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Weather's greatest mysteries solved!
Title:
Weather's greatest mysteries solved!
Author:
Cerveny, Randall S.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, [2009]

©2009
Physical Description:
328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
What is a weather mystery? -- The mystery of the dead T-Rex -- The mystery of humanity's "near extinction" -- The mystery of the Saharan hippos -- The mystery of the vanishing harappans -- The mystery of Exodus -- The mysteries of weather and climate in ancient Greece -- The mystery of Petra, the rose city -- The mystery of the disappearing sun -- The mystery of the Mayan megadrought -- The mystery of Columbus's missing hurricane -- The mystery of the Little Ice Age's lost sunspots -- The mystery of the complacent Empire's wet weather -- The mystery of the Pacific hot tub -- The mystery of Tibet's weather spies -- The mystery of the Great American Dust Bowl -- The mystery of the crashing airplane and the A-bomb -- The mystery of "eliminating the impossible" -- The mystery of the devil in the deep blue sea -- The mystery of climate, cocaine, and the storyteller -- The mystery of the future -- The seven solutions.
ISBN:
9781591027201
Format :
Book