General
There are 1576 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 Used: $6.95 Trade Paper List Price $15.95 
add to wish list |
|
The Sea Around Us
by Rachel Carson  Publisher Comments Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us was a phenomenal success. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on the New York Times bestseller list, where it remained on top for...
|
||||||
Used: $34.00 Trade Paper List Price $50.95
add to wish list |
|
Making Maps : Visual Guide To Map Design for Gis (05 Edition)
by John Krygier Publisher Comments This visually engaging, clear, and down-to-earth guide is for those who must make effective maps using GIS. Featuring more than 300 maps and figures, this is a uniquely helpful resource....
|
||||||
Used: $8.00 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
History and Topography of Ireland (82 Edition)
by Gerald Of Wales Synopsis Depicts the geography and wildlife of Ireland and describes the history and social life of the country during the Middle Ages....
|
||||||
Sale: $9.98 Trade Paper List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
You Are Here
by Katharine Harmon 
Powells.com 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...
|
||||||
Used: $9.95 Hardcover List Price $19.00
add to wish list |
|
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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...
|
||||||
Used: $45.00 Trade Paper List Price $62.75
add to wish list |
|
Geographic Information Systems and Science-text Only (2ND 05 Edition)
by Paul Longley Publisher Comments The first edition of Geographic Information Systems and Science has taken the GIS textbook market by storm, selling over 22,000 copies since publication. It is the most current, authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the field, that goes from...
|
||||||
New: $59.50 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes Before 1600
by Alfred Hiatt Publisher Comments From the age of antiquity to the Middle Ages, scholars argued about the existence of places, and perhaps peoples, beyond the world known to Europeans. But to allow for the possibility of such lands and races raised troubling questions: Was it truly...
|
||||||
New: $19.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
America from the Air: A Guide to the Landscape Along Your Route with CDROM
by Daniel Mathews Publisher Comments An illustrated guide, in both book and CD-ROM, of landscapes seen from commercial airplane windows across the United States. This is a guide to what an airline passenger sees from his seat while flying over the United States. Through its ingenious...
|
||||||
Used: $53.00 Spiral List Price $69.95
add to wish list |
|
Gis Tutorial : Workbook for Arcview 9.0 and 2 CDS (05 Edition)
by Wilpen Gorr Publisher Comments This teaching tool is designed with both self-study users and classroom users in mind, offering nine steps for learning ArcView GIS software that have been developed and tested at the GIS labs at Carnegie Mellon University. This hands-on approach...
|
||||||
Used: $9.50 Trade Paper List Price $15.00
add to wish list |
|
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors
by Edward E Leslie
Publisher Comments 'Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors from the 1500s to the present - their moral dilemmas, their personalities, and their influence on society, literature, and art.'...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
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...
|
||||||
Used: $15.00 Trade Paper List Price $25.50
add to wish list |
|
Space and Place : the Perspective of Experience (77 Edition)
by Yi-fu Tuan Publisher Comments In the 25 years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theater, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent...
|
||||||
Used: $15.00 Hardcover List Price $29.95
add to wish list |
|
Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (98 Edition)
by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing...
|
||||||
Used: $18.00 Trade Paper List Price $22.95
add to wish list |
|
Shadows of War (04 Edition)
by Carolyn Nordstrom Publisher Comments Violence, power and international profiteering in the twenty-first century....
|
||||||
Used: $9.00 Trade Paper List Price $17.00
add to wish list |
|
Sprawl: A Compact History
by Robert Bruegmann Publisher Comments As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their...
|
||||||
Used: $89.00 Trade Paper List Price $110.35
add to wish list |
|
Map Use and Analysis (4TH 01 Edition)
by John Campbell Publisher Comments This book is designed to serve as an introduction to the fascinating world of maps. It explains how to use maps to obtain information about a wide variety of topics. Throughout the book, maps are viewed in a broad framework. Thus, the discussion includes...
|
||||||
Used: $17.50 Trade Paper List Price $40.00
add to wish list |
|
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...
|
||||||
New: $58.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Hybrid Geographies: Natures Cultures Spaces
by Sarah Whatmore Publisher Comments `Hybrid Geographies is one of the most original and important contributions to our field in the last 30 years. At once immensley provocative and productive, it is written with uncommon clarity and grace, and promises to breathe new life not only into...
|
||||||
Used: $7.25 Hardcover List Price $35.00
add to wish list |
|
Visions of Paradise
by John Simpson Publisher Comments This book synthesizes views of America's changing environment, and the Ideal of that environment, from the time of the Founding Fathers to the present. It is an exceptionally engaging account of American attitudes toward pristine and altered landscapes...
|
||||||
Used: $13.00 Trade Paper List Price $25.00
add to wish list |
|
New Diasporas : the Mass Exodus, Dispersal, and Regrouping of Migrant Communities (98 Edition)
by Nicholas Van Hear Synopsis New Diasporas examines the phenomenon of widespread global migration in the last quarter of the twentieth century. This authoritative work develops the theoretical concept of diaspora and investigates the formation and reformation of diasporic groups in...
|
||||||
