Climate trend atlas of Europe based on observations, 1891-1990

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Kevin Hile

Fully updated with the latest advances in meteorology as well as an additional section on climate change, this comprehensive reference addresses all aspects of weather in an accessible question-and-answer format. All the basic elements of weather are discussed, as are all types of weather phenomena and the science of forecasting. In addition, the relationships between weather and oceanography, geology, and space science are expertly covered. Included are more than 1,000 questions and answers such as, Has a hurricane ever struck southern California? Could our oceans have originated in space? and What is bioclimatology? This resource is an ideal reference for students, teachers, and amateur meteorologists.

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Jim Longuski

Methods that rocket scientists use to dream up ideas, figure things out, make decisions, and get stuff done expressed in a way that you can apply to everyday life.

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Paul Biran, Octav Cornea, Egor Shelukhin

We introduce new metrics on spaces of Lagrangian submanifolds, not necessarily in a fixed Hamiltonian isotopy class. Our metrics arise from measurements involving Lagrangian cobordisms. We also show that splitting Lagrangians through cobordism has an energy cost and, from this cost being smaller than certain explicit bounds, we deduce some forms of rigidity of Lagrangian intersections. We also fit these constructions in the more general algebraic setting of triangulated categories, independent of Lagrangian cobordism. As a main technical tool, we develop aspects of the theory of (weakly) filtered A∞-categories.

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Katherine Sutcliffe

Orphaned and penniless, Juliette Broussard is overjoyed when her godfather, Max Hollinsworth, plucks her from an isolated French convent. Then she discovers his plan for her to marry his shiftless son Tylor so that he can acquire her family's dilapidated sugar cane plantation, Belle Jarod. Juliette's dreams are of rebuilding her once-glorious home and she wants nothing to do with marriage -- until she comes face-to-face with a blue-eyed temptation who unleashes the same passions that drove her mother, Louisiana's most beautiful and notorious prostitute, to destroy every man who loved her. Chantz Boudreaux, Max's bastard first-born, has one desire: for his father to acknowledge him. But the moment he drags Juliette's naked body from the flood-driven Mississippi, he is swept into a liaison that unsettles his priorities and threatens his life. Soon their forbidden passion burns like a fever. As they struggle to revive Belle Jarod, betrayal and a deadly plague threaten everything they hold dear. NOTE: Top rated Goodreads reviews are generally scathing of racist stereotypes and morality of the villainous Max, as well as implausible, convoluted plotting - but admiring of the Juliette/Chantz dynamic.