Weighing the World

The Quest to Measure the Earth
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Paperback, Apr 2009
ISBN13: 9780195384956ISBN10: 0195384954
The momentous story of the men who first mapped the earth and solved the mystery of the "attraction of mountains"


Introduction to Optical Mineralogy

Third Edition
$110.00
Hardback, Aug 2003
ISBN13: 9780195149104ISBN10: 0195149106
The third edition of Introduction to Optical Mineralogy provides comprehensive coverage of the optical properties of minerals. It describes in detail more than 125 common rock-forming minerals and a selection of common ore minerals.


Civilized Life in the Universe

Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials
$35.00
Hardback, Dec 2005
ISBN13: 9780195171815ISBN10: 0195171810
From Plutarch and Kepler to Stephen Hawkings and Carl Sagan, a fascinating history of scientific speculation about life in outer space


Hidden Attraction

The History and Mystery of Magnetism
$39.99
Paperback, Feb 1996
ISBN13: 9780195106558ISBN10: 0195106555
"Uncommonly readable....Exemplary."--The Washington Post


Geopolitics and Empire

The Legacy of Halford Mackinder
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Hardback, Jul 2009
ISBN13: 9780199230112ISBN10: 0199230110
This book examines the long entanglement between ideas of Geopolitics and the ideology and practices of Empire tracing these matters back to the true founder of Geopolitics, a British geographer of the early-twentieth century, Halford Mackinder.


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