Price: Mastering ArcGIS is an introductory GIS text that is designed to offer everything you need to master the basic elements of GIS. The author's step-by-step approach helps students negotiate the challenging tasks involved in learning sophisticated GIS software. The sixth edition is updated to fo[...]
Texas has about one hundred twenty native species and subspecies of snakes, fifteen of which are venomous. Since 1950, Texans have turned to "The Poisonous Snakes of Texas Pamphlet Series" published by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for help in identifying these snakes and for expert advice[...]
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Financial disasters - and stories of the greedy bankers who precipitated them - seem to underscore the idea that self-interest will always trump concerns for the greater good. Indeed, this idea is supported by the prevailing theories in both economics and evolutionary biology. But is it valid? In "W[...]
By the time the United States officially entered World War II, more than half of American anthropologists were using their professional knowledge and skills to advance the war effort. The range of their war-related work was extraordinary. They helped gather military intelligence, pinpointed possible[...]
Presents a chronicle of life among the denizens of the vanishing borderlands of Texas' indigenous music scene. This book contains essays (and some interviews) on Boisec Ardoin, the Austin Lounge Lizards, Billy Briggs, Fred 'Papa' Calhoun, Zeke Campbell, Ornette Coleman, Trudy Coleman, Robert Crumb, [...]
Describing the traditions and rites associated with wine, this book is full of anecdotes about the history and culture surrounding this ages-old libation. From its origins to uncertainties about the industry's future, this fascinating read reveals facts and figures about wine, but also legends and i[...]
The purpose of this volume is to describe the impact of the increased demand for flexibility on employees and its impact on their individual work life trajectories and health. The volume offers concrete examples of interventions aimed to find innovative ways of sustainable work careers for today's w[...]
Inspired by the macabre universe of H. P. Lovecraft, this collection of twenty chilling horror tales features contributions by such acclaimed authors as Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Carl Jacobi, Donald A. Wollheim, and Fritz Leiber, among others. Reprint.[...]
Spawned from the classical horror-hunt of Inspector Legrasse, these seven tales detail the epic confrontation of an unsuspecting mankind with the unimaginable horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos.[...]
This text is directed at the heart of Engineering Geology where geology is used to identify potential problems arising from ground conditions. It describes how to investigate those conditions and to define an engineering response that will either avoid or reduce or even eliminate the problems reveal[...]