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Extreme Weather
Dorling Kindersley 2007; US$ 15.99A completely unique approach to illustrated reference, DK?s Experience series uses panoramic storyboard sequences to help readers dive into the printed page and learn in a whole new way as the action unfolds. Cutting-edge digital illustrations reveal the natural world as never before. Text follows a graphic pathway to guide readers through each subject.... more...
Climate Policy Uncertainty and Investment Risk
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2007; US$ 97.00Our climate is changing. Less certain, however, is the timing and magnitude of climate change, and the cost of transition to a low-carbon world. This book identifies how climate change policy uncertainty may affect investment behaviour in the power sector. For power companies, where capital stock is intensive and long-lived, those risks rank among... more...
Global Warming, Natural Hazards, and Emergency Management
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 67.95Documents the imperative need for communities to prepare for the coming effects of climate change and provides a series of recommendations on how to reduce risks for communities and businesses. This book offers case histories from communities across America that have successfully reduced the extent and consequences of natural disasters. more...
Weather Projects for Young Scientists
Chicago Review Press 2007; US$ 13.99From the everyday phenomena of wind and clouds to the awesome, destructive power of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes, children can explore weather in detail with this fascinating science activity book. Throughout the text instructions for building weather-measuring tools?barometers, psychrometers, anemometers, wind vanes, rain gauges, and thermometers?allow... more...
Global Warming
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 55.99Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of global warming. Written in an accessible style, this important book examines the processes of climate change and climate stability, from the distant past to the distant future. Examining the greenhouse effect, the carbon cycle, and what the future may hold... more...
Global Warming
Infobase Publishing 2009; US$ 54.00This title offers an objective look at the controversial topic of global warming. It is an undisputed fact that the Earth's climate is changing, and although the scientific community continues to debate the exact correlation between human activity and climatic change, there is now almost universal consensus that humankind directly impacts Earth's... more...
Global Warming Cycles
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 48.00Earth has always exhibited patterns of heating up and cooling down. This title focuses on the mechanisms that caused past climate changes, putting the Earth repeatedly into and out of ice ages. It compares natural cycles with today's rapid global warming, caused principally by the behavior of humans. more...
Weather Whys
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 14.95The myths, history, wives-tales, oddities, and wonders of a subject that comes up every day: the weather. Weather enthusiasts (or just the weather-curious) will discover surprising facts, myths, and oddities in this fascinating book of useful (and sometimes useless) information. With his expertise as a meteorologist and editor, Paul Yeager takes... more...









