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An American Provence

by Thomas P. Huber

"I have talked about luscious wines and succulent fruit and exquisite dinners. But there may be no more evocative experience of the two valleys than the smell of new-mown hay in the fields at dusk. If a person...

Hard As the Rock Itself

by David Robertson

The first intensive analysis of sense of place in American mining towns, Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town provides rare insight into the struggles and rewards of life in...

The Geysers of Yellowstone, Fourth Edition

by T. Scott Bryan

This revised popular field guide describes in detail each of the more than 500 geysers in Yellowstone National Park. With updated information and a new foreword by park archivist Lee Whittlesey, Geysers of Yellowstone...

Saucer Wisdom

by Rudy Rucker

Brace yourself when you open this book, for it purports to be the about the visions of neat biotechnologies one Frank Shook brings back from future times where he has been taken to by flying saucers, and gives...

Cosmos and Culture

by Stephen J. Dick & Mark Lupisella

Authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of cosmos.

How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how...

Final Floodaware Report of the European Climate and Environment Programme

by Nicolas Gendreau

Within the framework of a European approach with standards recognised by the establishment of risk and vulnerability maps and consideration of ecological and social aspects, this report presents 14 European...

Multifractal Analysis in Hydrology

by Pietro Bernardara, Michel Lang, Eric Sauquet & Daniel Schertzer et al.

This book provides a simplified description of the procedures to be used to perform an analysis of hydrological data within a multifractal framework. After a review of multifractal theory and the presentation...

Tourism and Innovation

by Michael C. Hall & Williams Allan

Tourism is often described as an industry with high growth rates, and it is subject to radical change in how it is produced and consumed. However, there is still a relatively poor understanding of how such changes...

Remaking Regional Economies

by Susan Christopherson & Jennifer Clark

Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the emerging character of the global economy. In fields as diverse as business management, industrial relations, economic geography, sociology,...

Environmental Management for Sustainable Development

by Chris Barrow

Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. Indisputably, it plays a crucial role...

Education and Climate Change

by Fumiyo Kagawa & David Selby

There is widespread consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is happening and that abrupt and irreversible impacts are already set in motion.  What part does education have to...

Disrupted Cities

by Stephen Graham

Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, Disrupted Cities exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of...

Southeast Asian Development

by Andrew McGregor

Southeast Asia has long fascinated development practitioners and researchers for being one of the few regions of the world that has resisted global trends to become a successful developing region.

Divided into...