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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $36.81
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Manufacturer: Esri Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dr. David Maidment
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Publisher: Esri Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 553.70285
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Publication Date: 2002-08-01
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Reading Level: 220
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Description: Written for hydrologists, GIS specialists, and scientists from many disciplines who create computer models of water resources, this book presents an improved standard for creating and using data in hydrologic projects. The ArcGIS hydro data model is the latest innovation in GIS modeling and increases the potential to integrate data from many sources to solve a wider range of water resource problems. This guide shows how hydrology projects work and how they can work better: by integrating local, regional, national, and international data to create a deeper understanding of the earth's water problems.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.92
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Carle
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 634.961809794
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Publication Date: 2008-08-04
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Reading Level: 236
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Description: What is fire? How are wildfires ignited? How do California's weather and topography influence fire? How did the California Indians use fire? In the spirit of his highly acclaimed Introduction to Air in California and Introduction to Water in California, David Carle now turns to another fundamental element of the natural world, giving a fascinating and concise view of this complex topic. His clearly written, dramatically illustrated book will help Californians, including the millions who live near naturally flammable wildlands, better understand their own place in the state's landscape. Carle covers the basics of fire ecology; looks at the effects of fire on wildlife, soil, water, and air; discusses firefighting organizations and land management agencies; explains current policies; and explores many other topics.
Introduction to Fire in California features:
* 91 color illustrations and 15 maps
* Tips on what to do before, during, and after fires
* An overview of major wildfires in California's history
* A discussion of the effect of climate change on fires in natural landscapes
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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $8.79
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.30978
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Publication Date: 1998-11-15
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: This comprehensive field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forests of California and the Pacific Northwest. With 53 color plates and 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, moths, and other insects.
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Price: $28.00
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Sale: $12.90
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Bruce M. Beehler
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.31520913
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Publication Date: 2008-04-22
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Perhaps it is not possible to experience all the mysterious sounds, the unfamiliar smells, and the spectacular sights of a tropical rainforest without ever visiting one. But this exhilarating and honest book comes wondrously close to taking the reader on such a journey. Bruce M. Beehler, a widely traveled expert on birds and tropical ecology, recounts fascinating details from twelve field trips he has taken to the tropics over the past three decades. As a researcher, he brings to life the exotic rainforests and the people who inhabit them; as a conservationist, he makes a plea for better ways of managing rainforests—“a resource that the world cannot do without.” Drawing on his experiences in Papua New Guinea, India, Madagascar, Indonesia, the Philippines, Panama, and the Ivory Coast, Beehler describes the surprises—both pleasant and unpleasant—of doing science and conservation in the field. He explains the role that rainforests play in the lives of indigenous peoples and the crucial importance of understanding local cultures, customs, and politics. The author concludes with simple but tough solutions for maintaining rainforest health, expressing fervent hope that his great-grandchildren and others may one day also hear the rainforest whisper its secrets. |
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $12.82
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Manufacturer: Gem Guides Book Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James R. Mitchell::James R. Mitchell
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Publisher: Gem Guides Book Company
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 553.8097949
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Publication Date: 2003-01
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Reading Level: 214
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Description: Detailed maps and descriptive text lead the rockhound to over 82 of the best collecting locales for gems, minerals, and fossils. Numerous black and white photos aid in locating the collecting area and color photos help with specimen identification. Includes a handy mineral locator index, glossary and helpful contact information.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $29.10
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ted Steinberg
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7130973
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Publication Date: 2008-03-25
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: "This book will try to change the way you think about American history," writes Ted Steinberg in the opening line of Down to Earth. That's an ambitious claim, but not far off the mark. His fascinating book is essentially an environmental history of the United States, with the author paying particular attention to how elements of nature became commodities and thereby isolated Americans from the natural world. Readers don't have to subscribe to this neo-Marxist concept in order to appreciate Steinberg's observations about everything from the old-time urban problem of horse excrement ("the nineteenth-century equivalent of auto pollution") to the massive amounts of garbage produced by fast-food chains (McDonald's, he says, requires "an area equivalent in size to more than 450,000 football fields" to supply its paper needs). He also tells what may be the first-ever natural history of the Civil War. This may sound idiosyncratic, and to some extent it is, yet Steinberg weaves it all together and makes the underappreciated point that "it is quite simply wrong to view the natural world as an unchanging backdrop to the past." It changes all the time, he writes, and it has shaped Americans in ways that few of them understand. --John Miller
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Price: $37.50
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Sale: $32.92
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Manufacturer: Island Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter H. Gleick::Heather Cooley::David Katz::Emily Lee
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Publisher: Island Press
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Edition: 2006-2007
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363
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Publication Date: 2006-11-02
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Reading Level: 392
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Description: Produced biennially, The World's Water provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the most significant current trends worldwide, and offers the best data available on a variety of water-related topics.
The 2006-2007 volume features overview chapters on:
* water and terrorism
* business risks of water
* water and ecosystems
* floods and droughts
* desalination
* environmental justice and water
This new volume contains an updated chronology of global conflicts associated with water, as well as an assessment of recent water conferences, including 4th World Water Forum. It also offers a brief review of issues surrounding the use of bottled water and the possible existence of water on Mars.
From perhaps the world's leading authority on water issues, The World's Water is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information and analysis on freshwater resources and the political, economic, scientific, and technological issues associated with them. It is an essential reference for water resource professionals in government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, researchers, students, and anyone concerned with water and its use.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $18.95
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Manufacturer: Gateway
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Viktor Schauberger
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Publisher: Gateway
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577
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Publication Date: 1998-02
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Reading Level: 218
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Description: More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized power station is presently able to produce - Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) WATER - all life depends upon it. Yet how often do we stop to consider it true significance, its essential nature? Viktor Schauberger was a pioneering genius who combined keen observation of Nature with intuitive brilliance and a sharp engineer's brain. He made a lifelong study of water - from mountain streams to river flows and from domestic supplies to advanced hydraulics - developing profound and radical theories about its inherent energies, which earned him the name of 'The Water Wizard'. According to Schauberger, water is akin to blood in the human body - the most important life-giving and energy-empowering, substance on the planet. Yet, with incorrect, ignorant handling, it becomes diseased, affecting human, animal and vegetable life alike, causing physical decay and, in the case of people, their moral, mental and spiritual deterioration as well. Schauberger was a fearless exponent of natural energy and a fascinating polemicist, revelling in doing battle with contemporary orthodox scientists. Sadly, the same extractive and water management policies which brought devastation and widespread pollution in his day have even greater consequences today. Themes addressed include: - The natural pulsation of water and how to maintain it - How minute differences in temperature affect the natural function of water in the earth, in plants and in rivers. - How to regulate rivers without damaging their vitality and health - The natural conversion of sea-water into fresh water - The consequences of sterilisation and chlorination of water The 'Eco-Technology' series, in four volumes of which this is the first, makes available for the first time Victor Schauberger's original writings and passionate debates. Other books by Viktor Schauberger Energy Evolution The Fertile Earth Nature as Teacher.
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Sale: $93.77
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Larry W. Mays
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Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: 2005
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Dewey Decimal Number: 627
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Publication Date: 2004-11-01
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Reading Level: 860
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Description: Learn the principles and practice of water resources engineering from a leader in the field!
Now updated with a new chapter on sedimentation (Chapter 18), this 2005 Edition of Larry Mays's Water Resources Engineering provides you with the state-of-the-art in the field. With remarkable range and depth of coverage, Professor Mays presents a straightforward, easy-to-understand presentation of hydraulic and hydrologic processes using the control volume approach. He then extends these processes into practical applications for water use and water excess, including water distribution systems, stormwater control, and flood control. With its strong emphasis on analysis and design, this text will be a resource you'll refer to throughout your career!
Features: - New! A new chapter covers sedimentation.
- Practical applications will prepare you for engineering practice.
- Coverage spans an extraordinary range of topics.
- Many example problems with solutions will help you hone your problem-solving skills.
- Practice problems at the end of each chapter offer you the opportunity to apply what you've learned.
- Includes a review of basic fluid concepts and the control volume approach to fluid mechanics.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $2.94
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Spike Walker
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Edition: 1st pbk. ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 639.544
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Publication Date: 1993-03-15
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and super-human stretches of on-deck labor); but the payback, if one survives can be tens of thousands of dollars for a month-long season.In a breathtaking, action-packed account that combines his personal story with the stories of survivors of the industry's most harrowing disasters, Spike Walker re-creates the boom years of Alaskan crab fishing--a modern-day gold rush that drew hundreds of fortune-and adventure-hunters to Alaska's dangerous waters--and the crash that followed.
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