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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $9.04
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Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David G. Brown::David Brown
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Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910
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Publication Date: 2004-02-23
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: "Brings history to life in a book as readable as any novel." --Good Old Boat On Friday, November 7, 1913, after four days of winds up to 90 miles an hour, whiteout blizzard conditions, and mountainous seas, 19 ships had been lost on the great-lakes, 238 sailors were dead, and Cleveland was confronting the worst natural disaster in its history. David G. Brown combines narrative intensity with factual depth to re-create the "perfect storm" that struck America's heartland. Brown has created a vast epic ranging over Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie and echoing down the decades.
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $8.50
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Manufacturer: St. Augustines Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Zyrkowski
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Publisher: St. Augustines Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.73874
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Publication Date: 2008-07-11
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Reading Level: 141
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $50.00
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Keys
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Edition: 1 Amer ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.60902
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Publication Date: 2000-02-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Everybody knows the Dark Ages weren't really dark, right? Not so fast, counters archaeological journalist David Keys, maybe it's more than just a slightly judgmental metaphor. His book Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World, based on years of careful research spanning five continents, argues that sometime in A.D. 535, a worldwide disaster struck and uprooted nearly every culture then extant. Given contemporary reports of the sun being blotted out or weakened for nearly a year and a half, followed by famine, drought, and plague, it's hard not to think that so many reports from all over the world must be related. Keys shows a keen grasp of both the written historical record from Asia, Africa, and Europe and the archaeological evidence from the Americas, and tells many tales of great havoc destroying old empires and laying the ground for new ones. Rome may have fallen, but Spain, England, and France rose in its place, while farther east, Japan and China each unified and gained strength after the chaos. Could an enormous volcanic eruption have had such influence on the world as a whole, and could the same thing happen tomorrow? Catastrophe makes no predictions, but leaves the reader with a new sense of history, nature, and destiny. --Rob Lightner
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $7.40
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Manufacturer: Totem Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Henrik Svensmark
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Publisher: Totem Books
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.6
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Publication Date: 2008-08-25
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: 'Before you make up your mind about climate, change you are advised to read this controversial and compelling book' Nexus Magazine. New evidence based on Henrik Svensmark's scientific research prompts questions to be raised about the role of man made carbon dioxide in global warming. The sun, stars and cosmic rays have often been overlooked but in this radical new book they are placed centre stage in the climate change debate.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.78
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William F. Ruddiman
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577
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Publication Date: 2007-10-22
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? William Ruddiman's provocative new book argues that humans have actually been changing the climate for some 8,000 years--as a result of the earlier discovery of agriculture. The "Ruddiman Hypothesis" will spark intense debate. We learn that the impact of farming on greenhouse-gas levels, thousands of years before the industrial revolution, kept our planet notably warmer than if natural climate cycles had prevailed--quite possibly forestalling a new ice age. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum is the first book to trace the full historical sweep of human interaction with Earth's climate. Ruddiman takes us through three broad stages of human history: when nature was in control; when humans began to take control, discovering agriculture and affecting climate through carbon dioxide and methane emissions; and, finally, the more recent human impact on climate change. Along the way he raises the fascinating possibility that plagues, by depleting human populations, also affected reforestation and thus climate--as suggested by dips in greenhouse gases when major pandemics have occurred. The book concludes by looking to the future and critiquing the impact of special interest money on the global warming debate. Eminently readable and far-reaching in argument, Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum shows us that even as civilization developed, we were already changing the climate in which we lived.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.57
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Kerry Emanuel
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.73874
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Publication Date: 2007-09-30
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere—most dramatically since the 1970s. In February 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that global warming is "unequivocal" and that human-produced carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are chiefly to blame, to a certainty of more than 90 percent. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific consensus. In What We Know About Climate Change, MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel outlines the basic science of global warming and how the current consensus has emerged. Although it is impossible to predict exactly when the most dramatic effects of global warming will be felt, he argues, we can be confident that we face real dangers. Emanuel, whose work was widely cited in media coverage of Hurricane Katrina, warns that global warming will contribute to an increase in the intensity and power of hurricanes and flooding and more rapidly advancing deserts.
But just as our actions have created the looming crisis, so too might they avert it. Emanuel calls for urgent action to reduce greenhouse gases and criticizes the media for playing down the dangers of global warming (and, in search of "balance," quoting extremists who deny its existence).
An afterword by environmental policy experts Judith Layzer and William Moomaw discusses how the United States could lead the way in the policy changes required to deal with global warming.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.22
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard B. Alley
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.60901
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Publication Date: 2002-07-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Richard Alley, one of the world's leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. In the 1990s he and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. Here Alley offers the first popular account of the wildly fluctuating climate that characterized most of prehistory--long deep freezes alternating briefly with mild conditions--and explains that we humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate. But, he warns, our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years. The Two-Mile Time Machine begins with the story behind the extensive research in Greenland in the early 1990s, when scientists were beginning to discover ancient ice as an archive of critical information about the climate. Drilling down two miles into the ice, they found atmospheric chemicals and dust that enabled them to construct a record of such phenomena as wind patterns and precipitation over the past 110,000 years. The record suggests that "switches" as well as "dials" control the earth's climate, affecting, for example, hot ocean currents that today enable roses to grow in Europe farther north than polar bears grow in Canada. Throughout most of history, these currents switched on and off repeatedly (due partly to collapsing ice sheets), throwing much of the world from hot to icy and back again in as little as a few years. Alley explains the discovery process in terms the general reader can understand, while laying out the issues that require further study: What are the mechanisms that turn these dials and flip these switches? Is the earth due for another drastic change, one that will reconfigure coastlines or send certain regions into severe drought? Will global warming combine with natural variations in Earth's orbit to flip the North Atlantic switch again? Predicting the long-term climate is one of the greatest challenges facing scientists in the twenty-first century, and Alley tells us what we need to know in order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $15.93
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Manufacturer: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tim Palmer
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Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.4830973
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Publication Date: 2006-09-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: “This book is a remarkable celebration of America. In photographs and in words, Tim Palmer has captured the magic and value of rivers as nobody has ever done, and as nobody is ever likely to do again.” —Don Elder, president, River Network
Anyone who has ever paddled down, fished in, or relaxed along one of America’s rivers understands their power to nourish, inspire, and enchant—but until now, no book has truly captured the rivers’ majesty. Award-winning author, conservationist, and photographer Tim Palmer has spent his life exploring and learning about these sometimes peaceful, sometimes turbulent waterways, and in the pages of Rivers of America he shares his amazing images. An incomparable collection of nearly 200 stunning photographs from all across the United States, Rivers of America celebrates the essence of flowing water like no other book before it. Accompanying the dazzling images are Palmer’s eloquent essays, in which he describes the magic of rivers and their vital ecological role in our lives.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: National Geographic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mark Lynas
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Publisher: National Geographic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577
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Publication Date: 2008-10-07
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next. Written by the acclaimed author of High Tide, this highly relevant and compelling book uses accessible journalistic prose to distill what environmental scientists portend about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years.
In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report projecting average global surface temperatures to rise between 1.4 degrees and 5.8 degrees Celsius (roughly 2 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century. Based on this forecast, author Mark Lynas outlines what to expect from a warming world, degree by degree. At 1 degree Celsius, most coral reefs and many mountain glaciers will be lost. A 3-degree rise would spell the collapse of the Amazon rainforest, disappearance of Greenland's ice sheet, and the creation of deserts across the Midwestern United States and southern Africa. A 6-degree increase would eliminate most life on Earth, including much of humanity.
Based on authoritative scientific articles, the latest computer models, and information about past warm events in Earth history, Six Degrees promises to be an eye-opening warning that humanity will ignore at its peril.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $16.36
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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: Kerry Emanuel
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.55209
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Publication Date: 2005-09-01
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: Imagine standing at the center of a Roman coliseum that is 20 miles across, with walls that soar 10 miles into the sky, towering walls with cascades of ice crystals falling along its brilliantly white surface. That's what it's like to stand in the eye of a hurricane. In Divine Wind, Kerry Emanuel, one of the world's leading authorities on hurricanes, gives us an engaging account of these awe-inspiring meteorological events, revealing how hurricanes and typhoons have literally altered human history, thwarting military incursions and changing the course of explorations. Offering an account of the physics of the tropical atmosphere, the author explains how such benign climates give rise to the most powerful storms in the world and tells what modern science has learned about them. Interwoven with this scientific account are descriptions of some of the most important hurricanes in history and relevant works of art and literature. For instance, he describes the 17th century hurricane that likely inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest and that led to the British colonization of Bermuda. We also read about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, by far the worst natural calamity in U.S. history, with a death toll between 8,000 and 12,000 that exceeded the San Francisco earthquake, the Johnstown Flood, and the Okeechobee Hurricane combined. Boasting more than one hundred color illustrations, from ultra-modern Doppler imagery to classic paintings by Winslow Homer, Divine Wind captures the profound effects that hurricanes have had on humanity. Its fascinating blend of history, science, and art will appeal to weather junkies, science buffs, and everyone who read Isaac's Storm.
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