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Price: $44.95
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Sale: $29.67
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David L. Meyer::Richard Arnold Davis
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 560.17310977178
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Publication Date: 2009-01
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years ago--some 250 million years before the dinosaurs lived. In Ordovician time, the shallow sea that covered much of what is now the North American continent teemed with marine life. The Cincinnati area has yielded some of the world's most abundant and best-preserved fossils of invertebrate animals such as trilobites, bryozoans, brachiopods, molluscs, echinoderms, and graptolites. So famous are the Ordovician fossils and rocks of the Cincinnati region that geologists use the term "Cincinnatian" for strata of the same age all over North America. This book synthesizes more than 150 years of research on this fossil treasure-trove, describing and illustrating the fossils, the life habits of the animals represented, their communities, and living relatives, as well as the nature of the rock strata in which they are found and the environmental conditions of the ancient sea.
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Sale: $17.98
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Zachary Sharp
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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Edition: 27
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2008-02-20
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: This Twenty-Seventh Edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: ENVIRONMENT 07/08 provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor�s resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.mhcls.com/online.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.95
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Walter Alvarez
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 576.84
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Publication Date: 2008-07-21
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: One of the great mysteries is what happened to the dinosaurs, and it has taken great detective work to give us an answer. In T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, some brilliant, not to mention determined, scientists roam the world and seek out the clues. What they conclude is that the earth withstood a colossal impact with a meteor (or perhaps a comet) 65 million years ago. The resulting cataclysm destroyed half the life on the planet. Walter Alvarez, a geologist at the University of California at Berkeley, and one of the four scientists who present this theory on the mystery, tells the story in a clear narrative that contains a wealth of scientific material. The book does require an investment of attention, but the presentation is quite readable, and the story itself is fascinating.
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Sale: $86.97
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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: Dorothy Merritts::Andrew De Wet::Kirsten Menking
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Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Dewey Decimal Number: 550
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Publication Date: 1998-12-15
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Reading Level: 550
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Description: Using the Earth systems approach, Dr Merritts and her colleagues guide readers towards an understanding of Earth's varied environments, the whole-Earth systems connecting them and the ramifications of natural events and human interaction. Each of the Earth systems - solid Earth, fluid and energy systems - is treated in detail and discussed in relation to people, hazards, management and change.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $31.32
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Edition: Har/Cdr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 567.9129
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Publication Date: 2008-07
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Reading Level: 435
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Description: With its massive head, enormous jaws, and formidable teeth, Tyrannosaurus rex has long been the young person's favorite creepy carnivore in the Mesozoic zoo. Nor has T. rex been ignored by the scientific community, as this new collection amply demonstrates. Scientists explore such questions as why T. rexhad such small forelimbs; how the dinosaur moved; what bone pathologies tell us about life in the Cretaceous; and whether T. rex was a predator, a scavenger, or both. There are reports on newly discovered skeletons, on variation and sexual dimorphism, and how the big beasts chewed. The methods used by the contributors to unlock the mysteries of T. rex range from "old fashioned" stratigraphy to contemporary computer modelling. Together they yield a wealth of new information about one of the dinosaur world's most famous carnivores. An enclosed CD-ROM presents additional photographic and filmed reconstructions of the mighty beast.
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Sale: $95.17
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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: Loren E. Babcock
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Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2008-10-20
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Reading Level: 480
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Description: Presenting a new vision in the field, this compelling book explores Earth's history as a series of interrelated processes that continue to have significant outcomes for humans and other living things. It captures the excitement of historical geology by utilizing active, visually rich learning methods. Readers will gain a strong understanding of the fundamental concepts used in the interpretation of Earth's physical, chemical, and biological evolution over the last 4.5 billion years. They'll also discover how to interpret the interaction of living creatures with their environments through time by following the book's innovative framework.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $3.98
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Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bradford Angier
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Publisher: Stackpole Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 622.1841
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Publication Date: 1975-03
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Learn to prospect with detailed instructions for mining lode gold and panning for placer gold deposits. Includes success stories; places to start; detailed line drawings showing how to build flames, rockers, dry washers, riffles and sluices; and how to stake your claim.
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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: $24.95
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Sale: $6.50
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Manufacturer: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Smithsonian Institution::Jeffrey E. Post
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Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
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Dewey Decimal Number: 553.8074753
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Publication Date: 2005-09-01
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History holds the world's greatest collection of gems. In this beautiful book, now available in paperback, Dr. Jeffrey E. Post, curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection, discusses everything from diamonds, rubies, and emeralds to jade and lapis lazuli, as well as the Hope Diamond and other world-famous stones in the museum's collection. More than 100 stunning photographs capture the colors and brilliance of these wonders of the mineral kingdom.
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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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