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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.18
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Manufacturer: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles Blackmore
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Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 915.16046
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Publication Date: 2008-03-04
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: The ferocious Taklamakan desert in Central Asia, one of the largest sandy deserts in the world and the harshest on earth, is known by the Chinese as the "desert of death" or the "place of no return." Its unknown depths are said to be haunted by demons and spirits and legend has it that ancient cities filled with treasure lie lost and buried beneath its dunes. The only certainty is that no human being in history had ever crossed it from end to end. But, after five years of planning, in 1993, Charles Blackmore together with a team of British, Chinese and Uyghurs and a caravan of thirty camels, set out to accomplish the seemingly impossible: they would cross the Taklamakan, west to east, directly through its unmapped, untrodden centre. Conquering the Desert of Death is at once a deeply personal journey and the story of an adventure that will go down in history as one of the great achievements of exploration. |
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Manufacturer: Earthscan Pubns Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alan Grainger
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Publisher: Earthscan Pubns Ltd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.736
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Publication Date: 1990-07
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Lands lost to desert may effectively be lost for ever, so desertification is humanity's most obvious despoliation of the planet. It is certainly one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world today. In this book the author describes what is happening and where. Although the problem is greatest in developing countries, it is by no means confined to them. Australia, Africa, the USA and India are all affected. In the 1970s an international Plan of Action was drawn up to bring the phenomeneon under control, but it was never implemented. Now that the situation is more serious than ever before, this book urges new action and describes many of the myriad ways in which it is to arrest the progresss of desertification. It describes too, not just the failures, but the considerable successes that have been achieved. Alan Grainger has also written "Desertification".
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Manufacturer: Sunbelt Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Remeika::Lowell Lindsay
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Publisher: Sunbelt Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.9498
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Publication Date: 1992-11
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: A fascinating introduction to one of the most active seismic regions in North America where new earth crust is created as the Baja peninsula (and Borrego) splits from the mainland. Eight field trips journey through deep time in the desert, illustrating major themes of earth science. Numerous maps, photos, and diagrams lend understanding to the exciting story.
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Price: $168.00
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Sale: $23.05
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Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Telos
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7360958
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Publication Date: 1999-03
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Reading Level: 293
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Description: Since 1962 the Desert Institute of the former Academy of Science of the USSR has been conducting research work in the arid and semi-arid zones of central Asia. This outstanding experience in desert and desertification problems, and the possibilities of sustainable land use under difficult environmental conditions is summarized here. The book also gives an overview of the Institute's consulting work within the framework of international projects. This is the first publication allowing readers outside the Russian-speaking world to obtain concise information about the specific constraints and development possibilities of central Asian drylands.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $39.75
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Manufacturer: Island Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Paul B. Sears
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Publisher: Island Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7313
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Publication Date: 1988-12-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: In 1935, when Paul Sears set out to write his book, Deserts on the March, drought gripped much of the United States, and the Dust Bowl was at its worst. Great dust clouds were blowing as far east as New York and Washington, D.C. The publication of Deserts on the March had a profound impact in awakening America to the task of controlling soil erosion through proper land management and understanding of ecological relationships. Today, global desertification and deforestation continue on a grand scale. Each year about 42,000 square miles of forests are lost - an area the size of Tennessee. International studies show that desertification - the expansion of desert-like landscapes into semi-arid environments due to the impact of human influences - now threatens about one-third of the world's land surface and affects the livelihoods of at least 850 million people. The great strength of Deserts on the March does not lie so much in its precise predictions or policy prescriptions. Rather, this beautifully written book should be read for Sears' ecological wisdom and his sweeping story of man's destruction of the earth.
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 550.9154
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Publication Date: 2007-01-24
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Reading Level: 230
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Description: x
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Manufacturer: World Bank
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ridley Nelson
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Publisher: World Bank
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.736
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Publication Date: 1990-02
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Reading Level: 39
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Price: $218.00
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Sale: $211.85
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.4
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Publication Date: 1986-04-08
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Reading Level: 492
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Price: $350.00
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Sale: $63.58
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Wiley
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.736091822
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Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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Reading Level: 456
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Description: Desertification includes land degradation due to both climatic and anthropogenic causes, where land includes water, soil, and the biosphere. This book presents the most recent findings from the European Community's MEDALUS project, which was formed to understand and manage semi-arid environments that are undergoing great change.
* Covers climate and land use processes and responses in the Mediterranean
* First book to provide guidelines for the management of land degradation in Mediterranean environments
* Based on first-hand experience of the problems by those responsible for solving them
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Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ronald U. Cooke::Andrew Warren::Andrew Goudie
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Publisher: Chapman & Hall
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.415
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Publication Date: 1993-05
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Description: Based on sixty years of research in all the desert areas of the world, this is intended to be the definitive text on the geomorphology of deserts. Fully informed by the most recent research findings from terrestrial satellite imagery, the study of planetary landscapes, and advances in laboratory work, the book also contributes significantly to understanding environmental processes involved in desertification and to the solution of planning and engineering problems in arid environments. A greatly expanded and totally revised successor to "Geomorphology in Deserts" (Cooke & Warren 1970), the book is comprehensive in scope, profusely illustrated and complete with a bibliography of over 2000 entries. The book should be essential reading for students and researchers in geomorphology. Sedimentologists, hydrologists and engineers with an interest in arid environments will also find it to be an authoritative reference source. "Ron Cooke is Professor of Geography and Vice-Provost at University College London. Andrew Warren is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at University College London. Andrew Goudie is Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford.". This book is intended for geomorphologists in departments of geography and geology/Earth sciences, as lecturers of courses on deserts and as any type of geomorphologist (most will want to acquire this book, whatever their speciality). Sedimentologists, hydrologists, engineers.
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