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Lightning: Nature and Culture by Derek M. Elsom
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Reaktion Books - Earth
Few phenomena inspire more awe than lightning. Streaking across the sky, it daunts us with its power and amazes us with its beauty. In Lightning, Derek M. Elsom explores this natural phenomenon and traces the long history of our study of it. From early civilizations’ assumptions that it was the work of ...Show more
Meteorite Nature and Culture by Maria Golia
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Reaktion Books - Earth
Among the rarest things on earth, meteorites carry an air of mystery and drama while having left a pervasive, outsized mark on our planet and civilization. In Meteorite, Maria Golia tells the long history of our engagement with these sky-born space rocks. Arriving amid thunderous blasts and flame-streak ...Show more
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