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Annals Of the Former World
by John McPhee
Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written over the course of two decades beginning in 1978."Most mountain ranges around the world are the result of compression, of segments of the earth's crust being brought together, bent, mashed, thrust and folded, squeezed up into the sky-- the...
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Assembling California
by John McPhee
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two...
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Encounters With the Archdruid
by John McPhee
Encounters with the Archdruid is a narrative nonfiction book by author John McPhee. The book is split into three parts, each covering environmentalist David Brower's confrontations with his ideological enemies. The book chronicles his struggles against miners, developers and finally the United States Bureau of Reclamation. McPhee blurs traditional journalism, the reporting of facts and accounting of events, with thematic elements more common to fiction. Throughout the work is devised to the contrasting...
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Gemstones Of the World -- Revised and Expanded Edition
by Walter Schumann
English translation of: Edelsteine und Schmucksteine.
Includes index.
Includes index.
The End Of Nature
by Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben has written several hundred pieces for The New Yorker. His writings on nature have also appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and other national publications. He and his wife live in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
Ecology Of Fear
by Mike Davis
A former meatcutter and long-distance truck driver, Mike Davis has taught urban theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, was a fellow at the Getty Institute, and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of Prisoners of the American Dream and City of Quartz. He was born in Fontana, a suburb of Los Angeles, and now lives in Pasadena.
De Re Metallica
by Georgius Agricola
De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals) is a book cataloguing the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published in 1556. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola. The book remained the authoritative text on mining for 180 years after its publication. Agricola had spent nine years in the Bohemian town of Joachimsthal, now in the Czech Republic. (Joachimsthal is famous for its silver mines and the origin of the word "Thaler.
Earth Science Books & Ephemera
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by Winchester, Simon;Vannithone, Soun
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Perennial, 2002. Fourth printing. Beautiful and appears unread: Pictorial wraps; 329 pages, index inclusive; full color map; solid binding; square corners; no internal marks; no chips or tears.. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
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NZ$12.51
The Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California (Contriburtions to American Geology Vol. 1)
by Whitney, J. D. (Josiah Dwight Whitney)
John Wilson and Son, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. 569 pages, 9-1/2 by 12 inches. Illustrated in black-and-White with two maps laid in (Map in two sheets of the Tertiary Auriferous Gravel Deposits, and a Map showing the extent of the Hydraulic Mining Operations. A geological survey of the Auriferous Gravels gold mine in Nevada County, CA. Whitney was a professor of geology at Harvard University and was the chief of the California Geological Survey from 1860 to 1874. Whitney was known to have called...
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NZ$1,063.88
Geology For Beginners
by W. W. Watts
Macmillan And Co., Limited, 1917. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1917. Third Edition. 352 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. Black and white photographic frontispiece with illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Frontispiece and illustrations are bright and clear, with some light tanning and foxing to edges. Previous owner's inscriptions to title page and front free endpaper. Sticker to front pastedown....
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NZ$11.58
Povest o velikikh rekakh Russkoj ravniny / Повесть о великих реках Русской равнины
by L.L. Ilina, Aleksandr Grakhov / Л.Л. Ильина, Александр Грахов
Гидрометеоиздат, 1983. Softcover/Paperback. Fair. Авторы посвящают свою книгу трем крупнейшим рекам Русской равнины - Волге, Днепру, Дону. Выбор их не случаен - на водных путях этих рек некогда сложилось и окрепло Русское государство. О том, как менялись взаимоотношения людей с реками, о их...
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NZ$7.97
Explorers and Settlers: Historic Places Commemorating the Early Exploration and Settlement of the United States: the National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings Volume V
by Ferris, Robert G. (Series editor)
Washington D. C.: United States Department of the Interior / National Park Service. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Book is Near Fine. Clean and unmarked text. Tight and sturdy binding. Light bumps to cover corners. Very slight spine end crimps with very light spine end wear at corners. Few page corner tips have very slight curve to them - no creases or bends. ; B&W Photographs; 506 pages .
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NZ$16.94
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Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Vol XLV [1921]
by Howchin, Walter [Editor] assisted by Arthur M. Lea
Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia. 1921. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White plates and in-text black and white diagrams. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 316 pages + 16 pages of plates. Contains a number of papers on natural history, geology and anthropology. Of particular note are: ‘On the Occurrence of Aboriginal Stone Implements of Unusual Types in the Tableland Region of Central...
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NZ$50.07
The Ecology Of Freedom: The Emergence And Dissolution Of Hierarchy
by Bookchin, Murray
A K Pr Distribution, 2005. Paperback. New. new title edition. 480 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches.
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NZ$46.96
Inzhenernaya geologiya / Инженерная геология
by Popov V. V., Belyj L. D / Попов В. В., Белый Л. Д
Стройиздат, 1975. Hardcover/Hardback. Good. В пособии рассматриваются строение, развитие и структурные формы Земли, главнейшие вопросы генетического грунтоведения и гидрогеологии, а также физико-геологические и инженерно-геологические процессы и явления. Особое внимание уделено...
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NZ$10.27
Arktika otkryvaet sekrety. Istoriya polyarnykh drejfov / Арктика открывает секреты. История полярных дрейфов
by Avtor ne ukazan / Автор не указан
Паулсен, 2016. Hardcover/Hardback. Fair. «…Несмотря на научно-технический прогресс и бурное развитие высоких технологий, работа в экстремальных условиях автономного дрейфа до сих пор остается рискованной и требующей от человека максимальной концентрации...
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NZ$12.58
Geology of the Country Around Brough-under-Stainmore (Geological Memoirs & Sheet Explanations (England & Wales))
by British Geological Survey
Hardback. Very Good.
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NZ$14.91
Modern Carbonate Environments (Benchmark papers in Geology, V. 74))
by Bhattacharyya, Ajit and Gerald M. Friedman (editors)
Hutchinson Ross Publishing Company, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 376 pages. Numerous figures with B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Mild edge and corner wear. No dust jacket.
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NZ$85.11
Geology of New Zealand
by Marshall, Peter
Wellington: John Mackay, Government Printer. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Folding map with a large tear with adhesive tape repair. Previous owner's rubber stamp on title page. Abrasion to rear endpaper. Some und ; viii, 218 pages + frontispiece (Mitre Peak and Sinbad Gully, Milford Sound) + 1 colour folding geological map of New Zealand + correction slip facing page iv. Brown cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Preface by James...
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NZ$59.58
Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions
by Richard T. T. Forman
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Near Fine with some shelfwear to covers, o/w like new.
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NZ$85.11
Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley
by Robert P Sharp, Allen F. Glazner
Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Company. Edgewear and rubbing, interior is clean. . Good. Soft cover. 2nd Printing. 1999.
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NZ$10.13
Human Ecology: Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development
by Gerald G. Marten
Paperback / softback. New. The interactions and interdependencies of the social and natural worlds are the focus of attention from a wide range of environmental, social and life sciences. This book presents an account of this complex range of issues and of the concepts and tools required to understand and tackle them.
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NZ$78.69
Hydrogeology
by Lamarck, J. B. [Jean-Baptiste]
University of Illinois Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 152 pages. The first English translation of the author's only contribution to geology, published in French in 1802. Translated by Albert V. Carozzi. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with short chips and snags to the top edges.
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NZ$85.11
United States Tsunamis (Including United States Possessions), 1690-1988
by Lander, James F. and Patricia A. Lockridge
National Geophysical Center, 1989. Trade Paperback. 265 pages. Publication 41-2. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
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NZ$42.56
Balloon Ascensions. Cordoba - Argentina 1911 - 1913. Europe and United States.
by Bigelow, Frank H
1906-1911. Folio (352 x 215 mm), single leaves oversewn in sections onto sawn-in cords. 196 page manuscript in black and red ink and pencil, rectos only. Leaves numbered in blue crayon. Contemporary quarter black skiver, black pebble-grain cloth, titles to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, graph paper leaves. Spine professionally relined and reattached to text block by Bainbridge Conservation, binding rubbed and worn, particularly along the spine, endpapers and blanks tanned, contents a little toned, a...
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NZ$1,597.13
Tragediya dikikh zhivotnykh / Трагедия диких животных
by Akimushkin Igor Ivanovich / Акимушкин Игорь Иванович
Мысль, 1969. Softcover/Paperback. Fair. Мы никогда не увидим многих зверей и птиц - шестьсот видов животных сейчас находятся на грани полного уничтожении. Если так будет продолжаться, то скоро придется делать нейлоновых зайцев, оленей, глухарей, чтобы познакомить людей с теми, кто населял...
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NZ$10.18
Elektroenergetika i priroda L / Электроэнергетика и природа (L)
by Pod. red G.N. Lyalina i A.Zh. Reznikovskogo / Под. ред Г.Н. Лялина и А.Ж. Резниковского
М.: Энергоатомиздат, 1995. Softcover/Paperback. Good. Экологические проблемы развития электроэнергетики
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NZ$18.88
Puteshestvie v sinyuyu stranu / Путешествие в синюю страну
by Georgij Shulman / Георгий Шульман
Мысль, 1979. Softcover/Paperback. Fair. Это книга о море, о том, что оно дает человеку в познавательном и эстетическом плане; о научных проблемах, над которыми работают исследователи; о Севастопольском институте биологии южных морей. В ней рассказывается об экспедициях в Азовское, Черное и...
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NZ$9.90
Man & Stone
by Kukal, Zdenek et al
Prague: Geological Survey. 1989. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket - dustjacket now protected in our purpose made clear archival plastic sleeve. Small crease to title page [a binding flaw]. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Uncommon. 315 pages. Describes all the aspects of the intimate relations between man and stone, from the dawn of civilization to the present time. It explains why certain types of rocks were chosen and how they were...
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NZ$33.38
Wild Horizons A Cameraman in Africa
by Plage, Dieter
London: Collins. 1980. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs as well as black and white maps. Previous owner's details to front free end paper x 2 and a gift inscription. 216 pages. Also includes discussion of the author's filming methods and equipment. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Hardback.
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NZ$16.69
The State Geological Surveys
by Socolow, Arthur A
Association of American State Geologists, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good -/No Jacket. No ISBN is given and pulication data is thin. Assume First, no later or prior printings listed, we can not guarantee printing history status. A sturdy, structurally sound copy with major cosmetic challenges. The spine has significant cocking (slant) the boards have some bumping. The text appears to be wholly unmarked, bright, binding sound, tight, no gapping or looseness. The boards have trace fleck and soiling,...
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NZ$160.89
!['Observations of Proofs of Recent Elevation on the Coast of Chile: A Sketch of the Deposits containing Extinct Mammalia in the Neighborhood of the Plata.' [with] 'On certain Areas of Elevation and Subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans as deduced from Coral Formaions.'](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/417/036/1436036417.0.m.jpg)
