San Antonio College Library

This 4-vol. source combines the benefits of an encyclopedia, a textbook and an almanac to help students and researchers understand all aspects of weather.

Profiles eighty women who traveled to far-reaching places as guides, pilgrims, artists, mountaineers, scientists, and aviators to explore the unknown and satisfy their thirst for adventure with courage and determination.

She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer,...