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My White Planet

Author : Mark Jarman
Publisher : Dundurn.com
ISBN 13 : 1771020458
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book My White Planet written by Mark Jarman and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2008-04-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Anthony Jarman is one of Canada’s most original and compelling writers of short fiction. My White Planet is his latest collection of fourteen new stories, many of which have previously won or been short-listed for literary magazine awards. Jarman’s use of language and metaphor is unique in the Canadian literary pantheon. With extraordinary linguistic energy, he pushes the boundaries of fiction and story-telling. Every sentence reverberates with subtle meaning and every reading of a Jarman story brings out ever deeper layers of complexity and nuance. Here is a protean writer who bends form and enters into worlds and people with panache and a verve that is breath-taking. The range of his fiction is stunning: troops undertake a nightmarish march following Custer’s last stand; a father’s dogs tear apart his son and he is accused of cowardice and neglect; seven marooned men at a remote polar station save the life of a naked young woman; domestic squabbles and infidelity abound amidst west coast chainsaws and floatplanes; a dropout skateboarder falls off a railway bridge and drowns in the river; a city bus ride ends up crossing the entire country; a time traveler witnesses Louis Riel’s botched execution of Thomas Scott; a young woman removes her bra from under her shirt and her male friend is paralysed by possible meanings; an outsider plays old timer hockey in the wilds of New Brunswick; Victorian fashion is mixed up with the violent deaths of Custer, Louis Riel and Sitting Bull; a flight attendant is able to read passengers’ minds. A master of literary conceit and a hewer of breakneck language, Mark Anthony Jarman defies categorization and offers us instead a narrative freshness that surprises and offers up a world of wonders.

White Planet

Author : Leslie Anthony
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 1553656466
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book White Planet written by Leslie Anthony and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and adventurer Leslie Anthony has spent his life on two planks, racing down hills, searching for the next perfect ride. His real baptism, however, began in the early nineties when Alaska emerged as the ski world’s Next Big Thing. Steep faces and vast tracks of powder snow, were captured on film and beamed to audiences around the world. The result was a freeskiing revolution. With insight and humor, White Planet, traces an arc through the new ski culture, in a rock ‘n’ roll adventure that follows a diaspora to far-flung corners of the globe. Along the way, Anthony introduces many of the daredevils, visionaries and entrepreneurs who are bringing the sport to such unexpected places as Mexico, China, Lebanon and India.

The White Planet

Author : Jean Jouzel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140084469X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The White Planet written by Jean Jouzel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping journey through the icy regions of our changing planet From the Arctic Ocean and ice sheets of Greenland, to the glaciers of the Andes and Himalayas, to the great frozen desert of Antarctica, The White Planet takes readers on a spellbinding scientific journey through the shrinking world of ice and snow to tell the story of the expeditions and discoveries that have transformed our understanding of global climate. Written by three internationally renowned scientists at the center of many breakthroughs in ice core and climate science, this book provides an unparalleled firsthand account of how the "white planet" affects global climate—and how, in turn, global warming is changing the frozen world. Jean Jouzel, Claude Lorius, and Dominique Raynaud chronicle the daunting scientific, technical, and human hurdles that they and other scientists have had to overcome in order to unravel the mysteries of past and present climate change, as revealed by the cryosphere--the dynamic frozen regions of our planet. Scientifically impeccable, up-to-date, and accessible, The White Planet brings cutting-edge climate research to general readers through a vivid narrative. This is an essential book for anyone who wants to understand the inextricable link between climate and our planet's icy regions.

Welcome to My Planet

Author : Shannon Olson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141001777
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Welcome to My Planet written by Shannon Olson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Minneapolis woman tries to pull her life together between visits to the Target supermarket, her mother, her boyfriends, and her therapist, The Counselor. A first novel. Reprint.

White Planet, Black Heart

Author : Torbjørn Rødland
Publisher : Steidl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book White Planet, Black Heart written by Torbjørn Rødland and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2006 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torbjorn Rodland is to photography what the Pet Shop Boys are to pop: a master of the delicately orchestrated cliche overload, a surcharge of the too obvious, too cute or too inane, played to the point where, drained of all trace of common sense, it suggests a new sense of silence, of mystery. Rodland has a knack for producing images that make you ask what are, in fact, appropriate motives for art photography: Images of single audio or video cassettes? Bleak black-and-white renditions of countryside churches? George W. Bush's favorite ice cream? A black banana? Girls and pets, pets and girls? He creates a complex of readings that inveigles the viewer into spending time with each single image, to reconsider its meaning and relevance. White Planet, Black Heart makes no excuses as it reinvents the romantic impulses of popular culture. This is Rodland's first book.

The Planet of Junior Brown

Author : Virginia Hamilton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0020435401
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Planet of Junior Brown written by Virginia Hamilton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1971 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.

This Pretty Planet

Author : Tom Chapin
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1534445323
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book This Pretty Planet written by Tom Chapin and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the touching song “This Pretty Planet” by Tom Chapin and John Forster, this hopeful and whimsically illustrated picture book celebrates the pretty planet we call home. Winds blow. Tides flow. Shooting stars descend. Our lives begin, middle, and end on This pretty planet. From icy tundras to sandy beaches, lush forests to tall mountains, this exuberant picture book journeys around the globe and presents the natural wonders of the planet with a contagious sense of awe and whimsy. Young readers will get lost in the detailed illustrations as the narration serves as a gentle reminder of why we must care for and protect our pretty planet.

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet

Author : Courtney White
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603586180
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Two Percent Solutions for the Planet written by Courtney White and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality. The “two percent” refers to: the amount of new carbon in the soil needed to reap a wide variety of ecological and economic benefits; the percentage of the nation’s population who are farmers and ranchers; and the low financial cost (in terms of GDP) needed to get this work done. As White explained in Grass, Soil, Hope, a highly efficient carbon cycle captures, stores, releases, and recaptures biochemical energy, mitigating climate change, increasing water storage capacities in soil, and making green plants grow. Best of all, we don’t have to invent anything new—a wide variety of innovative ideas and methods that put carbon back into the soil have been field-tested and proven to be practical and profitable. They’re mostly low-tech, too, relying on natural resources such as sunlight, green plants, animals, compost, beavers, creeks, and more. In Two Percent Solutions for the Planet, White expands what he calls the “regenerative toolbox,” to include holistic grazing, edible forests, biochar, weed-eating livestock, food co-ops, keyline plowing, restoration agriculture, bioenergy, aquaponics, animal power, Farm Hack, bees, bears, wildlife corridors, rainwater harvesting, native seeds, and various other projects from across the United States, as well as in Canada, Europe, and Australia. These short, engaging success stories will help readers connect the dots between diverse, exciting, and pragmatic practices, and inspire them to dig deeper into each individual story and concept, energized by the news that solutions do exist.

Big Joe Egan

Author : Joe Egan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955039461
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Big Joe Egan written by Joe Egan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing story of Irish boxer Joe Egan who, as a teenager, Joe was invited to train and live at Mike Tyson's training camp with the late Cus D'Amato. Mike and Joe have remained good friends to this day. Joe speaks candidly about his rocky love life, of his failed professional ventures and of his brushes with the law.

Six Capitals, or Can Accountants Save the Planet?: Rethinking Capitalism for the Twenty-First Century

Author : Jane Gleeson-White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324668X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Six Capitals, or Can Accountants Save the Planet?: Rethinking Capitalism for the Twenty-First Century written by Jane Gleeson-White and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and fascinating account of the revolution going on in the world of finance from the acclaimed author of Double Entry. This is the story of a twenty-first-century revolution being led by the most unlikely of rebels: accountants. Only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping began, it is of seismic proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and our ongoing environmental crisis. The changes it will wreak are profound and far-reaching and not only will transform the way the world does business but also will alter the nature of capitalism. While the wealth of nations and corporations has been vital to the global economy, increasingly the world is coming to realize that such endless growth is limited by the earth's resources and comes at a huge price to the planet and to human well-being. It simply cannot be sustained. This revolution demands that we go beyond merely accounting for traditional financial and industrial capital and take account of the benefits and detriments to the natural world and society. It urges us to include four new categories of wealth: intellectual (such as intellectual property), human (skills, productivity, and health), social and relationship (shared norms and values), and natural (environment). Making them part of our financial statements and GDP figures may be the only way to address the many calamities we face. Just two years ago this revolution seemed idealistic and unlikely. Today it is quickly unfolding. In 2012, the sea-change year, two key initiatives took root: an international movement to transform how corporate accounting is calculated and the rise of incorporating the effects on the environment to the accounting of national and global economies. Six Capitals tells the story of this coming new age in capitalism, evaluating its promise and the disaster that lies ahead if it is not implemented.

Hack the Planet

Author : Eli Kintisch
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 047061871X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Hack the Planet written by Eli Kintisch and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside tour of the incredible—and probably dangerous—plans to counteract the effects of climate change through experiments that range from the plausible to the fantastic David Battisti had arrived in Cambridge expecting a bloodbath. So had many of the other scientists who had joined him for an invitation-only workshop on climate science in 2007, with geoengineering at the top of the agenda. We can't take deliberately altering the atmosphere seriously, he thought, because there’s no way we'll ever know enough to control it. But by the second day, with bad climate news piling on bad climate news, he was having second thoughts. When the scientists voted in a straw poll on whether to support geoengineering research, Battisti, filled with fear about the future, voted in favor. While the pernicious effects of global warming are clear, efforts to reduce the carbon emissions that cause it have fallen far short of what’s needed. Some scientists have started exploring more direct and radical ways to cool the planet, such as: Pouring reflective pollution into the upper atmosphere Making clouds brighter Growing enormous blooms of algae in the ocean Schemes that were science fiction just a few years ago have become earnest plans being studied by alarmed scientists, determined to avoid a climate catastrophe. In Hack the Planet, Science magazine reporter Eli Kintisch looks more closely at this array of ideas and characters, asking if these risky schemes will work, and just how geoengineering is changing the world. Scientists are developing geoengineering techniques for worst-case scenarios. But what would those desperate times look like? Kintisch outlines four circumstances: collapsing ice sheets, megadroughts, a catastrophic methane release, and slowing of the global ocean conveyor belt. As incredible and outlandish as many of these plans may seem, could they soon become our only hope for avoiding calamity? Or will the plans of brilliant and well-intentioned scientists cause unforeseeable disasters as they play out in the real world? And does the advent of geoengineering mean that humanity has failed in its role as steward of the planet—or taken on a new responsibility? Kintisch lays out the possibilities and dangers of geoengineering in a time of planetary tipping points. His investigation is required reading as the debate over global warming shifts to whether humanity should Hack the Planet.

The Human Planet

Author : George Steinmetz
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683358805
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Human Planet written by George Steinmetz and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic aerial exploration of our changing planet, published on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day The Human Planet is a sweeping visual chronicle of the Earth today from a photographer who has circled the globe to report on such urgent issues as climate change, sustainable agriculture, and the ever-expanding human footprint. George Steinmetz is at home on every continent, documenting both untrammeled nature and the human project that relentlessly redesigns the planet in its quest to build shelter, grow food, generate energy, and create beauty through art and architecture. In his images, accompanied by authoritative text by renowned science writer Andrew Revkin, we are encountering the dramatic and perplexing new face of our ancient home.

The Not-So-Perfect Planet

Author : Pamela F. Service
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1512458538
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Not-So-Perfect Planet written by Pamela F. Service and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Josh Higgins has an alien gizmo that lets him think his way to other planets—and he does NOT want to use it. But his sister Maggie won't stop bugging him, so he agrees to an off-world vacation. Josh dreams up a planet full of blue oceans, white beaches, and sunny weather. And he prepares for everything...well, almost. A parade of cranky creatures soon spoils Josh and Maggie's perfect getaway—including a one-horned beast, a sharp-toothed sea princess, and a two-tailed monkey. The planet's locals just can't get along, and Josh and Maggie find themselves caught up in the squabbling. As the Earth kids rush from one danger to another, will they discover a way to keep the peace? Or will Josh and Maggie become prisoners of the not-so-perfect planet?

A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy

Author : Alex White
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316412090
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy written by Alex White and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest dangers hide the brightest treasures in this bold, planet-hopping science fiction adventure series. The crew of the legendary Capricious are rich enough to retire in comfort for the rest of their days, but none of it matters if the galaxy is still in danger. Nilah and Boots, the ship's newest crew-members hear the word of a mysterious cult that may have links back to an ancient and all-powerful magic. To find it, hot-headed Nilah will have to go undercover and find the source of their power without revealing her true identity. Meanwhile, Boots is forced to confront the one person she'd hoped never to see again: her old, turn-coat treasure-hunting partner.

Instant Messaging with Immortals

Author : Can LanDiGua
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1649484151
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Instant Messaging with Immortals written by Can LanDiGua and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Li Yunfan had bought a second-hand computer with an ordinary 'Three Sans Sans Diaos'. It was actually a communication device used by deities! His life had undergone a tremendous change! If you have nothing to do, do it with a fairy! Take advantage of Chang'e when you're bored! Since he didn't have the money to buy immortal pills, he might as well sell a bag of spicy gluten! King of Hell, Jade Emperor heard Li Yunfan's name and started trembling, crying as he hugged Li Yunfan's leg. "Brother Li, give me another packet of spicy gluten!"

The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: