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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $1.88
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Manufacturer: Falcon
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William A. Kappele
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Publisher: Falcon
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917
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Publication Date: 1998-06-01
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: From agate and fossils in the land of the dinosaurs to the 14,000-foot peak of Mount Antero, Rockhounding Colorado takes you to 78 of the best rockhounding sites in the state. Lively text, accurate maps, and clear route descriptions enable you to find rhodonite, agate, pyrite, quartz, and much more. Visit hundred-year-old mines in the San Juan Mountains. Gather beautiful green, white, and purple fluorite at Saint Peter's Dome. Rockhounding adventures abound in Colorado for beginners and experts alike, and this guide has the information you'll need on where to go, what to look for, and how to find it.
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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $29.99
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Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Wendell E. Wilson::Joel A. Bartsch::Mark Mauthner
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Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Dewey Decimal Number: 549.074
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Publication Date: 2004-11-01
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Reading Level: 264
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Description: The collection of natural mineral crystals housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is the ?nest and best known in the world. Now the treasures of this singular collection are shown in resplendent photographs that will seduce both the connoisseur of beauty and the student of natural history. The spectacular and rare specimens on display here, from a huge imperial topaz crystal weighing more than 2,000 carats to a crystallized gold cluster that is one of the most highly coveted objects in the mineral kingdom, are true masterpieces, the Rembrandts and Picassos of the natural world. Like fine art, minerals are prized for their aesthetic qualities, color, luster, sculptural composition, and for their provenance. Avidly pursued by naturalists throughout the centuries, precious metals and gem crystals have a fascinating history. Stories regarding the pursuit and discovery of these precious natural objects, including tales of good luck and hardship, are related in these pages. Essays that explore connoisseurship in the mineral kingdom and chronicle the history of this noble pursuit add to the appeal of this unique volume.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $23.70
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Chris Kitchin
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.80222
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Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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Reading Level: 149
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Description: There are many books on finding your way round the night sky, but the Photo-guide to the Constellations is unique in showing photographs of how the sky really looks under a variety of different seeing conditions, from city outskirts to the almost-perfect skies deep in the countryside. Along with a detailed step-by-step guide to "star hopping" and other useful techniques, these make this an invaluable guide for all newcomers to astronomy.
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Price: $5.95
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Sale: $2.48
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Manufacturer: Waterford Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James Kavanagh
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Publisher: Waterford Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2001-01-01
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Reading Level: 12
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Description: The Pocket Naturalist card is a pocket-sized, folding card which provides simplified, easy-to-use introduction to familiar North American rocks, gems, minerals and fossils. Maps show distribution of important rocks and minerals. Every card is laminated so that it is waterproof and practical for use in the field.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $21.02
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Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Lauf
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Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 553.493
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Publication Date: 2007-12-07
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: Collectors have long admired uranium and thorium minerals for their brilliant colors, intense ultraviolet fluorescence, and rich variety of habits and associates. Radioactive minerals are also critically important as our source of nuclear energy. Understanding them is crucial to the safe disposal of radioactive waste. This book provides a systematic overview of the mineralogy of uranium and thorium, generously illustrated with nearly 200 color photos and electron micrographs of representative specimens. Includes an historical discussion of the discovery of radioactive elements and the development of uranium and thorium ore deposits, a discussion of the geochemical conditions that produce significant deposits, and a description of important localities, their geological setting and history. Major occurrences of interest to mineral collectors are arranged geographically. The minerals are arranged systematically, to emphasize how they fit into chemical groups, and for each group a few minerals are selected to illustrate their formation and general characteristics. With the resurgence of interest in nuclear power, this book is an invaluable guide for mineral collectors as well as nuclear scientists and engineers interested in radioactive deposits.
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Price: $37.99
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Sale: $32.42
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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: Michael E. Bakich
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.80223
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Publication Date: 1995-09-29
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Constellations are not new to astronomy. Even before the era of printing, patterns of stars have been recognized by humans and their histories have been passed on from generation to generation, culture to culture. This book is the ultimate constellation reference book. Finally, a book exists that brings together a variety of information about constellations, including: the size, visibility, and relative brightness of all eighty-eight constellations; former locations of extinct constellations; the number of visible stars in each constellation; and more. Using tables, this information is presented in the first part of the book so that constellations can be readily compared and a general view of them developed. In the second part of the book, each constellation is taken in turn, with a star chart and map illustrating the associated celestial figure, supported by a comprehensive list of essential properties. This highly illustrated volume provides the most complete reference to date covering all aspects of the constellations and will be helpful for astronomers, both amateur and professional, educators and science writers.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $14.51
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Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert J. Lauf
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Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 552
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Publication Date: 2008-07-28
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: Over 90 striking color photos display minerals of the epidote group, well known to mineral collectors for their rich colors and the many interesting minerals with which they occur. Lapidary artists also value epidote, particularly in the form of unakite, and precious or semiprecious varieties of the related mineral zoisite, including thulite and tanzanite, some which have inclusions that allow them to be cut into popular catseyes. This informative book provides all presently known species, detailed entries for each of the eighteen minerals, and extensive locality information. This book will be of interest to those interested in developing a better understanding of silicate minerals.
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $45.00
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Manufacturer: Fitzhenry and Whiteside
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nick Eyles::Andrew Miall
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Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.1
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Publication Date: 2007-10-22
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Reading Level: 450
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Description: For anyone curious about the geological history of our country, Canada Rocks is a marvelous portrait of what the authors describe as the incredible 4 billion year 'construction project' that gave shape to the continents, mountains, and oceans of planet Earth, and created the world's second largest country - Canada. Profusely illustrated throughout with full colour and black and white photographs, charts, maps, graphs and sketches, the book explores the country from north to south, and from east to west, exploring that incredible history through modern day sites and land shapes created in our distant past. Read about: - Rocks in Point Pleasant Park in Halifax were once part of Morocco, left behind when the Atlantic Ocean came into being.
- Canada's Arctic regions were formerly part of what today is Siberia. Greenland was once a part of Labrador.
- Fossils in a road cut in Cache Creek, British Columbia once lived in a sea that covered China.
- The violent collisions of continents and other land masses, the growth and decay of enormous mountain ranges, the impact of meteorites, and the comings and goings of vast ice sheets are explored in fascinating detail, as is the creation of our rocky resources from coal to diamonds.
An essential reference for students and anyone fascinated with the geological forces that created our country, the book includes a great many sites that can be visited for close-up study, making it an invaluable field guide for exploring our history and the world around us.
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Price: $32.50
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard Dibon-Smith
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Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.80223
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Publication Date: 1992-07-15
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: Which is larger, Sirius or Vega? What is the luminosity of Rigel? When will Mira come up to full brightness? Here's one simple-to-use reference which quickly answers these questions and many more. This handy star catalog gives the characteristics of over 2,000 stars to a brightness of 5.25 visual magnitude (plus many dimmer exceptions) updated with Epoch 2000 data. The book brings together information not available in any other single source. Employing a unique, easy-to-use constellation-by-constellation format, StarList 2000 gives you all these properties for each star: location, visual and absolute magnitude, spectra, distance in light years, proper motion, spatial and radial velocity, parallax, size, and luminosity. Notes compare discrepancies in data from well-known sources and point out additional interesting facts and figures about selected stars and deep sky objects, such as nearby nebulae. There are special sections on binaries and variables. Rapid-motion binaries are covered in detail, giving exact locations at January 1, 2000. There is also a collection of drawn orbits and a listing of orbital elements of selected binaries. Data on variable stars include type of variability, maximum and minimum visual magnitude, epoch, and period of variability. The author also offers a unique feature--"Most Favorable Viewing Date"--that tells readers when variables are expected to be at their brightest. StarList 2000 includes an appendix of computer programs for calculating such information as the Julian Date, the date of midnight transit for any star, and the azimuth and altitude of any star viewed from your own backyard. Indexes list stars by right ascension, popular name, and constellation.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $14.78
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Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert J. Lauf
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Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 552
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Publication Date: 2008-07-28
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: Mica is a broad term encompassing about forty minerals, ranging from the common to the rare, many at times forming excellent crystals jewelers use. This book feaures examples recently described among the 115 striking color photos and electron micrographs that illustrate the text. A detailed entry for each type includes information on where each is found, associations of micas with other minerals, pseudomorphs (minerals that masquerade as mica), and micas that fluoresce under UV light. This fascinating guide is for those interested in minerals.
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Displaying records 161 through 170 of 4000
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