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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings Publisher Comments Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, "a literary gem" (The Atlantic) now available in paperback. It may come as no surprise that as a kid, Ken Jennings... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings Publisher Comments It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.98 Used - Hardcover
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Longitude : True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (05 Edition) 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 great ages of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia by Blaine Harden Publisher Comments After a two-decade absence, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river. Harden's hometown, Moses Lake, Washington... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Water Wars by Diane Raines Ward Publisher Comments Every day, we hear alarming news about droughts, pollution, population growth, and climate change—which threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West by Donald Worster Publisher Comments When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? (Environmental Alert Series) by Sandra Postel Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Atlas Maior by Peter Van Der Krogt Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $90.00 Used - Hardcover
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Big Weather: Chasing Tornadoes in the Heart of America by Mark Svenvold Publisher Comments "Svenvold clearly paid his dues in Tornado Alley . . . Wherever he touches down, he informs and amuses, and marvels not only at the weather, but also at the stranger side of Middle America." --National Geographic Why do some people chase the kind of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Instream Flow Protection: Seeking a Balance in Western Water Use by David Gillilan Publisher Comments "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) List Price $47.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Geography Resources & Environment Volume 2 by Robert Kates Publisher Comments Over the course of half a century, Gilbert F. White's work has served to shape and, in several instances, establish many of the fields that have come to be known as the environmental sciences. In this collection of original essays, a companion volume to... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Physical Geography: The Basics (Basics) by Joseph Holden Publisher Comments Physical Geography: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the interactions, systems and processes that have shaped, and continue to shape, the physical world around us. This book introduces five key aspects of the study of physical... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History by Anne Kelly Knowles Publisher Comments Encompassing a broad range of history -- from the Greek and Roman eras to the Salem witch trials and the Dust Bowl of the early 20th century, leading scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain analyze history with the tools of GIS... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Concise Geography Encyclopedia by Clive Gifford Publisher Comments The Concise Geography Encyclopedia maps every corner of the world -- from the icy waters of Antarctica to the deserts of Africa, from the high mountains of the Americas to the snowfields and jungles of Asia. Each country is illustrated with a three... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Killing the Hidden Waters by Charles Bowden Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: Maps of Discovery and Scientific Exploration, 1500-2000 by Derek Hayes Publisher Comments Map junkies rejoice! Derek Hayes, author of Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest, delivers another stunning atlas filled with stories of explorations and exquisite historical maps. Over five hundred years of maps depicting the North Pacific Ocean... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Maps: Finding Our Place in the World by James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow Jr. Publisher Comments Maps are universal forms of communication, easily understood and appreciated regardless of culture or language. This truly magisterial book introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever considered in one volume: maps from different time periods... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $39.00 Used - Hardcover
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Ripple Effect (11 Edition) by Alex Prud'homme Publisher Comments AS ALEX PRUDHOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Every Drop for Sale (PB Reprint) by Jeff Rothfeder Publisher Comments In this compelling narrative account of a world in turmoil over a dwindling water supply, Rothfeder explores a fascinating critical dilemma: Is water everyone's fundamental right or just a commodity to be bought and sold like any other commodity?... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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