Books with author Nicholas George Webb

Flatty the rowing boat and friends Lucy and Sprinkle the dog, assisted by a remarkable collar, go exploring up the Thames to Windsor. They meet the Queen, keep tabs on some smugglers, and help protect the Olympic Torch on its journey to London. (17,000 words with 59 colour illustrations)Set in the 1950s, the series celebrates the river as a place for a child to grow up and have adventures, and also gently introduces its role in history, in climate change and as part of the water cycle.

Flatty, the amazing Thames River rowing boat, upgrades grumpy Old Boathouse into a laboratory and designs wings - with which he flies with his friends Lucy and dog Sprinkle to China, saving many lives after the Three Gorges Dam collapses, starts a crusade to fight climate change and sea level rise, and still finds time to reminisce about his time helping Emperor Yu fight China's floods 4000 years ago. A humerous illustrated celebration of the riverside which naturally follows on from the book "Sprinkle's Mysterious Collar", also by Nick Webb.

Students of human behavior have always been interested in the relationship between human populations and their environment. Decades of research not only have illuminated the backdrop against which culture is viewed, but have identi­ fied many of the conditions that influence or promote technological develop­ ment, social transformation, and economic reorganization. It has become in­ creaSingly evident, however, that if we are to explore more forcefully the linkages between culture and environment, a processual orientation is required. This is found in human ecology-the study of the relationship between people and the ecosystem of which they are a part. This book is a collection of papers about the recent and distant past by scientists and humanists involved in the study of human ecology in northeastern North America. The authors critically examine the systemic interface between people and their environment first by identifying the indicators of that rela­ tionship (e.g., historical documentation, archaeological site patterning, faunal remains), then by defining the processes by which change in one part of the ecosystem affects other parts (e.g., by conSidering how an ecotonal gradient affects biotic communities over time), and finally by explicating the behavioral implications thereof.