{"product_id":"thunder-lightning-weather-past-present-future-9780812993172","title":"Thunder \u0026 Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, author of \u003ci\u003eRadioactive, \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage that grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its danger and its beauty, why it happens and what it means.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PEN\/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, KIRKUS REVIEWS, \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eSHELF AWARENESS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Weather is the very air we breathe--it shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In \u003ci\u003eThunder \u0026amp; Lightning, \u003c\/i\u003e Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss visits the headquarters of the National Weather Service, recounts top-secret rainmaking operations during the Vietnam War, and examines the economic impact of disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on extensive research and countless interviews, she examines our own day and age, from our most personal decisions--\u003ci\u003eDo I need an umbrella today?\u003c\/i\u003e--to the awesome challenges we face with global climate change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Redniss produced each element of \u003ci\u003eThunder \u0026amp; Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e the text, the artwork, the covers, and every page in between. She created many of the images using the antiquated printmaking technique copper plate photogravure etching. She even designed the book's typeface. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The result is a book unlike any other: a spellbinding combination of storytelling, art, and science. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThunder \u0026amp; Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" An] aesthetically charged and deeply researched account . . . a wild rainstorm of a book, pelting the reader with ideas and inspiration.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A gorgeous and illuminating illustrated study of weather in all its tempestuous variety . . . Redniss's combo of fact, folklore, and vibrant etched copperplate prints enthralls.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Eerily beautiful . . . Contains plenty of scientific explanation (including more than a few nods toward global warming), but also far-flung personal stories that illuminate the beauty, wonder and chaos inherent in the elements.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Magical . . . Redniss has . . . shown us how human beings live with nature--fighting, coexisting, taming, predicting via leech barometer and radar and intuition.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" A] twenty-first-century genius . . . Redniss is inventing a new literary genre. . . . The reader willing to put herself fully in Redniss's hands will be rewarded with a delicious feeling of being enveloped by a phenomenon that eclipses the chiming trivialities of daily life.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Lends a graphic-novel-like allure to some of nature's most curious paradoxes.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Redniss is one of the most creative science writers of our time--her combination of beautiful artwork, reporting, and poetic prose brings science to life in ways that words alone simply cannot.\"\u003cb\u003e--Rebecca Skloot\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Redniss combines her own dual punch of expressive art and impressive erudition to give an entirely new take on all that happens above our heads. This is an illuminated book that is also an illuminating one.\"\u003cb\u003e--Adam Gopnik\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A strange and wonderful thing, the work of a first-class mind that refuses to submit to any categories or precedent.\"\u003cb\u003e--Dave Eggers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Beautiful and totally original.\"\u003cb\u003e--Elizabeth Kolbert\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Redniss\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several works of visual non-fiction and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation \"genius grant.\" Her book \u003ci\u003eThunder \u0026amp; Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2016 PEN\/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. \u003ci\u003eRadioactive: Marie \u0026amp; Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a fellow at the New America Foundation and the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars \u0026amp; Writers, and Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History. She teaches at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328688394514,"sku":"9780812993172","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b6bf435e-8aa9-42ef-a3a1-de8c2d74911f.jpg?v=1727748847","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/thunder-lightning-weather-past-present-future-9780812993172","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}