Karstified landscapes are among the most bizarre on our planet -- both above and below ground. This book takes you on a visual journey across subli...

In 2015 three leading scientific experts on nudibranchs and sea slugs collaborated to produce a comprehensive guide for divers and scientists to th...

Forest ecosystems cover around 31% of the total land area of the Earth. They represent important biodiversity and genetic resources; provide materi...

From the 1920s to 1952, George and Else Seel lived about sixty kilometres south of Burns Lake near the small farming settlement of Wistaria on the ...

This is an extension of the author's earlier volume, "Eskimo Orientation Systems". This time it covers all the contiguous languages -- and cultures...

This book makes a significant academic contribution because the study enriches the theories of social capital, governance and participatory forestr...

This book is in response to the growing demand from academics and the general public for state-of-the-art research in permafrost science and, in pa...

Growing demands on the transportation system and constraints on public resources have led to calls for more private sector involvement in the provi...

In this book, the authors gather and present current research in the study of the types, threats and management of pine forests. Topics discussed i...

This book is organised into three main parts: plantation forestry in context; plantation silviculture and management and plantation forestry econom...

The Polynesian navigator Kupe is credited with the discovery of the land his expedition named Aotearoa, land of the long white cloud. How did he an...

Ancient Rome has always been considered a compendium of City and World. In the Renaissance, an era of epistemic fractures, when the clash between t...

Rainforests represent one of Earth's most precious natural resources. With swaths of forested land spanning the globe, rainforests house over half ...

This book focuses on impending serious problems of socio-economic conditions in the sub-Saharan countries utilising remote sensing and GIS techniqu...

The Reef Coral Identification – Florida Caribbean Bahamas by Paul Humann and Ned DeLoach, originally published in 1993, is the most comprehensive f...

First published in 1992, this guide has been significantly expanded in a new 3rd edition. The popular, user-friendly field guide, covering all majo...

The diversity, quantity and vitality of fish life in the seas that bathe the Galapagos archipelago is every bit as dramatic as the exotic wildlife ...

The most comprehensive field guide ever compiled for identifying reef fishes from the Gulf of California to the Pacific coast of Panama, including ...

A CBC New Brunswick Book List SelectionAn Atlantic Books Today Must-Have New Brunswick Books of 2020 SelectionThe Restigouche River flows through t...

For over a century, Experimental Forests and Ranges (EFRs) have provided critical science on the ecosystems and management activities of the Nation...

Widespread concern about global climate change has led to agreements to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and, under certain circumstances, ...

Thaddeus Holownia travelled to the many salmon rivers of eastern Canada, in all seasons, to capture their essential qualities. Harry Thurston's acc...

Public attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs can strongly influence coastal management decision-making. Officials use surveys and other social scienc...

This monograph especially emphasises the importance of the scope, by which forest fires, from year to year endanger the environment, including casu...

With the state of global ice constantly in the news, one mountain journalist examines Canadian glaciers to uncover their secrets and their future.F...

Jay Sherwood's fourth and final book about prominent BC surveyor Frank Swannell, covers the years from 1901 to 1907, before Swannell began surveyin...

This book provides current research on terrestrial biomes. Chapter One demonstrates the severe conditions of arctic areas that lead to the formatio...

Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as ...

Composed in a prison cell in 1298 by Venetian merchant Marco Polo and Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa, The Description of the World re...

Composed in a prison cell in 1298 by Venetian merchant Marco Polo and Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa, The Description of the World re...

For centuries, colonial powers searched for a sea passage that would link the Arctic and Pacific Oceans. The route, known as the Northwest Passage,...

This study reconstructs the Hellenistic philosophical debate on rhetoric. In the heterogeneous source situation, Liebersohn succeeds in distinguish...