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Raft People

Author : M.L. Katz
Publisher : Permuted Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1618682601
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Raft People written by M.L. Katz and published by Permuted Press+ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world is consumed by massive floods, one Texas family chooses to build their own survival raft in this climate disaster novel. Before the Big Flood, Liz Green worried more about getting in trouble at school than global climate change. She lives on the Texas Coastal Plain with her single mother, brilliant older brother, and awkward younger brother. But as the water keeps rising, her family—along with billions of people all over the world—are stuck between the rising seas and snarled escape routes. The military is overwhelmed and the wealthy are rushing to their secret ocean habitats. But a website called RaftPeople.com is helping ordinary people construct homemade crafts to float out of the disaster. Now Liz and her family must work together with their neighbors—a female special forces officer, and a retired naval engineer—to build their craft before their Houston suburb floods.

The Raft

Author : S. A. Bodeen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312650108
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Raft written by S. A. Bodeen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robbie's last-minute flight to the Midway Atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in shark-infested waters. Fighting for her life, the co-pilot Max pulls her onto the raft, and that's when the real terror begins.

Adrift

Author : Steven Callahan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547526563
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Adrift written by Steven Callahan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. “Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.

Raft

Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 057512797X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Raft written by Stephen Baxter and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series! A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree - just one of the many strange local lifeforms - carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft. And what he finds will change his world...

Raft of Stars

Author : Andrew J. Graff
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063031922
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Raft of Stars written by Andrew J. Graff and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor.” —Richard Russo An instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it’s too late? It’s the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer “Fish” Branson and Dale “Bread” Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don’t talk about. One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors of Ironsforge gorge threaten to overwhelm them. Four adults track them into the forest, each one on a journey of his or her own. Fish’s mother Miranda, a wise woman full of fierce faith; his granddad, Teddy, who knows the woods like the back of his hand; Tiffany, a purple-haired gas station attendant and poet looking for connection; and Sheriff Cal, who’s having doubts about a life in law enforcement. The adults track the boys toward the novel’s heart-pounding climax on the edge of the gorge and a conclusion that beautifully makes manifest the grace these characters find in the wilderness and one another. This timeless story of loss, hope, and adventure runs like the river itself amid the vividly rendered landscape of the Upper Midwest.

The Raft

Author : Jim LaMarche
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064438562
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book The Raft written by Jim LaMarche and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A flock of birds was moving toward me along the river, hovering over something floating on the water. It drifteddownstream, closer and closer, until finally it bumped up against the dock. Though it was covered with leaves and branches, now I could tell that it was a raft. I reached down and pushed some of the leaves aside. Beneath them was a drawing of a rabbit. It looked like those ancient cave paintings I'd seen in books--just outlines, but wild and fast and free. Nicky isn't one bit happy about spending the summer with his grandma in the Wisconsin woods, but them the raft appears and changes everything. As Nicky explores, the raft works a subtle magic, opening up the wonders all around him--the animals of river and woods, his grandmother's humor and wisdom, and his own special talent as an artist.

Downriver

Author : Will Hobbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442445475
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Downriver written by Will Hobbs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

Huck’s Raft

Author : Steven Mintz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674736478
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Huck’s Raft written by Steven Mintz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Huck’s raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Now, Steven Mintz gives us the first comprehensive history of American childhood encompassing both the child’s and the adult’s tumultuous early years of life. Underscoring diversity through time and across regions, Mintz traces the transformation of children from the sinful creatures perceived by Puritans to the productive workers of nineteenth-century farms and factories, from the cosseted cherubs of the Victorian era to the confident consumers of our own. He explores their role in revolutionary upheaval, westward expansion, industrial growth, wartime mobilization, and the modern welfare state. Revealing the harsh realities of children’s lives through history—the rigors of physical labor, the fear of chronic ailments, the heartbreak of premature death—he also acknowledges the freedom children once possessed to discover their world as well as themselves. Whether at work or play, at home or school, the transition from childhood to adulthood has required generations of Americans to tackle tremendously difficult challenges. Today, adults impose ever-increasing demands on the young for self-discipline, cognitive development, and academic achievement, even as the influence of the mass media and consumer culture has grown. With a nod to the past, Mintz revisits an alternative to the goal-driven realities of contemporary childhood. An odyssey of psychological self-discovery and growth, this book suggests a vision of childhood that embraces risk and freedom—like the daring adventure on Huck’s raft.

Adrift

Author : Alfredo Antonio Fernàndez
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611920550
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Adrift written by Alfredo Antonio Fernàndez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, the world watched as the Berlin Wall tumbled down, and then looked on as the entire Iron Curtain shook itself to pieces, freeing Eastern Europe after decades of Soviet domination. But how many observers noticed as the swells and shockwaves from those events slowly crossed the Atlantic Ocean to roil the waters of the Caribbean and break upon the shores of Cuba? In Adrift: The Cuban Raft People , Alfredo Fernández surveys the turbulence produced an entire hemisphere away by the collapse of the USSR, and concludes that, ironically, the greatest collateral damage has been inflicted not on the regime of Fidel Castro but rather upon the men, women, and children seeking to flee his dictatorship. For although U.S. immigration policy changed soon after, Castros grip on the Cuban people has remained unyielding, even as extraordinary economic crises have wracked the island. As a result, countless refugees seeking freedom have disappeared without a trace into the churning waters of the Florida Straits. And many of those rescued in international waters by U.S. naval vessels have simply been turned back over to the Cuban authorities. Focusing especially on the years 1994 through 1996, by which time the magnitude of the post-Soviet changes in Cuba had become fully apparent, Fernández presents a compelling international gallery of survivors, victims, traitors, rogues, and heroes. From the infamous destruction of two unarmed private planes (sponsored by the humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue) by Cuban MIGs in February 1996, to an afterward on the media-driven frenzy over five-year-old Elián González, found alone in an inner-tube two miles off Fort Lauderdale in November 1999, this is the powerful, true saga of two nations in conflict and the hapless people adrift between their shores. Fernándezs compelling account captures the stories of the Cuban boat people, which are particularly relevant in light of the recent Elián González case. The work transcends purely ethnic interest in addressing a political topic of broad national impact.

Minnesota and Its People

Author : Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Minnesota and Its People written by Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Study of the Raft

Author : Leonora Simonovis
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1885635796
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Study of the Raft written by Leonora Simonovis and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry In Study of the Raft, Leonora Simonovis’s poems weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home long gone, and of family relations, especially among womxn. The collection explores the consequences of colonization, starting with “Maps,” a poem that speaks of loss and uprootedness, recalling a time when indigenous lands were stolen and occupied, where stories were lost as new languages and beliefs were imposed on people. The politics of the present are also the politics of the past, not just in the Venezuelan context, but in many other Latin American and Caribbean countries. It is the reality of all indigenous people. Simonovis’s poems question the capacity of language to represent the complexity of lived experience, especially when it involves living from more than one language and culture. These poems wrestle with questions of life and death, of what remains after what and whom we know are no longer with us, and how we, as humans, constantly change and adjust in the face of uncertainty.

Fame, Blame, and the Raft of Shame

Author : Brave Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781955550031
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Fame, Blame, and the Raft of Shame written by Brave Books and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eva's always dreamed of performing, but the spotlight isn't what she expected. When Swan, Starlotte City's favorite magician, takes offense with well-meaning animals, she and the crowd begin tossing animals out of Starlotte City and into the Raft of Shame. Join Eva as she explores how to deal with offense, and then experience the lesson with your own family through the activities included in the BRAVE Challenge at the end of the book."--Cover.

Deep-Sea Detectives

Author : Peter Limburg
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595376045
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Deep-Sea Detectives written by Peter Limburg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aging American coal carrier goes down in a winter storm off the Virginia coast. Only three of the crew of 34 survive; the rest perish in the ice-cold water. Was the dead captain at fault? Did the mate neglect safety precautions? Or did a penny-pinching management skimp on necessary maintenance? The giant car-and-passenger ferry Estonia sinks in a gale in the Baltic Sea, carrying over 800 passengers to their deaths and causing national scandals in three countries. Was she sunk by a terrorist bomb? By the CIA or the Russian secret police? Was the Russian mob involved? Was she carrying military secrets, or smuggled narcotics? A massive government cover-up is suspected. What was the truth? Answers to these and other fascinating cases can be found in Deep-Sea Detectives: Maritime Mysteries and Forensic Science. Author Peter R. Limburg explores the advances that make it possible to bring back evidence from as deep as 20,000 feet below the sea. "It's Sherlock Holmes with bubbles! Actually, Holmes had it easy; his mysteries weren't submerged beneath miles of water. These fascinating tales of scoundrels and submersibles make for terrific adventures in the little-known world of undersea forensics." -Dennis Meredith, Director of Research Communications, Duke University

Junk Raft

Author : Marcus Eriksen
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807056413
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Junk Raft written by Marcus Eriksen and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting account of a scientist’s expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft” in order to learn more about plastic marine pollution A scientist, activist, and inveterate adventurer, Eriksen and his co-navigator, Joel Paschal, construct a “junk raft” made of plastic trash and set themselves adrift from Los Angeles to Hawaii, with no motor or support vessel, confronting perilous cyclones, food shortages, and a fast decaying raft. As Eriksen recounts his struggles to keep afloat, he immerses readers in the deep history of the plastic pollution crisis and the movement that has arisen to combat it. The proliferation of cheap plastic products during the twentieth century has left the world awash in trash. Meanwhile, the plastics industry, with its lobbying muscle, fights tooth and nail against any changes that would affect its lucrative status quo, instead defending poorly designed products and deflecting responsibility for the harm they cause. But, as Eriksen shows, the tide is turning in the battle to save the world’s oceans. He recounts the successful efforts that he and many other activists are waging to fight corporate influence and demand that plastics producers be held accountable. Junk Raft provides concrete, actionable solutions and an empowering message: it’s within our power to change the throw-away culture for the sake of our planet.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory

Author : Patsy Healey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315279231
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory written by Patsy Healey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of potentially radical changes in the ways in which humans interact with their environments - through financial, environmental and/or social crises - the raison d'être of spatial planning faces significant conceptual and empirical challenges. This Companion presents a multidimensional collection of critical narratives of conceptual challenges for spatial planning. The authors draw on various disciplinary traditions and theoretical frames to explore different ways of conceptualising spatial planning and the challenges it faces. Through problematising planning itself, the values which underpin planning and theory-practice relations, contributions make visible the limits of established planning theories and illustrate how, by thinking about new issues, or about issues in new ways, spatial planning might be advanced both theoretically and practically. There cannot be definitive answers to the conceptual challenges posed, but the authors in this collection provoke critical questions and debates over important issues for spatial planning and its future. A key question is not so much what planning theory is, but what might planning theory do in times of uncertainty and complexity. An underlying rationale is that planning theory and practice are intrinsically connected. The Companion is presented in three linked parts: issues which arise from an interactive understanding of the relations between planning ideas and the political-institutional contexts in which such ideas are put to work; key concepts in current theorising from mainly poststructuralist perspectives and what discussion on complexity may offer planning theory and practice.

The Young People's Life of George Washington

Author : William Makepeace Thayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Young People's Life of George Washington written by William Makepeace Thayer and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Whitewater Rafting

Author : Shane McFee
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404242180
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Whitewater Rafting written by Shane McFee and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the action-packed sport of whitewater rafting, including safety equipment, competitions, and safety information.