Author: Noor Al-Shanti
Publisher: Noor Al-Shanti
ISBN: 0995264635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Loud banging resounded throughout the house. The housekeeper pushed a servant aside and wrenched the door open angrily. A man stood on the threshold, dripping rain and mud and blood. A stormy night brings Wandering sailors to a sleepy farming town in the High Kingdoms.
Wandering Storm
Author: Noor Al-Shanti
Publisher: Noor Al-Shanti
ISBN: 0995264635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Loud banging resounded throughout the house. The housekeeper pushed a servant aside and wrenched the door open angrily. A man stood on the threshold, dripping rain and mud and blood. A stormy night brings Wandering sailors to a sleepy farming town in the High Kingdoms.
Publisher: Noor Al-Shanti
ISBN: 0995264635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Loud banging resounded throughout the house. The housekeeper pushed a servant aside and wrenched the door open angrily. A man stood on the threshold, dripping rain and mud and blood. A stormy night brings Wandering sailors to a sleepy farming town in the High Kingdoms.
Tempest
Author: Liz Skilton
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807171468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Liz Skilton’s innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. In 1953, the U.S. Weather Bureau adopted female names to identify hurricanes and other tropical storms. Within two years, that convention came into question, and by 1978 a new system was introduced, including alternating male and female names in a pattern that continues today. In Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture, Skilton blends gender studies with environmental history to analyze this often controversial tradition. Focusing on the Gulf South—the nation’s “hurricane coast”—Skilton closely examines select storms, including Betsy, Camille, Andrew, Katrina, and Harvey, while referencing dozens of others. Through print and online media sources, government reports, scientific data, and ephemera, she reveals how language and images portray hurricanes as gendered objects: masculine-named storms are generally characterized as stronger and more serious, while feminine-named storms are described as “unladylike” and in need of taming. Further, Skilton shows how the hypersexualized rhetoric surrounding Katrina and Sandy and the effeminate depictions of Georges represent evolving methods to define and explain extreme weather events. As she chronicles the evolution of gendered storm naming in the United States, Skilton delves into many other aspects of hurricane history. She describes attempts at scientific control of storms through hurricane seeding during the Cold War arms race of the 1950s and relates how Roxcy Bolton, a member of the National Organization for Women, led the crusade against feminizing hurricanes from her home in Miami near the National Hurricane Center in the 1970s. Skilton also discusses the skyrocketing interest in extreme weather events that accompanied the introduction of 24-hour news coverage of storms, as well as the impact of social media networks on Americans’ tracking and understanding of hurricanes and other disasters. The debate over hurricane naming continues, as Skilton demonstrates, and many Americans question the merit and purpose of the gendered naming system. What is clear is that hurricane names matter, and that they fundamentally shape our impressions of storms, for good and bad.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807171468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Liz Skilton’s innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. In 1953, the U.S. Weather Bureau adopted female names to identify hurricanes and other tropical storms. Within two years, that convention came into question, and by 1978 a new system was introduced, including alternating male and female names in a pattern that continues today. In Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture, Skilton blends gender studies with environmental history to analyze this often controversial tradition. Focusing on the Gulf South—the nation’s “hurricane coast”—Skilton closely examines select storms, including Betsy, Camille, Andrew, Katrina, and Harvey, while referencing dozens of others. Through print and online media sources, government reports, scientific data, and ephemera, she reveals how language and images portray hurricanes as gendered objects: masculine-named storms are generally characterized as stronger and more serious, while feminine-named storms are described as “unladylike” and in need of taming. Further, Skilton shows how the hypersexualized rhetoric surrounding Katrina and Sandy and the effeminate depictions of Georges represent evolving methods to define and explain extreme weather events. As she chronicles the evolution of gendered storm naming in the United States, Skilton delves into many other aspects of hurricane history. She describes attempts at scientific control of storms through hurricane seeding during the Cold War arms race of the 1950s and relates how Roxcy Bolton, a member of the National Organization for Women, led the crusade against feminizing hurricanes from her home in Miami near the National Hurricane Center in the 1970s. Skilton also discusses the skyrocketing interest in extreme weather events that accompanied the introduction of 24-hour news coverage of storms, as well as the impact of social media networks on Americans’ tracking and understanding of hurricanes and other disasters. The debate over hurricane naming continues, as Skilton demonstrates, and many Americans question the merit and purpose of the gendered naming system. What is clear is that hurricane names matter, and that they fundamentally shape our impressions of storms, for good and bad.
The Hour Will Come
Author: Wilhelmine von Hillern
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752383305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Hour Will Come by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752383305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Hour Will Come by Wilhelmine von Hillern
The Conservative
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
A journal devoted to the discussion of political, economic, and sociological questions.
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
A journal devoted to the discussion of political, economic, and sociological questions.
Cruising World
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Languages : en
Pages : 1262
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Languages : en
Pages : 1262
Book Description
Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Works
Author: John Ruskin
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Well of Remembrance
Author: Ralph Metzner
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1570626286
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In his introduction to The Well of Remembrance, author Ralph Metzner provides a telling explanation of the theme of his work: "This book explores some of the mythic roots of the Western worldview, the worldview of the culture that, for better and worse, has come to dominate most of the rest of the world's peoples. This domination has involved not only economic and political systems but also values, basic attitudes, religious beliefs, language, scientific understanding, and technological applications. Many individuals, tribes, and nations are struggling to free themselves from the residues of the ideological oppression practiced by what they see as Eurocentric culture. They seek to define their own ethnic or national identities by referring to ancestral traditions and mythic patterns of knowledge. At this time, it seems appropriate for Europeans and Euro-Americans likewise to probe their own ancestral mythology for insight and self-understanding." Focusing on the mythology and worldview of the pre-Christian Germanic tribes of Northern Europe, Metzner offers a meaningful exploration of Western ancestry.
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1570626286
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In his introduction to The Well of Remembrance, author Ralph Metzner provides a telling explanation of the theme of his work: "This book explores some of the mythic roots of the Western worldview, the worldview of the culture that, for better and worse, has come to dominate most of the rest of the world's peoples. This domination has involved not only economic and political systems but also values, basic attitudes, religious beliefs, language, scientific understanding, and technological applications. Many individuals, tribes, and nations are struggling to free themselves from the residues of the ideological oppression practiced by what they see as Eurocentric culture. They seek to define their own ethnic or national identities by referring to ancestral traditions and mythic patterns of knowledge. At this time, it seems appropriate for Europeans and Euro-Americans likewise to probe their own ancestral mythology for insight and self-understanding." Focusing on the mythology and worldview of the pre-Christian Germanic tribes of Northern Europe, Metzner offers a meaningful exploration of Western ancestry.
Variant Voices
Author: Anna Rozilla Crever
Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Collection of poems that were published in various journals and magazines.
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Collection of poems that were published in various journals and magazines.
The Sacred Tyrak
Author: Aklin Reed
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Beyond the vast expanse of the cosmos lies Hazar, a realm of monumental valleys and towering peaks, where oceans cascade from the heavens, creating lakes of unmatched splendor. In this nascent world, mighty heroes rise to etch their legends, and powerful monarchs marshal vast armies, asserting their dominion. As four distinct races grapple for prominence and legacy, they live under the watchful gaze of The Hand – a pantheon of five deities who shape and govern Hazar with unparalleled authority. Delve into this chronicle to discover the myths and majesties of Hazar. Be it tales of valor or poignant sagas of sacrifice, every page recounts the foundational era of this grand realm. To those who embark on this journey: remember Hazar’s golden age, a time of abundance juxtaposed with periods of profound conflict and sacrifice.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Beyond the vast expanse of the cosmos lies Hazar, a realm of monumental valleys and towering peaks, where oceans cascade from the heavens, creating lakes of unmatched splendor. In this nascent world, mighty heroes rise to etch their legends, and powerful monarchs marshal vast armies, asserting their dominion. As four distinct races grapple for prominence and legacy, they live under the watchful gaze of The Hand – a pantheon of five deities who shape and govern Hazar with unparalleled authority. Delve into this chronicle to discover the myths and majesties of Hazar. Be it tales of valor or poignant sagas of sacrifice, every page recounts the foundational era of this grand realm. To those who embark on this journey: remember Hazar’s golden age, a time of abundance juxtaposed with periods of profound conflict and sacrifice.