by Marc Reisner  
Publisher Comments Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your Price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Katharine Harmon
Powells.com Staff Pick Maps are magical pieces of paper. Who doesn't love to pore over them and imagine traveling to New York, Paris, Amsterdam or even Weed, California? Maps are reassuring when you are lost, and they inspire you to dream when you're stagnant. Author Katherine... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Gavin Pretor-Pinney Publisher Comments A quirky, clever guide for everyone who loves to look up. Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless artists, Romantic poets, and every kid who's ever held a crayon? Journalist and... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Mark Stein Publisher Comments Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities — the entire state of Maryland(!)... (read more) Your Price $22.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Michael Allaby Publisher Comments This sumptuously illustrated, beautifully written encyclopedia, the best book available on the topic, presents the most up-to-date information about planet Earth in a style and format that will appeal to an extremely wide range of readers. With thousands... (read more) Your Price $39.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Joan Blaeu Publisher Comments Maps of Spain, Portugal, Africa and America from Joan Blaeu's exquisite world atlas of 1665 The finest and most comprehensive baroque atlas was Joan Blaeu's exceptional Atlas Maior, completed in 1665. The original eleven-volume Latin edition, containing... (read more) Your Price $22.49 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Mark Bowen Publisher Comments “One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read.”—Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books The world’s premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson... (read more) Your Price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Dennis Pirages Publisher Comments "From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security" revisits the findings of "The Global 2000 Report to the President" -- commissioned by President Jimmy Carter and released in 1980 -- and presents an up-to-date overview, informed by the earlier projections,... (read more) Your Price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jeremy Black Synopsis Historical atlases offer an understanding of the past which is invaluable to historians, not only because they convey a previous age's sense of space and distance but also because they reveal what historians and educators of those periods thought... (read more) Your Price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles R Clark Book News Annotation In 1874, the New Zealand-bound emigrant ship Cospatrick sank in the South Atlantic following the worst shipboard fire of the era. Only a handful of her passengers survived. Drawing upon research conducted in Britain, New Zealand, and Australia, Clark... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your Price $31.96 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Dava Sobel and William J. H. Andrewes Publisher Comments A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude. The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a... (read more) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your Price $11.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Philip L Jackson Publisher Comments No other single volume provides more comprehensive and up-to-date information about the natural environment and human activities in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.... (read more) Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Dava Sobel
Powells.com Staff Pick "An account of the man who developed the technology which allowed sailors to determine their longitude at sea. If you don't know where you are, it's hard to know where you're going, whether you've gotten there or if you've missed your target. If, while... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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