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Erosion (Reading Essentials in Science)
Virginia Castleman

Perfection Learning, 2004
  
  











  



  
When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge
K David Harrison

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

"Sticky" Knowledge
Several people have written about so-called "language death" (David Crystal and Mark Abley have written books on the stubject). But K. David Harrison's book When Languages Die shows what it really means when a language "dies." First of all, Harrison makes it clear ...
  
  











  



  
Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-Hand Account from Kansas
Lawrence Svobida

University Press of Kansas, 1986

Unique
Having searched for a first hand account of what it was like to attempt to farm during the dust bowl I was very pleased to find this work. Svobida provides a year by year account of his attempts to do that and I enjoyed learning from his trials and tribulations. The ...
  
  











  



  
Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion
Daniel S. Greenberg

University Of Chicago Press, 2003

Best of Four Books That Blend Together Nicely
This is the best of the four books I chose to look into this topic, easily the most comprehensive and balanced, with a strong ethical component; it shows how the competition for money, rather than scientific progress, is diverting scarce resources and frustrating ...
  
  











  



  
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
Maggie Jackson

Prometheus Books, 2008

Distracted
Scary book, but definitely true. Definitely worth the read time. I actually felt bad when I got distracted away from reading the book.
  
  











  



  
Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity
Anne Elizabeth Moore

New Press, 2007

Unmarketable Is Timeless
Unmarketable articulately and wittily outlines how corporate America utilizes strategies of the underground for to market both underground and mainstream media. In this process, the corporate somehow manipulates the underground into the destruction of its own ...
  
  











  



  
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
David R. Montgomery

University of California Press, 2008

one of the best reads going
as an anthro/archaeology major (albeit years ago), history buff, lover of geology/mother earth and tree whisperer, words fail me to adequately express the impact this small book had on me and a small cohort of friends. it is far more than a wakeup call; it is a call ...
  
  











  



  
The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism: Responding to New Challenges to Biblical Authority
G. K. Beale

Crossway Books, 2008

Examines recent postmodern efforts to redefine the traditional evangelical view of scriptural authority and counters with sound logic that supports inerrancy. Due to recent popular challenges to evangelical doctrine, biblical inerrancy is a topic receiving an increasing amount of attention among theologians and other scholars. Here G. K. Beale ...
  
  











  



  
Cracking Up: A Story About Erosion (Science Works)
Bailey, Jacqui

Picture Window Books, 2006

Describes the process of erosion and how water, ice, wind, and sun wear away at Earth's surface.
  
  











  



  
Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
John Soennichsen

Sasquatch Books, 2008

Excellent story
[[ASIN:1570615055 Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood]This is a wonderfully written story that brings an area, a story and a man vividly to life! I looked forward to this book because I had really enjoyed ...
  
  











  



  
Knightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism Is Putting Democracy at Risk
Davis Merritt

AMACOM, 2005

As the Title Says
The theme of this book, written by a former editor of The Wichita Eagle is that over the past few decades, the business of making newspapers has changed from a business unlike any other to a business just like all others, and we are not well served by this change. I ...
  
  











  



  
Missouri Geology: Three Billion Years of Volcanoes, Seas, Sediments, and Erosion
A. G. Unklesbay, Jerry D. Vineyard

University of Missouri Press, 1992

This book rocks!
I've always been interested in geology but never educated in it. I hung with geology types in the caving club at the University of Missouri-Rolla but was never able to understand the significance when they'd remark on the Roubidoux sandstone or Gasconade Dolomite. I ...
  
  











  



  
An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion

Editions Jean-Michel Place, 1999

Heart-wrenching vignettes of depression-era refugees
These heart-breaking black & whites were shot while Lange and her husband Paul Taylor were under contract with the Federal WPA and chronicle the exodus of dustbowl refugees of the Great Depression and the anguish of their daily struggles for survival in the 'promised ...
  
  











  



  
Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy; With a new Afterword
Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson

Yale University Press, 2006

We Have to "Go For Broke" in 2008
This is a tremendous book. It joins The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World; The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics and Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders (by Tom Coburn, about how the "Party" turns ...
  
  











  



  
Construction Site Erosion and Sediment Controls: Planning, Design, and Performance
Robert Pitt, Donald Lake, ...

DEStech Publications, Inc., 2006

New text containing critical design tools for practical implementation of techniques to control and abate run-off and sediment from construction sites.
  
  











  



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