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General
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
by Ken Jennings
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Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, "a literary gem" (The Atlantic) now available in paperback. It may come as no surprise that as a kid, Ken Jennings... (read more)

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Water and Hydrology
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Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: The Primer (Advances in Mass Spectrometry in Biochemistry and Medicine)
Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: The Primer (Advances in Mass Spectrometry in Biochemistry and Medicine)
by Keith Beven
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Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: The Primer and Beyond is the second edition of this popular and authoritative text, first published in 2001. The book provides both a primer for the novice and detailed descriptions of techniques for more advanced practitioners,... (read more)

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Mapping and Cartography
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
by Ken Jennings
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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)

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Reference
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Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
by Inc Merriam-Webster
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Completely revised! The ideal geographic reference. Over 54,000 entries with economic, political, and physical data. Comprehensive global coverage. 250 easy-to-read maps. Pronunciations and variant spellings. An alphabetical reference with some 48,000... (read more)

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General
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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools,
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools,
by Donovan Hohn
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A compulsively readable narrative of whimsy and curiosity- andquot;adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminatingandquot; (Janet Maslin, The New York Times). When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea,... (read more)

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Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age
Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age
by Timothy Beatley
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Meaningful places offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of globalization and sameness that are overtaking our world, and are an essential element in the search for solutions to current sustainability challenges. In Native to Nowhere, author Tim... (read more)

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Longitude : True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (05 Edition)
Longitude : True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (05 Edition)
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 great ages of... (read more)

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
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In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond... (read more)

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Sale Books
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Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
by Vincent Virga
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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)

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Used Books
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Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World
Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World
by Fred Pearce
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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 5, 20, 50 or... (read more)

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