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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $19.96
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Manufacturer: DK ADULT
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Paul Schullery
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Publisher: DK ADULT
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.304931
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Publication Date: 2001-09-01
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Reading Level: 408
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Description: From stunning mountain ranges to arid expanses of desert, America has been blessed with an incredibly diverse land -- and the vision to protect it for our and future generations to enjoy. These lands are ours to view, wander, learn from, and revel in. America's National Parks captures all that is great about all fifty-six parks in the national park system. It also gives interesting, easy-to-understand background on the geological and ecological forces that continue to make each national park so worthy of protection. Nature lovers will be captivated by gorgeous photos of landforms, flora, and fauna. Families will appreciate the information that is sure to enhance vacations at the parks. And visitors to any of the country's national parks will forever treasure this book as a memento of past visits and an inspiration for future ones. Unlike any other book published on national parks, America's National Parks is a must-have for anyone who relishes America's natural wonders and wants to learn more about the powerful forces that created them.
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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $50.82
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Malcolm L., Jr. Hunter::James P. Gibbs
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9516
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Publication Date: 2006-10-30
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Reading Level: 516
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Description: In the new edition of this highly successful book, Malcolm Hunter and new co-author James Gibbs offer a thorough introduction to the fascinating and important field of conservation biology, focusing on what can be done to maintain biodiversity through management of ecosystems and populations.
- Starting with a succinct look at conservation and biodiversity, this book progresses to contend with some of the subject’s most complex topics, such as mass extinctions, ecosystem degradation, and over exploitation.
- Discusses social, political, and economic aspects of conservation biology.
- Thoroughly revised with over six hundred new references and web links to many of the organizations involved in conservation biology, striking photographs and maps.
Artwork from the book is available to instructors online at www.blackwellpublishing.com/hunter and by request on CD-ROM.
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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $8.25
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Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Schneider
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 974.75
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Publication Date: 1998-09-15
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: The vast Adirondack region of upstate New York is very much a wilderness, but one ringed by towns and close enough to major cities that it is heavily traveled. Long viewed as a natural playground, the Adirondacks were a favorite haunt of transcendentalist philosophers Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, of conservationists such as Franklin Burroughs and Theodore Roosevelt, of bohemians and hippies, and of back-to-the-land types. Still wild enough that wolf reintroduction has been proposed for the Adirondacks, the territory remains a powerfully inspiring place of refuge and recreation. Paul Schneider tells the story of this river-laced, forested land with imagination and a flair for just the right anecdote.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $8.64
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Muir
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Publisher: Mariner Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333
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Publication Date: 2001-08-20
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: During John Muir's extraordinary life as a conservationist, he traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is given major credit for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our generation a picture of an America still wild and unsettled only one hundred years ago. Edwin Way Teale has collected here the best of Muir's writing, selected from all of his major works, including MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA and TRAVELS IN ALASKA. THE WILDERNESS WORLD OF JOHN MUIR provides "reading that is often magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (Kirkus Reviews).
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stan Gibilisco
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.794
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Publication Date: 2006-10-23
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Reading Level: 322
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Description: The fast and easy way to get up-to-speed on alternative energy Because of current events, geopolitics, and natural disasters, the cost of fuel is front and center in our lives. This book provides a concise look at all forms of energy, including fossil fuels, electric, solar, biodiesel, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, and renewable fuel cells. You will get explanations, definitions, and analysis of each alternative energy source from a technological point of view.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $13.98
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alfred W. Crosby
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.79
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Publication Date: 2006-01-09
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: A master historian's spirited survey of humanity's strategies for tapping sun energy, past and future.
We don't often recognize the humble activity of cooking for the revolutionary cultural adaptation that it is. But when the hearth fires started burning in the Paleolithic, humankind broadened the exploitation of food and initiated an avalanche of change. And we don't often associate cooking with drilling for oil, but both are innovations that allow us to tap the sun energy accumulated in organic matter.
Alfred W. Crosby, a founder of the field of global history, reveals how humanity's successes hinge directly on effective uses of sun energy. But dwindling natural resources, global warming, and environmental pollution all testify to the limits of our fossil-fuel civilization. Although we haven't yet adopted a feasible alternative—just look at the embarrassment of "cold fusion" or the 2003 blackout that humbled North America—our ingenuity and adaptability as a species give us hope. 10 illustrations, map.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $18.89
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Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: MARK S. FOSTER
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Publisher: University Press of Florida
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7315092
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Publication Date: 2000-11-24
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: In the booming early years of the 20th century, few entrepreneurs rivaled Carl Fisher (1874-1939) for sheer energy and imagination. Born in Indiana, he began as a bicycle racer and salesman, made his first fortune perfecting and marketing the automobile headlight, helped build the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and headed promotion of the Indy 500, and was a moving force behind the development of the Lincoln and Dixie highways, America's first improved transcontinental roads. But all of these accomplishments were only prologue to his grandest adventure, as primary developer and promoter of Miami Beach. This definitive biography of Fisher, abundantly illustrated and written in an engaging style, captures the headiness of the period. Mark Foster traces Fisher's transformation of the South Florida landscape into a tourist's dream of golf, polo, deep sea fishing, and luxury hotels and his animation of that dream with bronzed lifeguards, bathing beauties flashing new swimsuit styles, and visiting dignitaries who generated a stream of tantalizing headlines. Foster also treats Fisher's troubles with labor and with Miami businessmen, his attempted development of Montauk on Long Island, New York, and the collapse of the entire Fisher enterprise in the wake of the 1926 hurricane and the great stock market crash of 1929. Throughout, he sets Fisher's insights, triumphs, loves, and shortcomings into the context of the early 20th century. This biography of a great corporate builder reveals the emergence of a new American way of life. The man whose genius for promotion turned a swampy spit of land into a luxurious urban locale also framed aspirations of leisure and entertainment for generations ofAmericans.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.90
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Manufacturer: AlterNet Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: AlterNet Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9116
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Publication Date: 2008-09-01
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: Water Consciousness is designed to change the way people think about water. It explores all aspects of the water crisis and what we can do about it. Compelling contributions by Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, Wenonah Hauter, Sandra Postel, Tony Clarke and other top environmental writers explain the problems and inspire readers to action. The book contains over 50 stunning photographs and a quiz to find out your own water footprint. Beautifully designed to be accessible to readers, it provides essays on privatization, bottled water, conservation, appropriate technology, lessons from indigenous cultures, and an argument for the need for new public policy on the right to water.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $16.47
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael Welland
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 553.622
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Publication Date: 2009-01-15
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials. Told by a geologist with a novelist's sense of language and narrative, Sand examines the science--sand forensics, the physics of granular materials, sedimentology, paleontology and archaeology, planetary exploration--and at the same time explores the rich human context of sand. Interwoven with tales of artists, mathematicians, explorers, and even a vampire, the story of sand is an epic of environmental construction and destruction, an adventure in staggering scales of time and distance, yet a tale that encompasses the ordinary and everyday. Sand, in fact, is all around us--it has made possible our computers, buildings and windows, toothpaste, cosmetics, and paper, and it has played dramatic roles in human history, commerce, and imagination. In this luminous, kinetic, revelatory account, we do indeed find the world in a grain of sand.
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Price: $117.80
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Sale: $99.95
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James R. Craig::David J. Vaughan::Brian J. Skinner
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7
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Publication Date: 2001-01-08
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Reading Level: 520
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Description: Extensively illustrated, balanced, broad–based, and up–to–date, this book explores the nature and critical issues of all major types of earth resources--energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water, soil--and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. It provides geologic background of resource formation and occurrence of most of the various types of resources; offers an international perspective; discusses resources not only from the scientific point of view, but also from the point of economic, political, historical considerations; and considers how the extraction and use of the resources creates impacts--local or global, immediate or delayed, visible or invisible, singular or cumulative. Minerals: The Foundations of Society. Plate Tectonics and The Origins of Mineral Resources. Earth's Resources Through History. Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation and Use. Energy from Fossil Fuels. Nuclear Power and Alternative Energy Sources. Abundant Metals. The Geochemically Scare Metals. Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals. Building Materials and Other Industrial Minerals. Water Resources. Soil as a Resource. Future Resources. For anyone interested in earth resources.
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