Download or read book Burning the Ice written by Laura J. Mixon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08-17 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a hundred years after a small band of humans stole an antimatter-fueled starship and headed away at near-lightspeed, a colony of those renegades' descendants are now struggling to survive on Brimstone, a barely-habitable world of ice and bitter cold four dozen light-years from Earth. In the long run, they hope to slowly terraform Brimstone, making it, if not Earthlike, at least bearable. In the short run-well, life is hard, and everyone lives in everyone else's laps. Not easy for anyone. Particularly hard if, like Manda, you just aren't cut out to get along with others in conditions of constant crowding and zero privacy. Most people wouldn't be eager to get away from the main colony and work on a scientific project in the howling frozen wastes. For Manda, it's a deliverance. But news of the intelligent life she discovers in Brimstone's depths will change everything-if she can bring the news back to her fellows alive. For, it turns out, there are political plots and counterplots still active in the colony, dangerous twists tracing back to Earth itself...and outward to the stars.
Download or read book Burning Ice written by David Riley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1893, and the city is Chicago, and it's the start of the Columbian World Exposition. The eyes of the nation and the world are upon the Windy City. Octavia and Patrick Collins, fresh off the ship from Ireland, came there too, to live their dreams and their hopes. Just married, their love is strong and pure, but will undergo the tests and trials that are ahead as the story unfolds.
Download or read book BURNING ICE written by Renata Riva and published by Roberta Prina. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have what it takes to be a King? King Wes and the woman he loves—the most beautiful woman of the world—will marry soon. But the king’s life is far from perfect. Many don’t want him as king, and the neighbouring kingdom of Ehlebas threatens to take advantage of the turmoil. Ari finds an old dragon egg, an object coveted by many because it carries strong magic. When dreams of a scared, little dragon intrude in her sleep, however, Ari suspects that the egg may not be just an object after all. Henbane must face shadows from the past, and Tyss’s loyalty to Wes will be tested. The fight for power has begun. Magic is rare, but those who possess it can win any war.
Download or read book Burning Ice written by David Buckland and published by Gaia Project. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book documents the commitment, hard work and adventures of all those who have been part of the Cape Farewell project. Forty artists, scientists, educators and film crew have sailed into the ice of the High Arctic as part of the Cape Farewell expeditions ... Artwork from the Cape Farewell project features in several exhibitions, at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, December 2005; at the Natural History Museum, 1 June - 3 September 2006; the Liverpool Biennial, 14 September - 26 November 2006; and Eden Project, 2007/8"--Colophon
Download or read book Burn the Ice written by Kevin Alexander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspiring"—Danny Meyer, CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder, Shake Shack; and author, Setting the Table James Beard Award-winning food journalist Kevin Alexander traces an exhilarating golden age in American dining—with a new Afterword addressing the devastating consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on the restaurant industry Over the past decade, Kevin Alexander saw American dining turned on its head. Starting in 2006, the food world underwent a transformation as the established gatekeepers of American culinary creativity in New York City and the Bay Area were forced to contend with Portland, Oregon. Its new, no-holds-barred, casual fine-dining style became a template for other cities, and a culinary revolution swept across America. Traditional ramen shops opened in Oklahoma City. Craft cocktail speakeasies appeared in Boise. Poke bowls sprung up in Omaha. Entire neighborhoods, like Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and cities like Austin, were suddenly unrecognizable to long-term residents, their names becoming shorthand for the so-called hipster movement. At the same time, new media companies such as Eater and Serious Eats launched to chronicle and cater to this developing scene, transforming nascent star chefs into proper celebrities. Emerging culinary television hosts like Anthony Bourdain inspired a generation to use food as the lens for different cultures. It seemed, for a moment, like a glorious belle epoque of eating and drinking in America. And then it was over. To tell this story, Alexander journeys through the travails and triumphs of a number of key chefs, bartenders, and activists, as well as restaurants and neighborhoods whose fortunes were made during this veritable gold rush--including Gabriel Rucker, an originator of the 2006 Portland restaurant scene; Tom Colicchio of Gramercy Tavern and Top Chef fame; as well as hugely influential figures, such as André Prince Jeffries of Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville; and Carolina barbecue pitmaster Rodney Scott. He writes with rare energy, telling a distinctly American story, at once timeless and cutting-edge, about unbridled creativity and ravenous ambition. To "burn the ice" means to melt down whatever remains in a kitchen's ice machine at the end of the night. Or, at the bar, to melt the ice if someone has broken a glass in the well. It is both an end and a beginning. It is the firsthand story of a revolution in how Americans eat and drink.
Download or read book Burning Ice written by Avigdor Shachan and published by University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton. This book was released on 1996 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Holocaust events in Transistria, a region in Romania that no longer exists on the atlas but nevertheless houses the cemeteries of thousands of murdered Jewish men, women, and children. Shachan combines his own personal experiences in the Ukrainian death marches with meticulous research, chronicling the events leading to the murders in Bessarabia and Transistria, the organization of life in the ghettos and camps, Jewish leadership and organizations, and deportation and immigration to Israel. The author concentrates on central questions during the course of the volume, attempting to ascertain whether the Romanian authorities planned the mass murders in advance, how many died there, and what precipitated the local populace's hatred against the Jews with whom they had lived for hundreds of years. Distributed by Columbia University Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Fire Ice and Physics written by Rebecca C. Thompson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin’s fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science—fabricated climatology (when is winter coming?), astronomy, metallurgy, chemistry, and biology. Most fans of George R. R. Martin’s fantastical world accept it all as part of the magic. A trained scientist, watching the fake science in Game of Thrones, might think, “But how would it work?” In Fire, Ice, and Physics, Rebecca Thompson turns a scientist’s eye on Game of Thrones, exploring, among other things, the science of an ice wall, the genetics of the Targaryen and Lannister families, and the biology of beheading. Thompson, a PhD in physics and an enthusiastic Game of Thrones fan, uses the fantasy science of the show as a gateway to some interesting real science, introducing GOT fandom to a new dimension of appreciation. Thompson starts at the beginning, with winter, explaining seasons and the very elliptical orbit of the Earth that might cause winter to come (or not come). She tells us that ice can behave like ketchup, compares regular steel to Valyrian steel, explains that dragons are “bats, but with fire,” and considers Targaryen inbreeding. Finally she offers scientific explanations of the various types of fatal justice meted out, including beheading, hanging, poisoning (reporting that the effects of “the Strangler,” administered to Joffrey at the Purple Wedding, resemble the effects of strychnine), skull crushing, and burning at the stake. Even the most faithful Game of Thrones fans will learn new and interesting things about the show from Thompson’s entertaining and engaging account. Fire, Ice, and Physics is an essential companion for all future bingeing.
Download or read book Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering written by Frank Kreith and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An air conditioning system consists of components and equipment arranged in sequential order to control and maintain an indoor environment. The goal is to provide a healthy and comfortable climate with acceptable air quality while being energy efficient and cost effective. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering covers all types of systems from institutional and commercial to residential. The book supplies the basics of design, from selecting the optimum system and equipment to preparing the drawings and specifications. It discusses the four phases of preparing a project: gathering information, developing alternatives, evaluating alternatives, and selling the best solution. In addition, the author breaks down the responsibilities of the engineer, design documents, computer aided design, and government codes and standards. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering provides you with an easy reference to all aspects of the topic. This resource addresses the most current areas of interest, such as computer-aided design and drafting, desiccant air conditioning and energy conservation. It is a thorough and convenient guide to air conditioning and refrigeration engineering.
Download or read book Nordic Runes written by Paul Rhys Mountfort and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2003-05-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the ancient oracle based on the runic Elder Futhark alphabet of the Norse.
Download or read book Ice the Bear and the Burning Land written by Valentina Agnesi and published by Skira. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ice the polar bear travels to South Africa and Brazil, rescuing an elephant and witnessing terrible destruction in the Amazon This is the second volume in Valentina Agnesi and Zelda Was a Writer's trilogy about the adventures of a polar bear seeking to save his native land from climate disaster. In Ice the Bear and the Burning Land, Ice's journey to the UN must take a detour when the young bear gets a call from South Africa asking for help. Poachers have captured the mother of little Farfallino the Elephant. At the end of this adventure, Ice the Bear sails to Brazil, where, trapped in a terrible fire in the heart of the Amazon forest, he sees with his own eyes the devastating effects of the flames on the lives and habitats of the animals. Once more Ice will do his best to help.
Download or read book Ice Emperor s Back to School Next Book written by Three minutes Heat and published by Project Blue, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 949 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family's scum, the city's shame, the typical waste material. Whether it is the pride of outstanding achievements, or muddling through the fop, all look down on him, he is the complete and utter waste. A strange encounter, created the emperor of the cold, play around the city. The world gave me the cold, let me use the ice cold to send back ....
Download or read book Frost Burn written by Erica Stevens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of running, Quinn has finally found a town to settle down in while she searches for the man who tore her life apart. Despite her every intention not to, she's started to put down some roots and make friends. However, the small bit of solace she's found is quickly shattered when a group of vampires walk into the bar where she works and turn her life upside down. Looking only to stop for a few nights and have a good time, Julian never expected to stumble across someone like Quinn. Determined to keep her free from the vampires looking to use her as a weapon, Julian is stunned to discover himself starting to care for the mysterious woman with a dark past she's unwilling to reveal. It doesn't take him long to realize that the vampires after her are only a part of the problem. This quiet little town is hiding a violent secret of its own; a secret that not only threatens the town, but Quinn in particular. ***The Fire and Ice series is a spinoff based on characters from The Kindred Series. You do not have to read The Kindred Series in order to enjoy this book or its successors. This book has more mature content than the Kindred Series and is recommended for readers 17+***
Download or read book The Holocaust in the Soviet Union written by Yitzhak Arad and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during the World War II and the Holocaust (1941-45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals in the occupied territories dictated the treatment of the Jews. Arad's examination of the differences between the Holocaust in the Soviet Union compared to other European nations reveals how Nazi ideological attacks on the Soviet Union, which included war on "Judeo-Bolshevism," led to harsher treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union than in most other occupied territories. This historical narrative presents a wealth of information from German, Russian, and Jewish archival sources that will be invaluable to scholars, researchers, and the general public for years to come.
Download or read book What Is Stephen Harper Reading written by Yann Martel and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I know you’re very busy, Mr. Harper. We’re all busy. But every person has a space next to where they sleep, whether a patch of pavement or a fine bedside table. In that space, at night, a book can glow. And in those moments of docile wakefulness, when we begin to let go of the day, then is the perfect time to pick up a book and be someone else, somewhere else, for a few minutes, a few pages, before we fall asleep.” From the author of Life of Pi comes a literary correspondence—recommendations to Canada’s Prime Minister of great short books that will inspire and delight book lovers and book club readers across our nation. Every two weeks since April 16th, 2007, Yann Martel has mailed Stephen Harper a book along with a letter. These insightful, provocative letters detailing what he hopes the Prime Minister may take from the books—by such writers as Jane Austen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Stephen Galloway—are collected here together. The one-sided correspondence (Mr. Harper’s office has only replied once) becomes a meditation on reading and writing and the necessity to allow ourselves to expand stillness in our lives, even if we’re not head of government.
Download or read book Soldiers of Ice written by David Cook and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In defiance of her Harper superiors, Martine of Sembia travels far north to save the endangered gnomes of the snow-bound valley of Samek In a snow-bound valley, beyond the aid of even the Harpers, a lone village sits in the path of the relentless advance of ice and the fleeing gnolls, pushing ever southward. Of all the Harpers, only the headstrong Martine of Sembia refuses to abandon the gnomes of Samek to their fate. Risking her career as a Harper, Martine flies north to the valley of Samek in an effort to guide the gnomes to safety. When her plans go awry, she finds herself guest of the hermit-warrior Vilheim and distrusted by the gnomes she came to help. Torn between her future as a Harper and her sense of good, can Martine prevent a war that threatens to destroy the very villagers she has come to save? Soldiers of Ice is the seventh book in a series of loosely-connected novels about the Harpers.
Download or read book Terrible Fate written by Benjamin Lieberman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the modern Greek city of Thessaloniki, the ruins of a vast Jewish cemetery lie buried under the city’s university. Nearby is the site of the childhood home of one of the founders of the modern Turkish state. These are tantalizing reminders of what was once the bustling cosmopolitan city of Salonica, home not just to Greeks but to thousands of Sephardic Jews, Turks, Bulgarians, and Armenians living and working peacefully alongside one another. Thessaloniki is just one example among many of what used to be. Over the past two centuries, ethnic cleansing has remade the map of Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East, transforming vast empires that embraced many ethnic groups into nearly homogenous nations. Towns and cities from Germany to Turkey still show traces of the vanished and nearly forgotten ethnic and religious communities that once called these places home. In Terrible Fate, Benjamin Lieberman describes the violent transformations that occurred in Salonica and hundreds of other towns and cities as the Ottoman, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and German empires collapsed, to be reborn as the modern nation-states we know today. His book is the first comprehensive history of this process that has involved the murder and forced migration of tens of millions of people. Drawing upon eyewitness accounts, contemporary journalism, and diplomatic records, Lieberman’s story sweeps across the continent, taking the reader from ethnic cleansing’s earliest beginnings in Bulgaria, Greece, and Russia in the nineteenth century, through the rise of nationalism, both world wars, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of the Soviet empire, up to the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Along the way he examines the decisive roles of political leaders—not only monarchs and dictators but also those who were democratically elected—as well as ordinary people who often required very little encouragement to rob and brutalize their neighbors, or who were simply caught up in the tide of history.
Download or read book Fire on the Ice written by Tamsen Parker and published by Swerve. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Snow and Ice Games where competition is not the only thing that is heating up! The fourth book in bestselling Tamsen Parker's romance series continues with two female skaters from opposite sides of the rink. Blaze Bellamy is the bad girl of the short track speed skating world. Looking like a roller derby bruiser when she’s not in her Team USA uniform, she’s an unlikely American heroine. She’s got a punk attitude to match her provocative dress and her dyed hair, and she’s determined to get onto the front pages of the papers regardless of how she has to do it. Maisy Harper is the workhorse of the Canadian women’s figure skating team. Serious, modest, and above all, polite, Maisy would prefer to win her victory on the ice rather than in the press, and is exasperated by Blaze’s antics. When she’s not lusting after her anyway. After they both failed to make the medal podium at the last Snow and Ice Games, they drowned themselves in gin—and each other. Despite their hookup being drunken, they both harbor fond memories of their night together and are keen for a repeat. But they’ve got different ways of going about getting what they want, and Blaze’s willingness to go to any lengths for the spotlight could ruin any chance she has with Maisy.
