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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 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 Met Office Synopsis Produced in association with the Met Office, the world's premier weather organization, Weather World is a visual celebration of the diversity and unpredictability of the weather in all its forms: from the benign beauty of a clear sky to the explosive... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) 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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by Marlene Bradford Publisher Comments Tornadoes, nature's most violent and unpredictable storms, descend from the clouds nearly one thousand times yearly and have claimed eighteen thousand American lives since 1880. However, the U.S. Weather Bureau -- fearing public panic and believing... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.45 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Guyton Publisher Comments A comprehensive study of glaciers in California.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick Turner Publisher Comments With learning that embraces not only the history but the literary evolution, the dreams, and the profound psychic cravings of Western development, with insight, elegance, and uncanny precision that his readers have come to take for granted, Turner's work... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ehrhard Raschke Publisher Comments The science of the earth's climate requires reliable global data sets to validate numerical simulation models and to identify regional and global fluctuations and trends. This book presents ways to derive such data from space-borne and ground-based... (read more) Your price $26.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Gould Publisher Comments Peter Gould, a prominent, award-winning geographer who admits to having a low threshold for boredom, offers a collection of essays that reflect his eclectic research and provocative thinking. The topics range widely and include the diffusion of AIDS... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $19.75 (Used - Hardcover) 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 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 Mike Tidwell Publisher Comments A prophetic journalist predicts that because of global warming, ocean levels will rise by three feet in the coming decades, and hurricanes will grow more powerful, endangering coastal populations not only in North America but throughout the world.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Patr Barnes Svarney Publisher Comments The skies aren't friendly anymore! Sweltering heat waves. Bone-chilling blizzards. Ferocious winds. Mighty peculiar weather we've been having, isn't it? Well, scientists predict that climate trends are only going to get stranger in the future. And in... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $2.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J Madeleine Nash Synopsis El Nino is both a scientific detective story and a fascinating exploration of how weather really works. It brings droughts, mud slides, killer storms, and even epidemics and hordes of frogs and rats. Now for the first time, here is the complete--and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Taco Anema Publisher Comments Water is both the most ordinary and extraordinary of resources; without it, nothing can survive. Yet, 1.1 billion people around the world do not have ready access to clean water, and more than 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation. If there... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gretel Ehrlich 
Publisher Comments This book is written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter—for remote and cold places, and the ways in which winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul—and out of the fear that our “democracy of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Shis Monmonier Publisher Comments Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapmakers... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruth Patrick Book News Annotation Presents general information, much of it new and original, on the physical and chemical characteristics of riverine systems that can be used to evaluate the structure and functioning of the ecosystems in the particular river systems to be discussed in... (read more) List Price $175.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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