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An insight into the weather, featuring information on weather on earth and on other planets of the solar system including Mars. Examines the effects of comets on terrestrial weather, with an explanation of the Greenhouse Effect, and weather anecdotes.
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John Gribbin is the author of nearly 100 popular science books, including the best-selling IN SEARCH OF SCHRODINGER'S CAT. He has received awards for his writing both in the United States and in Britain. The holder of a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, he still maintains links with research as a Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex, and was a member of a team there that measured the age of the Universe.
While still a student, he received the prestigious Annual Award of the Gravity Research Foundation in the United States, the only student, and the first Englishman working in England, ever to receive this award.
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- PublisherConstable
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0094773807
- ISBN 13 9780094773806
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. David Austin. (illustrator). Reprint. To the Gribbins, weather doesn't stop at the top of our own atmosphere. They provide glimpses of weather on Mars and the effects of comets on our terrestrial weather (highly topical with Comet Hale-Bopp a recent visitor to the inner Solar System), as well as coming down to Earth with anecdotes about the effect weather has on people, baffling stories of strange objects falling from the clouds, and the facts behind many popular pieces of weather lore. Illustrations. 162 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Seller Inventory # 045426
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. David Austin. (illustrator). 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. To the Gribbins, weather doesn't stop at the top of our own atmosphere. They provide glimpses of weather on Mars and the effects of comets on our terrestrial weather (highly topical with Comet Hale-Bopp a recent visitor to the inner Solar System), as well as coming down to Earth with anecdotes about the effect weather has on people, baffling stories of strange objects falling from the clouds, and the facts behind many popular pieces of weather lore. Illustrations. 162 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Seller Inventory # 085962
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