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Annals Of the Former World
by John McPhee
Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written over the course of two decades beginning in 1978."Most mountain ranges around the world are the result of compression, of segments of the earth's crust being brought together, bent, mashed, thrust and folded, squeezed up into the sky-- the...
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Assembling California
by John McPhee
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two...
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Encounters With the Archdruid
by John McPhee
Encounters with the Archdruid is a narrative nonfiction book by author John McPhee. The book is split into three parts, each covering environmentalist David Brower's confrontations with his ideological enemies. The book chronicles his struggles against miners, developers and finally the United States Bureau of Reclamation. McPhee blurs traditional journalism, the reporting of facts and accounting of events, with thematic elements more common to fiction. Throughout the work is devised to the contrasting...
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Gemstones Of the World -- Revised and Expanded Edition
by Walter Schumann
English translation of: Edelsteine und Schmucksteine.
Includes index.
Includes index.
Ecology Of Fear
by Mike Davis
A former meatcutter and long-distance truck driver, Mike Davis has taught urban theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, was a fellow at the Getty Institute, and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of Prisoners of the American Dream and City of Quartz. He was born in Fontana, a suburb of Los Angeles, and now lives in Pasadena.
The End Of Nature
by Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben has written several hundred pieces for The New Yorker. His writings on nature have also appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and other national publications. He and his wife live in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
De Re Metallica
by Georgius Agricola
De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals) is a book cataloguing the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published in 1556. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola. The book remained the authoritative text on mining for 180 years after its publication. Agricola had spent nine years in the Bohemian town of Joachimsthal, now in the Czech Republic. (Joachimsthal is famous for its silver mines and the origin of the word "Thaler.
Earth Science Books & Ephemera
A catalogue of the recent sea-urchins (Echinoidea) in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History)
by Clark, H.L
Trustees of the British Museum, 1925. 1st edition. Publisher's cloth. V.g./No Jacket. Complete with 12 plates. xxviii, 250 pp.
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SGD 103.49
Livingstone
by Jim Jeal
Yale Univerisity Press, 2013. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2013 Yale University Press recent printing softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography of the great explorer David Livingstone David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to...
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SGD 19.23
The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man With remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation
by Charles Lyell
London: John Murray, 1863. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 528 pages. Green cloth.Three editions of this title were published in the year of its publication, this is the 2nd edition published April 1863. The first edition was published February 1863. The 2nd edition introduces an appendix which was not present in the 1st edition. This copy has been rebacked with a new spine of which the original cloth is attached to. New endpapers. Rubbing and some loss to edges of the cloth. Some...
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SGD 179.23
Tropical rain forest: a wider perspective
by Goldsmith, F.B
Chapman & Hall, 1998. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Inscribed by the author 'Barrie Goldsmith'.
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SGD 62.09
Southeastern Section Field Guide
Geological Society of America, 1986. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 9.77
Animals and plants of the Cenozoic era
by Pearson, Ronald
Butterworths, London, 1964. 1st edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. Good/No Jacket. Author's signature on ffep; at least one pencil correction in text. Front hinge starting. vii, 236 pp.
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SGD 34.50
Elemenatary Geology Applied to Prospecting
by Walker, John F
Victoria : Department of Mines , 1955 . Fifth . . . Illustrated in black and white with a number of foldouts including large chart at the rear for field identification of minerals. Light wear, owner's signature on cover.
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SGD 11.03
The Science of Ecology
by Brewer, Richard
Cengage Learning, 1994. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 9.77
Outlines of palaeontology
by Swinnerton, H.H
London: Edward Arnold, 1930. 2nd edition. Hard covers. V.g./No Jacket. Prize bookplate. Little used. x, 420 pp.
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SGD 20.70
Fossicker's Guide to Gold, Minerals and Gemstones of South Australia
by Dallow, Len
East Malvern: Gemcraft Publications. 1983. Oblong Octavo Size [approx 22x15cm].. Very Good condition. Black & white Maps. Uniformly faded cover. Some minor marks to interior. Small stain to top of rear cover. Scarce! 148 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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SGD 265.82
Urban Ecology: A Teacher's Resource Book
by Collins, Martin
Paperback. Acceptable.
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SGD 1.36
Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1903
by DAY, David T
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. Hardcover. First edition. Acceptable first edition hardcover is rubbed at the spine ends and corners, 2 inch tear along front top edge of spine with a crease across the front cover, corners lightly bent, the first approx. 300 pages (of 1204 pages) have a 1/2 inch tear at the top edge near the spine, text is clean.
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SGD 27.57
A history and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles
by Sargeant, W.A
Elsevier, 1974. Offprint from Palaeo journal vol. 16 no. 4. Paper covers, plastic clip bound. Good/No Jacket. Author's inscription.
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SGD 62.09
Dinosaur in a haystack
by Gould, S.J
Jonathan Cape, 1996. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.
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SGD 13.80
Geophysics, realism, and industry
by Arduaga, A
Oxford University Press, 2016. 1st edition. Pictorial hard covers. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used.
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SGD 41.40
British regional geology: The Pennines and adjacent areas
by Wray, D.A
HMSO, 1948. 2nd edition. Paper covers. Good/No Jacket. Library stamp on cover.
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SGD 10.35
EXTINCT AND VANISHING ANIMALS
by ZISWILER, VINZENZ
Book has 2 creases down the front and one down the rear cover; cnrs scuffed. 133pp: b&w line dwgs and photos thru'out the text. RARE>
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SGD 14.51
Assembling California: 4 (Annals of the Former World)
by McPhee, John
Paperback. Very Good.
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SGD 6.26
Geological terrace
by Silvester, N.L
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, 1967. 3rd edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.
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SGD 13.80
Sédimentologie et Paléoécologie due Muschelkalk Superieur et de la Lettenkohle (Trias Germanique) de l’Est de la France (etc.)
by Duringer, P
Institut de Géologie, Strasbourg, 1982. 1st edition. Paper covers. Fine/No Jacket. Thesis. Signed by owner and with author’s address on front cover. 96 pp. plus 11 plates at rear.
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SGD 48.29
Island ecology
by Gorman, M
Chapman & Hall, 1979. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.
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SGD 8.62
The Opal Book
by Leechman, Frank
Ure Smith, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 11.64
A MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY; By Sir Charles Lyell, M.A. F.R.S. / Revised from the Sixth Edition, Greatly Enlarged / Illustrated with 750 Woodcuts
by Lyell, Sir Charles
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1858. Sixth and final expanded, corrected American edition. Decorative embossed cloth. Very Good/None [Archival clear polyester sleeve added]. Wood engravings. Tall and thick 8vo (9 1/2' x 6 3/8"), original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine, illustrated with frontispiece (tissue guard) and 750 woodcuts, xvi + 685 pages [1] blank, [2] Ads. Weight: 2 lbs. 13 oz. Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS (1797 - 1875) was a...
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SGD 268.85
Mines and their story
by Mannix, B
Sidgwick & Jackson, 1913. 1st edition. Pictorial hard covers. V.g./No Jacket. Slight edge wear; a few carelessly opened folios. xviii, 337 pp.
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SGD 55.19
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