New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

natural sciences
Produzione di energia
da fonti biologiche rinnovabili
Proceedings from a scientific conference addressing
the production of energy from biologically renewable
resources. Italian text.
1 – Le tecnologie
Topics include: economic and juridical strategies, economic
aspects of biomass production, comparison of arboreal
vs. agricultural production, economic implications
of biomass-related politics.
200p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788859604389, $16.50(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008, I Georgofili.
2 – Le risorse primarie
Topics include: agriculture and energy-producing biomass,
biocarburants and the Greenhouse effect, usable
forest biomass.
136p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788859604396, $16.50(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008, I Georgofili.
3 – Le strategie. Aspetti economici e giuridici.
Topics include: technology, agricultural and
combustible solids, thermochemical processing of
biomass energy, methane from animal and biomass
sources, biocombustibles and biocarburants, prospects
for developing renewable biological sources of energy.
120p, paperback, 9788859604402, $16.50(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008, I Georgofili.
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Galileo e la polemica anticopernicana a Firenze
by Luigi Guerrini
This work presents new research on the earliest persecutions of Galileo’s theory of the movement of the earth, notably
heretofore unknown sermons against the scientist’s theories while he served as court mathematician for the Grand Duke of
Tuscany. These sermons decidedly led to the Church’s condemnation of Copernican thought in 1616, and will interest both
scholars and the larger public. Italian text.
142p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788859604372, $23.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa, October 2009, La storia raccontata 27.
Planet Austria
edited by Lois Lammberhuber, Werner Piller and Günter Köck
The aim of this extensive volume is to present the broad spectrum of research being done at the Austrian Academy of
Sciences in the fields of Alpine studies, geology, hydrology, and environmental and climate studies. About thirty major
projects, both current and past, have been chosen to illustrate the breadth and depth of research.
256p, hardback, 9783700166276, $105.00(s), Austrian Academy of Sciences, October 2009.
Managing Alpine Future
Proceedings of the Innsbruck Conference October
15–17, 2007
edited by Axel Borsdorf, Johann Stötter
and Eric Veulliet
Content sections: Environment and Natural Hazards; The Future of
Tourism in a Changing Alpine Environment; Mobility – a Need and
a Problem at the Same Time; Health – a Key Factor of Quality of Life
in the Mountains; Water and Energy – Valuable Mountain Resources
for the Future of Mankind.
446p, paperback, 9783700165712, $38.00(s),
Austrian Academy of Sciences, October 2009.
Handbuch Strategische Umweltprüfung 5
Aktualisierungslieferung
Die österreichischen Gletscher 1998 und 1969
Flächen- und Volumenänderungen
edited by Michael Kuhn, Astrid Lambrecht,
Jakob Abermann, Gernot Patzelt and Günter Gross
This volume gives an overview of the methods and results of a new
inventory of Autrian glaciers, presenting large-scale orthorectified
photographs and maps of ice thickness changes between 1969 and
1998 for thirty selected glacier areas. German text.
100p, paperback, 9783700166160, $15.00(s),
Austrian Academy of Sciences, October 2009.
This third edition of the handbook Strategische Umweltprüfung (SUP, Strategic Environmental Assessment)
has been substantially restructured, reworked and expanded. German text.
300p, paperback, 9783700166313, $104.00(s), Austrian Academy of Sciences, October 2009.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009