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The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
With the keen eyes of a
scientist and the
sensibilities of a seasoned
writer, Dr. Robert Morris
chronicles the fascinating
and at times frightening
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region (Eastern)
For the untrained observer,
it can be quite a challenge
to sort out the many trees
that make up a stand of
older forest in, say, New
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Moons and Planets
Author William Hartmann has
fully updated this text,
which retains a comparative
approach to the principles
of planetology, including
organization by physical
topic rather than by planet.
This unique approach
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Apollo 13
On April 13, 1970, three
American astronauts were on
their way to the moon when
a mysterious explosion
rocked their ship, forcing
them to abandon the main
ship and spend four days in
the tiny lunar module which
... > full story
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Ice Age Mammals of North America
The time is the Pleistocene epoch, about 2 million to 10,000 years ago. Continent-size ice sheets cover 30 percent of the earth's landmass, and strange creatures rove the landscape. Ice Age Mammals ... > read more -
After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past)
Perhaps nudged over the evolutionary cliff by a giant boloid striking the earth, the incredible and fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for ... > read more -
After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC
20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing ... > read more -
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
In this new edition, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first civilization.The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising ... > read more -
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
Richard Alley, one of the world's leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. ... > read more -
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science
The Universe May Be a Mystery,But It's No SecretMichael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made ... > read more -
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
"Climate change is the ignored player on the historical stage," writes archeologist Brian Fagan. But it shouldn't be, not if we know what's good for us. We can't judge what future climate change will ... > read more -
Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners
For decades the issue seemed moot. The first settlers, we were told, were big-game hunters who arrived from Asia at the end of the Ice Age some 12,000 years ago, crossing a land bridge at the Bering ... > read more -
Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary (International Geophysics)
Raymond S. Bradley provides his readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date review of all of the important methods used in paleoclimatic reconstruction, dating and paleoclimate modeling. Two ... > read more -
Elemental Geosystems
This book gives readers an accessible, systematic, non-mathematical, and visually appealing start in physical geography. It features a distinctive, holistic integration of human-Earth relationships, ... > read more
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