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Cataclysms on the Columbia: The Great Missoula Floods by John Eliot Allen Synopsis Cataclysms on the Columbia tells two stories. One follows geological research that challenged the scientific paradigm of the early 20th century, and the other chronicles the results of that research: the discovery of powerful prehistoric floods that... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper 
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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: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon by John Hemming Publisher Comments Amazonia is one of the most magnificent habitats on earth. Containing the world's largest river, with more water and a broader basin than any other, it hosts a great expanse of tropical rain forest, home to the planet's most luxuriant biological... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Future of Life by Edward O Wilson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lakeland: Journeys Into the Soul of Canada by Allan Casey Synopsis Lakes define not only Canada's landscape but the national imagination. Blending writing on nature, travel, and science, award-winning journalist Allan Casey systematically explores how the country's history and culture originates at the lakeshore... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Pond Life: Revised and Updated (Golden Guide) by George K Reid Publisher Comments This guide describes and illustrates, in full color, the plants and animals that live in or near ponds, lakes, streams, and wetlands. It includes surface-dwelling creatures as well as those of open water, the bottom, and the shore and tells how various... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells by Lewis Wolpert Publisher Comments Everything about our existence-movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth and, ultimately, death-is governed by our cells. They are the basis of all life in the universe, from the tiniest bacteria to the most complex animals. In the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River by Richard White Publisher Comments The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human... (read more) List Price $16.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff Publisher Comments In this provocative, witty, and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, Nancy Etcoff skewers one of our culture's most enduring myths, that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior. Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Earth Ponds the Country Pond Makers 2ND Edition by Tim Matson Publisher Comments What else but a pond can simultaneously increase your aesthetic pleasure, offer recreational opportunities, help the environment by providing wildlife habitat, and increase the value of your land? Tim Matson's classic guide Earth Ponds, first published... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - 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) Your price: $28.75 New - Trade Paper
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Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches by Jill Fredston Publisher Comments Jill Fredston stalks avalanches. She predicts where and when they will strike, deliberately triggers them with explosives, teaches potential victims how to stay alive, and leads rescue efforts when tragedy strikes. Reaching deep into this trove of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif Publisher Comments In this classic bestseller, Paul de Kruif dramatizes the pioneering bacteriological work of such scientists as Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Koch, Pasteur, Reed, and Ehrlich. This seventieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by F. Gonzalez... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries by David W. Schindler Synopsis The greatest threat to water quality worldwide is nutrient pollution. Cultural eutrophication by nutrients in sewage, fertilizers, and detergents is feeding massive algal blooms, choking out aquatic life and outpacing heavy metals, oil spills, and other... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas by Jerry Dennis Publisher Comments If fresh water is to be treasured, the Great Lakes are the mother lode. No bodies of water can compare to them. One of them, Superior, is the largest lake on earth, and the five lakes together contain a fifth of the world's supply of standing fresh water.... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Social Amoebae: The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds by John Tyler Bonner Publisher Comments Noted biologist and author John Tyler Bonner has experimented with cellular slime molds for more than sixty years, and he has done more than anyone else to raise these peculiar collections of amoebae from a minor biological curiosity to a major model... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies by Hannah Landecker Publisher Comments How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantial biomass living outside a human body, plant, or animal?... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Biology (Cliffs Quick Review) - Study Notes by Cliffs Notes Publisher Comments CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest subjects. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. Whether you're new to elements, atoms, and molecules or just... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Statue Within: An Autobiography by Francois Jacob Publisher Comments In a new preface to this special edition of his critically acclaimed memoir, Francois Jacob recalls the events that brought him to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the early 1960's and taught him much about phage biology and the informal ways of American... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Springs of Florida by Doug Stamm Synopsis The deepest and largest known springs in the world are found here. The photographs are the result of hundreds of hours under water. This new edition is completely updated to serve as a guide to Florida's many spring parks and their inhabitants. Vital for... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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