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  • An Archaeological Perspective on the History of Technology

    by A. Mark Pollard, Chris Gosden ...
    Series series Elements in Archaeological Perspectives on Materials and Technologies
    This volume represents an introduction to a new world-wide attempt to review the history of technology, which is one of few since the pioneering publications of the 1960s. It takes an explicit archaeological focus to the study of the history of technology and adopts a more explicit socially-embedded view of technology than has commonly been the case in mainstream histories of technology. In doing ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Handbook of Archaeological Sciences

    Edited by A. Mark Pollard, Ruth Ann Armitage, Cheryl A. Makarewicz ...
    HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCESA modern and comprehensive introduction to methods and techniques in archaeologyIn the newly revised Second Edition of the Handbook of Archaeological Sciences, a team of more than 100 researchers delivers a comprehensive and accessible overview of modern methods used in the archaeological sciences. The book covers all relevant approaches to obtaining and ... Read more

    $255.00 USD

  • Archaeological Chemistry

    by A Mark Pollard, Carl Heron, Ruth Ann Armitage ...
    The use of chemistry in archaeology can help archaeologists answer questions about the nature and origin of the many organic and inorganic finds recovered through excavation, providing valuable information about the social history of humankind. This textbook tackles the fundamental issues in chemical studies of archaeological materials. Examining the most widely used analytical techniques in ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Archaeological Chemistry

    by A Mark Pollard, Carl Heron ...
    The application of chemistry within archaeology is an important and fascinating area. It allows the archaeologist to answer such questions as "what is this artefact made of?", "where did it come from?" and "how has it been changed through burial in the ground?", providing pointers to the earliest history of mankind. Archaeological Chemistry begins with a brief description of the goals and history ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

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    $62.99 USD

  • Organic Chemistry

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Graham Patrick ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Organic chemistry is the chemistry of compounds of carbon. The ability of carbon to link together to form long chain molecules and ring compounds as well as bonding with many other elements has led to a vast array of organic compounds. These compounds are central to life, forming the basis for organic molecules such as nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids. In this Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Biogeochemistry

    An Analysis of Global Change

    by W.H. Schlesinger, Emily S. Bernhardt ...
    Biogeochemistry—winner of a 2014 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Text and Academic Authors Association—considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth, from atmosphere to soil to seawater, have been and are being affected by the existence of life. Human activities in particular, from the rapid consumption of resources to the destruction of the rainforests and the expansion of ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Marine Geochemistry

    by Roy Chester, Tim D. Jickells ...
    Marine Geochemistry offers a fully comprehensive and integrated treatment of the chemistry of the oceans, their sediments and biota. The first edition of the book received strong critical acclaim and was described as ‘a standard text for years to come.’ This third edition of Marine Geochemistry has been written at a time when the role of the oceans in the Earth System is becoming increasingly ... Read more

    $89.00 USD

  • Introduction to Environmental Engineering

    by Bernd Markert, Stefan Fränzle, Simone Wünschmann ...
    Building on the first principles of environmental chemistry, engineering, and ecology, this volume fills the need for an advanced textbook introducing the modern, integrated environmental management approach, with a view towards long-term sustainability and within the framework of international regulations.As such, it presents the classic technologies alongside innovative ones that are just now ... Read more

    $61.00 USD

  • Earth System Science

    From Biogeochemical Cycles to Global Changes

    by Michael Jacobson, Robert J. Charlson, Henning Rodhe, Gordon H. Orians ...
    Series Book 72 - International Geophysics
    Over the last decade, the study of cycles as a model for the earth's changing climate has become a new science. Earth Systems Science is the basis for understanding all aspects of anthropogenic global change, such as chemically forced global climate change. The work is aimed at those students interested in the emerging scientific discipline.Earth Systems Science is an integrated discipline that ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The Biomarker Guide: Volume 1, Biomarkers and Isotopes in the Environment and Human History

    by K. E. Peters, C. C. Walters, J. M. Moldowan ...
    The second edition of The Biomarker Guide is a fully updated and expanded version of this essential reference. Now in two volumes, it provides a comprehensive account of the role that biomarker technology plays both in petroleum exploration and in understanding Earth history and processes. Biomarkers and Isotopes in the Environment and Human History details the origins of biomarkers and introduces ... Read more

    $122.19 USD

  • Echoes of Life

    What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History

    by Susan M. Gaines, Geoffrey Eglinton, Jurgen Rullkotter ...
    In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules that he had extracted from ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll--presumably from plants that had lived and died millions of years in the past. It was another twenty-five years before this insight was developed and the term "biomarker" coined to describe fossil molecules whose molecular structures could reveal the ... Read more

    $59.39 USD