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Emerging Cancer Therapy: Microbial Approaches and Biotechnological Tools

by Arsenio Fialho & Ananda Chakrabarty

Explores current and emerging applications of microbes as cancer-fighting agents

Today, treatment options for cancer patients typically include surgery, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy. While...


Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

by Madhav Gadgil & Ramachandra Guha

Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.

Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats...


Atlas of the World's Deserts

by Nathaniel Harris

The Atlas of the World's Deserts examines the hostile and extreme environments that characterize deserts, and is divided into chapters that concentrate on specific aspects of a desert's geology, life forms,...


Fundamentals of the Physical Environment: Fourth Edition

by Peter Smithson, Ken Addison & Ken Atkinson

Fundamentals of the Physical Environment has established itself as a well-respected core introductory book for students of physical geography and the environmental sciences. Taking a systems approach, it demonstrates...


Himalayan Dilemma

by Jack D. Ives & Bruno Messerli

`This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting major environmental issues.' Geography

` ... an essential text for policy makers and aid professionals, as well as for...


Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology

by Roger G. Barry & Andrew M. Carleton

Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology provides the first comprehensive account of the dynamical behaviour and mechanisms of the global climate system and its components, together with a modern survey of synoptic-scale...


Tunisia: Rural Labour and Structural Transformation

by Ajit Ghose, Vali Jamal & Samir Radwan

After two decades of spectacular growth, the Tunisian economy is in crisis. The authors identify the reasons for this, and look closely at the transformation of the economy, assessing its implications, particularly...


Place/Culture/Representation

by James S. Duncan & David Ley

Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the...


History of the Study of Landforms

by R. P. Beckinsale, Mrs R J M Chorley & R. J. Chorley

This volume is entirely devoted to the life and work of the world's most famous geomorphologist, William Morris Davis (1850-1934). It contains a treatment in depth of Davis' many contributions to the study of...


After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City

by Michael Sorkin & Sharon Zukin

The terrorist attacks of September 11 have created an unprecedented public discussion about the uses and meanings of the central area of lower Manhattan that was once the World Trade Center. While the city sifts...


Geographic Thought: A Praxis Perspective

by George Henderson & Marvin Waterstone

Without social movements and wider struggles for progressive social change, the field of Geography would lack much of its contemporary relevance and vibrancy. Moreover, these struggles and the geographical scholarship...


Women of the European Union: The Politics of Work and Daily Life

by Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon & Janice Monk

Women of the European Union challenges gender-blind assessments of the economic and social aspects of the European Union policies to examine the real implications of Union for the diversity of women in the Member...


Applied Climatology: Principles and Practice

by Allen Perry, Dr Russell Thompson & Russell Thompson

'Big freeze' conditions, storms, severe flooding, droughts, and heatwaves - recent extremes in weather, with their resultant physical, economic and human losses, highlight the vulnerability of society to changes...


Outdoor Recreation Management

by John Jenkins & John Pigram

It is now widely recognized that recreation is as important as work. This revealing book analyzes leisure and outdoor recreation in terms of both their management and their wider importance to society. Specifically,...


Eco-Hydrology

by Andrew J. Baird & Robert L. Wilby

^iEco-Hydrology is the first book to offer an overview of the complex relationships between plants and water across a wide range of terrestrial and aquatic environments. Leading ecologists and hydrologists present...


Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process

by Richard Cowell & Susan Owens

In a new and critical analysis, this book explores the impact of an influential idea - sustainable development - on the institutions and practices governing use of land. It examines the paradox that in spite...


Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations

by Mike Crang, Phil Crang & Jon May

This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental...


Political Geography

by Mark Blacksell

In 1904 Sir Halford Mackinder published his seminal paper The Geographical Pivot of History demonstrating the central position of political geography in the study of geography as a whole; a century later and...


Urban Geography: A Global Perspective

by Michael Pacione

For the first time in the history of humankind, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is destined to continue. Urban places, towns and cities are of fundamental importance: even those living...


The Handbook of Geoscience

by Frank R. Spellman & Melissa L. Stoudt

Written in an engaging, highly readable style, it is ideal for students, administrators, legal professionals, non-science professionals and general readers with little or no science background, the handbook...