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Cosmosby Carl Sagan
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds. Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic evolution that have transformed matter... more...
An Introduction to Atmospheric Thermodynamicsby Anastasios Tsonis
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 55.00Textbook for short undergraduate courses in atmospheric science, meteorology, physics or natural science programs. more...
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamicsby Geoffrey K. Vallis
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 75.00Graduate textbook on atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics for meteorology, atmospheric science and oceanography courses. more...
Grassfiresby Phil Cheney; Andrew Sullivan
CSIRO Publishing 2008; US$ 35.95The latest information from CSIRO on the behaviour and spread of fires in grasslands. more...
Global Warmingby John Houghton
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 52.00Houghton's market-leading textbook, now in full colour and with the latest IPCC findings, is the definitive guide to climate change. more...
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Changeby Andrew Dessler; Edward A. Parson
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 38.00Second edition of an acclaimed book provides up-to-date, integrated overview of climate change issue - science, technology, economics, policy, and politics. more...
Turbulence in the Atmosphereby John C. Wyngaard
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 66.00Introduces turbulence in the atmosphere and in engineering flows to advanced students, and provides a reference work for atmospheric researchers. more...
Principles of Planetary Climateby Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 64.00Unified treatment of physical principles of planetary climates for advanced students and researchers in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science. more...
Isaac's Stormby Erik Larson
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 11.99At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before. Nothing in nature could hobble the gleaming city of Galveston, then a magical place that seemed destined to become the New York of the Gulf. That August, a strange, prolonged heat wave gripped the nation and killed scores of people in New York and Chicago. Odd things seemed to happen everywhere: A plague... more...
Introduction to Modern Climate Changeby Andrew Dessler
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 40.00This introductory textbook on the problem of modern climate change science, economics, and policy enables informed debate of public policy. more...