Snow : a scientific and cultural exploration
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982105471
- ISBN: 198210547X
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Physical Description:
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ix, 246 pages : illustration ; 23 cm - Edition: First Atria books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published with title: Snow : the biography. London : Short Books, 2018. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A note on units -- Introduction -- Perfect snow -- If polar bears could talk -- Snomo sapiens -- What Brueghel saw -- The wrong kind of snow -- Record-breaking -- Winter of terror -- At play in the snowfields of the gods -- Last rites -- Boutique mountain engineering -- Snowpocalypse -- Snowbusiness -- Snowmads -- The future of snow -- Snow Q&A. |
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Subject: | Snow Snow Social aspects NATURE / Weather SCIENCE / Earth Sciences SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Snow Social aspects Snow |
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Homer Public Library | 551.57 WHI (Text) | 000154577 | Nonfiction | Available | - |