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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond  
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and...
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Song of the Dodo (96 Edition)
by David Quammen
Publisher Comments David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and...
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Atlas of the Pacific Northwest 9TH Edition
by Philip L Jackson Publisher Comments No other single volume provides more comprehensive and up-to-date information about the natural environment and human activities in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho....
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The Control of Nature
by John A Mcphee
Publisher Comments The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature....
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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments "Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific Islands." TIME Renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this...
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Fund. of Geographic Information Systems (4TH 08 Edition)
by Demers Synopsis Offering a completely up-to-date introduction to the field, the "Fourth Edition" presents the basic concepts and skills that readers need to know in order to solve everyday geographical problems. The book integrates the ideas of geographic inquiry and...
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Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: The Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo, 2nd Edition Updated for ArcGIS 9
by Tim (edt) Ormsby Synopsis With revised material and new exercises based on ArcGIS version 9, this updated work acquaints geographers and GIS professionals with the principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ArcGIS software. Conceptual material is followed by scripted...
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Introduction To Geography : People, Places and Environment (4TH 07 Edition)
by Edward Bergman Synopsis Winner in its third edition of the TEXTY award for books in social sciences, this up-to-the-minute revision continues to affirm that what happens "at" places depends increasingly on what happens "among" places, and mapped patterns can be understood only...
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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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Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
by Harm De Blij Publisher Comments Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a...
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Power of Place : How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions (07 Edition)
by Winifred Gallagher Publisher Comments Are New Yorkers and Californians so different because they live in such different settings? Why do some of us prefer the city to the country? How do urban settings increase crime? Why do we feel better after an experience in nature? In this fascinating...
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How To Lie With Maps 2ND Edition
by Mark S Monmonier Publisher Comments Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that,...
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World Today : Concepts and Regions in Geography (3RD 07 Edition)
by Harm J. Deblij Publisher Comments Building upon the strength and success of deBlij & Muller's best-selling Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, this book offers all of the content that has made Regions the definitive World Regional Geography text but in a briefer, technological-rich...
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The Illustrated Longitude
by Dava Sobel and William J. H. Andrewes Publisher Comments A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude. The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a...
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GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9
by Wilpen L Gorr Synopsis This study guide meets a growing demand for effective GIS training by combining ArcGIS tutorials and self-study exercises that start with the basics and progress to more difficult functionality. Presented in a step-by-step format, the book can be adapted...
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Space and Place : the Perspective of Experience (77 Edition)
by Yi-fu Tuan Synopsis 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...
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Experience of Place (91 Edition)
by Tony Hiss Synopsis 'The Experience of Place' offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings....
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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...
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Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros
by Derrick Jensen Publisher Comments In this far-ranging and heartening collection, Derrick Jensen gathers conversations with environmentalists, theologians, Native Americans, psychologists, and feminists, engaging some of our best minds in an exploration of more peaceful ways to live on...
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