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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $26.95
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Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Howard T Odum::Elisabeth C Odum
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Publisher: University Press of Colorado
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363
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Publication Date: 2008-06-01
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Reading Level: 348
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Description: A Prosperous Way Down (2001), the last book by Howard T. and Elisabeth C. Odum, has shaped politics and planning as nations, states, and localities begin the search for ways to adapt to a future with vastly increased competition for energy. A Prosperous Way Down considers ways in which a future with less fossil fuel could be peaceful and prosperous. Although history records the collapse of countless civilizations, some societies and ecosystems have managed to descend in orderly stages, reducing demands and selecting and saving what is most important. The authors make recommendations for a more equitable and cooperative world society, with specific suggestions based on their evaluations of trends in global population, wealth distribution, energy sources, conservation, urban development, capitalism and international trade, information technology, and education. Available for the first time in paperback, this thoughtful, provocative book forces us to confront assumptions about our world 's future and provides both a steadying hand and a call to action with its pragmatic analysis of a global transition.
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Price: $90.00
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Sale: $49.99
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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: Wilfried Brutsaert
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.48
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Publication Date: 2005-09-05
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Reading Level: 618
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Description: Water in its different forms has always been a source of wonder, curiosity and practical concern for humans everywhere. Hydrology - An Introduction presents a coherent introduction to the fundamental principles of hydrology, based on the course that Wilfried Brutsaert has taught at Cornell University for the last thirty years. Hydrologic phenomena are dealt with at spatial and temporal scales at which they occur in nature. The physics and mathematics necessary to describe these phenomena are introduced and developed, and readers will require a working knowledge of calculus and basic fluid mechanics. The book will be invaluable as a textbook for entry-level courses in hydrology directed at advanced seniors and graduate students in physical science and engineering. In addition, the book will be more broadly of interest to professional scientists and engineers in hydrology, environmental science, meteorology, agronomy, geology, climatology, oceanology, glaciology and other earth sciences.
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Price: $92.00
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Sale: $69.12
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Manufacturer: Blackwell Science Ltd.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Laurence Robb
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Publisher: Blackwell Science Ltd.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 553.1
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Publication Date: 2005
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Reading Level: 373
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Description: Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes is the first senior undergraduate – postgraduate textbook to focus specifically on the multiplicity of geological processes that result in the formation of mineral deposits.
- Opens with an overview of magmatic ore-forming processes
- Moves systematically through hydrothermal and sedimentary metallogenic environments, covering as it does the entire gamut of mineral deposit types, including the fossil fuels and supergene ores
- The final chapter relates metallogeny to global tectonics by examining the distribution of mineral deposits in space and time
- Boxed examples of world famous ore deposits are featured throughout providing context and relevance to the process-oriented descriptions of ore genesis
- Brings the discipline of economic geology back into the realm of conventional mainstream earth science by emphasizing the fact that mineral deposits are simply one of the many natural wonders of geological process and evolution.
Artwork from the book is available to instructors at www.blackwellpublishing.com/robb.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.11
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Manufacturer: Countryman
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Ashworth
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Publisher: Countryman
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Dewey Decimal Number: 553.790978
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Publication Date: 2007-07-02
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: A story of a crucial, dwindling natural resource: an invisible ocean of fresh water under the High Plains.
The Ogallala Aquifer that lies deep beneath the Great Plains from Texas to Colorado contains enough water to fill Lake Erie nine times! Every year five trillion gallons are pumped out for irrigation, and if (or when) the aquifer goes dry, $20 billion worth of food and fiber grown with that irrigation will disappear. William Ashforth tells the fascinating history of the Ogallala from its formation millions of years ago to glimpses of the future when the Great Plains could return to their Sahara Desert-like past. 1 map, index.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $38.99
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stanley A. Schumm
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2007-08-27
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Reading Level: 236
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Description: Rivers differ among themselves and through time. An individual river can vary significantly downstream, changing its dimensions and pattern dramatically over a short distance. If hydrology and hydraulics were the primary controls on the morphology and behaviour of large rivers, we would expect long reaches of rivers to maintain characteristic and relatively uniform morphologies. In fact, this is not the case - the variability of large rivers indicates that other important factors are involved. River Variability and Complexity presents an interesting approach to the understanding of river variability. It provides examples of river variability and explains the reasons for them, including fluvial response to human activities. Understanding the mechanisms of variability is important for geomorphologists, geologists, river engineers and sedimentologists as they attempt to interpret ancient fluvial deposits or anticipate river behaviour at different locations and through time. This book provides an excellent background for graduates, researchers and professionals.
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $11.95
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Manufacturer: Atlas Publications (NC)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Don R. Wilson
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Publisher: Atlas Publications (NC)
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Edition: 1
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Publication Date: 1995-08
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Reading Level: 50
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Description: The Red Claw crayfish is a new and very promising aquaculture species. The Red Claw is very similar to the native American species, except that it grows to a HUGE size--almost to that of a lobster! There are several other notable differences, such as year-round breeding, awesome fecundity... often over 700 eggs per breeder! They also have a non-aggressive nature, which allows many more Red Claw crayfish to live happily in a given space than would the native American crayfish. This book is one of the few sources for complete information on all aspects of the culture of this lobster sized freshwater crayfish. Compiled from leading edge research direct from Australia as well as individual and University findings from all over the U.S.,this book dispels the hype and furnishes the facts about this little known but highly prized new aquaculture species. Fish farmers have managed to become major players in this bottomless market in only a couple of years. Small scale family run operations are harvesting 'short lobsters' in less than a year, and the startup costs are relatively low. There are not many Red Claw crayfish reference books, and this book packs all the info you may need into a small price. Included in the book are photos from down under, food and feeding regimens needed to raise the Red Claw to giant size, well managed pond and tank factors, hatching and juvenile production, stocking methods, regularly updated sources of supply, processing and sale tips, and marketing recommendations.
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Price: $26.00
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Sale: $2.88
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Peter W. Huber::Mark P. Mills
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.79
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Publication Date: 2005-01-17
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something about energy. But according to Peter Huber and Mark Mills, the things we "know" are mostly myths. In The Bottomless Well, Huber and Mills debunk the myths and show how a better understanding of energy will radically change our views and policies on a number of very controversial issues. They explain why demand will never go down, why most of what we think of as "energy waste" actually benefits us; why greater efficiency will never lead to energy conservation; and why the energy supply is infinite-it's quality of energy that's scarce and expensive. The Bottomless Well will also revolutionize our thinking about the automotive industry (gas prices don't matter and the hybrid engine is irrelevant), coal and uranium, the much-maligned power grid (it's the worst system we could have except for all the others), what energy supplies mean for jobs and GDP, and many other hotly debated subjects.
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Price: $148.00
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Sale: $57.79
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 24
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Warren Viessman::Gary L. Lewis
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 5
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.48
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Publication Date: 2002-10-19
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Reading Level: 612
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Description: This book systematically covers underlying principles of hydrology in chapters 1 - 10 and then delves deeper into the application of these principles to practical problems in the field throughout the remainder of the prose. Covers all aspects of the hydrologic cycle, and the manner in which they may be modified to deal with floods, droughts, potable water supply and urban drainage. For anyone who expect to become involved in programs that are concerned with the development, management and protection of water resources.
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Price: $49.50
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Sale: $37.00
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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: Julian Lincoln Simon
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330
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Publication Date: 1998-07-01
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Reading Level: 778
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Description: Julian L. Simon is the world's greatest contrarian. The Ultimate Resource 2--an update, not a sequel, despite the title--skewers the sacred cows of environmentalism, population control, and Paul Ehrlich. In the contest between resource scarcity and human ingenuity, Simon bets the farm on the ability of intelligent people to overcome their problems. Thankfully, he is not a theorist. This book lays out convincing empirical evidence for Simon's prediction of a prosperous future. The key to progress is not state-run conservation programs, he says, but economic and political freedom. Only then can talented minds properly apply themselves to our earthly dilemmas.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $28.99
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Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael P. Nelson::J. Baird Callicott
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.78216
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Publication Date: 2008-10-15
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Reading Level: 704
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Description: Ten years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the controversies that surrounded them. The Wilderness Debate Rages On will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate.
Like its predecessor, the book gathers both critiques and defenses of the idea of wilderness from a wide variety of perspectives and voices. The Wilderness Debate Rages On includes the best work done on the concept of wilderness over the past decade, underappreciated essays from the early twentieth century that offer an alternative vision of the concept and importance of wilderness, and writings meant to clarify or rethink the concept of wilderness. Narrative writers such as Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Marilynne Robinson, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Lynn Laitala are also given a voice in order to show how the wilderness debate is expanding outside the academy.
The writers represented in the anthology include ecologists, environmental philosophers, conservation biologists, cultural geographers, and environmental activists. The book begins with little-known papers by early twentieth-century ecologists advocating the preservation of natural areas for scientific study, not, as did Thoreau, Muir, and the early Leopold, for purposes of outdoor recreation. The editors argue that had these writers influenced the eventual development of federal wilderness policy, our national wilderness system would better serve contemporary conservation priorities for representative ecosystems and biodiversity.
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