What We Are Reading Today: ‘Silence So Deep It Rings’ by Laura Mcphee

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Updated 27 January 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Silence So Deep It Rings’ by Laura Mcphee

Spanning almost all of Nevada and Utah and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming, the sparsely populated regions of the Great Basin and the Basin and Range Province have stories to tell—stories intimate and vast, familial, historical, and geological.

In “Silence So Deep It Rings,” renowned landscape photographer Laura McPhee challenges the tradition of 19th-century survey photography, capturing the sheer beauty and depth of the West while conveying what has since occurred on the surface of the land.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Climate Dynamics’

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Updated 21 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Climate Dynamics’

  • This second edition includes updated and expanded information on hydrology, the cryosphere, observed contemporary climate change, and climate prediction

Author: KERRY H. COOK 

“Climate Dynamics” provides an essential foundation in the physical understanding of Earth’s climate system. Assuming no previous introduction to the climate system, the book is designed for all science, math, and engineering students at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate levels. 
This second edition includes updated and expanded information on hydrology, the cryosphere, observed contemporary climate change, and climate prediction. In addition, the illustrations are expanded and now in full color.