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by Jared Diamond  
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... (read more)  List Price $29.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Dava Sobel and William J. H. Andrewes Publisher Comments A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude. The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments "Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific Islands." TIME Renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by T. Ormsby Synopsis With revised material and new exercises based on ArcGIS version 9, this updated work acquaints geographers and GIS professionals with the principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ArcGIS software. Conceptual material is followed by scripted... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price $31.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard Veregin Publisher Comments Goode's World Atlas is an excellent study atlas, featuring nearly 250 pages of maps — physical, political, thematic, city, and even coverage of the ocean floor! Goode's has been published for more than 80 years and has become one of the most... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andy Mitchell Publisher Comments Backed by the collective knowledge and experience of the world's leading Geographic Information Systems (GIS) company, the concepts and methods presented in this volume will allow users to unleash the full analytic power of their GIS. The most commonly... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $26.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Greenhood Publisher Comments "A praiseworthy introduction to the lore of maps and a mine of information for the amateur map-maker."—O.M. Miller, American Geographical Society "This book should be welcomed by all students of mapping, for it will take them in uncomplicated... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Hiss Synopsis 'The Experience of Place' offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claire Keegan Publisher Comments Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire Keegan's debut collection, Antarctica, have been acclaimed by The Observer to be "among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip L Jackson Publisher Comments No other single volume provides more comprehensive and up-to-date information about the natural environment and human activities in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mcphee
Publisher Comments The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Deblij Publisher Comments Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth C. Davis Publisher Comments Who killed the dead sea?...Where was the garden of Eden?...What's so bad about the badlands? The author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller Don't Know Much About History now takes us on a fascinating, breathtaking and hilarious grand tour of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Campbell Publisher Comments This book is designed to serve as an introduction to the fascinating world of maps. It explains how to use maps to obtain information about a wide variety of topics. Throughout the book, maps are viewed in a broad framework. Thus, the discussion includes... (read more) List Price $123.90 Your price $87.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by H.j. De Blij Publisher Comments Building upon the strength and success of deBlij & Muller's best-selling Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, this book offers all of the content that has made Regions the definitive World Regional Geography text but in a briefer, technological-rich... (read more) List Price $46.90 Your price $33.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ted Simon Synopsis A rancher's stubborn refusal to be flooded out by the Army Corps of Engineers led him to mount an extraordinary crusade against California's most powerful forces of the time--the 60s water lobby. He created a new environmental coalition, helped save the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $2.83 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Craghan Publisher Comments An indispensable guide to the fundamentals of physical geography This latest addition to the Wiley Self-Teaching Guide series offers an easy, enjoyable way to become acquainted with the basics of physical geography. From seasonal changes to coastal... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carolyn Nordstrom Publisher Comments Violence, power and international profiteering in the twenty-first century.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul A. Longley and Michael F. Goodchild and David J. Maguire and David W. Rhind Publisher Comments Since the publication of the First Edition of Geographical Information Systems in 1991, the “ Big Book” of GIS has become the definitive work on the science, application and practice of GIS. This new, Abridged Second Edition of Geographical... (read more) List Price $78.50 Your price $50.00 (Used - Softcvr W/comp Media) check for new and sale copies
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