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  • Pedology in the USA

    Life and Works of C. C. Nikiforoff (1886–1979)

    by Alfred E. Hartemink ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Constantin Nikiforoff was educated by premier Russian soil scientists but fled after the 1917 revolution. A refugee with no formal credentials or documentation, he arrived in the USA in 1921. He was hired in 1927 and started surveying and studying soils across the country. He was erudite, critical, and wrote several influential papers. In some ways, he was ahead of his time; in others, his ideas ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Soil Profiles

    With Photos by Roy Simonson

    by Alfred E. Hartemink ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Soil profiles carry the signatures of climate, vegetation, parent material, and topography, written slowly into the earth, horizon by horizon. Within these layers linger the echoes of past climates, vanished landscapes, and the enduring traces of human care and use. Read with patience, a soil profile becomes a quiet chronicle of change, revealing not only what lies beneath our feet, but how it ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Soil Science Americana

    Chronicles and Progressions 1860─1960

    by Alfred E. Hartemink ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book narrates how the study of the soil became a science and institutionalized in the USA between 1860 and 1960. The story meanders through the activities, ideas, publications, and correspondence of people who influenced the progressions, that led to the budding and early blossoming of American and international soil science. Interwoven is a tale of two farm boys who grew up 900 km apart in ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Sandy Soils

    Edited by Alfred E. Hartemink, Jingyi Huang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Sandy soils cover approximately 900 million ha worldwide, and there are extensive areas of sandy soils under cultivation. Most sandy soils have high water permeability, low water-holding capacity, low ability to retain and exchange nutrients, weakly developed soil structure and they may be prone to erosion by wind. As irrigation is required for obtaining good crop yields, there is a risk of ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Soil Carbon

    Edited by Alfred E. Hartemink, Kevin McSweeney ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Few topics cut across the soil science discipline wider than research on soil carbon. This book contains 48 chapters that focus on novel and exciting aspects of soil carbon research from all over the world. It includes review papers by global leaders in soil carbon research, and the book ends with a list and discussion of global soil carbon research priorities.Chapters are loosely grouped in four ... Read more

    $281.99 CAD

  • Digital Soil Morphometrics

    Edited by Budiman Minasny, Alfred E. Hartemink ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is about digital soil morphometrics which is defined as the application of tools and techniques for measuring, mapping and quantifying soil profile properties, and deriving depth functions of soil properties. The book is structured along four research topics: (i) Soil profile properties, (ii) Soil profile imaging, (iii) Soil depth functions, and (iv) Use and applications. The pedon is at ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • The Soils of Wisconsin

    by James G. Bockheim, Alfred E. Hartemink ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive report on the soils of Wisconsin, a state that offers a rich tapestry of soils. It discusses the relevant soil forming factors and soil processes in detail and subsequently reviews the main soil regions and dominant soil orders, including paleosols and endemic and endangered soils. The last chapters address soils in a changing climate and provide ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

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  • The Great Fossil Enigma

    The Search for the Conodont Animal

    by Simon J. Knell ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries: "Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed" ( Priscum).Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the eel-like conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The search for its identity confounded scientists for more than a century. Some thought ... Read more

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  • Remarkable Creatures

    Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

    by Sean B. Carroll ...
    National Book Award Finalist: A biologist's "thoroughly enjoyable" account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet ( Publishers Weekly).Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species' history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. But scientists ... Read more

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  • When Life Nearly Died

    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    by Michael J. Benton ...
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    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

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