Author: Carole Garbuny Vogel
Publisher:
ISBN: 076131900X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Native American tales are set against scientific facts to explain how thunder, tornadoes, sunlight, rainbows, and other weather phenomena come into existence.
Weather Legends
Author: Carole Garbuny Vogel
Publisher:
ISBN: 076131900X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Native American tales are set against scientific facts to explain how thunder, tornadoes, sunlight, rainbows, and other weather phenomena come into existence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 076131900X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Native American tales are set against scientific facts to explain how thunder, tornadoes, sunlight, rainbows, and other weather phenomena come into existence.
American Weather Stories
Author: Patrick Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Weather has shaped United States' culture, national character and folklore; at times it has changed the course of history. The seven accounts compiled in this publication highlight some of the nation's weather experiences from the hurricanes that threatened Christopher Columbus to the peculiar run of bad weather that has plagued American presidents on Inauguration Day. Also presented are meteorological phenomena encountered by people who documented weather and climate during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and those who suffered through the "year without a summer," the Blizzard of '88, and the dustbowl drought of the 1930's. Numerous historical photographs illustrate the entries. (Author/WB).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Weather has shaped United States' culture, national character and folklore; at times it has changed the course of history. The seven accounts compiled in this publication highlight some of the nation's weather experiences from the hurricanes that threatened Christopher Columbus to the peculiar run of bad weather that has plagued American presidents on Inauguration Day. Also presented are meteorological phenomena encountered by people who documented weather and climate during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and those who suffered through the "year without a summer," the Blizzard of '88, and the dustbowl drought of the 1930's. Numerous historical photographs illustrate the entries. (Author/WB).
Big Weather
Author: Mark Svenvold
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805080148
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The author profiles real tornadoes and severe weather patterns over six thousand miles of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, known as Tornado Alley.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805080148
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The author profiles real tornadoes and severe weather patterns over six thousand miles of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, known as Tornado Alley.
American Weather
Author: Charles McLeod
Publisher: Outpost19
ISBN: 1937402401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Publisher: Outpost19
ISBN: 1937402401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
So Cold a Sky
Author: Karl Bohnak
Publisher: Karl Bohnak
ISBN: 9780977818907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: Karl Bohnak
ISBN: 9780977818907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Warnings
Author: Michael Smith
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1608320340
Category : Meteorological services
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From the heart of tornado alley, Smith takes us into the eye of America's most devastating storms and behind the scenes of some of the world's most renowned scientific institutions to uncover the relationship between mankind and the weather.
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1608320340
Category : Meteorological services
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From the heart of tornado alley, Smith takes us into the eye of America's most devastating storms and behind the scenes of some of the world's most renowned scientific institutions to uncover the relationship between mankind and the weather.
Tornado God
Author: Peter J. Thuesen
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190680288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as superstition, but in America, scientific and theological hubris came face-to-face with the tornado, nature's most violent windstorm. In this groundbreaking history, Peter J. Thuesen traces the primal connections between weather and religion in the United States. He shows that tornadoes and other storms have repeatedly drawn Americans into the profoundest of religious mysteries and confronted them with the question of their own destiny--how much is self-determined and how much is beyond human understanding or control.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190680288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as superstition, but in America, scientific and theological hubris came face-to-face with the tornado, nature's most violent windstorm. In this groundbreaking history, Peter J. Thuesen traces the primal connections between weather and religion in the United States. He shows that tornadoes and other storms have repeatedly drawn Americans into the profoundest of religious mysteries and confronted them with the question of their own destiny--how much is self-determined and how much is beyond human understanding or control.
Americans and Their Weather
Author: William B. Meyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190212810
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book traces the major exchanges that have occurred since colonial times in the role of weather in life and livelihood in the U.S. The intent is to relate how shifts in ordinary human activities have been influenced and altered the significance of climate patterns -- patterns that have been far more stable than the society experiencing them -- development of weather science where appropriate. At times, persistent features of our climate and recurrent weather have acted as help or hindrance, hazard or resource. And as ways of life in country have changed, these features have become hazard of resources in new ways.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190212810
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book traces the major exchanges that have occurred since colonial times in the role of weather in life and livelihood in the U.S. The intent is to relate how shifts in ordinary human activities have been influenced and altered the significance of climate patterns -- patterns that have been far more stable than the society experiencing them -- development of weather science where appropriate. At times, persistent features of our climate and recurrent weather have acted as help or hindrance, hazard or resource. And as ways of life in country have changed, these features have become hazard of resources in new ways.
Weather Matters
Author: Bernard Mergen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A kaleidoscopic book that illuminates our obsession with weather--as both physical reality and evocative metaphor--focusing on the ways in which it is perceived, feared, embraced, managed, and even marketed.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A kaleidoscopic book that illuminates our obsession with weather--as both physical reality and evocative metaphor--focusing on the ways in which it is perceived, feared, embraced, managed, and even marketed.
All About Weather
Author: Huda Harajli
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 164611616X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Welcome to the wonderful world of weather! From the warm, balmy days of summer to the cold, crisp nights of winter, youngsters will learn all about the four seasons, as well as what the sun is, how clouds form, why it rains, what causes a rainbow, and so much more.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 164611616X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Welcome to the wonderful world of weather! From the warm, balmy days of summer to the cold, crisp nights of winter, youngsters will learn all about the four seasons, as well as what the sun is, how clouds form, why it rains, what causes a rainbow, and so much more.