by Simon Winchester  Publisher Comments A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by David Alt Synopsis "[It] provides a handy and understandable account, either to read at home, or to carry along on trips."-Oregon Historical Quarterly... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Neil Shubin 
Powells.com Staff Pick Neil Shubin makes tracing our evolutionary origins positively fascinating. Through his work in expeditionary paleontology, Shubin explains the genetic correlations between humans and the animals that inhabited our planet billions of years ago. In a... (read more) Your Price $24.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Audubon Publisher Comments Perfect for mountain climbers and hikers, this valuable reference covers more rocks and minerals in North America than any other available guide. 794 full-color photographs depict all the important rocks, gems, and minerals -- in many variations of color... (read more) Your Price $13.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies
by Adam Yates Publisher Comments A colorful, authoritative pocket guide to the lost world of dinosaurs Profiles of nearly seventy dinosaurs, from the Diplodocus to the Parasaurolophus Descriptions of their most significant features and habits Explanations of what the dinosaur names mean... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your Price $3.98 (Sale - Mass Market) check for used copies
by Lisa Margonelli Publisher Comments Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry: the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day. Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Matthew Hart Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-258) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Michael Shnayerson Publisher Comments One of America’s most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are blasting the mountains, decapitating them for coal. The forested ridge tops and valley streams of Appalachia—one of the country... (read more) Your Price $25.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Cathy Connor Synopsis "You'll never again consider geology 'boring' once you consult this book." -Anchorage Times... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Friday May 9, 2008
by Frank Gohlke Synopsis Beginning in 1981, the photographer Frank Gohlke made regular visits to the devastated landscape around the Mount St. Helens volcano, in the forests of Washington State. On the morning of May 18, 1980, the mountain had been hit by two enormous explosions.... (read more) Your Price $19.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Adrienne Mayor Publisher Comments The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your Price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Miles F Potter Synopsis Gold! A single handful of shiny nuggets changed Oregon from a quiet settlement in the Willamette Valley to a brawling frontier that stretched from the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. Thousands of adventuresome souls faced staggering hardships as they... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Renata Dmowska Publisher Comments This series provides a venue for longer reviews of current advances in geophysics. Written at a level accessible to graduate students, the articles serve to broaden knowledge of various fields and may be useful in courses and seminars.... (read more) Your Price $5.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by W C Jameson Publisher Comments A professional treasure hunter recounts the search and discovery tales of lost mines and buried treasure throughout the nation's history, in a volume that includes the stories of the Sir Francis Drake Treasure, the Nez Pierce Gold, and Lafayette's Sunken... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by James Lawren Powell Publisher Comments Vast and majestic, the Grand Canyon represents one of scienceas most challenging puzzles: How did this massive canyon come to be? This is the story of the search for the answers, and the first account of the consensus geologists have reached in the last... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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