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	Why Geography Matters  •  Harm de Blij REFERENCE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES A geographer at Michigan State University, de Blij calls for a renewed focus on geography in this engaging, personal overview of the current geopolitical challenges. With 47 maps and charts. (MAP20, $16.95)
	Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed  •  Jared Diamond HISTORY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 575 PAGES Big, wildly ambitious, provocative, this is Jared Diamond at his best. He tackles nothing less than the history and fate of civilization in this compelling book in which he offers case studies, present and past, of societies that work and societies that do not. He devotes 100 carefully reasoned pages, for example, to the fate of the Norse settlements in Greenland (climatic change, Inuit) and another big section on Easter Island (deforestation, hubris). It's a fitting follow-up to his Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel. (GEN324, $18.00)
	What We Know About Climate Change  •  Kerry Emanuel SCIENCE •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 85 PAGES With the power of a polished lecturer, hurricane scientist Emanuel's heroically condensed, authoritative essays on state of the science of climate change is as balanced as it is lucid -- and important. (GEO46, $14.95)
	Thin Ice, Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains  •  Mark Bowen SCIENCE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 463 PAGES Science, biography and adventure, this book is journalist Mark Bowen's account of intrepid, mountain-climbing ice-boring geophysicist Lonnie Thompson and his work on the highest and most remote ice caps from the tropics to the poles. For his cutting-edge work, Thomson received the National Medal of Science in 2005. No slouch himself, Bowen is an avid climber with a Ph.D. in physics from MIT. (GEO45, $18.00)
	The North Pole Was Here, Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World  •  Andrew Revkin SCIENCE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 128 PAGES • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) We fear it's the parents who will make off with Andrew Revkin's dramatic account of an Arctic expedition, bolstered by articles on polar exploration, global warming and oceanography. He conveys the thrill, danger and import of Arctic research, tipping his hat to the great polar explorers and subtly conveying the message that, beware, the climate is awry. We think it's as effective as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (and more exciting to boot). A longtime environmental reporter, Revkin is the author of The Burning Season (AMZ08, $16.00), a non-fiction murder mystery set in the Brazilian Amazon (ARC185, $10.95)
	The Atlas of Climate Change, Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge  •  Thomas E. Downing  •  Kirstin Dow REFERENCE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 128 PAGES Fifty innovative color maps illuminate current changes in climate, weather, temperature, environmental funding, emissions and a host of related facts as compiled by geographers Kirstin Dow and Thomas Downing. Revised. (REF16, $19.95)
	Fixing Climate, What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It  •  Wallace S. Broecker  •  Robert Kunzig SCIENCE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 272 PAGES A memoir, history of climate change and call to action, Columbia paleoclimatologist Wallace Broeker's short overview is all the more convincing for its unconventional structure and humorous personality. (CON46, $25.00)

	Rough Guide to Climate Change  •  Robert Henson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A pocket guide from the editor's at Rough Guides. (GEN443, $16.99)
	The Cloudspotter's Guide, The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds  •  Gavin Pretor-pinney   • REFERENCE  •  Generously illustrated with striking photographs and line drawings featuring everything from classical paintings to lava lamps, children's drawings, and Roman coins, "The Cloudspotter's Guide" will have science and history buffs, weather watchers, and the just plain curious floating on cloud nine. (REF20, $13.95)
	The Oxford Companion to Global Change  •  Andrew Goudie   • REFERENCE  •  An up-to-date, comprehensive, interdisciplinary guide to a range of issues surrounding natural and human-induced environmental change. (REF24, $147.75)
	A New Green History of the World, The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations  •  Clive Ponting   • HISTORY  •  A paper edition, with a new forward, of Ponting's 1991 history of environmental exploitation and collapse. (CON36, $16.00)
	Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations  •  Brian M. Fagan   • HISTORY  •  Fagan combines meteorology, history, archaeology and storytelling flair to show the drastic effects that severe weather has had on the course of human civilization. (WLD111, $16.50)
	Antarctica  •  Kim Stanley Robinson   • LITERATURE  •  A thriller set in Antarctica in the next century. (ANT49, $7.99)
	365 Ways to Save the Earth  •  Philippe Bourseiller   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Each day of the year in this desk-friendly diary gets a double-page spread with evocative full-page photo and, on the facing page, a practical, everyday idea for treading lightly. (CON48, $29.95)
	After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America  •  E.C. Pielou   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An environmental history of North America over the last 20,000 years. The author describes -- in vivid detail -- the changes in the physical and biological environment. (ALA41, $22.50)
	An Inconvenient Truth  •  Davis Guggenheim   • SCIENCE  •  Al Gore explains the contributing factors to the growing climate crisis, describes changes to the environment caused by global warming, and discusses the shift in environmental policy that is needed to avert disaster. (SCI240, $29.99)
	An Inconvenient Truth, The Crisis of Global Warming  •  Albert Gore   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A young reader's version geared for middle schoolers. (CON33, $16.00)
	Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach  •  William James Burroughs   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A textbook to the basics climate change, designed for an undergraduate audience. (SCI67, $55.00)
	Eyewitness Climate Change  •  John Woodward   • SCIENCE  •  This jazzy illustrated book introduces climatology and climate change for ages 9-12. (GEN468, $15.99)
	Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change  •  Elizabeth Kolbert   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An insightful and thought-provoking examination of global warming, how it happens and what can be done to stop it. Much of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker, where Kolbert is a regular contributor. (SCI168, $14.95)
	Global Warming, The Complete Briefing  •  John Houghton   • SCIENCE  •  Houghton explores the science, history, politics and potential impact of global climate change on our lives in this comprehensive primer. (SCI180, $63.00)
	Ocean's End, Travels Through Endangered Seas  •  Colin Woodard  •  Paul Ehrlich   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A discussion of the environmental crises that face the world's oceans. (OCE43, $15.00)
	Our Affair with El Nino: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard  •  S. George Philander   • SCIENCE  •  A geoscientist at Princeton University, Philander, outlines the meaning and global significance of the El Nino current and its impact on global weather patterns in this informative popular account. (SCI179, $22.95)
	Plows, Plagues, & Petroleum, How Humans Took Control of Climate  •  William Ruddiman   • SCIENCE  •  Paleoclimatologist Ruddiman takes the long view, examining the role of agriculture in the rise of atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide. (SCI199, $17.95)
	Red Sky at Morning, America and the Crisis of the Global Environment  •  James Gustave Speth   • SCIENCE  •  Speth, Dean of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and founder of the World Resources Institute, presents an lively, authoritative analysis of the global environmental crisis, including specific actions that governments and citizens can take to reverse the trend and achieve sustainability. (SCI171, $16.00)
	Riddle of the Ice, A Scientific Adventure into the Arctic  •  Myron Arms   • SCIENCE  •  An account of a 1991 scientific expedition to study climate change, including sailing voyage from Newfoundland across the Davis Strait to Greenland aboard a 50-foot sloop. (ARC93, $12.95)
	State of the World, Into a Warming World  •   Worldwatch Institute   • SCIENCE • COMING IN JANUARY  •  The Watchworld Institute, in this guide to global warming and sustainable development, investigates ways to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to ongoing climate change. (WLD148, $19.95)
	The Adelie Penguin, Bellwether of Climate Change  •  David Ainley  •  Lucia deLeris   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A comprehensive survey of research into the ecology, biology and behavior of the Adelie. (ANT185, $75.00)
	The Discovery of Global Warming  •  Spencer Weart   • SCIENCE  •  A cool-headed analysis and history of our current understanding of planetary weather. (SCI66, $16.95)
	The Discovery of Global Warming  •  Spencer Weart   • SCIENCE  •  A cool-headed analysis and history of our current understanding of planetary weather. (SCI66, $16.95)
	The Ferocious Summer, Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica  •  Meredith Hooper   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Meredith Hooper brings to life the thrill, perils, and complexity of Antarctic fieldwork, documenting in vivid detail Bill Fraser's decades-long work on the Adelie penguins in the vicinity of Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula. (ANT262, $26.95)
	The Ice Chronicles, The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change  •  Paul Andrew Mayewski  •  Frank White  •  Lynn Margulis   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A history of the Greenland Ice Sheet drilling project, started in 1998 to help measure global climate change throughout history. (SCI70, $19.95)
	The Last Polar Bear, Facing the Truth of a Warming World  •  Steve Kazlowski   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Kazlowski's exquisite photographs celebrate the nature and wildlife of the Arctic coastal plain, documenting not just the polar bear but also walrus, beluga, bearded and spotted seal and Arctic fox. With accompanying essays. (ARC204, $39.95)
	The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future  •  Richard Alley   • SCIENCE  •  A persuasive, accessible survey of climatic change as revealed through ice core drilling. The author includes enthusiastic tales of his research in Greenland and Antarctica, an overview of how climate works, and his prognostication for the future. (SCI24, $19.95)
	The Whale and the Supercomputer, On the Northern Front of Climate Change  •  Charles Wohlforth   • SCIENCE  •  Anchorage-based journalist Wohlberg heads out with climatologists and the Inupiat of Alaska's northern slope in this clear-headed report from the field. (ALA204, $14.00)
	Weather Makers, How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth  •  Tim F. Flannery   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Paleontologist and writer Tim Flannery untangles the science, politics and debate over climate change in this powerful book that has already had an impact on public policy in the author's native Australia. (SCI162, $15.00)

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