Discover Nature in Winter.CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER Explore the season with two books written for winter enthusiasts, the occasional snow hikers, and those who wonder, from the warmth of their kitchens, what creates the icy pattern on their window panes. Elizabeth Lawlor's Discover Nature in Winter offers hands-on involvement, whether in the wilderness or your own backyard. Armed with merely a notebook and your own curiosity, you will be invited to stargaze winter constellations, identify trees by their branches alone, or determine the wind chill wind chill, the cooling effect of wind and temperature combined, expressed in terms of the effect produced by a lower, windless temperature, also called wind chill factor, wind chill temperature, wind chill equivalent temperature, wind chill index, wind chill equivalent index, and wind chill temperature index. Wind chill is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin. Under windless conditions air provides an invisible blanket around the skin.. Winter: An Ecological Handbook, by James Halfpenny and Roy Douglas Ozanne, takes a textbook approach to addressing questions as broad as "What is winter?" to the more specific "Why does a nose turn red in the cold?" If you ever wanted to know about the most common cold-weather injuries or how to build a quinzhee snow shelter, this is the book for you. Discover Nature in Winter is available for $18.95 postpaid from Stackpole Books, 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-6921/(800)732-3669; Winter: An Ecological Handbook is $20.45 postpaid from Johnson Books, 1880 South 57th Court, Boulder, CO 80301/ (800) 258- 5830. |
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