Authors:David Hensher, Peter R. Stopher,
Publisher: Croom Helm
Keywords: modelling, travel, behavioural
Number of Pages: 861
Published: 1979
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0856648191
ISBN-13: 9780856648199

Authors:Kenneth J Button, Kingsley E Haynes, Peter Stopher, D
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: transport, volume, handbooks, systems, spatial, geography, handbook
Number of Pages: 694
Published: 2004-11-12
List price: $215.00
ISBN-10: 0080441084
ISBN-13: 9780080441085

Transport systems, the vital arteries of modern societies and economies, shape our world and are shaped by it. The subject of this volume is the dynamic interactionsbetween transport and the physical, economic, and human geographies it weaves through. Transport plays a central role in economic development and growth. It profoundly affects the socio-economic characteristics and spatial form of urban centres and rural areas alike. A new transport link can bring increases in population, in employment, in industrial activity, in wealth. In turn, these changes can lead to demands for further transp

Authors:Peter Jones, Peter Stopher,
Publisher: Pergamon
Keywords: innovation, quality, survey, transport
Number of Pages: 660
Published: 2003-05-30
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0080440967
ISBN-13: 9780080440965

This book provides readers with an overview of the latest developments in transport survey methods from around the world, with an emphasis on survey quality and innovation. It contains selected papers from the International Conference on Transport Survey Quality and Innovation, held in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, during August 2001. The conference covered both passenger and freight transport, but was limited to surveys that collect information directly from individuals or organisations (e.g., it excludes traffic counts or other observational data collection). Many delegates were fr

Authors:Edward Lyn Lewis, E. Peter Jones, Peter Lemke, Peter
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, sub, environmental, security, volume, partnership, science, budget, arctic, ocean, nato, freshwater
Number of Pages: 644
Published: 2000-05-31
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0792364406
ISBN-13: 9780792364405

The hydrological cycle of the Arctic Ocean has intimate and complex linkages to global climate: changes in one affect the other, usually with a feedback. The combined effects of large river runoff, advection of meteoric water, low evaporation rates and distillation by freezing contribute to the formation of a strong halocline in the upper Arctic ocean, which limits thermal communication between the sea ice and the warmer waters of Atlantic origin below. Sea ice and freshened surface waters are transported from the marginal seas by winds and currents, ultimately exiting the Arctic Ocean

Authors:Peter Castro, Peter J. F. Davie, Peter K. L. Ng, Bert
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Keywords: crustaceana, monographs, guinot, daniele, brachyura, homage, studies
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 2010-06
List price: $197.00
ISBN-10: 9004170863
ISBN-13: 9789004170865

Authors:Peter Guthrie, Peter Guthrie, Mary Page, Peter Guthri
Publisher: Wayside Publishing
Keywords: middle, school, stories, short, worlds, collection, little
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 1985-01-01
List price: $17.27
ISBN-10: 1877653527
ISBN-13: 9781877653520

The purpose of this text was to make available a large collection of stories that are high in literary quality yet accessible to middle-school students. Its widespread acceptance in schools throughout the country attests that this anthology has indeed achieved its goal. It presents students with a variety of issues, styles, conflicts, and points of view through the stories of Maupassant, Lessing, Hemingway, Welty, Hawthorne, Porter, as well as many others.

Authors:Peter Reed, James Corner, Peter Latz, Martha Schwartz
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: groundswell
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2005-02-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 087070379X
ISBN-13: 9780870703799

Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape presents 23 projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last 20 years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation, and abandonment. The projects, found throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, were selected for their outstanding design, and for their variety of contexts, materials, scale, and types of spaces. This fully illustr