Download or read book Sand and Gravel Spits written by Giovanni Randazzo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws together a series of studies of spit geomorphology and temporal evolution from around the world. The volume offers some unique insights into how these landforms are examined scientifically and how we as humans impact them, offering a global perspective on spit genesis and evolution. Spits are unique natural environments whose evolution is linked to the adjacent coast and near shore morphology, sediment supply, coastal dynamics and sea-level change. Over the past century, Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) has risen by 10 to 20 centimetres and many coastal spits represent the first sentinel against coastal submersion. Scientific research indicates that sea levels worldwide have been rising at a rate of 3.5 millimetres per year since the early 1990s, roughly twice the average speed of the preceding 80 years. This trend, linked to global warming will undoubtedly cause major changes in spit morphology. Spits are highly mobile coastal landforms that respond rapidly to environmental change. They therefore represent a signature of past environmental change and provide a landform indicator of climate change.

Download or read book The Lake of Souls written by Darren Shan and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of Darren and Harkat are at risk as they face monstrous obstacles on a desperate quest to the Lake of Souls.

Download or read book Spit and Spirit written by Pauline Beck and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spit and Spirit is a collection of poems that celebrate life. It contains poems that sing of our shared experiences as human beings. The poems in this book are about people we all know in one way or another, about the natural world that we all share, about the art of poetry that lives in every human heart and excites every human mind, and about the Spirit that breathes fire and life into every living being. Spit and Spirit is the score of the spit of everyday life and the Spirit of that wondrous, mystical, interminable life that will always be a mystery and a miracle for every poet-- every human being. It is a collection of poems about sinners and saints, about dirt and divinity, about you and me.

Download or read book A Confiscated Memory written by Yfaat Weiss and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yfaat Weiss tells the story of an Arab neighborhood in Haifa that later acquired iconic status in Israeli memory. In the summer of 1959, Jewish immigrants from Morocco rioted against local and national Israeli authorities of European origin. The protests of Wadi Salib generated for the first time a kind of political awareness of an existing ethnic discrimination among Israeli Jews. However, before that, Wadi Salib existed as an impoverished Arab neighborhood. The war of 1948 displaced its residents, even though the presence of the absentees and the Arab name still linger. Weiss investigates the erasure of Wadi Salib's Arab heritage and its emergence as an Israeli site of memory. At the core of her quest lies the concept of property, as she merges the constraints of former Arab ownership with requirements and restrictions pertaining to urban development and the emergence of its entangled memory. Establishing an association between Wadi Salib's Arab refugees and subsequent Moroccan evacuees, Weiss allegorizes the Israeli amnesia about both eventual stories that of the former Arab inhabitants and that of the riots of 1959, occurring at different times but in one place. Describing each in detail, Weiss uncovers a complex, multilayered, and hidden history. Through her sensitive reading of events, she offers uncommon perspective on the personal and political making of Israeli belonging.

Download or read book Michael s Messengers written by Lewis Allen Lambert and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-06-28 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1931, just three months after his mothers untimely death, 11-year-old Jacob Grunfeld and his father fled Poland on the eve of Hitlers rise to power in Germany. For eight years he lived the American dream in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland where he resided with his German-born father a noted thoracic surgeon. Fearing anti-Semitism, even in America, Jacobs father changed their surname to Meadows and young Jacob became Jack Meadows. During high school Jack learned to fly and discovered a passion that consumed him for the rest of his life. Jack was an extremely exceptional student both in the air and on the ground. Jack graduated college with honors at 18 years of age. In 1939, Jack Meadows, now an American citizen, returned to his native homeland to serve with the Polish Air Force in a futile attempt to halt Nazi aggression and the eventual murder of six million Jews. After Poland was defeated, Jack made his way to England where he joined the RAF. By early 1941, he became the leading fighter pilot among his peers in the Allied Air Forces and was a highly decorated hero of the Battle of Britain. In 1942, Jack was selected to command the 1st Polish Air Force Wing, one of the many foreign units that were an integral part of RAF. In 1939-40, when they were reconstituted in Britain, the Poles distinguished themselves and played a significant role in defeating the Luftwaffe while the Nazis were ravaging their native country. Jack met the love of his life who eventually left him, and met the passion of his life who disappointed him. The women he dearly loved abandoned him. He risked his life for a country that adopted him. He challenged the Luftwaffe whose fiercely skilled pilots had much in common with him. Though Jack was Polish by birth, American by choice and British by fate, he was a German in all other respects thanks to his father. Jack Meadows is a complex young hero whose contribution to the eventual Allied victory in Europe is recounted in this the first of three books on his life, his loves, and his personal victories and failures. Though Jack is a fictional character he symbolizes the countless unrecognized but deserving lads who dueled in aerial combat on both sides of the English Channel. This exciting historical novel is filled with action, drama, suspense, romance and a stream of consciousness that is relevant well into the first decade of the 21st century. War stories may be common but Jack Meadows is an uncommon warrior.

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Download or read book Spitting on Diamonds written by Clyde H. Hogg and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Biography of early twentieth-century baseball pitcher, Bradley Hogg"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Spitting in the Wind written by David LaPorte and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I'm an old cat who has used up eight of his nine lives. There isn't a heck of lot I can do for myself, and I'm certainly not saying these things for God's sake...so I must be saying them for my fellow man.' If you've ever sat in the living room with your grandpa, you'll love author David LaPorte's "Spitting in the Wind: Uncommon Sense in a World Gone Mad." If not, it's time to see what you're missing. Equal parts wit, wisdom, and rant, Spitting in the Wind will make you laugh, make you think, and make you mada "sometimes all at the same time. These thoughts on God, love, life, and the sorry state of our nation will challenge even the most discerning reader to think in new ways. David experienced love at an early age and was raised by a deeply religious mother. He searched the scriptures to see what he could learn about love and found it in the life of Jesus. "Spitting in the Wind" is David's endeavor to inspire churches and people to come together to bring about spiritual changea "in ourselves first and then in our government. Pull up a chair. Grandpa's about to start. "

Download or read book Spitting in the Soup written by Mark Johnson and published by VeloPress. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to throw a game that stirred outrage. Today, though, athletes are vilified for using performance-enhancing drugs. Damned as moral deviants who shred the fair-play fabric, dopers are an affront to the athletes who don’t take shortcuts. But this tidy view swindles sports fans. While we may want the world sorted into villains and victims, putting the blame on athletes alone ignores decades of history in which teams, coaches, governments, the media, scientists, sponsors, sports federations, and even spectators have played a role. The truth about doping in sports is messy and shocking because it holds a mirror to our own reluctance to spit in the soupthat is, to tell the truth about the spectacle we crave. In Spitting in the Soup, sports journalist Mark Johnson explores how the deals made behind closed doors keep drugs in sports. Johnson unwinds the doping culture from the early days, when pills meant progress, and uncovers the complex relationships that underlie elite sports culturethe essence of which is not to play fair but to push the boundaries of human performance. It’s easy to assume that drugs in sports have always been frowned upon, but that’s not true. Drugs in sports are old. It’s banning drugs in sports that is new. Spitting in the Soup offers a bitingly honest, clear-eyed look at why that’s so, and what it will take to kick pills out of the locker room once and for all.

Download or read book My Sentiments Exactly written by William P. Jacobs III and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you read most of the material in this book, you will probably get a pretty good idea how my brain operates. While these writings will not give you a chronological view of my life, they werent meant to do so. I will leave that for a biography or eulogy. A biography or eulogy this isnt. Those will have to wait until another day and another writer. But really, this is me.

Download or read book Parenting Today written by Joni Mitchell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As parents in today's world we are facing constant challenges in trying to raise our children. Children today are more educated and more perceptive. Every day our children are exposed to the tensions created by reports of terrorism, natural catastrophes, and economic downturns. With the advent of the Internet, 24-hour news channels, and mass media, children often are the first to know when a major event takes place. Even in times of relative calm, you need a strong set of skills to help your child grow into a healthy adult. Parenting Today is written by a leading authority on raising children. You will learn unique skills, ideas, and strategies geared towards helping children in today's difficult times. Individual chapters are devoted to toddlers, young children, pre teens, teenagers, stepchildren and college students. If you are a parent or grandparent who has taken on the responsibility of raising a child, or several children, you will find the concepts presented in Parenting Today to be invaluable. Among the important concepts you will learn are hot to... Quickly form that long lasting bond with your child. Help your children deal with stress. Effectively communicate with teenagers. Take control of a situation with an angry or rebellious child. Deal with friction between parents and children, and learn how to eliminate it. Motivate children, with rules specific to each age group. Show your children that you love them. Form life lasting bonds with grown children. Understand the inner thoughts of your children.

Download or read book Snow White and Russian Red written by Dorota Maslowska and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international bestselling novel of nihilistic youth in post-Communist Poland: “chaotic and brilliantly idiosyncratic...destined to become a cult classic” (Library Journal, starred review). When his girlfriend Magda dumps him, Andrzej “Nails’ Robakoski’s life begins to unravel. A track-suited slacker, Nails spends most of his time doing little more than searching for his next girl, next line of speed, next proof for his conspiracy theories about the Polish economy. A xenophobic campaign against the Russian black market is escalating across Poland, culminating in No Russkies Day–or is that just in Nails’s fevered mind? A “punishing successor to first-person ‘lad’ novels like Trainspotting,” Snow White and Russian Red “serves up its nastiness spiked with pitch-black humor.” By turns poetic, hilarious, disturbing, and dirty, it is a powerful portrait of love, hopelessness, and political burnout in today’s Eastern Europe (Publishers Weekly). "Critics have compared it to novels like Naked Lunch...Celine and Kosinski also come to mind."—John Leonard, Harper's

Download or read book Stone and Dung Oil and Spit written by Jodi Magness and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intersection of archaeology and text in the late Second Temple period -- 2. Purifying the body and hands -- 3. Creeping and swarming creatures, locusts, fish, dogs, chickens, and pigs -- 4. Household vessels: pottery, oil lamps, glass, stone, and dung -- 5. Dining customs and communal meals -- 6. Sabbath observance and fasting -- 7. Coins -- 8. Clothing and tzitzit -- 9. Oil and spit -- 10. Toilets and toilet habits -- 11. Tombs and burial customs -- 12. Epilogue: the aftermath of 70.

Download or read book Don t Spit the Good Stuff written by Peter Ward and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book I ONLY SPIT IN BROOKLYN written by Ronn Costabile and published by Bridge Logos Inc. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal, powerful and shocking testimony of life as a heroin addict in Brooklyn in the 1970s and ‘80s. In this gritty, soul-bearing and honest account, Ronn Costabile takes you into a world of addiction and despair. Ronn tells his story with gripping detail and emotion-jerking reality. There is hope, however, for everyone who believes. After 25 years battling a paralyzing heroin and cocaine addiction, state prison time, and 15 years of organized crime, Ronn experienced a powerful conversion at the hand of God in 1987 while incarcerated. As his life was slowly being restored, he connected with Brooklyn Teen Challenge, a faith-based Drug Rehabilitation Center, where he then began as a volunteer in 1990. Six years later he became intake coordinator and soon afterwards director of the Brooklyn Men’s program.

Download or read book If You Are Going to Lead Don t Spit written by Layton Park and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caution! Do not read while riding as bikers have been known to fall over laughing. This collection of humorous short stories is from the archives of the Busted Knuckle Chronicles, a weekly national motorcycle newspaper and Canadas on-line site containing all that bikers want to know. Layton's column appeared in the Busted Knuckle regularly over the past few years. These are stories of motorcycle adventures and misadventures as seen through the twisted mind of the author, a rider with 40+ years riding experience. Side effects may include wanting to wear leather chaps, a new love of the smell of oil, longing for the feel of wind in the face and acquiring a taste for bugs.

Download or read book Paleoshorelines and Prehistory written by Lucille Lewis Johnson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-11-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists have always been concerned with the relationship between the sites they study and the environments in which the sites are found. Since the end of the Pleistocene Era, sea levels have risen at least 120 meters, a factor that has considerable effect on many archaeological sites. Paleoshorelines and Prehistory: An Investigation of Method discusses the various processes that may affect coastal sites, or inland sites on shallow coastal plains, and presents a variety of methods that have been developed to reconstruct the shoreline at the time the sites were occupied. The focus of the chapters is on processes affecting coastal sites in the Americas, although the methods discussed are applicable to archaeologists worldwide. The book will also guide archaeologists in designing surveys to discover site locations, whether these are now inland or underwater. All archaeologists and students in archaeology and geology will find a tremendous wealth of useful information in this remarkable volume.