Author: Mia Alvar
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385352840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In these nine globe-trotting tales, Mia Alvar gives voice to the women and men of the Philippines and its diaspora. From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar’s stories explore the universal experiences of loss, displacement, and the longing to connect across borders both real and imagined. In the Country speaks to the heart of everyone who has ever searched for a place to call home—and marks the arrival of a formidable new voice in literature.
In the Country
Author: Mia Alvar
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385352840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In these nine globe-trotting tales, Mia Alvar gives voice to the women and men of the Philippines and its diaspora. From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar’s stories explore the universal experiences of loss, displacement, and the longing to connect across borders both real and imagined. In the Country speaks to the heart of everyone who has ever searched for a place to call home—and marks the arrival of a formidable new voice in literature.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385352840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In these nine globe-trotting tales, Mia Alvar gives voice to the women and men of the Philippines and its diaspora. From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar’s stories explore the universal experiences of loss, displacement, and the longing to connect across borders both real and imagined. In the Country speaks to the heart of everyone who has ever searched for a place to call home—and marks the arrival of a formidable new voice in literature.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Country Living
Author: Kimberley Willis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592578016
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Enhanced by a helpful resources section, an indispensable handbook for urban and suburban dwellers seeking a more rural lifestyle offers suggestions on how to select the right location, building or renovating a home, home farming, essential tools and supplies, and how to cope with such issues as schools, weather, and utilities. Original.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592578016
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Enhanced by a helpful resources section, an indispensable handbook for urban and suburban dwellers seeking a more rural lifestyle offers suggestions on how to select the right location, building or renovating a home, home farming, essential tools and supplies, and how to cope with such issues as schools, weather, and utilities. Original.
Country Frost
Author: Cheyenne McCray
Publisher: Cheyenne McCray LLC
ISBN: 1956103376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In this small-town cowboy romance, will accusations of criminal activity prevent a new business owner, his seriously ill younger sister, and a recently published author from becoming a family? Leeann McLeod, a product of a large ranching family in the quaint town of King Creek, Arizona, dreams of leaving her X-ray tech job to become a successful author and start a family. Her dream takes a giant leap forward when she secures a three-book deal with a prestigious New York Publisher. Farrier Porter Gann buys a small ranch outside of town after his parents pass away, and he becomes guardian to his sister, who has cancer. The idea of becoming a father had never occurred to him, and now that he’s looking after a twelve-year-old, he worries his poor parenting skills will affect her recovery. Porter meets Leeann when he shoes her gelding. He seldom speaks, but that doesn’t matter. With Leeann’s inquisitive nature, she asks enough questions to draw him out of his shell. And when his sister plays matchmaker, their chance meeting turns into a series of holiday outings. The three of them are almost a family. Porter and Leeann's relationship seems perfect, until it's not. When social media posts falsely accuse Porter of being part of an illegal adoption ring, the couple's world is turned upside down. The situation escalates to physical attacks at Leeann’s first book signing, forcing Porter to make a difficult decision. Can their Christmas wish come true? Or will their New Year’s resolutions include getting over a broken heart?
Publisher: Cheyenne McCray LLC
ISBN: 1956103376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In this small-town cowboy romance, will accusations of criminal activity prevent a new business owner, his seriously ill younger sister, and a recently published author from becoming a family? Leeann McLeod, a product of a large ranching family in the quaint town of King Creek, Arizona, dreams of leaving her X-ray tech job to become a successful author and start a family. Her dream takes a giant leap forward when she secures a three-book deal with a prestigious New York Publisher. Farrier Porter Gann buys a small ranch outside of town after his parents pass away, and he becomes guardian to his sister, who has cancer. The idea of becoming a father had never occurred to him, and now that he’s looking after a twelve-year-old, he worries his poor parenting skills will affect her recovery. Porter meets Leeann when he shoes her gelding. He seldom speaks, but that doesn’t matter. With Leeann’s inquisitive nature, she asks enough questions to draw him out of his shell. And when his sister plays matchmaker, their chance meeting turns into a series of holiday outings. The three of them are almost a family. Porter and Leeann's relationship seems perfect, until it's not. When social media posts falsely accuse Porter of being part of an illegal adoption ring, the couple's world is turned upside down. The situation escalates to physical attacks at Leeann’s first book signing, forcing Porter to make a difficult decision. Can their Christmas wish come true? Or will their New Year’s resolutions include getting over a broken heart?
Comprehensive Energy Systems
Author: Ibrahim Dincer
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128149256
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 5543
Book Description
Comprehensive Energy Systems, Seven Volume Set provides a unified source of information covering the entire spectrum of energy, one of the most significant issues humanity has to face. This comprehensive book describes traditional and novel energy systems, from single generation to multi-generation, also covering theory and applications. In addition, it also presents high-level coverage on energy policies, strategies, environmental impacts and sustainable development. No other published work covers such breadth of topics in similar depth. High-level sections include Energy Fundamentals, Energy Materials, Energy Production, Energy Conversion, and Energy Management. Offers the most comprehensive resource available on the topic of energy systems Presents an authoritative resource authored and edited by leading experts in the field Consolidates information currently scattered in publications from different research fields (engineering as well as physics, chemistry, environmental sciences and economics), thus ensuring a common standard and language
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128149256
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 5543
Book Description
Comprehensive Energy Systems, Seven Volume Set provides a unified source of information covering the entire spectrum of energy, one of the most significant issues humanity has to face. This comprehensive book describes traditional and novel energy systems, from single generation to multi-generation, also covering theory and applications. In addition, it also presents high-level coverage on energy policies, strategies, environmental impacts and sustainable development. No other published work covers such breadth of topics in similar depth. High-level sections include Energy Fundamentals, Energy Materials, Energy Production, Energy Conversion, and Energy Management. Offers the most comprehensive resource available on the topic of energy systems Presents an authoritative resource authored and edited by leading experts in the field Consolidates information currently scattered in publications from different research fields (engineering as well as physics, chemistry, environmental sciences and economics), thus ensuring a common standard and language
Ecospatiality
Author: Lowell Wyse
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609387759
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Ecospatiality explores modern and contemporary American prose literature through the lens of place, showing how authors like William Least Heat-Moon, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, and Leslie Marmon Silko represent and reimagine real places in the world and the human-environment relationships therein. Building on the work of scholars in geography, sociology, ecocriticism, and geocriticism, this book articulates the theory of ecospatiality: an understanding of place as simultaneously spatial, ecological, and historical. In our current historical moment, which is characterized by ongoing ecological collapse and a not-unrelated increase in social disorder, few issues are more urgent than the human relationship with our environments. Whether we characterize this new epoch as the climate change era or the Anthropocene, we can no longer ignore the fact that the places we live are rapidly changing in response to economic and environmental pressures. Rather than thinking of place as a neutral site for social interaction, we should recognize how it underpins and intertwines with human experience. Fortunately, literature can help us think through how place operates. Lowell Wyse shows that texts can be understood as works of literary cartography. Focusing on works of nonfiction and fiction whose primary settings are on the North American continent, Ecospatiality demonstrates how these narratives rely on realistic literary geography to invoke, and sometimes retell, important aspects of environmental history within particular communities and bioregions.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609387759
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Ecospatiality explores modern and contemporary American prose literature through the lens of place, showing how authors like William Least Heat-Moon, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, and Leslie Marmon Silko represent and reimagine real places in the world and the human-environment relationships therein. Building on the work of scholars in geography, sociology, ecocriticism, and geocriticism, this book articulates the theory of ecospatiality: an understanding of place as simultaneously spatial, ecological, and historical. In our current historical moment, which is characterized by ongoing ecological collapse and a not-unrelated increase in social disorder, few issues are more urgent than the human relationship with our environments. Whether we characterize this new epoch as the climate change era or the Anthropocene, we can no longer ignore the fact that the places we live are rapidly changing in response to economic and environmental pressures. Rather than thinking of place as a neutral site for social interaction, we should recognize how it underpins and intertwines with human experience. Fortunately, literature can help us think through how place operates. Lowell Wyse shows that texts can be understood as works of literary cartography. Focusing on works of nonfiction and fiction whose primary settings are on the North American continent, Ecospatiality demonstrates how these narratives rely on realistic literary geography to invoke, and sometimes retell, important aspects of environmental history within particular communities and bioregions.
Heating, Ventilating and Sanitary Plumbing
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heating
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heating
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Country Mist
Author: Cheyenne McCray
Publisher: Cheyenne McCray LLC
ISBN: 1956103333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In this cowboy romance, will an event planner who lost a firefighter boyfriend let herself fall for another hero? When rancher, Tyson Donovan, steps forward to protect a woman from a couple of degenerates closing in on her, he discovers their target is Haylee McLeod. He’s known her since he ran around with her brothers in school but rarely gave her a second thought—until now. The beautiful woman sitting in front of him is no longer a child. When she declares she can take care of herself, her spunk and determination intrigue him. Tyson is handsome, but he’s also a wild card. His heroic nature sometimes places his life in danger. Haylee lost a boyfriend under horrible circumstances and can’t handle losing anyone else she cares for. When Tyson places his life in danger one too many times, Haylee confronts him, but he refuses to change. Will they run away from their true feelings? Or will they face their fears and risk their hearts?
Publisher: Cheyenne McCray LLC
ISBN: 1956103333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In this cowboy romance, will an event planner who lost a firefighter boyfriend let herself fall for another hero? When rancher, Tyson Donovan, steps forward to protect a woman from a couple of degenerates closing in on her, he discovers their target is Haylee McLeod. He’s known her since he ran around with her brothers in school but rarely gave her a second thought—until now. The beautiful woman sitting in front of him is no longer a child. When she declares she can take care of herself, her spunk and determination intrigue him. Tyson is handsome, but he’s also a wild card. His heroic nature sometimes places his life in danger. Haylee lost a boyfriend under horrible circumstances and can’t handle losing anyone else she cares for. When Tyson places his life in danger one too many times, Haylee confronts him, but he refuses to change. Will they run away from their true feelings? Or will they face their fears and risk their hearts?
Ceramic Coatings for High-Temperature Environments
Author: Amirhossein Pakseresht
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031408098
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This book addresses the recent trends in thermal and environmental barrier coatings and their applications in extreme environments. It introduces the state of the art in coating materials and processes for high and ultrahigh-temperature environments and identifies areas for improvement in materials selection, performance upgrades, design considerations, and manufacturing methods. This book also covers fundamental studies involving modelling, creating coating architectures, coating preparation methods, and coating capability throughout a wide temperature range. The book examines a variety of high-temperature coatings prepared through various synthesis processes such as thermal spraying, electron beam evaporation, and sol–gel methods. This book also covers ultrahigh-temperature ceramic (UHTC) materials and provides a brief overview of the synthesis method, densification processes, and coating methods along with the properties and applications of emerging high entropy UHTCs. With contributions from international researchers active in the field, this edited book features the most recent and up-to-date literature references for a broad readership consisting of academic and industrial professionals. It is suitable for graduate students as well as materials scientists and engineers working in the area of high and ultrahigh-temperature ceramic materials.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031408098
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This book addresses the recent trends in thermal and environmental barrier coatings and their applications in extreme environments. It introduces the state of the art in coating materials and processes for high and ultrahigh-temperature environments and identifies areas for improvement in materials selection, performance upgrades, design considerations, and manufacturing methods. This book also covers fundamental studies involving modelling, creating coating architectures, coating preparation methods, and coating capability throughout a wide temperature range. The book examines a variety of high-temperature coatings prepared through various synthesis processes such as thermal spraying, electron beam evaporation, and sol–gel methods. This book also covers ultrahigh-temperature ceramic (UHTC) materials and provides a brief overview of the synthesis method, densification processes, and coating methods along with the properties and applications of emerging high entropy UHTCs. With contributions from international researchers active in the field, this edited book features the most recent and up-to-date literature references for a broad readership consisting of academic and industrial professionals. It is suitable for graduate students as well as materials scientists and engineers working in the area of high and ultrahigh-temperature ceramic materials.
Computers in Railways XI
Author: John J. Allan
Publisher: WIT Press
ISBN: 1845641264
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
This volume features the proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and other Transit Systems. It provides the latest information on the use of computer-based techniques, and promotes a general awareness of these throughout the business management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other advanced passenger, freight and transit systems. Of interest to railway managers, consultants, railway engineers (including signal and control engineers), designers of advanced train systems and computer specialists, the proceedings will also be of interest to planners of railway network systems, manufacturers of the track, rolling stock, locomotives and other ancillary equipment and systems; who all have a common interest in the development and application of computer techniques for the solution of problems in the railway and other mass transit systems. Papers included in this volume cover the following topics: Planning; Safety and security; Passenger interface systems; Decision support systems, Computer techniques; Driverless operations; Advanced train control; Train location; Dynamic train regulations; Timetable planning; Operations quality; Communications, Energy management; Power supply; Dynamics and wheel/rail interface; Freight; Condition monitoring; Asset management; Maglev and high speed railway.
Publisher: WIT Press
ISBN: 1845641264
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
This volume features the proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and other Transit Systems. It provides the latest information on the use of computer-based techniques, and promotes a general awareness of these throughout the business management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other advanced passenger, freight and transit systems. Of interest to railway managers, consultants, railway engineers (including signal and control engineers), designers of advanced train systems and computer specialists, the proceedings will also be of interest to planners of railway network systems, manufacturers of the track, rolling stock, locomotives and other ancillary equipment and systems; who all have a common interest in the development and application of computer techniques for the solution of problems in the railway and other mass transit systems. Papers included in this volume cover the following topics: Planning; Safety and security; Passenger interface systems; Decision support systems, Computer techniques; Driverless operations; Advanced train control; Train location; Dynamic train regulations; Timetable planning; Operations quality; Communications, Energy management; Power supply; Dynamics and wheel/rail interface; Freight; Condition monitoring; Asset management; Maglev and high speed railway.
Agricultural Research
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description