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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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Sensitive Chaos the Creation of Flow 2ND Edition by Theodor Schwenk Publisher Comments The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air.... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Handy Geography Answer Book (Handy Answer Books) by Paul Tucci Publisher Comments From discovering why every map is distorted to why Rhode Island is called an island even though it's not, this comprehensive reference simplifies geography in an approachable question-and-answer format. All aspects of the discipline are covered... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon Publisher Comments Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society's vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. Today... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 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 $132.25 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines by Mark Stein Publisher Comments Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics by Holly Doremus and A. Dan Tarlock Publisher Comments In the drought summer of 2001, a simmering conflict between agricultural and environmental interests in southern Oregon’s Upper Klamath Basin turned into a guerrilla war of protests, vandalism, and apocalyptic rhetoric when the federal Bureau of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.50 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 $53.25 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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International Migration: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Khalid Koser Publisher Comments A unique, positive approach, taking a global perspective on the reality of human migration. Debunks many myths propagated by the media and politicians.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps by Chet Van Duzer Publisher Comments From dragons and serpents to many-armed beasts that preyed on ships and sailors alike, sea monsters have terrified mariners across all ages and cultures and have become the subject of many tall tales from the sea. Accounts of these creatures have also... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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Make Your Own Maps: 160 Color Maps Ready to Personalize on Your Computer with CDROM by Graham Davis Publisher Comments This multimedia book and DVD kit covers the entire world! Featuring 160 ready-made maps of every country and major geographical area, it’s a revolutionary new resource for the home (to remember a vacation, for example) and the classroom. The DVD... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography by Ralph E. Ehrenberg Publisher Comments Mapping the World is a one-of-a-kind collection of cartographic treasures that spans thousands of years and many cultures, from an ancient Babylonian map of the world etched on clay to the latest high-tech maps of the earth, seas, and the skies above... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maphead (12 Edition) by Ken Jennings Staff Pick Ken Jennings's Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks is an intriguing (dare I say, captivating?) look into the realm of maps, geography, and cartophiles. Jennings writes remarkably well, infusing his engrossing subject with a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It by Michael Trinklein Publisher Comments Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It by Elizabeth Royte Publisher Comments An incisive, intrepid, and habit-changing narrative investigation into the commercialization of our most basic human need: drinking water. Having already surpassed milk and beer, and second now only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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100 Maps: The Science, Art and Politics of Cartography Throughout History by Martin Marix Evans Publisher Comments From Ptolemy's projection of the world--still the basic map after 13 centuries--to Tolkien's cartography of Middle Earth (the most printed guide to a non-existent place ever), each of these maps has its own fascinating story to tell. Escape maps... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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