Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489996Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489996http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491215Description: Looks at the oceans and seas around the world, describing the creatures found in them, threats they face, and recommendations on ways to preserve the ocean ecosystem.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491215http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507150Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507150http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495817Description: "Basic Geological Mapping, 5th Edition is an essential basic guide to field techniques in mapping geology. Now completely revised and updated the book retains the concise clarity which has made it an indispensable instant reference in its previous editions. It provides the reader with all the necessary practical information and techniques that they will need while carrying out work in the field, covering a wide spectrum of different conditions, needs and types of countries. This edition covers new developments in technology including Google Earth and the use of GPS. This is an ideal field guide to geological mapping for 2nd/3rd year undergraduates of Geology, Hydrogeology and Geological Engineering"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495817http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489879Description: The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water, liquid, ice, and vapor, there is a fourth, "molecular water," fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that's where most of the planet's water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used up; it can always be made clean enough again to drink, indeed, water can be made so clean that it's toxic. Water is the most vital substance in our lives but also more amazing and mysterious than we appreciate. As the author brings to life in this narrative, water runs our world in a host of awe inspiring ways, yet we take it completely for granted. But the era of easy water is over. Bringing readers on a lively and fascinating journey from the wet moons of Saturn to the water obsessed hotels of Las Vegas, where dolphins swim in the desert, and from a rice farm in the parched Australian outback to a high tech IBM plant that makes an exotic breed of pure water found nowhere in nature, he shows that we have already left behind a century long golden age when water was thoughtlessly abundant, free, and safe and entered a new era of high stakes water. In 2008, Atlanta came within ninety days of running entirely out of clean water. California is in a desperate battle to hold off a water catastrophe. And in the last five years Australia nearly ran out of water, and had to scramble to reinvent the country's entire water system. But as dramatic as the challenges are, the deeper truth the author reveals is that there is no good reason for us to be overtaken by a global water crisis. We have more than enough water. We just don't think about it, or use it, smartly. This book explores our strange and complex relationship to water. We delight in watching waves roll in from the ocean; we take great comfort from sliding into a hot bath; and we will pay a thousand times the price of tap water to drink our preferred brand of the bottled version. We love water, but at the moment, we do not appreciate it or respect it. Just as we have begun to reimagine our relationship to food, a change that is driving the growth of the organic and local food movements, we must also rethink how we approach and use water. The good news is that we can. As is shown, a host of advances are under way, from the simplicity of harvesting rainwater to the brilliant innovations devised by companies such as IBM, GE, and Royal Caribbean that are making impressive breakthroughs in water productivity. Knowing what to do is not the problem. Ultimately, the hardest part is changing our water consciousness. As the author writes, "Many civilizations have been crippled or destroyed by an inability to understand water or manage it. We have a huge advantage over the generations of people who have come before us, because we can understand water and we can use it smartly." This book will forever change the way we think about water, about our essential relationship to it, and about the creativity we can bring to ensuring that we will always have plenty of it; it is an examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives.--From book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489879http://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=508834Description: "Despite commitments to renewable energy and two decades of international negotiations, global emissions continue to rise. Coal, the most damaging of all fossil fuels, has actually risen from 25% to almost 30% of world energy use. And while European countries have congratulated themselves on reducing emissions, they have increased their carbon imports from China and other developing nations, who continue to expand their coal use. As standards of living increase in developing countries, coal use can only increase as well--and global temperatures along with it.In this hard-hitting book, Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy--from transitioning from coal to gas and eventually to electrification of transport, to carbon pricing and a focus on new technologies. Lucid, compelling and rigorously researched, this book will have a lasting impact on how we think about climate change"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508834http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490341Description: Explains that a major earthquake and resulting tsunamis are likely to occur off the Pacific Northwest coast any time within the next two hundred years, arguing that the effects of the disaster will be far worse than the damage from the 2004 Sumatran quake and tsunamis.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490341http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504752Description: This book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, the author traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind. Through both word and image, this work illuminates the chaos and paradox inherent in China's environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China's traditional "heroic" storyline, highlighting the marginalization of nature that followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering the environment. And also, he makes the compelling argument that all of humanity has a stake in China's environmental future.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504752http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507141Description: China's huge environmental challenges are significant for us all. They affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet. In this trailblazing book, noted China specialist and environmentalist Judith Shapiro investigates China's struggle to achieve sustainable development against a backdrop of acute rural poverty and soaring middle class consumption. Using five core analytical concepts to explore the complexities of this struggle - the implications of globalization, the challenges of governance; contested national identity, the evolution of civil society and problems of environmental justice and equity - Shapiro poses a number of pressing questions: Do the Chinese people have the right to the higher living standards enjoyed in the developed world? Are China's environmental problems so severe that they may shake the government's stability, legitimacy and control? To what extent are China's environmental problems due to patterns of Western consumption? And in a world of increasing limits on resources and pollution "sinks," is it even possible to build an equitable system in which people enjoy equal access to resources without taking them from successive generations, from the poor, or from other species? China and the planet are at a pivotal moment; the path towards a more sustainable development model is still open. But - as Shapiro persuasively argues - making this choice will require humility, creativity, and a rejection of business as usual. The window of opportunity will not be open much longer.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507141http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490340Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490340http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498856Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498856http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489993Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489993http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498857Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498857http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491214Description: Throughout, author and cloud expert Gavin Pretor-Pinney catalogs a variety of clouds and gives readers points for spotting them and recording their finds.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491214http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503855Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503855http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503515Description: "This is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency, and the real path to sustainability. Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: everything you've been told about being green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car are dangerous fantasies. We are consumers, and we like to consume greenly and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross-purposes to our true goal: living sustainably while caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem, one discovered in the late nineteenth century by a twenty-nine-year-old English economist named William Jevons. Efforts to improve efficiency only exacerbate the problems they are meant to solve, more than negating the environmental gains. We have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption. David Owen's elegant narrative, filled with fascinating information and anecdotes, takes you through the history of energy and the quest for efficiency. He introduces the reader to some of the smartest people working on solving our energy problems. He details the arguments of efficiency's proponents and its antagonists--and in the process overturns most traditional wisdom about being green. This is a book that will change how you look at the world. We are not waiting for some geniuses to invent our way out of the energy and economic crisis we're in. We already have the technology and knowledge we need to live sustainably. But will we do it? That is the conundrum"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503515http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503516Description: This introduction to the history of oil tells the story of how petroleum shaped human life since it was first discovered leaking inconspicuously from the soil. Leading environmental history specialist Brian C. Black connects the subsequent exploitation of petroleum to patterns in world history while tracing the intricate links between energy and people after 1850. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503516http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489992Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489992http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503858Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503858http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490339Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490339http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490338Description: "The End of Country is the compelling story about the epic battle for control of one of the richest natural gas deposits the world has ever known: the Marcellus Shale, worth more than one trillion dollars. In a remote northeastern corner of Pennsylvania, an intense conflict begins, pitting the forces of corporate America against a community of stoic, low-income homesteaders, determined to acquire their fair share of the windfall--but not at the cost of their values or their way of life. Though the natural gas is extracted through a controversial process known as hydrofracking, many couldn't resist the offer to lease their land in exchange for the promise of untold riches. For years, this part of the world was invisible to all but the farmers, urban transplants, and small landholders who called it home. But journalist Seamus McGraw, a native of the region whose own mother was one of the first to receive a leasing offer, opens a window on a stiff-necked group of Pennsylvanians as they try, with little guidance or protection from the state or anyone else, to balance the promise and the peril of this discovery. Along the way, McGraw introduces us to a host of colorful characters, from a gas company land agent with a Green Beret to a wizened quarryman with an old coonhound, a .22 rifle, and an unerring sense of right and wrong who leads a personal crusade to police the gas company's operations. The cutthroat dash by petrodollar billionaires to secure drilling leases will make some poor residents rich, and put the entire community at risk of having its land tainted by toxic chemicals and its water supply contaminated by gas. Above all, it will test the character of everyone in the community as they fight against 'the end of country.'" -- Amazon.com.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490338http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492506Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492506http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495818Description: The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible explanations, expert legal insight into new and evolving regulations, and reliable compliance and management guidance.The Environmental Law Handbook continues to provide individuals across the country-professionals, professors, and students-with a comprehensive, up-to-date, and easy-to-read look at the major environmental, health, and safety laws affecting U.S. businesses and organizations. Because it is written by the country's leading environmental law firms, you receive the best, most reliable guidance anywhere. Both professional environmental managers and students aspiring to careers in environmental management should keep the Environmental Law Handbook within arm's reach for thoughtful answers to regulatory questions like: - How do I ensure compliance with the regulations?- How do the latest environmental developments impact my operations?- How do we keep our operations efficient and our community safe?This handbook begins with chapters on the fundamentals of environmental law and on issues of enforcement and liability. It then dives headfirst into the major laws, examining their history, scope, and requirements with a chapter devoted to each.The 21st edition of this well-known handbook has been thoroughly updated, with major changes to chapters on the Clean Air Act and the Oil Pollution Act, and a rewritten chapter on the Safe Drinking Water Act. This edition also includes a brand new chapter on Climate Change and Environmental Law.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495818http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489878Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489878http://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=495819Description: "The second edition of this unique pocket field guide has been thoroughly revised and updated to include the advances in physical volcanology, emplacement of magmas, and interpreting structures and textures in igneous rocks. The book has included new techniques, such as AMS and geophysical studies of pluton shape at depth, and new topics such as the occurrence of porphyrys, laccoliths, and magma sediment interaction. Part of the successful field guide series, this book includes new sections featuring granitic rocks, basaltic rocks, magma mixing and mingling, and engineering properties and mineralization."--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495819http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492508Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492508http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489991Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489991http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489646Description: The message of "Fuel" is clear: oil is bad, alternative energy is good. Its goals are simple: put Big Oil out of business, and sell the American public on the virtues of cleaner energy sources, such as wind, solar, and ethanol. Josh Tickell, an alternative-energy zealot, has both driven cross-country in a car powered only by fast-food cooking oil and written a book about it. His film is a combination of autobiography, first-person travelogue, history and ecology lesson, and a shamelessly inspirational call to action. Using charts, animated graphics and historical footage, Tickell ties our national obsession with oil to melting glaciers, melting economies, the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, and the collapse of the American way of life. Eleven years in the making (a shorter version appeared in 2008 as "Fields of Fuel") the film is not so much a green documentary as a red, white, and blue alarm.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489646http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503520Description: "The study of climate today seems to be dominated by global warming, but these predictions of climatic models must be placed in their geological, paleo-climatic, and astronomical context to create a complete picture of the Earth's future climate. The Future of the World's Climate presents that perspective with data and projections that have emerged from more technologically advanced and accurate climate modeling"--Publisher's website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503520http://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=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=498859Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498859http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493432Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493432http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489989Description: The modern city is not only pavement and concrete. Parks, gardens, trees, and other plants are an integral part of the urban environment. Often the focal points of social movements and political interests, green spaces represent far more than simply an effort to balance the man-made with the natural. A city's history with--and approach to--its parks and gardens reveals much about its workings and the forces acting upon it. Our green spaces offer a unique and valuable window on the history of city life. The essays in Greening the City span over a century of urban history, moving from fin-de-siáecle Sofia to green efforts in urban Seattle. The authors present a wide array of cases that speak to global concerns through the local and specific, with topics that include green-space planning in Barcelona and Mexico City, the distinction between public and private nature in Los Angeles, the ecological diversity of West Berlin, and the historical and cultural significance of hybrid spaces designed for sports.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489989http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491213Description: Discusses the carbon footprint--the carbon emissions used to manufacture and transport--everyday items, including paper bags and imported produce, and provides information to help build carbon considerations into everyday purchases.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491213http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503859Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503859http://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=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=495821Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495821http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496501Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496501http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503861Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503861http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489988Description: This volume is a concise guide to creating maps using GIS (a geographic information system). In the simplest terms, GIS is the merging of cartography, statistical analysis and database technology. Featuring over 300 maps and other figures, including instructive examples of both good and poor design choices, the book covers everything from locating and processing data to making decisions about layout, map symbols, color, and type.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489988http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490336Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490336http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490375Description: It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere. Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks, from the London Map Fair to the computer programmers at Google Earth. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map culture: highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even the "unreal estate" charted on the maps of fiction and fantasy. He also considers the ways in which cartography has shaped our history, suggesting that the impulse to make and read maps is as relevant today as it has ever been.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490375http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489987Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489987http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503863Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503863http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503864Description: "Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities -- human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate change and declining biodiversity, it is no longer viable. New technologies are promising to provide renewable energy sources and greener designs, but real change will require a deeper shift in values, attitudes, and perceptions.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503864http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489986Description: "This collection of essays testifies to the profound impact that earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and other such events have had on humans throughout history in every part of the world. Several contributors argue that the experience of catastrophe has changed humans' behavior and perceptions over time without necessarily reducing their degree of exposure or risk. The book includes case studies from Western Europe, Scandinavia, Algeria, the Middle East, China, India, the Philippines, Argentina, Mexico, and the East Coast of the United States, ranging from the medieval through the modern period. While natural disasters occur around the globe, different cultures, societies, and regions have adopted specific methods and technologies for managing local hazards and for surviving catastrophic natural events. Indeed, how humans deal with catastrophes depends largely on social and cultural patterns, values, belief systems, political institutions, and economic structures. The roles that natural disasters play in society and the meanings they are given vary from one political and geographic space to the next. The essays collected here help us to understand not only how people across the centuries have learned to cope with disaster but also how communities in different parts of the world have developed cultural, social, and technological strategies for doing so."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489986http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503865Description: "The large scale, practical uses of natural gas were initially introduced by innovators Joseph Pew and George Westinghouse for the steel and glass industries in Pittsburgh, and local gas companies evolved from individual wells to an interstate supply network acquired by Rockefeller's Standard Oil interests"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503865http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493443Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493443http://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=503522Description: " Oil Notes is about the excitement of the earth below us, the passing of time, and oil: where it is trapped, how it is discovered, and its gradual disappearance. Writing in the form of a journal, Rick Bass brings a lyric imagination to the oil geologist's craft, measuring people's short lives and relationships against the seemingly immutable history of the earth, showing mountains and forests that do not move while we are free to race across them, living our lives in the ultimate freedom of speed. To dig for oil is a way to dig deep into human experience, a kind of subterranean exploration of self. And nothing escapes this writer's eye or imagination. In lean, considered prose, Bass's essays and notes offer fascinating insights into the oil industry while skillfully painting the picture of a young man on the verge of adulthood. Oil Notes successfully conveys the excitement of possibility--a stimulating career, the pursuit of a wonderful woman, the beautiful mystery of the earth--that so addresses and captivates us in our own lives. Bass provides a new introduction for this edition reflecting how much--and how little--has changed since his youth in the oil industry"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503522http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507151Description: "Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide--either forcing material upwards to form mountain belts such as the Alps or Himalayas or causing one plate to be subducted below the other, resulting in volcanic mountain chains such as the Andes. Integrating the approaches of structural geology and metamorphism, this book provides an up-to-date overview of orogenic research, and an introduction to the physico-chemical properties of mountain belts. Global examples are explored, the interactioning roles of temperature and deformation in the orogenic process are reviewed, and important new concepts such as channel flow are explained. This book provides a valuable introduction to this fast-moving field for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of structural geology, plate tectonics and geodynamics, and will also provide a vital overview of research for academics and researchers working in related fields including petrology, geochemistry and sedimentology."--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507151http://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=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=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=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=489877Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489877http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503523Description: Journalist Klare describes the impact the coming shortage of natural resources will have on the future of the human race.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503523http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503869Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503869http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489994Description: This work of investigative journalism shows how freshwater is the pressing global issue of the twenty-first century.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489994http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507709Description: A MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood and how the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507709http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495822Description: This handbook provides a state of the art guide to the science, practice and value of urban ecology to help everyone understand and enjoy their urban habitat.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495822http://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=490332Description: "Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of society to the scarcity of key natural resources. Increasing scarcity raises the cost of exploiting existing natural resources and creates incentives in all economies to innovate and conserve more of these resources. However, economies have also responded to increasing scarcity by obtaining and developing more of these resources. Since the agricultural transition over 12,000 years ago, this exploitation of new 'frontiers' has often proved to be a pivotal human response to natural resource scarcity. This book provides a fascinating account of the contribution that natural resource exploitation has made to economic development in key eras of world history. This not only fills an important gap in the literature on economic history but also shows how we can draw lessons from these past epochs for attaining sustainable economic development in the world today"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490332http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490331Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490331http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489982Description: Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia. Each person's story, unique and unfiltered, articulates the hardship of living in these majestic mountains amid the daily desecration of the land by the coal industry because of America's insistence on cheap energy. Developed as an alternative to strip mining, mountaintop removal mining consists of blasting away the tops of mountains, dumping waste into the valleys, and retrieving the exposed coal. This process buries streams, pollutes wells and waterways, and alters fragile ecologies in the region. The people who live, work, and raise families in central Appalachia face not only the physical destruction of their land but also the loss of their culture and health in a society dominated by the consequences of mountaintop removal.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489982http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498866Description: Geospatial information modeling and mapping has become an important tool for the investigation and management of natural resources at the landscape scale. Spatial Statistics: GeoSpatial Information Modeling and Thematic Mapping reviews the types and applications of geospatial information data, such as remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and GPS as well as their integration into landscape-scale geospatial statistical models and maps. The book explores how to extract information from remotely sensed imagery, GIS, and GPS, and how to combine this with field data--vegetation, soil, and environmental--to produce a spatial model that can be reconstructed and displayed using GIS software. Readers learn the requirements and limitations of each geospatial modeling and mapping tool. Case studies with real-life examples illustrate important applications of the models.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498866http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495823Description: "The Subsistence Economies of Indigenous North American Societies provides a comprehensive and in-depth documentation of how Native American societies met the challenges of adapting to the varied ecosystems of North America over the past 10,000 years. The contributors identify a number of recurrent themes and questions which have shaped debates regarding the nature of Native American interaction with and impact on their local environments throughout the Holocene.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495823http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490330Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490330http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507139Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507139http://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=503525Description: Running from southern West Virginia through eastern Ohio, across central and northeast Pennsylvania, and into New York through the Southern Tier and the Catskills, the Marcellus Shale formation underlies a sparsely populated region that features striking landscapes, critical watersheds, and a struggling economic base. It also contains one of the world's largest supplies of natural gas, a resource that has been dismissed as inaccessible until recently. Technological developments that combine horizontal drilling with hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") have removed physical and economic barriers to extracting hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of gas from bedrock deep below the Appalachian basin. Beginning in 2006, the first successful Marcellus gas wells by Range Resources, combined with a spike in the value of natural gas, spurred a modern-day gold rush, a "gas rush", with profound ramifications for environmental policy, energy markets, political dynamics, and the lives of the people living in the Marcellus region. This book is a journalistic overview of shale gas development and the controversies surrounding it. Control over drilling rights is at stake in the heart of Marcellus country, northeast Pennsylvania and central New York. The decisions by landowners to work with or against the companies, and the resulting environmental and economic consequences, are scrutinized by neighbors faced with similar decisions, by residents of cities whose water supply originates in the exploration area, and by those living across state lines with differing attitudes and policies concerning extraction industries. Here the author gives a voice to all constituencies, including farmers and landowners tempted by the prospects of wealth but wary of the consequences, policymakers struggling with divisive issues, and activists coordinating campaigns based on their respective visions of economic salvation and environmental ruin. He describes a landscape in which the battle over the Marcellus ranges from the very local, yard signs proclaiming landowners' allegiances for or against shale gas development, to often conflicting municipal, state, and federal legislation intended to accelerate, delay, or discourage exploration. For millions of people with a direct stake in shale gas exploration in the Marcellus or any number of other emerging shale resources in the United States and worldwide, or for those concerned about the global energy outlook, this book offers a look at the issues.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503525http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490327Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490327http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507152Description: "The ground beneath our feet may seem safe and solid, but earthquakes, volcanic blasts and other hazardous natural phenomena leave us in no doubt that this isn't the case. The Earth is a dynamic planet of shifting tectonic plates that is responsive to change, particularly when there is a dramatic climate transition. We know that at the end of the last Ice Age, as the great glaciers disappeared, the release in pressure allowed the crust beneath to bounce back. At the same time, staggering volumes of melt water poured into the ocean basins, warping and bending the crust around their margins. The resulting tossing and turning provoked a huge resurgence in volcanic activity, seismic shocks, and monstrous landslides -- the last both above the waves and below. The frightening truth is that temperature rises expected this century are in line with those at the end of the Ice Age. All the signs, warns geophysical hazard specialist Bill McGuire, are that unmitigated climate change due to human activities could bring about a comparable response. Using evidence accumulated from studies of the recent history of our planet, and gleaned from current observations and modeling, he argues convincingly that we ignore at our peril the threats that presented by climate change and the waking giant beneath our feet."--Cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507152http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490328Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490328http://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=503871Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503871http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490930Description: "Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakes--geoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives. But more than that, as Doug Macdougall makes clear, the science also provides important clues to the future of the planet. In an entertaining and accessibly written narrative, Macdougall gives an overview of Earth's astonishing history based on information extracted from rocks, ice cores, and other natural archives. He explores such questions as: What is the risk of an asteroid striking Earth? Why does the temperature of the ocean millions of years ago matter today? How are efforts to predict earthquakes progressing? Macdougall also explains the legacy of greenhouse gases from Earth's past and shows how that legacy shapes our understanding of today's human-caused climate change. We find that geoscience in fact illuminates many of today's most pressing issues--the availability of energy, access to fresh water, sustainable agriculture, maintaining biodiversity--and we discover how, by applying new technologies and ideas, we can use it to prepare for the future"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490930http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503526Description: Environmental articles from the Berkshire encyclopedia of world history, 2nd ed.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503526http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489980Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489980