Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980737714
Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The River Styx was the barrier between Earth and the Underworld in Greek mythology. In the mid-nineteeenth century the name was also given to a small creek that ran along Hamilton's western border. The story of what happened to Styx Creek and how it became the vast, straight "drain" that slices through Broadmeadow and Hamilton North, forms the backdrop to this book. Equal parts diary, inquiry and observation, A year down the drain invites you on a journey with the author into Newcastle's watery underworld.
A Year Down the Drain
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980737714
Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The River Styx was the barrier between Earth and the Underworld in Greek mythology. In the mid-nineteeenth century the name was also given to a small creek that ran along Hamilton's western border. The story of what happened to Styx Creek and how it became the vast, straight "drain" that slices through Broadmeadow and Hamilton North, forms the backdrop to this book. Equal parts diary, inquiry and observation, A year down the drain invites you on a journey with the author into Newcastle's watery underworld.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980737714
Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The River Styx was the barrier between Earth and the Underworld in Greek mythology. In the mid-nineteeenth century the name was also given to a small creek that ran along Hamilton's western border. The story of what happened to Styx Creek and how it became the vast, straight "drain" that slices through Broadmeadow and Hamilton North, forms the backdrop to this book. Equal parts diary, inquiry and observation, A year down the drain invites you on a journey with the author into Newcastle's watery underworld.
Down the Drain
Author: Chris Wood
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1926812778
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
An incisive critique of Canada's drinking water gatekeepers. Canada is celebrated for its abundance of fresh water, and few Canadians question the safety of the water that comes from our taps. But is this trust justified? One study estimates that contamination of drinking water causes 90,000 cases of illness and ninety deaths every year. In this authoritative review of decades of legislation, research, and independent regulatory critiques, accompanied by riveting stories of the many failures of our water supply, award-winning journalist Chris Wood and Canadian water policy expert Ralph Pentland expose how governments at every level have failed to protect our drinking water. The authors review the history of water management in Canada and approaches to the problem in Europe and the United States, then analyze our own approach in recent times, and finally propose a strategy to protect our water--including a new charter that will hold our government to account.
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1926812778
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
An incisive critique of Canada's drinking water gatekeepers. Canada is celebrated for its abundance of fresh water, and few Canadians question the safety of the water that comes from our taps. But is this trust justified? One study estimates that contamination of drinking water causes 90,000 cases of illness and ninety deaths every year. In this authoritative review of decades of legislation, research, and independent regulatory critiques, accompanied by riveting stories of the many failures of our water supply, award-winning journalist Chris Wood and Canadian water policy expert Ralph Pentland expose how governments at every level have failed to protect our drinking water. The authors review the history of water management in Canada and approaches to the problem in Europe and the United States, then analyze our own approach in recent times, and finally propose a strategy to protect our water--including a new charter that will hold our government to account.
Circling the Drain
Author: Amanda Davis
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061853526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Enter into the worlds of fifteen young women who, despite their vastly different circumstances, seem to negotiate an eerily similar and unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain. With a visceral bite or a surreal edge, each electrically charged story in Circling the Drain presents women trying to understand the nature of loss--of leaving or being left--and discovering that in the throes of feverish conflict, things are rarely what they seem. By turns dark and lyrical, ferocious and playful, these stories are precise, startling, and undeniably original. Reading them is a cathartic, mesmerizing literary experience.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061853526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Enter into the worlds of fifteen young women who, despite their vastly different circumstances, seem to negotiate an eerily similar and unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain. With a visceral bite or a surreal edge, each electrically charged story in Circling the Drain presents women trying to understand the nature of loss--of leaving or being left--and discovering that in the throes of feverish conflict, things are rarely what they seem. By turns dark and lyrical, ferocious and playful, these stories are precise, startling, and undeniably original. Reading them is a cathartic, mesmerizing literary experience.
Banished
Author: Lauren Drain
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455512435
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Banished is an eye-opening, deeply personal account of life inside the cult known as the Westboro Baptist Church, as well as a fascinating story of adaptation and perseverance. You've likely heard of the Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps you've seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year old victim of the recent Tucson shooting, and Elizabeth Edwards, all in front of their grieving families. The WBC is fervently anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti- practically everything and everyone. And they aren't going anywhere: in March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the WBC's right to picket funerals. Since no organized religion will claim affiliation with the WBC, it's perhaps more accurate to think of them as a cult. Lauren Drain was thrust into that cult at the age of 15, and then spat back out again seven years later. Lauren spent her early years enjoying a normal life with her family in Florida. But when her formerly liberal and secular father set out to produce a documentary about the WBC, his detached interest gradually evolved into fascination, and he moved the entire family to Kansas to join the church and live on their compound. Over the next seven years, Lauren fully assimilated their extreme beliefs, and became a member of the church and an active and vocal picketer. But as she matured and began to challenge some of the church's tenets, she was unceremoniously cast out from the church and permanently cut off from her family and from everyone else she knew and loved. Banished is the story of Lauren's fight to find herself amidst dramatic changes in a world of extremists and a life in exile.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455512435
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Banished is an eye-opening, deeply personal account of life inside the cult known as the Westboro Baptist Church, as well as a fascinating story of adaptation and perseverance. You've likely heard of the Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps you've seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year old victim of the recent Tucson shooting, and Elizabeth Edwards, all in front of their grieving families. The WBC is fervently anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti- practically everything and everyone. And they aren't going anywhere: in March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the WBC's right to picket funerals. Since no organized religion will claim affiliation with the WBC, it's perhaps more accurate to think of them as a cult. Lauren Drain was thrust into that cult at the age of 15, and then spat back out again seven years later. Lauren spent her early years enjoying a normal life with her family in Florida. But when her formerly liberal and secular father set out to produce a documentary about the WBC, his detached interest gradually evolved into fascination, and he moved the entire family to Kansas to join the church and live on their compound. Over the next seven years, Lauren fully assimilated their extreme beliefs, and became a member of the church and an active and vocal picketer. But as she matured and began to challenge some of the church's tenets, she was unceremoniously cast out from the church and permanently cut off from her family and from everyone else she knew and loved. Banished is the story of Lauren's fight to find herself amidst dramatic changes in a world of extremists and a life in exile.
The Little Boy who Lived Down the Drain
Author: Carolyn Huizinga Mills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554555482
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Sally loved taking baths. It wasn't because the water was full of bubbles ... or because she had the bathroom all to herself ... and it was not because she always came out squeaky clean ... Sally loved taking baths because it was the only time she could talk to the little boy who lived down the drain. Sally found out about him when her mother sang to Sally's baby brother about Baa Baa Black Sheep and his three bags of wool ... one of which went to the little boy who lived down the drain. And thus a friendship was born. Every bath that Sally took was devoted to finding more out about her new friend."--Amazon.com.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554555482
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Sally loved taking baths. It wasn't because the water was full of bubbles ... or because she had the bathroom all to herself ... and it was not because she always came out squeaky clean ... Sally loved taking baths because it was the only time she could talk to the little boy who lived down the drain. Sally found out about him when her mother sang to Sally's baby brother about Baa Baa Black Sheep and his three bags of wool ... one of which went to the little boy who lived down the drain. And thus a friendship was born. Every bath that Sally took was devoted to finding more out about her new friend."--Amazon.com.
A Year of Ritual: 2009
Author: Colleen Criswell
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557229545
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Year Of Ritual 2009 from The Magical Circle School includes 50 original rituals and spells as well as recipes that were performed for the school. All rituals are created by the students of the school.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557229545
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Year Of Ritual 2009 from The Magical Circle School includes 50 original rituals and spells as well as recipes that were performed for the school. All rituals are created by the students of the school.
The Bath Monster
Author: Colin Boyd
Publisher: Andersen Press USA
ISBN: 1512404551
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
As your bath water drains, that slurping sound it makes is the Bath Monster—dirty bath water is his SECOND favorite food. No one wants to find out what his FIRST favorite food is . . . until Jackson decides he doesn't believe in the Bath Monster anymore and refuses to take a bath ever again. Starving, the Bath Monster visits Jackson for his FIRST favorite food . . . Thank goodness it's not little kids, but mud pies!
Publisher: Andersen Press USA
ISBN: 1512404551
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
As your bath water drains, that slurping sound it makes is the Bath Monster—dirty bath water is his SECOND favorite food. No one wants to find out what his FIRST favorite food is . . . until Jackson decides he doesn't believe in the Bath Monster anymore and refuses to take a bath ever again. Starving, the Bath Monster visits Jackson for his FIRST favorite food . . . Thank goodness it's not little kids, but mud pies!
Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998--H.R. 1119 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs, Before the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Down the Drain!
Author: Robert Munsch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545986007
Category : Avarice
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Adam doesn't like taking baths, but he does eventually get in the tub and interesting things begin to happen.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545986007
Category : Avarice
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Adam doesn't like taking baths, but he does eventually get in the tub and interesting things begin to happen.
Family Assistance Act of 1970: Public Witnesses and Written Testimony
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description