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The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds
by Gavin Pretor-Pinney  Publisher Comments A quirky, clever guide for everyone who loves to look up. Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless artists, Romantic poets, and every kid who's ever held a crayon? Journalist and...
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The Map That Changed the World
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England...
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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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Don't Know Much about Geography: Everything You Need to Know about the World But Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...)
by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments Who killed the dead sea?...Where was the garden of Eden?...What's so bad about the badlands? The author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller Don't Know Much About History now takes us on a fascinating, breathtaking and hilarious grand tour of...
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
Powells.com 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...
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It's Raining Frogs and Fishes: Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
by Jerry Dennis Publisher Comments A spellbinding look into the natural world's most fascinating and baffling phenomena, with illustrated explanations of rainbows, meteors, sunsets, hurricanes, the northern lights, and dozens of other curiosities of the sky....
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
by Miles Harvey Publisher Comments The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an...
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The River Stops Here: Saving Round Valley a Pivotal Chapter in California's Water Wars
by Ted Simon Synopsis A rancher's stubborn refusal to be flooded out by the Army Corps of Engineers led him to mount an extraordinary crusade against California's most powerful forces of the time--the 60s water lobby. He created a new environmental coalition, helped save the...
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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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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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Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneer on Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age
by John Noble Wilford Publisher Comments A comprehensive history of cartography that traces the adventures, discoveries and feats of technical ingenuity by which man has succeeded in mapping the globe, moon and the planets. Photos....
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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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Antarctica
by Claire Keegan Publisher Comments Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire Keegan's debut collection, Antarctica, have been acclaimed by The Observer to be "among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English...
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Scholastic/New Headline World Atlas (Hammond Atlases)
by Hammond World Atlas Publisher Comments Description Perfect for students, this conveniently-sized atlas is an excellent tool for learning about our changing world. Political boundaries are clearly distinguished with contrasting bands of pleasing color, making countries easy to identify. Type...
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Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment
by James Winter Publisher Comments Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the rash assault, to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British...
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Visions of Paradise
by John Simpson Synopsis The American Revolution gave birth not just to a new nation, but to a new landscape. America was paradise to its native inhabitants, while to the colonists, it was an unlimited land of opportunity, a moral and physical wilderness from which they could...
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Groundwater Recharge with Reclaimed Water: An Epidemiologic Assessment in Los Angeles County, 1987-1991
by Elizabeth M Sloss Synopsis Assesses health effects of replenishing ground water supply with treated reclaimed water....
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Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History
by Laura Lee Publisher Comments An amazing, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining look at how weather has shaped our world. Throughout history, great leaders have fallen, the outcomes of mighty battles have been determined, and the tides of earth-shattering events have been turned...
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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 Housing...
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