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1.	[no image]	A Civil Action from Century Customer Review: If you're interested in the law, and have little or no idea how complex cases are brought to court, this is the book for you. ACA is equally gripping as human story (what a story!) and legal procedural (what a case!). I never realized what lengths some lawyers will go to to see a case through, what... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		A Civil Action: A Documentary Companion from Foundation Press Price: $37.13 Customer Review: This book, used with the book A Civil Action, is an excellent way to follow one case through the legal process and understand basic civil procedure rules. However, I was required to purchase this book as a third year law student for a PreTrial Practice Class... I found the exercises a very tedious... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.	[no image]	Dual porosity models for solute transport at Yucca Mountain (Sandia report / Sandia National Laboratories) from Sandia National Laboratories Customer Review: Beckett's second play "Endgame," translated from French by his own hand into English, is a vision of the world at its end. It focuses on the few surviving human beings who are themselves facing mortality; the betrayal they face from their own bodies as their physical forms break down and the end of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		The Drinking Water Book: A Complete Guide to Safe Drinking Water from Ten Speed Press Price: $64.96 Customer Review: Been doing research about purifying water for some time now. This book gave me straight forward information on the how and why. Highly recommend.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Water Supply and Pollution Control (8th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $129.95 Customer Review: TONS of typos - from grammatical to vital data and labels in example problems. Following such problems is extremely frustrating at times. Lots of things are not explained before they are referred to, causing you to go to the index and find the explanation and flip back and forth. Some things... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Water and Wastewater Technology (6th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $79.99 Customer Review: Book is great and it covers all condensed material essential for water/wastwater/collection and distribution system.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Dynamics of Fluids in Porous Media (Dover Books on Physics and Chemistry) from Dover Publications Price: $15.17 Customer Review: Other reviewers already cover about how important is this book for hydrogeologist. Although this book is more theoretical, but it is also important for water practitioner. This contains theories behind the groundwater model that many practitioners use. If you get this book, why stop there. Get... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.	[no image]	Contaminant Hydrogeology from Macmillan Coll Div Price: $204.16 Customer Review: This is a great introductory book on transport of contaminants in groundwater. Maybe a bit outdated but still a great piece of work.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Groundwater from Prentice Hall Price: $101.65 Customer Review: This book is a one for all kind of book, which is a good thing to have as a reference. The authors are mainly researchers, thus more theories than practical side explained. So, as a hydrogeologist , I also use other books by Todd, Bouwer, and Fetter at works. I don't know why Dr. John A. Cherry... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Hydraulics of Groundwater (Dover Books on Engineering) from Dover Publications Price: $18.25 Customer Review: This book is overwhelming with equations. It is not really difficult to follow if you have some basic math and understand groundwater. If you want to know where one equation that you use comes from, get this book. I use this book as one of my self study book about hydraulics. I am on halfway through... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Geochemistry, Groundwater and Pollution, Second Edition from Taylor & Francis Price: $91.68 Customer Review: it takes acceptable long time. and acceptable dirty. and acceptable wrinkled paper cover. so. i give an acceptable star rank.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America's Fresh Waters from Island Press Price: $16.91 Customer Review: This is the second book I read from this author. He does a good job writing about the nation's water supply and some of its history.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Don't Drink The Water (without reading this book) The essential Guide to Our Contaminated Drinking Water and What You Can Do About It from Lotus Press Price: $4.00 Customer Review: Author Lono Kahuna Kupua A'o provides charts, tables and diagrams in solid easy to digest format. Don't take anoth- er sip of tap water without first reading this informative book. What's really all in your tap water? Flouride? Chlorine? Poisons? All the above?... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Construction Dewatering and Groundwater Control : New Methods and Applications, 3rd Edition from Wiley Price: $143.24 Customer Review: This is by far the best and most comprehensive book on construction dewatering that I have ever read. If you have the need, or curiosity to learn dewatering theory & application, this book will give you all the information you need.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Aquatic Chemistry from Wiley-Interscience Price: $95.45 Customer Review: Stumm and Morgan remains the best aquatic chemical book ever written. It is fundamental in its approach to the processes that control the composition of natural waters, it is a pleasure to read and should be a must for any student and/or professional in the field. After more than 20 years... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Environmental Engineering: Prevention and Response to Water-, Food-, Soil-, and Air-borne Disease and Illness from Wiley Price: $95.99 Customer Review: I live, study and work in the New York Tri-State region and this book is pretty great because the author also lived, worked and studied in the same region. Whats good about that? The Human Development and Expliotation is our region is very diverse and often connects directly with other prominent... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Integrated Watershed Management: Principles and Practice from Wiley Price: $39.98	Click here for more information


18.		Environmental Investigation and Remediation: 1,4-Dioxane and other Solvent Stabilizers from CRC Press Price: $107.96	Click here for more information


19.		Groundwater Hydrology from Wiley Price: $71.40 Customer Review: The reviews written in 2000 and 2001 referred to the 2nd edition. The 3rd edition, published in 2004, is now up-to-date. The 3rd edition includes information on modern groundwater modeling methods (including the Modflow model), more coverage of chemical contamination in groundwater, and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Groundwater Science from Academic Press Price: $74.96 Customer Review: This is a good intro text to groundwater science or hydrogeology for upper level undergrads or entry level grad students. It will also serve as a great companion text to Freeze and Cherry's classic text. I actually like this text better than the Schwartz and Zhang text which is becoming THE text for... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Groundwater Science from Academic Press Price: $74.96 Customer Review: This is a good intro text to groundwater science or hydrogeology for upper level undergrads or entry level grad students. It will also serve as a great companion text to Freeze and Cherry's classic text. I actually like this text better than the Schwartz and Zhang text which is becoming THE text for... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Reference Book to Accompany Practical Problems in Groundwater Hydrology: Problem-Based Learning Using Excel Worksheets from Prentice Hall Price: $73.46	Click here for more information


23.	[no image]	Groundwater and Wells from Johnson Screens Price: $799.00 Customer Review: The 2nd edition by Driscoll is a classic, well written text. However, if you are thinking about purchasing it you should be aware that there is a new version out. ISBN: 0978779304. Lead author is Robert J. Sterrett. I haven't read it yet but plan to order a copy soon.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Hydroecology and Ecohydrology: Past, Present and Future from Wiley Price: $126.94	Click here for more information


25.		Practical Handbook of Environmental Site Characterization and Ground-Water Monitoring, Second Edition from CRC Press Price: $139.16	Click here for more information


26.		Environmental Forensics: Principles & Applications from CRC Press Price: $98.24 Customer Review: The good points for this book are the scope of the discussion; Most of Chapter 3, Identification of Biased Environmental Data; and, the color plates. However, there are some notable errors in the book and strong statements that deserve quite obvious and important caveats. There is no discussion of... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Killing the Hidden Waters from University of Texas Press Price: $8.99 Customer Review: I came across Charles Bowden's name while reading "God's Middle Finger" and decided to track down some of his works. Started out with The Secret Forest, moved on to Desierto: Memories of the Future, and next to Killing the Hidden Waters. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Fundamentals of Ground Water from Wiley Price: $129.98 Customer Review: The shipping was very fast and the book was in excellent condition. Will definitely order from them again!	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.	[no image]	On the Banks of the Ganga: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River from University of Michigan Press Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Recognizing that anthropologists have not paid adequate attention to ecological concerns within their geographic areas of study, Alley sets out to analyze how ideas of material pollution and spiritual purity figure into environmental, political, and religious discourses around the Ganga. Overall, I... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.	[no image]	Laboratory Exercises In Environmental Geology from McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Price: $95.00 Customer Review: This textbook arrived promptly and was brand new! I got it for a great price and I am very satisfied with my purchase.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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