Rain : a natural and cultural history / Cynthia Barnett.

By:

Barnett, Cynthia [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : c2015. Broadway Books, Description: 355 pages ; 21 cm. Subject(s):

LOC classification:

QC 925 .B37 2015

Contents:

I. Elemental Rain.--II. Change of Rain.--III. American Rain.--IV. Capturing the Rain.--V. Mercurial Rain.

Summary: 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 rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River ... As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	NU BALIWAG	NU BALIWAG	General Collection	General Circulation	GC QC 925 .B37 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c.1	Available		NUBUL000000052

Includes index.

I. Elemental Rain.--II. Change of Rain.--III. American Rain.--IV. Capturing the Rain.--V. Mercurial Rain.

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 rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River ... As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world.

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