Describes points of interest in each region of Greece, and recommends inns, restaurants, museums, and festivals

Off the Beaten Track: Greece

Travel

Brown, Geoffrey

Europe

Harpercollins

Experiments in the social sciences

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harper and Row

VG condition book with dust jacket. Near mint DJ which is clean & has fresh colours. Book has clean and bright contents.

Information Game: Ethical Issues in a Microchip World (Studies in Applied Philosophy)

Philosophy

Humanities Pr

In the dozen years since the first edition appeared, there has been a great advance in understanding of the Earth's deep interior. This is not because there have been breakthroughs in understanding, or even many changes of ideas, but largely because of many small advances, often the result of improved tech niques. This has led to a complete revision of the book. For instance, we have a much better idea of how the cloud of gas that formed the Solar Nebula evolved into the Sun and the planets, and of the chemical processes that accompanied its evolution and determined the mix of elements in the Earth. We have a better understanding of convection and how plates are an essential part of it, and how it is accompanied by chemical processes that have extracted the materials to build continents. Although the major variation within the Earth is radial, improved geophysical and geochemical techniques have made progress in investigating and under standing the lateral heterogeneities, and it is encouraging that when geochemists and geophysicists talk about lateral heterogeneities they can sometimes be referring to the same thing. Plumes have become very fashionable as the cause of hot-spot magmatism and associated geochemical anomalies, probably origi nating at the base of the mantle (though clear evidence for their existence is lacking).

The Inaccessible Earth: An integrated view to its structure and composition

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Springer

Geological Society of London Handbook Series Edited by Keith Cox Founded in 1807, the Geological Society of London has been publishing since 1845 and now distributes its journal to Fellows throughout the world. This handbook is published as part of a series of authoritative practical guides to field geology. The Field Description of Igneous Rocks Written to complement textbooks on igneous petrology, this handbook equips the student with all the information required to study igneous rocks in the field. It deals with observations from the scale of hand specimens and outcrops to regional mapping of field relationships. Igneous rocks range from volcanic rocks erupted at the Earth's surface to plutonic rocks which crystallised at depth within the Earth,and the techniques to study these differ from those used for the field study in other volumes in this series. "…its genuine "handbook" size, flexible cover and realistic price should make it an affordable part of field equipment for all geology students." —R. A. Howie, Mineralogical Magazine

The Field Description of Igneous Rocks (Geological Society of London Handbook Series)

Thorpe, Richard

wiley

If you have ever encountered an abbreviation or acronym you feel pretty sure refers to an organization but could not figure out what the actual name of the organization might be, this book will help.  It is more than a beginning -- there are thousands of organizations known by their initials or acronyms included -- and it is particularly useful for smaller or more obscure organizations that were around before internet search engines changed the way we research most things for which we need a fast answer.  The geographic focus here is the United States, although many organizations in other countries are included.  English is also the language on which the book is based.  (However, the oldest organizational initialism given is one familiar to anyone who studied Latin:  SPQR -- Senatus Populesque Romanus -- the Senate and the Roman People, an initialism seen in most depictions of Roman Legions.)    Organization is alphabetical.  All you need to know to use the book is the acronym or initialization about which you are curious.  When you find the abbreviation or acronym, you'll see all the occurrences the author has been able to document for that string of letters.  Interestingly, many acronyms apply to more than one organization, and one abbreviation listed has been applied to no fewer than 16 separate groups.  For nearly all abbreviations listed there is also a categorization to help further research -- perhaps a labor union, or a mutual benefit society, or a railroad, or a university, or a social club.    This book is a resource for the researcher – or the casual reader, for that matter -- who wants some possible meanings and can take things from there.  It can help find the organization that might appear on the 15th page of Google results, and, since many of these organizations existed long before the internet, not be known to the search engines at all.    There's also a helpful introduction providing more information about organization types and specialized sources for further research, should it be necessary to pin down the organization in question more conclusively.

What Does That Stand For?: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms for Organizations

History

Americas

Between the Lakes Group

This book was first published in 1979.

Piaget's Theory: A Psychological Critique

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Book by Brown, Geoffrey, DesForges, Charles

Piaget's Theory

Routledge & Kegan Paul Books

Child Development

Open Books

To Partake of Tea: The Last Ladies of Kingston Lacy

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Hobnob Press

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