Download or read book Red Desert written by Annie Proulx and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic and multidisciplinary study of one of America’s last undeveloped—and most endangered—landscapes, edited by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author. A vast expanse of rock formations, sand dunes, and sagebrush in central and southwest Wyoming, the little-known Red Desert is one of the last undeveloped landscapes in the United States, as well as one of the most endangered. It is a last refuge for many species of wildlife. Sitting atop one of North America's largest untapped reservoirs of natural gas, the Red Desert is a magnet for energy producers who are damaging its complex and fragile ecosystem in a headlong race to open a new domestic source of energy and reap the profits. To capture and preserve what makes the Red Desert both valuable and scientifically and historically interesting, writer Annie Proulx and photographer Martin Stupich enlisted a team of scientists and scholars to join them in exploring the Red Desert through many disciplines: geology, hydrology, paleontology, ornithology, zoology, entomology, botany, climatology, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and history. Their essays reveal many fascinating, often previously unknown facts about the Red Desert—everything from the rich pocket habitats that support an amazing diversity of life to engrossing stories of the transcontinental migrations that began in prehistory and continue today on I-80—which bisects the Red Desert. Complemented by Martin Stupich’s photo-essay, which portrays both the beauty and the devastation that characterize the region today, Red Desert bears eloquent witness to a unique landscape in its final years as a wild place./

Download or read book Mexico at the Hour of Combat written by Ronald H. Chilcote and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 427 glass-plate and film negatives of the Osuna Collection, photographs from the Mexican Revolution, are now preserved in the Special Collections & Archives Department of the Tomâas Rivera Library at the University of California, Riverside. This volume reproduces the whole collection, highlights a number of the most striking images and provides essays that illuminate and place the photos in context.

Download or read book Mrs White and the Red Desert written by Josie Boyle and published by Magabala Books. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age range 3 to 8 When a group of desert children invite their school teacher, Mrs White, home for dinner to show her why their homework is always grubby, no-one expects what is to come! They are happily showing Mrs White their higgledy piggledy garden when suddenly a big red sand storm comes billowing over the hill. Sand and spinifex whips at their legs and flies at their heads. They can hardly see through the storm. They hurry back home, only to discover that everything is now red. Their lovely clean house is covered in red dust. The beds are red. The washing on the line is red. The table is red. Their delicious dinner is red and ruined. And Mrs White’s clean white dress has turned into a dusty red dress. Now Mrs White finally knows why the children’s homework is always so grubby!

Download or read book Extraction of Uranium from the Red Desert Coal of Wyoming written by Irving A. Breger and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prisoners of the Red Desert written by Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams (Captain.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Red Desert of Wyoming and Its Forage Resources written by Aven Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Death in a Red Desert written by C. L. Stallings and published by Ppc Publications. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in a Red Desert, a ground breaking case in animal DNA forensic investigation, was featured on the television network Animal Planet. The manuscript chronicles the unusual triangle between a woman, her lover and his transvestite partner, and the events leading up to the disappearance and murder of Elizabeth Langhorst-Ballard. The authors based the work on depositions, trial transcripts and tapes, and on interviews with the detectives, officials in the district attorney's office, the victim's parents and with Charles Martinez, one of the two convicted murderers. Some of the information, using as a guide court documentation and letters written by the other defendant Chris Faviell, is related in a conversational manner to enhance the flow of the story. Names of a few minor figures were changed. Many of the events and the trials are viewed through the eyes of the lead detective, Wolfgang Born, who was an invaluable resource in writing the account, as was the lead prosecutor Canon Stevens. After Born's dogged search for the victim's body in thousands of square miles of red desert in the Tularosa Basin of Otero County, New Mexico, yielded success, the persistence of the late Jim Biggs, a Ruidoso detective, led to Dr. Joy Halverson, whose DNA work on the case made history and was highlighted on the Animal Witness series in 2008. Canines played key roles in solving the crime from the pit bull pet of one of the killers to desert coyotes and a cadaver dog on his last assignment before retirement.

Download or read book Red Sand Blue Sky written by Cathy Applegate and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young girls from very different backgrounds discover what they hold in common in this funny Australian classic.

Download or read book Red written by Terry Tempest Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah. As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge, is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the desert’s power and vulnerability, describing wonders that range from an ancient Puebloan sash of macaw feathers found in Canyonlands National Park to the desert tortoise–an animal that can “teach us the slow art of revolutionary patience” as it extends our notion of kinship with all life. She examines the civil war being waged in the West today over public and private uses of land–an issue that divides even her own family. With grace, humor, and compassionate intelligence, Williams reminds us that the preservation of wildness is not simply a political process but a spiritual one.

Download or read book The Architecture of Vision written by Michelangelo Antonioni and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Download or read book The Assassin and the Desert written by Sarah J. Maas and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most feared assassin hones her craft...and her blade. The Silent Assassins of the Red Desert aren't much for conversation, and Celeana Sardothien wouldn't have it any other way. She's not there to chatter, she's there to learn their ways. Quiet suits her just fine-until she begins to suspect there's a traitor in the fortress, and she must determine which of the mute and mysterious assassins is her deadly adversary.

Download or read book Red Desert written by Clive Rosengren and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FANTASY WORLD OF HOLLYWOOD WHERE FRIENDS AND LOYALTIES COME AND GO LIKE THE SHIFTING SANDS. EDDIE COLLINS' INVESTIGATION INTO THREATENING LETTERS BEING SENT TO HIS A-LIST DIRECTOR FRIEND MIKE FORD TURNS UP MURDER, RAPE, KIDNAPPING, REVENGE. Hollywood actor/private eye Eddie Collins is hired to find the source of cryptic, threatening letters being sent to his A-List friend Director Mike Ford. His investigation points to people involved in the filming of a movie Ford directed years ago called Red Desert. A rape was committed during that shoot, and Eddie begins to believe that the wrong person may have been convicted of the crime. Two deranged actors, seeking revenge, kidnap Ford's daughter and hold her in a remote canyon. When wildfires threaten to engulf the entire region, the attempt to rescue her is jeopardized and Eddie's long-time friendship with Mike Ford is tested, a friendship that was forged against the backdrop of Hollywood, where friends and loyalties come and go like shifting sands. "My friend Clive Rosengren has created a guy I'd like to get to know: Eddie Collins. I wouldn't mess with him, but you'd want his number in your wallet."-TOM HANKS "I like this character Eddie Collins. He's tough, funny and has the classic private eye's world-weary wisdom. I hope to see much more of him."-MICHAEL CONNELLY "Kidnapping! Murder! Wild fires! Hollywood veteran Eddie Collins tackles it all in his latest outing. Veteran insider, author Clive Rosengren, swings a wide net for his actor-cum-private eye. Collins adeptly switches from actor to P.I., follows clues, soothes emotions and solves several crimes. Enjoyable, fast and loaded with the author's trademark keen insights."-CARL BROOKINS, Author of the "Sean P.I." series.

Download or read book Hiking and Biking in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve written by David Nally and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-04-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 60 official trails, the recently created Red Cliffs Desert Reserve offers recreation and enjoyment in approximately 62,000 acres of beautiful red rock country. Located in southwestern Utah adjacent to the city of St George, the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve area has always been a haven for desert plants and wildlife. One of the main purposes of the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve is to protect unique animals and plants, especially the endangered desert tortoise. (Off-road vehicles are prohibited in most areas within the Reserve). With nearly 100 square miles available in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, hikers, bikers, horseback riders, rock climbers, and photographers all are able to share in the beauty and magic that the Reserve has to offer-from its colorful canyons to its mesa tops and vistas. Hiking and Biking in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve includes 60 trail descriptions covering roughly 200 miles of trails, complete with: directions to trailheads, hiking times required, distances, elevations, trail conditions, major attractions, biking possibilities, five maps, and dozens of photos. One-half of the author's proceeds from this book are donated to protect the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve.

Download or read book Decorating Is Fun written by Dorothy Draper and published by Antique Collector's Club. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A beautiful reproduction of the original book published in 1939 * Filled with tips, advice and anecdotes on decorating that still ring true today * A must-have for fans and followers of both Dorothy Draper and Carleton Varney After being out of print for many years, Decorating is Fun is being republished with its original illustrations and a new introduction by Draper's protégé, designer Carleton Varney. Amazingly, the book is still practical, amusing and inspirational. Draper's earnest enthusiasm feels fresh and contemporary. She believed that though there were troubles in the world, one's home should be a refuge, a cheerful place for entertaining one's friends and a colorful and comfortable shelter from the storm.

Download or read book Off the Grid written by C. J. Box and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+ The Red Desert of Wyoming is a beautiful and punishing place for anybody, even for game warden Joe Pickett and his friend Nate Romanowski in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller... Nate is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and trying to deal with past crimes, when he is suddenly surrounded by a small team of elite professional special operators. They’re not there to threaten him, but to make a deal. They need help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming’s Red Desert, and in return they’ll make Nate’s criminal record disappear. But they are not what they seem, as Nate’s friend Joe Pickett discovers. They have a much different plan in mind, and it just might be something that takes them all down—including Nate and Joe.

Download or read book Cinema and Painting written by Angela Dalle Vacche and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new approach to cinema studies, Angela Dalle Vacche discusses how the use of pictorial sources in film enables eight filmmakers to comment on the interplay between the arts, on the dialectic of word and image, on the relationship between artistic creativity and sexual difference, and on the tension between tradition and modernity. Specifically, Dalle Vacche explores Jean-Luc Godard's iconophobia (Pierrot Le Fou) and Andrei Tarkovsky's iconophilia (Andrei Rubleov), Kenji Mizoguchi's split allegiances between East and West (Five Women around Utamaro), Michelangelo Antonioni's melodramatic sensibility (Red Desert), Eric Rohmer's project to convey interiority through images (The Marquise of O), F. W. Murnau's debt to Romantic landscape painting (Nosferatu), Vincente Minnelli's affinities with American Abstract Expressionism (An American in Paris), and Alain Cavalier's use of still life and the close-up to explore the realms of mysticism and femininity (Thérèse). While addressing issues of influence and intentionality, Dalle Vacche concludes that intertextuality is central to an appreciation of the dialogical nature of the filmic medium, which, in appropriating or rejecting art history, defines itself in relation to national traditions and broadly shared visual cultures.

Download or read book The Effect of the Physical Properties of the Overburden on Helium Emanometry written by Louis A. Pogorski and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: