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  • The Summer of Death

    The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern-Day America

    by Geoff Williams ...
    A riveting historic narrative that tells the iconic story of the great heat wave that ravaged the continent in the last gasps of the Dust Bowl.In 1936, after one of the coldest winters on record, North America experienced a heat wave that remains unmatched today. Thanks to a combination of an unusually warm sea surface in the Atlantic and Pacific, stagnating high-pressure, drought, and poor ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Australian Jewel Beetles

    An Introduction to the Buprestidae

    by Geoff Williams, Kevin Mitchell, Allen M... Sundholm ...
    Australian Jewel Beetles: An Introduction to the Buprestidae is a comprehensive overview of Australia’s buprestid fauna. It presents taxonomic, ecological and biogeographic information for all Australian genera, and their association with the world’s Buprestidae more widely. It explores plant-evolution dependencies, as well as threats and conservation for this diverse fauna.The authors bring ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

  • Washed Away

    How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever

    by Geoff Williams ...
    The incredible story of a flood of near-biblical proportions -- its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America's natural-disaster policies for the next century.The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400. Then the freezing rains started and the flooding began. It continued for days. Some people drowned in their attics, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race

    The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America

    by Geoff Williams ...
    Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in over his head but couldn't let down his North Carolina hometown; Mike Kelly, a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests

    Pollination Ecology and Plant Evolution

    by Geoff Williams ...
    The Flowering of Australia’s Rainforests provides a comprehensive introduction to the pollination ecology, evolution and conservation of Australian rainforest plants, with particular emphasis on subtropical rainforests and their associated pollinators. This significantly expanded second edition includes new information on the impact of climate change, fire, fragmentation and invasive species ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests

    by Geoff Williams ...
    The Invertebrate World of Australia’s Subtropical Rainforests is a comprehensive review of Australia’s Gondwanan rainforest invertebrate fauna, covering its taxonomy, distribution, biogeography, fossil history, plant community and insect–plant relationships. This is the first work to document the invertebrate diversity of this biologically important region, as well as explain the uniqueness and ... Read more

    $95.79 USD

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    The Summer of Death

    The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern Day America

    by Geoff Williams ...
    Narrated by Dean Gallagher ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 57 min

    In 1936, ironically after one of the coldest winters on record, North America experienced a heat wave that remains unmatched today. Thanks to a combination of an unusually warm sea surface in the Atlantic and Pacific, stagnating low-pressure, drought and poor farming techniques, temperatures soared across virtually every state for months and killed more than 11,000 Americans and approximately 1 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race

    The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America

    by Geoff Williams ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 43 min

    Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual InternationalTranscontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, includingtwenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted towin over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family'sfarm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in over his head but couldn'tlet down his North Carolina hometown; Mike Kelly, a luckless ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Australian Deserts

    Ecology and Landscapes

    by Steve Morton ...
    Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent â the heart of Australia. Steve Morton brings his extensive first-hand knowledge and experience of arid Australia to this book, explaining how Australian deserts work ecologically.This book outlines why unpredictable rainfall and paucity of soil nutrients ... Read more

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    by David B Lindenmayer ...
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  • Australian Vegetation

    Edited by David A. Keith ...
    Australian Vegetation has been an essential reference for students and researchers in botany, ecology and natural resource management for over 35 years. Now fully updated and with a new team of authors, the third edition presents the latest insights on the patterns and processes that shaped the vegetation of Australia. The first part of the book provides a synthesis of ecological processes that ... Read more

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