This book elucidates the continuing conflict between the conservation of the townscapes and assoc...

A unique practical guide to engineering geomorphology.

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Recounted with his usual level of meticulous historical research, Rod weaves an easily readable a...

This accessible introduction to animal behaviour provides an authoritative yet reader-friendly gu...

In the 19th century, the Stevenson engineers pioneered marvelous lighthouses around the coasts of...

A unique and definitive handbook which provides practical guidance on ground gas assessment and t...

This wonderful book describes the fascinating lives of the two most ubiquitous shorebirds in the ...

This best-selling title has become a vital text for students and professionals worldwide. The rew...

This is a revised and updated edition of the highly successful first and second editions. In the ...

Written by a team of international experts, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the su...

The story of a man who achieved what thousands only dream of. He abandoned the pressures of life ...

Primary data acquisition is the front end of mapping, GIS and remote sensing and involves: aviati...

Using vivid extracts from field notebooks and profusely illustrated with photographs as well as p...

A systematic and comprehensive approach for the use of small mobile unmanned systems for robotic ...

This is a book about what it's like being a birder in an age of natural decline. It is part autob...

Into the Abyss, the first volume in The Diving Trilogy, is a fascinating collection of true life ...

Farmland wildlife has been decimated by intensive crop growing using pesticides, grubbing up hedg...

This stunningly beautiful and informative book celebrates the Arctic, one of the last great wilde...

Safari guide Jeff Williams has brought together a treasure-trove of stories of dramatic events th...

A novel set in a Highland shooting lodge, where the focus is a hunt in a remote deer forest; but ...

This book provides theoretical and practical insights into city modelling from a geomatics perspe...

Based upon the author's wide experience in a broad range of projects, this invaluable book sets t...

The West Highland Way is Scotland’s first official Long Distance Route and runs nearly 100 miles....

For many, birds represent freedom and spirituality since they are created to be free. Although th...

As a ten-year-old, the author contracted TB and was sent to an isolated sanatorium, deep in the C...

The Nearly Man is the true, yet almost unbelievable, story of one man's incredible life, beginnin...

We all depend on infrastructure for civilised living with the scale and sophistication of what we...

The 50-mile wide lagoon of Truk Atoll, far out in the remote expanses of the Pacific, is quite si...

From all around the coast, from the remote wildness of Cullykhan in Aberdeenshire to the bustling...

'This textbook on tanker operations has been written to provide the knowledge and skills required...

Ship masters and officers may not seem like pioneers of trade unionism. However, this history of ...

Neil M Gunn, one of Scotland’s most distinguished 20th century authors, wrote over a period of 30...

Unlike most of Gunn’s novels, The Lost Chart is set in a city – the city of Glasgow and its sea a...

This book explores the significance of Dounreay to the nation in being the UK's centre for resear...

Explains the emergence of nuclear fusion technology as a commercial proposition attracting large ...

Shorebirds, or waders, are a large group of small to medium-sized birds that occur worldwide, in ...

In clear and utterly compelling English, this moving memoir tells the story of the agony, and the...

In November 1943, four years into World War II, Corporal Sid Wade, a conscripted and reluctant so...

Captain Woodfield made 20 seasonal voyages to the Antarctic on three research ships between 1955 ...

The British have always had a special affinity for the seaside and piers are the epitome of the B...

The first book on the subject and an impressive information source. A compact yet comprehensive i...

Individuals from Caithness who made a difference all over the world - USA, Canada, Australia etc

Simply Stairs is a ‘how to’ book which guides the reader through all aspects of the design and co...

The Eponym Dictionary is a series of brief but concise biographies of all those people after whom...

This under-documented expedition was a pivotal moment in the annals of polar exploration and was ...