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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $12.85
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Erin Hogan
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.78
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Publication Date: 2008-06-30
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Reading Level: 190
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Description: Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless-steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey.
A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some. Her encounters with these artworks are recorded here, personal observations lightly draped in art history and theory. But for Hogan this trip was also the most extended time she had spent alone, and her 3,000-mile circuit through the west became an experiment in solitude, with mixed results.
Spiral Jetta offers a view of a critical moment of twentieth-century American art. It also offers a view of the American landscape, seen through the windshield of a car streaming through the empty highways of the American West, piloted by a woman who had no real idea where she was going.
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Price: $133.20
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Sale: $93.68
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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: Don J. Easterbrook
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.41
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Publication Date: 1998-10-30
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Reading Level: 546
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Description: This book includes both basic material for students without a great deal of background in geology as well as more advanced topics. With coverage that reaches beyond the study of surface processes, it contains discussions on the evolution of landforms and interpretation of their origin. The Second Edition reflects the increasing relevance of geomorphology to environmental concerns and the additional emphasis this has placed on more applied aspects of the field. Also considered is the revolution of the discipline brought on by many rapidly-evolving tools, such as computers, sophisticated electronic measuring devices, lasers, mass spectrometers, new methods of dating landforms and deposits, and others.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $10.53
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ellen J. Prager::Sylvia A. Earle
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.46
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Publication Date: 2001-08-17
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Reading Level: 316
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Description: "[An] absorbing survey of oceanography . . . [this] elegant study is an excellent resource."Publishers Weekly A fascinating examination of the earth's oceans This exhaustive overview of oceanography captures the excitement of discovery in the making. The Oceans opens up the world of ocean science to the general reader and raises significant questions about the future of the ancient, nurturing ocean itself. The oceans cover more than 70 percent of the globe, yet less than 5 percent of that expanse has been explored. But, as Drs. Prager and Earle show in this vivid survey of ocean research, our knowledge is suddenly accelerating: various dives, soundings, computer analyses, and other probes are uncovering amazing facts about the 142 million square miles beneath the seas.
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Price: $90.00
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Sale: $67.32
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Bridge::Robert Demicco
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.3
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Publication Date: 2008-06-02
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Reading Level: 830
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Description: Earth surface processes, landforms and sediment deposits are intimately related - involving erosion of rocks, generation of sediment, and transport and deposition of sediment through various Earth surface environments. These processes, and the landforms and deposits that they generate, have a fundamental bearing on engineering, environmental and public safety issues; on recovery of economic resources; and on our understanding of Earth history. This unique textbook brings together the traditional disciplines of sedimentology and geomorphology to explain Earth surface processes, landforms and sediment deposits in a comprehensive and integrated way. It is the ideal resource for a two-semester course in sedimentology, stratigraphy, geomorphology, and Earth surface processes from the intermediate undergraduate to beginning graduate level. The book is also accompanied by a website hosting illustrations and material on field and laboratory methods for measuring, describing and analyzing Earth surface processes, landforms and sediments.
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Price: $26.00
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Sale: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Montgomery
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9565609795
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Publication Date: 2003-10-08
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the rivers and mountains of that region, geologist David Montgomery has learned to see the evolution and near-extinction of the salmon as a story of changing landscapes. Montgomery shows how a succession of historical experiences -first in the United Kingdom, then in New England, and now in the Pacific Northwest -repeat a disheartening story in which overfishing and sweeping changes to rivers and seas render the world inhospitable to salmon. In King of Fish, Montgomery traces the human impacts on salmon over the last thousand years and examines the implications both for salmon recovery efforts and for the more general problem of human impacts on the natural world. What does it say for the long-term prospects of the world's many endangered species if one of the most prosperous regions of the richest country on earth cannot accommodate its icon species? All too aware of the possible bleak outcome for the salmon, King of Fishconcludes with provocative recommendations for reinventing the ways in which we make environmental decisions about land, water, and fish.
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Price: $82.95
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Sale: $39.99
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Doug Burbank::Robert Anderson
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.41
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Publication Date: 2000-12-27
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Reading Level: 274
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Description: Introduces and reviews the science of geomorphology, explaining what it is, how it works, and the phenomena that surround the entire field. Brings to light the recent advances that have caused a renewed interest in the field, which includes data from a variety of disciplines, including geodesy, seismology, and Quaternary climate change. Softcover. DLC: Geomorphology.
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Price: $121.00
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Sale: $100.88
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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: Michael Summerfield
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.41
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Publication Date: 1996-02-11
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Reading Level: 560
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Description: The plate tectonics revolution in the earth sciences has provided a valuable new framework for understanding long-term landform development.
This innovative text provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of global geomorphology, with the emphasis placed on large-scale processes and phenomena. Integrating global tectonics into the study of landforms and incorporating planetary geomorphology as a major component the author discusses the impact of climatic change and the role of catastrophic events on landform genesis and includes a comprehensive study of surface geomorphic processes.
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Price: $111.40
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Sale: $99.32
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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: I. Peter Martini::Michael E. Brookfield::Steven Sadura
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.31
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Publication Date: 2001-02-08
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Reading Level: 381
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Description: Featuring an accessible, non-mathematical, but rigorous conceptual treatment--with numerous very simple explanatory illustrations--this introduction to the basic principles of glaciology, geomorphology, and geology serves as a portal to the more advanced literature in the field and to discussion and research of the local situation. Focusing on processes and history (not just descriptions), it helps readers understand how glaciers form and move, what effect they have, when and where they have affected the Earth, and the consequences of ice ages. Covers a full range of topics from glaciology, geomorphology, and glacial geology: Ice Properties. Glaciers. Glacial Erosion. Glacial Transportation And Deposition. Glacial Landforms Formed By Glacial Sediments. Fluvial Sediments And Landforms. Glaciomarine And Glaciolacustrine Environments And Deposits. Aeolian Sediments And Landforms. Cold-Climate And Frozen-Ground Processes And Features. Quaternary Stratigraphy. Glacial Legacy (Isostasy, Eustasy, Volcanism, And Biota). The Cenozoic Ice Age. Pre-Quaternary Glaciations. Causes Of Glaciation. For anyone interested in Glacial Geology and Geomorphology.
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David John::Richard Moody::David Rolls
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 554
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Publication Date: 1984-05-10
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Reading Level: 184
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Price: $64.95
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Sale: $42.00
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Julie Laity
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.415
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Publication Date: 2008-11-17
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: Taking a global perspective, this book provides a concise overview of drylands, including their physical, biological, temporal, and human components.
- Examines the physical systems occurring in desert environments, including climate, hydrology, past and present lakes, weathering, hillslopes, geomorphic surfaces, water as a geomorphic agent, and aeolian processes
- Offers an accessible introduction to the physical, biological, temporal, and human components of drylands
- Investigates the nature, environmental requirements, and essential geomorphic roles of plants and animals in this stressful biological environment
- Highlights the impact of human population growth on climate, desertification, water resources, and dust storm activity
- Includes an examination of surface/atmosphere interactions and the impact of ENSO events.
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