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Thunder & Lightning : Weather Past, Present, Future by Redniss, Lauren, author, artist is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Thunder & Lightning : Weather Past, Present, Future about?
Weather is the very air we breatheit shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In Thunder & Lightning , Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages. This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss visits the headquarters of the National Weather Service, recounts top-secret rainmaking operations during the Vietnam War, and examines the economic impact of disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on extensive research and countless interviews, she examines our own day and age, from our most personal decisions Do I need an umbrella today? to the awesome challenges we face with global climate change. Redniss produced each element of Thunder & Lightning : the text, the artwork, the covers, and every page in between. She created many of the images using the antiquated printmaking technique copper plate photogravure etching. She even designed the books typeface.
Who reads Thunder & Lightning : Weather Past, Present, Future?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Redniss, Lauren, author, artist
- Publisher
- Random House, Incorporated
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812993172
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Physics, Graphic Novel
- Rating
- 4.21 / 5 (437 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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