Geographical Books

• Infectious Diseases
  Diseases and Conditions
  Pests and Parasites
  Veterinary Medicine
  Public Health
  Charles Darwin
   
  

  Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory And Practice

  This comprehensive resource applies the fundamentals of epidemiology to the study of infectious diseases (ID). In the first section, readers will learn about basic epidemiologic methods for the study ...  > read more
• Extrasolar Planets
  Kuiper Belt
  Sun
  Popular Culture
  Cosmology
  Big Bang
   
  

  The Planets

  With her blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel used her rare and luminous gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story to ...  > read more
• Lost Treasures
  Recycling and Waste
  Photography
  Archaeology
  Computer Graphics
  Ethics
   
  

  Images of the Past

  This well illustrated, full-color, site-by-site survey of prehistory captures the popular interest, excitement, and visual splendor of archaeology as it provides insight into the research, ...  > read more
• Endangered Plants
  Agriculture and Food
  Geography
  Privacy Issues
  Grassland
  Information Technology
   
  

  Weeds (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press)

  This handy identification guide to the plants that cause billions of dollars annually in crop loss and control measures include information on:The harm that weeds causeBenefits from weedsMajor weed ...  > read more
• Nature
  Big Bang
  Cosmology
  Anthropology
  World Development
  Astrophysics
   
  

  Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library)

  An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning ...  > read more
• Human Evolution
  Early Humans
  Origin of Life
  Intelligence
  Anthropology
  Psychology
   
  

  The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

  Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting ...  > read more
• Public Health
  Pests and Parasites
  Diseases and Conditions
  Ethics
  Biochemistry Research
   
  

  Plagues and Peoples

  No small themes for historian William McNeill: he is a writer of big, sweeping books, from The Rise of the West to The History of the World. Plagues and Peoples considers the influence of infectious ...  > read more
• Genetics
  Life Sciences
  Computational Biology
  Biochemistry Research
  Biology
  Genes
   
  

  Genetics: Analysis and Principles

  Genetics: Analysis and Principles is a one-semester, introductory genetics textbook that takes an experimental approach to understanding genetics. By weaving one or two experiments into the ...  > read more
• Exotic Species
  Wild Animals
  Archaeology
  Life Sciences
   
  

  Fern Finder: A Guide to Native Ferns of Central and Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada (Nature Study Guides)

  A pocket guide to identifying native ferns that grow in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast, and eastern Canada. Like other plant guides in the "Finders" series, "Fern Finder" is a dichotomous key, which ...  > read more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Natural Disasters
  Severe Weather
  Urbanization
  Floods
  Disaster Plan
   
  

  Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City

  Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As ...  > read more

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