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| BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY RESEARCH TRENDS [Léa P Mertens (ed)] Biological oceanography concerns the biology and ecology of oceanic, marine, coastal and estuarine organisms. These range from viruses and bacteria to microbes and phytoplankton, from zooplankton and benthic invertebrates to shellfish, fish and marine mammals. The organisms live in a dynamic fluid easily described as a chemical soup that covers ~71% of the earth's surface and is intimately coupled to the atmosphere, the seafloor and the land. Thus, to determine how organisms are influenced by their environment, biological oceanographers must function across many sub-disciplines such as biochemistry, genetics, physiology, behaviour, population dynamics and community ecology. They must be knowledgeable of ocean physics, chemistry, geology, and atmospheric and radioactive processes. This book presents the latest research in this field from around the world. { 282pp, 180x260mm, March 2008; HB, £85.99, 1600219357:9781600219351 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| DARK STORM MOVING WEST [Barbara Belyea] The fur trade was the impetus for much of the exploration & discovery of North America. Like rolling storm clouds, the expanding enterprise of the fur trade moved relentlessly west to explore the furthest reaches of the continent. From Hudson Bay, Lake Superior, & the Mississippi River, European & American explorers & traders followed a web of waterways north to the rich fur region of Lake Athabaska, farther north to the Arctic Ocean, & west to the Rocky Mountains & on to the Pacific Ocean. The essays in "Dark Storm Moving West" trace three phases of westward exploration: naval & fur trade ventures on the Pacific coast. traders’ progress along interior rivers & lakes. & the transcontinental Lewis & Clark expedition, which used maps based on fur trade surveys. The author poses challenging questions about the rapid expansion, its effects on Native populations, European versus Native cartography, cultural definitions of space, & communication of traditions. Belyea also introduces Peter Fidler as an important documentary source for exploration studies during the fur trade expansion, incorporating into her own study Fidler's journals, maps, & reports, most of which are previously unpublished. { 188pp, 300x230mm, September 2007; PB, £29.50, 155238182X:9781552381823 , University of Calgary Press } |
| EMPIRE IN THE HOLY LAND : Historical Geography of the British Administration in Palestine, 1917-1929 [Gideon Biger] This study describes the contribution of the British Administration to the development of Palestine between 11917-1929. It deals with the relation between a new modern government and changes in the landscape. The special character of the British Administration in Palestine helped to create a new state in the Middle East, a modern state with a geographic "iconography" that reflected British taste and input. This view differs from other works on the British in Palestine which deal mainly with the political history of the area rather than its historical geography. { 288pp, 155x230mm, December 1994; HB, £32.50, 9652238627:9789652238627 , Hebrew University Magnes Press } |
| VALLES CALDERA : A Vision for New Mexico's National Preserve [William deBuys & Don J Usner] Bill deBuys and Don Usner have produced an elegant book that captures the beauty of this gem of the American West and tells you how it came to be protected. -- Stewart Udall In 2000, President Clinton signed into law the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, a visionary piece of legislation that transferred to the public domain a privately owned ranch in northern New Mexico. This book tells the natural and human history of the preserve, presents photographs of its splendour, and outlines the unique administrative experiment now underway to manage its public lands. { 128pp, 275x235mm, October 2006; HB, £23.50, 0890134936:9780890134931 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |