Bøger af John D. Cox

Das Wetter hat einen großen Einfluss darauf wie wir unseren Tag planen, zudem ist es ein beliebtes Gesprächsthema. Dafür wissen wir oft wenig über das, was da um uns herum geschieht. John D. Cox nimmt Sie mit auf eine spannende Reise durch die Erdatmosphäre und deren Verhalten. Sie erfahren, was Sie wissen sollten über Regen, Sonne, Gewitter und andere Wetterphänomene. Der Autor erklärt Ihnen, wie Wetter und Klima zusammenhängen und wie Wettervorhersagen erstellt werden. So werden Sie in Zukunft nicht weniger frieren oder weniger nass werden, aber zumindest wissen, warum dem so ist.

A study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars. The author makes his case on the basis of a broad range of texts including slave narratives, domestic literature, soldiers' diaries, and traditional forms of travel writing.

Revisits the question of Shakespeare and religion by focusing on the conjunction of faith and scepticism in his writing. This title argues that the relationship between faith and scepticism is not an invented conjunction.

John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theatres by parliamentary order in 1642. The book represents a major revision of E. K. Chambers' ideas of stage devils in The Medieval Stage (1903), arguing that this is not a history of gradual secularization, as scholarship has maintained for the last century, but rather that stage devils were profoundly shaped from the outset by the assumptions of sacred drama and retained this shape virtually unchanged until the advent of permanent commercial theatres near London. The book spans both medieval and Renaissance drama including the medieval Mystery cycles on the one hand, through to plays by Greene, Marlowe, Shakespeare (1 and 2 Henry VI), Jonson, Middleton and Davenant. An appendix lists all known devil plays in English from the beginning to 1642.

This is a lively, narrative history of the world's great weather tragedies - the greatest storms in history - and the epic quest by pioneering scientists to figure out how to accurately predict the weather. It tells the story of the development of meterology from the time of Aristotle up to current-day breakthroughs in weather prediction.