Download or read book Working Thin Waters written by Stephen Jones and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet a New England sea captain whose rare combination of guts and wit enabled him to make a living on the water, in good times -- and in bad.
Download or read book On Thin Ice written by Eric Larsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsupported, from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole. Despite being one of the most cold and hostile environments on the planet, the Arctic Ocean has seen a steady and significant reduction of sea ice over the past seven years due to climate change. Because of this, Larsen’s and Waters’ trip—dubbed the “Last North Expedition”—is expected to be the last human-powered trek to the North Pole, ever. Filled with stunning, full-color photos and GPS maps plotting his progress, On Thin Ice is Larsen’s first-person account of this historic two-man expedition. Traveling across the retreating sea ice on skis, snowshoes, and even swimming through semi-frozen arctic slush, Larsen and Waters each pulled over 320 pounds of gear behind them on sleds through temperatures that plummeted to nearly 70 degrees below zero. At times, they covered little over a mile a day. They were stalked by polar bears and ran out of food. It was, in Larsen’s words, “easily one of the most difficult expeditions in the world.” More than just a heart-stopping adventure narrative, however, On Thin Ice offers an intimate and haunting look at the rapidly changing face of the Arctic due to global climate change.
Download or read book Thin Ice written by Mark Bowen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read."—Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where he collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history, reaching back 750,000 years. To gather significant data Thompson has spent more time in the death zone—the environment above eighteen thousand feet—than any man who has ever lived. Scientist and expert climber Mark Bowen joined Thompson's crew on several expeditions; his exciting and brilliantly detailed narrative takes the reader deep inside retreating glaciers from China, across South America, and to Africa to unravel the mysteries of climate. Most important, we learn what Thompson's hard-won data reveals about global warming, the past, and the earth's probable future.
Download or read book Thin Ice written by Bruce McCall and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His skates were too small. Or they didn't match. Or they were that ultimate humiliation for a boy trying to play hockey--girls' white figure skates. Add to young Bruce McCall's shabby equipment his pencil-thin wrists, weak ankles, and, as he puts it, "a fruit bat's metabolism with a tree sloth's reflexes," and you'll understand why he failed so dismally in the cold, rough world of neighborhood hockey in Toronto. Bruce's catastrophic career as a rink rat epitomizes the youth he recounts in this funny, moving, sometimes disturbing memoir. In fact, Thin Ice examines a boyhood so filled with failure and disappointment that the comedy and insight its author/survivor wrests from it--like his subsequent career as one of America's most admired humorists and illustrators--seem like miracles. Bruce McCall's father, T.C., was an inaccessible tyrant. Bruce's mother, Peg, drank to blunt the effect of her husband's rages and to dodge the duties of taking care of six children. Still, Bruce did know some moments of pleasure as a child, especially in the small town of Simcoe, before T.C. moved his family to the dreary outskirts of Toronto: The Second World War offered its awesome matériel and its heroic men, milk bottles grew top hats of cream, and grapes hung free for the stealing in Mrs. Klein's backyard. But his parents' demons took their toll on Bruce, and the move to Toronto set the stage for academic and social disasters: He flunked out of high school and took dead-end graphic-design jobs, all the while envying the full-color culture and high-octane energy of Canada's muscular neighbor to the south. That envy, combined with Bruce's passion for reading and drawing--one of the few positive bequests from T.C. and Peg McCall--became his refuge and then his salvation. His precocious reverence for The New Yorker magazine led him to invent entire comic worlds of artistic and literary creation. Ultimately, he read, wrote, and drew himself out of pennilessness and despair. Bruce McCall may not have been destined to glide around Madison Square Garden holding the Stanley Cup aloft, but as Thin Ice demonstrates, perseverance and talent can turn crummy ice skates--and even dashed hopes--into dreams come true.
Download or read book Meltdown Global Warming Puts the World on Thin Ice written by John Perritano and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2009-08-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how global warming is affecting the planet.
Download or read book Journal of the New England Water Works Association written by New England Water Works Association and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thin Ice written by Frieda Korobkin and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thin Ice By: Frieda Korobkin The vicar says: I can assure you there are many young people like yourself in Europe today who have no idea that they are Jewish. Megan Rhys’s dilemma is one of the lingering aftermaths of the Holocaust. Will she embrace her newly discovered Jewish roots, or remain a faithful, church-going Christian? Thin Ice takes us from Nazi Germany in the mid 1930’s and the Nuremberg Laws, to post-war Wales in the 1950’s, with a romantic detour to Israel on the brink of the 1956 war. Praise for Frieda Korobkin’s Throw Your Feet Over Your Shoulders; Beyond the Kindertransport “This is a poignant, compelling, unsparing account of pivotal events in Jewish history filtered through the uncompromising but tender-hearted perspective of an insightful, perceptive young girl. Beautifully written and compulsively readable, this is an important book.” -Jonathan Kellerman, Author of the Alex Delaware novels.
Download or read book Skating on Thin Ice written by Anatol Rapoport and published by RDR Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921, when he was 11 years old, Anatol Rapoport attempted to ice skate out of Russia to freedom in Poland. Caught by border guards and turned back, he decided to try again with the help of professional Army smugglers. This bittersweet story of emigration, by the famed psychologist and mathematician known for his work in game theory, is set against the background of the Russian revolution and civil war. Poignant accounts of life in the Ukraine and Crimea, stories of Red and White Army soldiers bivouacking in his home, and a 200-mile train ride that takes 13 days in the comfort of a boxcar make this Canadian/American author's story unforgettable.
Download or read book An Academic Skating on Thin Ice written by Peter Worsley and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Worsley’s studies at Cambridge were interrupted by war service as a communist officer in the colonial forces in Africa and India, and it was here that he developed a keen interest in anthropology. He work in mass education in Tanganyika and then studied with Max Gluckman at Manchester University. Banned from re-entering Africa, Worsley went to Australia where he was banned once more, this time from New Guinea, yet he did succeed in completing field-research for his Ph.D. on an Australian Aboriginal tribe. His subsequent book on ‘Cargo’ cults in Melanesia is now regarded as a classic, but his left-wing politics ensured that he could not get a job in anthropology, so he switched to sociology, on his return to Manchester.
Download or read book An Academic Skating on Thin Ice written by Peter Worsley and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Worsley's studies at Cambridge were interrupted by war service as a communist officer in the colonial forces in Africa and India, and it was here that he developed a keen interest in anthropology. He work in mass education in Tanganyika and then studied with Max Gluckman at Manchester University. Banned from re-entering Africa, Worsley went to Australia where he was banned once more, this time from New Guinea, yet he did succeed in completing field-research for his Ph.D. on an Australian Aboriginal tribe. His subsequent book on 'Cargo' cults in Melanesia is now regarded as a classic, but his left-wing politics ensured that he could not get a job in anthropology, so he switched to sociology, on his return to Manchester.
Download or read book Thin Ice written by Ryan Minkoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryan Minkoff was blessed with athleticism, perseverance, and an unquenchable passion for playing hockey. His journey to the pros against lofty odds was, as he says, “unconventional.” Minkoff’s love for the game began in Minnesota, the State of Hockey, where his youth and high-school experiences were anything but ordinary. His suitcase always packed, he played for seven different hockey programs in a fourteen-year span. While Minkoff’s confidence wavered and was often challenged, his determination and passion stayed strong, and he found his way to the University of Washington to play in the unfamiliar world of club hockey. Despite discouraging circumstances, such as games in empty arenas starting well after midnight to hitchhiking home after a long road trip, Minkoff not only set records, captained the squad, and ran the club as the president, he also formed strong bonds with his coaches and teammates. Following an illustrious club career, Minkoff landed in the professional ranks of Finland, where—in the midst of nearly crashing a Zamboni, acting as the town’s Santa Claus, and sleeping at the rink—he truly discovered his gift of a lifetime in the game of hockey. Thin Ice is an honest, witty, inspirational coming-of-age story. Ryan Minkoff’s debut memoir is for anyone who roots for an underdog whose dreams will not fade no matter the obstacles.
Download or read book Thin Ice written by Mark Bowen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has based his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator in search of clues to the history of climate change. He collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history.
Download or read book Icy Winters on the Chesapeake Bay A History written by James L. Foster and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay's myriad inlets in summer, it is hard to imagine that come January icebreakers might be plowing the waters you cruised in July. When portions of the Great Shellfish Bay are iced up the flow of commerce is impeded. At the turn of the 19th century, with the center of the new nation's government established in its arms, a frozen Bay meant that the United States' emergence to a status on par with the foremost nations of the world might be painfully slow. Throughout the 20th century years of extreme cold continued to halt navigation and fishing. James Foster chronicles the disasters, large and small, which come with the coldest of winters.
Download or read book Thin Ice Zombies in La Nowhere to Run or Hide written by Jean Marie Rusin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombies walks the street of Los Angeles and Hawaii, Special Report, warning stay inside and close the doors and windows, wait until help arrives, then breaking news, a thousand zombies spotted at the North Shore, there was a attack and you sees guts and bloods and bodies broken apart. Zombies are everywhere and watched out, I looked out of the window and I said to Jim, when we are going to the helicopter and fly away from here and maybe, we can even get to New York, and we will tried tonight said Jim to Kelly, ok! will pack the things, and we need to gets to the car, and but we are surrounded, I know but we need to get to the car and drive to the airport and get out of here but the news said that we need to locked up everything and stay for help!
Download or read book Thin Ice written by Nick Wilkshire and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Crimes Unit investigator Jack Smith is assigned to the murder of a young number one draft pick who was set to play for Ottawa in the upcoming pro hockey seaon. But he's surprised by how much the kid's life differs from his clean-cut media image. A long list of suspects soon emerges, any one of whom had good reason to want Ritchie dead.
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Download or read book Thin Ice written by Paedon Sims and published by Paedon Sims. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The con hasn't gone off without a hitch, but neither Theo nor I have managed to lose our scholarships - yet. That's not to say that this hare-brained scheme has gone over well or that we can maintain the charade for much longer. I'm injured, his teammates are pissed, the trust that's left amongst them is razor-thin, and I have a brand new skating partner with the biggest competition of my life looming over my head. With my loyalty divided between the rink I love and the rink I've promised to cover, the stakes have never been higher - especially when the truth of how much time Mac and I have been spending together and the feelings that have bloomed come to light. It's Theo's worst nightmare, but it's about to get worse. Secrets are everywhere and I'm not sure how many more I can keep before I burst at the seams. Everything is on the line and I'm torn in so many directions that I don't know if I can skate on ice this thin without falling through. Part two of a high-stakes college sports romance full of witty banter, second chances, and twists you'll never see coming. There's rules for a reason and breaking them always comes with consequences.
