Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction
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An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the...
Return to Nature?: An Ecological Counterhistory
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Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world...
Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments
Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones
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Western Canada's natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in...
The Jane Effect: Celebrating Jane Goodall
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In her nearly 60-year career as a groundbreaking primatologist and a passionate conservationist,...
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America
Brian F. Atwater, Satoko Musumi-Rokkaku, Kenji Satake and Yoshinobu Tsuji
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A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote...
The Simple Physics of Energy Use
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As a society we use energy for climate control and lighting in buildings, moving people and goods...
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes...
I Got a Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival
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The first-ever book exclusively devoted to the history of the Newport Folk Festival, I Got a Song...
Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora
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One of the most important dance artists of the twentieth century, dancer and choreographer Katherine...
Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Rawle and Kevin J. Donnelly
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This volume of new, spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and...