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BRUCE GERVAIS- TEST

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO - TEST

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Vice President, Editorial: Charles Linsmeier

Associate Publisher: Steven Rigolosi

Marketing Manager: Taryn Burns

Developmental Editor: Donald Gecewicz

Media Editor: Lukia Kliossis

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Photo Editor: Sheena Goldstein

Photo Researcher: Jerry Marshall

Art Director: Diana Blume

Cover and Text Designer: Tom Carling, Carling Design Inc.

Copy Editor: Norma Sims Roche

Project Editor: Enrico Bruno

Managing Editor: Lisa Kinne

Illustrations: Precision Graphics; Mapping Specialists

Art Manager: Matthew McAdams

Production Coordinator: Susan Wein

Composition: Tom Carling; codeMantra

Printing and Binding: Quad/Graphics

Cover Art: Tennessee Cove, Marin Headlands, © 2013 by Tom Killion

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014945391

ISBN-13: 978-1-4641-0664-4

ISBN-10: 1-4641-0664-9

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For Nancy, Katherine, and Natalie

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Chapter GT, icon page 27: © Jumper/Photodisc/Getty Images; Chapter 1, icon page 50: NASA Ozone Watch; Chapter 2, icon page 84: © Harald Sund/Stockbyte/Getty Images; Chapter 3, icon page 116: © Erkki Makkonen/E+/Getty Images; Chapter 4, icon page 148: © Frank Krahmer/Digital Vision/Getty Images; Chapter 5, icon page 183: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center (ISS007-E-14887); Chapter 6, icon page 214: Bruce Gervais; Chapter 7, icon page 247: © Ethan Daniels/Shutterstock.com; Chapter 8, icon page 285: © Nicholas James McCollum/Flickr Open/Getty Images; Chapter 9, icon page 318: © David Palmer/E+/Getty Images; Chapter 10, icon page 351: © 2011 Ferdi Rizkiyanto; Chapter 11, icon page 377: © Jason Reed/Photodisc/Getty Images; Chapter 12, icon page 409: Bartosz Hadyniak/Getty Images; Chapter 13, icon page 434: © Jon Mullen/E+/Getty Images; Chapter 14, icon page 468: © Stocktrek Images/Getty Images; Chapter 15, icon page 500: fotoVoyager/Getty Images; Chapter 16, icon page 534: U.S. Dept. of the Interior/Bureau of Reclamation; Chapter 17, icon page 568: NASA World Wind using data from NASA’s Earth Observatory; Chapter 18, icon page 596: © David Gomez/E+/Getty Images; Chapter 19, icon page 625: Dave & Les Jacobs/Blend Images/Getty Images

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