
Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea
A true story of catastrophe
and survival at sea, Fatal
Forecast is a spellbinding
moment-by-moment account of
seventy-two hours in the
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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
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Remarkable Trees of the World
"A stunning volume" (Time)
and the most magnificent
book on the world's trees
published in years. The
publication of Remarkable
Trees of the World took
American audiences by storm.
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The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Sometime this century the
day will arrive when the
human influence on the
climate will overwhelm all
other natural factors. Over
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley, a professor at Tulane University, lived through the destruction of Hurricane Katrina with his fellow New Orleans residents, and now in The Great Deluge he has ... > read more -
Geographic Information Systems and Science
The first edition of Geographic Information Systems and Science has taken the GIS textbook market by storm, selling over 22,000 copies since publication. It is the most current, authoritative and ... > read more -
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic ... > read more -
Punctuated Equilibrium
In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it ... > read more -
Young Men and Fire
On August 5, 1949, lightning came crashing down in the vast spruce forest above Seeley Lake, Montana, and touched off a roaring blaze. As every Westerner knows, lightning means fire, but the fire ... > read more -
Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
An original portrait of New England's forests, tracing their evolution from precolonial days to the present through a study of the patterns we see today.Landscape is much more than scenery to be ... > read more -
The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology (10th Edition)
Using everyday, easy-to-grasp examples to reinforce basic concepts, this highly regarded handbook remains the standard introduction to meteorology and the atmosphere – components, problems, ... > read more -
Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
Colorado and its neighboring states battle thousands of wildfires every year, scrub and sagebrush blazes often ignited by lightning strikes in the dry, hot days of summer. A vast, intertwined ... > read more -
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Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers.Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your ... > 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
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