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by Sharyn (Sharyn Therese) Munro
For nearly a year Sharyn Munro travelled through rural Australia, visiting the communities in coal-mining areas. She found a war zone. Here, literally at the coal-face, towns and districts are dying - homeowners and farmers forced out by mining, ...
ISBN: 9781742610993
Binding: Paperback Book
$29.99
What Birds Tell Us About Our Health and the World
by Peter (delete) Doherty
"The idea of 'sentinel chickens' seemed pretty incongruous when I first heard the phrase as a young undergraduate...The notion of the humble chicken waiting like a trained soldier, alert and focused, for some unseen and approaching enemy just ...
ISBN: 9780522861105
Binding: Paperback Book
$29.99
How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health
by Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie
When environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie decided to tell the story of pollution in our modern world by using their own bodies as laboratories, they could not have known what they were about to discover. They ingested and inhaled a host ...
ISBN: 9780702237645
Binding: Paperback Book
$3.50
Heritage and Conservation
by Colin Miskelly
This much anticipated revised and expanded edition describes the Chatham Islands, with particular emphasis on their geology, flora, fauna, habitats, and extinct and endangered species - both on the land and in the sea. It gives an introduction to ...
ISBN: 9781877257780
Binding: Paperback Book
$5.00
by David M. Harper, R. Boar, M. Everard & others
This is the first comprehensive study of an east African lake for thirty years. It represents the culmination of research expeditions which stretch back twenty years and is thus able to pick up long term changes which the individual research ...
ISBN: 9781402012365
Binding: Hardback Book
$247.95
by Wilhelm Foissner & Kuidong Xu
The present monograph carefully revises the taxonomy, nomenclature, and ecology of all nominal species of spathidiids and shows that spathidiid diversity has been greatly underestimated. Based on the reinvestigation of described species with ...
ISBN: 9781402042102
Binding: Hardback Book
$553.95
Biological Invasions Belowground
Earthworms as Invasive Species
by Paul F. Hendrix
The papers in this book are based on efforts by an international group of soil ecologists to assess the biological and ecological mechanisms of earthworm invasions. They examine their geographic extent and impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, and ...
ISBN: 9781402054280
Binding: Hardback Book
$176.95
Metals in Society and in the Environment
A Critical Review of Current Knowledge on Fluxes, Speciation, Bioavailability and Risk for Adverse Effects of Copper, Chromium, Nickel and Zinc
by Lars Landner & Rudolf Reuther
This book presents new results on metal fluxes from society to the environment, on metal speciation in water, soil and sediment, and its mobility, biological uptake and toxicity. New approaches, like the Acid Volatile Sulphide (AVS) concept to ...
ISBN: 9781402027406
Binding: Hardback Book
$343.95
Justus Ludewig Von Uslar, and the First Book on Allelopathy
by Robert J. Willis
Allelopathy is a fascinating and perplexing topic that concerns the chemical interactions of plants. It has profound implications in agriculture and forestry where species are grown artificially in mixture, with no evolutionary history of ...
ISBN: 9781402027529
Binding: Hardback Book
$263.95
Globalization and the Environmental Crisis
by C. A. Bowers & Frederique Apffel-Marglin
This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and ...
ISBN: 9780805851144
Binding: Hardback Book