and sea that they might set their feet where man never trod before. The world owes much to the...

Southern California is a region of great geologic and topographic diversity. The land in this region may be divided into four natural landform areas or provinces, mainly based on distinctive physiographic characteristics. This monograph will concern...

Geoinformatics is the study of geographical and geological processes and elements with the use of geospatial and geocomputational data. Satellites and remote sensing technologies gather information that can be sequentially monitored to calculate future...

The process whereby information about an object, manmade or natural, can be obtained remotely or without directly encountering it is known as remote sensing. It has great significance in military as well as geographic and commercial endeavors. It...

Remote sensing refers to the use of the satellite, which is used to detect objects on Earth. Remote sensing is mainly classified into active or passive remote sensing. It is mainly used in fields such as oceanography, hydrology, geography, etc. This book...

The science of gathering information about a distant object without making any physical contact with it is called remote sensing. It makes use of different kinds of sensors to observe the Earth and other planetary bodies. Remote sensing measures the...

Silviculture refers to the methods and techniques used to control the structure, growth and quality of forests. These techniques are used to meet the timber production requirements, along with other values and needs of the society. Silviculture systems...

The conservation of ecological services and efficient restoration of natural resources is termed as ecosystem management. It aims to meet the socioeconomic, political and ecological needs of the current and future generation. Natural resource management...

The branch of chemistry concerned with the overall administration of forests is known as forest management. It includes economic, legal as well as social aspects. Scientific and technical aspects such as forest regulation, silviculture, forest...

The study of lands, inhabitants, features, physical properties and phenomena of the Earth and other planets is known as geography. It is considered as an all-encompassing field which seeks to understand the Earth and its natural and human complexities...

Lake Merritt, located in the heart of Oakland, California, is the pride of the city. An estuary connected to San Francisco Bay, mixing sea and fresh waters, the lake formed about 4,000 years ago when the sea level rose to fill the mouths of two streams...

Fossil Sponge Spicules From The Upper Chalk: Found In The Interior Of A Single Flint Stone From Horstead In Norfolk (1880) is a book written by George Jennings Hinde. The book is a detailed study of fossil sponge spicules found in the Upper Chalk layer...

Fish Culture is a comprehensive guidebook on the breeding, rearing, and management of various species of fish. Written in 1883 by Francis Day, a renowned naturalist and ichthyologist, the book covers a wide range of topics related to fish culture,...

Fishes and Fishing: Artificial Breeding of Fish, Anatomy of Their Senses, Their Loves, Passions and Intellects is a book written by William Wright and originally published in 1858. The book provides a comprehensive overview of fish and fishing, exploring...

The US economy does many things right. But it also does many things wrong. This book is focused on aspects of the US economy that require some correction.The book is addressed to the intelligent general reader. It does not use equations, graphs,...

First published in 1911, this book contains a historical account of the life of Deacon Edmund Rice (1594-1663), an early English pilgrim to America and founder of the Rice family in the United states. Contents include: "The Founders of the Rice Family",...

First published in 1910, "In the Catskills" is a fantastic selection of essays concerning The Catskill Mountains by American naturalist John Burroughs. Nowhere is a love of Catskill Mountain landscape, its flora and fauna, and its people more beautifully...

This book shows how suburban sprawl is at least partially a consequence of government spending and regulation, and suggests anti-sprawl policies that can make government smaller and/or less intrusive. Thus, the book responds to the widely held view...

This book explores the moving qualities of mountains by utilising theories, ideas and processes which contribute to a larger understanding of these geological forms. In highlighting the fluid attributes of mountains the authors offer an alternative to...

This book analyzes the increase in contemporary European migration to Japan, its causes and the lives of Europeans in Japan. Desconstructing the picture of highly skilled, privileged, cosmopolitan elites that has been frequently associated with white or...

This book offers a close look at forced evictions, drawing on empirical studies and conceptual frameworks from both the Global North and South. It draws attention to arenas where multiple logics of urban dispossession, violence and insecurity are...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

Title: A Historical Geography of the British Colonies (of the British Empire).Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest...

Title: Les Alpes au point de vue de la géographie physique et de la géologie. Voyages photographiques dans le Dauphiné, la Savoie, le Nord de l'Italie, la Suisse et le Tyrol. Avec 14 héliogravures d'après les photographies de...

Title: Chambers's New Geographical Readers.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...

Title: The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources ... With maps, illustrations, and portraits.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the...

Title: The Dieppe World Maps. 1541-1553. ... [A review of "The Dieppe World Maps. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Collations and Notes. No. 4. Autograph Facsimiles of three Mappemondes, etc. By C. H. Coote."] Reprinted from the Göttingische...

Title: Ancient India as described by Ptolemy; being a translation of the chapters which describe India and Eastern Asia in the treatise on Geography written by Klaudios Ptolemaios ... with introduction, commentary, map of India according...

Title: Illustrations of ancient geography and history; referring to the sites of Ophir, Sheba, Taprobane, the Aurea Chersonesus, and other scriptural and classical cities and subjects: elucidating, also, the visit of the Queen of Sheba to...

Title: New Zealand, its physical geography, geology and natural history, with special reference to the results of Government Expeditions in the provinces of Auckland and Nelson ... Translated from the German original ... by E. Sauter .....

Title: Zur Reconstruction der Weltkarte des Agrippa ... Mit ... Kartenskizzen.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest...

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...

Title: On the topography of Meerutt, and the principal diseases which prevailed in the 1st brigade of Horse Artillery at that place.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It...

Title: Geographical and Statistical Report of the district of Maldah.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...

Title: A Short Description of the Giant's Causeway, in the north of Ireland ... Illustrated by a correct map. MS. notes.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom...

Title: A Topographical and Historical Description of Chester ... Illustrated with six engravings and a map.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's...

Title: Essays on the Street Re-alignment, Reconstruction, and Sanitation of Central London, and on the re-housing of the poorer classes. To which prizes offered by William Wertgarth were awarded by the Society of Arts, 1885. [With plans...

Title: A Few Local Topographical Notes suggested by some old deeds ... A paper read before the Hull Literary Club, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of...

Title: A System of Geography ... with an account of the solar system, 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...

Title: School Geography.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...

""Aphorismen aus der Physiologie der Pflanzen"" ist ein Buch von Dietrich Georg Kieser, das im Jahr 1808 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von Aphorismen, die sich mit der Physiologie von Pflanzen besch�����ftigen. Kieser war...