Weather Watching (Collins Discover)
by Patrick Hook


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Collins Discover: Weather Watchingis your one-stop guide to understanding weather across the world This user-friendly, authoritative resource includes full-color photographs, easy-to-follow guidance, and diagrams showing you everything you need to follow... (read more)

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The Illustrated Longitude
by Dava Sobel and William J. H. Andrewes


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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)

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It's Raining Frogs and Fishes: Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
by Jerry Dennis


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A spellbinding look into the natural world's most fascinating and baffling phenomena, with illustrated explanations of rainbows, meteors, sunsets, hurricanes, the northern lights, and dozens of other curiosities of the sky.... (read more)

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Water Wars
by Diane Raines Ward


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Every day, we hear alarming news about droughts, pollution, population growth, and climate change-which threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate our... (read more)

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Water in the West: A High Country News Reader
by Char Miller


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A lively primer on the region's most precious and scarce resource, drawn from the pages of the newspaper that sets the standard for coverage of environmental issues in the West.... (read more)

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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science Into Poetry
by Scott Huler




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One of Ashley's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here.... (read more)

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Don't Know Much about Geography: Everything You Need to Know about the World But Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...)
by Kenneth C Davis


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Who killed the dead sea?...Where was the garden of Eden?...What's so bad about the badlands? The author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller Don't Know Much About History now takes us on a fascinating, breathtaking and hilarious grand tour of... (read more)

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River of Life, Channel of Death: Fish and Dams on the Lower Snake
by Keith C Petersen


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Keith Petersen's award-winning history of the lower Snake River dams chronicles the bitter conflict between the Northwest's most potent symbols -- fish and dams. Taking a balanced approach to this contentious issue, Petersen deftly traces the deep... (read more)

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The Oregon Weather Book: A State of Extremes
by George Taylor


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A comprehensive, fact-filled resource for anyone who watches, studies, enjoys, or simply endures Oregon weather, this book offers a history of major weather events and a guide to the forces that shape our climate.... (read more)

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The Map That Changed the World
by Simon Winchester


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In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England... (read more)

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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
by R. A. Scotti


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It was the Perfect Storm. But instead of raging far out in the Atlantic, the Great Hurricane of 1938 left a wake of death and destruction across seven states. It battered J. P. Morgan's Long Island estate, wiped out beach communities from Watch Hill to... (read more)

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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel




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Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that “the longitude problem” was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the... (read more)

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Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
by Harm De Blij


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Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a... (read more)

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It Takes a Nation
by Laura Dawn


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Edited by the cultural director of MoveOn.org, It Takes a Nation tells the extraordinary story of how thousands of Americans came together to provide shelter, sustenance, and hope to survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Through MoveOn.org's Hurricane Housing... (read more)

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Storm Warning: The Story of a Killer Tornado
by Nancy Mathis


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May 3, 1999, is a day that Oklahomans will never forget. By the time the sun set over a ravaged plain, some 71 tornadoes had claimed around 11,000 homes and businesses and caused $1 billion in damage. One of them was a mile-wide monster of incredible... (read more)

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The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds
by Gavin Pretor-Pinney




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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? Veteran journalist and lifelong sky-watcher Gavin Pretor-Pinney reveals... (read more)

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Infinite Perspectives: Two Thousand Years of Three-dimensional Mapmaking
by Brian M. Ambroziak


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Whether from military necessity or unbridled curiosity, mapmakers since early antiquity have attempted to represent the configuration of the land about them. The Greeks paid homage to the landscape and struck its image on their coins. Medieval scholars... (read more)

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McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
by Mcgraw Hill Staff


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Serious Environmental Science, In a Nutshell There is no better or more authoritative vehicle for staying up to speed with today's environmental science than the McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Derived from the world-renowned... (read more)

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