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64 pp.
| DK |
September, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-7894-6500-0$$19.95
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4-6
This oversized volume integrates color photographs with brief text to create a book suitable for browsing. Topics outside the scope of smaller overviews, such as wildfires, dust storms, and El Niño, are addressed in two-page spreads. The text is relatively challenging, though the book's lack of depth makes it unsuitable for research assignments. The book concludes with two pages of "weather data." Ind.