This concise introduction to modern climatology covers the key topics for intermediate undergraduate students on one-semester courses. The treatment of topics is non-mathematical wherever possible, instead focusing on physical processes to allow students to grasp concepts more easily. Full-color illustrations support the text and supplementary topics are covered in boxes, enabling students to further increase their knowledge and awareness. A historical perspective of climatology is woven throughout, providing students with an insight into key scientists and technological developments. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the main points and a mixture of review and discussion questions, encouraging students to check their understanding and think critically. A list of key web links to data and other resources, and solutions and hints to answers to the student questions (password-protected for instructors), are provided online to complete the teaching package.

Contains more than sixty thousand entries, including thousands of new words, colloquial and slang expressions, technical terms, and up-to-date geographical and biographical entries

Summarises the major lessons to be learned from 550 million years of climate changes, as a way of evaluating the climatological impact on and by humans in this century. This book also looks ahead to possible effects during the next several centuries of fossil fuel use. It gives non-majors an introduction to earth system science or climate change.

In the twenty-second-century world transformed by biotechnology, Damon Hart, the son of Conrad Helier, inventor of the artificial womb, is forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game involving a gang of terrorists, Interpol, and Earth's most powerful leaders

Edited specifically for the U.S. by an eminent lexicographer, an up-to-date desk dictionary contains more than sixty thousand entries, including thousands of new words, colloquial and slang expressions, technical terms, and up-to-date geographical and biographical entries. UP.