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Barnett, Cynthia, 1966-
Subjects
Rain and rainfall
Weather.
Rainfall anomalies.
Droughts.
Physical geography
Climatic changes
Earth sciences.
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Rain : a natural and...
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Rain
: a natural and cultural history / Cynthia
Barnett
.
by
Barnett
, Cynthia, 1966-
New York : Crown Publishers, [2015] [2015]
Subjects
Rain
and rainfall
Weather.
Rainfall anomalies.
Droughts.
Physical geography
Climatic changes
Earth sciences.
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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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355 pages ; 24 cm
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First edition.
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Madison Library District
Non-fiction
551.57 Barnett, Cynthia / Rain
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