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The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), it encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in Nort...

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Our Magnetic Earth The Science of Geomagnetism

Merrill Ronald T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226006598, ISBN: HB: 9780226520506, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 26 halftones

For the general public, magnetism often seems more the province of new age quacks, movie mad scientists, and grade-school teachers than an area of actual, ongoing scientific inquiry. But as Ronald Merrill reveals in "Our Magnetic Earth", geomagneti...

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Ecology

Powers That Be Global Energy for the Twenty-first Century and Beyond

Montgomery Scott L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226535005, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 12 halftones

Thirty years ago, our global energy landscape did not look remarkably different from what it does today. Three or four decades from now, it certainly will: dwindling oil reserves will clash with skyrocketing demand, as developing nations around the w...

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Earth Sciences

Coast Lines How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226534039, University of Chicago Press, May 2008
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious cha...

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