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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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by Firefly Books Synopsis A practical reference of the major terms used in geography. The field of geography covers all aspects of physical, environmental, and human geography. The Firefly Geography Dictionary is an up-to-date A-Z reference with 1,500 concise definitions of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Allaby Publisher Comments Among the topics covered are: Area Forecast Bioclimatology Dust Bowl Greenhouse Gas La Niqa Severe-storm Observation Veil of Cloud. Biographies include: Svante Arrhenius Christoph Buys Ballot Francis Beaufort Anders Celsius Vagn Ekman Jean-Baptiste... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.83 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and Laura Allen and July Oskar Cole and Annie Danger 
Publisher Comments Dam Nation combines environmental victories in the sustainable use movement with hands-on, participatory options for country and city dwellers. Not just a "how-to" but a "why-to," the book begins with the story of dams in the American West, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William K Stevens Synopsis An armchair scientist's glimpse into the science of climate, "The Change in the Weather" is an eye-opening and authoritative exploration of today's world and tomorrow's uncertainty.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (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 Dennis P Hupchick Publisher Comments Eastern European history is a difficult subject for Westerners to understand, partly because of the region's political, ethnic, and cultural diversity. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe, revised and updated for this edition... (read more) List Price $94.25 Your price $36.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Winter Publisher Comments Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the rash assault, to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Kates Publisher Comments 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) List Price $38.50 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Simpson Synopsis 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) List Price $56.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Storm Dunlop Publisher Comments What is the coldest place on the planet? How does a hurricane form? What exactly is a low pressure system? And what area has the least, or most, amount of rainfall? Answering these and many other intriguing questions, A Dictionary of Weather provides a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $1.93 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vandana Shiva
Publisher Comments While draught and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the twenty-first century may match-or even surpass-the oil wars of the twentieth. In... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Mayhew Publisher Comments This invaluable dictionary provides comprehensive coverage in one volume of both human and physical geography. For this third edition, existing entries have been fully revised and updated, and 345 new new entries have been added, making this essential... (read more) Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Black Synopsis Historical atlases offer an understanding of the past which is invaluable to historians, not only because they convey a previous age's sense of space and distance but also because they reveal what historians and educators of those periods thought... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Darcy Jenish Publisher Comments Epic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of mapmaker David Thompson (1770–1857), is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the broad canvas of dramatic rivalries between the United States and British North America... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Rajewski Publisher Comments The 5th edition of this useful tool includes more than 507 major cities and 2,900 smaller cities. Profiles are based on U.S. State Department Post Reports. Photos and maps help bring the text alive.... (read more) Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sandra Postel Synopsis The overriding lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium, the question arises: Will ours be any different?... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Svenvold
Publisher Comments Following an eccentric band of storm chasers during tornado season, a writer delves deep into our fascination with catastrophic weather Why do some people chase the kind of storms that would send most people running for their lives? Why is it that... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Levine Publisher Comments It was April 3, 1974. Crime was soaring. Unemployment and inflation were out of control. A costly war had just come to its demoralizing end, and an unpopular President was on his way out of office. Then, over a sixteen-hour period, nature stepped forward... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Rogers Publisher Comments Were water considered an industry, it would be one of the largest in the United States, surely the most capital-intensive, and the most closely regulated by Congress. Yet as Peter Rogers argues in this readable, pragmatic, and scientifically grounded... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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