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Allaby, John Michael was born on September 18, 1933 in Belper, England. Son of Albert Theodore and Jessica May (King) Allaby.
(Most of the planets in the solar system have atmospheres,...)
Most of the planets in the solar system have atmospheres, but that of the Earth is unique. It's composition is quite different from all other planetary atmospheres as it not only supports but is also strongly influenced by living oganisms. Assuming no prior scientific knowledge this volume examines, dissects and explains the phenomena, air - which many scientists believe we are now seriously polluting. It attempts to answer the question "What is air?" by defining its composition, its evolution and structure and the way it is influenced by living organisms.
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(A stunning new information-packed series. Clear, authorit...)
A stunning new information-packed series. Clear, authoritative text, specially written by expert authors to explain key topics and enthral young readers. Information is structured to provide both a quick reference tool and an in-depth resource through the use of overviews, fact features and annotated cut-away illustrations and diagrams. Stunning artwork and design create a visually engaging learning experience, aiding understanding and promoting the desire to acquire deeper and wider knowledge. One title in The Young Encyclopedia series. For age 7 and up.
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(By far the most vehement storm known on Earth, the tornad...)
By far the most vehement storm known on Earth, the tornado has an average life span of no more than half an hour. Yet, during that time, it will expend about as much energy as is used to light the streets of New York City for one night. This updated and revised volume in the Dangerous Weather series explores tornadoes. Organized and written in an easy-to-follow style, author Michael Allaby answers the most important questions students and non-specialists have about tornadoes and he provides a general overview of the current information that shapes the way tornadoes are understood and studied. Featured coverage includes a definition of tornado; discussion about what happens when warm and cold air collide and how wind changes with height; explanations of jet streams, squall lines, thunderstorms, supercells, vortices and angular momentum, dust devils, and waterspouts; answers to questions such as how does a tornado begin, what happens inside a tornado, how does a tornado travel, and how does a tornado die; and a look at when and where tornadoes happen, Tornado Alley, tornadoes in Europe, and tornadoes of the past.
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(July 2002, floods in eastern and central Texas were so se...)
July 2002, floods in eastern and central Texas were so severe that many counties were declared disaster areas and eight people lost their lives. In August 2002, in central and eastern Europe, dozens of deaths and untold irreplaceable cultural and historic sites were destroyed by flooding. In Asia, during the summer of 2002, at least 1,800 people died. Though often tragic, there are floods throughout the world every year, many of them devastating and deadly. In Floods, Revised Edition, author Michael Allaby has substantially altered, expanded, and in some places rewritten the original text to reflect recent findings and new information on this form of severe weather. Three new chapters explain storms and cloudbursts, thunder and lightning, and the monsoons in greater detail. Many new and revised sidebars display explanations or interesting pieces of information about floods and flooding, without interrupting the main flow of the text. These explain concepts from atmospheric science, such as partial pressure and vapor pressure; charge separation in storm clouds; and glacioisostasy, as well as explaining why it rains more on mountainsides than it does in the valleys. New further reading lists at the end of each section and at the conclusion of the book stimulate further research. Students will find this book comprehensive and useful as it explains the phenomenon in clear and accessible language.
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(The new edition of this popular student text offers an en...)
The new edition of this popular student text offers an engaging introduction to environmental study. It covers the entire breadth of the environmental sciences, providing concise, non-technical explanations of physical processes and systems and the effects of human activities. In this second edition the scientific background to major environmental issues is clearly explained. These include: * global warming * genetically modified foods * desertification * acid rain * deforestation * human population growth * depleting resources * nuclear power generation * descriptions of the 10 major biomes. Special student text features include illustrations and explanatory diagrams, boxed case studies, concepts and definitions.
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(Deserts cover nearly half the world and are classified as...)
Deserts cover nearly half the world and are classified as dry, semi-arid, arid, and hyper-arid. These include the hot deserts, such as the Sahara, the cold continental deserts such as the Gobi, the coastal deserts such as the Namib and Atacama, and the North American deserts. Providing an in-depth look at the history, geography, peoples, various surfaces, plants, and animals, "Deserts, Revised Edition" is an expanded update that will be useful to high school students interested in this fascinating ecosystem.The revised edition is substantially different from the first edition, with updated facts and figures, rewritten text, and new scientific research, including information on the climatic conditions that produce deserts and the climate cycles that make them expand and contract. "Deserts, Revised Edition" also explores the locations and general types of deserts, and provides detailed accounts of the most important deserts. It discusses the development and impact of the oil industry in Africa and the Middle East as well as the opportunities for tourism. It also explains the ways in which local weather can sometimes be manipulated. Diagrams, full-color photographs and illustrations, and informative sidebars enhance this accessible book.
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(At a time when environmental issues are top of the agenda...)
At a time when environmental issues are top of the agenda, this book illustrates that although the relationship between industry and the environment is far from perfect, nevertheless much can and is being done to ensure that industry can co-exist with nature.
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(For tens of thousands of years, northern Europe, Canada, ...)
For tens of thousands of years, northern Europe, Canada, and most of the northern United States lay buried beneath vast ice sheets, thousands of feet thick. As the world warmed and the ice began to melt along its southernmost edge, plants began to appear and a forest was born. This forest of the temperate regions became known as the temperate forest. Forests are biologically diverse, meaning they support a wide variety of species of plants, fungi, animals, and single-celled organisms. "Temperate Forests, Revised Edition" explores biodiversity and why preserving it is so important. This book surveys the distribution of certain trees, how soil forms and is classified scientifically, how water flows through it, and what forests soils are like. It also contrasts the efforts to conserve forests with the way forests were portrayed in folklore and literature, often as dark and dangerous.All of the facts and figures have been revised for this new edition, most of the text has been rewritten, and diagrams and full-color photographs and illustrations enhance the text. More than 30 sidebars provide brief biographical details about individuals who have made important contributions to our knowledge of the Earth and ecology, including Alfred Wegener, the German meteorologist who first proposed the idea of continental drift; Vasily Dokuchayev, the Russian scientist who was the first to classify soils; and the ecologists Frederic Clements, Arthur Tansley, Charles Elton, and Henry Gleason.
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(Here is an original introduction to the weather, filled w...)
Here is an original introduction to the weather, filled with hundreds of experiments that let you discover the way the weather works. There is also an innovative "Cloud Atlas" that explains the way clouds are classified and identifies all the main types. For ages 8-14.
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(In recent years, climate research has intensified and con...)
In recent years, climate research has intensified and concern over the possibility that humans may be altering the global climate has stimulated funding for increased study of global warming and its consequences. With the 2002 drought in the United States having been especially severe, and droughts in other parts of the world causing hunger, starvation, and fueling conflicts over scarce resources, it becomes increasingly important that young people have a quality resource for answering their questions about the phenomenon. Droughts, Revised Edition is a fully updated and revised version of the successful previous edition. Several new chapters include coverage of topics such as the geography of deserts; climate cycles and oscillations, describing the ways climates change for entirely natural reasons - reasons that have nothing to do with our emissions of greenhouse gases; and life in deserts. Sidebars display detailed explanations or interesting pieces of information without interrupting the main flow of the text. These explain concepts from atmospheric science, such as adiabatic cooling and warming, potential temperature, lapse rates, and the inter-tropical convergence and equatorial trough, as well as biological processes. This volume also contains 65 black-and-white illustrations, graphs, tables, and chart; an index; a bibliography; and appendixes.
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(This updated and revised volume in the Dangerous Weather ...)
This updated and revised volume in the Dangerous Weather series explores many aspects of weather as well as the science of weather. Organized and written in an easy-to-follow style, author Michael Allaby answers the most important questions students and non-specialists have about weather and he provides a general overview of the current information that shapes the way weather is understood and studied. Features include discussion of how the climates of the world have changed over the centuries; a 5,000-year chronology of dangerous weather, from c. 3,200 BCE to the present; a chronology of discoveries listing important developments in the understanding of weather, biographies of noted weather scientists, and advances in forecasting from c. 340 BCE to the present; easy-to-perform experiments (which require no special equipment) that explore various aspects of weather and weather science; weather classification and measurement scales, including the Beaufort Scale of Wind Strength, Saffir/Simpson Hurricane Scale, and the Fujita Tornado Intensity Scale; and a glossary of terms and concepts used throughout the book and series.
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( “We owe it to our plants to read this book. After all, ...)
“We owe it to our plants to read this book. After all, while we just live with the weather, our plants have to survive it.” —The Washington Post All gardeners are at the whim of Mother Nature, and so are our plants. Whether it’s coping with extreme drought or record-breaking snow fall, gardeners—and gardens—across the country are fighting against the elements. Instead of just reacting to the weather, Michael Allaby suggests that gardeners use knowledge about how the weather works to create the best growing conditions for their plants. Allaby brings big-picture atmospheric concepts to life with a comprehensive introduction to how weather works and explanations climate change, weather systems, and microclimates. The Gardener’s Guide to Weather and Climate proves that instead of gardening at the mercy of the weather, knowledgeable gardeners can make the weather work for them
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(This updated and revised volume in the Dangerous Weather ...)
This updated and revised volume in the Dangerous Weather series explores the cold weather phenomenon blizzards. Organized and written in an easy-to-follow style, author Michael Allaby answers the most important questions students and non-specialists have about blizzards and he provides a general overview of the current information that shapes the way blizzards are understood and studied. Featured coverage includes the definition of a blizzard; discussion of continental and maritime climates, movements of air masses in winter, ice caps, glaciers, and icebergs; coverage of where blizzards occur, why gales happen, hail, sleet, snow, evaporation, condensation, and the formation of clouds; explanations of freezing rain and freezing fog, what happens when water freezes and ice melts, and snowflakes and types of snow; and an overview of several other topics, such as Wilson Bentley, the man who photographed snowflakes, as well as snow storms, wind chill, frostbite, hypothermia, white outs, changing climates, and forecasting blizzards.
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Allaby, John Michael was born on September 18, 1933 in Belper, England. Son of Albert Theodore and Jessica May (King) Allaby.
Student, Birmingham (England) School Speech Training and Dramatic Art, 1954-1955.
Police cadet Birmingham City Police, 1950-1951. Freelance actor London, 1955-1964. Editor The Soil Association, Haughley, Suffolk, London, 1964-1972.
Managing editor The Ecologist, Wadebridge, Cornwall, and Haughley Suffolk, 1970-1973. Freelance writer Wadebridge, Cornwall, 1973-2000, Argyll, Scotland, since 2000.
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(In recent years, climate research has intensified and con...)
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(For tens of thousands of years, northern Europe, Canada, ...)
(July 2002, floods in eastern and central Texas were so se...)
("A colorful introduction to how the weather works featuri...)
(Here is an original introduction to the weather, filled w...)
(This updated and revised volume in the Dangerous Weather ...)
(By far the most vehement storm known on Earth, the tornad...)
(This updated and revised volume in the Dangerous Weather ...)
(The new edition of this popular student text offers an en...)
(This dictionary of biology contains straightforward defin...)
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(Most of the planets in the solar system have atmospheres,...)
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Pilot Royal Air Force, 1952-1954. Member Society for History of Natural History, Planetary Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Association British Science Writers, Society Authors, Institute Biology (associate).
Married Ailsa Marthe McGregor, January 3, 1957. Children: Vivien Gail, Robin Graham.