Climates of Hunger: Mankind and the World's Changing Weather

Bryson, Reid A., and Thomas J. Murray

ISBN 10: 029907370X / ISBN 13: 9780299073701

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1977

About this Item

xv, 171 pp. Previous owner name stamped on front free endpaper and on lower page edges. Occasional pencil marginalia. The jacket is rubbed, and has a 1/4" closed tear at the head of the spine. Argues that climate change is natural and predictable, and man can prepare for it.

Seller Inventory # 006710

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climates of Hunger: Mankind and the World's Changing Weather
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 029907370X
• ISBN 13: 9780299073701
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good

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Synopsis

Identifies and locates trees and shrubs native to the United States

About the Author

Reid A. Bryson is one of the world’s most astute, productive, and best-known climatologists. His work has been appeared or been reported in the New York Times, Fortune, Science, Time, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and numerous other national and international publications. Bryson is professor of meteorology and geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and director of the Institute for Environmental Studies, which he helped to create. Thomas J. Murray is a professional writer who specializes in the presentation of scientific information to nonscientists. He has served with the Institute for Environmental Studies and the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and has been a consultant to a National Academy of Sciences committee.