This book provides a practical guide to astronomy for surveyors. It covers topics such as spherical trigonometry, the use of instruments, and the calculation of distances. The text is suitable…

This book is a biographical account of Gratia Olive Leonard. Leonard tells her story of becoming a missionary, bringing education and Christianity to the Chippewa Indians in the late 1800s…

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This book offered the first comprehensive study of the enclosure mapping of England and Wales. Together with its accompanying website it provides a unique research tool for economic, social and…

Natural disasters are occasional intense events that disturb Earth’s surface, but their impact can be felt long after. Hazard events such as earthquakes, volcanos, drought, and storms can trigger a…

This book explores how racism lives and how racism is lived. Earlier chapters provide the theoretical foundation for the later chapters on contemporary racial issues. Collectively they show change, continuity…

Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist-all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This interplay brings to the…