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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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4.28 avg rating — 11,855 ratings
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Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
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3.95 avg rating — 644 ratings
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Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
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4.19 avg rating — 4,125 ratings
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The Control of Nature
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4.25 avg rating — 4,919 ratings
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The Dinosaur Heresies
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4.23 avg rating — 2,236 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.04 avg rating — 28,660 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,082 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,274 ratings
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Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
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4.23 avg rating — 1,961 ratings
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
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3.92 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,243 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
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4.37 avg rating — 4,335 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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4.31 avg rating — 35,997 ratings
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The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
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4.28 avg rating — 965 ratings
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
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3.84 avg rating — 2,793 ratings
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Encounters with the Archdruid
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4.22 avg rating — 6,663 ratings
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The Cloudspotter's Guide
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4.13 avg rating — 2,815 ratings
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Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
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3.71 avg rating — 375 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,378 ratings
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Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
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4.22 avg rating — 5,818 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 39,846 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 71,858 ratings
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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4.04 avg rating — 4,215 ratings
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Tensleep (Em Hansen Mystery, #1)
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3.64 avg rating — 426 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 29,413 ratings
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After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
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4.17 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Surf, Sand, and Stone: How Waves, Earthquakes, and Other Forces Shape the Southern California Coast
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4.48 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
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3.69 avg rating — 1,832 ratings
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
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4.29 avg rating — 6,063 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 61,409 ratings
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First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America
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4.14 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
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4.10 avg rating — 3,991 ratings
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H is for Hawk
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3.74 avg rating — 80,269 ratings
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
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3.81 avg rating — 2,319 ratings
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Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
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4.54 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science
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4.25 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 21,778 ratings
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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4.14 avg rating — 6,548 ratings
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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4.44 avg rating — 12,375 ratings
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
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3.78 avg rating — 783 ratings
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Fossils: A Guide to Prehistoric Life
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3.82 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Downdrift: A Novel
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3.34 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Surviving Galeras
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3.72 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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4.08 avg rating — 1,733 ratings
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
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3.91 avg rating — 2,524 ratings
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Strata: Stories from Deep Time
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4.21 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume 3, Geology (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, Sponsored by the Harte ... Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
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3.68 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Geoarchaeology of St. Catherines Island, Georgia
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation
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3.98 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Mountains That Remade America: How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life
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4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
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3.91 avg rating — 465 ratings
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Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
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4.18 avg rating — 748 ratings
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Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
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4.07 avg rating — 810 ratings
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Roadside Geology of Georgia
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4.55 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Roadside Geology of Florida (Roadside Geology, #30)
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4.41 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Architects of Eternity: The New Science of Fossils
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3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country
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4.15 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
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3.77 avg rating — 375 ratings
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My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
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3.94 avg rating — 1,635 ratings
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Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas
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4.51 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Dinosaurs Without Bones
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4.16 avg rating — 419 ratings
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Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History
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4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
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4.23 avg rating — 94 ratings
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A Land
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4.04 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
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3.58 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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Ill Wind
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3.59 avg rating — 806 ratings
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The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life
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4.28 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
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3.93 avg rating — 3,331 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
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4.06 avg rating — 6,926 ratings
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Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
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4.16 avg rating — 846 ratings
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Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
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3.97 avg rating — 211 ratings
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What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
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4.02 avg rating — 3,915 ratings
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Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
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4.06 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Keepers of the Earth: Native Stories and Environmental Activities for Children
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4.22 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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3.99 avg rating — 29,715 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
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4.14 avg rating — 18,242 ratings
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Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans
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4.07 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
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3.67 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
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3.90 avg rating — 800 ratings
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JUNGLE LORE
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4.28 avg rating — 603 ratings
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Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
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4.09 avg rating — 5,482 ratings
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The Infinite View: A Guidebook for Life on Earth
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4.13 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Crow Chronicles
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Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth
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4.04 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth
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4.05 avg rating — 859 ratings
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Leo Geo and His Miraculous Journey Through the Center of the Earth
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3.63 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge
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3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings
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In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and Natural History
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4.25 avg rating — 123 ratings
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When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
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3.82 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Into the Heart of Our World
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3.46 avg rating — 126 ratings
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No Apparent Danger: The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras and Nevado Del Ruiz – A Spellbinding Colombian Account of Clashing Cultures and Scientific Arrogance
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4.16 avg rating — 330 ratings
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House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth
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3.94 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers – An Acclaimed Natural Wonder
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4.04 avg rating — 4,011 ratings
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The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast
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4.15 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time
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3.93 avg rating — 1,859 ratings
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Africa: A Biography of the Continent
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4.18 avg rating — 1,894 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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3.79 avg rating — 7,239 ratings
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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3.76 avg rating — 5,248 ratings
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