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Weather (Collins Gem)
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not AvailableA compact introduction to observing, predicting, and understanding the weather more...
Fraser's Penguins
Henry Holt and Co. 2010; US$ 15.99A dramatic chronicle of Antarctica's penguins that bears witness to climate changes that foreshadow our own future The towering mountains and iceberg-filled seas of the western Antarctic Peninsula have for three decades formed the backdrop of scientist Bill Fraser's study of Adélie penguins. In that time, this breathtaking region has warmed faster... more...
Economic Value of Weather and Climate Forecasts
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 51.00Examines how weather and climate forecasts can be used to mitigate the impact of weather extremes on the economy. more...
The Carbon Cycle
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 57.00Leading scientists describe how we can reduce CO2 emissions; for graduate students and researchers. more...
Climate and the Oceans
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 80.00The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. Climate and the Oceans offers a short, self-contained introduction to the subject. This illustrated... more...
Overboard!
Scribner 2010; Not AvailableFrom masterful storyteller Michael J. Tougias comes a new, heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, his most thrilling and amazing story yet. In May 2005, Tom Tighe, captain of a forty-five-foot-long sailboat named the Almeisan, and his first mate, Loch Reidy, welcomed three new crewmembers for a five-day voyage from Connecticut across... more...
Overboard!
Scribner 2010; US$ 15.33From masterful storyteller Michael J. Tougias comes a new, heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, his most thrilling and amazing story yet. In May 2005, Tom Tighe, captain of a forty-five-foot-long sailboat named the Almeisan, and his first mate, Loch Reidy, welcomed three new crewmembers for a five-day voyage from Connecticut across... more...
The Invention of Clouds
Pan Macmillan UK 2001; US$ 18.03A tantalising mixture of biography, history and science. "The Invention of Clouds" takes as its focus a specific scientific advance of the early nineteenth century, but it also addresses other issues of the day, such as culture, religion, aesthetics, literature etc. At the time such things weren't divided into separate disciplines, a mentality that... more...
The Weather of the Future
HarperCollins 2010; Not AvailableFrom Heidi Cullen, one of America?s foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes The Weather of the Future , a fascinating and provocative book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained. more...
Blame It on the Rain
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableAn amazing, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining look at how weather has shaped our world. Throughout history, great leaders have fallen, the outcomes of mighty battles have been determined, and the tides of earth-shattering events have been turned by a powerful, inscrutable force of nature: the weather. In Blame It on the Rain , author Laura... more...









