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Rain
A Natural and Cultural History
New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 355 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Contents:
Origins -- Elemental rain. Cloudy with a chance of civilization ; Drought, deluge, and devilry ; Praying for rain -- Chance of rain. The weather watchers ; The articles of rain -- American rain. Founding forecaster ; Rain follows the plow ; The rainmakers -- Capturing the rain. Writers on the storm ; The scent of rain ; City -- Mercurial rain. Strange rain ; And the forecast calls for change -- Waiting for rain.
Subjects:
Rain and rainfall.
Weather.
Rainfall anomalies.
Droughts.
Physical geography.
Climatic changes.
Earth sciences.
Rain and rainfall.
Weather.
Rainfall anomalies.
Droughts.
Physical geography.
Climatic changes.
Earth sciences.
ISBN:
9780804137096
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Weather Bar | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-334) and index.