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Shadows on the Gulf by Rowan Jacobsen Publisher Comments While other books play the blame game of what went wrong on the Deepwater Horizon and who is responsible, Shadows on the Gulf offers a surprising, harder truth: As bad as the oil spill was, it doesn't touch the damage done to the Gulf every year by what... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Future of Life by Edward O Wilson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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River in Ruin: The Story of the Carmel River by Ray A. March Publisher Comments The thin ribbon of the Carmel River is just thirty-six miles long and no wider in most places than a child can throw a stone. It is the primary water supply for the ever-burgeoning presence of tourists, agriculture, and industry on Californias Monterey... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass by Wade Davis Synopsis In the rugged northern Rocky Mountains lies a spectacularly beautiful valley, known to the Native peoples as the Sacred Headwaters. There, on the edge of the Spatsizi Wilderness, the Serengeti of North America, three of the continent's most important... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia by Blaine Harden Publisher Comments After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river. To explore the Columbia River and befriend those who... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Planet of Viruses (12 Edition) by Carl Zimmer Publisher Comments Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We are most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Microbiology (Cliffs Quick Review) - Study Notes by Cliffs Notes Publisher Comments Cliffs Quick Reviews are Produced By The People Who Know Student Needs and Respond to Them. This logically presented, easy-to-grasp review gives you the reference you want to effectively organize your introductory-level course work. Each Review Gives... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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What Is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Canto) by Erwin Schrodinger Publisher Comments Nobel laureate Erwin Schr dinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of DNA. What... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Cataclysms on the Columbia: The Great Missoula Floods by John Eliot Allen Synopsis The OpenBook Series highlights Ooligan Press's commitment to transparency on our road toward sustainable publishing. We believe that disclosing the impacts of the choices we make will not only help us avoid unintentional greenwashing, but also serve to... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores (88 Edition) by Peterson Field Guides Publishing Staff Publisher Comments With more than 750 illustrations, including 300 color photographs, this guide covers more than 1,000 species, such as shoreside plants, clams, shrimps, crabs, corals, seaweeds, sponges, and sea urchins, as well as all of the common seashore communities... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis by Jim Lichatowich Publisher Comments "Fundamentally, the salmon's decline has been the consequence of a vision based on flawed assumptions and unchallenged myths.... We assumed we could control the biological productivity of salmon and 'improve' upon natural processes that we didn't even... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal by Peter Thomson Publisher Comments Absoliutno blagopoluchnoe ozero Baikal the Russian scientist looking out over the great lake says. Lake Baikal is Perfect And humans can never harm it. For a man cut loose from his life in the U.S., Lake Baikal-Siberia's sacred inland sea-becomes a place... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier by Bruce Barcott Publisher Comments The largest and most dangerous volcano in the country, Mount Rainier is perhaps the most potent icon of the Pacific Northwest. It is at once an awe-inspiring natural monument and a hulking presence of peril. Intrigued by the defining pillar of his native... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Drifting Into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River by Janisse Ray Publisher Comments Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father’s construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life preserver, she washed onto a sandbar as the craft sank from view. That first baptism began a lifelong... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments Traveling to more than thirty countries to define the scientific, economic, and historical dimensions of the water crisis, offers a solution based on managing the water cycle for the maximum social good, rather than pure self-interest.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia by Erik Reece Publisher Comments A cautionary analysis of the consequences of radical strip mining, otherwise known as "mountaintop removal," links its practice to virtually every leading social issue today, from groundwater pollution to corporate ethics, in an account that warns... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia by Blaine Harden Publisher Comments After a two-decade absence, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river. Harden's hometown, Moses Lake, Washington... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rivers of America: by Tim Palmer Publisher Comments Award-winning author, conservationist, and photographer Palmer has spent his life exploring and learning about these sometimes peaceful, sometimes turbulent waterways, and shares his amazing collection of nearly 200 stunning photographs from all across... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Willamette River Field Guide by Travis Williams Publisher Comments The Willamette River flows for nearly 200 miles, through deep forests, green valleys, and past cities -- Eugene, Springfield, Corvallis, Albany, Salem, Keizer, Newberg, Oregon City, and Portland. Yet it is a river hiding in plain sight: until now, there... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture by Robert Bruce Thompson Publisher Comments Experience the magic of biology in your own home lab. This hands-on introduction includes more than 30 educational (and fun) experiments that help you explore this fascinating field on your own. Perfect for middle- and high-school students and DIY... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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