Download or read book White Sands Red Menace written by Ellen Klages and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with the Gordons in their quite desert town in New Mexico in 1946, Dewey is learning a lot from her science-obsessed adoptive family, but just as she begins to settle in and get comfortable, Dewey's long-lost mother reemerges to take her away from the only stability she has ever really known in her young life. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book White Sands written by Geoff Dyer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “one of our most original writers” (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book—firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive—about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer’s restless search—for what? is unclear, even to him—continues in this series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: with a tour guide who may not be a tour guide in the Forbidden City in Beijing; with friends in New Mexico, where D. H. Lawrence famously claimed to have had his “greatest experience from the outside world”; with a hitchhiker picked up on the way from White Sands; with Don Cherry (or a photo of him, at any rate) at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have persisted since childhood, Dyer tries “to work out what a certain place—a certain way of marking the landscape—means; what it’s trying to tell us; what we go to it for.” With 4 pages of full-color illustrations.
Download or read book White Sand written by Brandon Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the planet of Taldain, the legendary Sand Masters harness arcane powers to manipulate sand in spectacular ways. But when they are slaughtered in a sinister conspiracy, the weakest of their number, Kenton, believes himself to be the only survivor. With enemies closing in on all sides, Kenton forges an unlikely partnership with Khriss--a mysterious Darksider who hides secrets of her own.
Download or read book Into the Great White Sands written by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varjabedian's photographs reveal snow-white dunes of gypsum, striking landforms, storms and stillness, panoramic vistas and breathtaking sunsets, intricate wind-blown patterns in the sand, ancient animal tracks, exquisite desert plants, and also the people who come to experience this place that is at once spectacular yet subtle.
Download or read book Whitesands written by Johann Thorsson and published by Bloodshot Books. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective John Dark's daughter has been missing for two years. In his frantic and unfruitful search for her two years ago, J Dark overreached and was reprimanded and demoted. Now suddenly back into the homicide department, Dark is put on a chilling case - a man who killed his wife in their locked house and then dressed the body up to resemble a deer, but claims to remember none of it. A few days later an impossibly similar case crops up connecting the suspects to a prep school and a thirty year old missing persons' case. Just as Dark is getting back into his old groove, a new lead in his daughter's disappearance pops up and threatens to derail his career again. Time is running out and John Dark needs to solve the case before more people are killed, and while there is still hope to find his daughter. In the style of True Detective and Silence of the Lambs, WHITESANDS is a thrilling supernatural crime novel.
Download or read book The Organic Artist written by Nick Neddo and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an art book which highlights the possibility of using natural, organic materials as art supplies and inspiration.
Download or read book Nobody s Horses written by Don Höglund and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equine veterinarian and wild horse expert Hoglund tells the true story of the compassion, bravery, and dedication of one man and his team as they rescue 1,800 horses from one of the most dangerous, forbidding places on earth.
Download or read book The Rockets and Missiles of White Sands Proving Ground 1945 1958 written by Gregory P. Kennedy and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, the United States Army established a testing center for rockets and guided missiles in south-central New Mexico. Named White Sands Proving Ground, this center was the locale for many of Americas first steps towards space. Rockets and Missiles of White Sands Proving Ground chronicles major activities at the base from 1945-1958. During this period, the Army, Navy, and Air Force all tested missiles at the desert installation. This book details the development and testing for such missiles as Hermes, Corporal, Nike Ajax, Sergeant, Honest John, and Viking. These missiles formed the backbone of much of Americas arsenal during the Cold War and represented major technological advancements. In 1958, the White Sands Proving Ground became the White Sands Missile Range, as it is known today.
Download or read book White Sands Missile Range written by Darren Court and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the official flag raising on July 9, 1945, the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) has become an integral part of global defense for the United States. A mere week after formation, Project Trinity tested the first atomic bomb at an isolated site, which was 100 miles north on what was then part of the Alamogordo Bombing Range--a test site for B-17 pilots. Back at White Sands Proving Ground, as it was then named, personnel were unaware of the massive new weapon tested to their north. Instead their focus was upon the arrival of what would be 300 railroad cars of captured German V-2 rockets and associated equipment. Later that year, over 100 captured German scientists, among them Werner von Braun, would arrive at White Sands to assist in V-2 technology, launching America's race to space; tens of thousands of rockets and missiles have since been fired on the range. Thousands of family members also lived and worked at the range, and their stories can be found inside as well.
Download or read book White Sands Red Steel written by Keith C Blackmore and published by Podium Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy. Brutal. Unpredictable. And those are their good qualities. A pair of foul-mouthed mercenaries go on a suicide mission in this otherworldly fantasy. After accepting a mission that no one wanted, He-Dog and Ball-less travel the treacherous Lands of the South to the glittering city of Foust. There, they find the fabled walls under siege. A vicious, seething army of Beastmen surround the city, intent on sacking it and feasting upon every last citizen within. No one in their right mind would try to get past this mob. But He-Dog, Ball-less, and their companions aren't in their right minds. Getting into Foust is utter madness. Getting out again is sure to get them killed. Keith C. Blackmore's madcap, grisly fantasy novel is perfect for fans of J. R. R. Tolkien and George R. R. Martin.
Download or read book Black and White Sands written by Elma Napier and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish aristocrat Elma Napier turned her back on London high society in 1932, to move to Dominica, where she became the first woman to sit in a West Indian parliament. This is her memoir of life there.
Download or read book The Green Glass Sea written by Ellen Klages and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father—but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program. Over the next few years, Dewey gets to know eminent scientists, starts tinkering with her own mechanical projects, becomes friends with a budding artist who is as much of a misfit as she is—and, all the while, has no idea how the Manhattan Project is about to change the world. This book's fresh prose and fascinating subject are like nothing you've read before.
Download or read book Murder on the White Sands written by Corey Recko and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The evidence pointed at three men, former deputies William McNew, James Gililland, and Oliver Lee. These three men, however, were very close with powerful ex-judge, lawyer, and politician Albert B. Fall. It was even said by some that Fall was the mastermind behind the plot to kill Fountain. Forced to wait two years for a change in the political landscape, Garrett finally presented his evidence to the court and secured indictments against the three suspects." "The trial took place in the secluded town of Hillsboro. The murders of the Fountains became an afterthought as the accused men, defended by their attorney Fall, pleaded innocence. Missing witnesses plagued the prosecution, and armed supporters of the defendants, who packed the courtroom, intimidated others. The verdict: not guilty.".
Download or read book White Sands written by Brett Weston and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original White Sands portfolio, produced in 1949, contained twelve photographs and was printed in an edition of fifty. In 1975 Weston printed a second edition of the portfolio in an edition of seventeen. It included eight of the original ten photographs made in the 1940s (negatives from two of the photographs in the original portfolio were damaged and unprintable), two others from the 1940s that had not been included in the first portfolio and two from 1975, for a total of twelve prints. This book contains the original ten photographs plus the four new pictures from Weston's 1975 edition. The original 1949 title page and the introduction by Nancy Newhall are reproduced in facsimile. Included is an Afterword by art historian Roger Aikin. As a bonus, the book includes an additional photograph along with a facsimile reproduction of Brett's letter describing the picture as "Edward's favorite". Although it was not included in either of the original portfolios, Brett included it as a gift with the portfolio from which this book has been reproduced.
Download or read book White Sands National Monument written by Rose Houk and published by Western National Parks Association. This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising in a seemingly endless procession from an ancient lake bed in the Tularosa Basin of southern New Mexico, the stark gypsum dunes of White Sands National Monument grow, crest, and slump, driven by the wind. The sands form an ecological island where desert plants and animals have adapted to a bright and shifting world. This stunning book describes the area's natural and human history, including the detonation of the first atomic bomb at the nearby Trinity site. Photos by Michael Collier, plus rare historical images.
Download or read book Leaving White Sands written by Jeffrey Flaat and published by Jeffrey Flaat. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As terrorist-backed hackers made larger and more complex attacks against global banks, corporations, and nations, four world governments teamed up to bring down the hacking network and secure the financial systems across the world from future attacks. A small team of experts were hand-picked from across the globe to devise the way to stop the terrorists and hackers. The plan grew beyond its original scope and encompassed the entire planet, ultimately permanently changing the way of life for every human on Earth.
Download or read book Best Sights to See at White Sands National Park written by Rob Bignell and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a place where dunes of white sand rise taller than a house and seemingly forever into the horizon, where a trail's route shifts every day as wind remolds the terrain, where more than 800 animal species call an inhospitable desert home, where you can walk the shores of an ancient lake that mammoths and saber-toothed cats once drink from. The place is real: It's called White Sands National Park.But with the park's incredible size of nearly 228 square miles, how can you ensure that you see its main sights when vacationing or driving through? That's what Best Sights to See at White Sands National Park answers. In this volume, we've listed the park's top 7 most popular sights and experiences while detailing the top day hiking trails to best enjoy them.This book contains two BONUS sections - a day hiking primer, and a guide to hiking in national parks. Nearby hiking trails in Lincoln National Forest, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, Carlsbad Caverns/Guadalupe Mountains national parks are included as well. Downloadable 8 x 11 inch maps are available online for all featured trails.ROB BIGNELL is an avid backpacker who's been hiking for more than two decades. He has written more than 25 hiking guidebooks, mostly on national parks and the Upper Midwest, several of which have topped bestseller lists.
