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Price: $26.00
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Sale: $15.31
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Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James W. Skehan
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: First
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.46
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Publication Date: 2008-09-20
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: The small chunk of North America enclosed within the state boundaries of Connecticut and Rhode Island includes parts of at least six former continents, microcontinents, and volcanic island chains, each with its own geologic history. Roadside Geology of Connecticut and Rhode Island introduces readers to the sequence of mountain-building collisions that welded the pieces of land together and to the subsequent upwelling of magma that nearly broke them apart again. Twenty road
guides, complete with maps, photographs, and diagrams, locate
and interpret the rocks and landforms visible from the state s
highways and at nearby parks and historic sites. Readers will discover stretched pebbles at Purgatory Chasm, folded marble
at Kent Falls State Park, Eubrontes footprints at Dinosaur State Park, and glacial moraines protruding from the waters of Long Island and Block Island Sounds.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.21
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Manufacturer: Sierra Club Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Sierra Club Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7
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Publication Date: 2005-10-01
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Reading Level: 414
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Description: This much anticipated follow-up to Dr. Robert D. Bullard’s highly acclaimed Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color captures the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights abuses at the grassroots level around the world, and challenging government and industry. policies and globalization trends that place people of color and the poor at special risk.
Part I presents an overview of the early environmental justice movement and highlights key leadership roles assumed by women activists. Part II examines the lives of people living in “sacrifice zones”—toxic corridors (such as Louisiana’s infamous “Cancer Alley”) where high concentrations of polluting industries are found. Part III explores land use, land rights, resource extraction, and sustainable development conflicts, including Chicano struggles in America’s Southwest. Part IV examines human rights and global justice issues, including an analysis of South Africa’s legacy of environmental racism and the corruption and continuing violence plaguing the oil-rich Niger Delta.
Together, the diverse contributors to this much-anticipated follow-up anthology present an inspiring and illuminating picture of the environmental justice movement in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $21.92
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Manufacturer: Grand Canyon Association
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ron Blakey::Wayne Ranney
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Publisher: Grand Canyon Association
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2008-10-01
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Imagine seeing the varied landscapes of the earth as they used to look throughout hundreds of millions of years of earth history. Tropical seas lap on the shores of an Arizona beach. Immense sand dunes shift and swirl in Sahara-like deserts in Utah and New Mexico. Ancient rivers spill from a mountain range in Colorado that was a precursor to the modern Rockies. Such flights of geologic fancy are now tangible through the thought-provoking and beautiful paleogeographic maps, reminiscent of the maps in world atlases we all paged through as children, of Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau.Ron Blakey of Northern Arizona University is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the geologic history of the Colorado Plateau. For more than fifteen years, he has meticulously created maps that show how numerous past landscapes gave rise to the region’s stunning geologic formations. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau is the first book to showcase Blakey’s remarkable work. His maps are accompanied by text by Wayne Ranney, geologist and award-winning author of Carving Grand Canyon. Ranney takes readers on a fascinating tour of the many landscapes depicted in the maps, and Blakey and Ranney’s fruitful collaboration brings the past alive like never before.Features:
More than 70 state-of-the-art paleogeographic maps of the region and of the world, developed over many years of geologic research
Detailed yet accessible text that covers the geology of the plateau in a way nongeologists can appreciate
More than 100 full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations
A detailed guide of where to go to see the spectacular rocks of the region
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $7.00
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Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David D. Alt
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Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.79209795
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Publication Date: 2001-05-01
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods tells the tale of a huge Ice Age lake that, when it suddenly drained, unleashed more then ten times the combined flow of all the modern rivers of the world. The book follows the path of the floodwaters as they raged from western Montana across the Idaho Panhandle, then scoured eastern Washington and rushed down the Columbia Gorge to the Pacific Ocean.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $6.40
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marcia Bjornerud
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2006-10-30
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: For readers of John McPhee and Stephen Jay Gould, this engaging armchair guide to the making of the rock record shows how to understand messages written in stone. To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and idiosyncratic journal of its past. Fulbright Scholar Marcia Bjornerud takes the reader along on an eye-opening tour of Deep Time, explaining in elegant prose what we see and feel beneath our feet. Both scientist and storyteller, Bjornerud uses anecdotes and metaphors to remind us that our home is a living thing with lessons to teach. Containing a glossary and detailed timescale, as well as vivid descriptions and historic accounts, Reading the Rocks is literally a history of the world, for all friends of the Earth.
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Price: $151.95
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Sale: $135.95
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Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert E. Gabler::James F. Petersen::L. Michael Trapasso::Dorothy Sack
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Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Edition: 9
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910
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Publication Date: 2008-07-15
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Reading Level: 641
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Description: PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, Ninth Edition, uses the combined expertise of four respected geographers to show how Earth’s physical geography impacts humans, and how humans impact Earth’s physical geography. The text emphasizes three essential themes to demonstrate the major roles for the discipline -- Geography as a Physical Science, Geography as the Spatial Science, and Geography as Environmental Science. With a renewed focus on examining relationships and processes among Earth systems, this text will help you understand how the various systems interrelate and how humans are an integral aspect of geography. Historically the first book to take a conservation approach, the authors continue to emphasize the theme of environmental and human impacts.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $18.95
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Manufacturer: Gem Guides Book Co
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Brad Lee Cross::June Culp Zeitner
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Publisher: Gem Guides Book Co
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Dewey Decimal Number: 552
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Publication Date: 2006-04-30
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Reading Level: 292
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Description: In this book two renowned experts share their lifelong passion for geodes and their extensive knowledge of world-class geode deposits as they present the latest theories on the formation and occurrence of these amazing mineral gifts of nature. Visit the geode mines of Northern Mexico and Southern Brazil with Brad Cross. Learn the geode mining process and how the astonishing treasures hidden inside are uncovered. Travel with June Culp Zeitner as she explores vast geode deposits throughout the Midwestern U.S. that provide a recorded history of the ancient seas that once covered the land. Discover Florida's ocean harvest of unparalleled agatized geodes. Meet the close cousins of geodes--thundereggs, septarians and concretions. See over 140 full-color photos of geodes that defy description!
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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: $45.95
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Sale: $34.44
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Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Open University
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Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.4701
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Publication Date: 2001-10-17
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Reading Level: 286
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Description: This second edition retains the general structure of the first edition, but
has been updated in the light of recent oceanographic research, and improved
as a teaching text on the basis of feedback from past students and other
readers.
Notable additions include new sections addressing the topic of
numerical modelling, and more discussion of natural oscillations in the
ocean-atmosphere system (previously confined to the El Niño phenomenon). In
particular, the Chapter on the North Atlantic now includes a discussion of
the North Atlantic Oscillation, as well as of the Great Salinity Anomaly. In
the final Chapter, treatment of water mass formation has been updated to
reflect recent ideas about the processes involved and how they relate to
climatic change over different time-scales, from decades to millennia.
High quality full colour diagrams
Substantial chapter summaries ideal for revision
Answers, hints and notes for questions at back of the book
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Price: $105.20
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Sale: $68.99
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David F. McCarthy
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 7
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Dewey Decimal Number: 624.15136
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Publication Date: 2006-09-02
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Reading Level: 864
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Description: "Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundations: Basic Geotechnics, 7/e" provides a clear, detailed presentation of soil mechanics: the background and basics, the engineering properties and behavior of soil deposits, and the application of soil mechanics theories. This new edition features a separate chapter on earthquakes, a more logical organization, and new material relating to pile foundations design and construction and soil permeability. It's rich applications, well illustrated examples, end-of-chapter problems and detailed explanations make it an excellent reference for practicing engineers, architects, geologists, environmental specialists, and more! Covers new developments in geotechnical topics such as: Soil Properties and Analyses Pile Foundation Design and Testing Micropiles Soil Nail Walls Launched Soil Nails Soil Improvment Includes a more extensive scope of topics and clear, well developed presentations. Emphasizes how subject material can be used in the field. An excellent reference for practicing engineers, architects, geologists, environmental specialists and construction materials testing laboratories.
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