Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology
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The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planet
The wea
- Author: Blum, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 006236863X
- Language: English
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Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
$28.99 Add to cart‘Compelling . . . Clark’s enthusiasm shines through on every page’ Sunday Times
‘An engaging and lively history’Financial Times
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A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining- Author: Clark, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 152936227X
- Language: English
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Fire and Rain: California’s Changing Weather and Climate
$29.99 Add to cart- Author: Ladochy, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 249
- Publish Date: September 23 2023
- ISBN10: 303132272X
- Language: English
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The Weather of the Pacific Northwest
$34.95 Add to cartPowerful Pacific storms strike the region. Otherworldly lenticular clouds often cap Mount Rainier. Rain shadows create sunny skies while torrential rain falls a few miles away. The Pineapple Express b
- Author: Mass, Cliff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0295748443
- Language: English
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Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes
$23.00 Add to cartEvery year, droughts, floods, and fires impact hundreds of millions of people and cause massive economic losses. Climate change is making these catastrophes more dangerous. Now. Not in the future: NOW… [more below]
- Author: Funk, Chris C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: May 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1108839878
- Language: English
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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
$19.99 Read moreA deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left.
A starry night is one of nature’s most magical wonders. Yet in our artificially lit world, three-quar- Author: Bogard, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0316182915
- Language: English
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The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate
$17.95 Add to cartWhy a warmer climate may be humanity’s longest-lasting legacy
The human impact on Earth’s climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which mos- Series: Princeton Science Library #44
- Author: Archer, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169063
- Language: English
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Weather Prediction: What Everyone Needs to Knowr
$18.95 Add to cartWeather has always affected human life. Understanding how weather events form and predicting what kind of weather is coming can help enormously to manage weather-risk and will become even more importa… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Buizza, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0197652123
- Language: English
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Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
$20.95 Add to cartThe impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind’s active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as com
- Series: Princeton Science Library #46
- Author: Ruddiman, William F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173214
- Language: English
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The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future – Updated Edition
$17.95 Add to cartIn the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley te
- Series: Princeton Science Library #31
- Author: Alley, Richard B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 26 2014
- ISBN10: 069116083X
- Language: English
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The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World
$30.00 Read more“Quite possibly the best popular science book I’ve ever read” (Popular Science) shows how the tools that enabled us to overcome the uncertainty of the weather will enable us to find new answers to mod
- Author: Palmer, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1541619714
- Language: English
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The Pocket Cloud Book Updated Edition: How to Understand the Skies in Association with the Met Office
$12.99 Add to cartLearn how to understand the skies with this comprehensive pocket guide to cloudspotting.
Clouds have been the object of fascination throughout history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variabi- Author: The Met Office
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1446310116
- Language: English
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No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air
$19.95 Add to cartThe world needs to turn away from fossil fuels and use clean, renewable sources of energy as soon as we can. Failure to do so will cause catastrophic climate damage sooner than you might think, leadin… [more below]
- Author: Jacobson, Mark Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: February 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1009249541
- Language: English
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Reading the Glass: A Captain’s View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships
$32.00 Add to cartA sea captain’s beautifully written tour of our planet, our oceans, and our ever-changing atmosphere
“An extraordinary book by a modern-day Melville.”–Mark Vanhoenacker – “Immensely rewarding and ent- Author: Rappaport, Elliot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0593185056
- Language: English
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Freaks of the Storm: From Flying Cows to Stealing Thunder: The World’s Strangest True Weather Stories
$36.65 Add to cartIn the course of his numerous talks and presentations to college and grade school students, civic clubs, and nursing homes, climatologist Randy Cerveny found that people of all ages are fascinated by
- Author: Cerveny, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 29, 2005
- ISBN10: 1560258012
- Language: English
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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
$21.95 Read moreIn this controversial new book Australia’s leading geologist makes the case that carbon dioxide is just one of many factors that drive climate– and a relatively insignificant one at that. Heaven and … [more below]
- Author: Plimer, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1589794729
- Language: English
