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Author Barnett, Cynthia, 1966- author.

Title Rain : a natural and cultural history / Cynthia Barnett.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1645318~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  551.577 BAR    AVAILABLE
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Description 355 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-334) and index.
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.
Summary Weaving together science with the human human story of our ambition to control rain, Barnett tells the story of rain -- elemental, mysterious, precious, and destructive.
Subject Rain and rainfall.
Weather.
Rainfall anomalies.
Droughts.
Physical geography.
Climatic changes.
Earth sciences.
ISBN 9780804137096 (hardcover)
0804137099 (hardcover)
9780804137119 (pbk.)
0804137110 (pbk.)
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