Presents color-illustrated, encyclopedia-style articles on the desert biome, covering its geography, geology, biology, history, economics, health, management, and relationship to the atmosphere, and includes an annotated further reading list.
Presents information on how the atmosphere produces weather, the general circulation of the atmosphere, the transport of heat by oceans, and the role of evaporation and condensation; and looks at how the weather has changed over time, theories of why those changes have occurred, and their impact on the world.
Provides information about hurricanes, describing the conditions that lead to their formation, discussing what happens during the course of such storms, explaining how they are tracked and named, and looking at some historic hurricanes.
Provides information about tornadoes, discussing the conditions that lead to their formation, looking at what happens during the course of the ferocious storms, and tracing the wreckage of some of the major twisters of the past.
Explores a wide range of weather topics, including climate and seasons, wind and gales, lightning and thunderstorms, hurricanes and tornadoes, solar wonders, and weather forecasting.
Discusses various aspects of weather, such as sun, wind, rain and snow, hurricanes and tornadoes, as well as forecasting, the use of satellites, and pollution.
Photographs, illustrations, and text combine to provide a portrait of the planet from its core to its crust, discussing various ecosystems, climate, weather phenomena, and related topics.
Presents color-illustrated, chronologically arranged biographical profiles of more than forty groundbreaking Western scientists, featuring such figures as Aristotle, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking, and providing diagrams, discussion boxes, and capsule biographies of related scientists.
