Science and Technology

The Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting-edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can ...

The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of global policy on climate and the envi...

The Handbook of Internet Studies brings together scholars from a variety of fields to explore the profound shift that has occurred in how we commun...

The Human Footprint is a global, thematic, and multi–disciplinary history of the planet, from its earliest origins to its current condition. Avoidi...

The seventh edition of this classic student text explores the multitude of impacts that humans have had over time upon vegetation, animals, soils, ...

We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things cha...

Does the future exist already? What is space? Are time machines physically possible? What is quantum mechanical reality like? Are there many univer...

This essential guide to studying geography has been updated to ensure it remains a valuable resource for all those on geography courses, as well as...

This state-of-the-art Handbook on the research and treatment of anxiety and related disorders is the most internationally and clinically oriented H...

**Named a 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of historical and theoretical persp...

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a...

This volume provides an up-to-date, authoritative synthesis of the discipline of human geography. Unparalleled in scope, the companion offers an in...

The expanded fourth edition of the book that offers an essential introduction to laser technology and the newest developments in the field The rev...

We can’t see them, but microbes are the dominant form of life on Earth. They make up half of the world’s biomass. They were here billions of years ...

Vegetation Ecology is a comprehensive account of plant communities and their environments. Written by leading experts in their field from four cont...

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week… and not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the interna...

This reprint of Bernard Wood's best-selling 2-volume encyclopedia is now available as a single-volume paperback. It is ideal for grad students and ...

Provides structural engineers with the knowledge and practical tools needed to perform structural designs for wind that incorporate major technolog...

This book introduces the theoretical elements at the basis of various classes of algorithms commonly employed in the physical layer (and, in part, ...

The mobile industry for wireless cellular services has grown at a rapid pace over the past decade. Similarly, Internet service technology has also ...