Rain : a natural and cultural history / Cynthia Barnett.
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 anci...
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New York :
Crown Publishers,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 355 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Origins
- Elemental rain. Cloudy with a chance of civilization ; Drought, deluge, and devilry ; Praying for rain
- Chance of rain. The weather watchers ; The articles of rain
- American rain. Founding forecaster ; Rain follows the plow ; The rainmakers
- Capturing the rain. Writers on the storm ; The scent of rain ; City rains
- Mercurial rain. Strange rain ; And the forecast calls for change
- Waiting for rain.