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Rocks & Minerals

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  • Trilobiteby Richard Fortey

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.00

    With Trilobite , Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures. Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as... more...

  • The Race for What's Leftby Michael T. Klare

    Henry Holt and Co. 2012; US$ 16.99

    From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competition The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion?a crisis that goes beyond ?peak oil? to encompass shortages of coal and uranium, copper and lithium, water and arable land. With all of the planet?s... more...

  • Tree Faller's Manualby ForestWorks

    CSIRO Publishing 2011; US$ 24.95

    Covers risk assessment, theory and techniques for manual tree-felling. more...

  • The Mountains of the Mediterranean Worldby J. R. McNeill

    Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 50.00

    An environmental history of the mountain areas of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. more...

  • Burning Issuesby Mark Adams; Peter Attiwill

    CSIRO Publishing 2011; US$ 49.95

    The role of fire in Australia's ecosystems, and how to manage fire both for safety and for diversity. more...

  • Northern Wildby David R. Boyd

    Greystone Books 2009; US$ 16.95

    This provocative and illuminating collection of essays presents the most exciting contemporary voices in Canadian nature writing, including some of Canada?s best-known and most distinguished nature writers as well as the most promising new talents. From British Columbia's ancient rain forests to the Miramichi River in New Brunswick to the vast expanses... more...

  • Nature Guide Rocks and Mineralsby

    Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2012; Not Available

    Have the world in your hands with these compact, affordable, illustrated natural history guides From malachite to meteorites, leaf through Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals , a beautiful guide profiling the world's specimens. Part of a new generation of compact natural history guides, Rocks and Minerals is packed full of stunning images... more...

  • Iowa Gems and Minerals in Your Pocketby Paul Garvin; Anthony Plaut

    University of Iowa Press 2012; US$ 9.95

      From the spiky teeth of a geode containing sparkling quartz crystals, the rich browns and golds of smoky quartz and goethite needles on calcite, and the coral-like branches of plumose barite to the abstract reds and whites of polished agate cabochons, world-class mineral crystals are harvested from the rocks of the Hawkeye State. Collecting... more...

  • Ecology and Conservation of Estuarine Ecosystemsby Renzo Perissinotto; Derek D. Stretch; Ricky H. Taylor

    Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 96.00

    An integrated synthesis of scientific knowledge and management information concerning the world's first protected, and Africa's largest, estuarine system. more...

  • The Field Description of Metamorphic Rocksby Norman Fry

    Wiley 2013; US$ 65.00

    Geological Society of London Handbook Series Edited by Keith Cox Founded in 1807, the Geological Society of London has been publishing since 1845 and now distributes its journal to Fellows throughout the world. This Handbook is published as part of a series of authoritative practical guides to field geology. The Field Description of Metamorphic Rocks... more...