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by Maude Barlow  Publisher Comments A passionate call to action from one of the leading voices in the global struggle for universal access to the earth's most vital element—a sequel to the acclaimed Blue Gold. "Life requires access to clean water; to deny the right to water is to deny... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Diane Raines Ward Publisher Comments Every day, we hear alarming news about droughts, pollution, population growth, and climate change-which threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate our... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerry Dennis Publisher Comments A spellbinding look into the natural world's most fascinating and baffling phenomena, with illustrated explanations of rainbows, meteors, sunsets, hurricanes, the northern lights, and dozens of other curiosities of the sky.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dava Sobel 
Powells.com Staff Pick "An account of the man who developed the technology which allowed sailors to determine their longitude at sea. If you don't know where you are, it's hard to know where you're going, whether you've gotten there or if you've missed your target. If, while... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth Libbrecht Publisher Comments "I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design, and no one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth Libbrecht
Publisher Comments Snowflakes may be an everyday, common subject, but youve never seen them like this! A collection of amazing photography of snow crystals using a unique system designed to take super-detailed micro images of these miniature ice masterpieces, "The... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Maude Barlow Publisher Comments A real-life thriller about the corporate takeover of our most basic resource. In a shocking exposé, Blue Gold shows why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, "The wars of the next century will be about water." Increasingly... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles P Wohlforth Publisher Comments Scientists and natives wrestle with our changing climate in the land where it has hit first --and hardest A traditional Eskimo whale-hunting party races to shore near Barrow, Alaska-their comrades trapped on a floe drifting out to sea-as ice that should... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Burroughs Publisher Comments Authoritative, lavishly photographed and illustrated guides to the wonders of the natural world around us. Clear, accessible format, charts, diagrams, field tips, practical pointers, and historical profiles.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Miles Harvey
Publisher Comments U.S.A. $24.95 Canada $35.95 "Every once in a blue moon you read a book that leaves you absolutely breathless, reminding you of the bright, hidden worlds within our world. This is that book, a glimmering, supersonic journey into terra incognita, where... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Babbitt Publisher Comments In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought--and fresh air--to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in. We've all experienced... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Gonzalez Publisher Comments - Unfolding of geopolitical events around the world has consumers looking for authoritative, up-to-date geographical sources- The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 provides teachers with unprecedented authority in the use of federal funds to teach... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott Huler
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Ashley's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Char Miller Synopsis A lively primer on the region's most precious and scarce resource, drawn from the pages of the newspaper that sets the standard for coverage of environmental issues in the West.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Noble Wilford Synopsis "The Mapmakers" is a comprehensive history of cartography that traces the adventures, discoveries, and feats of technical ingenuity by which man has, over the centuries, succeeded in mapping first the surface of the globe, then the Earth's interior, the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rene Chaboud Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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