Download or read book Ripples Across the Bay written by Forthwrite The Forthwrite Writers Group and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of short stories written by the members of the Forthwrite Writer's Group in Dalgety Bay, Scotland. Nestled on the shore of the Forth Estuary and within sight of the Forth Rail Bridge, the community seems to engender a surprising number of tales. This collection attempts to bring some of the most intriguing to the light of day. They range from Margery finding a body in her garden to Lizzie desperate for a pair of snakeskin shoes; from Dancer, organizing a strike of Santa's reindeer to Khalid building a bunker in a lemon grove; from Hilda the Russian sleeper agent to a Balloon Man who knows Julia Roberts. Geographically, the ripples go out from the Forth to an infant school in Fife, on to a crematorium in Edinburgh, and then far out to the Middle East, and North and South America. Some of the stories are pure fiction, some are historical, and some more autobiographical in character. Some are simply good tales, destined to make you smile, but others will affect your view of the world and continue to ripple across your conscience. There is at least one story that is a must read for you.
Download or read book Ripples written by Rei Hagiwara and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dream-like work dwells on memory and family, and follows ambiguous figures that stride through the snowy lands adjacent to the realm of the dead. Hagiwara Rei explores the processing of grief, and how cyclical mechanisms of human emotion map out a geography of memory inextricably intertwined with the natural world from which we spring. Prepare to be absorbed in a work unlike any other coming out now.
Download or read book The Ripple Effect written by Alex Prud'homme and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What he found was shocking: as the climate warms and world population grows, demand for water has surged, but supplies of freshwater are static or dropping, and new threats to water quality appear every day. The Ripple Effect is Prud’homme’s vivid and engaging inquiry into the fate of freshwater in the twenty-first century. The questions he sought to answer were urgent: Will there be enough water to satisfy demand? What are the threats to its quality? What is the state of our water infrastructure—both the pipes that bring us freshwater and the levees that keep it out? How secure is our water supply from natural disasters and terrorist attacks? Can we create new sources for our water supply through scientific innovation? Is water a right like air or a commodity like oil—and who should control the tap? Will the wars of the twenty-first century be fought over water? Like Daniel Yergin’s classic The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, Prud’homme’s The Ripple Effect is a masterwork of investigation and dramatic narrative. With striking instincts for a revelatory story, Prud’homme introduces readers to an array of colorful, obsessive, brilliant—and sometimes shadowy—characters through whom these issues come alive. Prud’homme traversed the country, and he takes readers into the heart of the daily dramas that will determine the future of this essential resource—from the alleged murder of a water scientist in a New Jersey purification plant, to the epic confrontation between salmon fishermen and copper miners in Alaska, to the poisoning of Wisconsin wells, to the epidemic of intersex fish in the Chesapeake Bay, to the wars over fracking for natural gas. Michael Pollan has changed the way we think about the food we eat; Alex Prud’homme will change the way we think about the water we drink. Informative and provocative, The Ripple Effect is a major achievement.
Download or read book The Lemonade Ripple written by Paul Reichert and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline sets up a stand to sell her Grandmother's sweet lemonade to raise money for the new wheelchair her friend Shannon needs, which inspires others to help, as well, in bigger and better ways. Includes tips for encouraging children to be philanthropic.
Download or read book The New New Thing A Silicon Valley Story written by Michael M. Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley through the life of one of its great achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape and may be on the verge of another trillion-dollar company.
Download or read book The Idler written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writers at Bay written by William Clinkenbeard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stimulating collection of short stories amazing things happen: Nessie grants an exclusive interview, turkeys and foxes speak, ghosts write, dreams and fantasies take on a menacing realty, ancient history is brought to life, revenge is sought and found, larceny and murder are committed. But ordinary people do ordinary and intriguing things as well: there are first dates, first loves, naughty weekends, and testing marriages. Most of these stories are set in Scotland. But several lead us elsewhere in the world, to Africa and North America in particular. When the Scots left their country to explore the world they also shaped it in a profound and lasting way. These stories reflect the Scottish character and nature that contributed to the shape of the modern world. The whole gamut of human experience is explored here: humor, pathos, nostalgia, violence and love. If there is a common thread running through these stories, it is that the line between fact and fiction is very thin. We believe that every reader will find something to engage the mind, touch the heart or bring a smile. Everyone in the world says they want to visit Scotland but can't say why. The answer is here!
Download or read book The Idler written by Jerome Klapka Jerome and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curious about Nature written by Tim Burt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notwithstanding the importance of modern technology, fieldwork remains vital, not least through helping to inspire and educate the next generation. Fieldwork has the ingredients of intellectual curiosity, passion, rigour and engagement with the outdoor world - to name just a few. You may be simply noting what you see around you, making detailed records, or carrying out an experiment; all of this and much more amounts to fieldwork. Being curious, you think about the world around you, and through patient observation develop and test ideas. Forty contributors capture the excitement and importance of fieldwork through a wide variety of examples, from urban graffiti to the Great Barrier Reef. Outdoor learning is for life: people have the greatest respect and care for their world when they have first-hand experience of it. The Editors are donating all royalties due to them to the environmental charity, The Field Studies Council, to support student fieldwork at the Council's field centres.
Download or read book Dancing with the Universe written by Jeanne Weikert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start living up to your potential by using your life experience and hard-earned knowledge to discover your inner wisdom so that you may better understand your place in the universe. Jeanne Weikert invites you to take action to determine how your life unfolds. By sharing stories from her life, from members of her workshops, and the experiences of those dealing with life threatening illness, she helps you recognize your own wisdom. In this guidebook, youll learn how to make use of all the resources available to you. Examine how family, relationships, spirituality, love, power, and possibility all work together.Become aware of hidden beliefs that you never question or acknowledge; they can exert amazing power over your life. Join Weikert as she illustrates how your inner wisdom lovingly encourages you to become your best self. By appreciating who you are now you are able to envision your future. Take the first step in your own special dance with the universe. Miracle Grow for the soul is what I call it. Donald Kasen, Producer
Download or read book American Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bad Like Us written by Gabriella Lepore and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two friend groups collide when someone turns up dead over spring break in this heart-thumping YA thriller for fans of One of Us Is Lying and We Were Liars Spring break is a vibe—until someone gets murdered Partying with popular classmates they barely know is not what Eva and her BFFs had in mind for their spring break. But things have been off ever since Miles' academic career took a turn for the worse (they don't talk about it), so a trip to a private beach lodge might be exactly what they need. And Eva won’t admit it, but the chance to reconnect with Colton is worth putting up with Piper’s constant livestreams to her thousands of “besties.” At first, it’s all sand and waves, but tensions run high when an anonymous letter shakes up an already-flailing love triangle. When someone turns up dead, Eva can’t even trust her closest friends—but she thinks she can trust Colton. As they get closer to the truth, they uncover secrets that upend everything they thought they knew about their fellow spring breakers.
Download or read book The adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen written by Mary Annette Beauchamp Russell Russell and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of Elizabeth in R gen written by Elizabeth and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1901, the "real" Elizabeth holidayed on the Baltic island of R?gen with just her maid, a coachman, a carriage piled with luggage, and a woman friend, an adventure then woven into this humorous sketch.
Download or read book The Adventures of Elizabeth in R gen written by Elizabeth Von Arnim and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1901, the "real" Elizabeth holidayed on the Baltic island of R?gen with just her maid, a coachman, a carriage piled with luggage, and a woman friend, an adventure then woven into this humorous sketch.
Download or read book Water Resources written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on National Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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