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Stone
Andy Goldsworthy
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Current:
9.7 |
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:
9.7 |
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:
9.7 |
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:
9.7 |
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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Eyewitness Handbooks: Gemstones
Cally Hall
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Current:
9.6 |
Over 130 gemstones are depicted with description, occurrence, composition, crystal structure, luster, and other details. Read more
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Annals of the Former World
John A. McPhee
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Current:
9.6 |
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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Earth Story : The Shaping of Our World
Simon Lamb, David Sington
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Current:
9.4 |
"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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Crystals and Crystal Growing
Alan Holden, Phylis S. Morrison (Photographer)
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Current:
9.4 |
"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:
9.4 |
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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Volcanoes : Crucibles of Change
Richard V. Fisher
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Current:
9.4 |
The authors, professional volcanologists all, offer a rigorous geological account of the formation and composition of the many types of volcanoes, among them calderas, domes, and maars. They examine the chemistry of volcanic gases; consider
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Fundamentals of Geophysics
William Lowrie
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Current:
9.3 |
This unique textbook presents a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles of each major branch of geophysics: gravitation, seismology, dating, thermal and electrical properties, geomagnetism, paleomagnetism and geodynamics. The a
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Naked Earth : The New Geophysics
Shawna Vogel
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Current:
9.2 |
From the Earth's hyer-compressed core to the places where the planet's energy bursts through its fragile crust, Naked Earth provides readers with new understanding of ancient mysteries and the latest in geophysical hypothesis. "Top-notch sc
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Geophysical Inverse Theory (Princeton Series in Geophysics)
Robert L. Parker
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Current:
9.2 |
In many physical sciences, the most natural description of a system is with a function of position or time. In principle, infinitely many numbers are needed to specify that function, but in practice only finitely many measurements can be ma
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Dictionary of Geological Terms
Robert L. Bates, Julia A. Jackson
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Current:
9.2 |
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| 15
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Simon and Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals
Martin Prinz
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Current:
9.1 |
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| 16
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Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology
M. Gordon Wolman
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Current:
9.0 |
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| 17
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Coming Earth Changes : The Latest Evidence
William Hutton
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Current:
8.9 |
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| 18
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Applied Geostatistics
Edward H. Isaaks, R. Mohan Srivastava
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Current:
8.9 |
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| 19
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Roadside Geology of Arizona (Roadside Geology Series)
Halka Chronic
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Current:
8.9 |
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| 20
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Roadside Geology of Colorado (Roadside Geology Series)
Halka Chronic
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Current:
8.8 |
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| 21
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Gemstones of the World
Walter Schumann
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Current:
8.7 |
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| 22
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Basin and Range
John McPhee
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Current:
8.6 |
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| 23
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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:
8.5 |
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| 24
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Encyclopedia of Volcanoes
Haraldur Sigurdsson
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Current:
8.4 |
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| 25
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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:
8.3 |
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| 26
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In Suspect Terrain
John McPhee
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Current:
8.3 |
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| 27
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Roadside Geology of Utah (Roadside Geology Series)
Halka Chronic
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Current:
8.2 |
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| 28
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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:
8.2 |
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| 29
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The Ice : A Journey to Antarctica (Cycle of Fire/Stephen J. Pyne)
Stephen J. Pyne
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Current:
8.2 |
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| 30
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Atmospheric Thermodynamics
Craig F. Bohren, Bruce A. Albrecht
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Current:
8.2 |
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| 31
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Fractals and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics
Donald L. Turcotte
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Current:
8.1 |
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| 32
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Theoretical Global Seismology
F. A. Dahlen, Jeroen Tromp
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Current:
8.1 |
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| 33
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Active Tectonics: Earthquakes, Uplift, and Landscape
Edward A. Keller, Nicholas Pinter
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Current:
8.0 |
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| 34
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The Atmosphere and Ocean : A Physical Introduction
Neil Wells
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Current:
7.9 |
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| 35
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Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth
Haruo Sato
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Current:
7.9 |
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| 36
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Out of the Crater : Chronicles of a Volcanologist
Richard V. Fisher
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Current:
7.8 |
The title of this book is a slight misnomer, since author Richard Fisher seems to get out of a volcanic crater only long enough to board a plane bound for another one. This is a professional rather than personal memoir, although Fisher's wi
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| 37
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Evolutionary Catastrophes : The Science of Mass Extinction
V. Courtillot
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Current:
7.7 |
What killed the dinosaurs and two-thirds of all living species sixty-five million years ago? Throughout the history of life a small number of catastrophic events have caused mass extinction, changing the path of evolution. Two main theories
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Introduction to Seismology
Peter M. Shear, Peter M. Shearer
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Current:
7.5 |
This book provides an approachable and concise introduction to seismology theory. It clearly explains the fundamental concepts, emphasizing intuitive understanding over lengthy derivations. Topics include: stress/strain theory, seismic wave
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| 39
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Simon and Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones
C. Ciprianai
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Current:
7.4 |
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| 40
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Paleoclimatology (International Geophysics Series vol 64)
Raymond S. Bradley
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Current:
7.3 |
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| 41
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Soils and Geomorphology
Peter W. Birkeland
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Current:
7.2 |
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| 42
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Dynamics of Atmospheric Motion
John A. Dutton
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Current:
7.1 |
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| 43
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Earthquakes
Bruce A. Bolt
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Current:
7.1 |
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| 44
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An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering
Robert D. Holtz, William D. Kovacs
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Current:
7.0 |
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| 45
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Tides : A Scientific History
David Edgar Cartwright
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Current:
6.8 |
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| 46
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Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Benoit Cushman-Roisin
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Current:
6.8 |
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| 47
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Geodynamics: Application of Continuum Physics to Geological Problems
Donald Lawson Turcotte, Gerald Schubert (Photographer)
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Current:
6.8 |
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| 48
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Exploration Geophysics of the Shallow Subsurface
Henry Robert Burger
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Current:
6.6 |
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| 49
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The Magnetic Field of the Earth : Paleomagnetism, the Core, and the Deep Mantle (International Geophysics Series (Reprint))
Ronald T. Merrill
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Current:
6.6 |
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Paleoseismology
James P. McCalpin
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Current:
6.5 |
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