The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist ...
 Amazon.com Review: British science writer Richard Hamblyn skillfully blends biography with scientific and cultural history to capture for modern readers the remarkable achievement of Luke Howard (1772-1864), the quiet Quaker whose classification of cloud [... more]
$27.00
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The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized ...
Amazon.com Review: Science is inextricably linked with mathematics. Statistician David Salsburg examines the development of ever-more-powerful statistical methods for determining scientific truth in The Lady Tasting Tea, a series of historical and [... more]
$23.95
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The Holocene: An Environmental History
Lucid, clear, a textbook for all audiences: Most advances in human understanding currently come from a conjunction of specialisms: archaeology uses nuclear physics. This textbook is built on clear accounts of the joints between geology and palaeontology, [... more]
$62.95
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest ...
Amazon.com Review: Reading in his signature dispassionate style, narrator Edward Herrmann brings an eerie calm to this powerful chronicle of the deadliest storm ever to hit the United States--a huge and terribly destructive hurricane that struck land [... more]
$14.95
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The Weather Channel
Amazon.com Review: In 1982, Frank Batten flipped a switch and began what he called "a weather forecast that will never end." There's probably no better emblem of niche media than the Weather Channel and its super-specialized field of interest. [... more]
$29.95
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Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in ...
Something for (almost) everyone: Craig Bohren is a first-rate atmospheric scientist with an unusual knack for being able to explain difficult concepts to general audiences. Sure, some of the explanations can get complicated so most readers will have to [... more]
$12.95
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How the weather works (How It Works)
Author: Michael Allaby Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5078 EAN: 9780895776129 ISBN: 089577612X Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 1995-05-01 Reading Level: Ages 9-12 [... more]
$24.00
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Staying Healthy With the Seasons
Eye opening and a blessing for your life: I truly agree with the review written by M. Savoie "waxnwane" (Bound Brook, NJ USA). I add that this book is like an owner's manual for the human body. I, too, went to a Holistic Massage School, and I [... more]
$16.95
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Staying Healthy With the Seasons
Eye opening and a blessing for your life: I truly agree with the review written by M. Savoie "waxnwane" (Bound Brook, NJ USA). I add that this book is like an owner's manual for the human body. I, too, went to a Holistic Massage School, and I [... more]
$16.95
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Climate Responsive Design: A Study of Buildings in ...
Wonderful Useful Information!: What a relief it was to find this book! After ordering and returning 'Architectural Design for Tropical Regions' by Cleveland Salmon (avoid Salmon's book, unless you don't already know that "the sun can be very bright [... more]
$58.95
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The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Amazon.com Review: The unabridged audio version of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, read by Richard M. Davidson, moves in the same haunting fashion as the deadly storm referenced in the title. Opening slowly, the story lulls you with a false sense [... more]
$14.00
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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a ...
Some letdowns true, but still pleasurable: The first seven reviews cover both the pleasures and problems with this book. For me, the major disappointment was in the almost cavalier way that the author dispenses with the actual writer of the 110 words of [... more]
$23.00
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