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Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power.

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Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power.

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This book explores how a clear-eyed set of policies can govern a country's wellbeing from an economic standpoint and the vision it takes to propel a country to new heights. The author considers not just development, but how development was undone by policies and actions that were not governed by a consistent long-range vision.

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This special 10th anniversary edition of the David Suzuki classic, re-examines our place in the natural world in light of sweeping environmental changes and recent advances in scientific knowledge.

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Reveals the short-sightedness behind conceiving of floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes as natural disasters. This book argues that such thinking has led to policies that have done the environment more harm than good. It points out ways in which we can better address the environmental problems that humanity faces.

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A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, "The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes" addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones.

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A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, "The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes" addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones.

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This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter - the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home. -- .

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A detailed case study of the government policymaking process, this volume takes one key issue--the strategic minerals problem--and examines each stage of decision-making from the acquisition of raw data through the promulgation of foreign policy.

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Throughout the natural world, organisms have responded to predators, inadequate resources, or inclement conditions by forming ongoing mutually beneficial partnerships--or symbioses--with different species. Symbiosis is the foundation for major evolutionary events, such as the emergence of eukaryotes and plant eating among vertebrates, and is also a

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With his companions from nine nations, Heyerdahl set sail in a boat made of reeds in search of the sea routes which he thought were used by the Sumerians in vessels like his own, 5000 years ago. Heyerdahl recounts the discoveries and hazards of his journey down the Tigris to the Indian Ocean.

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In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. He explains that

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The true story of how John Fenton transformed his family's run-down sheep farm into a lush oasis by the simple act of planting trees - lots and lots of trees.

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The Water Crisis in Yemen draws on both new field research and a very wide set of official and unofficial information sources, much of it being made available for the first time.

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The United States faces a water crisis as critical as the energy crisis that dominated headlines until recently. Like the energy crisis, a solution can be found. Pat Mulroy, for many years the head of the Colorado River water commission and now a Brookings fellow, has gathered together a number of practitioners and scholars to show us why we face a crisis and what we can do to help alleviate it.

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The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.

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A fascinating analysis of the world's scavengers as performing an important economic role in the production and consumption of food.

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This easy-to-read tidal atlas includes comprehensive and detailed tidal streams and tidal heights and an annual Cherbourg tide table. It covers The Solent and Approaches, Portland Bill, Alderney and Cherbourg, Poole, Russell Channels, St Helier Approaches, St Malo Approaches and more.

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Presents an advanced theoretical treatment of global seismology. This book provides a survey of both the history of global seismological research and the major theoretical and observational developments made over a decade. It is intended for graduate students and to professional seismologists, geodynamicists, and geomagnetists.