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The Devil's Music: In the Eye of the Hurricane
by Pete Davies  Publisher Comments The wind blows in at 175 miles per hour. A tidal wave twenty-five feet tall washes far inland. Across a piece of coastline fifty miles long, all signs of civilization are reduced to rubble and matchwood. This is the work of a Category 5 hurricane —...
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It Takes a Nation
by Laura Dawn Publisher Comments 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...
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The Facts on File Weather and Climate Handbook (Facts on File Science Library)
by Michael Allaby Publisher Comments Among the topics covered are: Area Forecast Bioclimatology Dust Bowl Greenhouse Gas La Niqa Severe-storm Observation Veil of Cloud. Biographies include: Svante Arrhenius Christoph Buys Ballot Francis Beaufort Anders Celsius Vagn Ekman Jean-Baptiste...
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Odyssey World Atlas - With Color World Map (Rev 07 Edition)
by Hammond World Atlas Corporation Publisher Comments The Odyssey World Atlas features a colorful design and computer-generated political maps. This comprehensive atlas also includes a world flags and reference guide; the latest population figures, capitals, currency, and more; an easy-to-use 7,000-entry...
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Introduction To Geography
by Jerome Donald Fellmann Publisher Comments This book introduces college students to the breadth and spatial insights of the field of geography. The authors' approach allows the major research traditions of geography to dictate the principal themes. Chapter 1 introduces students to the four...
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Searching Out the Headwaters: Change and Rediscovery in Western Water Policy
by Sarah Bates Publisher Comments To most Americans - and even to most Westerners - water policy seems to be a complicated, hypertechnical, and incomprehensible subject: a tangle of engineering jargon and legalese surrounding a complex, delicate, and interrelated structure. Decisions...
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
by Miles Harvey 
Publisher Comments U.S.A. $24.95 Canada $35.95 "Every once in a blue moon you read a book that leaves you absolutely breathless, reminding you of the bright, hidden worlds within our world. This is that book, a glimmering, supersonic journey into terra incognita, where...
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Weather: How It Works and Why It Matters
by Arthur Upgren Publisher Comments Scientists have delved deep into the smallest particles of matter and have extended their view to the far reaches of the universe, but still they are unable to predict the temperature five days hence. In this intriguing book, two experts in meteorology...
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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science Into Poetry
by Scott Huler Publisher Comments "Defining the Wind" is a wonderfully written account of one man's crusade to learn about what the wind is made of by tracing the history of the Beaufort Scale and its eccentric creator, Sir Francis Beaufort. It's as much about the language we use to...
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Weather: Drama of the Heavens
by Rene Chaboud Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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Instant Weather Forecasting
by Alan Watts Publisher Comments Instant Weather Forecasting is a brilliant new approach to forecasting. Color photographs are arranged to show skies during many different weather situations, while the actual forecasts are set out in tables facing each photograph....
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Why in the world :adventures in geography
by George Demko Publisher Comments Geographical illiteracy is shockingly pervasive. In this major now book, author George Demko, former Director of the Office of the Geographer of the U.S., unravels the mysteries of Geography and tells us what "New Geography" is--what is where, why it's...
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Our Land, Ourselves: Readings on People and Place
by Peter Forbes Publisher Comments Our Land, Ourselves is a collection of diverse readings on the many themes of people and place-themes such as the protection of wilderness and the idea of the wild, the nature of home, the purpose of work, and the meaning of community. These voices...
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Worldminds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems
by Barney L Warf Publisher Comments WorldMinds provides broad exposure to a geography that is engaged with discovery, interpretation, and problem solving. Its 100 succinct chapters demonstrate the theories, methods, and data used by geographers, and exemplify the conceptual and topical...
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The Facts on File Earth Science Handbook (Facts on File Science Handbooks)
by Diagram Group Publisher Comments Among the topics covered are: - Acid Rain - Air Pollution - Antarctic Circle - Archoen Eon - Asteroids - Barrier Reefs - Common Rocks. Biographies include: - John Couch Adams - Aristotle - Sir Frances Beaufort - Nicolas Copernicus - Charles Darwin - Reni...
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Quick Reference World Atlas (05 Edition)
by Rand Mcnally Publishing Staff Publisher Comments One of our most popular titles, this inexpensive reference belongs in every home and office next to the dictionary and thesaurus. The...
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The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book: A Unique Way to Predict the Weather Accurately and Easily by Reading the Clouds
by Louis D Rubin Publisher Comments To predict what the weather ahead will be, take these three easy steps: figure out which way the wind is blowing; look at the clouds; match what you see there with one of the full-color cloud photographs in The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book....
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Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment
by Jacques Leslie Publisher Comments Taking the reader to the sites of controversial dams, Leslie shows why dams are at once the hope of developing nations and a blight on their people and landscape....
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1001 Questions Answered about Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Other Natural Air Disast
by Barbara Tufty Publisher Comments Highly readable, non-technical explanations of hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, snowstorms, thunder and lightning, fog, other phenomena. Bibliography. 92 illustrations....
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A Dictionary of Weather (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by Storm Dunlop Publisher Comments What is the coldest place on the planet? How does a hurricane form? What exactly is a low pressure system? And what area has the least, or most, amount of rainfall? Answering these and many other intriguing questions, A Dictionary of Weather provides a...
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