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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Gideon Bosker::Lena Lencek
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Publisher: Chronicle Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.457
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Publication Date: 2000-06-15
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Reading Level: 132
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Description: The authors of The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth, the best-selling history of everyone's favorite place, are back with a breathtaking visual companion. From moody, craggy coastlines to serene swathes of turquoise water and white sand, Beaches is an astounding photographic survey of the ineffable allure of paradise on earth. This spectacular collection of images from renowned photographers, including Robert Misrach, Joel Meyerowitz, and Art Wolff, stirs the spirit, capturing the mutable beauty of sand, sea, and sky. Throughout, concise and poetic pieces of historic and scientific lore unveil little-known facts and curiosities. With an astonishing range of vision, Beaches evokes the idiosyncratic beauty of the world's most stunning coastlines.
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Price: $569.00
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Sale: $415.37
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.4570321
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Publication Date: 1984-04-30
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Reading Level: 960
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Price: $83.50
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Cornelia Dean
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Edition: 0
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.917150973
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Publication Date: 1999-06-15
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: Castles built on sand are doomed, they say. But in our hunger for an ocean view from the living-room window, we keep building things we expect to last on beaches that never stay still. In Against the Tide, Cornelia Dean, science editor of The New York Times, outlines the global coastal management crisis and all the elaborate engineering methods developed to stave off erosion--revetments, sand-trapping devices, seawalls, groins and jetties, even artificial seaweed beds. In clear, journalistic style, she explains how all of these devices have failed to stop the inexorable march of coastal erosion. And they've failed at a staggering cost to taxpayers, despite the fact that they're usually deployed to protect private property. The world's sandy beaches continue eroding, and nowhere is this more visible than in the U.S., where oceanfront construction has been proceeding at a fast and furious pace for decades. Of course, the perfectly natural process of erosion is only considered a "problem" if it threatens buildings or property. Dean writes: "There is a kind of constituency of ignorance, people who have so much invested in coastal real estate that they do not want to hear how vulnerable it is." Using examples from Galveston to Cape Cod, and a few places on the West Coast, Dean shows how building each "protective" structure has led to the need for more protection in a game humans are destined to lose to the ocean. "American political institutions," she writes, "are ill-suited to the indeterminacy and elasticity of nature." Part of the problem is that people are reluctant to admit that natural processes threatening our carefully planned and paid-for civilization are good and necessary parts of a dynamic ecosystem, and our efforts to prevent them will invariably buy us more trouble. Dean believes that it's time to make peace with the rising sea level and stop fighting nature. Against the Tide should be required reading for waterfront property owners, coastal zone managers, the Army Corps of Engineers, and beach lovers everywhere. --Therese Littleton
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Price: $86.60
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Sale: $75.00
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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: Paul D. Komar
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.457
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Publication Date: 1997-10-02
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: Introduces beach processes within an approach that balances an engineering perspective against a purely geological one. Provides an up-to-date review of the current understanding of beach processes as well as applications to solve coastal problems (erosion, management issues, etc.). Discusses issues related to beach erosion and other processes. The second edition of Beach Processes and Sedimentation has been updated to include information gathered from two decades of science and engineering in the field, reflecting the vast increase in knowledge since the first edition. Discusses the rise of coastal zone management as well as patterns of wave transformations and dissipation within the surf zone, and how these water motions produce cross-shore movements of sediment resulting in beach-profile variations. An essential reference book for many readers: from beach front property owners to politicians contending with beachfront erosion to engineers addressing beachfront reclamation projects.
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Price: $110.00
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Sale: $47.46
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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: John S. Bridge
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.483
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Publication Date: 2003-04-25
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Reading Level: 504
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Description: Rivers and Floodplains is concerned with the origin, geometry, water flow, sediment transport, erosion and deposition associated with modern alluvial rivers and floodplains, how they vary in time and space, and how this information is used to interpret deposits of ancient rivers and floodplains. There is specific reference to the types and lifestyles of organisms associated with fluvial environments, human interactions with rivers and floodplains, associated environmental and engineering concerns, as well as the economic aspects of fluvial deposits, particularly the modeling of fluvial hydrocarbon reservoirs and aquifers. Methods of studying rivers and floodplains and their deposits are also discussed. Although basic principles are emphasized, many examples are detailed. Particular emphasis is placed on how an understanding of the nature of modern rivers and floodplains is required before any problems concerning rivers and floodplains, past or present, can be addressed rationally. Rivers and Floodplains is designed as a core text for senior undergraduate and graduate students studying modern or ancient fluvial environments, particularly in earth sciences, environmental sciences and physical geography, but also in civil and agricultural engineering. College teachers, researchers, and practising professionals will also find the book an invaluable reference.
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Price: $252.00
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Sale: $368.18
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alan S. Trenhaile
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.457
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Publication Date: 1997-06-12
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: This is a comprehensive reference text for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and instructors and working professionals in the coastal field. It provides a thorough survey of our present state of geomorphological knowledge across a very broad spectrum of coastal types, including topics, such as the form and processes operating on cold coasts, deltas, cohesive cold coasts, and coral reefs, that have rarely been included in general coastal texts. There is also a detailed discussion of the nature, origin, and transport of beach sediment, and the possible effects of future sea-level changes on coastal environments. Anthropological influences and managerial implications are discussed in several of the chapters. All the material draws upon up-to-date research and scientific findings.
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Price: $32.00
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Sale: $13.75
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Manufacturer: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Shirley Laska
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Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9170916364
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Publication Date: 1993-08
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Reading Level: 251
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Description: This proceeding, "Coastlines of the Gulf of Mexico", contains papers presented at Coastal Zone 93, the Eighth Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management held in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 19-23,1993. This volume is part of a continuing series of volumes on coastlines of the world. Some of the topics covered include environmental considerations, engineering and science; data gathering, and monitoring; legal, regulatory, and political aspects of coastal management; planning, conservation, and development; and public information and citizen participation. This volume provides the professionals, decision-makers, and general public with a broad understanding of these subjects as they relate to the coastlines of the gulf of Mexico.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Wallace Kaufman
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9170974
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Publication Date: 1983-12
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Reading Level: 335
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Description: Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you--all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $49.95
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Manufacturer: National Academy Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: National Academy Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 627.58
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Publication Date: 1995-12
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Reading Level: 334
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Description: This volume examines the economic and social role of beaches, the history of beach nourishment projects, and management strategies for shore protection. It explores the state of the art in project design and prediction of outcomes, addresses what is known about the environmental impacts of beach nourishment, and identifies what outcomes should be targeted for continued monitoring.
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Sale: $14.00
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Manufacturer: Nestucca Spit Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Author: Matt Love
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Publisher: Nestucca Spit Press
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Publication Date: 2003
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Reading Level: 98
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