Väder, Klimat & naturhistoria

Upptäck Skånes dramatiska förhistoria Visste du att Skåne både har legat djupt under vattenytan i ett tropiskt hav, varit ökenområde och täckt av ett kilometerhögt istäcke? Med den här bokens 18 utflykter kan du åka tillbaka i tiden och känna hist...

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This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text is geared toward students at a variety of levels. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide ...

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'Read this book to learn, but also to honour the man. We shall never see his like again.' - Sunday Times See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young ma...

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Meteorologen Martin Hedberg tar oss med på en fascinerande upptäcktsresa och berättar i den här boken om världens mest extrema väder. Han förklarar på de stora sammanhangen och de exceptionella väderfenomenen. I fantastiska - och ibland skrämmande...

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"En bok som ställer de stora frågorna och ger stora svar." Yuval Noah Harari "Fascinerande lägger grunden för förståelsen av vår historia." Bill Gates Hur kommer det sig att framsteg, makt och rikedomar fördelats så ojämnt över...

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"Barndomens somrar var soliga, fyllda av bad och naturupplevelser. Jag tittade på fåglar och hade mitt eget lilla zoo i trädgården. Men under ytan hände det saker. Sjöarna grodde igen, havet höll på att övergödas och ute i landskapet tystnade...

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Denna bok är den första grundliga dokumentationen av samisk snökunskap. Boken bygger helt på en enda persons utomordentliga kunnande, Johan Rassa i Jokkmokk. Yngve Ryd intervjuade honom i många år och skrev ned hans vetande. Här förklaras mer än 3...

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For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of...

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This comprehensive text and reference work on numerical weather prediction, first published in 2002, covers not only methods for numerical modeling, but also the important related areas of data assimilation and predictability. It incorporates all ...

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This Second Edition of An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation has been extensively revised to address the fundamental study and quantitative measurement of the interactions of solar and terrestrial radiation with molecules, aerosols, and cloud p...

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'Inspiring and urgent' Bee Wilson 'We all need to pay more attention to what we are (and are no longer) eating. Dan Saladino inspires us to believe that turning the tide is still possible.' Yotam Ottolenghi Eating to Extinction is an astonishing j...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Compelling, penetrating, devastating - Silent Earth is a wake-up call for the world.' -- Isabella Tree ------ We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first step is to start looking after ...

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"I underlandet har vi i la°nga tider placerat det vi fruktar och vill bli av med, och det vi a¤lskar och vill bevara." I Underland gör Robert Macfarlane en upptäcksresa till jordens inre, och vad han söker är människans djupast begravda hemlighete...

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  I vetenskap och konst Kyla är ett begrepp med många innebörder. Inte minst i dessa tider då klimatet och väderförhållanden diskuteras över hela världen. Hälsa och väder är likaså intimt förknippade med varandra. Kyla kan vara både något pos...

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"I underlandet har vi i la°nga tider placerat det vi fruktar och vill bli av med, och det vi a¤lskar och vill bevara." I Underland gör Robert Macfarlane en upptäcksresa till jordens inre, och vad han söker är människans djupast begravda ...

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Natural Hazards focuses on hazards as the interface between humanity and its needs for space and resources, as well as on the ongoing geologic processes of Earth and features many new Canadian examples and discussions while retaining the best U.S....

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***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and wide-ranging, turns what was myth and legend into a new story of the past.' Daily MailWas an advanced ...

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'Read this book to learn, but also to honour the man. We shall never see his like again.' - Sunday TimesSee the world. Then make it better.'I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man,...

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Explaining the what, the how and the why of climate science, this multidisciplinary new book provides a review of research from the last decade, illustrated with cutting-edge data and observations. A key focus is the development of analysis tools ...

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For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of...

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»Glöm växlande molnighet och svaga vindar. Nu är det ångande heta värmeböljor och våldsamma känslostormar i prognoserna. Åtminstone när Nils Holmqvist presenterar vädret.« - Aftonbladet Att under sin livstid uppleva stormar, värmeböljor, skyfall, ...

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In You Are Here, celebrated astronaut Chris Hadfield gives us the really big picture: this is our home, as seen from space. The millions of us who followed Hadfield's news-making Twitter feed from the International Space Station thought we knew wh...

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The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century. Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread o...

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New perspectives on how envirotech can help us engage with the surrounding world in ways that are more sustainable for humanity-and the planet. Today's scientists, policymakers, and citizens are all confronted by numerous dilemmas at the nexus of ...

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There is no place like home. The conditions of Earth are not just good for life, they are perfect. Everything about our planet - its size, its distance from the Sun, its spin and tilt, its moon - is perfectly suited to our existence, and our plane...

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Visit the world's greatest natural wonders in this spectacular visual guide.?? Your journey gets underway with an inspiring foreword by celebrated naturalist Chris Packham, before you explore our planet as never before. Cross the continents to enj...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Compelling, penetrating, devastating - Silent Earth is a wake-up call for the world.' -- Isabella Tree------We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first step is to start looking after the...

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On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this book presents a vision of "planetary stewardship" - a rethinking of our relationship with our planet - and plots a new course for our future. The authors, whose work is the subject...

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Not so long ago, our roads, buildings, gravestones and monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, and our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale. We live among the remnants of those times but ...

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Lee takes an entertaining, pop-science look at the many ways weather has affected history and continues to shape the world.

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