In Parks and Plates, Robert J. Lillie explains the fascinating geological processes that have formed these dramatic volcanoes, shorelines, and landscapes. Structuring the text around major geological features, Lillie highlights geologic patterns across many different parks and uses over 100 park sites to illustrate plate tectonics visually. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, diagrams, and maps, Parks and Plates is the ideal text to enrich undergraduates experience of our national parks

Precious Heritage reveals the nation's biological wealth in unprecedented detail, drawing together for the first time more than a quarter century of information from the network of state natural heritage programs

This book is both a significant countribution to the literature on utility reform, assisting those who seek to understand the effects of these reforms, and an invaluanle guide for those designing infrastucture ferorms, in ECA and elsewhere

This comprehensive handbook for disaster response and recovery can help community leaders and planners educate their constituencies on how informed decisions and choices can affect the rebuilding process and yield a safer, more sustainable community

Find out all about our planet, from its devastating volcanoes and earthquakesto the amazing creatures surviving in the hottest deserts, coldest plains, and deepest ocean abysses