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The Devil's Music: In the Eye of the Hurricane by Pete Davies Publisher Comments The wind blows in at 175 miles per hour. A tidal wave twenty-five feet tall washes far inland. Across a piece of coastline fifty miles long, all signs of civilization are reduced to rubble and matchwood. This is the work of a Category 5 hurricane —... (read more) Your price: $2.25 Used - Hardcover 
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Rethinking the Power of Maps by Denis Wood Synopsis A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Weather Channel by Frank Batten Publisher Comments Twenty years ago, who'd have believed that millions of viewers would follow the twists and turns of storms developing across the globe with the rapt attention once reserved for thriller movies? That a single television channel could simultaneously inform... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $2.58 Used - Hardcover
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When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Population History of North America by Michael R Haines Publisher Comments Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present. Covering the populations of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, including... (read more) List Price $133.75 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment by Jacques Leslie Publisher Comments If the wars of the last century were fought over oil, the wars of this century will be fought over water. -Ismail Serageldin, The World Bank The giant dams of today are the modern Pyramids, colossally expensive edifices that generate monumental amounts... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 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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Disconnected Rivers: Linking Rivers and Landscapes by Ellen Wohl Publisher Comments This important and accessible book surveys the history and present condition of river systems across the United States, showing how human activities have impoverished our rivers and impaired the connections between river worlds and other ecosystems... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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World Water Resources at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (International Hydrology) by I A Shiklomanov Publisher Comments This volume provides a modern assessment of the state of the world's water resources. It collects in one place a huge amount of data. A uniform methodological approach for each continent is then built upon to analyse the dynamics of water resources... (read more) List Price $158.25 Your price: $7.95 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: $4.50 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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Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy/Sacto Valley by Robert Lloyd Kelley Publisher Comments "Of late historians have become increasingly interested in the vast re-ordering of the environment involved in the creation of America. Nowhere was this more true than in the Sacramento Valley where re-ordering edged into folly. Battling the Inland Sea... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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F-5: Devastating, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century by Mark Levine Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.25 Used - Hardcover
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Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History by Anne Kelly Knowles Synopsis 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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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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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: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Men Who Mapped the World: The Treasures of Cartography by Beau Riffenburgh Publisher Comments From the crude maps of ancient Babylon to the satellite-fueled precision of Google Maps, cartography has been both a record of dreams and of discoveries. The Men Who Mapped the World is a beautifully illustrated and highly informative journey through... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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