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  • Investigative Immunotoxicology

    Edited by Helen Tryphonas, Michel Fournier, Barry R. Blakley, Judit Smits, Pauline Brousseau ...
    Investigative Immunotoxicology provides a critical evaluation of proposed experimental animal models and approaches, and discusses the contribution that immunotoxicity can make to the overall assessment of chemical-induced adverse health effects on humans and the ecosystem. Following a review of general concepts in immunotoxicology, the book discus ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions

    Edited by Grete K. Hovelsrud, Barry Smit ...
    The ‘Year’ That Changed How We View the North This book is about a new theoretical approach that transformed the field of Arctic social studies and about a program called International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY) that altered the position of social research within the broader polar science. The concept for IPY was developed in 2003–2005; its vision was for researchers from many nations to work ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    A New York Times BestsellerThe world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights.In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Science

    by Tom Bethell ...
    "If the globe is warming, is mankind responsible, or is the sun?" Such a statement does not appear out of place in Bethell's entertaining account of how modern science is politically motivated and in desperate need of oversight. Bethell writes in a compulsively readable style, and although he provides legitimate insight into the potential benefits of nuclear power and hormesis, some readers will ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Some Like It Cold

    The Politics of Climate Change in Canada

    by Robert C. Paehlke ...
    Some Like It Cold plunges headlong into the political conundrum of Canada’s climatechange debate. Focusing on the past responses of both Liberal and Conservative governmentsto the looming crisis—ranging from negligence to complicity and connivance—Paehlke illuminatesthe issues surrounding compliance with global regulations such as Kyoto, includingthe dilemma of tar sands development. But he also ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Cropping Pattern Modification to Overcome Abiotic Stresses

    Water, Salinity and Climate

    by Mostafa Morsy, Samiha A. H. Ouda, Abd El-Hafeez Zohry ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides state-of-the art analysis, never done before in Egypt, on agro-climatic zones level. This study deals with how the national cropping pattern can be modified to overcome abiotic stresses, such as water scarcity, induced salinity and climate change to reduce their negative effects on food production. To this end, different cropping patterns are suggested.This study can be a ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Protecting the Ozone Layer

    The United Nations History

    by Stephen O Andersen, K Madhava Sarma ...
    In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere, and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain. So great was the threat that by 1987 the UN had succeeded in coordinating an international treaty to phase out emissions; which, over the following 15 years has been implemented. It has been ... Read more

    $187.99 CAD

  • Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe

    Edited by Hans Middelkoop, Paul F. Hudson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains with substantially altered sediment loads and geomorphic processes. Over the past decade, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Facing Up to Global Warming

    What is Going on and How You Can Make a Difference?

    by N.F. Gray ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In this volume, Professor N.F. Gray offers a comprehensive primer on climate change, sustainability, and how the two concepts are related. This book consists of fifteen chapters, each treating a specific aspect of the current global crisis, including scientific background as well as an up to date appraisal of the issue at hand. It covers the reasons behind climate change and the effect it will ... Read more

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  • Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and Society at Risk

    Edited by Duncan McGregor, David Dodman, David Barker ...
    This volume highlights how current research is addressing rapid change in the Caribbean region, both that being forced by global warming and by population growth ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Climate-Resilient Horticulture: Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies

    Edited by Harish Chandra Prasad Singh, Kodthalu Seetharamaiah Shivashankar, Nadipynayakanahally Krishnamurthy Sriniv Rao ...
    Climate change, a global phenomenon, has attracted scientists to contribute in anticipatory research to mitigate adverse impacts, which are more important for horticulture, considering that the scenario is in the midst of revolution, reaching the production level of 250 million tonnes in India. Impacts of climate variability have, invariably, profound influence on production and quality. An ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Inspiring Sustainable Behaviour

    19 Ways to Ask for Change

    by Oliver Payne ...
    What is the answer to inspiring sustainable behaviour? It starts with a question – or nineteen. With this simple and inspiring guide you'll learn how to ask for persistent, pervasive, and near-costless change by uncovering our hidden quirks, judgmental biases, and apparent irrationalities. The only change you'll need to make is how you ask.Businesses, larger or small, will soon have to cut costs ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD