Fantastic Facts
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This lively and practical book tells you all about different climates and seasons. It explains why temperature changes, how snow and ice form, what a rainbow is, and how people forecast the weather. Fascinating and easy-to-do projects, such as measuring wind force or rainfall in your very own rain gauge, will help you understand the principles behind weather and how it works.
Author Robin Kerrod covers the entire history of astronomy, from priest-astronomers in China 4000 years ago to space probes carrying messages from Earth hoping for an encounter with passing aliens on inter-galactic Away-Days.