The Key to The Future
 Here is a book for everyone who has an interest in how our planet works, what has happened during its 4,550 million year history and what might happen in the future. It tells how Earth scientists study the pattern of events that have shaped the planet ... [... more]
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State of the Wild: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, ...
How do we gauge the state of earth's wildlife, wildlands, and oceans? State of the Wild is a new annual series that brings together some of the world's most renowned conservationists and writers-George Schaller, Alan Rabinowitz, Sylvia Earle, Rick Bass, ... [... more]
$55.00
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Carbon Strategies: How Leading Companies Are Reducing ...
"Climate change's impacts cut across all functional areas of a business. The systematic approach proposed in this report will be very helpful to business managers concerned with integration of business activities in operations, marketing, finance, ... [... more]
$29.95
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The Physiology of Crop Yield
First published in 1989, Physiology of Crop Yield was the first student textbook to digest and assimilate the many advances in crop physiology, within a framework of resource capture and use. Retaining the central core of the first edition, this long- ... [... more]
$63.99
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Wetlands
Praise for Wetlands, Second Edition "This book is the wetlands bible . . . the most wide-ranging (book) on the subject."—Carl Folke, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Land Use Policy) "The single best combination text and reference book ... [... more]
$110.00
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The Periglacial Environment
The Periglacial Environment, Third Edition, provides an authoritative overview of the worldâs cold, non-glacial environments. Emphasis is placed upon the North American and Eurasian polar lowlands, but examples are also drawn from Antarctica, the ... [... more]
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Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology-the study of ignorance-provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know& ... [... more]
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Rule of Power or Rule of Law?
"Rule of Power or Rule of Law?" assesses U.S. compliance with nine treaties addressing some of the most urgent global security threats, ranging from proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to global climate change. The study documents the ... [... more]
$21.95
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Twenty-Third Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and ...
In The Twenty-Third Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, leading US and international researchers from academia, industry, and government present state-of-the-art research on how biotechnology is being used to produce economically ... [... more]
$155.00
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Sustainable Energy and the States: Essays on Politics, ...
With America’s dependence on fossil fuels painfully apparent due to world events and the resultant sharply rising gas prices, the search for renewable energy sources has never been more important. Still, the quest for sustainable energy is far from new. ... [... more]
$35.00
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Animals and Temperature: Phenotypic and Evolutionary ...
A very topical volume given the concern about global climate change. [... more]
$70.00
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Taken by Storm
Climate and weather patterns, and their changes over time, can be nearly impossible to predict. Yet thousands of political, social, and societal decisions have been made with the assumption that global climate change can be foretold. In this book, ... [... more]
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