Product Description: Ulrich Beck′s best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes, in simple terms, how to recognize different types of weather, follow day-to-day changes, and discover their causes. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book describes the discovery of the stratosphere itself and of various unexpected phenomena in the stratosphere: e.g., a manned balloon flight in 1901 as high as 11 km; an expedition to Lake Victoria in Africa in 1908 which found inexplicable west winds in the stratosphere above the equator; and the discovery of the ozone layer in the 1930s, the Berlin Phenomenon in 1952, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in 1960, the influence of volcanic eruptions in 1970, the ozone hole in 1984, and the influence of the 11-year solar cycle in 1987...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This textbook aims to describe the biology of insect-plant interactions, mainly at the level of the organism.

Discusses the discovery, occurrence, and uses of each chemical element and the scientists associated with their discovery. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Interest in ancient Eastern philosophy has grown in recent years, as dissatisfaction with materialism has turned many away from Western thoughts. This book describes the strands of Eastern thought from Confucius to Buddha, from Islam to Tao and explains how they differ from Western ideas...read more

Product Description: Each of the models in this book is both beautiful and interesting to make. Each also plays its part as a hands-on introduction to geodesic domes. With the aid of its models, this book explains the underlying theory for designing geodesic domes and shows how a sphere can be divided and subdivided symmetrically in order to create dramatic buildings which are light and strong and also have no need of internal support...read more

Product Description: This volume contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Effects of Crop Rotation on Potato Production in the Temperate Zones. This conference was held in the International Agricultural Centre at Wageningen, The Netherlands, August 14 - 19, 1988, under the auspices of the European Association for Potato Research (EAPR), the Potato Association of America (PAA) and the Dutch National Council for Agricultural Research (NRLO)...read more

Introduces the many islands of the Caribbean Sea

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Product Description: Written for the practicing analyst, Analytical Methods for Geochemical Exploration offers thoroughly tested chemical analysis methods for determining what base or precious metals are in geochemical exploration samples, such as rocks, soil, or sediment...read more

Product Description: This monograph focuses on the analysis of trace metals in biological tissues and environmental materials. In most cases, procedures are so completely covered that no other source is necessary to finish an analysis. Includes chapters on such important topics as determination techniques, basic materials, sample preparation, botanical and zoological samples, and clinical samples...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)