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Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America by Bruce Babbitt Publisher Comments In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Bloomberg #120: Aqua Shock, Revised and Updated: Water in Crisis by Susan J Marks Publisher Comments Praise for AQUA shock "Water is truly the challenge of the twenty-first century—our century—and we have to start having a serious mainstream conversation about the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren. In Aqua Shock: Water in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments 300 stunning before-and-after photographs that show the staggering transformation of our world. Earth Then and Now records the dramatic way our planet has changed over the past century. On one page is a specific part of the world as it was 5, 20, 50 or... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters by Robert J Glennon Publisher Comments Leading landscape architect and planner Carl Steinitz has developed an innovative GIS-based simulation modeling strategy that considers the demographic, economic, physical, and environmental processes of an area and projects the consequences to that area... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water by Alan Snitow Publisher Comments Praise for Thirst "As a congressman from the Great Lakes region, I appreciate this timely and important work on a critical public policy question: Is water a natural resource to be protected by the public realm, or is it just another commodity?" —... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Our Land, Ourselves: Readings on People and Place by Peter Forbes Publisher Comments Our Land, Ourselves is a collection of diverse readings on the many themes of people and place-themes such as the protection of wilderness and the idea of the wild, the nature of home, the purpose of work, and the meaning of community. These voices... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World's Water 2008-2009: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources (World's Water) by Peter Gleick Publisher Comments Produced biennially, The Worlds Water provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the most significant trends worldwide, and offers the best data available... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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AAAS Atlas of Population & Environment by Paul Harris Publisher Comments The AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment is an important analysis of the relationships between human population and the environment. Illustrating through text, maps, and diagrams how population factors such as rates of growth, density, movement, and... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security: Exploring New Limits to Growth (Global Environment Accord Strategies for Sustainability and) by Dennis Pirages Publisher Comments From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security revisits the findings of The Global 2000 Report to the President -- commissioned by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 -- and presents an up-to-date overview, informed by the earlier projections, of such critical... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World by John Rennie Short Publisher Comments Theres no excuse for getting lost these days—satellite maps on our computers can chart our journey in detail and electronics on our car dashboards instruct us which way to turn. But there was a time when the varied landscape of North America... (read more) List Price $50.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Mapping Hacks: Tips and Tools for Electronic Cartography by Schuyler Erle and Rich Gibson and Jo Walsh Publisher Comments Land use decisions affect our lives profoundly, but until recently, urban planning was the arcane craft of technocrats. This insightful book shows how you and other citizens can be involved at every step of the process with the help of free and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneer on Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age by John Noble Wilford Publisher Comments A comprehensive history of cartography that traces the adventures, discoveries and feats of technical ingenuity by which man has succeeded in mapping the globe, moon and the planets. Photos.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles Fishman Publisher Comments The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,”... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River by Charles Bergman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-302) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy by Rutherford H Platt Publisher Comments Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy examines the history, current practice, and unmet needs of land use planning and regulation in the United States. Rutherford H. Platt, a geographer and lawyer with over twenty-five years experience... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Best of the Web Geography by Chris Leftley Publisher Comments This first title in this new series is an easy-to-use, evaluative guide to the best sources of information on the Web for geography, providing critical reviews of resources listed by subject.... (read more) List Price $161.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Dictionary of the World by David Munro Publisher Comments From Tintern Abbey to Timbuktu, Loch Ness to the Limpopo River, the ABC Islands to the Zuider Zee--Oxford's Dictionary of the World is a testament to the fascinating diversity of the planet Earth. Combining the expertise of one of the world's foremost... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations by Vincent Virga Publisher Comments Cartographia" offers a stunning array of 200 of the most beautiful, important, and fascinating maps in existence, all garnered from the worlds largest cartographic collection at the Library of Congress. Little, Brown and... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Earth from Space: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum by Andrew K Johnston Publisher Comments Three hundred spectacular views of Earth taken by the latest generation of satellites. For orbiting satellites, no place on Earth is isolated. The Himalayas are as easy to photograph as Manhattan. While satellite images are important for science and... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Trout Pool Paradox: The American Lives of Three Rivers by George Black Publisher Comments The very rivers that make the best trout streams - fast, cold, and clear - also gave birth to the American industrial revolution. Nowhere has this been more true than in an area not far from New York City where three Connecticut rivers, the Housatonic... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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