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“alistair mcintosh”

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  • Hell and High Water

    Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition

    The ecologist and author of Soil & Soul makes a compelling and provocative argument for a new way of life in the face of climate change.Climate change is the greatest challenge that the world has ever faced. In this groundbreaking book, Alastair McIntosh summarizes the science of what is happening to the planet using his home country of Scotland as a case study. He then argues that the root of our ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • In the Path of an Avalanche

    A True Story

    by Vivien Bowers ...
    On a clear, cold morning in January 1998, in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, a massive avalanche buried six experienced back-country skiers. They didn’t have a chance. Thus began the worst day for avalanche deaths in Canadian history and one of the most tragic in North America.This book is the biography of a deadly avalanche, detailing how a combination of factors-steep, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rain

    A Natural and Cultural History

    Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive.It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain.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 ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Rescue of the Bounty

    Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy

    From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the “thrilling and perfectly paced” (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard.On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail Bounty from New London, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • What Stands in a Storm

    A True Story of Love and Resilience in the Worst Superstorm in History

    by Kim Cross ...
    Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller—A Perfect Storm on land—that chronicles “the sum and substance of the most catastrophic mass-tornado attack in recorded American history” (Ron Rowers, Pultizer Prize winner): a horrific three-day superstorm with 358 separate tornadoes touching down in twenty-one states and destroying entire towns.April 27, 2011 was the climax of a ... Read more

    $19.50 CAD

  • Stormchasers

    The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet

    by David Toomey ...
    Fifty years after Isaac's Storm, a riveting story of the first Hurricane Hunters, and the one crew who paid the ultimate price."In a virtual age when tempests are monitored by global positioning and The Weather Channel, Stormchasers reminds us that our first understanding of hurricanes was directly built on the risks and sacrifices of living, breathing heroes," writes Hampton Sides (author of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Extreme Weather (Tornadoes To Hurricanes)

    Earth Facts and Fun Book for Kids

    Most children are enthralled by nature, specifically outer space and various weather conditions. Because not everyone lives in a geographic region that experiences tornadoes and hurricanes, picture books are a great way for children to learn about these events. A well illustrated picture book can help students understand how tornadoes and hurricanes are formed, and can help them overcome their ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Weather

    by Storm Dunlop ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    An authoritative and wide-ranging new edition of A Dictionary of Weather containing almost 2,000 entries on all areas of the subject. Provides clear definitions and illustrative examples of terminology taken from meteorology, forecasting, and climatology. Revised and fully updated, this edition includes 300 new and revised entries, such as A-Train, Pineapple Express, and Watermelon snow, and added ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Siberia and the Soviet Far East

    Unmasking the Myths

    Today there remain relatively few areas of the planet Earth where man rarely takes a step, casts an eye, or disturbs the natural environment, but most of Siberia is like that. For the time being, but not for long.Siberia, according to some accounts, originally meant "sleeping land". A glance eastward toward the giant land mass beyond the Ural Mountains of Northern Asia will quickly convince you ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Hurricane Watch

    Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth

    The ultimate guide to the ultimate storms, Hurricane Watch is a fascinating blend of science and history from one of the world's foremost meteorologists and an award-winning science journalist. This in-depth look at these awe-inspiring acts of nature covers everything from the earliest efforts by seafarers at predicting storms to the way satellite imaging is revolutionizing hurricane forecasting. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Art of the Snowflake

    A Photographic Album

    The perfect geometry and exquisite beauty of nature is nowhere so clear to us as in the snowflake. But how have we been able to appreciate this infinitesimal wonder in all its crystalline glory? This book, as much a work of art as a testament to science, reveals how one of the snowflake's most inspired photographers came to such intimate knowledge of his craft and its fleeting focus. Beautiful ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Instant Wind Forecasting

    by Alan Watts ...
    Instant Wind Forecasting is a quick reference guide for all who work or play outdoors whether dinghy, coastal or offshore sailors, fishermen, motorboaters, farmers, golfers, walkers or pilots. It will help them make meaningful predictions based on the look of the sky and the feel of the day.This book is the perfect companion to Alan Watt's international bestseller Instant Weather Forecasting and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD