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Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway Map by Kirk Johnson Publisher Comments Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway follows the zany travels of a paleontologist and an artist as they drive across the American West in search of fossils. Throughout their journey, they encounter paleonerds like themselves, men and women dedicated to finding... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Map 
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Volcanoes by Philippe Bourseiller Publisher Comments More than 170 full-color, double-page spreads--including satellite photos--depict dramatic outbursts of active volcanoes around the globe.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip by Kirk Johnson Publisher Comments Would make anyone want to go on a fossil hunt.--True West This is one of a tiny handful of books equally useful to adults and twelve-year olds. It's a funny, stealthily informative account of wandering dinosaur mavens meeting others of their kind, and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Earth: A Journey Through Time by Nicolas Cheetham Publisher Comments Planet Earth is presented in a captivating and original perspective in this extraordinary collection of breathtaking images. Through the use of satellites and various lenses and imagery techniques, previously hidden aspects of the planet are brought into... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $7.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Rejection of Continental Drift by Naomi Oreskes Publisher Comments In the early twentieth century, American earth scientists were united in their opposition to the new--and highly radical--notion of continental drift, even going so far as to label the theory "unscientific." Some fifty years later, however, continental... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes by Simon Lamb Publisher Comments Lamb tells of how he and a team of geologists spent much of the last decade exploring the Bolivian Andes--a region rocked by earthquakes and violent volcanic eruptions--to figure out how high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth.... (read more) List Price $46.00 Your price: $11.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff by John H Ostrom Publisher Comments Paleontological history was made in 1877 when tons of fossil dinosaur bones were uncovered at Como Bluff, Wyoming, the first major discovery of such remains anywhere in the world. Onthniel C. March, then director of Yale's Peabody Museum, managed to... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $39.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived--a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Terra Tales of the Earth by Richard Hamblyn Publisher Comments Blending history, science and eye-witness accounts, and arranged in chapters corresponding to the four elements (earth, air, fire and water), Terra explores the relationship between the planet and the humans who inhabit its surfaces. Through four case... (read more) Your price: $8.24 Sale - Hardcover
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Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions by Jelle Zeili De Boer Publisher Comments "Most people seldom think about volcanoes or the role they have played in human history. Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders . . . examine the relationship between volcanoes and human history. . . . [Their] chilling examples show the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution by Jack Horner Publisher Comments A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Geology of the North Cascades: A Mountain Mosaic by Rowland Tabor Publisher Comments Comprehensive geologic summary of Washington's North Cascades.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rising from the Plains by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Rising from the Plains is John McPhees third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallela series gathering under the overall title... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science by Phillip Manning Publisher Comments Drawing on new breakthroughs and cutting edge techniques to scan and analyze this rare and remarkable discovery, Dr. Manning takes us on a thrilling, globe-spanning tour of dinosaur mummy finds—from the first such excavation in 1908 to a baby... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Introduction to Grand Canyon Fossils by Dave Thayer Publisher Comments The Grand Canyon is famous for its rock layers, multihued bands of limestones, shales, sandstones, granites, and schists that have made the canyon one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. But in many of those layers, the Grand Canyon contains a... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $7.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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The L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook by Richard Koshalek Publisher Comments This is the coolest earthquake-preparedness book ever published. Predicated on the assumption that the Big One is all but imminent, The L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook combines practical advice with compelling graphics--an essay advising the reader what to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park by Greg Breining Publisher Comments Despite growing evidence of geothermic activity under America's first and foremost national park, it took geologists a long time to realize that there was actually a volcano beneath Yellowstone. And then, why couldn't they find the caldera or crater... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Over the Coasts: An Aerial View of Geology by Michael Collier Publisher Comments Geology comes alive as Michael Collier flies over North America's coasts. Geology usually takes its time -- about a few million years, generally. Yet there is one place where the geological processes often occur right before our eyes: along the coastline... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $23.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner Publisher Comments The astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it Uranium occurs naturally in the earth's crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamental paradox, and its story is a fascinating window into... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life by Scott Sampson Publisher Comments "The best general-audience dinosaur book since the Dinosaur Renaissance began in the 1970s."--Philip J. Currie, coeditor of Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, from the foreword "Dinosaur Odyssey is not only a personable and highly accessible tour of the up-to... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $20.95 Sale - Hardcover
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