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Osiris, Volume 26 Klima

Fleming James Rodger, Jankovic Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9780226253374, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
350 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

"Climate is a rather elusive entity", wrote Helmut Landsberg in 1950 as he sorted out some twenty or so competing definitions. This volume of "Osiris" explores the complexities in understanding what climate means from a historical perspective. The vo...

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Business & Economics

Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes

Simmons Kevin M., Sutter Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781878220998, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2011
282 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 28 tables, 30 halftones

For almost a decade, economists Kevin M. Simmons and Daniel Sutter have been studying the economic impacts and social consequences of the approximately 1,200 tornadoes that touch down across the United States annually. During this time, Simmons and S...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Earth Sciences

Protogaea

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm

ISBN: PB: 9780226113012, ISBN: HB: 9780226112961, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
204 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

"Protogaea", an ambitious account of terrestrial history, was central to the development of the earth sciences in the eighteenth century and provides key philosophical insights into the unity of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's thought and writings. In th...

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Treasures of the Earth Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future

Ali Saleem H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300167825, Yale University Press, September 2010
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Would the world be a better place if human societies were somehow able to curb their desires for material goods? Saleem Ali's pioneering book links human wants and needs by providing a natural history of consumption and materialism with scientific de...

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Ecology

Powers That Be Global Energy for the Twenty-first Century and Beyond

Montgomery Scott L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226535005, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 12 halftones

Thirty years ago, our global energy landscape did not look remarkably different from what it does today. Three or four decades from now, it certainly will: dwindling oil reserves will clash with skyrocketing demand, as developing nations around the w...

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Weather on the Air A History of Broadcast Meteorology

Henson Robert

ISBN: HB: 9781878220981, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, July 2010
304 pp., 23x18 cm, 75 halftones, 16 colour illus.

From low humor to high drama, TV weather reporting has encompassed an enormous range of styles and approaches, triggering chuckles, infuriating the masses, and at times even saving lives. In "Weather on the Air", meteorologist and science journalist...

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On Sea Ice

Weeks Willy

ISBN: HB: 9781602230798, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2010
664 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 354 graphs and figures

Covering more than seven percent of the earth's surface, sea ice is crucial to the functioning of the biosphere – and is a key component in our attempts to understand and combat climate change. With "On Sea Ice", geophysicist W. F. Weeks delivers a n...

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Culture Studies

Authors of the Storm Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226249537, ISBN: HB: 9780226249520, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 3 halftones

Whether it is used as an icebreaker in conversation or as the subject of serious inquiry, "the weather" is one of the few subjects that everyone talks about. And though we recognize the faces that bring us the weather on television, how government me...

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Evolution

Earth Sciences

Worlds Before Adam The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226731292, ISBN: HB: 9780226731285, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
648 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 40 line drawings, 125 halftones

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth – and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about...

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Adaptive Governance and Climate Change

Brunner Ronald D., Lynch Amanda H.

ISBN: PB: 9781878220974, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2010
404 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

While recent years have seen undeniable progress in international acknowledgement both of the dangers of climate change and the importance of working to mitigate it, little has actually been done. Emissions continue to rise, and even the ambitious ta...

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