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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $48.46
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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: Roger S. Bivand::Edzer J. Pebesma::Virgilio Gómez-Rubio
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 519.50285
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Publication Date: 2008-08-14
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Reading Level: 378
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Description: Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R is divided into two basic parts, the first presenting R packages, functions, classes and methods for handling spatial data. This part is of interest to users who need to access and visualise spatial data. Data import and export for many file formats for spatial data are covered in detail, as is the interface between R and the open source GRASS GIS. The second part showcases more specialised kinds of spatial data analysis, including spatial point pattern analysis, interpolation and geostatistics, areal data analysis and disease mapping. The coverage of methods of spatial data analysis ranges from standard techniques to new developments, and the examples used are largely taken from the spatial statistics literature. All the examples can be run using R contributed packages available from the CRAN website, with code and additional data sets from the book's own website. This book will be of interest to researchers who intend to use R to handle, visualise, and analyse spatial data. It will also be of interest to spatial data analysts who do not use R, but who are interested in practical aspects of implementing software for spatial data analysis. It is a suitable companion book for introductory spatial statistics courses and for applied methods courses in a wide range of subjects using spatial data, including human and physical geography, geographical information systems, the environmental sciences, ecology, public health and disease control, economics, public administration and political science. The book has a website where coloured figures, complete code examples, data sets, and other support material may be found: http://www.asdar-book.org. The authors have taken part in writing and maintaining software for spatial data handling and analysis with R in concert since 2003.
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $30.00
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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: Andy Goldsworthy
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Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Dewey Decimal Number: 730.92
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Publication Date: 1994-03-01
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Reading Level: 120
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Description: Here is an arresting look at art that uses slate, limestone, river boulders, sand, mud and clay--all created by young Scottish artist Goldsworthy. Stone reflects the artist's increasingly strong conviction that the places in which he works are as essential a part of his art as that which he creates. 130 full-color photographs.
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Price: $114.40
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Sale: $67.49
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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: W. Kenneth Hamblin::Eric H. Christiansen
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 10
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Dewey Decimal Number: 550
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Publication Date: 2003-07-27
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Reading Level: 816
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Description: For Introductory courses in Physical or Introductory Geology found in departments of Geology, Earth Science, or Physical Science. Significantly revised to be an optimum learning tool, the Tenth Edition of Earth's Dynamic Systems maintains its solid coverage of the two major energy systems of Earth: the plate tectonic system and the hydrologic cycle. Boasting a new, highly accessible four-part organization, this renowned text fulfills the needs of professors with current content and a striking illustration package, while exposing students to the global view of Earth and teaching them to look at the world as geologists do.
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Sale: $41.82
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Manufacturer: W. H. Freeman
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bruce Bolt
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Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Edition: Fifth Edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2005-08-05
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Reading Level: 320
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Sale: $84.67
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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: George H. Davis::Stephen J. Reynolds
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Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.8
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Publication Date: 1996-01-19
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Reading Level: 800
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Description: When author George Davis conceptualized the cover illustration for the first edition of Structural Geology of Rocks and Regions, he wanted to emphasize that the human adventure of learning comes from doing; and that new insight springs from careful, detailed examination of field relationships, viewed at all scales from rocks to regions. He asked illustrator David Fisher to combine four photos into the single painting, you see here. The geologist is enveloped by challenging structural relationships of folded rocks in outcrop; the curvature of back and neck, torqued as eyes and brain move closer and closer to clipboard, is the classic language of geologic mapping. When George Davis and new co-author Steve Reynolds contemplated the cover illustration for the second edition of Structural Geology of Rocks and Regions, they asked: "Who else is in the picture?" Stepping back, and handing David Fisher a couple of additional photos, the scene suddenly changed. The original geologist who had been sitting on the outcrop recording data is now up and walking around, gathering new data. A second geologist has moved into the new foreground, mapping and sketching a system of small-scale imbricate faults. Again, the head is torqued to handle the requirements of fine description and careful mapping. Like so many structural geologists, she seems to thrive on visualization of three-dimensional relationships.
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Sale: $59.00
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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: Brian J. Skinner::Stephen C. Porter
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Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: 5
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Dewey Decimal Number: 550
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Publication Date: 2003-04-29
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Reading Level: 648
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Description: With authoritative and detailed coverage, Skinner and Porter address all key areas of physical geology, as well as recent events that have shaped our world. The new edition is updated to address the latest in geoscientific research, theory, and knowledge.
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Price: $148.00
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Sale: $66.57
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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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Sale: $112.50
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Donald Prothero::Jr.,Robert Dott::Donald Prothero::Jr., Robert Dott
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Edition: 7
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.7
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Publication Date: 2003-07-15
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Reading Level: 576
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Description: Evolution of the Earth reveals the logical framework of geology, shows relations of the science to the totality of human knowledge, and gives some idea of what it is to be a participant in the discipline. In keeping with the preference for a "How do we know?" rather than "What do we know?" approach, the authors stress what assumptions are made by earth historians, what kinds of evidence (and tools for gathering that evidence), and what processes of reasoning and limitations of hypotheses are involved in reconstructing and interpreting the past. Each chapter begins with a list of highlights entitled "Major Concepts". Many chapters have a summary timeline that puts the entire sequence of events into a quick visual reference frame. The use of dioramas and reconstructions of extinct animals and plants has been greatly expanded, so that students can get a more vivid concept of typical life in any part of the geologic past. In many places, the authors have supplied a full page of color photos of classic fossils from each period to improve the visual recognition of the organisms that give life its distinctive history. The areas of hottest controversy, such as mass extinctions, dinosaur endothermy, the origin of life, and controversies over late Proterozoic tectonics and glaciation, have been given separate sections so that students can appreciate the different sides of the debates. (Electronic images are available on CD-ROM through your local McGraw-Hill Sales Representative.)
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.99
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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: Doug Macdougall
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.792
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Publication Date: 2006-05-02
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Reading Level: 267
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Description: In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation--nearly three billion years ago--to the present. Following the development of scientific ideas about these dramatic events, Macdougall traces the lives of many of the brilliant and intriguing characters who have contributed to the evolving understanding of how ice ages come about. As it explains how the great Pleistocene Ice Age has shaped the earth's landscape and influenced the course of human evolution, Frozen Earth also provides a fascinating look at how science is done, how the excitement of discovery drives scientists to explore and investigate, and how timing and chance play a part in the acceptance of new scientific ideas.
Macdougall describes the awesome power of cataclysmic floods that marked the melting of the glaciers of the Pleistocene Ice Age. He probes the chilling evidence for "Snowball Earth," an episode far back in the earth's past that may have seen our planet encased in ice from pole to pole. He discusses the accumulating evidence from deep-sea sediment cores, as well as ice cores from Greenland and the Antarctic, that suggests fast-changing ice age climates may have directly impacted the evolution of our species and the course of human migration and civilization. Frozen Earth also chronicles how the concept of the ice age has gripped the imagination of scientists for almost two centuries. It offers an absorbing consideration of how current studies of Pleistocene climate may help us understand earth's future climate changes, including the question of when the next glacial interval will occur.
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Price: $3.99
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Sale: $0.78
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Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Eric Arnold
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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.21
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Publication Date: 1997-06-10
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Reading Level: 48
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: Young readers learn what it is like to witness the eruption of one of nature's majestic time bombs and read about some of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history. Full color.
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