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  • MOUNTAINS
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    MOUNTAINS
    JAMES FARGO BALLIETT
    Always awe-inspiring, mountainous areas contain hundreds of millions of years of history, stretching back to the earliest continental landforms. This book shows how mountains are characterized by their distinctive geological, ecological, and biological conditions. Often, they are so large that they create their own weather patterns. They also store nearly one-third of the world...

    $860.00

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  • OCEANS
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    OCEANS
    JAMES FARGO BALLIETT
    Covering 71 percent of the planet, these saline bodies of water provided the unique conditions necessary for the building blocks of life to form billions of years ago. This book explains how our oceans continue to support and influence life in important ways: by providing the largest global source of protein in the form of fish populations, by creating and influencing weather s...

    $1,100.00

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  • FORESTS
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    FORESTS
    JAMES FARGO BALLIETT
    Forests are considered the lungs of the planet, as they consume and store carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. These biomes, defined as ecological communities dominated by long-lived woody vegetation, historically have provided an economic foundation for growing nations, supplying wood for buildings, firewood for fuel, and land for expanding cities and farms. For centuries, indus...

    $1,320.00

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  • FRESHWATER
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    FRESHWATER
    JAMES FARGO BALLIETT
    Freshwater is our planet’s most precious resource, and also the least conserved. Freshwater makes up only 3 percent of the total water on the planet, and yet the majority (1.9 percent) is held in a frozen state in glaciers, icebergs, and polar ice fields. This leaves approximately one-half of 1 percent of the total volume of water on the planet as freshwater available in liquid...

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  • WETLANDS
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    WETLANDS
    JAMES FARGO BALLIETT
    Wetlands encompass a diversity of habitats that rely on the presence of water to survive. Over the last two centuries, these hard-to-reach areas have been viewed with disdain or eliminated by a public that saw them only as dangerous and worthless lowlands. This book tracks changing perceptions of one of the world’s richest and biologically productive biomes and efforts that hav...

    $1,240.00

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