Naturaleza, recreación y deportes / Naturaleza / Clima

Let It Snow

de Darryl Humber & William Humber

This timely book takes a fond look at winter's past, its place in Canada's story, and how it has shaped our sports history, while exploring what climate change means for our sense of Canadian identity, for our...

Overboard!: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival

de Michael J. Tougias

From masterful storyteller Michael J. Tougias comes a new, heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, his most thrilling and amazing story yet.

In May 2005, Tom Tighe, captain of a forty-five-foot-long...

Storm Warning: The Story of a Killer Tornado

de Nancy Mathis

The Perfect Storm on the prairie, Storm Warning is a compulsively readable account of one of the most terrible tornadoes in history -- and the extraordinary people who kept it from becoming the deadliest.

May...

Best of Friends

de Cathy Kelly

You can have it all!

Abby Barton's TV career is taking off and now she and her husband can have the life they've always dreamed of in a lovely Irish town -- at least, in theory! But when your husband takes...

Into the Storm: Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-Defying Adventures in Extreme Weather

de Reed Timmer

An eye-of-the-hurricane view of storm chasing from the star of the Discovery Channel hit series Storm Chasers.

Only one in ten chases actually intercept a tornado-unless you're Reed Timmer. The thrill-seeking...

The Cloudspotter's Guide

de Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Now in paperback: the runaway British bestseller that has cloudspotters everywhere looking up.

Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless...

Weather Whys

de Paul Yeager

The myths, history, wives-tales, oddities, and wonders of a subject that comes up every day: the weather.

Weather enthusiasts (or just the weather-curious) will discover surprising facts, myths, and oddities...

Weather, Climate and Human Affairs (Routledge Revivals): A Book of Essays and Other Papers

de H. H. Lamb

First published in 1988, this is a reissue of a groundbreaking collection of essays written by Hubert Lamb, one of the world's foremost experts on weather and climate and a uniquely authoritative voice in...

The Seabreeze Handbook: The marvel of seabreezes and how to use them to your advantage

de Alan Watts

Seabreezes are the lifeblood of cruising and racing sailors - but they are a fickle resource and it's vital to be able to predict and read the situations when they will blow strongly, change direction (annoyingly)...

Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers

de Lee Sandlin

With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations

From the acclaimed author of Wicked River comes Storm Kings, a riveting tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose...

Tornado Hunter: Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth

de Tim Samaras, Stefan Bechtel & Greg Forbes

Like the deadly tornadoes it documents, this potent combination of high adventure and hard science is terrifyingly timely in our era of global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel, now America's most...

Storm Warnings: Climate Change and Extreme Weather

de Scientific American Editors

Hurricanes. Blizzards. Flooding. Drought. If extreme events like these seem to be on the rise, it’s for apparent reason. The first three-quarters of 2012 brought the worst European winter in 25 years; massive...

Weather Eye

de Brendan McWilliams

Weather Eye is a selection from the famous column in The Irish Times, which over the years has described and evoked all aspects of that most perennial of subjects for exchange and conversation - the lingua franca...

Fraser's Penguins

de Fen Montaigne

A dramatic chronicle of Antarctica's penguins that bears witness to climate changes that foreshadow our own future

The towering mountains and iceberg-filled seas of the western Antarctic Peninsula have for three...

Hurricane Almanac

de Bryan Norcross

Essential Information from CBS News' Hurricane Analyst Bryan Norcross's pioneering and courageous TV coverage of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 helped millions of people in Florida cope with the killer storm. This...

Moods of the Ohio Moons

de Merrill C. Gilfillan

For almost thirty years, Merrill Gilfillan has written outdoor columns devoted primarily to describing and creating moods about the world of nature. These columns are informed by a rural background and field...

The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming

de Gabrielle Walker & David King

Last year, awareness about global warming reached a tipping point. Now one of the most dynamic writers and one of the most respected scientists in the field of climate change offer the first concise guide to...

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

de Chris Mooney

Are hurricanes increasing in ferocity and frequency because of global warming? In the wake of Katrina, leading science journalist Chris Mooney follows the careers of top meteorologists on either side of this...

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

de Tim Flannery

An international best seller embraced and endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers and energy industry executives from around the world, Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the...

An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere

de Gabrielle Walker

We don’t just live in the air; we live because of it. It’s the most miraculous substance on earth, responsible for our food, our weather, our water, and our ability to hear. In this exuberant book, gifted...