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Download or read book Desert Skies written by Csilla Toldy and published by Csilla Toldy. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four friends escape the fractured reality of life in Northern Ireland by entering an imaginary adeserta world, where anything is possible. Gerry, Saoirse, Liam and Leo embark on passionate journeys of conflict and forgiveness, illusion and brutal truth.
Book Synopsis Under Desert Skies by : Melissa L. Sevigny
Download or read book Under Desert Skies written by Melissa L. Sevigny and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Kennedy’s announcement that an American would walk on the Moon before the end of the 1960s took the scientific world by surprise. The study of the Moon and planets had long fallen out of favor with astronomers: they were the stuff of science fiction, not science. An upstart planetary laboratory in Tucson would play a vital role in the nation’s grand new venture, and in doing so, it would help create the field of planetary science. Founded by Gerard P. Kuiper in 1960, the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) at the University of Arizona broke free from traditional astronomical techniques to embrace a wide range of disciplines necessary to the study of planets, including geology, atmospheric sciences, and the elegant emerging technology of spacecraft. Brash, optimistic young students crafted a unique sense of camaraderie in the fledgling institution. Driven by curiosity and imagination, LPL scientists lived through—and, indeed, made happen—the shattering transition in which Earth’s nearest neighbors became more than simple points of light in the sky. Under Desert Skies tells the story of how a small corner of Arizona became Earth’s ambassador to space. From early efforts to reach the Moon to the first glimpses of Mars’s bleak horizons and Titan’s swirling atmosphere to the latest ambitious plans to touch an asteroid, LPL’s history encompasses humanity’s unfolding knowledge about our place in the universe.
Book Synopsis Desert Skies by : Michael T. Gregory
Download or read book Desert Skies written by Michael T. Gregory and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert Skies is a novel about Attack Helicopter Warfare in the Gulf War. The first edition was published in 2001. It includes insight into small unit tactics and training, the downsizing of the United States military, ramifications of technological advances and offers a look into potential causes of Gulf War Syndrome. The current edition has been re-edited for the 25th Anniversary edition.
Book Synopsis High in Desert Skies by : David Devine
Download or read book High in Desert Skies written by David Devine and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Arizona, this land of ancient footprints, cactus, dust and mud, where the first train arrived only 50 years earlier, Lindbergh's aerial visit carves the most significant notch in Southern Arizona's aviation belt to date. events of the era.From a charlatan's playfield, as inventor S.P. Langley once observed, airborne antics blossom into a feasible means of locomotion which proves the most expedient and economical manner of human transport. A recognized military necessity, flying grows and ambitious business ventures in the face of winged-contraption fears grow to encompass grand swaths of America's commercial realm. These accounts of the people, events, airplanes, and airports that helped Arizona lead the way in the nation's aviation development color but a portion of the broad canvass upon which rests her tale. From hosting three of the nation's earliest air shows, to its central roles in early transcontinental and round-the-world flights, her contributions to the historical record stand tall. The U.S. Army Air Service launches route-mapping missions and recruiting efforts above her mountains and canyons, and Colonel Chas. A Lindbergh makes an historic visit. Thrilling aerial displays brighten lives, while Arizona inventors and World War I Aces help keep the aerial sport front-and-center. Aground, the lure of the heavens? infinite possibilities fires action in community leaders who push toward safe landing places. Rough, undeveloped, and then, magnificent airports follow. Amid the milieu of the early 20th century's technological burst, come the hearty, the daring, the unwavering men and women of flying's first cadre. Those whose imaginings forge an unerring pathway to a future of which they could only dream. Through a maelstrom of difficulties and dangers they navigate the sky and their earthly admirers with equal, if varying aplomb. Only with increased motive power, cockpits free from the elements, and other subsequent advances does the aviator's task ease. The archives hold countless additional Arizona flying tales, each awaiting future revelation.
Download or read book Desert Skies written by Joyce Hurley and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Under a Desert Sky by : Lynne Hartke
Download or read book Under a Desert Sky written by Lynne Hartke and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There comes a time in life when we find ourselves in the desert place of burning questions. Why? Why me? But even as we shake our fist heavenward, the heart whispers another question. Who? Who are you, God? It is a question of relationship, a question we all murmur in the hardest places. Against the backdrop of the Sonoran Desert, Lynne Hartke asks her own hard questions as cancer arrives like a thief with one goal: to take it all. Hair. The contents of a stomach. A marriage. A life. As her days become a blur of doctors' appointments, treatments, and surgeries, she wrestles with a tumble of tangled emotions, a shaken faith, and self-doubt. Cancer is now not only threatening her own life, but, in a surprising twist, the lives of both her parents as well. Through her raw, lyrical words, Hartke invites fellow sojourners to discover that in life's hardest places, they are not alone in their fear, they are not foolish to hope, and they are never forgotten by a loving, pursuing God. Never.
Book Synopsis Under Desert Skies by : Irene Welch Grissom
Download or read book Under Desert Skies written by Irene Welch Grissom and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the Desert Sky written by Sara Luck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Luck is known for her “well-developed characters, accurate historical settings, and hot naked men” (RT Book Reviews), and Under the Desert Sky does not disappoint! Fans will love this story of a widowed frontierswoman and the ranch hand who might be all that stands between her and ruin. Phoebe Sloan isn’t afraid of hard work—she couldn’t have survived on the Arizona frontier if she were. But ever since her husband was killed in a ranch accident, she’s struggled to make ends meet and preserve her young son’s birthright. Her last gamble was to start raising ostriches—the plumes are prized by fashionable city ladies—and it could work, but someone’s determined to sabotage her efforts. Enter Christian de Wet, a South African importer who finds himself drawn to the fragile but determined Phoebe. He begins helping her around the ranch as a kindness, but the two quickly find that the heat rising between them has nothing to do with the Arizona desert! When the saboteur finds a way to endanger not just the ranch, but Phoebe’s family, will she have to forsake her happiness to save her son?
Book Synopsis Record of Activity by : Los Pinos Fire Lookout Tower (Calif.)
Download or read book Record of Activity written by Los Pinos Fire Lookout Tower (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Walking the High Desert by : Ellen Waterston
Download or read book Walking the High Desert written by Ellen Waterston and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration, introducing readers to a “trusting, naïve, earnest, stubbly, grumpy old man of a desert” that is grappling with issues at the forefront of national, if not global, concern: public land use, grazing rights for livestock, protection of sacred Indigenous ground, water rights, and protection of habitat for endangered species. Blending travel writing with memoir and history, Waterston profiles a wide range of people who call the high desert home and offers fresh perspectives on nationally reported regional conflicts such as the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation. Walking the High Desert invites readers—wherever they may be—to consider their own beliefs, identities, and surroundings through the optic of the high desert of southeastern Oregon.
Book Synopsis A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert by : Patricia Wentworth Comus
Download or read book A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert written by Patricia Wentworth Comus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region varies dramatically from parched desert lowlands to semiarid tropical forests and frigid subalpine meadows... "A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert" takes readers deep into its vast expanse, looking closely at the relationships of plants and animals with the land and people, through time and across landscapes"--
Book Synopsis High Desert Reverie by : Richard Wade
Download or read book High Desert Reverie written by Richard Wade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crow who lives to taunt the dogs below. A Rez dog herding sheep down the center stripe of an empty road. High-desert encounters captured in an enchanted setting of ancient mesas, sand and scree. Photos capture the timeless beauty of red rimrock against a limitless turquoise dome. Join the rhythm, the rhythm of life.
Book Synopsis Man In The Arena by : David Michael Semas
Download or read book Man In The Arena written by David Michael Semas and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his half-century career, self-made businessman David Semas has drawn inspiration from President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous speech on “The Man in the Arena” in 1910, which was about daring to risk everything rather than playing it safe. In the real world, roughly a third of businesses will implode within two years, and half won’t make it past five years. But statistics can’t tell the full story. This memoir provides a detailed road map of trials, challenges, and pitfalls while building a business and offers everyone from budding entrepreneurs to seasoned executives a case history of achievement and failure as well as risk and reward. The life lessons and inspirational quotes throughout the book deliver powerful and enlightening messages about nurturing hopes and dreams, dealing with mistakes, facing problems head-on, and living life to the fullest. Semas’s story is one of both triumph and despair, and it is sure to help inspire tomorrow’s success stories. David writes to edify his readers, who, he hopes, can glean a few useful lessons from his lifetime of adventures and challenges, which has fueled his quest to live in the arena, where life plays out on a grand scale.
Book Synopsis Where the Sky Touched the Earth by : Don Lago
Download or read book Where the Sky Touched the Earth written by Don Lago and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landscapes of the American Southwest—the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, the Sedona red rocks—have long filled humans with wonder about nature. This is the home of Lowell Observatory, where astronomers first discovered evidence that the universe is expanding; Meteor Crater, where Apollo astronauts trained for the moon; and Native American tribes with their own ancient, rich ways of relating to the cosmos. With the personal, poetic style of the very best literary nature writing, Don Lago explores how these landscapes have offered humans a deeper sense of connection with the universe. While most nature writing never leaves the ground, Lago is one of the few writers who has applied it to the universe, seeking ties between humans and the astronomical forces that gave us birth. Nowhere else in the world is the link between earth and sky so powerful. Lago witnesses a solar eclipse over the Grand Canyon, climbs primeval volcanos, and sees the universe in tree rings. Through ageless Native American ceremonies, modern telescopes, and even dreams of flying saucers, Lago, who is not only a poet but a true philosopher of science, strives to find order and meaning in the world and brings out the Southwest’s beauty and mystery.
Download or read book The Age of Happy Problems written by and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first book of non-fiction, originally published in 1962, Herbert Gold explores some not-so-happy problems confronting people in an age of "mass destruction, mass inertia, mass everything." While acknowledging that we live in a time of utmost global significance-war on an enormous scale was a reality of the twentieth century and continues to threaten, unadulterated evil has exhibited itself in grandiose proportions-Gold tackles issues and problems which are very much of significance to the individual: teaching, writing, love, marriage, divorce, and death. In The Age of Happy Problems, Gold takes the reader through a journey of eclectic characters, situations, and locales. Part I is a selection of essays entitled "American Events." In "The Age of Happy Problems" we are presented with an analysis of the problems facing people in the middle of their lives and careers. "How to Be an Artist's Wife" explores the prospect of being married, and remaining married, to a temperamental and egotistical artist. "Divorce as a Moral Act" describes the termination of marriage as a means for renewal and the chance to start over again the search for love. "The Bachelor's Dilemma" evokes the decisions confronting the male of the "big city." And "A Dog in Brooklyn, A Girl in Detroit: A L"ife Among the Humanities" is a memoir on the paradoxes of teaching in a university. Part II is entitled "American Places." The author examines in this section various American lifestyles. In "Paris: Notes from La Vie de Boheme," Gold describes Americans abroad, why they decide to become expatriates, and how they adapt to their new surroundings. In "Greenwich Village: The Changing Village" he writes about the importance of New York City's symbol of change, experiment and nonconformity. Finally, the author meditates on "Death in Miami Beach," offering a moving account of the relationship between death and the popular Florida city. Gold writes: "How can I total it up? What is the map of the map? Well, to begin with, Plato was wrong. The life of contemplation is not sufficient...and for another thing, Plato was right. He knew that men must learn to come together in the practice of intelligence and moral privilege." Gold's essays, stemming from the author's own humanity, are just as poignant and relevant today as they were when they were first published. The Age of Happy Problems is sure to captivate, but perhaps most of all, make the reader contemplate the importance of these issues for his or her own life. Herbert Gold is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist who has made his living as a writer for over fifty years. His books include Haiti: Best Nightmare on Earth and The Magic Will, both available through Transaction Publishers.
Book Synopsis Desert Sky Holidays by : Desert Sky Writers' Group
Download or read book Desert Sky Holidays written by Desert Sky Writers' Group and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Under Desert Skies by : Weldon Phillip Keller
Download or read book Under Desert Skies written by Weldon Phillip Keller and published by London : Jarrolds. This book was released on 1968 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
