“Onto a winner,” was how reviewer Fred Pearce greeted Mark Monmonier’s
Air Apparent (10 April 1999, p 46). Now out in paperback, it reveals the
science behind the weather map—debates, disagreements and all. Published
by University of Chicago Press, £11/$17, ISBN 0226534235.
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