Author: Bill Streever
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316410586
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind -- the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them -- by traveling right through it. Narrating from a fifty-year-old sailboat, Streever leads readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, and the uncomfortable interactions between wind and wars, drawing from natural science, history, business, travel, as well as from his own travels. And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind is an effortless personal narrative featuring the keen observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy that readers love. You'll never see a breeze in the same light again.
And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind
Author: Bill Streever
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316410586
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind -- the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them -- by traveling right through it. Narrating from a fifty-year-old sailboat, Streever leads readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, and the uncomfortable interactions between wind and wars, drawing from natural science, history, business, travel, as well as from his own travels. And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind is an effortless personal narrative featuring the keen observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy that readers love. You'll never see a breeze in the same light again.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316410586
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind -- the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them -- by traveling right through it. Narrating from a fifty-year-old sailboat, Streever leads readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, and the uncomfortable interactions between wind and wars, drawing from natural science, history, business, travel, as well as from his own travels. And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind is an effortless personal narrative featuring the keen observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy that readers love. You'll never see a breeze in the same light again.
Illustrated poems and songs for young people, ed. by mrs. [L.D.] Sale Barker
Author: Illustrated poems
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The modern reader and speaker
Author: David Charles Bell
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure ...
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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The Aberdeen Magazine; Or, Universal Repository
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Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Languages : en
Pages : 628
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The Imperial speaker: readings and recitations ed. by H.A. Viles
Author: Imperial speaker
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Yesterday was Summer
Author: Alistair Mair
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448211387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A doctor in a small town in Scotland, Peter Ashe has been exploited by his senior partner for seventeen years. When, suddenly, the older man dies Peter and his wife Elizabeth welcome their chance to enjoy life with their two children like any other family. But the arrival of Jacky Carstairs and her sister Anne introduces new and unexpected complications. With Jacky, Peter establishes a curiously delicate relationship which goes beyond the strange intimacy of doctor and patient in the face of death. His attachment to Anne is an extension of this bond; and it also brings home to him the truth that he has reached middle age. Elizabeth understands her husband's dilemma but cannot help him; their children, young adults determined to break the restraints of childhood, stretch their parents' tolerance to the limit. As the tension within the Ashe family mounts to near tragedy, the human demands of the close-knit community are told with great sympathy and skill.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448211387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A doctor in a small town in Scotland, Peter Ashe has been exploited by his senior partner for seventeen years. When, suddenly, the older man dies Peter and his wife Elizabeth welcome their chance to enjoy life with their two children like any other family. But the arrival of Jacky Carstairs and her sister Anne introduces new and unexpected complications. With Jacky, Peter establishes a curiously delicate relationship which goes beyond the strange intimacy of doctor and patient in the face of death. His attachment to Anne is an extension of this bond; and it also brings home to him the truth that he has reached middle age. Elizabeth understands her husband's dilemma but cannot help him; their children, young adults determined to break the restraints of childhood, stretch their parents' tolerance to the limit. As the tension within the Ashe family mounts to near tragedy, the human demands of the close-knit community are told with great sympathy and skill.
Farrah's Penny Readings Illustrated (Penny Readings for Winter Evenings. Nos. 1-12), Etc
Author: Farrah
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Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Languages : en
Pages : 190
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The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers
Author: Julie Anne Sadie
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393034875
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Throughout history women have been composing music, but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393034875
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Throughout history women have been composing music, but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized.
Class-book of English Poetry
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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