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Author : Marvin Levine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780925062093
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Look Down from Clouds written by Marvin Levine and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Mudd Ruth
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 168051119X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)
Download or read book A Sideways Look at Clouds written by Maria Mudd Ruth and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Written by a critically-acclaimed natural-history author • Shares author’s fun journey to understanding clouds • Written for the curious—but non-science—minded Author Maria Mudd Ruth fell in love with clouds the same way she stumbles into most passions: madly and unexpectedly. A Sideways Look at Clouds is the story of her quite accidental infatuation with and education about the clouds above. When she moved to the soggy Northwest a decade ago, Maria assumed that locals would know everything there was to know about clouds, in the same way they talk about salmon, tides, and the Seahawks. Yet in her first two years of living in Olympia, Washington, she never heard anyone talk about clouds—only the rain. Puzzled by this lack of cloud savvy, she decided to create a 10-question online survey and sent it to everyone she knew. Her sample size of 67 people included men and women, new friends in Olympia, family on the East Coast, outdoorsy and indoorsy types, professional scientists, and liberal arts majors like herself. The results showed that while people knew a little bit about clouds, most were like her—they had a hard time identifying clouds or remembering their names. As adults, they had lost their curiosity and sense of wonder about clouds and were, essentially, not in the habit of looking up. A Sideways Look at Clouds acknowledges the challenges of understanding clouds and so uses a very steep and bumpy learning curve—the author’s—as its plot line. The book is structured around the ten words used in most definitions of a cloud: “a visible mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the earth.” A captivating story teller, Maria blends science, wonder, and humor to take the scenic route through the clouds and encourages readers to chart their own rambling, idiosyncratic course.
Author : Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 9781444728286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Clouds that Look Like Things written by Gavin Pretor-Pinney and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clouds in the shape of dolphins, elephants, UFOs, even Alfred Hitchcock and Andy Murray . . . they're all here in this beautiful and hilarious collection of clouds photographed around the world by members of The Cloud Appreciation Society, selected and wittily captioned by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, winner of the Royal Society Winton Science Writing Prize. Author of the bestselling The Cloudspotter's Guide, A Pig With Six Legs and The Cloud Collector's Handbook, and creator of The Cloud Appreciation Society, Gavin's mission is to fight blue-sky thinking and encourage us to love and understand clouds. His new book is divided by themes such as 'Celestial Celebrities' and 'Airborne Animals', and includes an informative section on what clouds are and how they are formed. The perfect gift book for anyone willing to look skywards and discover the beauty and fascination of clouds.
Author : Anne Rockwell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006029101X
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Clouds written by Anne Rockwell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes different types of clouds and how to identify them.
Author : Stéphane Audeguy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151014286
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Theory of Clouds written by Stéphane Audeguy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel tells the story of Akira Kumo, a retired couturier living in Paris, owner of the world's largest collection of books about clouds, and Virginie Latour, whom Kumo hires to help catalogue his library. While they work he tells her the story behind three figures in particular, all British, all obsessed by clouds: Luke Howard, a real-life Quaker who in 1802 wrote the first treatise classifying clouds (we still use it today); a painter named Carmichael, clearly based on John Constable, one of the most famous cloud painters of all time, and a fictional amateur meteorologist named Richard Abercrombie, who aspires to write the definitive book on cloud description, which would come to be known in cloud circles as the Abercrombie Protocol. Kumo sends Virginie Latour to London to buy the Protocol. By the end of the novel, we learn the Protocol's great secret; we understand what binds these men together; and and we learn that Kumo himself is a survivor of the Hiroshima blast, in whose cloud his family vanished.
Author : Chloe Aridjis
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144811344X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Book of Clouds written by Chloe Aridjis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'ant illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to change...
Author : Damian Fowler
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250026237
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Falling Through Clouds written by Damian Fowler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mommy burned up." On a cloudy day in August 2003, Grace and Lily Pearson, 4 and 3, were flying in their uncle's plane along with their mother on their way to their grandpa's birthday party near Lake Superior, when Lily noticed the trees out the window were growing close; so close she could almost touch them. Before the trees tore into the cabin, Grace had the strange sensation of falling through clouds. A story of tragedy, survival, and justice, Damian Fowler's Falling Through Clouds is about a young father's fight for his family in the wake of a plane crash that killed his wife, badly injured his two daughters, and thrust him into a David-vs-Goliath legal confrontation with a multi-billion dollar insurance company. Blindsided when he was sued in federal court by this insurance company, Toby Pearson made it his mission to change aviation insurance law in his home state and nationally, while nursing his daughters to recovery and recreating his own life. Falling Through Clouds charts the dramatic journey of a man who turned a personal tragedy into an important victory for himself, his girls, and many other Americans.
Author : Alyson Richman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451490770
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Secret of Clouds written by Alyson Richman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named One of the Best 2019 Winter Books by PopSugar and Chosen as One of 9 Books to Read (or Gift!) This February by Instyle! From the #1 international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Velvet Hours comes an emotionally charged story about a mother’s love, a teacher’s promise, and a child’s heart.... Katya, a rising ballerina, and Sasha, a graduate student, are young and in love when an unexpected tragedy befalls their native Kiev. Years later, after the couple has safely emigrated to America the consequences of this incident cause their son, Yuri, to be born with a rare health condition that isolates him from other children. Maggie, a passionate and dedicated teacher agrees to tutor Yuri at his home, even though she is haunted by her own painful childhood memories. As the two forge a deep and soulful connection, Yuri's boundless curiosity and unique wisdom inspires Maggie to make difficult changes in her own life. And she'll never realize just how strong Yuri has made her—until she needs that strength the most.... A novel that will make readers examine what it means to live life with a full heart.
Author : Jay Hulme
Publisher : Troika
ISBN 13 : 9781912745104
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (451 download)
Download or read book Clouds Cannot Cover Us written by Jay Hulme and published by Troika. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Jay Hulme's first published collection of poetry. It showcases his unique voice and form of expression. The poems have been carefully selected to chart Jay's journey from growing up in a working-class family in Leicestershire to his feelings and thoughts about school life and his experience as a transgender teenager. As Jay says himself: When it was decided that this collection would be for teenagers I was left with this determination, that this collection wouldn't speak down to anyone, that the world I portrayed within it would be the world we live in, that there would be no attempt to make reality 'appropriate for children'. People seem to forget that teenagers live in the same world as everyone else, and they face the same struggles adults face every day. Teenagers deal with racism and sexism and disability and poverty and so much more that we don't even see. The things that are traditionally seen as inappropriate for young people to see, are so often the same things they experience day to day.
Author : Melissa Sarno
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 1524720119
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Just Under the Clouds written by Melissa Sarno and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you still have a home if you don't have a house? In the spirit of The Truth About Jellyfish and Fish in a Tree comes a stunning debut about a family struggling to find a place to belong. To climb a tree, always think in threes and you'll never fall. "Two feet, one hand. Two hands, one foot," Cora's father told her when she was a little girl. Now Cora is in middle school, her father is gone, her family is homeless, and Cora has to look after her younger sister, Adare, who needs a lot of looking after. When their room at the shelter is ransacked, Cora's mother brings them to an old friend's apartment, and Cora hopes this will be a place she can finally call home. When doubt seeps in, Cora makes an escape of her own and discovers something that will change how she sees her family and her place within it. The beautiful debut by Melissa Sarno, the author of A Swirl of Ocean, will take root in your heart and blossom long after you've turned the last page. "[A] heartbreaking yet hopeful story of a family searching for a place to belong." --Publishers Weekly "[A] thought-provoking debut about the meaning of home and the importance of family." --The Horn Book Magazine
Author : Patrick Lawler
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 1573661686
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds written by Patrick Lawler and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you step inside Patrick Lawler's Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds, you will find yourself hovering in the clouds, among a family and a town, and in the world of one of fiction's most inventive writers.
Author : Oliver Perkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472960165
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Reading the Clouds written by Oliver Perkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wouldn't it be useful to be able to accurately predict the weather simply by reading the clouds? Well, with this book, you can! TV forecasts, online predictions and smartphone apps are all based on the same data – a number-crunched overview of how air pressure and temperature affect the weather across a large geographical area. But to get an idea of how the weather will develop for the precise spot where you're standing (or walking, sailing, golfing, fishing, etc) you don't need any equipment or a wifi connection – you just need to look up. This book will give you a broad understanding of why the clouds are symptoms of weather patterns, not causes. By reading these signs in the sky and referring to the explanatory colour photographs, you will discover exactly what those signs mean. An at-a-glance guide to the clouds for anyone anywhere in the world, on land or at sea, this book will enable you to predict the weather by recognising cloud types, shapes, colour and behaviour. It will be an invaluable companion for anyone who enjoys outdoor activities. 'Well researched - practical information in an easy to assimilate form' - Professor Richard Collier, former President of the Royal Meteorological Society 'So good that my Yachtmaster candidates would do well to read it. I learned something from this book. I bet you do too' - Tom Cunliffe, author of The Complete Day Skipper and The Complete Yachtmaster 'Absolutely brilliant; a must for anyone who does anything outside and for whom the weather might be important. Everyone, wherever they are in the world, will get something from this book' - Duncan Wells, author ofStress-Free Sailing and Stress-Free Motorboating
Author : Camille Seaman
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616897228
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)
Download or read book The Big Cloud written by Camille Seaman and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our culture is addicted to weather: hourly forecasts, apps, radio, TV channels, alerts, warnings, and watches. And understandably—our food, clothing, livelihoods, and, increasingly, safety are tied directly to the weather and climate change. In The Big Cloud, photographer Camille Seaman stands in front of tornados, at the edges of lightning storms, and in pelting hail under pitch-black skies to capture supercells and mammatus clouds in their often sublime and terrifying splendor. In these awe-inspiring photographs, Seaman's work is a potent reminder that there is no art more dramatic, in scale or emotion, than that created by nature. Big Cloud includes an introduction by award-winning New Yorker science writer and author Alan Burdick (Out of Eden, Why Time Flies).
Author : Tomie De Paola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780800064198
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (641 download)
Download or read book The Cloud Book written by Tomie De Paola and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Askwith
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 0711291942
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Feet in the Clouds written by Richard Askwith and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A masterpiece’ The Sunday Times ‘The pure essence of trail running, infectious and captivating’ Scott Jurek, bestselling author of Eat and Run ‘One of the best books about the extremes of sporting endeavour that you will ever read’ Independent on Sunday Twenty years since it was first published, Feet in the Clouds by Richard Askwith remains the definitive story of fell-running and a modern sports classic. Richard Askwith’s journey takes him into a world of forbidding rocky hills, horizontal rain, fear, exhaustion and stunning natural beauty, as well as one of the sport's purest and toughest challenges: the Bob Graham Round, running 42 Lake District peaks in 24 hours. Along the way, he encounters some of the most prodigious – and unsung – athletes that Britain has produced, such as Joss Naylor, who covered the equivalent of four Everests in a single run. Gripping, funny and moving, Feet in the Clouds is a story that any aspiring runner, endurance athlete or mountain-lover will understand well: of extremity, heroism and the experience of a lifetime. With a fully revised epilogue and an introduction from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, this is a complete portrait of one of the few sports to have remained utterly true to its roots – in which the point is not fame or fortune but to run the ancient, wild landscape, and to be a hero, if at all, within one’s own valley.
Author : Judy Montague
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662472595
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Look Up, Look Down written by Judy Montague and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look up, look down. Can you imagine a place on earth where nothing has ever grown and no flowers to be found anywhere? Come and join the amazing journey of one small seed that landed in that barren earth with help from above and below and a dream! With sunshine and rain and other seeds arriving, there could be a garden to grow and bloom. Other seeds did eventually arrive and were eager to join the garden. They all cooperated to help make the garden bloom and thrive, but one day, the original seed looked up at the sky to see a dark-gray cloud appearing over the garden. On the days that followed, anger, blame, and hurtful words were on the rise among those in the garden. “We don’t want you here” and “No differences allowed here” were heard. Tempers flared, and friendships in the garden ended. “How did this happen?” everyone asked. They needed answers, and quickly, or their wonderful garden would disappear! “What do you think made this evil cloud appear? What could be done to make it go away?” Everyone in the garden turned to the original seed, who was wise and trusted. The seed thought for a long time. This was a mystery that had to be solved with everyone’s cooperation, and soon! Find out how the original seed came up with a successful solution to rid the garden of the evil cloud, as well as remind all members of the garden how wonderful their garden had been and would be again.
Author : Eric Carle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593383834
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Little Cloud written by Eric Carle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clouds drift across the bright blue sky--all except one. Little Cloud trails behind. He is busy changing shapes to become a fluffy sheep, a zooming airplane, and even a clown with a funny hat. Eric Carle's trademark collages will make every reader want to run outside and discover their very own little cloud.
