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  • COLONIAL AFRICA
    A. J. CHRISTOPHER
    There have been few more remarkable events than the European colonisation and decolonisation of Africa. Often within a single lifespan countries were conquered, reorganised, settled and then granted independence. Colonial Africa (1984) examines the impact this had on the landscape of Africa. The period of colonial contact between Europe and Africa had been lengthy, beginning in...

    $800.00

  • SOLAR ENERGY AND THE U.S. ECONOMY
    RICHARD J GOETTLE IV / CHRISTOPHER PLEATSIKAS / EDWARD A. HUDSON
    First published 1982. Twice during the 1970s -- the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973-74 and the tight oil market of 1978-79 associated with the political upheaval in Iran -- the U.S. economy experienced severe shocks as a result of massive price increases for imported oil. By 1980 the price for imported crude oil had increased to nearly twenty times the price in 1970. This book seeks t...

    $1,160.00

  • THE BRITISH EMPIRE AT ITS ZENITH
    A. J. CHRISTOPHER
    This title, originally published in 1988, examines the network of states and the political and economic systems which bound the British Empire together. This book examines each country and how the empire made its mark in the shape of urban form, public buildings and rural land patterns. An overall assessment of the Imperial heritage is attempted as a pointer to the unity which ...

    $340.00

  • ATLAS OF CHANGING SOUTH AFRICA
    A.J. CHRISTOPHER
    The new edition of the atlas (first published as The Atlas of Apartheid) presents a comprehensive introduction and detailed analysis of the spatial impact of apartheid in South Africa. It covers the period of the National Party Government of 1948 to 1994, and emphasises the changes and the continuing legacy this presents to South Africans at the start of the 21st century. The A...

    $2,000.00

  • OFFSHORE PIONEERS: BROWN & ROOT AND THE HISTORY OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS: BROWN & ROOT AND THE HISTORY OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS
    PRATT, JOSEPH A. / PRIEST, TYLER / CASTANEDA, CHRISTOPHER J.
    Fifty years ago, in November 1947, Brown & Root helped Kerr-McGee build the first out-of-sight-land offshore platform that produced oil. The date is widely celebrated as the birth of the modern offshore industry. In the years since this historic occasion, Brown & Root has continued to pioneer in the design and construction of offshore pipelines and platforms. Along with the ...

    $712.00

  • HANDBOOK OF GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION USING PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS: APPLICATIONS TO RADIONUCLIDES, TRACE METALS, AND NUTRIENTS
    NAFTZ, DAVID / MORRISON, STAN J. / FULLER, CHRISTOPHER C. / DAVIS, JAMES A.
    Over the last century and a half, groundwaters have become contaminated by a growing number of organic and inorganic substances ranging from petroleum-derived hydrocarbons to radioactive compounds, to cancer-causing hexavalent chromium. The importance of uncontaminated groundwater for agriculture, human consumption, and the environmental health of ecosystems is paramount to the...

    $1,716.00

  • HANDBOOK ON LIVED EXPERIENCE IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
    CHRISTOPHER P. DUM, JAMIE J. FADER, THOMAS P. LEBEL, AND KEVIN A. WRIGHT
    This volume offers a diverse set of scholarly essays on the imaginative potential of corrections and sentencing research/practice that centers on the lived experience of the criminal legal system. The Editors define “lived experience” broadly, encompassing the subjective ways in which corrections and sentencing directly or indirectly affect a person’s daily life. They employ a ...

    $1,380.00

  • FENNER AND WHITE'S MEDICAL VIROLOGY
    CHRISTOPHER J. BURRELL / COLIN R. HOWARD / FREDERICK A. MURPHY
    Fenner and White's Medical Virology, Fifth Edition provides an integrated view of related sciences, from cell biology, to medical epidemiology and human social behavior. The perspective represented by this book, that of medical virology as an infectious disease science, is meant to provide a starting point, an anchor, for those who must relate the subject to clinical practice, ...

    $1,662.00

  • DATA MINING
    IAN H. WITTEN / EIBE FRANK / MARK A. HALL / CHRISTOPHER J. PAL
    Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Fourth Edition, offers a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts, along with practical advice on applying these tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations. This highly anticipated fourth edition of the most acclaimed work on data mining and machine learning teaches readers everything they need ...

    $930.00