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  • Mankind and Deserts 3

    Wind in Deserts and Civilizations

    by Fernand Joly, Guilhem Bourrie ...
    The wild beauty of deserts has always been a source of fascination the world over. Mankind and Deserts 3 the third and final volume focuses on wind, frequently present in all deserts, either hot or cold. Wind plays a major role in aridity and landscapes bear numerous forms due to its action, erosion, transportation and surface formations, some discreet and others spectacular, such as vast ... Read more

    $174.99 CAD

  • Mankind and Deserts 2

    Water and Salts

    Edited by Fernand Joly, Guilhem Bourrié ...
    The wild beauty of deserts has always been a source of fascination the world over. Mankind and Deserts 2 the second of three volumes focuses on water, its absence or indeed its extreme scarcity, as well as on the ways in which salts come to be formed in areas such as these.Aridity of the climate does not exclude rainfall, after which deserts flourish; wet mists, dew, exceptional events separated ... Read more

    $174.99 CAD

  • Mankind and Deserts 1

    Deserts, Aridity, Exploration and Conquests

    Edited by Fernand Joly, Guilhem Bourrié ...
    The wild beauty of deserts has always been a source of fascination the world over. Mankind and Deserts 1 the first of three volumes describes their location and geographic variety. There are both hot and cold deserts, those at high altitude or those at sea level, differing in climate but sharing the scarcity of water, extreme temperatures and often violent winds.According to paleoclimate ... Read more

    $174.99 CAD

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  • When the Sahara Was Green

    How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be

    by Martin Williams ...
    The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the worldThe Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile perch, turtles, crocodiles ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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  • The Five-Million-Year Odyssey

    The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture

    by Peter Bellwood ...
    The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens. Along the way, humans became incredibly diverse in appearance, language, and culture. How did all of this happen? In ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

  • Archaeology

    Excavating Our Past

    by Heather Moore Niver ...
    Series series The Study of Science
    The science of archaeology--the study of the remains of the human past--pairs the thrill of the treasure hunt with the mystery of detective work. Readers will learn all about the different types of archaeology, as well as how archaeologists collect, analyze, and synthesize data. In this insightful volume, readers discover archaeologists' goals as they dig up discoveries and the training needed to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deserts

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nick Middleton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Deserts make up a third of the planet's land surface, but if you picture a desert, what comes to mind? A wasteland? A drought? A place devoid of all life forms? Deserts are remarkable places. Typified by drought and extremes of temperature, they can be harsh and hostile; but many deserts are also spectacularly beautiful, and on occasion teem with life. Nick Middleton explores how each desert is ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Megadrought and Collapse

    From Early Agriculture to Angkor

    Edited by Harvey Weiss ...
    Megadrought and Collapse is the first book to treat in one volume the current paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence of megadrought events coincident with major prehistoric and historical examples of societal collapse. Previous works have offered multi-causal explanations for collapse, from overpopulation, overexploitation of resources, and warfare to poor leadership and failure to adapt to ... Read more

    $95.19 CAD

  • The Sinai

    A Physical Geography

    by Ned Greenwood ...
    One of the world's oldest crossroads, the Sinai joins the great continental land masses of Africa and Eurasia. Its physical geography of rugged mountain peaks, desert plains, and sea coasts was formed by the collision of the two continental plates, while the human tides that have swept across the region over millennia have left an intricate web of cultures and ethnicities.In this book, Ned ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Petroleum Geology of Libya

    by Daniel Clark-Lowes, Don Hallett ...
    Petroleum Geology of Libya, Second Edition, systematically reviews the exploration history, plate tectonics, structural evolution, stratigraphy, geochemistry and petroleum systems of Libya, and includes valuable new chapters on oil and gas fields, production, and reserves. Since the previous edition, published in 2002, there have been numerous developments in Libya, including the lifting of ... Read more

    $185.99 CAD

  • Wadi Flash Floods

    Challenges and Advanced Approaches for Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edited by Tetsuya Sumi, Sameh A. Kantoush, Mohamed Saber ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book brings together research studies, developments, and application-related flash flood topics on wadi systems in arid regions. The major merit of this comprehensive book is its focus on research and technical papers as well as case study applications in different regions worldwide that cover many topics and answer several scientific questions.The book chapters comprehensively ... Read more

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  • Aksum

    A Regional Perspective

    by Joseph W. Michels ...
    This work is an abridged version of the book CHANGING SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN THE AKSUM-YEHA REGION OF ETHIOPIA: 700 BCAD 850 written by the author and published in 2005 in the Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology Series by British Archaeological Reports (BAR) of Oxford, United Kingdom.Most of the books methodological and technical sections have been removed in order for the reader to more ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD