Download or read book Tides of Expectation written by Elane Gutterman and published by Kelsay Books. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tides of Expectation is evidence not only of a life well-lived, but of a life beautifully translated to verse. Here we have the discerning eye of the engaging memoirist coupled with a poet's pressure on the line. The result is a book that dazzled me. It allures by precision of detail, wins us over by the humor found in unexpected places, and entertains us by the stories so very well told. --BJ Ward, author of Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems, 1990 to 2013 Elane Gutterman can claim, as she does in one of these memoir poems, to be "The Reluctant Protester," but she is hardly resistant to the Resistance. It's just that not even her political poems are dominated by doctrine; rather, she develops her outward-looking civic and humanistic themes from very personal recollections and reveries into which she welcomes us with an outpouring of images and details. Tides of Expectation circumnavigates the latitudes of the earth and the longitudes of a poet joyously facing life and bravely facing mortality. --James Penha, editor, The New Verse News In Tides of Expectation, Elane Gutterman displays a wry humor and broad knowledge of modes of contemporary poetry as she delivers a rich collage of her life experiences. From the pen of a born storyteller, these skillful poems offer variety in abundance-including fascinating news items and multi-layered portraits of family, friends and acquaintances. However, the character that shines the brightest throughout is the narrator herself, as is suggested by the subtitle, Memoir Poems. What a treat it is to shadow Gutterman on her travels in Poland, Hungary, Israel, El Salvador, and East Africa, and to savor the foods she clearly enjoys preparing and eating! The fortitude and resolve that saw the poet through her bout with breast cancer are the backdrop to many of these finely drawn scenes, and the reader is left with the deep imprint of a strong and inspiring woman who, like her Ugandan safari guide Lilian, should never be underestimated. --Anna M. Evans, author of Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic

Download or read book Tides written by Jonathan White and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture—the very old and very new. Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion. Photographs, scientific figures, line drawings, and sixteen color photos dramatically illustrate this engaging, expert tour of the tides.

Download or read book The Tides of Reform written by Paul Charles Light and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past fifty years, the Congresses and presidents of the United States have made many efforts to improve the performance of the federal government. In this book, a leading expert in public management examines the most important reform statutes passed and concludes that the problem is not too little reform but too much. Paul Light explains that Congress and the presidency have never decided whether they trust government and its employees to do their jobs well, and so they have moved back and forth over the decades between four reform philosophies: scientific management, war on waste, watchful eye, and liberation management. These four philosophies, argues Light, operate with different goals, implementation strategies, and impacts. Yet reform initiatives draw on one or another of them almost at random, often canceling out the potential benefits of a particular statute by passing a contradictory statute soon afterward. Light shows that as the public has become increasingly distrustful of government, the reform agenda has favored the war on waste and watchful eye. He analyzes the consequences of these changes for the overall performance of government and offers policy recommendations for future reform approaches.

Download or read book Tides Of Hope written by Irene Hannon and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's an officer...but is he a gentleman? Not if you ask feisty single mom Kate MacDonald! Everything about Lieutenant Craig Cole, Nantucket's new Coast Guard commander, rubs her the wrong way. Worse, everyone else is smitten with the man--including Kate's four-year-old daughter. Local gossip reveals that Craig has saved many in the line of duty. He's a true hero. Kate doesn't want to like him--she certainly doesn't want to love him--but Craig's quiet honor could win her heart after all.

Download or read book Summary of Selected Reference Material on the Oceanographic Phenomena of Tides Storm Surges Waves and Breakers written by N. Arthur Pore and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tide Tables East Coast of North and South America Including Greenland written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tide Tables High and Low Water Predictions East Coast of North and South America Including Greenland written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tides and Tidal Datums in the United States written by D. Lee Harris and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fishery Investigations written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Strategic Role of Perigean Spring Tides written by Fergus J. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Strategic Role of Perigean Spring Tides in Nautical History and North American Coastal Flooding 1635 1976 written by Fergus J. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tide Tables High and Low Water Predictions West Coast of North and South America Including the Hawaiian Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Manual of the Natural History Geology and Physics of Greenland and the Neighboring Regions written by Thomas Rupert Jones and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Turning of the Tides written by Paul W. Shafer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with John Howland Snow, Michigan Representative Paul W. Shafer authored this 1953 exposé on the education system of the United States, which was delivered in the House of Representatives on March 21, 1952. In The Turning of the Tides, the authors take the position that the education system was an alien collectivist (socialist) philosophy, much of which came from Europe, crashed onto the shores of the American nation, bringing with it radical changes in economics, politics, and education, funded by several wealthy American families and their tax-exempt foundations.

Download or read book Tides written by Sara Freeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2022 “I loved it.” —Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace "Brilliant, elegant, and unsparing." —Emma Cline "Irresistible... I read it in an afternoon but I'll be thinking about it for a long time." —Douglas Stuart, author of Young Mungo From an astounding new voice in Canadian literature comes an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town with a dead cellphone and barely any money. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming in the night ocean. In her state of emotional extremis, the sea at the town's edge is rendered bleak, luminous, implacable. As her money runs out and tourist season comes to a close, Mara finds a job at the local wine store. There, she meets Simon, the shop's soft-spoken, lonely owner. Confronted with the possibility of connection with Simon and the slow return of her desires and appetites, the reasons for her flight begin to emerge. Reminiscent of works by Rachel Cusk, Jenny Offill, and Sheila Heti, Tides is a spare, visceral debut novel about the nature of selfhood, intimacy, and the private narratives that shape our lives. A shattering and unforgettable debut.

Download or read book The Infinite Tides written by Christian Kiefer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, with its endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, mega-parking lots and big box stores, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran's return to earth. Keith comes home from a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station to find his wife and daughter gone, and a house completely empty of furniture, as if Odysseus had returned to Ithaca to find that everyone he knew had forgotten about him and moved on. Keith is a mathematical and engineering genius, but he is ill equipped to understand what has happened to him, and how he has arrived at the center of such vacancy. Then, he forges an unlikely friendship with a neighboring Ukrainian immigrant, and slowly begins to reconnect with the world around him. As the two men share their vastly different personal and professional experiences, they paint an indelible and nuanced portrait of modern American life. The result is a deeply moving, tragicomic and ultimately redemptive story of love, loss and resilience, and of two lives lived under the weight of gravity.

Download or read book Balancing the Tides written by JoAnna Poblete and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balancing the Tides highlights the influence of marine practices and policies in the unincorporated territory of American Sāmoa on the local indigenous group, the American fishing industry, international seafood consumption, U.S. environmental programs, as well as global ecological and native concerns. Poblete explains how U.S. federal fishing programs in the post–World War II period encouraged labor based out of American Sāmoa to catch and can one-third of all tuna for United States consumption until 2009. Labeled "Made in the USA," this commodity was sometimes caught by non-U.S. regulated ships, produced under labor standards far below continental U.S. minimum wage and maximum work hours, and entered U.S. jurisdiction tax free. The second half of the book explores the tensions between indigenous and U.S. federal government environmental goals and ecology programs. Whether creating the largest National Marine Sanctuary under U.S. jurisdiction or collecting basic data on local fishing, initiatives that balanced western-based and native expectations for respectful community relationships and appropriate government programs fared better than those that did not acknowledge the positionality of all groups involved. Despite being under the direct authority of the United States, American Sāmoans have maintained a degree of local autonomy due to the Deeds of Cession signed with the U.S. Navy at the turn of the twentieth century that created shared indigenous and federal governance in the region. Balancing the Tides demonstrates how western-style economics, policy-making, and knowledge building imposed by the U.S. federal government have been infused into the daily lives of American Sāmoans. American colonial efforts to protect natural resources based on western approaches intersect with indigenous insistence on adhering to customary principles of respect, reciprocity, and native rights in complicated ways. Experiences and lessons learned from these case studies provide insight into other tensions between colonial governments and indigenous peoples engaging in environmental and marine-based policy-making across the Pacific and the globe. This study connects the U.S.-American Sāmoa colonial relationship to global overfishing, world consumption patterns, the for-profit fishing industry, international environmental movements and studies, as well as native experiences and indigenous rights. Open Access publication of this book was made possible by the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, an initiative sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.