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by Pete Davies  Publisher Comments The wind blows in at 175 miles per hour. A tidal wave twenty-five feet tall washes far inland. Across a piece of coastline fifty miles long, all signs of civilization are reduced to rubble and matchwood. This is the work of a Category 5 hurricane —... (read more)  Your price $1.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Maggie Black Publisher Comments Water Sustains Life: Without It, Humans Cannot survive for more than a few days. And yet this precious fluid is becoming increasingly politicized as the debates about control and ownership of water itself, and of the many organizations which govern its... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William B Meyer Publisher Comments This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott Huler Publisher Comments Defining the Wind is a wonderfully written account of one man’s crusade to learn about what the wind is made of by tracing the history of the Beaufort Scale and its eccentric creator, Sir Francis Beaufort. It’s as much about the language we... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Storm Dunlop Synopsis Why does frost "flower" on a window? How is lightning research done? Weather is an essential guide to the many different types of meteorological phenomena, including brief details of the weather that may be experienced. Filled with information on... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Myron Arms Publisher Comments By any account, the impenetrable barrier of sea ice that blocked the Brendan's Isle halfway up the Labrador Coast should not have been there in late July, in what was one of the hottest summers in memory a few hundred miles to the south. Frustrated and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruth Patrick Book News Annotation Begins a series of six volumes on the structure and functioning of ecosystems in headwaters, main stems, and estuaries of riverine systems of the US. Estuaries were selected primarily to represent geohydrological types, e.g., fjords, drowned river... (read more) List Price $175.00 Your price $38.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Tufty Publisher Comments Highly readable, non-technical explanations of hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, snowstorms, thunder and lightning, fog, other phenomena. Bibliography. 92 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert W Adler Publisher Comments This volume explores the issues associated with the complex subject of water quality protection in an assessment of the successes and failures of the Clean Water Act over the past twenty years. In addition to examining traditional indicators of water... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert M Bone Publisher Comments As arctic and Subarctic of the Canadian North take their place in the global economy, the interplay of resource development, the environment, and the peoples of the North has caused dramatic change. This book examines the dominant images of the North and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andre Robert Publisher Comments Provides a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge about physical processes in alluvial channels, with an emphasis on the recent work on flow-bed-sediment transport interactions. Intended primarily for undergraduate students interested in fluvial... (read more) List Price $61.25 Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth Libbrecht 
Publisher Comments "Snowflakes, like people, are all different and beautiful, but they can be a nuisance when they lose their identity in a mob." The Little Book of Snowflakes presents these evanescent formations in their breathtaking individuality, pinpointing their... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Laura Lang Synopsis Find out how GIS technology helps people design solutions to such pressing problems as wild-fires, urban blights, agricultural yields, air and water quality, endangered species, disaster mitigation, resource location and extraction, coastline erosion... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Snitow Synopsis Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations like Nestle, Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local water sources--lakes, streams, and springs--and taking control of public water services. In their drive to privatize and commodify water... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Forbes Synopsis 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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Schuyler Erie Synopsis Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rodney Broome Synopsis In 1507, a map was published labelling a portion of the southern continent across the Atlantic Ocean with the name America. Although the map was based on the work of Italian scientist and explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, this work looks at the history behind... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Dawson Synopsis Robert Dawson, Peter Goin, and Mary Webb present a powerful examination, in words and pictures, of a beautiful, fragile, and beleaguered western river.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $11.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $55.75 Your price $23.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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