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.The Rough Guide to Climate Change, 2nd Edition

by: Robert Henson

February 04, 2008
Robert Henson's "Rough Guide to Climate Change" is a page-turner. The book is a comprehensive overview of global warming, written so it's clear and fascinating for readers not trained in science.

Henson starts with an overview of the catastrophic changes already happening to our only planet. Then he goes into detail on the symptoms of the problem, which include extreme heat, like the unprecedented heat wave that killed 50,000 people in Europe in the summer of 2003. Symptoms also include floods, droughts, melting glaciers, changes in ocean temperatures and currents that change the weather, stronger hurricanes, and more. He doesn't simplify the discussion of causes, attributing everything to human-caused global warming, but presents ... Read More:
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.The Rough Guide to Climate Change 1 (Rough Guide Reference)

by: Robert Henson

October 30, 2006
this book is so easy to read. i had to have the book for class but i ended up really enjoying reading it. we have assignments to read out of the book each week but i liked it so much i read the entire book in one night
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.The Rough Guide to Weather 2 (Rough Guide Reference)

by: Robert Henson

May 21, 2007
This book was a real disappointment. I very much enjoyed the Rough Guide to Climate Change, and I fully expected this book to be just as well written.
I suppose the book works for some intended audience: those afraid of science and with no patience for trying to figure things out. It presents only a very superficial overview of the why and wherefore of weather, glossing over things like why the jet stream is where it is and flows as it does, or the significance of say a 500mb contour chart, or even something as basic as the relationship between fronts and low pressure centers. We get brief mentions of such things in the context of a very cursory summary of the science behind the weather.
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.Television Weathercasting: A History

by: Robert Henson

1990-08
This book was a real disappointment. I very much enjoyed the Rough Guide to Climate Change, and I fully expected this book to be just as well written.
I suppose the book works for some intended audience: those afraid of science and with no patience for trying to figure things out. It presents only a very superficial overview of the why and wherefore of weather, glossing over things like why the jet stream is where it is and flows as it does, or the significance of say a 500mb contour chart, or even something as basic as the relationship between fronts and low pressure centers. We get brief mentions of such things in the context of a very cursory summary of the science behind the weather.
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.The Rough Guide to Weather

by: Robert Henson

July 18, 2002
This is an excellent introduction to the subject of weather. The text gives an overview of the various types of weather, their causes, forecasting and how to interpret it, a survey of weather around the world, and ends with an outstanding appendix of resources for further research (grouped by subject matter). Henson discusses weather in a variety of contexts including the literary, political and historical. The charts on weather around the world are very well designed, but consistency of scale on the precipitation and temperature axes would have made comparisons easier.
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.A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

by: Matthew A. Henson

September 11, 2007
This is an excellent introduction to the subject of weather. The text gives an overview of the various types of weather, their causes, forecasting and how to interpret it, a survey of weather around the world, and ends with an outstanding appendix of resources for further research (grouped by subject matter). Henson discusses weather in a variety of contexts including the literary, political and historical. The charts on weather around the world are very well designed, but consistency of scale on the precipitation and temperature axes would have made comparisons easier.
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.A Black Explorer at the North Pole

by: Matthew A. Henson

May 01, 1989
This is an excellent introduction to the subject of weather. The text gives an overview of the various types of weather, their causes, forecasting and how to interpret it, a survey of weather around the world, and ends with an outstanding appendix of resources for further research (grouped by subject matter). Henson discusses weather in a variety of contexts including the literary, political and historical. The charts on weather around the world are very well designed, but consistency of scale on the precipitation and temperature axes would have made comparisons easier.
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.Marvelous Mercy: The Shocking Truth About the Mercy of God

by: Robert Henson

January 01, 2005
This is an excellent introduction to the subject of weather. The text gives an overview of the various types of weather, their causes, forecasting and how to interpret it, a survey of weather around the world, and ends with an outstanding appendix of resources for further research (grouped by subject matter). Henson discusses weather in a variety of contexts including the literary, political and historical. The charts on weather around the world are very well designed, but consistency of scale on the precipitation and temperature axes would have made comparisons easier.
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.Managing Secondary Classrooms: Principles and Strategies for Effective Management and Instruction

by: Patricia A. Williams, Robert D. Alley, Kenneth T. Henson

February 09, 1999
This is an excellent introduction to the subject of weather. The text gives an overview of the various types of weather, their causes, forecasting and how to interpret it, a survey of weather around the world, and ends with an outstanding appendix of resources for further research (grouped by subject matter). Henson discusses weather in a variety of contexts including the literary, political and historical. The charts on weather around the world are very well designed, but consistency of scale on the precipitation and temperature axes would have made comparisons easier.
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.Fourth Sex, The

by: Jake Chapman, Dinos Chapman, Gillian Wearing, Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk, Vanessa Beecroft, Richard Billingham, Robert Gober, Dan Graham, Andreas Gursky, Bill Henson, Mike Kelley, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Prince

March 02, 2003
odd but awesome book! an expressionistic piece of art. a book filled with a colaboration of photographs that show the feeling of being an adolesent and shows real life in action. a fun book to look at with friends. also in this book is diary entries from different people and old magazine covers. an allover nifty buy. i promise youll love it!
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