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Fixing the sky : the checkered history of weather and climate control / James Rodger Fleming.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fleming, James Rodger.
- Series:
- Columbia studies in international and global history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weather control--History.
- Weather control.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Stories of control
- Rain makers
- Rain fakers
- Foggy thinking
- Pathological science
- Weather warriors
- Fears, fantasies, and possibilities of control
- The climate engineers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-309) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780231144124
- 0231144121
- OCLC:
- 500818260
- Publisher Number:
- 99939891496
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