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Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future
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Include books by the same authorWhat If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe · 312 pages
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a
Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
Gabrielle Walker · 388 pages
This is a full and intimate portrait of the most mysterious continent on earth, and how it holds the key to all our futures.
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway · 355 pages
"Merchants of Doubt " tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades that link smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
Kristin Ohlson · 256 pages
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practicesand, especially, modern industrial agriculturehave led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the worlds soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elega
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Cynthia Barnett · 355 pages
Weaving together science with the human human story of our ambition to control rain, Barnett tells the story of rain -- elemental, mysterious, precious, and destructive.
The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
Ramez Naam · 364 pages
This book is a powerful argument for the existence of global warming, a detail-oriented description of it's causes and a data-driven prescription to solve it.
The Future Is Now: Solving the Climate Crisis with Today's Technologies
Bob McDonald · 303 pages
The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman · 344 pages
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Clinton E. Carlson, Dale L. Bartos, David H. Jackson, Dean E. Medin, Dennis M. Cole, Don J. Latham, Ervin G. Schuster, James Kerr Brown, Jeanne C. Chambers, John G. King, Kathleen Geier-Hayes, Michael J. Niccolucci, Norbert V. DeByle, Raymond J. Hoff, Renee O'Brien, Warren P. Clary · 402 pages
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert · 217 pages
"New Yorker writer Kolbert tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous course, now is the moment to salvage our future. By the end of the century, the world will
The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science
Matt LaMothe, Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski · 160 pages
A science book like no other, The Where, the Why, and the How turns loose 75 of today's hottest artists onto life's vast questions, from how we got here to where we are going.
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Tim Flannery · 357 pages
"The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Originally somewhat of a global-warming skeptic, Tim Flannery spent several years researching the topic and offers a connect-the-dots approach for a reading public that has received patchy and mislea
Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort through the Noise Around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies
Sherry Seethaler · 198 pages
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
Bill Streever · 306 pages
From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet's ancient and not so ancient ice ages;
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity
James E. Lovelock · 184 pages
The 22nd Pacific Climate Workshop
Calif.) Pacific Climate Workshop (22nd 2006 Pacific Grove · 196 pages
Storms Of My Grandchildren: The Truth About The Climate Catastrophe And Our Last Chance To Save Humanity
James Hansen · 336 pages
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte · 197 pages
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio. Time-series, relat
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Al Gore · 325 pages
With this book, the author, former Vice President Al Gore 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 qu
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Richard Dawkins · 272 pages
What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to answer profound questions such as these. Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu's egg? Or what about the great catfish that carries the world on its back? Has anyone ever t
Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
Theodore Gray · 240 pages
The Science Book
Adam Hart-Davis · 352 pages
The Science Book is an inventive visual take on astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, and physics. With eye-catching artwork, step-by-step diagrams, and illustrations that break down complicated ideas into manageable concepts, The Science Book will have readers conversant in genetic engineering, black holes, and global warming in no time. Along the way are found mini-biographies of the most well
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
M.C. Escher · 96 pages