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A Dictionary of Weather (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by Storm Dunlop  Publisher Comments What is the coldest place on the planet? How does a hurricane form? What exactly is a low pressure system? And what area has the least, or most, amount of rainfall? Answering these and many other intriguing questions, A Dictionary of Weather provides a...
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Look at the Sky and Tell the Weather
by Eric Sloane Publisher Comments Delightful blend of serious meteorology and beautiful illustrations takes readers on a voyage of discovery as the versatile author traces a single air mass from the Canadian Rockies to northern New England and its effect on Americans from varied...
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The Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate
by William Stevens Publisher Comments Updated with a new afterword, including information on the warmest winter of the century. <BR>Is something going on with the weather? <BR>A record-setting heat wave that just won't release its blistering grip...balmy winter weeks followed by...
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A World Turned Over: A Killer Tornado and the Lives It Changed Forever
by Lorian Hemingway Publisher Comments At 4:33 P.M. on March 3, 1966, the skies above Jackson, Mississippi, turned an ominous yellow before going suddenly and violently black. A tornado of the F-5 category -- the most lethal -- struck without warning. It tore roofs off buildings, twisted...
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Inside the Hurricane Face To Face With
by Pete Davies Publisher Comments A fast-paced, dramatic exploration of one of the most powerful and destructive forces in nature Pete Davies has flown into the eyes of hurricanes with daredevil aviators. He's met with wild-eyed meteorologists who are obsessed with finding out exactly...
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The Columbia: Sustaining a Modern Resource
by Tim Palmer Publisher Comments In The Columbia, author and photographer Tim Palmer celebrates the beauty and natural resources of this grand region and shows why this watershed is so important to everyone who lives in or cares about the Northwest and the Northern Rockies. Focusing on...
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Ecofascism : Lessons From the German Experience (95 Edition)
by Janet Biehl Publisher Comments The reappearance of fascism in many western countries threatens all the freedoms the left movements have managed to gain over the last half century. Equally disconcerting is the attempt by fascist ideologists and political groups to use ecology in the...
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Weather Sourcebook Your One Stop Res 2ND Edition
by Ronald L Wagner Synopsis An amazing compilation of resources and gadgetry, where to buy them, as well as a complete primer on the science of weather forecasting. Included is information on rainfall, clouds, storms, record temperatures, world weather patterns, and a seemingly...
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Peterson First Guide to Clouds and Weather (First Guide)
by Peterson Roger Tory Publisher Comments This Peterson First guide contains easy-to-understand answers to questions about the weather, such as why the sky is blue, what makes it rain, and what causes rainbows. The book also features 116 color photographs that show how to identify clouds, with...
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A Life of Its Own: The Politics and Power of Water
by Robert Gottlieb Publisher Comments What if you turned on your faucet one day -- and nothing came out? Not an impossible scenario in such states as California, where years of severe drought have made the allocation and management of water paramount political matters. But is the...
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The Weather Channel
by Frank Batten Publisher Comments Twenty years ago, who'd have believed that millions of viewers would follow the twists and turns of storms developing across the globe with the rapt attention once reserved for thriller movies? That a single television channel could simultaneously inform...
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Skies of Fury: Weather Weirdness Around the World
by Patr Barnes Svarney Publisher Comments The skies aren't friendly anymore! Sweltering heat waves. Bone-chilling blizzards. Ferocious winds. Mighty peculiar weather we've been having, isn't it? Well, scientists predict that climate trends are only going to get stranger in the future. And in...
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Scanning the Skies: A History of Tornado Forecasting
by Marlene Bradford Publisher Comments Tornadoes, nature's most violent and unpredictable storms, descend from the clouds nearly one thousand times yearly and have claimed eighteen thousand American lives since 1880. However, the U.S. Weather Bureau -- fearing public panic and believing...
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Off the Map: The Curious History of Place Names
by Derek Nelson Publisher Comments How did the names of countries, cities, rivers, mountains, and entire peoples originate? Why do some names -- like the Red Sea, which is not red at all -- miss the target? The answers are in this armchair adventure that takes the reader through the...
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A mapmaker's dream :the meditations of Fra Mauro, cartographer to the court of Venice
by James Cowan Publisher Comments In sixteenth-century Venice, in an island monastery, a cloistered monk experiences the adventure of a lifetime -- all within the confines of his cell. Part historical fiction, part philosophical mystery, A Mapmaker's Dream tells the story of Fra Mauro...
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Nature on the rampage
by H J De Blij Publisher Comments Spectacular photographs, fascinating facts, and dramatic real-life accounts, bring to life history's most colossal natural events....
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Critical Masses: The Global Population Challenge
by George Moffett Publisher Comments Based on conversations with families and individuals from Kenya to Guatemala, Mexico to Thailand, a diplomatic correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor unveils the human face of the population crisis, traces its history and evolution, and explains...
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World Geography-flashchart (03 Edition)
by Sparknotes Publisher Comments Flash Charts are colorful, laminated cards that condense information into a bright, portable format--perfect for collecting and carrying anywhere. Packed with knowledge useful to kids, these charts deliver facts in a flash....
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Caring for the Future: Report of the Independent Commission on Population & Quality of Life
by Paul Harrison Publisher Comments This timely, pathbreaking report examines the challenges that face all countries, both rich and poor, in the last years of the century. There is a growing human crisis, as families and communities encounter the pressures of global competition, migration,...
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Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet
by Lindsey Grant Publisher Comments Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the limits of the earth's ability to support them. This book is a unique synopsis of the interactions among all human-related activities and proposes some specific...
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