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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield Publisher Comments Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map. Simon Garfield's Just My Type illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a stand on Comic Sans and care about... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein Publisher Comments Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities — the entire state of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The World's Water Volume 7: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources by Peter H Gleick Publisher Comments Produced biennially, The World's Water is the most comprehensive and up-to-to date source of information and analysis on freshwater resources. Each new volume examines critical global trends and offers the best data available on a variety of topics... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water by Philip Ball Synopsis In this fresh exploration, a consulting editor for "Nature" tells of water's origins, its history, and its fascinating pervasiveness. Finally, Ball laments about the future of this natural resource, predicting that it will become a scarce commodity this... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Clean Water: An Introduction to Water Quality and Pollution Control by Kenneth M Vigil Publisher Comments Clean Water is a book for anyone concerned about this precious resource who wants to become better informed. In straightforward language, Kenneth Vigil provides a comprehensive introduction to the many scientific, regulatory, cultural, and geographic... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Historic Maritime Maps 1290-1699 (Temporis) by Donald Wigal Publisher Comments Daring sea voyages undertaken today are routinely monitored by satellite and highly sophisticated technology. It was not always so. In the Middle Ages, navigation was a tenuous balance of art and science. Progress in shipbuilding gave sailors more... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Things Maps Don't Tell Us: An Adventure Into Map Interpretation by Armin Kohl Lobeck Publisher Comments "The book is a treasure trove of tidbits describing how the world around us came about. . . . Things Maps Don't Tell Us actually communicates a great deal about the things maps can tell us if we care to look carefully underneath the printed symbols."&... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $11.95 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 $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Living with Nature's Extremes: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White by Robert E Hinshaw Publisher Comments Gilbert White has been called the most internallionally renown geographer of the twentieth century, and one who personifies the ideal of a natural resources scientist committed to stewardship of our planet. He has educated the nation and the world on how... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.48 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 $53.50 Your price: $14.95 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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Visions of Paradise by John Simpson Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Peachtree Creek: A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta's Watershed by David R Kaufman Publisher Comments In 1990 David Kaufman decided to explore Peachtree Creek from its headwaters to its confluence with the Chattahoochee River. For thirteen years he paddled the creek, photographed it, and researched its history as the Atlanta area's major watershed. The... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Openstreetmap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World by Frederik Ramm Publisher Comments This handbook provides a comprehensive look at OpenStreetMap (OSM), the web-based editable map of the world that enables people to freely view, edit, and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on the Earth. Written for novices as well... (read more) Your price: $27.50 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: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Shaping of America; A Geographical Perspective of 500 Years of History #03: Transcontinental America, 1850-1915 by D W Meinig Synopsis In this third volume of his acclaimed series, D. W. Meinig offers a riveting account of the expanding country's development from mid-nineteenth century to the onset of World War I. Beginning with the struggle over where to build the Pacific railway, the... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $19.95 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 $70.00 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Physical Geography of Wisconsin by Lawrence Martin Publisher Comments The immensely varied topography of Wisconsin provides examples of nearly every important physiographic process and topographic form. In the Driftless Area to the southwest, wind and water have weathered and carved away the... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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