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5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disasterby Richard W. NooneISBN 0517561425 (0-517-56142-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The American Weather Bookby David M. LudlumISBN 0395321220 (0-395-32122-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Climate and Historyby Theodore Rabb, Robert RotbergISBN 0691053316 (0-691-05331-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Climate Changeby Shelley TanakaISBN 0888997833 (0-88899-783-3)
Hardcover, Groundwood Books
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The Climate Mandateby Walter Orr RobertsISBN 0716710552 (0-7167-1055-2)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warmingby Thomas Gale MooreISBN 1882577655 (1-882577-65-5)
Softcover, Cato Inst
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Climate through the Ages: A Study of the Climatic Factors and Their Variationsby C. E. P. BrooksISBN 0486222454 (0-486-22245-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Book Co
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Climate, History and the Modern Worldby H.H. LambISBN 0415127351 (0-415-12735-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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Climates of the States; A Practical Reference Containing Basic Climatological Data of the United States.by United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationISBN 0912394099 (0-912394-09-9)
Hardcover, Water Information Center
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Does the Weather Really Matter?: The Social Implications of Climate Changeby William James BurroughsISBN 0521017440 (0-521-01744-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Does the Weather Really Matter?: The Social Implications of Climate Change'Book summary:We talk about it endlessly, write about it copiously, and predict it badly. It influences what we do, what we wear, and how we live. Weather--how does it really impact our lives? In this compelling look at weather, author Burroughs combines historical perspective and economic and political analysis to give the impact of weather and climate change relevance and weight. He examines whether the frequency of extreme events is changing and the consequences of these changes. He looks at the chaotic nature of the climate and how this unpredictability can impose serious limits on how we plan for the future. Finally, he poses the important question: what types of serious, even less predictable changes are around the corner? In balanced and accessible prose, Burroughs works these issues into lucid analysis. This refreshing and insightful look at the impact of weather will appeal to anyone who has ever worried about forgetting an umbrella. William James Burroughs is the author of Watching the World's Weather (CUP, 1991) and Weather Cycles: Real or Imaginary? (CUP, 1994). [via]
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Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0399128964 (0-399-12896-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune'Book summary:This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Dune: La Batalla De Corrinby Frank HerbertISBN 0441013597 (0-441-01359-7)
Softcover, Ace Books
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The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Hardcover, Ace Books - Dune: La Batalla De Corrin: ISBN 0881036366 (0-88103-636-6)
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Dune:La Yihad Butleriana / Dune:the Butlerian Yihad: La Yihad Butleriana/ the Butlerian Yihadby Brian Herbert, Random House Mondadori, Domingo SantosISBN 849759682X (84-9759-682-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Elementary Climate Physicsby Fred W. TaylorISBN 0198567340 (0-19-856734-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoplesby Tim FlanneryISBN 1876485728 (1-876485-72-8)
Hardcover, Text Pub
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Fifty Degrees Belowby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553585819 (0-553-58581-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fifty Degrees Below'Book summary:Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillersand propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nations capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warmingwhich could trigger another phenomenon: abrupt climate change, resulting in temperatures...
When the storm got bad, scientist Frank Vanderwal was at work, formalizing his return to the National Science Foundation for another year. Hed left the building just in time to help sandbag at Arlington Cemetery. Now that the torrent was over, large chunks of San Diego had eroded into the sea, and D.C. was underwater.
Shallow lakes occupied the most famous parts of the city. Reagan Airport was awash and the Potomac had spilled beyond its banks. Rescue boats dotted the saturated cityscape. Everything Frank and his colleagues in the halls of science and politics feared had culminated in this massive disaster. And now the world looked to them to fix it.
Whatever Frank can do, now that he is homeless, hell have to do from his car. Hes not averse to sleeping outdoors. Years of research have made him hyperaware of his status as just another primate. That plus his encounter with a Tibetan Buddhist has left him resolved to live a more authentic life.
Hopefully, this will prepare him for whatever is to come....
For even as D.C. bails out from the flood, a more extreme climate change looms. With the melting of the polar ice caps shutting down the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, another Ice Age could be imminent. The last time it happened, eleven thousand years ago, it took just three years to start.
Once again Kim Stanley Robinson uses his remarkable vision, trademark wry wit, and extraordinary insight into the complexity between man and nature to take us to the brink of disasterand slightly beyond.
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Floods, Famines and Emperorsby Brian FaganISBN 0465011217 (0-465-01121-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Floods, Famines and Emperors'Book summary:Before 1997, the name "El Niño" was unknown to most ordinary folks. Meteorologists, oceanographers, commercial fishers, and weather buffs knew of this periodic climatic anomaly, but to the everyday person on the street, a few degrees' difference in the Pacific Ocean's temperature was irrelevant. Then one of the most powerful El Niños in recorded history caused bitter freezes in Europe, brutal snowstorms and floods in western North America, and deadly droughts throughout the South Pacific. People sat up and took notice as a relatively tiny change in oceanic temperature resulted in death and destruction in many parts of the globe.
Brian Fagan examines the social effects of El Niño and other powerful weather phenomena in Floods, Famines and Emperors. He gives plenty of examples of how cultures have adapted to stressful weather and the ways in which climatic alterations have changed the course of history. From droughts in ancient Egypt to monsoons in India, the far-reaching effects of meteorology's most cantankerous kid have deeply affected the way humans live in the world. Illustrated with useful maps and diagrams, Floods, Famines and Emperors is a clear, fascinating look at an aspect of climate studies--and of El Niño--mostly ignored by science. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizationsby Brian M. FaganISBN 0465011209 (0-465-01120-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Brian Fagan examines the social effects of El Niño and other powerful weather phenomena in Floods, Famines and Emperors. He gives plenty of examples of how cultures have adapted to stressful weather and the ways in which climatic alterations have changed the course of history. From droughts in ancient Egypt to monsoons in India, the far-reaching effects of meteorology's most cantankerous kid have deeply affected the way humans live in the world. Illustrated with useful maps and diagrams, Floods, Famines and Emperors is a clear, fascinating look at an aspect of climate studies--and of El Niño--mostly ignored by science. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Future of Ice: A Journey into Coldby Gretel EhrlichISBN 1400034353 (1-4000-3435-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold'Book summary:This book is written out of Gretel Ehrlichs love for winterfor remote and cold places, and the ways in which winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and souland out of the fear that our democracy of gratification has irreparably altered the climate. In The Future of Ice, Ehrlich travels to extreme pointsfrom Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the worldin her quest to understand the complex, primal nature of cold.
Over the course of a year, Ehrlich and her cold-loving canine companion experience firsthand the myriad expressions of cold, and she gives us marvelous histories of wind, water, snow, and ice, of ocean currents and weather cycles. Ehrlich explores how our very awareness, our consciousness, is animated and enlivened by the archaic rhythms and erupting oscillations of weather. As she writes, Weather streamed into my nose, mouth, eyes, and ears and circulated inside my brain. . . . A gust can shove one impulse into another; a blizzard erases a line of action; a sandstorm permeates inspiration; rain is a form of sleep. Lightning makes scratch marks on brains; hail gouges out a nesting place, melts, and waters the seed of an idea that can germinate into idiocy, a joke, or genius. We share Ehrlichs experience of the thrills of cold and also her questions: What will happen to us if we are deseasoned ? If winter ends, will we survive? [via]More editions of The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold:
Ice Ageby Mary Gribbin, John R. GribbinISBN 0713996129 (0-7139-9612-9)
Hardcover, Allen Lane/Penguin Press
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Ice Ages: Solving the Mysteryby John Imbrie, Kathrine Palmer ImbrieISBN 0674440757 (0-674-44075-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Ice : The Ultimate Disasterby Richard W. NooneISBN 0609800671 (0-609-80067-1)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ice : The Ultimate Disaster'Book summary:Complete with a new, shocking Epilogue, this reissue of a cult classic explores Noone's prediction of impending doom--scheduled to occur on May 5, 2000, when Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will be aligned with Earth for the first time in 6,000 years, causing the polar ice caps to melt and submerge large areas of the Earth. Illustrations. [via]
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Ice: The Ultimate Human Catastropheby Fred HoyleISBN 0826400647 (0-8264-0064-7)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earthby Thomas LevensonISBN 0060917032 (0-06-091703-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Ice, the Ultimate Disasterby Richard William NooneISBN 0910285004 (0-910285-00-4)
Hardcover, Astraea Publishers
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Illustrated Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0425038912 (0-425-03891-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Impacts of Europe's Changing Climate: An Indicator-Based Assessmentby European Environment AgencyISBN 9291676926 (92-9167-692-6)
Hardcover, European Environment Agency
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Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warmingby Al GoreISBN 0670062715 (0-670-06271-5)
Hardcover, Viking Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming'Book summary:Former Vice President Al Gore's New York Times #1 bestselling book is a daring call to action, exposing the shocking reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and the future we face if we do not take action to stop global warming. Now, Viking has adapted this book for the most important audience of all: today's youth, who have no choice but to confront this climate crisis head-on.[via]Dramatic full-color photos, illustrations, and graphs combine with Gore's effective and clear writing to explain global warming in very real terms: what it is, what causes it, and what will happen if we continue to ignore it. An Inconvenient Truth will change the way young people understand global warming and hopefully inspire them to help change the course of history.
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About Itby Al GoreISBN 1594865671 (1-59486-567-1)
Softcover, Rodale Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It'Book summary:[via]An Inconvenient Truth--Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance--is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes--and a leading expert--brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness--and with humor, too--that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked. This riveting new book--written in an accessible, entertaining style--will open the eyes of even the most skeptical.More editions of An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It:
International Conference on East Asia and Western Pacific Meteorology and Crime, Hong Kong, 6-8 July 1989by P. Sham, C.P. ChangISBN 9810200277 (981-02-0027-7)
Hardcover, World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third Worldby Mike DavisISBN 1859843824 (1-85984-382-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World'Book summary:Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives. [via]
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Little Ice Ageby Brian M. FaganISBN 1417625902 (1-4176-2590-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850by Brian M. FaganISBN 0465022723 (0-465-02272-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850'Book summary:"Climate change is the ignored player on the historical stage," writes archeologist Brian Fagan. But it shouldn't be, not if we know what's good for us. We can't judge what future climate change will mean unless we know something about its effects in the past: "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". And Fagan's story of the last thousand years, centered on the "Little Ice Age," reminds us of what we could end up repeating: flood, fire, and famine--acts of God exacerbated by acts of man.
For all that he takes a broad--a very broad--view of European history, Fagan's writing is laced with human faces, fascinating anecdotes, and a gift for the telling detail that makes history live, very much in the style of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror. When Fagan talks about the voyages of Basque fishermen to American shores (probably landing before Columbus sailed), he puts in the taste of dried cod and the terrifying suddenness of fogs on the Grand Banks. The Great Fire of London, what it was like when the Dutch dikes broke, the Irish Potato Famine, the year without a summer, ice fairs on the Thames, and volcanoes in the South Pacific--Fagan makes history a ripping yarn in which we are all actors, on a stage that has always been changing. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Centuryby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0871138883 (0-87113-888-3)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century'Book summary:With his classics of social commentary The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler has established himself as one of the great commentators on American space and place. Now, with The Long Emergency, he offers a shocking vision of a post-oil future. As a result of artificially cheap fossil-fuel energy, we have developed global models of industry, commerce, food production, and finance over the last 200 years. But the oil age, which peaked in 1970, is at an end. The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is about to radically change life as we know it, and much sooner than we think. The Long Emergency tells us just what to expect after the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing us for economic, political, and social changes of an unimaginable scale. Riveting and authoritative, The Long Emergency is a devastating indictment that brings new urgency and accessibility to the critical issues that will shape our future, and that we can no longer afford to ignore. It is bound to become a classic of social science. [via]
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Centuryby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0802142494 (0-8021-4249-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilizationby Brian FaganISBN 1862076448 (1-86207-644-8)
Hardcover, Granta Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization'Book summary:Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the human species. In The Long Summer, Brian Fagan brings us the first detailed record of climate change during these 15,000 years of warming, and shows how this climate change gave rise to civilization. A thousand-year chill led people in the Near East to take up the cultivation of plant foods; a catastrophic flood drove settlers to inhabit Europe; the drying of the Sahara forced its inhabitants to live along the banks of the Nile; and increased rainfall in East Africa provoked the bubonic plague. The Long Summer illuminates for the first time the centuries-long pattern of human adaptation to the demands and challenges of an ever-changing climate-challenges that are still with us today. [via]
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The Magic School Bus in the Arctic: A Book About Heatby Joanna Cole, Anne Schreiber, Scholastic Productions, Bruce Degen, Art RuizISBN 0590187244 (0-590-18724-4)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Maunder Minimum: And the Variable Sun-Earth Connectionby Willie Wei-Hock Soon, Steven H. YaskellISBN 9812382755 (981-238-275-5)
Softcover, World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, And the Mediaby Patrick J. MichaelsISBN 1930865791 (1-930865-79-1)
Softcover, Cato Inst
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Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate and the Environmentby C. Donald AhrensISBN 0314027793 (0-314-02779-3)
Hardcover, West Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate and the Environment'Book summary:Designed for non-majors. This text conveys meteorological concepts in a visual and practical manner while at the same time providing students with comprehensive background in basic meteorology. The most current topics in weather are covered including the flood of 1993 Hurricane Iniki Hurricane Hugo ozone depletion the Greenhouse Effect the latest in forecasting technology and an entirely new chapter on air pollution (Ch. 17). A 4-color cloud chart is provided at the end of the text. [via]
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Hardcover, West Pub Co - Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate and the Environment: ISBN 0314809058 (0-314-80905-8)
Hardcover, West Pub Co - Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate and the Environment: ISBN 0314852123 (0-314-85212-3)
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Meteorology Today With Infotrac: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environmentby C. Donald AhrensISBN 0534372015 (0-534-37201-5)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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Physics of Climateby Abraham H. OortISBN 0883187124 (0-88318-712-4)
Softcover, Amer Inst of Physics
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Physics of Climateby J. P. PeixotoISBN 0883187116 (0-88318-711-6)
Hardcover, American Institute of Physics
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The Planet Earthby Jonathan WeinerISBN 0553050966 (0-553-05096-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Planet Earth/the Companion Volume to the Pbs Television Seriesby Jonathan WeinerISBN 0553343580 (0-553-34358-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on East Asia and Western Pacific Meteorology and Climate: 7-10 September 1992 Hong Kongby W.J. Kyle, C.P. ChangISBN 9810214022 (981-02-1402-2)
Hardcover, World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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Proceedings of the World Climate Conference: A Conference of Experts on Climate and Mankind, Geneva, 12-23 February 1979by World Meteorological OrganizationISBN 9263105375 (92-63-10537-5)
Softcover, Secretariat of the World Meteorological Organization
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Reading the Irish Landscapeby Michael Ryan, Frank MitchellISBN 1860590551 (1-86059-055-1)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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The Satanic Gases : Clearing the Air about Global Warmingby Patrick J. Michaels, Balling, Robert C., Jr.ISBN 1882577922 (1-882577-92-2)
Softcover, Cato Institute
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A Shelter Sketchbook: Timeless Building Solutionsby John S. TaylorISBN 1890132020 (1-890132-02-0)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the Worldby Bjrn LomborgISBN 0521010683 (0-521-01068-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Solar Engine and Its Influence of Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climateby Elizabeth Nesme-RibesISBN 354058417X (3-540-58417-X)
Hardcover, Springer
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Solar Power: The Evolution of Sustainable Architectureby Sophia Behling, Stefan BehlingISBN 379132411X (3-7913-2411-X)
Softcover, Prestel Pub
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Solar Terrestrial Influences on Weather and Climateby Billy M. McCormac, Thomas A. Seliga, symposium, Workshop on Solar-Terrestrial Influences on Weather and ClimISBN 9027709785 (90-277-0978-5)
Hardcover, Kluwer Academic Print on Demand
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Sparknotes Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 1586635107 (1-58663-510-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
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Sun Weather and Climateby John HermanISBN 048664796X (0-486-64796-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Texas Weatherby George W. BomarISBN 0292708114 (0-292-70811-4)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Times of Feast, Times of Famine: A History of Climate Since the Year 1000by Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 0374521220 (0-374-52122-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Futureby Richard B. AlleyISBN 0691102961 (0-691-10296-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Yearsby Dennis T. Avery, S. Fred SingerISBN 0742551172 (0-7425-5117-2)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Volcano Weather: The Story of 1816, the Year Without a Summerby Henry M. Stommel, Elizabeth StommelISBN 0671531867 (0-671-53186-7)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Weather: Air Masses, Clouds, Rainfall, Storms, Weather Maps, Climate,by Herbert S. Zim, Paul E. Lehr, R. Will Burnett, Harry McKnaughtISBN 0307240517 (0-307-24051-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Hardcover, Golden Press
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Weather Cycles: Real or Imaginary?by William James BurroughsISBN 0521528224 (0-521-52822-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate And What It Means For Life On Earthby Tim FlanneryISBN 0802142923 (0-8021-4292-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizationsby Eugene LindenISBN 0684863529 (0-684-86352-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Armas, germenes y acero/ Guns, Germs and Steelby Jared DiamondISBN 848306667X (84-8306-667-X)
Hardcover, Debate Editorial
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Masculino Que Ninguno: Una Perspectiva Sociopersonal De Genero, El Poder Y La Violenciaby Felix A. Roman Tirado, Colectivo e Ideologias y Vivencias de los Generos (Puerto Rico)ISBN 0965017761 (0-9650177-6-1)
Hardcover, Colectivo e Ideologias y Vivencias de los Generos
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Una Breve Historia De Casi Todo/a Short History of Nearly Everythingby Bryson BillISBN 8478713808 (84-7871-380-8)
Softcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas
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L'homme Face Au Climat: Symposium Annuelby Ofer Bar-Yosef, Edouard Bard, College de FranceISBN 2738116604 (2-7381-1660-4)
Hardcover, O. Jacob
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Portrait Du Gulf Stream: eloge Des Courants Promenadeby Erik OrsennaISBN 2020486784 (2-02-048678-4)
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