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by Louis D Rubin  Publisher Comments To predict what the weather ahead will be, take these three easy steps: figure out which way the wind is blowing; look at the clouds; match what you see there with one of the full-color cloud photographs in The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book.... (read more)  List Price $8.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Mark Monmonier Publisher Comments No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley," near a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas P Grazulis Publisher Comments Tornadoes occur everywhere in the United States, and each region of the nation has its own tornado season. Some tornadoes have crossed mountains, some have lasted more than an hour, scouring the earth with wind speeds of 250 miles per hour, and some have... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.75 (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 Jack Williams Publisher Comments From the people who developed the USA Today weather page comes a novel approach to understanding the weather. Full-color graphics and photographs explain and illustrate weather concepts, from what makes the sky blue to how a tornado gets its twist. Every... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Ball Publisher Comments One of the four elements of classical antiquity, water is central to the environment of our planet. In "Life's Matrix, "Philip Ball writes of water's origins, history, and unique physical character. As a geological agent, water shapes mountains, canyons,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Miles Harvey Publisher Comments The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald L Myers Publisher Comments In this first comprehensive guide to the state's natural resources in sixty years, twenty-nine top scholars explain the character and importance of Florida's major ecosystems.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $22.50 (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 $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Basia Irland Publisher Comments Water Library consists of nine interconnected sections focusing on projects that artist Basia Irland has created over the last thirty years in Africa, Canada, Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, and the United States. Through her work, Irland offers a... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eddie Broadley Synopsis Catering for A-level or H Grade geography students, this is part of a series using a range of case studies from the developed and developing world in conjunction with illustrative resources to cover the core themes of geography at this level. This volume... (read more) Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carolyn Cartier and Alan A. Lew Publisher Comments "Seductions of Place explores questions at the crossroads of contemporary issues in travel and tourism, human geography, and the complex cultural, political, and economic activities at stake in touristed landscapes as a result of globalization. The... (read more) List Price $43.95 Your price $32.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andy Mitchell Publisher Comments Real-life stories of GIS at work in every corner of the community: tracking crime, drawing school boundaries, managing growth, and more.<BR>... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brent Haddad Publisher Comments The movement to implement market-based approaches to allocating water is gaining ground across California and in other western states. Proponents argue that markets offer an efficient and cost-effective means of promoting conservation -- those who need... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $34.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marq De Villiers Publisher Comments De Villiers reports from hot spots as diverse as China, Las Vegas and the Middle East, where he has crafted a powerful narrative about the lifeblood of civilizations, the global consequences of human thirst, and solutions that may avert the coming water... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kathleen A Tobin Publisher Comments As this volume shows, population issues--numbers of people, how to feed them, their employment, their racial makeup, their intelligence and health, their sexual behavior and reproduction--have been a concern for centuries. The primary documents in this... (read more) List Price $105.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Cherie Burns Publisher Comments With masterful storytelling skill, Burns follows the punishing path of the Great Hurricane of 1938, which hit the eastern seaboard, from Long Island to Connecticut and Rhode Island, in a seamless and suspenseful narrative, preserving for posterity the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Candace Savage Publisher Comments Throughout the ages, The sheer magnificence and eerie grandeur of the aurora have evoked both fear and wonder. In this beautifully illustrated book, candace savage explores the myth and the science behind these amazing lights.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Char Miller Publisher Comments 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 National Geographic Publisher Comments This comprehensive, illustrated almanac is packed with fascinating information about the entire physical world and its peoples. Organized into four main parts for easy reference---What Is Geography, Physical Geography, Human Geography, and Places---the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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