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Author: Stephen Collis
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 2021-01-04
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781772012880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, and asks what resistance to the tenor of these out-of-joint times might look like.
Author: William Edgar Knowles Middleton
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Marc Friedman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1993-09
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801481604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes the revolution in the theory and practice of meteorology during the first quarter of the twentieth century, initiated by Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951) and his collaborators. Gives special emphasis to the way in which Bjerknes adapted his mechanical physics of the atmosphere to benefit commercial purposes by providing more reliable forecasts for farmers, fishermen, and aviators. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: James Fleming
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-06-30
Total Pages: 613
ISBN-13: 1940033845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the occasion of its 75th anniversary, the American Meteorological Society engaged a number of eminent pioneers and leading practitioners to write about the fields they helped develop. They were joined by several professional historians of science and technology. The resulting essays constitute a substantial sampling of what has been learned since 1919 in the atmospheric sciences and services—in research, in education, and in the private sector. This volume will be of interest to weather professionals and enthusiasts, historians of science, and to students of science and history. It will help us calibrate where we are, where we have been, and where we might be going as a discipline. Hopefully it will inspire others to value the past and to dig into it more deeply. Such attention to history is a necessary step in the maturation of a scientific discipline.
Author: Ian Strangeways
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-23
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1139460013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrecipitation plays a significant role in the climate system, and this book is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the processes involved in the generation of clouds, rain, snow and hail; how precipitation is measured; how its distribution has changed over time; and how we still need to make improvements to the way precipitation is measured. It traces our attempts to understand what clouds are, from ancient Greeks to the present day. It also discusses developments in the measurement of precipitation, from rain gauges to satellite techniques, and how these measurements have enabled researchers to estimate global trends, totals, variability and extremes of precipitation. This will be a valuable and fascinating reference for academic researchers in the fields of environmental science and climatology. It will also be of great interest to professionals in water resource and flood management.
Author: Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 986
ISBN-13: 1134263015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Author: Detlev Möller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-03-09
Total Pages: 1022
ISBN-13: 311055996X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate change is a major challenge facing modern society. The chemistry of air and its influence on the climate system forms the main focus of this book. Vol. 2 of Chemistry of the Climate System takes a problem-based approach to presenting global atmospheric processes, evaluating the effects of changing air compositions as well as possibilities for interference with these processes through the use of chemistry.
Author: Vladimir Jankovic
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001-04-19
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780226392158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the time of Aristotle until the late eighteenth century, meteorology meant the study of "meteors"—spectacular objects in the skies beneath the moon, which included everything from shooting stars to hailstorms. In Reading the Skies, Vladimir Jankovic traces the history of this meteorological tradition in Enlightenment Britain, examining its scientific and cultural significance. Jankovic interweaves classical traditions, folk/popular beliefs and practices, and the increasingly quantitative approaches of urban university men to understanding the wonders of the skies. He places special emphasis on the role that detailed meteorological observations played in natural history and chorography, or local geography; in religious and political debates; and in agriculture. Drawing on a number of archival sources, including correspondence and weather diaries, as well as contemporary pamphlets, tracts, and other printed sources reporting prodigious phenomena in the skies, this book will interest historians of science, Britain, and the environment.
Author: Kylie Carman-Brown
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2019-10-18
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1760462853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWater reflects culture. This book is a detailed analysis of hydrological change in Australia’s largest inland waterway in Australia, the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, in the first 70 years of white settlement. Following air, water is our primal need. Unlike many histories, this book looks at the entire hydrological cycle in one place, rather than focusing on one bit. Deftly weaving threads from history, hydrology and psychology into one, Following the Water explores not just what settlers did to the waterscape, but probes their motivation for doing so. By combining unlikely elements together such as swamp drainage, water proofing techniques and temperance lobbying, the book reveals a web of perceptions about how water ‘should be’. With this laid clear, we can ask how different we are from our colonial forebears.
Author: William Edgar Knowles Middleton
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 240
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