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Product Description: Imported water has transformed the Golden State’s environment and quality of life. Land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically altered both urban and rural communities across the entire state. The key has been redirecting water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River, and Northern California rivers...read more

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9781619026179 | Revised edition (Counterpoint, May 10, 2016), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Imported water has transformed the Golden State’s environment and quality of life.

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This thoroughly engaging, concise book tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack to our faucets and foods. Along the way, we learn much about California itself as the book describes its rivers, lakes, wetlands, dams, and aqueducts and discusses the role of water in agriculture, the environment, and politics. Essential reading in a state facing the future with an overextended water supply, this fascinating book shows that, for all Californians, every drop counts. New to this updated edition: * Additional maps, figures, and photos * Expanded coverage of potential impacts to precipitation, snowpack, and water supply from climate change * Updated information about the struggle for water management and potential solutions * New content about sustainable groundwater use and regulation, desalination, water recycling, stormwater capture, and current proposals for water storage and diversion *Additional table summarizing water sources for 360 California cities and towns

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9780520287891 | 2 edition (Univ of California Pr, December 15, 2015), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This thoroughly engaging, concise book tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack to our faucets and foods.
9780520235809 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $85.00

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9780520287907 | 2 edition (Univ of California Pr, December 15, 2015), cover price $29.95
9780520260160 | Updated edition (Univ of California Pr, February 20, 2009), cover price $24.95
9780520240865 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: “I thought I was in the forever business. National and state parks are supposed to preserve special places for all time. A certain job security had always gone along with that idea if you were a park ranger. But I've learned to never say forever...read more

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9781475200546 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 24, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: “I thought I was in the forever business.

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Product Description: Between 1934 and 1941, the City of Los Angeles sent 2,000 men to work on aqueducts and an 11-mile tunnel beneath volcanic craters in the Mono Lake Basin of the Eastern Sierra. MONO tells the story of fish biologist Justin Hearth, as he surveys the waters of the Mono Lake watershed, falls in love with that landscape, and also with Alisa Stohler...read more

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9781475069815 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 19, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Between 1934 and 1941, the City of Los Angeles sent 2,000 men to work on aqueducts and an 11-mile tunnel beneath volcanic craters in the Mono Lake Basin of the Eastern Sierra.

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Product Description: Salty water, tufa towers, brine shrimp, and birds are some of the things 9-year old Monica Jones learned about from the rangers at Mono Lake. Her book explains the basic natural environment of California's beautiful inland sea and nearby tourist sites and includes 26 color photographs and a map...read more

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9781467953245 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 29, 2011, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Salty water, tufa towers, brine shrimp, and birds are some of the things 9-year old Monica Jones learned about from the rangers at Mono Lake.

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Product Description: Mono Lake dominates the volcanic landscape east of the Sierra Nevada between Yosemite National Park and Nevada. The lake’s unusual water chemistry produces algae and brine shrimp, feeding millions of birds and creating strange mineral formations called tufa, for which the lake is famed...read more

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9780738559094 | Arcadia Pub, November 19, 2008, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Mono Lake dominates the volcanic landscape east of the Sierra Nevada between Yosemite National Park and Nevada.

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Product Description: What is fire? How are wildfires ignited? How do California's weather and topography influence fire? How did the California Indians use fire? In the spirit of his highly acclaimed Introduction to Air in California and Introduction to Water in California, David Carle now turns to another fundamental element of the natural world, giving a fascinating and concise view of this complex topic...read more

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9780520248731 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $85.00

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9780520255777 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: What is fire?

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What is air? Why is the sky blue? Why do people react favorably to mountain or sea air? How does desert air differ from the air of California’s Central Valley? How is air pollution affecting plants and animals? This book is a unique guide to the air we breathe in California. More than a natural history guide, it approaches this fascinating topic by recognizing the overwhelming role played by humans in the story of California’s air. In a highly engaging style, David Carle explains daily weather patterns, seasonal climate, characteristic winds, and sky phenomena. He explores air as the gases in our atmosphere, but also considers the aspects of air that influence all of our senses―its taste, smell, feel, and look. The guide discusses California’s history of air quality management, air pollution and its effect on humans and the environment, and the technological and individual measures needed to address these challenges. The book also functions as a handbook for more environmentally conscious living by providing information on alternative energy sources for consumers and tips for cleaner running cars. * Features 80 color photographs, 23 figures, 18 maps* Covers regional differences of topography, weather, and the character of the air in California’s fifteen designated air basins* Includes a field guide to the sky, explaining color and light, clouds and wind, and the nature of flight* Addresses issues surrounding global climate change in CaliforniaA book in the Californians and Their Environment subseries, dedicated to understanding human influences on the state's ecology and natural resources

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9780520245310 | Univ of California Pr, October 15, 2006, cover price $85.00

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9780520247482 | Univ of California Pr, October 15, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: What is air?

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Product Description: In the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the environment of the Golden State and its quality of life, with land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically altering both urban and rural communities...read more

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9781578050956 | Counterpoint, April 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the environment of the Golden State and its quality of life, with land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically altering both urban and rural communities.

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Product Description: A burning mix of diesel fuel and gasoline drips from handheld canisters onto the ground. Slowly a line of fire begins to creep downhill. The flames are well behaved, almost hesitant. This is a backing fire, unlikely to attract media attention unless it escapes, like the disastrous Los Alamos Cerro Grande fire did in 2000...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275973711 | Praeger Pub Text, March 30, 2002, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: A burning mix of diesel fuel and gasoline drips from handheld canisters onto the ground.

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Product Description: Imported water has transformed the Golden State's environment and quality of life. In the last one hundred years, land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism have dramatically altered both urban and rural communities across the entire state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275967192 | Praeger Pub Text, February 28, 2000, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Imported water has transformed the Golden State's environment and quality of life.

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9780912761350 | Cliffhanger Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $8.95

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