Product Description: Forest vegetation is distributed in monsoon Asia continuously from boreal forests through temperate to tropical rain forests. This vegetation - the richest in the world - is being subjected to global change on an unprecedented scale...read more

Whether he was a "schemer" or a "reformer" is for a new generation of post-colonial historians to decide but, as this biography demonstrates, there is no denying the considerable record of achievement of the British imperialist, Sir Stamford Raffles.

Product Description: This lavish collection contains a whole year’s worth of daily and Sunday strips starring Mort Walker’s loveable slacker Pvt. Beetle Bailey. Set on the fictional Camp Swampy base, the strip follows the Beetle as he attempts to nap his way through his time at in the US Army and the everyday highs and lows of military life...read more

Product Description: This book has been written with the hope that it will help some reader out there who is going through the tough times that a lot of teenagers have to endure. This book attempts to give these folks an alternative to professional books by psychologists and

Uses more than seven hundred illustrations, biographical profiles, and descriptions of genres and themes to survey the variety of American comics and and their creators since 1945.

Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency."Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change, and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability. It explains why greater efficiency by itself cannot solve resource problems and offers a constructive alternative that opens up options rather than closing them down.In Resilience Thinking, scientist Brian Walker and science writer David Salt present an accessible introduction to the emerging paradigm of resilience. The book arose out of appeals from colleagues in science and industry for a plainly written account of what resilience is all about and how a resilience approach differs from current practices. Rather than complicated theory, the book offers a conceptual overview along with five case studies of resilience thinking in the real world. It is an engaging and important work for anyone interested in managing risk in a complex world.

Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.

Product Description: Hi and Lois was created in 1954 by Mort Walker and Dik Browne. This classic American comic strip has been entertaining newspaper readers for over five decades. The stars of the feature — Hi, Lois, Chip, Dot, Trixie, and Dawg Flagston — provide a warm, loving portrait of a wholesome family with traditional values and modern-day sensibilities...read more

A comprehensive survey of fifty years of comics explores how such characters as Buster Brown, Krazy Kat, and Li'l Abner reflected societal attitudes and changes in the first half of the twentieth century, providing in-depth biographies of twenty-one influential comic creators and featuring rare original artwork. 25,000 first printing.

An illustrated collection includes adventure short stories and excerpts from longer works by a variety of authors such as Robert Graves, Doris Lessing, and Mark Twain. Reprint.

Product Description: Traces the development of the comic strip since its birth at the turn of the century. The reproductions of vintage strips are strikingly pristine, due to the use of original artwork rather than published versions in the production of the volume...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides eighty-one lessons on attaining enlightenment and peace of mind

An illustrated collection of adventure short stories and excerpts from longer works by a variety of authors, including Robert Graves, Doris Lessing, and Mark Twain