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The Illustrated Longitude
Dava Sobel, William J. H. Andrewes
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Current:
9.7 |
Dava Sobel's Longitude tells the story of how 18th-century scientist and clockmaker William Harrison solved one of the most perplexing problems of history--determining east-west location at
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A First Rate Tragedy : Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole
Diana Preston
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Current:
9.7 |
British explorer Robert F. Scott spent three years exploring the Antarctic, returning to England a hero in 1904. His ambition was to be the first man to reach the South Pole, and he overcame innumerable obstacles to assemble another expedit
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Lost at Sea : An American Tragedy
Patrick Dillon
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Current:
9.7 |
In February 1983, two crabbing vessels set out from port in Alaskan waters at the peak of crabbing season. Filled to the brim with crab pots, both ships, the Americus and the Altair, were considered state-of-the-art for the in
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South : The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurnance
Ernest Henry, Sir Shackleton, Tim Cahill
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Current:
9.5 |
This first-person account of the Endurance crew's famed odyssey across the frozen Antarctic is one of the most amazing adventure stories ever. In the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men set out to make the first sea-to-sea
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Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary (Index)
David Cordingly
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Current:
9.5 |
Since 1970 South Africa ended apartheid; Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president of Haiti, deposed by military coup then reinstated; San Francisco suffered a major earthquake; and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved. So i
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Geography Coloring Book
Wynn Kapit
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Current:
9.4 |
"The Geography Coloring Book" provides unique hands-on participation in the study of geography. Detailed color exercises allow the "artist" to recognize countries by shape as well as location, gain a sense of the relative sizes of nations a
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The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Caroline Alexander, Frank Hurley (Photographer)
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Current:
9.3 |
Melding superb research and the extraordinary expedition photography of Frank Hurley, Endurance by Caroline Alexander is a stunning work of history, adventure, and art that chronicles "one of the greatest epics of survival in the ann
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
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Current:
9.2 |
"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is t
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The Discoverers : A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Current:
9.1 |
Perhaps the greatest book by one of our greatest historians, The Discoverers is a volume of sweeping range and majestic interpretation. To call it a history of science is an understatement; this is the story of how humankind has come
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North to the Night : A Year in the Arctic Ice
Alvah Simon
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Current:
9.1 |
Following his "Arctic dreams" that began with a photograph of the haggard crew of the ill-fated ship Endurance, Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set sail to winter in the high north. "We ca
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The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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Current:
9.1 |
As Apsley Cherry-Garrard states in his introduction to the harrowing story of the Scott expedition to the South Pole, "Polar Exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." C
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Don't Know Much About Geography
Kenneth C. Davis
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Current:
9.1 |
Davis consistently does what your junior high teacher probably didn't; he makes geography amusing and riveting. From early concepts of whether the world was a disk floating in water (Thales) or pear-shaped (Columbus), Davis explains earthqu
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The Home of the Blizzard : A True Story of Antarctic Survival
Douglas Mawson(Preface), Ranulph Fiennes
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Current:
9.1 |
Rejecting a position on Scott's ill-fated South Pole team, Australian explorer Douglas Mawson sets off with his own plans in December 1911 to explore the unknown Antarctic coast south of Australia. The Home of the Blizzard is Mawson'
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A French Affair : The Paris Beat, 1965-1998
Mary Blume
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Current:
9.0 |
Even the most dedicated expat rarely manages to completely fit into an adopted foreign culture. It's precisely this quality that allows American Mary Blume to so thoughtfully observe and record Paris, the city that's served as her home for
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Arcview Gis Exercise Book
Pat Hohl, Brad Mayo
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Current:
9.0 |
Suitable for structured classes or self-paced study, this new edition for Release 3.x provides hands-on experience in fundamental to sophisticated ArcView GIS functionality. The bonus CD-ROM contains all files necessary to complete the exer
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In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great : A Journey from Greece to Asia
Michael Wood
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Current:
9.0 |
Intrepid explorer in search of the past, British journalist Michael Wood follows the path of Alexander the Great and his army from Macedonia to the Himalayas and beyond in the fourth century B.C. Always one for adventures to match those of
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Rising Tide : The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
John M. Barry
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Current:
8.9 |
When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left homeless, and laying the plans for re
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Annals of the Former World
John A. McPhee
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Current:
8.7 |
In 1978 New Yorker magazine staff writer John McPhee set out making notes for an ambitious project: a geological history of North America, centered, for the sake of convenience, on the 40th parallel, a history that encompasses billio
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Stone
Andy Goldsworthy
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Current:
8.7 |
Here is an arresting look at art that uses slate, limestone, river boulders, sand, mud and clay--all created by young Scottish artist Goldsworthy. Stone reflects the artist's increasingly strong conviction that the places in which he works
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Assembling California
John McPhee
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Current:
8.7 |
As an explainer, John McPhee is a national treasure. The longtime "New Yorker" staff writer has taken us inside the world of art museums, environmental groups, fruit markets, airship factories, basketball courts, and atomic-bomb labs the wo
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Voices of the Rocks : A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations
Robert M. Schoch Ph.D, Robert Aquinas McNally
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Current:
8.6 |
Everything changes. The great 19th-century battle between catastrophists and uniformitarians seemed to end with the notion of global cataclysms being dismissed as a back door to the supernatural. But the catastrophist theory has gradually b
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
Walter Alvarez
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Current:
8.6 |
One of the great mysteries is what happened to the dinosaurs, and it has taken great detective work to give us an answer. In T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, some brilliant, not to mention determined, scientists roam the world and seek
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Earth Story : The Shaping of Our World
Simon Lamb, David Sington
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Current:
8.4 |
"This book is a wonderful introduction to a new discipline, the geosciences, which integrates diverse fields to explain the intimate connections between fascinating and seemingly unrelated phenomena--the shapes of continents, earthquakes, t
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Eyewitness Handbooks: Gemstones
Cally Hall
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Current:
8.3 |
Over 130 gemstones are depicted with description, occurrence, composition, crystal structure, luster, and other details. Read more
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Crystals and Crystal Growing
Alan Holden, Phylis S. Morrison (Photographer)
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Current:
8.3 |
"This work is a fascinating discussion of the strange ways in which solids form, an excellent hobby book describing ways of growing crystals, and a lucid, penetrating introduction to solid state physics. It can be read on any of these level
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Water : A Natural History
Alice Outwater
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Current:
8.3 |
What happens when you flush your toilet? Environmental engineer and writer Alice Outwater knows, and she guides the reader through the technical ins and outs of such delicate matters as water treatment and sewage handling--subjects she writ
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| 27
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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems
Michael N. Demers
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Current:
8.2 |
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| 28
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Longitude : The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
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Current:
8.2 |
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Getting to Know ArcView GIS
Editors of ESRI Press
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Current:
8.1 |
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| 30
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Under the Black Flag : The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (Harvest Book)
David Cordingly
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Current:
8.1 |
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
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Current:
8.0 |
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| 32
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Rough Water : Stories of Survival from the Sea (Extreme Adventure)
Clint Willis
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Current:
7.9 |
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| 33
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Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology
M. Gordon Wolman
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Current:
7.8 |
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| 34
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Development, Geography, and Economic Theory (Ohlin Series)
Paul Krugman
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Current:
7.8 |
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Gemstones of the World
Walter Schumann
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Current:
7.7 |
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| 36
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Dictionary of Geological Terms
Robert L. Bates, Julia A. Jackson
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Current:
7.7 |
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| 37
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Basin and Range
John McPhee
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Current:
7.7 |
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| 38
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Simon and Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals
Martin Prinz
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Current:
7.7 |
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| 39
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The Curious Lore of Precious Stones; Being a Description of Their Sentiments and Folk Lore, Superstitions, Symbolism, Mysticism, Use in Medicine, Pro
George Frederick Kunz
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 40
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Encyclopedia of Volcanoes
Haraldur Sigurdsson
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 41
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Coming Earth Changes : The Latest Evidence
William Hutton
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 42
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Applied Geostatistics
Edward H. Isaaks, R. Mohan Srivastava
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Current:
7.4 |
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| 43
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Night Comes to the Cretaceous : Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology
James Lawrence Powell
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Current:
7.4 |
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Roadside Geology of Arizona (Roadside Geology Series)
Halka Chronic
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Current:
7.4 |
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In Suspect Terrain
John McPhee
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Current:
7.2 |
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| 46
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Roadside Geology of Colorado (Roadside Geology Series)
Halka Chronic
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Current:
7.1 |
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| 47
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Roadside Geology of Utah (Roadside Geology Series)
Halka Chronic
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Current:
6.9 |
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Cataclysm : Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B. C.
D. S. Allan, J. B. Delair
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Current:
6.8 |
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Simon and Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones
C. Ciprianai
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Current:
6.8 |
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