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Monitoring and Mitigation of Volcano Hazards

By: Roberto Scarpa,Robert I. Tilling

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Monitoring and Mitigation of Volcano Hazards

By: Roberto Scarpa,Robert I. Tilling

By the year 2000, the number of people at risk from volcanic hazards is likely to increase to around half a billion. Since 1980, significant advances have been made in volcano monitoring, the data from which provides the sole scientific basis for eruption prediction. Here, internationally renowned and highly experienced specialists provide 25 comprehensive articles covering a wide range of related topics: monitoring techniques and data analysis; modelling of monitoring data and eruptive phenomena; volcanic hazards and risk assessment; and volcanic emergency management. Selected case histories of recent volcanic disasters, such as Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, demonstrate that effective communication - between scientists, civil authorities, the media and the population at risk - is essential to reducing the danger.

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846

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642800874

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9783642800870

Hamilton Hume

Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography

By: Robert Macklin

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Hamilton Hume

Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography

By: Robert Macklin

You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as well as providing a portrait of the evolving colony.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD The stirring untold story of a true Australian hero who opened up the nation. While English-born soldiers, sailors and surveyors have claimed pride of place among the explorers of the young New South Wales colony, the real pathfinder was a genuine native-born Australian. Hamilton Hume, a man with a profound understanding of the Aboriginal people and an almost mystical relationship with the Australian bush, led settlers from the cramped surrounds of Sydney Town to the vast fertile country that would provide the wealth to found and sustain a new nation. Robert Macklin, author of the critically acclaimed DARK PARADISE, tells the heroic tale of this young Australian man who outdid his English 'betters' by crossing the Blue Mountains, finding a land route from Sydney to Port Phillip and opening up western New South Wales. His contribution to the development of the colony was immense but downplayed in deference to explorers of British origin. HAMILTON HUME uncovers this brave man's achievements and paints an intriguing and at times shocking portrait of colonial life, by the author of the bestselling SAS SNIPER. 'Robert Macklin calls Hamilton Hume 'our greatest explorer', and now that I've read this enthralling but at times shocking story, I totally agree.' ***** GOOD READING

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256

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Hachette Australia

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0733634060

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9780733634062

Horse-Training made easy

Being a new and practical System of Teaching and Educating the Horse

By: Robert Jennings

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Horse-Training made easy

Being a new and practical System of Teaching and Educating the Horse

By: Robert Jennings

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752553073

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9783752553079

A Study in Crimson

Sherlock Holmes 1942

By: Robert J. Harris

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A Study in Crimson

Sherlock Holmes 1942

By: Robert J. Harris

Bringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world’s greatest detective with a killer emulating the murders of Jack the Ripper. London, 1942. A killer going by the name of “Crimson Jack” is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack—or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings? In desperation Scotland Yard turn to Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective. Surely he is the one man who can sift fact from legend to track down Crimson Jack before he completes his tally of death. As Holmes and the faithful Watson tread the blacked out streets of London, death waits just around the corner. Inspired by the classic film series from Universal Pictures starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, which took Sherlock Holmes to the 1940s, this is a brand-new adventure from a talented author who brilliantly evokes one of mystery fiction’s most popular characters.

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Simon and Schuster

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164313759X

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9781643137599

Climate and Human Migration

Past Experiences, Future Challenges

By: Robert A. McLeman

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Climate and Human Migration

Past Experiences, Future Challenges

By: Robert A. McLeman

The first comprehensive review of the interaction between climate change and migration; for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107022657

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9781107022652

The Idea of English Ethnicity

By: Robert J. C. Young

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The Idea of English Ethnicity

By: Robert J. C. Young

The Idea of English Ethnicity “Robert Young has written a compelling and thorough textual history of English ethnicity and its discursive relation to the history of racial theory. Comprehensive, carefully considered, and clearly written, this book sets the standard against which any future study of Englishness will be assessed. The bar has been lifted a couple of notches higher.” David Theo Goldberg, University of California “What is Englishness?, Robert J. C. Young asks, and in The Idea of English Ethnicityhe offers an impressively well-researched and eminently readable answer.” Werner Sollors, Harvard University

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405101296

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9781405101295

Dynamic Trip Modelling

From Shopping Centres to the Internet

By: Robert G.V. Baker

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Dynamic Trip Modelling

From Shopping Centres to the Internet

By: Robert G.V. Baker

The thesis of this book is that there are one set of equations that can define any trip between an origin and destination. The idea originally came from work that I did when applying the hydrodynamic analogy to study congested traffic flows in 1981. However, I was disappointed to find out that much of the mathematical work had already been done decades earlier. When I looked for a new application, I realised that shopping centre demand could be like a longitudinal wave, governed by centre opening and closing times. Further, a solution to the differential equation was the gravity model and this suggested that time was somehow part of distance decay. This was published in 1985 and represented a different approach to spatial interaction modelling. The next step was to translate the abstract theory into something that could be tested empirically. To this end, I am grateful to my Ph. D supervisor, Professor Barry Garner who taught me that it is not sufficient just to have a theoretical model. This book is an outcome of this on-going quest to look at how the evolution of the model performs against real world data. This is a far more difficult process than numerical simulations, but the results have been more valuable to policy formulation, and closer to what I think is spatial science. The testing and application of the model required the compilation of shopping centre surveys and an Internet data set.

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384

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402043465

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9781402043468

Urban Nation

Australia's Planning Heritage

By: Robert Freestone

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Urban Nation

Australia's Planning Heritage

By: Robert Freestone

Provides the first national account of the historical impact of urban planning and design on the Australian landscape. It defines and documents hundreds of places - parks, public spaces, redeveloped precincts, neighbourhoods, suburbs up to whole towns - that contribute to the character of urban and suburban Australia.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643096981

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9780643096981

The Hidden Lives of Jack the Ripper's Victims

By: Robert Hume

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The Hidden Lives of Jack the Ripper's Victims

By: Robert Hume

An in-depth look at the lives of the women murdered by the infamous, 19th-century London serial killer. Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly are inextricably linked in history. Their names might not be instantly recognizable, and the identity of their murderer may have eluded detectives and historians throughout the years, but there is no mistaking the infamy of Jack the Ripper. For nine weeks during the autumn of 1888, the Whitechapel Murderer brought terror to London’s East End, slashing women’s throats and disemboweling them. London’s most famous serial killer has been pored over time and again, yet his victims have been sorely neglected, reduced to the simple label: prostitute. The lives of these five women are rags-to-riches-to-rags stories of the most tragic kind. There was a time in each of their lives when these poor women had a job, money, a home and a family. Hardworking, determined, and fiercely independent individuals, it was bad luck or a wrong turn here or there that left them wretched and destitute. Ignored by the press and overlooked by historians, it is time their stories were told. “Hume presents us with clear and concise biographies of the Ripper’s victims, and while it is tempting to think of them as all being prostitutes . . . their backgrounds, gone into in this much detail, shows them as something completely different. You will have to, you must read this brilliant book, it puts a whole new perspective into the canon of literature about the most infamous murderer of the last two centuries.” —Books Monthly

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Pen and Sword

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1526738619

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9781526738615

Multimodality in the Built Environment

Spatial Discourse Analysis

By: Louise J. Ravelli,Robert J. McMurtrie

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Multimodality in the Built Environment

Spatial Discourse Analysis

By: Louise J. Ravelli,Robert J. McMurtrie

This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in a holistic approach termed Spatial Discourse Analysis (SpDA). Based on existing frameworks of multimodal analysis, this book applies, adapts, and extends these frameworks to spatial texts. The authors argue that choices in spatial design create meanings about what we perceive and how we can or should behave within spatial texts, influence how we feel in and about those spaces, and enable these texts to function as coherent wholes. Importantly, a spatial text, once built, is also a resource which is then used, and an essential aspect of understanding these texts is to consider what users themselves contribute to the meaning potential of these texts. The book takes the metafunctional approach familiar from Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL) and foregrounds each metafunction in turn (textual, interpersonal, experiential, and logical), in relation to the detailed analysis of a particular spatial text.

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Routledge

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113474790X

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9781134747900

Book's by Robert Druitt

Monitoring and Mitigation of Volcano Hazards

Monitoring and Mitigation of Volcano Hazards

Hamilton Hume

Hamilton Hume

Horse-Training made easy

Horse-Training made easy

A Study in Crimson

A Study in Crimson

Climate and Human Migration

Climate and Human Migration

The Idea of English Ethnicity

The Idea of English Ethnicity

Dynamic Trip Modelling

Dynamic Trip Modelling

Urban Nation

Urban Nation

The Hidden Lives of Jack the Ripper's Victims

The Hidden Lives of Jack the Ripper's Victims

Multimodality in the Built Environment

Multimodality in the Built Environment

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