Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457855Description: The Arctic has reacted more quickly and dramatically to global warming than many had anticipated. Scientists are urgently trying to predict just how the Arctic will change and how those changes will in turn affect the rest of the planet. But plenty of other people, driven by profit rather than data, are interested as well. The riches of the world's last virgin territory have spurred the reawakening of old geopolitical rivalries. The United States, Canada, Russia, Norway, and Denmark all control areas around the Arctic Ocean. We face a new era of oil rigs and drill ships, of shipping shortcuts, and fights over the Arctic's treasures. Alongside the winners are the many losers, from nomadic reindeer herders to Inuit hunters. Other creatures that rely on the vast expanses of sea ice, including seals, birds, and whales, may disappear or be replaced. Combining science, business, politics, and adventure, Alun Anderson takes the reader to the ends of the earth in a narrative portrait of this rapidly changing land of unparalleled global significance.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457855http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457029Description: Reference for agates including an introduction to their geology an d formation, a comprehensive identification guide and listings for where they can be found around the world.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457029http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479495Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479495http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475643Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475643http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457471Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457471http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476541Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476541http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479494Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479494http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457854Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457854http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456580Description: A comprehensive guide filled with vibrant illustrations and detailed maps captures this wondrous and remote land of ice and snow, with up-to-date information on its climate, the nature of ice, its famous explorers, conservation issues, geology, geography, and the animals who call it home.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456580http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456579Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456579http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476540Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476540http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455325Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455325http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478770Description: "Most protected areas (e.g.national parks and nature reserves) have been created to protect wildlife and land- and seascape values. They currently cover over 13% of the world's land surface, around 12% of marine coastal areas and 4% of the marine shelf. Retaining and expanding these areas in the future will depend on showing their wider benefits for society. This book provides a concise and persuasive overview of the values of protected areas. Contributing authors from over fifty countries examine a wide range of values that are maintained in protected areas, including food, water and materials; health; tourism; cultural and spiritual values; and buffering capacity against climate change and natural disasters. The book also considers the role of protected areas in poverty reduction strategies, their relationship with traditional and indigenous people and in fostering conflict resolution through peace parks initiatives."--Publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478770http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457849Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457849http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479493Description: "The Atlas of Global Conservation is a premier resource for everyone concerned about the natural world. Top scientists at The Nature Conservancy have joined forces to create this guide to the state of the planet today. With over 80 full-color maps and other graphics contextualized with clear, informative discussion, this book offers an unprecedented view of trends across the world's terrestrial, marine, and freshwater environments. Interspersed throughout, essays by noted international authorities point the way forward in confronting some of our greatest conservation challenges."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479493http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455607Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455607http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476594Description: In this definitive reference, sophisticated software combines with comprehensive analysis of every aspect of life to represent the world as it really is. Digitally modified maps or cartograms depict the areas and countries of the world not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a vast range of subjects, from basic data on population, health, and occupation to how many toys we import and who is eating the most vegetables.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476594http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479492Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479492http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489995Description: Examines the role of biochar, created by burning biomass in the absence of oxygen, in withholding carbon from the atmosphere while building soil fertility.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489995http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457469Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457469http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478190Description: This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find the deepest cave on Earth, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong. Tabor focuses particularly on the heroic efforts of Bill Stone in the vast Cheve Cave of southern Mexico and Alexander Klimchouk in the supercave Krubera of the Republic of Georgia.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478190http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478188Description: "Focusing on unusual intemational border shapes, this fascinating book highlights the important truth that all borders, even those that appear "natural," were created by people. The unique and compelling histories of some of the world's oddest borders provide an ideal context for accessible and enlightening discussions of cultural globalization, economic integration, international migration, imperialism, postcolonialism, global terrorism, nationalism, and supranationalism, Each contributor's regional expertise enriches a textured account of the historical context in which these borders came into existence as well as their historical and ongoing influence on the people and states they bound."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478188http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458128Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458128http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454031Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454031http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479490Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479490http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478769Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478769http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458107Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458107http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458106Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458106http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475640Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475640http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=448492Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=448492http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503514Description: "This text examines the impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems, past, present and future. It especially considers the interactions between climate change and other drivers of change including hydromorphological modification, nutrient loading, acid deposition and contamination by toxic substances using evidence from palaeolimnology, time-series analysis, space-for-time substitution, laboratory and field experiments and process modelling. The book evaluates these processes in relation to extreme events, seasonal changes in ecosystems, trends over decadal-scale time periods, mitigation strategies and ecosystem recovery.The book is also concerned with how aspects of hydrophysical, hydrochemical and ecological change can be used as early indicators of climate change in aquatic ecosystems and it addresses the implications of future climate change for freshwater ecosystem management at the catchment scale.This is an ideal book for the scientific research community, but is also accessible to Masters and senior undergraduate students"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503514http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479489Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479489http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454022Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454022http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480105Description: "In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis--a global food shortage that threatens to hit by midcentury--which he argues would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment points to a dangerous confluence of shortages--of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge--combined with an increased demand created by population and economic growth. Writing in brisk, accessible prose, Cribb explains how the food system interacts with the environment and with armed conflict, poverty, and other societal factors. He shows that high food prices and regional shortages are already sending out shockwaves in the international community. He warns that the heightened risk of regional famines will have a planetwide effect on food prices, trade, and conflict and will generate new waves of refugees. But, far from outlining a doomsday scenario, The Coming Famine is a strong and positive call to action, exploring the greatest issue of our age and providing practical suggestions for addressing and averting each of the major challenges it raises"--Cover, p. 2.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480105http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479488Description: "Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arrangements that define natural resource governance are outcomes of political processes, whereby numerous groups with often-divergent interests negotiate for access to and control over resources. These political processes determine the outcomes of resource governance reform efforts, such as widespread attempts to decentralize or devolve greater tenure over land and resources to local communities. This volume examines the political dynamics of natural resource governance processes through a range of comparative case studies across east and southern Africa. These cases include both local and national settings, and examine issues such as land rights, tourism development, wildlife conservation, participatory forest management, and the impacts of climate change, and are drawn from both academics and field practitioners working across the region."--Publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479488http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477064Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477064http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477063Description: A stunning and revealing examination of oil's indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it, of the power of oil to exacerbate existing problems and create new ones.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477063http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455014Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455014http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476538Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476538http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479486Description: "Frigid, dark, and energy-deprived, the deep sea was long considered hostile to life. However, new sampling technologies and intense international research efforts in recent decades have revealed a remarkably rich fauna and an astonishing variety of novel habitats. These recent discoveries have changed the way we look at global biodiversity." "In Deep-Sea Biodiversity, Michael Rex and Ron Etter present the first synthesis of patterns and causes of biodiversity in organisms that dwell in the vast sediment ecosystem that blankets the ocean floor. They provide the most comprehensive analysis to date of geographic variation in benthic animal abundance and biomass. The authors document geographic patterns of deep-sea species diversity and integrate potential ecological causes across scales of time and space. They also review the most recent molecular population genetic evidence to describe how and where evolutionary processes have generated the unique deep-sea fauna. Deep-Sea Biodiversity offers a new understanding of marine biodiversity that will be of general interest to ecologists and is crucial to responsible exploitation of natural resources at the deep-sea floor."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479486http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456578Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456578http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478768Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478768http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458104Description: "This book draws lessons from a unique collaboration of an international team of geographers, educators and computer scientists in developing learning materials and guidance to all who intend to work in the field of electronic/online learning"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458104http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479911Description: Earth Environments provides a comprehensive introduction to Earth's four key interdependent systems: the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, focusing on their key components, interactions between them and environmental change. Tailored specifically to undergraduate students, the book is a one-step textbook for major topics in geosciences, environmental science, physical geography, natural hazards and ecology courses. Topics covered include: atmospheric systems; oceanography; endogenic and exogenic geological systems, biogeography and global environmental change. The impacts of climate and environmental change are integrated in a final summary chapter which draws together Earth's systems and their evolution and looks to the future of the planet.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479911http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479483Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479483http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457853Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457853http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458127Description: Krupp, longtime president of the Environmental Defense Fund, and Horn present a stirring and hopeful call to arms as they feature the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458127http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476011Description: "In Emerald Cities , Joan Fitzgerald shows how in the absence of a comprehensive national policy, cities like Chicago, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle have taken the lead in addressing the interrelated environmental problems of global warming, pollution, energy dependence, and social justice. Cities are major sources of pollution but because of their population density, reliance on public transportation, and other factors, Fitzgerald argues that they are uniquely suited to promote and benefit from green economic development. For cities facing worsening budget constraints, investing in high-paying green jobs in renewable energy technology, construction, manufacturing, recycling, and other fields will solve two problems at once, sparking economic growth while at the same time dramatically improving quality of life. Fitzgerald also examines how investing in green research and technology may help to revitalize older industrial cities and offers examples of cities that don't make the top-ten green lists such as Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio and Syracuse, New York" --Cover, p. 2.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476011http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457028Description: Offers new visual interpretations of many concepts and facts, painting a fascinating picture of Earth today and across the ages.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457028http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457468Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457468http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479482Description: Go beyond simple definitions to explore where weather comes from and the roles played by oceans and water cycles. Learn about related phenomena such as the shaping of landforms, the creation of biological provinces, and the lasting ramifications of climate change.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479482http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457027Description: A noted environmental journalist discusses the possible ecological consequences beyond global warming resulting from modern human activity and describes the possibility of massive instability and climate swings, including a possible return to ice ages of the past.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457027http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457939Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457939http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479481Description: "More than 400 years ago, William Gilbert said, "The Earth itself is a great magnet." Today, we know that it is also a great magnetic tape recorder. This comprehensive, up-to-date textbook focuses on extracting and using rock and paleomagnetic data in archaeological, geological, and geophysical applications. Designed for students and professionals with knowledge of college-level physics and some background in earth sciences, it describes both the theory and practice of paleomagnetism, covering topics such as the basics of magnetism, geomagnetic fields, how rocks become magnetized, and the various ways of analyzing the magnetism of rocks. The book uses the companion PmagPy software package. An appendix contains a brief introduction to Python, an easy-to-use, cross-platform, and most important, free programming environment in which PmagPy programs are written."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479481http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495820Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495820http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475637Description: Draws on behavioral science to assess environmental protection activities in Alaska, in a partly philosophical analysis that cites the examples of such groups as evolutionary scientists, hippie activists, and oil tycoons.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475637http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458103Description: An unconventional study of the issue of global warming focuses on the root cause of the problem--the influx of carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere--and argues that only the development of new technologies can reduce carbon dioxide output.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458103http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457467Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457467http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479480Description: "By 2050: the sea will rise by 2 to 3 feet. Wealthy coastal cities will fight the rising water with dykes and levees; others will lose their underground infrastructure (including electric and fiber optic systems), and face building collapses." "By 2300: the sea will rise by 65 feet. As Antarctica melts, massive floating icebergs will interfere with shipping in the southern hemisphere. The world's geography will change drastically, featuring new rivers and lakes where they never before existed." "By 2500-5000: the sea will achieve its maximum height. Most formerly coastal cities will no longer exist at all. Massive migrations will take place, all deltas and low-lying agricultural areas will have been wiped from the map, and the newly de-iced Greenland and Antarctica will be important farmlands. Humans will have to cope with the spread of tropical diseases like Malaria and Dengue Fever, and the possibility of runaway mass extinctions." "Sea Level Rise Will be an Unavoidable Part of our Future, no matter what we do. Even if we stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the seas will rise three feet by 2050 and nine feet by 2100. This---not drought, species extinction, or excessive heat waves---will be the most dramatic effect of global warming.".http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479480http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457466Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457466http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478767Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478767http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455165Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455165http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479479Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479479http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479279Description: Filmmaker Josh Fox travels the United States along the Marcellus Shale formation to uncover the negative environmental and health effects of fracture drilling as a means of extracting natural gas.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479279http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456577Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456577http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457465Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457465http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489990Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489990http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456490Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456490http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477061Description: "The understanding of Earth processes and environments over geological time is highly dependent upon both the experience that can only be gained through doing fieldwork, and the collection of reliable data and appropriate samples in the field. This textbook explains the main data gathering techniques used by geologists in the field and the reasons for these, with emphasis throughout on how to make effective field observations and record these in suitable formats. Equal weight is given to assembling field observations from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock types. There are also substantial chapters on producing a field notebook, collecting structural information, recording fossil data and constructing geological maps. The volume is in a robust and handy size, with colour coded chapters for ease of use and quick reference in the field. This textbook is designed for students, amateur enthusiasts and professionals who have a background in geology and wish to collect field data on rocks and geological features. Teaching aspects of this textbook include: step-by-step guides to essential practical skills such as using a compass-clinometer, drawing a geological map and making a field sketch; tricks of the trade, checklists, flow charts and short worked examples; over 200 illustrations of a wide range of field notes, maps and geological features; appendices with the commonly used rock description and classification diagrams; a supporting website hosted by Wiley Blackwell"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477061http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492509Description: Human activities have had a huge impact on the environment and landscape, through industrialization and land-use change, leading to climate change, deforestation, desertification, land degradation, air and water pollution. These impacts are strongly linked to the occurrence of geomorphological hazards, such as floods, landslides, snow avalanches, soil erosion, and others. Geomorphological work includes not only the understanding but the mapping and modelling of Earth's surface processes, many of which directly affect human societies. In addition, geomorphologists are becoming increasingly involved with the dimensions of societal problem solving, through vulnerability analysis, hazard and risk assessment and management. The work of geomorphologists is therefore of prime importance for disaster prevention. An international team of geomorphologists have contributed their expertise to this volume, making this a scientifically rigorous work for a wide audience of geomorphologists and other Earth scientists, including those involved in environmental science, hazard and risk assessment, management and policy.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492509http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479478Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479478http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455324Description: "Based on the author's more than ten years of research and practice in map design, GIS Cartography: A Guide to Effective Map Design provides the tools to create truly sophisticated maps. Packed full of in-depth information and advice, this book covers all facets of map creation."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455324http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458126Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458126http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479477Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479477http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456576Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456576http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458125Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458125http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456575Description: "The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to all prospects of global tectonics. Revisions to this new edition reflect the most significant recent advances in the field, providing a thorough, accessible, and up-to-date text. Combining a historical approach with process science, Global Tectonics provides a careful balance between geological and geophysical material in both continental and oceanic regimes." "New and expanded chapters in this third edition include Precambrian tectonics and the supercontinent cycle; mantle processes, including mantle plumes; the implications of plate tectonics for environmental change; large igneous provinces; rifted continental margins; ocean ridges; continental transforms; subduction zones; and numerous orogenic examples. Written in an engaging style, this important text is an essential reference for undergraduates and graduate students who have a basic introduction in the geosciences."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456575http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458124Description: "Comprehensive examination of the economic, social, and political context of climate policy in industrialized and developing nations. Calls for a multilateral approach that goes beyond the mitigation-focused Kyoto policies and stresses the importance of generating policies that work within a time frame commensurate with that of climate change itself"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458124http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458123Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458123http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504755Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504755http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457464Description: The latest edition of GPS made easy reflects the increased accuracy provided by WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS, and NDGPS coverage. It also addresses GPS usage with the newest available technology, such as downloadable maps, computers, PDAs, and Pocket PCs with GPS receivers.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457464http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457940Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457940http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457026Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457026http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480101Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480101http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457852Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457852http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458102Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458102http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455163Description: A comprehensive guide to the earth's oceans provides information on such topics as the ocean's initial formation, current structures on the ocean floor, water movment, the impact of climate and weather, environmental hazards, and conservation efforts.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455163http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458122Description: "Last year, awareness about global warming reached a tipping point. Now one of the most dynamic writers and one of the most respected scientists in the field of climate change offer the first concise guide to both the problems and the solutions. Guiding us past a blizzard of information and misinformation, Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King explain the science of warming, the most cutting-edge technological solutions from small to large, and the national and international politics that will affect our efforts. While there have been many other books about the problem of global warming, none has addressed what we can and should do about it so clearly and persuasively, with no spin, no agenda, and no exaggeration. Neither Walker nor King is an activist or politician, and theirs is not a generic green call to arms. Instead they propose specific ideas to fix a very specific problem. Most important, they offer hope: This is a serious issue, perhaps the most serious that humanity has ever faced. But we can still do something about it. And they'll show us how."--Publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458122http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456574Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456574http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475634Description: Right now, scientists are working on ways to minimize the catastrophic impact of global warming. But they're not designing hybrids or fuel cells or wind turbines. They're trying to lower the temperature of the entire planet--with huge contraptions that suck CO2 from the air, machines that brighten clouds and deflect sunlight, even artificial volcanoes that spray heat-reflecting particles into the atmosphere. This is the radical and controversial world of geoengineering, which only five years ago was considered to be "fringe." But as Jeff Goodell points out, the economic crisis, combined with global political realities, is making these ideas look sane, even inspired. Goodell himself started out as a skeptic, concerned about tinkering with the planet's thermostat. There are certainly risks, but Goodell believes the alternatives could be worse. In the end, he persuades us that geoengineering may just be our last best hope--a Plan B for the environment.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475634http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479475Description: "The colossal human ecological footprint now threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Scientists, policymakers, and other close observers know that any understanding of the causes of global environmental change is a function of understanding its human dimension - the range of human choices and actions that affect the environment. This book offers a state-of-the-art assessment of research on the human dimensions of global environmental change, describing how global threats to sustainability have come about, providing an interpretive framework for understanding environmental change, reviewing recent work in the social and ecological sciences, and discussing which paths for future advances in our knowledge may prove most promising.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479475http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456573Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456573http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456572Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456572http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475633Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475633http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490337Description: "What defines a sustainable food system? How can it be more inclusive? How do local and global scales interact and how does power flow within food systems? How to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to realizing sustainable food systems? And how to activate change? These questions are considered by EU and North American academics and practitioners in this book. Using a wide range of case studies, it provides a critical overview, showing how and where theory and practice can converge to produce more sustainable food systems."--pub. website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490337http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475632Description: Discusses the peoples of the high Arctic, their traditions, and the changes they face in the modern world and from global warming, in a book that looks at languages, hunting traditions, and religious practices.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475632http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492520Description: Life on Earth can be traced back over three thousand million years into the past. Many examples of the Earth's past inhabitants are to be found in rocks, preserved as beautiful and fascinating fossils. The earliest life forms were bacteria and algae; these produced the oxygen that enabled more complex life forms to develop. About 600 million years ago multi-cellular organisms appeared on Earth, some of which could protect themselves with hard parts such as shells. Many of these life forms were readily fossilized and are used to subdivide geological time. Numerous species have evolved and most are now extinct. Lineages can be traced and extinctions explained as a consequence of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial events. Illustrated with photographs and explanatory diagrams this text provides an introduction to the science of palaeontology. The book is divided into two parts. The first explains what a fossil is; how fossils came to be preserved; how they are classified; and what information they can tell scientists about the rocks in which they are found. The second part introduces the major fossil groups taking a systematic view from algae and plants, through the numerous examples of invertebrate animals, to the vertebrates and finally to man's ancestors.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492520http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458101Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458101http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458100Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458100http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458099Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458099http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457463Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457463http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457941Description: "The uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, signaled the beginning of a great American adventure. The West was opening up, and unexplored lands beckoned. Unimagined paleontological treasures awaited discovery: strange horned mammals, birds with teeth, flying reptiles, gigantic fish, diminutive ancestors of horses and camels, and more than a hundred different kinds of dinosaurs. This exciting book tells the story of the grandest period of fossil discovery in American history, the years from 1750 to 1890." "The volume begins with Thomas Jefferson, whose keen interest in the American mastodon led him to champion the study of fossil vertebrates. The book continues with vivid descriptions of the actual work of prospecting for fossils - a pick in one hand, a rifle in the other - and enthralling portraits of Joseph Leidy, Ferdinand Hayden, Edward Cope, and Othniel Marsh, among other major figures in the development of the science of paleontology."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457941http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475631Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475631http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458121Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458121http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458105Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458105http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457850Description: Brandt tells the fascinating whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration through its development into a British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457850http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456571Description: Reconstructs the ecological history of Manhattan through period maps, archeological discoveries, and computational geography to create pictures and descriptions of Manhattan from 1609 to the present day.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456571http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=409868Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=409868http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457462Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457462http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479473Description: Each chapter of this exciting and eye-opening book explores a particular type of cataclysmic event and the research surrounding it, including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, rapid climate change, collisions with asteroids or comets, pandemics, and financial crashes. Florin Diacu tells the harrowing true stories of people impacted by these terrible events, and of the scientists racing against time to predict when the next big disaster will strike. He describes the mathematical models that are so critical to understanding the laws of nature and foretelling potentially lethal phenomena, the history of modeling and its prospects for success in the future, and the enormous challenges to scientific prediction posed by the chaos phenomenon, which is the high instability that underlies many processes around us.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479473http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458120Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458120http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475630Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475630http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480095Description: Overseen and authenticated by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Natural History presents an unrivaled visual survey of Earth's natural history. Giving a clear overview of the classification of our natural world-over 6,000 species-Natural History looks at every kingdom of life, from bacteria, minerals, and rocks to fossils to plants and animals. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480095http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456570Description: "In Nature's Clocks, Doug Macdougall tells the story of scientists seeking to understand the past and shows how they arrived at the ingenious techniques they use to determine the age of objects and organisms. Focusing on radiocarbon (C-14) dating - the best-known of these methods and the only one that can directly date once-living material - and several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, Macdougall unwraps the past century's advances, explaining how scientists use radioactivity to determine the ages of our fossil ancestors such as "Lucy," the timing of the dinosaurs' extinction, and the precise ages of tiny mineral grains that date from the beginning of the Earth's history."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456570http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507707Description: Presents profiles, photographs, satellite images, and maps for each country in the League of Arab States.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507707http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456569Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456569http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496503Description: Restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek to regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence or opening a store; but the practice is as ancient as mapping itself. This volume explores mapping as a means of control.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496503http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457461Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457461http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456568Description: The former vice president and author of such best-sellers as "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Earth in the Balance" presents a follow-up work to address key environmental issues while profiling and evaluating possible solutions.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456568http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489985Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489985http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479472Description: "... a thought-provoking and up-to-date introduction to the central ideas and debates within the field. It provides extended definitions of terms that are fundamental to physical geography and its many branches, covering topics such as biogeography, ecology, climatology, meteorology, geomorphology, hydrology, and pedology. Complete with informative tables, diagrams, and suggestions for further reading, this is a highly accessible guide for those studying physical geography and related courses."--Publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479472http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477057Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477057http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490335Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490335http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489984Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489984http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457460Description: From the Publisher: Quick fix or permanent, local or imported, synthetic or natural? Everyday we are faced with a myriad of complex, often contradictory choices that have a bearing on the climate and sustainability. Yet whether at home or in business, without a method for understanding our thought processes we often default to behavior that is destroying the climate, natural environment and social wellbeing. How can we change our thinking and behaviors to protect the climate and move towards sustainability? In this new book, renowned sustainability, business, and organizational change specialist Bob Doppelt provides both an easy to understand explanation and practical methods for transforming our climate-damaging, unsustainable ways into sustainable thinking and behaviors. Doppelt makes the case that global warming and today's other ecological and socioeconomic problems are not technical in nature, rather they represent a crisis of thought. Every society has a shared "mental frame"-core beliefs and assumptions-that shape the way people make decisions and behave. Effective solutions will emerge only when new, sustainable forms of thinking emerge. Sustainable thinking requires a clear understanding of the systems humans are part of, the use of proven strategies for facilitating personal, team, and organizational change, ethical rules to guide behavior, and a creative rather than problem-solving orientation. The first part of the book makes the case that new ways of thinking are needed to resolve climate change and other sustainability issues. Part two starts by explaining how the human mind works and how people change. It then provides proven "staged-based" methods for transforming thinking and behavior, beginning first with the reader's own cognitive patterns, then moving to how individuals can motivate other people to change, and finally to how teams and organizations can be motivated to change. To bring the ideas alive, Doppelt offers numerous examples from his own experiences and those of business and government leaders from different places and contexts. The end result is a practical, inspiring read for all those who want to change their own thinking and behavior and contribute to a cascade effect that produces widespread social change for climate protection and sustainability.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457460http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489983Description: The awesome power of the earth's oceans has been in the headlines in recent years, from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami (300,000 dead) to the devastation of New Orleans caused by the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina, to the huge rogue waves that have struck oil tankers and cruise ships. The author, a former Chief Scientist for the National Ocean Service, tells these stories as he explores the history of our struggle to understand the physics of the sea so we can predict when it will unleash its power against us. His wide sweeping narrative interweaves exciting stories of unpredicted natural disasters with fascinating stories of scientific discovery, including: Napoleon's realization about Moses and the Exodus after his own narrow escape from the dangerous tides of the Red Sea; the critical role that tide predictions and wave forecasts played in the Allied victory on D-Day; how the deadly storm surge that killed half a million people in Bangladesh in 1970 led to that nation's fight for independence; how the largest tsunami in recorded history carried three fishing boats from a bay in Alaska into the Pacific Ocean, and the father and son who survived to tell the tale; how a ten year old English girl saved dozens of people during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and why elephants were able to save so many lives; how the sea affects El Ninos and climate change, and whether sea level rise due to global warming will put our coasts underwater; how today's scientists are working to predict the sea's next disaster using a vast global array of oceanographic sensors, on buoys, on ships, on islands, along coasts, and on satellites, to provide the huge quantities of real time data needed by computer prediction models. ThIs narrative is a sweeping look at more than 1,000 years of ocean history and science.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489983http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479470Description: Susan Hough traces the continuing quest by seismologists to forecast the time, location, and magnitude of future quakes--a quest fraught with controversies, spectacular failures, and occasional apparent successes. She brings readers into the laboratory and out into the field with the pioneers who have sought to develop reliable methods based on observable phenomena such as small earthquake patterns and electromagnetic signals. Hough describes attempts that have raised hopes only to collapse under scrutiny, as well as approaches that seem to hold future promise. She recounts stories of strange occurrences preceding massive quakes, such as changes in well water levels and mysterious ground fogs. She also ventures to the fringes of pseudoscience to consider ideas outside the scientific mainstream, from the enduring belief that animals can sense impending earthquakes to amateur YouTube videos purporting to show earthquake lights prior to large quakes.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479470http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490334Description: World-renowned dinosaur illustrator and researcher Gregory Paul provides comprehensive visual and textual coverage of the great Mesozoic animals that gave rise to the living dinosaurs, the birds. Paul presents thorough descriptions of more than 735 dinosaur species and features more than 600 color and black-and-white images, including unique skeletal drawings, "life" studies, and scenic views.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490334http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480098Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480098http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480097Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480097http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455013Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455013http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457848Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457848http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478187Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478187http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475627Description: Waterman takes an unprecedented journey down the Colorado River, paddling in his kayak and hiking on foot, all 1,450 miles from the Rocky Mountains to its Mexican delta.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475627http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490333Description: "While many believe that water is a renewable resource that will never go away, the truth is that the availability of this essential element is declining. Global warming creates moonscapes where there were once snow-packed mountains. Population growth has pushed demand, straining our current supply--almost ensuring that water will become as coveted as oil in the twenty-first century. As the water supply declines, there are critical questions to answer: Can we learn to conserve? Can we find ways to renew this resource? Do we have the political will to act wisely before it is too late? Peter Rogers and Susan Leal are experts with decades of experience dealing with the conservation and protection of water. Through the use of case studies, or "success stories," Rogers and Leal explain in accessible terms the scientific, economic, and political aspects of the issue. They offer a comprehensive look at the crisis--from the West Coast, where mighty rivers are being diverted for California's agriculture--to the Gulf Coast of Florida, where snowbird retreats are straining natural resources--to traditionally thirsty parts of the world, like southern India, where water is available but infrastructure to deliver it is limited or nonexistent. Focusing on solutions, Running Out of Water lays out the political leadership, policy action and technology tools required to sustain our water supplies"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490333http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458119Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458119http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=408190Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=408190http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503524Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503524http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457847Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457847http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504765Description: "Lavishly illustrated in color, this textbook takes an applied approach to introduce undergraduate students to the basic principles of structural geology. The book provides unique links to industry applications in the upper crust, including petroleum and groundwater geology, which highlight the importance of structural geology in exploration and exploitation of petroleum and water resources. Topics range from faults and fractures forming near the surface to shear zones and folds of the deep crust. Students are engaged through examples and parallels drawn from practical everyday situations, enabling them to connect theory with practice. Containing numerous end-of-chapter problems, e-learning modules, and with stunning field photos and illustrations, this book provides the ultimate learning experience for all students of structural geology"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504765http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457459Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457459http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456567Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456567http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455012Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455012http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490329Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490329http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457025Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457025http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458118Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458118http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456566Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456566http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458117Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458117http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477054Description: When the author, a Columbia professor, set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big, he thought up. His stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These multi-story intensely managed indoor farms, grown inside skyscrapers, are capable of producing traditional greenhouse crops, as well as pigs and fowl, year-round. They would provide solutions to many of the serious problems the world is facing.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477054http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480093Description: Volcanoes maintains three core foci: Global perspectives explain volcanoes in terms of their tectonic positions on Earth and their roles in earth history; environmental perspectives describe the essential role of volcanism in the moderation of terrestrial climate and atmosphere; humanitarian perspectives discuss the major influences of volcanoes on human societies. This latter is especially important as resource scarcities and environmental issues loom over our world, and as increasing numbers of people are threatened by volcanic hazards.--From publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480093http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456565Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456565http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504769Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504769http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475625Description: "A narrative account of how water has shaped human society from the ancient past to the present"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475625http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476536Description: From one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes this work, a book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476536http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489981Description: The first comprehensive history of its kind, Weather on the Air explores the many forces that have shaped weather broadcasts over the years, including the long-term drive to professionalize weathercasting, the complex relations between government and private forecasters, and the effects of climate-change science and the Internet on today's broadcasts. Dozens of photos and anecdotes accompany Henson's more than two decades of research to document the evolution of weathercasts, from their primitive beginnings on the radio to the high-gloss, graphics-laden segments we watch on television every morning.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489981http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455011Description: Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his environmental values.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455011http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455010Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455010http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455608Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455608http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480092Description: "A vivid, scientifically based forecast of our planet in forty years, distilling cutting edge research into these world-changing forces: demographic trends; natural resource demand; climate change; globalization"--Jacket flap.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480092http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455009Description: This book examines the effects of global warming by looking carefully at the potential consequences of a world without ice. The author traces the effect of mountain glaciers on supplies of drinking water and agricultural irrigation, as well as the current results of melting permafrost and shrinking Arctic sea ice--a situation that has degraded the habitat of numerous animals and sparked an international race for seabed oil and minerals. Catastrophic possibilities loom, including rising sea levels and subsequent flooding of low-lying regions worldwide, and the ultimate displacement of millions of coastal residents. This book answers the most urgent questions about this pending crisis, laying out the necessary steps for managing the unavoidable and avoiding the unmanageable.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455009http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478186Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478186http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477053Description: "Yellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today. From the 1940s into the early twenty-first century, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe for the sake of atomic bombs. Secretly, during the days of the Manhattan Project and then in a frenzy during the Cold War, the government bought up all the uranium that could be mined from the hundreds of rich deposits entombed under the sagebrush plains and sandstone cliffs. Despite warnings from physicians and scientists that long-term exposure could be harmful, even fatal, thousands of miners would work there unprotected. A second set of warnings emerged about the environmental impact. Yet even now, long after the uranium boom ended, and long after national security could be cited as a consideration, many residents are still surrounded by contaminated air, water, and soil. The radioactive 'yellow dirt' has ended up in their playgrounds, in their bread ovens, in their churches, and even in their garbage dumps. And they are still dying"--Cover, p. 2.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477053