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1.		Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Plumbing: Expanded 4th Edition - Modern Materials and Current Codes - All New Guide to Working with Gas Pipe (Black & Decker Complete Guide) from Creative Publishing international Price: $9.34 Customer Review: This book is great - it offers color photos with detailed instructions. I used this book to remodel my entire kitchen - some plumbing work was involved - and everything I needed was in here. It even has a good section about PEX water system - new and advanced system. It has DVD, but of course no... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.	[no image]	Environmental Science: A Global Concern from William C Brown Pub Price: $61.84 Customer Review: The customer service with regard to the purchase of this item is nothing short of outstanding!	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, Third Edition from Joseph Jenkins, Inc. Price: $15.45 Customer Review: Very interesting book. Brings to light some long avoided issues, and provides a simple effective solution.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters from Metropolitan Books Price: $4.69 Customer Review: "To be uninterested in the public toilet is to be uninterested in life" In her inspired exploration of human waste and all things related, Rose George more than justifies the quote above. This book is completely awesome - the author is an ideal guide to what Newsweek refers to as "the history... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Environmental Science Activities Kit/Ready-To-Use Lessons, Labs & Worksheets for Grades 7-12 from Center for Applied Research in Education Price: $278.08 Customer Review: This book has a variety of activities and labs that are simple to set up and in some cases, are rigorous in analysis. It is an excellent resource.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		The Dock Manual: Designing / Building / Maintaining from Storey Publishing, LLC Price: $11.75 Customer Review: Good book on the basics of Docks. Great to help you decide what kind of dock or type of material. Not so hot if you want information on repairing an existing dock. Once you have the basic understanding your decision will still be based more on Zoning and local laws than anything else and you will... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Composting For Dummies from For Dummies Price: $7.17	Click here for more information


8.		The Septic System Owner's Manual from Shelter Publications Price: $7.95 Customer Review: I was reading somewhere online about the detailed illustrations of Peter Aschwanden, and so I threw this book onto my amazon wishlist. A few months later, I got around to purchasing the book, and was pleasantly surprised. I learned a great deal about the operations of most septic systems, vocabulary... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Water Resources Engineering from Wiley Price: $130.49 Customer Review: One of my coworkers had this book, I kept using it as a reference so I eventually bought my own copy. It is an outstanding textbook and an important reference book to have on hand. I highly recommned it. It is far better than the "Hydraulic Engineering" textbook I had in college.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $28.25 Customer Review: This book is easy to get through and explains the equations that you need well. I'm using it for a class right now, but it is a great intro book for environmental engineering.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $28.25 Customer Review: This book is easy to get through and explains the equations that you need well. I'm using it for a class right now, but it is a great intro book for environmental engineering.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Water Treatment Principles and Design from Wiley-Interscience Price: $116.84 Customer Review: Used at all major educational and research institutions. Belongs on every Water Treatment Engineer's desk. Extensive coverage on all areas, but does not cover wastewater. This field distinguishes between wastewater treatment, which is the treatment of water that has been used residentially,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance and Restoration from Countryman Press Price: $7.48 Customer Review: This is a lovely, dreamy little book with some great black and white photos. It's perfect reading for a winter's night or for fostering fantasies. It's also a pretty good place to start before you call the county agent or start knocking on the doors of pond-owning neighbors. It's perfectly... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Environmental Health: Revised Edition from Harvard University Press Price: $17.65 Customer Review: Book came in timely matter and was in great shape. Thank you	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs from Dover Publications Price: $8.17 Customer Review: This book gave a comprehensive narrative and pictorial overview of the building of the Panama Canal. I learned many interesting facts about this project that I had somehow missed in school.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Composting: An Easy Household Guide from Green Books Price: $4.20 Customer Review: It is a little book, but has really great infomation for composting. The ideas in the book will keep the stink from the compost down to nothing If you are going to compost, I suggest you read this first.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.	[no image]	Hydrology and Hydraulic Systems from Prentice Hall Price: $112.41 Customer Review: This is a great deal for a textbook. It covers the basics of hydrology and hydraulics very thoroughly, and better than most other water-resources textbooks. The figures in the third edition are better than in previous ones, though some additional photos or figures would be helpful to augment the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Introduction to Environmental Engineering from McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Price: $100.00 Customer Review: The book I thought I was ordering was the Introduction to Environmental Engineering, what I actually got was the INTERNATIONAL edition of this book! Basically the same, but there are no BG units (English unit system, feet, lb, etc) in any problems, examples or tables/graphs. Luckily, my teacher... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Wastewater Engineering: Treatment, Disposal, Reuse from McGraw-Hill Customer Review: This is the International version. It is great and has both SI and English units. I have not compared it to the hard cover, but this one is great - well worth the money (and savings).	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		The Nalco Water Handbook from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $43.99 Customer Review: For those entering the field of water treatment with a chemical engineering or chemistry background, this guide provides an invaluable first look at water sources, treatment technologies and major applications. Specialist books exist to cover every subtopic in more depth if one needs it. I would... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.	[no image]	Fluid Power With Applications 3ED from Pearson Ptr Price: $9.99 Customer Review: I am a an engineering student with a gpa of 3.93 (73 hours). I have found this to be one of the least helpfull books I have ever used. The examples worked are at such a low complexity level, that they do almost no good for solving the problems at the end of the chapters. There are entire concepts... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Composting Toilet System Book: A Practical Guide to Choosing, Planning and Maintaining Composting Toilet Systems from Center for Ecological Pollution Prevention Price: $29.95 Customer Review: This book really offers straight advice on a wide variety of composting toilet systems... including the stuff you won't get from the manufacturers. It's a great reality check if you're considering a system like this. The authors clearly have first-hand experience with many types of toilets, and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Estimator's Piping Man Hour Manual from Gulf Pub Co Customer Review: This book is still the benchmark manual for accurate man-hour takeoffs in the piping industry and the only improvement will be when it is published in a metric measurement version as well as this Imperial measurement standard. This manual is used in places other than the USA and the rest of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $8.00 Customer Review: The book arrived on time and in pretty good shape. Some writing in the book. It pretty certain that someone had read the book real close.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		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


26.	[no image]	Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage from Harpercollins Price: $4.86 Customer Review: This book is great for exploding the myths about garbage that people carry around. It is especially good at proving wrong the idea that the United States is a particularly wasteful society. For instance, this book shows that disposable diapers are not a big problem in landfills -- they make up... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Water-Resources Engineering (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $90.00 Customer Review: The book is very straight forward and explains a lot but does not give enough examples. Overall its a good book to use.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Simplified Irrigation Design: Professional Designer and Installer Version Measurements in Imperial (U.S.and Metric) from Van Nostrand Reinhold Customer Review: this book was bought for a test i needed to take. it taught me everything i need to know.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality, Third Edition from Westview Press Price: $29.84 Customer Review: In his book Dumping in Dixie, Robert Bullard contends the issue of environment racism. His exhaustive research is neatly packed into sections which continue to awe the reader; each section being filled with facts that prove that minorities are in fact living in less environmentally safe areas. These... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		Chemistry for Environmental Engineering from McGraw-Hill Companies Price: $68.00 Customer Review: Despite the equal treatment in the Intro, which misleads the reader that there will be air and solid waste chemistry, there is practically no in-depth discourse on these areas, as if they are not part of the subject. The basic Ideal Gas and Henry's Laws are covered handbook style, but in the... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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