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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
by Simon Garfield
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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)

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How the States Got Their Shapes
How the States Got Their Shapes
by Mark Stein
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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)

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The World's Water Volume 7: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
The World's Water Volume 7: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
by Peter H Gleick
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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)

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Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water
Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water
by Philip Ball
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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)

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Clean Water: An Introduction to Water Quality and Pollution Control
Clean Water: An Introduction to Water Quality and Pollution Control
by Kenneth M Vigil
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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)

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Historic Maritime Maps 1290-1699 (Temporis)
Historic Maritime Maps 1290-1699 (Temporis)
by Donald Wigal
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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)

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Things Maps Don't Tell Us: An Adventure Into Map Interpretation
Things Maps Don't Tell Us: An Adventure Into Map Interpretation
by Armin Kohl Lobeck
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"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)

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Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? (Environmental Alert Series)
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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Living with Nature's Extremes: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White
Living with Nature's Extremes: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White
by Robert E Hinshaw
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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)

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Big Weather: Chasing Tornadoes in the Heart of America
Big Weather: Chasing Tornadoes in the Heart of America
by Mark Svenvold
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"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)

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Instream Flow Protection: Seeking a Balance in Western Water Use
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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Geography Resources & Environment Volume 2
Geography Resources & Environment Volume 2
by Robert Kates
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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)

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Visions of Paradise
Visions of Paradise
by John Simpson
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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)

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Peachtree Creek: A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta's Watershed
Peachtree Creek: A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta's Watershed
by David R Kaufman
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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)

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The Concise Geography Encyclopedia
The Concise Geography Encyclopedia
by Clive Gifford
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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)

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Openstreetmap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World
Openstreetmap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World
by Frederik Ramm
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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)

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Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: Maps of Discovery and Scientific Exploration, 1500-2000
Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: Maps of Discovery and Scientific Exploration, 1500-2000
by Derek Hayes
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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)

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Shaping of America; A Geographical Perspective of 500 Years of History #03: Transcontinental America, 1850-1915
Shaping of America; A Geographical Perspective of 500 Years of History #03: Transcontinental America, 1850-1915
by D W Meinig
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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)

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Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
by James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow Jr.
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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)

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Physical Geography of Wisconsin
Physical Geography of Wisconsin
by Lawrence Martin
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    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)

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