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  • Coyote America
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    Coyote America

    Dan Flores

    Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."-Wall Street JournalLegends don't come close to capturing the...
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  • Critical Zone and Ecosystem Dynamics Critical Zone and Ecosystem Dynamics
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    Critical Zone and Ecosystem Dynamics

    Timothy White

    The critical zone is the thin outer veneer of continental Earth extending from the top of the vegetation canopy to subsurface depths where fresh groundwater circulates. It is the heterogeneous...
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  • Gemstones and Minerals of Australia
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    Gemstones and Minerals of Australia

    Australia s gemstones and minerals are a treasure chest of world renown. This guide Gemstones and Minerals of Australia describes Australia s common minerals and gems as well as some rarities. It...
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  • What Does Rain Smell Like?
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    What Does Rain Smell Like?

    King, Simon

    'Clear, succinct and engaging answers to every question you could ask about the weather.' Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of The Cloudspotter's Guide Why doesn't rain fall all at once? Can technology...
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  • Myth, Chaos, and Certainty
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    Myth, Chaos, and Certainty

    Rosolino Buccheri

    This book offers a study of the three evolutions in a circle (cosmos, life, and knowledge) with the aim of discussing human social behavior, a metaphor of the general behavior of nature (from which...
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  • Veins of the Desert
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    Veins of the Desert

    Ali Asghar Semsar Yazdi

    Qanat is a gently sloping subterranean canal, which taps a water-bearing zone at a higher elevation than cultivated lands. A qanat consist of a series of vertical shafts in sloping ground,...
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  • Climate Change and Microbes
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    Climate Change and Microbes

    Javid A. Parray

    This book provides an enlightening picture of the role of microbes for sustaining life systems and how climatic factors will change the course of the processes. Climate Change and Microbes: Impacts...
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  • Bamboo
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    Bamboo

    Arun Jyoti Nath

    This new book presents an abundance of important information and case studies that deal with bamboo farming and its effects from and on climate change adaptation and mitigation. There is a lack of...
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  • Climate Change and the Future of Sustainability
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    Climate Change and the Future of Sustainability

    Muyiwa Adaramola

    This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Renewable resources such as wind, solar, and geothermal are often perceived as being the answer to the fossil fuel crisis. Ironically, however,...
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  • Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture
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    Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture

    Nintu Mandal

    Taking a sustainable approach, this volume explores the various soil management techniques. It begins with an overview of the elementary concepts of soil management and then delves into new research...
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  • Bamboo
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    Bamboo

    Arun Jyoti Nath

    This new book presents an abundance of important information and case studies that deal with bamboo farming and its effects from and on climate change adaptation and mitigation. There is a lack of...
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  • Sustainable Energy and Environment
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    Sustainable Energy and Environment

    Sandeep Narayan Kundu

    Here is a comprehensive introductory discussion of Earth, energy, and the environment in an integrated manner that will lead to an appreciation of our complex planet. The book looks at Earth from the...
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  • Earth Science
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    Earth Science

    Roy H. Williams

    This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Earth science is a broad field of study that encompasses many different disciplines, including meteorology, climatology, and geology. The...
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  • Water Hammer Research
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    Water Hammer Research

    Kaveh Hariri Asli

    This book provides a broad understanding of the main computational techniques used for water hammer research in water systems. The theoretical background to a number of techniques is introduced, and...
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  • Hydrology
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    Hydrology

    Ian Watson

    Hydrology covers the fundamentals of hydrology and hydrogeology, taking an environmental slant dictated by the emphasis in recent times for the remediation of contaminated aquifers and surface-water...
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  • Fundamentals of Ground Engineering
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    Fundamentals of Ground Engineering

    John Atkinson

    Fundamentals of Ground Engineering is an unconventional study guide that serves up the key principles, theories, definitions, and analyses of geotechnical engineering in bite-sized pieces. This book...
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  • Floods
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    Floods

    Dennis J. Parker

    Floods occur in most parts of the world and range from being welcomed annual occurrences, to natural disasters which have countless physical and societal impacts. Floods presents the most...
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  • Groundwater Economics, Two-Volume Set
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    Groundwater Economics, Two-Volume Set

    Charles A. Job

    Groundwater is a vitally important resource and as its use increases, the available supply is depleted, creating a ripple effect of impacts on both the environment and the economy that need to be...
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  • Biometry for Forestry and Environmental Data
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    Biometry for Forestry and Environmental Data

    Lauri Mehtätalo

    Biometry for Forestry and Environmental Data with Examples in R focuses on statistical methods that are widely applicable in forestry and environmental sciences, but it also includes material that is...
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  • What the Wild Sea Can Be
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    What the Wild Sea Can Be

    Scales, Helen

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION No matter where we live, 'we are all ocean people,' Helen Scales observes in her bracing...
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  • Cover Crops and Sustainable Agriculture
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    Cover Crops and Sustainable Agriculture

    Rafiq Islam

    This book will not serve as the "encyclopedia of cover crop management," but it’s close. The benefits of a wide range of individual cover crops and blends/mixes for specific agronomic crop rotations...
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  • Underworld
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    Underworld

    Casey, Susan

    'An irresistible mix of splendid scholarship, heart-stopping adventure writing, and vivid, visceral prose.' Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus THE INSTANT NEW...
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  • Periodic Table
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    Periodic Table

    Jackson, Tom

    The Periodic Table - An infographic guide to the elements is a fresh new approach to a truly remarkable and instantly recognizable piece of science. Combining cutting edge science with fascinating...
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  • Greywacke
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    Greywacke

    Davidson, Nick

    Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier. Charles Lapworth was a schoolteacher. It was their personal and intellectual rivalry, pursued on treks through Wales,...
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  • Ocean's Menagerie
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    Ocean's Menagerie

    Harvell, Drew

    A transporting, mind-expanding exploration of the deep sea and the strange, astonishing and most ancient creatures who inhabit it - revealing their hidden worlds and all we can learn from it. ** A...
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  • Impossible Monsters
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    Impossible Monsters

    Taylor, Michael

    A superb narrative history of the discovery of dinosaurs and how they revolutionised our understanding of the Earth's and mankind's origins Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the...
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  • Dark Frontier
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    Dark Frontier

    Marlow, Jeffrey

    An awe-inspiring and panoramic investigation into the hidden world of the deep sea - a mysterious, unforgiving landscape whose secrets radically revise our understanding of life on earth. The deep...
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  • Ocean
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    Ocean

    Asha de Vos

    A colourful visual journey from the shoreline to the ocean's depths to celebrate the sheer diversity of life beneath the waves. Three quarters of the ocean has never been seen by humans. Drawing on...
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  • James Lovelock et al
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    James Lovelock et al

    James Lovelock

    "We are buried beneath mountains of fast-accumulating data. In such circumstances, this book, rather than adding to the data load, aims to offer real understanding." -James LovelockHuman beings are...
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  • War Below
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    War Below

    Scheyder, Ernest

    A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION, AND FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD The trillion-dollar...
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  • Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs
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    Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs

    Linda J. Bilmes

    This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.S. National Parks (including monuments, seashores, lakeshores, recreation areas, and historic sites) and National Park Service (NPS)...
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  • Local Experiences of Mining in Peru
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    Local Experiences of Mining in Peru

    Gerardo Castillo Guzmán

    This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies...
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  • Petroleum Science and Technology
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    Petroleum Science and Technology

    Muhammad Abdul Quddus

    Petroleum Science and Technology: Petroleum Generation, Accumulation and Prospecting describes natural hydrocarbon geology along with applicable aspects of physics, chemistry, biology, environmental...
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  • Permafrost Environment
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    Permafrost Environment

    Stuart A. Harris

    Originally published in 1986, The Permafrost Environment examines how the search for oil, gas and minerals in the arctic region instigated new and vitally important needs to understand the permafrost...
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