Product Description: For too long, cities have been thought of as environmental blackspots, with high levels of air and soil pollution, overcrowding, poor sanitation and growing waste disposal problems. This book takes a more positive attitude: cities can be made to work sustainably...read more

Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world oil production and profound climate change resulting in part from oil use. It proposes responses to ensure effective, secure movement of people and goods in ways that make the best use of renewable sources of energy while minimizing environmental impacts. Transport Revolutions synthesizes engineering, economics, environment, organization, policy and technology, and draws extensively on current data to present important conclusions. The authors argue that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of electric drives rather than internal combustion engines. Another will involve powering many of these drives directly from the electric grid - as trains and trolley buses are powered today - rather than from on-board fuel. They go on to discuss marine transport, whose future is less clear, and aviation, which could see the most dramatic breaks from current practice. With its expert analysis of the politics and business of transport, Transport Revolutions is essential reading for professionals and students in transport, energy, town planning and public policy.

Product Description: Worried about the heat wave-could it be the result of global warming? One of the most topical issues of our time is the subject of the newest Eyewitness Companion: Weather. All you need to know about cloud patterns, violent storms, their causes and repercussions can be found in this one comprehensive but portable volume...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: In southwest Florida, Roy Dixon's world is crumbling. The population is swelling rapidly. Growth has become numbing in its intensity. The laid-back fishing and farming life that Roy and several generations of his family have known has all but disappeared...read more

A collection of wild itineraries in the British Isles - on mountains, moors, hills, downs and along rugged coastal cliff tops. Each walk is succinctly described, with a supporting map and factual notes.

Provides historical information on watches, and includes a listing of watch manufacturers, identification guides, and prices.

Product Description: This guidebook has descriptions of all the walks in the author's previous books - "Classic Walks", "The Big Walks", and "Wild Walks" - and includes an accompanying map for each one. Other books previously published by the author include "Hillwalking in Scotland" and "Mountaineering For All"...read more

Describes the care requirements of the most popular house plants and offers advice concerning pests, repotting, watering, and container selection

Product Description: VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents, small owners name to first blank page.