Author: Jennifer M. Besel
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429639644
Category : Climatic extremes
Languages : en
Pages : 14

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"An introduction to the hottest places on Earth, including maps and colorful photographs"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Sebastian Witiw
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1482419025
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Everyone has experienced hot days in which it's hard to move without sweating. Readers will realize those days were cool compared to some of the sweltering locations vividly described within the pages of this volume. Death Valley, the Sahara, and Ethiopia are highlighted in text and on maps in this trip around the globe in search of Earth's hottest places. Why some locations are so hot, different ways of measuring temperature, and the health risks of extreme heat are just a few of the topics touched upon in this book, compatible with any science and social studies collection.

Author: Roger Naylor
Publisher: Rio Nuevo Publishers
ISBN: 9781933855875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Death Valley National Park is a vast expanse of stark beauty and harsh extremes that attracts visitors from all over the world. Follow adventurous writer Roger Naylor on a tour through the history, geology, landscape, wildlife, and attractions from the hottest place on earth.

Author: Karen Soll
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496625137
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Journey to places where it can get very hot. In this book, you'll learn more about citites that are very hot and what causes this extreme weather.

Author: Rich Linville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Why is it called Death Valley? Death Valley was given its name by pioneers lost here in the winter of 1849 to 1850. They thought that they were going to die in this valley. One of the driest and hottest places on earth is in Death Valley National Park in eastern California and part of Nevada.

Author: David Wallace-Wells
Publisher: Tim Duggan Books
ISBN: 052557672X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books

Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547349831
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Climb the tallest mountain, dive into the deepest lake, and navigate the longest river in Steve Jenkins' stunning new book that explores the wonders of the natural world. With his striking cut paper collages, Jenkins majestically captures the grand sense of scale, perspective and awe that only mother earth can inspire.

Author:
Publisher: In the Hands of a Child
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Kathy Wollard
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9780761112396
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Answers to approximately 135 of kids' science questions about people, animals, and the natural world, such as why cats purr and why our fingers wrinkle in water.

Author: Bill Streever
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316215287
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture. Melting glaciers, warming oceans, droughts-it's clear that today's world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really understand heat? A bestselling scientist and nature writer who goes to any extreme to uncover the answers, Bill Streever sets off to find out what heat really means. Let him be your guide and you'll firewalk across hot coals and sweat it out in Death Valley, experience intense fever and fire, learn about the invention of matches and the chemistry of cooking, drink crude oil, and explore thermonuclear weapons and the hottest moment of all time-the big bang. Written in Streever's signature spare and refreshing prose, Heat is an adventurous personal narrative that leaves readers with a new vision of an everyday experience-how heat works, its history, and its relationship to daily life.