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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings Publisher Comments It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Prudhomme Publisher Comments AS ALEX PRUDHOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities by Frank Jacobs Publisher Comments An intriguing collection of more than one hundred out-of-the-ordinary maps, blending art, history, and pop culture for a unique atlas of humanity. Spanning many centuries, all continents, and the realms of outer space and the imagination, this... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles Fishman Publisher Comments The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,”... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment by Jacques Leslie Publisher Comments If the wars of the last century were fought over oil, the wars of this century will be fought over water. -Ismail Serageldin, The World Bank The giant dams of today are the modern Pyramids, colossally expensive edifices that generate monumental amounts... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Water: A Natural History by Alice Outwater Publisher Comments Important reading for students of environmental studies, the heart of this history is a vision of our land and waterways as they once were, and a plan that can restore them to their former glory: a land of living streams, public lands with hundreds of... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Make Your Own Maps: 160 Color Maps Ready to Personalize on Your Computer with CDROM by Graham Davis Publisher Comments This multimedia book and DVD kit covers the entire world! Featuring 160 ready-made maps of every country and major geographical area, it’s a revolutionary new resource for the home (to remember a vacation, for example) and the classroom. The DVD... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations by Vincent Virga Publisher Comments Cartographia" offers a stunning array of 200 of the most beautiful, important, and fascinating maps in existence, all garnered from the worlds largest cartographic collection at the Library of Congress. Little, Brown and... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Braun/Hogenberg: Cities of the World by Stephan Fussel Publisher Comments History's most opulent collection of town maps and illustrations The complete reprint of all 363 color plates from Braun and Hogenberg's survey of town maps, city views, and plans of Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America, with dozens of unusual... (read more) Your price: $69.99 Sale - Hardcover
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Atlas Maior by Peter Van Der Krogt Publisher Comments Der prachvollste und volständigste Atlas der Frühen Neuzeit - Der Atlas Maior des niederländischen Verlegers Joan Blaeu ist einer der schönsten Atlanten des Barock. Das vom TASCHEN Verlag komplett faksimilierte Exemplar in... (read more) Your price: $200.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments 300 stunning before-and-after photographs that show the staggering transformation of our world. Earth Then and Now records the dramatic way our planet has changed over the past century. On one page is a specific part of the world as it was 10, 50 or even... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World by John Rennie Short Publisher Comments Theres no excuse for getting lost these days—satellite maps on our computers can chart our journey in detail and electronics on our car dashboards instruct us which way to turn. But there was a time when the varied landscape of North America... (read more) List Price $50.95 Your price: $29.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Mapping the World: Stories of Geography by Caroline Laffon Publisher Comments An illustrated history of explorers' maps and the questions they answer. More than the detailed representation of the geographical areas that their makers explored, maps reveal their makers' worldview as well as the myths, beliefs and legends of their... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon Publisher Comments Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society's vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. In Water,... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth by Edwin Danson Publisher Comments At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mapping the Zone: Improving Flood Map Accuracy by National Research Co Book News Annotation This report from the National Research Council of the National Academies assesses current FEMA flood map accuracy and notes that despite recent conversions to digital media, only 21% of all maps meet or exceed data quality thresholds. Written... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $21.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Water Stewardship: A 30 Day Program to Protect and Conserve Our Water Resources by David Gershon Publisher Comments In Water Stewardship: A 30 Day Program to Protect and Conserve Our Water Resources... One Drop at a Time, environmental behavior change pioneer David Gershon uses his time-tested empowerment methodology to empower readers to take an active role in... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $6.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Deserts (Very Short Introductions) by Nick Middleton Publisher Comments Deserts make up a third of the planet's land surface, but if you picture a desert, what comes to mind? A sandy wasteland? A drought-parched dust bowl? An alien landscape devoid of all life forms? In this marvelous Very Short Introduction, geographer and... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Field Guide to Rivers of North America by Arthur Benke Publisher Comments Based on the comprehensive, award-winning book Rivers of North America, the new Field Guide to Rivers of North America describes 200 of North America's most significant rivers in a reader-friendly, concise format. The guide is organized by geographic... (read more) List Price $41.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments In this "eminently relevant and important book" (Library Journal), the author traces the evolution of America's landscape, where every place looks like no place in particular, and where accommodating the automobile jeopardizes the individual and the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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