Weather Physics

In This Book, master the complex physics of heat and fluid mechanics through a single, jargon-free story that permanently changes how you understand the everyday machines and natural world around you. Thermal Fluids in Plain English teaches thermodynamics and fluid mechanics as one continuous story, in ordinary language, with no calculus, no derivations, and no jargon left unexplained. Each chapter builds on the last so that by the end, you can look at any machine that moves heat or fluid, from a boiling kettle to a wind turbine to a supercomputer cooling loop, and understand exactly what ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation—one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year—a “darkly funny and urgent” (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis Lizzie Benson slid into...

A sea captain’s beautifully written tour of our planet, our oceans, and our ever-changing atmosphere What’s in a cloud? Did you know that water vapor is invisible and actually lighter than dry air? What separates a tropical storm from a winter blizzard? And what exactly is El Niño? Elliot...

Weather includes all the conditions in the air around us. Snow, rain, sleet, and hail are all forms of weather. So is the temperature of the air and the amount of moisture in it. Learn all about weather, including how and why it changes from place to place and time to time.

What exactly made the earth round? How do boomerangs turn around mid-air? And why do cats always land on their feet? “A basic scientific concept receives long overdue attention” (Kirkus Reviews) in this “fascinating” (Wall Street Journal) new book from the masterful author of The Age of...

Think Electraweave. Think of fabrics of tomorrow! Textile scientist Eliza Bennett attends a textile conference where she plans to present her work, accompanied by her talking cat, Merlin. Their plans are disrupted by a blackout during which Eliza's presentation banner is stolen, leading them to uncover a complex plot involving corporate espionage, a mysterious surveillance network, and a dangerous rival named Croft who seeks to weaponize Eliza's technology for his own gain. Eliza's revolutionary material called Electraweave nullifies static discharge and has potential applications in space....

The Storm, The Stone, and The Sword: Discover the Science and Strategy Behind Japan’s Greatest Victory. In the 1200s, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the massive Mongol Empire, demanded that the world bow to him. He had conquered continents, but one small, rocky island nation refused to surrender: Japan. How the Samurai Fought the Mongol Fleet takes young readers to the shores of Hakata Bay, where the fearless samurai prepared for the ultimate invasion. Faced with an enemy armada of 4,400 ships and 140,000 soldiers, the Japanese didn't just fight harder—they fought smarter. This isn't just a ...

A plain‑language, scientist’s field guide that teaches readers how to evaluate geoengineering claims, read the sky with real physics, and separate evidence from hype. The wind, the rain, and the geoengineering headline all follow the same rules. This is a plain-language field guide to those rules, written the way a working scientist would explain them to a friend on a long drive. It walks readers through cloud microphysics, the atmospheric energy budget, cloud seeding, marine cloud brightening, stratospheric aerosol injection, chaos theory, satellite radiation measurement, and the ...

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise her other calling: as an unofficial shrink. For years, she has supported her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but then her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. Sylvia has become famous for her prescient podcast, 'Hell and High Water', and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilization.

One of our most brilliant, acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction with a mind-expanding, slyly humorous personal exploration of the scientific imagination. In Lives of the Scientists: or, How to Predict the End of the World, Rivka Galchen offers a profound and playful exploration of the lives...

Why doesn't rain fall all at once? Can technology change the track of a hurricane? What's the weather like on other planets? Meteorologists Simon King and Clare Nasir reveal the captivating ways the weather works, from exploring incredible weather phenomenon (how are rainbows formed?), expertly...

Do you know what happens to water when it evaporates? Or how cold the air needs to be for water to freeze? Join Ms. Ling's class as they become science detectives and solve some of nature's greatest mysteries! They'll investigate the many forms of water and learn how to predict the ways it transforms depending on the temperature.