Download or read book The Nylon Island written by Stephen Longstreet and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Island Wedding written by Elana Johnson and published by AEJ Creative Works. This book was released on 2020-12-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continue this clean beach romance series from USA Today bestselling author Elana Johnson. Escape to the beach with this police officer romance that's a second chance romance between older characters - all with steamy-sweet kisses and the perfect backdrop to fall in love! Deirdre is almost 40, estranged from her teenage daughter, and determined not to feel sorry for herself. She does the best she can with the cards life has dealt her and she's dreaming of another island wedding...but it certainly can't happen with the widowed Chief of Police. Deirdre Bernard has a restraining order against her, because her daughter lied about everything. She's moved across the island to Getaway Bay, where she's trying to rebuild her life one day at a time. Wyatt Gardner has been a widower for years now. He's tired of the political games and constant pressure of his job as Police Chief, and with his daughter happily married, he thinks it's time to start dating again. When he runs into Deirdre leaving the Sandy Singles event, he decides to be brave and ask her out. And...she says no. Deirdre doesn't think it's smart to date the Chief of Police. Though she's not violent and her daughter was never in any danger, the protective order is still there. And she doesn't want to tell Wyatt about it. Better to just steer clear of the man, even if he does make her heart-strings vibrate. She can say no to him, but Deirdre can't say no to her boss when she's assigned to plan the year-end celebration at the police station. And who will she need to coordinate with the most? Wyatt Gardner. As they spend more and more time together, Deirdre finds her resolve to keep her family secrets waning. Can Wyatt and Deirdre find a way through their past heartaches to their very own island wedding? Find out in this military romance, which is a clean and wholesome romance story, with a wedding consultant, a widower, and plenty of secrets that are bound to be discovered! Also available in paperback and audiobook. Books in this contemporary romance series: 1. The Island House - military, forced proximity, second chance at love, later in life 2. The Island Scandal - billionaire, friends to lovers, fake relationship 3. The Island Hideaway - enemies to lovers, prince, royalty romance, forced proximity 4. The Island Retreat - friends to lovers, medical romance, beach, tortured hero 5. The Island Escape - rockstar romance, billionaire, beach 6. The Island Storm - single dad, stranded romance, forced proximity, opposites attract 7. The Island Wedding - later in life, widower, second chance romance Read them all - and listen to them all in audiobook too!
Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carbon written by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in nature as it has roles in human life on earth. And yet it rarely makes the headlines as anything other than the villain of our fossil-based economy, feeding an addiction which is driving dangerous levels of consumption and international conflict and which, left unchecked, could lead to our demise as a species. But the impact of CO2 on climate change only tells part of the story, and to demonize carbon as an element which will bring about the downfall of humanity is to reduce it to a pale shadow of itself. In this major new history of carbon, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Sacha Loeve show that this omnipresent element is at the root of countless histories and adventures through time, thanks to its extraordinary versatility. Carbon has a long and prestigious CV: its work and achievements extend far beyond the burning of fossil fuels. The fourth most abundant element in the universe and the second most abundant element in the human body, carbon is the chemical basis of all known life. Carbon chemistry has a long history, with applications ranging from jewellery to heating, underpinning developments in metallurgy, textiles, pharmaceuticals, electronics, nanoscience and green technologies. A biography of carbon transgresses the boundaries between chemical and social existence, between nature and culture, forcing us to abandon the simplified image of carbon as the anti-hero of human civilization and enabling us to see instead the great diversity of carbon’s modes of existence. With scientific precision and literary flair, Bensaude-Vincent and Loeve unravel the surprising ways in which carbon has shaped our world, showing how unrecognizable the earth would be without it. Uncovering the many hidden lives of carbon allows us to view our own with fresh eyes.
Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dog Island written by Philippe Claudel and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When three bodies wash up on the beach of a remote island, the locals must decide whether they should uncover the truth or let the mystery die with the victims. Nestled in an overlooked part of the Mediterranean, Dog Island is home to a quiet and untouched community that has long lived off its fishing, its vines, and its olive trees, far away from the turmoil its neighbors. But when the bodies of three unidentified men wash up on the beach, the witnesses are faced with an impossible decision: report the discovery and open up the island to grisly inquiries, or conceal the terrible truth? Resolving to preserve their way of life, the mayor and a small group of conspirators resolve on a cover-up. But after they dispose of the evidence, their act of deception continues to haunt them, bringing waves of suspicion and misfortune to the island. A detective arrives from the mainland, making their secret even harder to keep and threatening to destroy the very community they tried so hard to protect. With the blend of suspense, keep observation, and wit that has made Philippe Claudel’s books international bestsellers, Dog Island challenges our deepest assumptions about ourselves and offers a fierce and tragic fable for our times.
Download or read book The Glass Islands written by Mark Heyward and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Australian Mark Heyward decides to build a home and raise a family on the island of Lombok, east of Bali, he has little idea of what is to come. Riots and battles, mythical princesses, magical voyages, birth and death, love and loss – the story takes us into the heart of Indonesia, a country where Mark has lived on and off for twenty years, but never on an island like this. The call to prayer echoes in the valleys as the sun drops behind the island. The oceans answer to the tug of the moon, the seasons turn, the rains come and go. Some things never change. The love of a man for his wife, for his children; his desire to build, to create, to leave a mark on this good earth; his struggle to survive, his love of life, his fear of death. This is the heart-warming story of one family's attempt to build a new life in paradise.
Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Naval Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands The trusteeship period 1947 1951 written by Dorothy Elizabeth Richard and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fluidized bed Coating with Plastics written by Plastics Technical Evaluation Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on the relatively new field of fluidized-bed coating with plastics is intended to give military agencies and contractors a good idea of the possibilities and limitations of the technique. In the normal use of the process a metal part is heated to a temperature somewhat higher than the melting point of the resin powder with which it is to be coated. Upon immersion of the preheated metal part into a bed or bath of resin powder, usually kept at room temperature and fluidized by a current of air, the powder particles are fused onto the surface of the part. Postheating may or may not be necessary to smooth and/or cure the coating. This report has detailed information on 139 references, including 39 foreign and American patents. (Author).
Download or read book Controlling and Reducing Pollution from Plastic Waste written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Protection and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lactam based Polyamides written by Rudolf Puffr and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-01-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume work examines general relationships among the structures, reactivity, and properties of polyamides important for predictions in such fields as materials science. The team of authors, including polymer research chemists, physicists, and specialists in technology and processing, compiled an extensive amount of literature (over 2300 references) to produce two volumes packed with text, tables, drawings, and first-hand information, much of it never before published. Topics include lactams and their production, properties, analysis, theory, and the technology of their polymerization, in addition to polyamides and their processing, modification, analysis, molecular characterization, structure, physical properties, degradation and stabilization, designing and application of products. Researchers and specialists in the preparation, modification, processing, structure, and properties of linear aliphatic polyamides will find Lactam-Based Polyamides, Volumes I and II to be invaluable texts.
Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Call Your Mutha written by Jane Caputi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ecocide and domination of nature that is the Anthropocene does not represent the actions of all humans, but that of Man, the Western and masculine identified corporate, military, intellectual, and political class that long has masked itself as the civilized and the human. In this book, Jane Caputi looks at two major "myths" of the Earth, one ancient and one contemporary, and uses them to devise a manifesto for the survival of nature--which includes human beings--in our current ecological crisis. These are the myths of Mother Earth and the Anthropocene. The former personifies nature as a figure with the power to give life or death, and one who shares a communal destiny with all other living things. The latter myth sees humans as exceptional for exerting an implicitly sexual domination of Mother Earth through technological achievement, from the plow to synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. Much that we take for granted as inferior or taboo is based in a splitting apart of inherent unities: culture-nature; up-down, male-female; spirit-matter; mind-body; life-death; sacred-profane; reason-madness; human-beast; light-dark. The first is valued and the second reviled. This provides the framework for any number of related injustices--sexual, racial, and ecological. This book resists this pattern, in part, by deliberately putting the dirty back into the mind, the obscene back into the sacred, and vice versa. Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice argue for the significance and reality of the Earth Mother. Caputi engages specifically with the powers of that Mother, ones made taboo and even obscene throughout heteropatriarchal traditions. Jane Caputi rejects misogynist and colonialist stereotypes, and examines the potency of the Earth Mother in order to deepen awareness of how our relationship to the Earth went astray and what might be done to address this. Drawing upon Indigenous and African American, ecofeminism, ecowomanism, green activism, femme, queer and gender non-binary philosophies, literature and arts, Afrofuturism, and popular culture images, Call Your "Mutha" contends that the Anthropocene is not evidence so much of Man's supremacy, but instead a sign that Mother Nature-Earth, faced with disrespect, is turning away, withdrawing the support systems necessary for life and continuance. Caputi looks at contemporary narratives and artwork to consider the ways in which respect for the autonomous and potent Earth Mother and a call for their return has already reasserted itself into our political and popular culture.
