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Price: $115.40
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Sale: $76.72
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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: Lee R. Kump::James F. Kasting::Robert G. Crane
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.1
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Publication Date: 2003-08-16
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: The first book of its kind that addresses the issues of global change from a perspective of Earth as a system, The Earth System offers a solid emphasis on lessons from Earth history that may guide decision-making in the future. This book teaches global change and how it affects our environment. Modern topics covered by this comprehensive book are the atmosphere and global warming, the circulation of the oceans, plate tectonics, ecosystems, the origin of Earth and life, the rise of oxygen and ozone depletion, biodiversity, and climate stability. Because of its incredibly detailed appendices, tables, and suggestions for further reading, this will make an excellent reference work for geologists, oceanographers, meteorologists, and geographers.
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Price: $79.20
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Sale: $56.68
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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Author: Edward J. Tarbuck::Frederick K. Lutgens::Kenneth G. Pinzke::Dennis Tasa
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 6
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Dewey Decimal Number: 550.78
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Publication Date: 2008-02-14
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: For the introductory Earth science lab course. Although designed to accompany Tarbuck and Lutgens' Earth Science and Foundations of Earth Science , this manual could be used for any Earth Science lab course, in conjunction with any text. This versatile and adaptable collection of introductory-level laboratory experiences goes beyond traditional offerings to examine the basic principles and concepts of the Earth sciences. Widely praised for its concise coverage and dynamic illustrations by Dennis Tasa, the text contains twenty-two step-by-step exercises that reinforce major topics in geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy.
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Sale: $100.00
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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: Patrick Leon Abbott
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Edition: 6
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2007-03-13
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: This book focuses on natural disasters: how the normal processes of the Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. It is concerned with how the natural world operates and, in so doing, kills and maims humans and destroys their works. Throughout the book, certain themes are maintained: * energy sources underlying disasters * plate tectonics and climate change * earth processes operating in rock, water, and atmosphere * significance of geologic time * complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously * detailed and readable case studies.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $11.90
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John McPhee
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.3
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Publication Date: 2000-06-15
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Reading Level: 696
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Description: In 1978 New Yorker magazine staff writer John McPhee set out making notes for an ambitious project: a geological history of North America, centered, for the sake of convenience, on the 40th parallel, a history that encompasses billions of years. In 1981 he published the first of the four books that would come from his research: Basin and Range, a study of the mountainous lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas. Two years later came In Suspect Terrain, a grand overview of the Appalachian mountain system. In 1986 McPhee released Rising from the Plains, a history of the Rocky Mountains set largely in Wyoming. And in 1993 came Assembling California, a survey of the area geologists find to be a laboratory of volcanic and tectonic processes, a place where geology can be watched in the making. Annals of the Former World gathers these four volumes, which McPhee always conceived of as a whole, to make that epic of the Earth's formation; to it he adds a fifth book, Crossing the Craton, which introduces the continent's ancient core, underlying what is now Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska. McPhee's great virtue as a journalist covering the sciences--and any other of the countless subjects he has taken on, for that matter--is his ability to distill and explain complex matters: here, for example, the processes of mineral deposition or of plate tectonics. He does so by allowing geologists to speak for themselves and an entertaining lot they are, those sometimes odd men and women who puzzle out the landscape for clues to its most ancient past. Annals of the Former World is a magisterial work of popular science for which geologists--and devotees of good writing--will be grateful. --Gregory McNamee
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Sale: $69.98
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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: John Grotzinger::Thomas H. Jordan::Frank Press::Raymond Siever
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Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Edition: 5th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2006-02-24
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Reading Level: 672
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Description: More than any other introductory physical geology textbook, Understanding Earth is designed to bring the worldview of the working geologist to an audience not only new to this specific field, but in many cases to science in general. Students aren't merely presented with concepts and processes--they come to learn how we know what we know, and how that knowledge impacts their lives as citizens and consumers.
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Price: $159.95
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Sale: $94.79
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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
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Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Edition: 8
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910.02
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Publication Date: 2006-02-22
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Reading Level: 688
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Description: ESSENTIALS OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY uses the combined expertise of three respected geographers to help bridge the gap between scientific theory, practical application, and the human-environmental interface. 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 systems, the text helps students understand how the various systems interrelate like never before. The eighth edition features Physical GeographyNow™ the first assessment-driven and student-centered online learning solution created specifically for this course. Physical GeographyNow™ uses a series of chapter-specific diagnostic tests to build a personalized learning plan for each student, allowing students to focus their study time on specific areas of weaknesses. Each personalized learning plan directs students to specific chapter sections and concept-driven multimedia tutorials designed to augment their understanding.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $6.84
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John McPhee
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 1994-02-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: As an explainer, John McPhee is a national treasure. The longtime "New Yorker" staff writer has taken us inside the world of art museums, environmental groups, fruit markets, airship factories, basketball courts, and atomic-bomb labs the world over. Here he covers the complex geological history of California, the source of much news today. As Californians daily await the inevitable great earthquake that will send their cities tumbling down like so many matchsticks, McPhee piles fact on luminous fact, wrestling raw data into a beautifully written narrative that gainsays a sedimentologist's warning: "You can't cope with this in an organized way," he told McPhee, "because the rocks aren't organized." As always, McPhee enlarges our understanding of the strange, making it familiar--and endlessly interesting.
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Sale: $51.75
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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: Steven M. Stanley
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Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.7
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Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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Reading Level: 608
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Description: Earth System History shows how Earth's ecosystem has developed over time, and how events in the past can help us deal with present and future changes. Key themes and concepts are examined and a range of examples given, from the extinction of the dinosaurs to drilling off the shore of New Jersey, to demonstrate real - world examples of Earth system history in action. Clear and concise, this introduction to historical geology will be an invaluable guide for students of geology and earth science.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.84
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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: David R. Montgomery
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 2008-10-02
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: Dirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are--and have long been--using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil--as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.
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Price: $134.95
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Sale: $100.00
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Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Donald Hyndman::David Hyndman
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Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.34
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Publication Date: 2008-04-03
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: Written by a father-son team of prominent geologists, Donald and David Hyndman, NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS, Second Edition, emphasizes Earth, the atmosphere, and the hazardous natural processes and events that dramatically alter them. In teaching introductory environmental and physical geology courses, the authors found that topics involving natural hazards are among the most interesting for students like you. They also realized that employing natural hazards as a thematic focus and context motivates their students to learn basic scientific concepts. You begin each chapter by reading about the underlying geological processes as well as the key terms that describe them. Next, you explore the impact these processes have on humans (as well as the impact that humans have on the processes). Finally, the authors analyze strategies for mitigating these hazards’ physical and financial harm, and present prospects for the future. With over 900 images and illustrations, this second edition will certainly catch and retain your attention.
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