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ICE SHEETS AND LATE QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Written by Martin J. Siegert.
Stock no. 1710875
Published by John Wiley & Sons. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

A detailed account of the temporal and spatial distribution of ice sheets during the last ice age, and how these ice masses interacted with the environment. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w diagrams. xi and 231 pages including index. ISBN: 0471985708. Old price label on rear cover. Small initials in ink to half-title page. Contents otherwise clean.

TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS
Written by J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson.
Stock no. 1710858
Published by Croom Helm. 1st 1975. Very good condition.

A book which covers the zoogeography and ecology of the main terrestrial environments of the world, including fresh water habitats, with emphasis on their fauna. Climate and vegetation are outlined briefly in so far as they affect animal life. Green & blue cardwraps. B/w illustrations. 253 pages including index. ISBN: 0856641804. Spine faded. Light creasing to covers. Text block lightly browned. Else contents clean.

UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Written by Susan Buckingham; Mike Turner.
Stock no. 1710857
Published by Sage Publications. 1st 2008. Very good condition.

This book explains clearly and concisely the science and social science necessary to understand environmental issues using learning outcomes, text boxes, tables and figures throughout. It describes - in section one- the philosophies, values, politics, and technologies which contribute to the production of environmental issues. Section two uses cases on climate change, waste, food, and natural hazards to provide detailed illustration and exemplification of the ideas described in section one. Edited by Buckingham and Turner. Cardwraps. B/w photos & diagrams. xii and 274 pages including index. ISBN: 9781761942368. Light stain to vertical edge of text block. A few top corner creases. Else a nice, clean copy.

QUATERNARY LANDSCAPES
Written by Linda C.K. Shane; Edward J. Cushing.
Stock no. 1710855
Published by Belhaven Press. 1st 1991. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An interdisciplinary examination of the development of glaciated terrain, peat lands, lakes, vegetation, climate, and early agriculture that helps us understand our landscapes, model their changes and predict their future. Green cloth boards, black title to spine. B/w diagrams. xiv and 229 pages. ISBN: 1852932074. Small initials in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper spine faded to blue.

BACKGROUND TO PALAEOHYDROLOGY: A PERSPECTIVE
Written by K.J. Gregory.
Stock no. 1710854
Published by John Wiley & Sons. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

This book is the first to concentrate solely on palaeohydrology, which is the study devoted to the movement of water and sediment in environments before the time of continuous hydrological records. The content of the book relates to research under the International Geological Correlation Programme Project 158 on the palaeohydrology of the temperate zone in the last 15000 years. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w diagrams. B/w photos. xvi and 486 pages including index. ISBN: 0471901792. Tape marks to endpapers. Small set of initials in ink to top of front endpaper. Else contents clean.

THE PANORAMA OF EUROPE; OR, A NEW GAME OF GEOGRAPHY
Written by Barbara Hofland.
Stock no. 1310973
Published by A.K. Newman and Co.. 1st 1813. Good condition.

Printed at the Minerva Press. Plain brown boards. 240 pages, edges untrimmed. Pull-out b/w frontis of The Empress of Russia's Travelling Equipage. Covers are worn with some chipping of surface paper. Joints cracked but binding still tight. Name in ink to top margin of title-page. Preliminary pages are grubby, there is some foxing to the contents. Considering the age of the book the contents are reasonably clean. This is a decent copy of a very scarce item.

QUATERNARY GEOLOGY: A STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY WORK
Written by D.Q. Bowen.
Stock no. 1605251
Published by Pergamon Press. 1st 1978. Very good condition.

The discoveries of recent years have revolutionized the study of the Quarternary Period. To the student these merely compound an already bewildering situation. The volume of often seemingly contradictory literature continues to grow, and its terminology to multiply. This book attempts to clarify the issues. The basis of existing classsical models is critically examined. The data on which the new stratigraphic framework relies is considered. The subject is placed in perspective overview, with the stratigraphic framework extended by selective correlation. Green cardwraps. B/w charts. xi and 221 pages including index. ISBN: 0080204090. Light creasing to front cover. Slight page browning.

THE DUAB OF TURKESTAN
Written by W. Rickmer Rickmers.
Stock no. 2111590
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

A Physiographic Sketch and Account of Some Travels. Large format. Green cloth with gilt title to spine. With 207 maps, diagrams and other illustrations. Spine is browned, with damp mark. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Uneven browning to cover edges. Grubby marks to endpapers and outer page edges.

WORLD MANGROVE ATLAS
Written by Mark Spalding; Francois Blasco; Colin Field.
Stock no. 1602990
Published by The International Society For Mangrove Ecosystems. 1st 1997. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An attempt to provide an overview of the distribution of mangroves worldwide. Large format. Colour and b/w photos & maps. edited by Spalding, Blasco & Field. 178 pages including index. ISBN: 4906584039. Heavy bumps to edge of boards by spine. Slight wrinkling to endpapers / prelims but contents are otherwise near fine. Wrapper is a little edge creased.

VEGETATION, SOILS AND WILDLIFE
Written by J.G. Nelson; M.J. Chambers.
Stock no. 1602945
Published by Methuen. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Process and Method in Canadian Geography series. Selected readings edited by Nelson & Chambers. 372 pages. ISBN: 0458902608. Corners bumped. Pen mark to front endpaper. Page browning. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, scuffed, and lightly faded to spine.

FLOODS: A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE (FOCAL PROBLEMS IN GEOGRAPHY)
Written by Roy Ward.
Stock no. 1602944
Published by The Macmillan Press Ltd.. 1st 1978. Very good condition.

This study of major flood problems ranges from the hydrological causes of floods, and their prediction and routing, to a survey of man's response to the flood situation. International in scope, it is addressed to students of Hydrology, Geography, Environmental Studies and Civil Engineering (water systems and water engineering). Blue cardwraps. B/w mapsand diagrams, and a few b/w photos. xii and 244 pages including index. ISBN: 0333230841. Light creasing to spine. Text block browned. Pen mark to title page. Else contents clean.

A PICTORIAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND & WALES SECTION III SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND
Written by E.F. Mills.
Stock no. 814086
Published by George Philip & Son Ltd.. 1955. Very good condition.

Large oblong format. Green card wraps. B/w photos.