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Annals of the Former World

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began...

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Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Geology A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Frank H. T. Rhodes; Illustrated by Raymond Perlman Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press This informative guide covers the five billion years of history that have given the earth its present form, including: The earth's relation to the rest of...

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Rocks, Gems and Minerals

Revised and Updated

A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press

Herbert S. Zim and Paul R. Shaffer; Revised by Jonathan P. Latimer and Karen Stray Nolting with Jeffrey Post and Paul Pohwat, National Museum of Natural History; Illustrated by Raymond Perlman Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press

This handy identification guide to the most common kinds of rocks and minerals offers concise and fascinating information on; Physical and chemical...

Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Seashells of the World A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press R. Tucker Abbott, Ph.D, under the editorship of Herbert S. Zim, Ph.D., Sc.D.; Illustrated by George and Marita Sandström Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press This introduction to the world of marine seashells emphasizes the most attractive and best-known species. This guide will help you...

Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Seashore Life A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Herbert S. Zim, Ph.D. and Lester Ingle, Ph.D.; Illustrated by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press This compact guide will help you understand--and enjoy--the unique zone where land and ocean meet. It is a guide to: Seashells Sea Plants Shore...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Seashells of North America A Guide to Field Identification Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press R. Tucker Abbott, under the editorship of Herbert S. Zim; Illustrated by George F. Sandström Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Scoop up plentiful Cockles on Eastern beaches. Spy a fabulous Emperor Helmet in Southern Florida. Find a Red Chiton on the Pacific shore. The coasts of North...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Rocks and Minerals A Guide to Field Identification Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press Charles A. Sorrell, illustrated by George F. Sandström Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Covering rocks and minerals form around the world—from brilliant Brazilian Aquamarine to Wulfenite from Arizona's Red Cloud Mine—this unique guide...

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Basin and Range

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in...

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Assembling California

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of...

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In Suspect Terrain

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana’s drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Rising From The Plains John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Rising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a...

Trade Paperback : $5.95 Buy	Rocks and Minerals Paul R. Shaffer, Herbert Spencer Zim; Illustrated by Raymond Perlman Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press

Hardcover : $18.95 Buy	Weather Explained A Beginner's Guide to the Elements Derek Elsom Henry Holt and Co.

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Atmosphere, Climate, and Change Thomas E. Graedel and Paul J. Crutzen W. H. Freeman What's the reliability behind the claims and counterclaims of environmental doom resulting from the greenhouse effect, the global impact of pollution, and...

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The Life and Death of Planet Earth

How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World

Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee Holt Paperbacks

“They deftly bring together findings from many disparate areas of science in a book that science buffs will find hard to put down.”...

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The Outlaw Sea

A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime

William Langewiesche North Point Press

The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and...

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Beyond Oil

The View from Hubbert's Peak

Kenneth S. Deffeyes Hill and Wang

“This book explains both why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and how challenging it will be to cope with what comes next.”—Richard E....

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The World Without Us

Alan Weisman Picador

Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Salon Book Awards...

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It's Raining Fish and Spiders

Bill Evans Forge Books

Emmy Award–winning meteorologist Bill Evans pulls out all the stops in this one-of-a-kind book about weather for middle-grade readers. Packed with graphics and...

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When Oil Peaked

Kenneth S. Deffeyes Hill and Wang

In two earlier books, Hubbert’s Peak (2001) and Beyond Oil (2005), the geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil...

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Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	The Outermost House A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod Henry Beston Holt Paperbacks The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald...

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Voyage of the Turtle

In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur

Carl Safina A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

“Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal—and ample reasons to care.” —Los...

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Hurricane Almanac 2006

The Essential Guide to Storms Past, Present, and Future

Bryan Norcross St. Martin's Griffin

Bryan Norcross's pioneering and courageous TV coverage of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 helped thousands of people in Florida cope with the killer storm. With...

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Hurricane Almanac

The Essential Guide to Storms Past, Present, and Future

Bryan Norcross St. Martin's Griffin

Essential Information from CBS News’ Hurricane Analyst Bryan Norcross’s pioneering and courageous TV coverage of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 helped millions...

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