Rain : a natural and cultural history /
Cynthia Barnett's "Rain" begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science, the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains, with the human story of our ambition to control...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown Publishers,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Origins
- Elemental rain. Cloudy with a chance of civilization ; Drought, deluge, and devilry ; Praying for rain
- Chance of rain. The weather watchers ; The articles of rain
- American rain. Founding forecaster ; Rain follows the plow ; The rainmakers
- Capturing the rain. Writers on the storm ; The scent of rain ; City rains
- Mercurial rain. Strange rain ; And the forecast calls for change
- Waiting for rain.