Product Description: The Weather Guide2017 Calendar is jam-packed with bonus content, far exceeding the typical wall calendar.Its 52 pages include spectacular monthly weather photos, fascinating weather trivia in each day’s grid box, captivating monthly articles, climactic data, and more! This is the original weather calendar...read more

In 1865 Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm warning system and "forecasts" would return, the model for what we use today.In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God's wrath, nineteenth-century meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma. Buoyed by the achievements of the Enlightenment, a generation of mavericks set out to decipher the secrets of the atmosphere and predict the future. Among them were Luke Howard, the first to classify clouds; Francis Beaufort, who quantified the winds; James Glaisher, who explored the upper atmosphere in a hot-air balloon; Samuel Morse, whose electric telegraph gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather warnings; and FitzRoy himself, master sailor, scientific pioneer, and founder of the U.K.'s national weather service.Reputations were built and shattered. Fractious debates raged over decades between scientists from London and Galway, Paris and New York. Explaining the atmosphere was one thing, but predicting what it was going to do seemed a step too far. In 1854, when a politician suggested to the Commons that Londoners might soon know the weather twenty-four hours in advance, the House roared with laughter.Peter Moore's The Weather Experiment navigates treacherous seas and rough winds to uncover the obsession that drove these men to great invention and greater understanding.

Product Description: Weather is beautiful, threatening, moody and capricious. It can paint a dazzling face on a winter morning or wreak disaster at a moment's notice. Even at its most ordinary, weather is endlessly fascinating in its variability. In Weather 2017, world-renowned photographers present remarkable and often breathtaking images of a range of atmospheric conditions, from a dark horizon fractured by lightning to the terrifying funnel cloud of a tornado...read more

Product Description: The effect of climate on historical change represents an exciting frontier for reading and research. In this volume scholars contribute to an area of interdisciplinary study which has not been systematically explored by climatologists and historians working together...read more

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Product Description: A provocative thriller set in a blighted landscape where nature is fiercely taking its course, Deluge is a gripping drama. There’s something uncanny going on at Joe and Kitty’s farm. Precious feed is disappearing from the hayshed and prized livestock is being slaughtered at night...read more

Product Description: Year after year science continually proves that global climate change is real. But what does it all really mean and what can or should we do about it?Climate Change For Beginners is a clear, fluid narrative by a leading scientist and educator who takes a scrupulously balanced approach in explaining the history of global climate monitoring and change, and the whos, hows, whats, whens, wheres and whys of the interaction between human activity and recent trends in the Earth’s climate...read more

Product Description: Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller—A Perfect Storm on land—that chronicles America’s biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-day superstorm with 358 separate tornadoes touching down in twenty-one states and destroying entire towns...read more