Download or read book National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Weather of North America written by Jack Williams and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This easy-to-use field guide provides the resources to understand the meteorological events that affect us every day. With illustrations and graphics for every topic, this is the go-to book for answers about weather reports and conditions on our increasingly turbulent planet"--
Download or read book National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Night Sky of North America written by Catherine H. Howell and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A field guide to help backyard explorers, hikers, and nature lovers discover and identify North America's diverse community of reptiles and amphibians.
Download or read book National Geographic Field Guide to the Water s Edge written by Stephen Letherman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beaches, shorelines, and riverbanks"--Cover.
Download or read book Clouds and Storms written by David McWilliams Ludlum and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the different kinds of clouds and storms and explains how they are formed, what they mean, and how they affect weather patterns.
Download or read book National Geographic Complete Birds of North America written by Jonathan K. Alderfer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Companion to National Geographic field guide to the birds of North America"--Cover.
Download or read book A Field Guide to Geology written by David C. Roberts and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 130 color photographs and 170 drawings, this book shows how to read geological history: plate movements, earthquakes, glaciers, rivers, seas, and other forces that have shaped the earth over millions of years. Each geological region of eastern North America is described vividly and illustrated with detailed maps and cross sections. Highway tours tell where to go to find the best examples of each kind of formation.
Download or read book Braving the Elements written by David Laskin and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1997-06-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere in the world is weather as volatile and powerful as it is in North America. Scorching heat in the Southwest, hurricanes on the Atlantic coast, tornadoes in the Plains, blizzards in the mountains: Every area of the country has vastly different weather, and vastly different cultures as a result. Braving the Elements is David Laskin's delightful and fascinating history of how our unique weather has shaped a nation, and how we've tried to cope with it over centuries. Since before Columbus, the peoples of America have struggled to make sense of the capricious and violent nature of America's weather. Anasazi Indians used the rain dance (and sometimes human sacrifice) to induce rain, while the Puritans in New England blamed the sins of the community for lightening strikes and Nor'easters. IN modern times we carry on those traditions by blaming the weatherman for ruined weekends. Despite hi-tech satellites and powerful computers and 24-hour-a-day forecasting from The Weather Channel, we're still at the mercy of the whims of Mother Nature. Laskin recounts the many dramatic moments in American weather history, from the "Little Ice Age" to Ben Franklin's invention of the lightning rod to the Great Blizzard of the 1930's to the worries about global warming. Packed with fresh insights and wonderful lore and trivia, Braving the Elements is unique and essential reading for anyone who's ever asked, "What's it like outside?"
Download or read book National Geographic Guide to Birding Hot Spots of the United States written by Mel White and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pinpoints the best places to view more than four hundred species of birds, utilizing color photographs and maps to identify bird sanctuaries, national and state parks, wildlife refuges, nature trails, and other birding locales.
Download or read book National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America 2nd Edition written by Jonathan Alderfer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to be an experienced birder to enjoy this guide! With hundreds of illustrations and a user-friendly format, you'll soon be spotting and identifying birds in your locale in no time. The updated text highlights the latest trends in birding and the most up-to-date ornithological information. -- adapted from back cover
Download or read book Sydney written by Evan McHugh and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous ed.: published by Evan McHugh, 1999.
Download or read book National Geographic Pocket Guide to Rocks and Minerals of North America written by Sarah Garlick and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations and mineral hardness scale on endpapers.
Download or read book National Geographic Pocket Guide to Wildflowers of North America written by Catherine H. Howell and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this basic beginner's field guide to North American wildflowers, all who enjoy nature and the outdoors can identify common wildflowers, from backyard weeds to dainty forest blossoms. In a logical, user-friendly, highly visual format, this new title offers key facts about 160 of the most common wildflowers and weeds, coast to coast, including Canada and Alaska. To help with identification, each of the 160 entries has both a color photograph showing the plant in context and a color illustration showing the blossom close-up. This book is the perfect starting point for anyone, young or old, interested in learning how to identify wildflowers.
Download or read book Great Migrations written by K. M. Kostyal and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated companion to the seven-hour National Geographic Channel special miniseries of the same title. It includes 250 breathtaking photos and describes all of the epic animal dramas that will be featured in the series.
Download or read book Birds of the Pacific Northwest written by John Shewey and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birding in the Pacific Northwest has never been easier! Birds of the Pacific Northwest describes and illustrates more than 400 bird species commonly encountered in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia. This comprehensive, full-color guide is organized to follow the order in which groups and species are presented by the American Union. Range maps for each species provide valuable information for identification.
Download or read book National Geographic Pocket Guide to Insects of North America written by Arthur V. Evans and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-use field guide for nature lovers, backyard explorers, and budding entomologists. Evans helps you discover popular insect species as well as spiders and relation creatures, as well as key facts and information about life cycles and behavior of every species.
Download or read book National Geographic Field Guide to Birds Pennsylvania written by Jonathan Alderfer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to fit in a backpack or pocket for easy access, each of these handy and popular bird field guides comprises 272 pages and features about 175 birds organized by family as approved by the American Ornithological Union. Standard features include: Locator Map at the front listing regional birding hotspots; Introduction by an expert on where to find the state's top birds; How-To-Use Section with general tips on birding and advice on making the most of the guide; 125 Easy-Access Individual Entries providing a photograph of the bird in its habitat, recognition clues, specific details on behavior, habitat, and local sites, plus a special "Field Note" with artwork for extra help in tricky identifications; Alphabetical Index with life list; and Color-coded Index. Pennsylvania offers a winning variety of city and country birds. See the bright-colored, vocal Yellow-billed Cuckoo; the migratory Snow Goose; the stunning Red-Tailed Hawk; the olive Acadian Flycatcher, and more.
Download or read book Peterson Field Guide To Weather written by Jay Anderson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A field guide to the weather, including clouds, storm systems, and climate change A resource for those intrigued by events in the sky—clouds, precipitation, storms, aurora, halos—and for those who follow daily weather events. Using a nontechnical approach, the authors describe the flow of energy and moisture through global and local landscapes and how they evolve into day-to-day weather. For those fascinated by the sky’s colors and patterns, there are halos, rainbows, iridescent clouds, and other tapestries in the sky. For the cloud-watcher, common and unusual cloud forms are covered; for those entranced by storms, the guide includes severe thunderstorms, winter blizzards, hurricanes, hail, ice storms, and other challenges that the atmosphere inflicts. It even includes a chapter on weather in the atmospheres of the planets and the sun. More than 400 photographs illustrate visible weather, and diagrams explain the more challenging physical concepts. This book is designed for those who want to look up, marvel, and understand what they see.
