Charles Wythe Cooke

Catalog of Books and Reports in the Bureau of Mines Technical Library, Pittsburgh, Pa

• Author(s): United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, Pittsburgh

• Categories: Library catalogs

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1968
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

• Author(s): Library of Congress, American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee

• Categories: Catalogs, Union

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1970
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Bulletin

• Categories: Geology

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1944
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...

• Categories: Government publications

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1919
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Sea Level

• Author(s): Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2024-08-16
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• Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Traces a commonplace average—sea level—from its origins in charting land to its emergence as a symbol of global warming. News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and coastal communities. The baseline for these measurements—sea level—may seem unremarkable, a long-familiar zero point for altitude. But as Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveals, the history of defining and measuring sea level is intertwined with national ambitions, commercial concerns, and shifting relationships between people and the ocean. Sea Level provides a detailed and innovative account of how mean sea level was firs...