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Price: $24.00
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Sale: $3.86
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Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tim Flannery
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Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.73874
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Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Niño ever recorded, the most devastating hurricane in two hundred years, the hottest European summer on record, and one of the worst storm seasons ever experienced in Florida. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point. The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Along with a riveting history of climate change, Tim Flannery offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals, from investing in renewable power sources like wind, solar, and geothermal energy, to offering an action plan with steps each and every one of us can take right now to reduce deadly CO2 emissions by as much as 70 percent.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $13.50
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Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Aldo Leopold
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9516
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Publication Date: 1992-12-15
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: A collection of 59 essays aiming to demonstrate the thinking and development of Aldo Leopold, who propelled the US conservation movement from garden to government agencies. He was one of the first to recognize the importance of ecology while it was emerging as a new scientific discipline.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.88
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Manufacturer: Trinity University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William deBuys::Alex Harris
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Publisher: Trinity University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 978.95
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Publication Date: 2007-08-28
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures — Hispanic and Anglo — meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple labor — shovel and axe, irony and humor — he shows them how to survive, even flourish, in their isolated village. A remarkable look at modern life in the mountains, River of Traps also magically evokes the now-vanished world in which Romero tended flocks on frontier ranges and absorbed the values of a society untouched by cash or Anglo America. His memories and wisdom, shared without sentimentality, permeate this absorbing story of three men and the place that forever shaped their lives.
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Price: $68.00
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Sale: $4.95
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Naylor
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.565
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Publication Date: 2002-11-18
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Reading Level: 372
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Description: Why is the sky blue and why are sunsets red? When can I see a rainbow? Why is the moon sometimes visible in daylight? In Out of the Blue skywatcher John Naylor offers practical advice about where and when you can expect to see natural phenomena, what you will see and how to improve your chances of seeing it. Naylor takes in both the night and the day sky, and deals only with what can be seen with the naked eye. Drawing on science, history, literature and mythology, and assuming only basic scientific knowledge, Out of the Blue is for everyone who enjoys being outdoors and who feel curious or puzzled about things optical and astronomical. John Naylor was born in England, but spent his childhood in Peru. A graduate of London University with a degree in philosophy, he teaches physics at a secondary school in London.
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Price: $53.95
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Sale: $43.55
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Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Roland B. Stull
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Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5
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Publication Date: 1999-12-30
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: The Second Edition of Roland Stull's METEOROLOGY FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS lets professors quantify the concepts in Ahren's METEOROLOGY TODAY, SEVENTH EDITION like never before. This book can serve as a technical companion to Ahren's text or as a stand-alone text. It provides the mathematical equations needed for a higher level of understanding of meteorology. The organization is mapped directly to the Ahrens book, making Stull's text a perfect companion. More than a lab manual or workbook, this text contains detailed math and physics that expand upon concepts presented in Ahrens' text, as well as numerous solved problems. This text demonstrates how to use mathematical equations (algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and finite differential equations) to explain the dominant characteristics of certain atmospheric phenomena and processes.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.14
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Manufacturer: Sterling
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Douglas
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Publisher: Sterling
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2007-09-01
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Reading Level: 264
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Description: Improved technology is teaching us more about the weather all the time, and with new knowledge comes new concerns and confusion. Is global warming real? What is a NEXRAD Doppler? Meteorologist Paul Douglas provides the answers to all these questions and more, along with fascinating illustrations, photos, trivia, and graphics. Find out what a difference a degree makes; as well as information about El Niño and how to protect yourself against the worst that the weather can bring. From the distinctions between a weather warning, watch, and advisory to the definition of an F-5 tornado, all the essentials are clearly explained.
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Price: $29.99
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Sale: $15.83
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Beerling
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.38
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Publication Date: 2007-04-05
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Global warming is contentious and difficult to measure, even among the majority of scientists who agree that it is taking place. Will temperatures rise by 2oC or 8oC over the next hundred years? Will sea levels rise by 2 or 30 feet? The only way that we can accurately answer questions like these is by looking into the distant past, for a comparison with the world long before the rise of mankind.
We may currently believe that atmospheric shifts, like global warming, result from our impact on the planet, but the earth's atmosphere has been dramatically shifting since its creation. This book reveals the crucial role that plants have played in determining atmospheric change - and hence the conditions on the planet we know today. Along the way a number of fascinating puzzles arise: Why did plants evolve leaves? When and how did forests once grow on Antarctica? How did prehistoric insects manage to grow so large? The answers show the extraordinary amount plants can tell us about the history of the planet -- something that has often been overlooked amongst the preoccuputations with dinosaur bones and animal fossils.
David Beerling's surprising conclusions are teased out from various lines of scientific enquiry, with evidence being brought to bear from fossil plants and animals, computer models of the atmosphere, and experimental studies. Intimately bound up with the narrative describing the dynamic evolution of climate and life through Earth's history, we find Victorian fossil hunters, intrepid polar explorers and pioneering chemists, alongside wallowing hippos, belching volcanoes, and restless landmasses.
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Price: $80.00
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Sale: $57.82
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Geoffrey K. Vallis
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 532.05
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Publication Date: 2006-11-06
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Reading Level: 745
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Description: Fluid dynamics is fundamental to our understanding of the atmosphere and oceans. Although many of the same principles of fluid dynamics apply to both the atmosphere and oceans, textbooks tend to concentrate on the atmosphere, the ocean, or the theory of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD). This textbook provides a comprehensive unified treatment of atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics. The book introduces the fundamentals of geophysical fluid dynamics, including rotation and stratification, vorticity and potential vorticity, and scaling and approximations. It discusses baroclinic and barotropic instabilities, wave-mean flow interactions and turbulence, and the general circulation of the atmosphere and ocean. Student problems and exercises are included at the end of each chapter. Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation will be an invaluable graduate textbook on advanced courses in GFD, meteorology, atmospheric science and oceanography, and an excellent review volume for researchers. Additional resources are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521849692.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.03
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Manufacturer: On Cape Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Tougias
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Publisher: On Cape Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2002-10-01
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: New England was knocked to its knees on February 6th and 7th, 1978 by the incredible snow and wind referred to locally as "The Worst Storm of the Century!" Author Michael Tougias combines stunning photographs with riveting text to reawaken our communal memories of the event dubbed "The Blizzard of '78." Tougias first chronicles the period before the storm, then follows it through its progression, as it caused commuter nightmares and wreaked devastation. From Cape Cod to Conecticut, from Rhode Island to Route 128, Tougias explains how people survived the storm by spending more than 48 hours in their cars, and how coastal homes were torn from their foundations and smashed to smithereens by the viscous surf. The book records the brighter sides of the blizzard too, including neighborhood parties cross-country skiing down abandoned highways, and the many ways that people pitched in to help total strangers. Intriguing analysis also compares The Blizzard of '78 with The Great Blizzard of 1888. Tougias' book will be cherished by anyone who survived the Blizzard of '78, as well as by those of us who have been spellbound by its legend.
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Price: $100.00
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Sale: $100.00
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Manufacturer: Amer Meteorological Society
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Louis W. Uccellini
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Publisher: Amer Meteorological Society
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2004-12
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Description: Named one of the top 5 meteorology books by "The Wall Street Journal," Northeast Snowstorms is the most comprehensive treatment of winter storms ever compiled. From the foremost experts in the field, this two-volume set includes summaries of the most famous storms from colonial times through the 21st century, and in-depth scientific analysis of storms from 1950 through 2003. It contains more than 200 color figures, unique photographs, and a DVD packed with all of the cases in the book plus more. Volume I, The Overview, discusses governing principles, large-scale weather patterns, trends in frequency and in relation to El Niño and the North Atlantic Oscillation, and "near miss" storms. Volume II, The Cases, details the development and life of the most significant winter storms from colonial times through today, with detailed storm data from 1950 to 2003. The more than 500 pages of this volume are replete with snow accumulation diagrams, weather analysis charts, and detailed narratives. The complementary DVD includes this information and provides much more. Northeast Snowstorms is both the ultimate learning tool for weather enthusiasts and the definitive reference for meteorologists. A great text for college and graduate-level winter storm courses, it has been used successfully in meteorology departments throughout the northeastern U.S.
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