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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
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"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... ( read more)
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California Natural History Guides #76: Introduction to Water in California
by David Carle
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This California Natural History Guide addresses the need to educate the citizenry of California on crucial environmental issues by presenting a primer on the state's most important natural resource.... ( read more)
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Lifelines: The Case for River Conservation
by Tim Palmer
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In Lifelines, Tim Palmer addresses the fate of our waterways. While proposals for gigantic federal dams are no longer common, and some of the worst pollution has been brought under control, myriad other concerns have appeared - many of them more subtle... ( read more)
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Entering the Watershed: A New Approach to Save America's River Ecosystems
by Bob Doppelt
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Entering the Watershed is the product of a two-year project established by the Pacific Rivers Council to develop new federal riverine protection and restoration policy alternatives. It recommends a comprehensive new approach to river protection based on... ( read more)
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
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Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that “the longitude problem” was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the dayand had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages... ( read more)
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Cities of the World Volume 4 Asia the Pacifi
by Brian Rajewski
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The 5th edition of this useful tool includes more than 507 major cities and 2,900 smaller cities. Profiles are based on U.S. State Department Post Reports. Photos and maps help bring the text alive.... ( read more)
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Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? (Environmental Alert Series)
by Sandra Postel
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For 6,000 years, irrigation has ranked among the most powerful tools of human advancement. The story of settled agriculture, the growth of cities, and the rise of early empires is, to no small degree, a story of controlling water to make the land more... ( read more)
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Atlas Maior
by Peter Van Der Krogt
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Der prachvollste und volständigste Atlas der Frühen Neuzeit - Der Atlas Maior des niederländischen Verlegers Joan Blaeu ist einer der schönsten Atlanten des Barock. Das vom TASCHEN Verlag komplett faksimilierte Exemplar in... ( read more)
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The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography
by J B Harley
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In this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional, positivist model of cartography, replacing it with one that is grounded in an... ( read more)
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World Water Resources at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (International Hydrology)
by I A Shiklomanov
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Modern assessment of the state of the world??'s water resources for researchers and policy-makers.... ( read more)
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Big Weather: Chasing Tornadoes in the Heart of America
by Mark Svenvold
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Following an eccentric band of storm chasers during tornado season, a writer delves deep into our fascination with catastrophic weather Why do some people chase the kind of storms that would send most people running for their lives? Why is it that... ( read more)
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Weather Factor How Nature Has Changed Hi
by Erik Durschmied
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An entertaining but informative follow-up to "The Hinge Factor" that looks at the way that weather has affected the history of mankind. Here Durschimied points out that weather such as drought and floods have wiped out more lives than the spear, bullet... ( read more)
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Instream Flow Protection: Seeking a Balance in Western Water Use
by David Gillilan
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"Instream Flow Protection" is a comprehensive overview of Western water use and the issues that surround it. The authors explain instream flow and its historical, political, and legal context; describe current instream flow laws and policies; and present... ( read more)
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Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy/Sacto Valley
by Robert Lloyd Kelley
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In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a... ( read more)
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F-5: Devastating, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century
by Mark Levine
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It was April 3, 1974. Crime was soaring. Unemployment and inflation were out of control. A costly war had just come to its demoralizing end, and an unpopular President was on his way out of office. Then, over a sixteen-hour period, nature stepped forward... ( read more)
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A Rediscovered Frontier: Land Use and Resource Issues in the New West
by Philip L Jackson
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A Rediscovered Frontier describes the changing land use issues taking place in the rapidly growing western United States, paying special attention to the previously unexplored area of private lands planning and local growth management. A Rediscovered... ( read more)
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Visions of Paradise
by John Simpson
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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... ( read more)
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America's Water: Federal Roles and Responsibilities
by Peter Rogers
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Were water considered an industry, it would be one of the largest in the United States, surely the most capital-intensive, and the most closely regulated by Congress. Yet as Peter Rogers argues in this readable, pragmatic, and scientifically grounded... ( read more)
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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
by Cynthia Barnett
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“Never before has the case been more compellingly made that Americas dependence on a free and abundant water supply has become an illusion. Cynthia Barnett does it by telling us the stories of the amazing personalities behind our water wars, the... ( read more)
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Killing the Hidden Waters (77 Edition)
by Charles Bowden
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From reviews of the first edition: This slender book brims with wisdom and scholarship. --Harold Scarlett, Houston PostCharles Bowden's Killing the Hidden Waters is the best all-around summary I've read yet, anywhere, of how our greed-driven, ever... ( read more)
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