The Handy Geography Answer Book, Second Edition

by Paul A. Tucci

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Publisher: Visible Ink Press LLC

Publication date: April 01, 2009

More than 1,000 answers to questions on all matters geographic, including key statistics on the world’s 195 countries.

Megadisasters

The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe

by Florin Diacu

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Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication date: November 05, 2009

Diacu’s book focuses on specific types of catastrophe and scientific attempts to model and forecast them—including tsunami, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, pandemics, cosmic impacts and financial crashes.

The Great Warming

Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

by Brian M. Fagan

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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Publication date: March 04, 2008

The current global warming crisis isn’t the Earth’s first. Learn how the Medieval Warming Period contributed to the rise and fall of empires around the world in this fascinating, impassioned, relevant book.

In the Mountains of Saint Francis

Discovering the Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth

by Walter Alvarez

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Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.

Publication date: December 01, 2008

The bestselling author of T. Rex and the Crater of Doom takes us on an excavation of the Earth’s distant past.

The AMS Weather Book

The Ultimate Guide to America's Weather

by Jack Williams

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Publication date: May 15, 2009

Comprehensive and spectacularly illustrated, this guide covers everything from daily weather patterns, air pollution and global warming to stories of researchers who study the atmosphere, oceans and climate. HC. 368pp. 2009.

Flat Earth

The History of an Infamous Idea

by Christine Garwood

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Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Publication date: August 05, 2008

In this comprehensive and entertaining history, Garwood shows how the conception of a flat Earth was revived by fundamentalists in the 19th century; she reviews their works and speculates on the roots of the belief.

Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species

A Graphic Adaptation

by Michael Keller

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Publisher: Rodale Press, Inc.

Publication date: October 27, 2009

This accessible, artfully rendered graphic-novel adaptation introduces a new generation of readers to Darwin’s text.

The Long Thaw

How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate

by David Archer

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Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication date: January 01, 2009

Argues that the carbon dioxide that our species is currently pumping into the atmosphere may have dramatic effects on Earth’s climate on timescales of up to 100 millennia—and shows us what we can do about it.

Gems of the World

by Cally Oldershaw

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Publisher: Firefly Books

Publication date: September 01, 2009

Packed with 900 full-color photographs and illustrations, this comprehensive guide describes the geology, chemistry and properties of gemstones and offers specific facts and features of more than 130 varieties. SC. 256pp. 2008.

Stories in Stone

by David B. Williams

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc

Publication date: June 23, 2009

A look at how stone buildings contain stories of geological origins, architectural aesthetics and cultural history.