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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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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, by Donovan Hohn Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel Staff Pick "An account of the man who developed the technology which allowed sailors to determine their longitude at sea. If you don't know where you are, it's hard to know where you're going, whether you've gotten there or if you've missed your target. If, while... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Are Here by Katharine Harmon Staff Pick Maps are magical pieces of paper. Who doesn't love to pore over them and imagine traveling to New York, Paris, Amsterdam or even Weed, California? Maps are reassuring when you are lost, and they inspire you to dream when you're stagnant. Author Katherine... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.98 Used - Hardcover
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Albion's Seed : Four British Folkways in America (89 Edition) by David Hackett Fischer Publisher Comments This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age by Timothy Beatley Publisher Comments 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) List Price $42.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Longitude : True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (05 Edition) by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Esri Guide To Gis Analysis, Volume I (99 Edition) by Andy Mitchell Publisher Comments How to conduct accurate analysis using powerful GIS software tools.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Senses of Place (96 Edition) by Steven (ed.) Feld Publisher Comments The complex relationship of people to places has come under increasing scholarly scrutiny in recent years as acute global conditions of exile, displacement, and inflamed borders -- to say nothing of struggles by indigenous peoples and cultural minorities... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The European Culture Area: A Systematic Geography, Fifth Edition by Alexander B Murphy Synopsis Now in a fully updated fifth edition, this premier text has been thoroughly revised to reflect the sweeping changes the past decade has brought to Europe. Long hailed for its creativity and intellectual depth, the book is now further enriched by the... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $37.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Human Geography by James M Rubenstein Publisher Comments Providing a springboard to essential geographic concepts, this innovative new book explores current human geography in the bold visual style that distinguishes Dorling Kindersley (DK) publications. Topics within each chapter are organized into self-... (read more) List Price $100.65 Your price: $60.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The State of the Middle East: An Atlas of Conflict and Resolution by Dan Smith Publisher Comments As Western powers attempt to redraw the map of the Middle East, Dan Smith uses his forensic skills to unravel this arena of confrontation and instability, from the Ottoman Empire to the present day. With customarily acute analysis, he highlights key... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double-consciousness (93 Edition) by Paul Gilroy Publisher Comments Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Four Corners: History, Land, and People of the Desert Southwest by Kenneth A Brown Publisher Comments Book One Beginnings In calling up images of the past, I find that the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes; yet these plains are pronounced by all that is all wretched and useless. They can be described only by negative characters; without... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros by Derrick Jensen Publisher Comments In this far-ranging and heartening collection, Derrick Jensen gathers conversations with environmentalists, theologians, Native Americans, psychologists, and feminists, engaging some of our best minds in an exploration of more peaceful ways to live on... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mastering Arcgis - With DVD (5TH 11 Edition) by Maribeth Hughett Price Publisher Comments Price: Mastering ArcGIS is an introductory GIS text that is designed to offer everything you need to master the basic elements of GIS. The author's step-by-step approach helps students negotiate the challenging tasks involved in learning sophisticated... (read more) List Price $115.40 Your price: $82.00 Used - Spiral
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen Publisher Comments David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson Publisher Comments First published in 1951, this work won the National Book Award.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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