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Sand, Wind, and War

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Author : Ralph A. Bagnold
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816547734
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Sand, Wind, and War written by Ralph A. Bagnold and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sand, Wind, and War records the work, travels and adventures of one of the last of the great British explorers, a man who served in both world wars and carved out a special niche in science through his studies of desert sands. Ralph Alger Bagnold was born in 1896 into a military family and educated as an engineer. Posted to Egypt in 1926, he was one of a group of officers who adapted Model T Fords to desert travel and in 1932 made the first east-west crossing—6,000 miles—of the Libyan desert. Bagnold established such a name for himself that in World War II he was again posted to Egypt where he founded and trained the Long Range Desert Group that was to confound the German and Italian armies. Bagnold’s fascination with the desert included curiosity over the formation of dunes, and beginning in 1935 he conducted wind tunnel experiments with sand that led to the book The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes. Eventually, he was to see his findings called on by NASA to interpret data on the sands of Mars. He devoted subsequent research to particle flow in fluids, and also served as a consultant to Middle Eastern governments concerned with the interference of sand flow in oil drilling. Sand, Wind, and War is the life story of a man who not only helped shape events in one part of the world but also contributed to our understanding of it. It is a significant benchmark not only in the history of science, but also in the annals of adventure.

Sand in the Wind

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Author : Robert Roth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991169016
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Sand in the Wind written by Robert Roth and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vietnam War Novel focusing on I Corps and the Marines who fought there.

Sand in the Wind

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Author : Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466818492
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Sand in the Wind written by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn by troubling dreams of a handsome Indian Warrior, Colleen Merrill had come westward with her brutal husband to homestead in the Montana wilderness--only to fall in love with Lieutenant Matthew Douglas, a dashing U.S. Cavalry officer. Wounded Bear, a young Cheyenne warrior and medicine man, had been told in a vision by the great spirit--wolf that a golden-haired woman held the power to save his people from invasion. As the drums of war beat every louder, Wounded Bear knew he must find this woman, or the Cheyenne would be scattered--like grains of sand in the wind. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes

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Author : R. A. Bagnold
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486141195
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes written by R. A. Bagnold and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to deal exclusively with the behavior of blown sand and related land forms, its accessible style makes it an enduring reference. 84 figures. 16 halftones.

Sand Queen

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Author : Helen Benedict
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569479674
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Sand Queen written by Helen Benedict and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel of female friendship in the midst of war is “The Things They Carried for women in Iraq” (The Boston Globe). Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father and little brother have been detained in the camp. Kate and Naema promise to help each other, but the war soon strains their intentions. Like any soldier, Kate must face the daily threats of combat duty, but as a woman, she is in equal danger from the predatory men in her unit. Naema suffers bombs, starvation, and the loss of her home and family. As the two women struggle to survive and hold on to the people they love, each comes to have a drastic and unforeseeable effect on the other’s life. From the author of Wolf Season and The Lonely Soldier, and informed by numerous interviews with those who were there, Sand Queen is a “heartbreaking, vivid story of the particular difficulties of being not just a soldier, but a female soldier” (Bustle).

The Whirlwind War

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Author : Frank N. Schubert
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160429545
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Whirlwind War written by Frank N. Schubert and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH Publication 70-30. Edited by Frank N. Schubert and TheresaL. Kraus. Discusses the United States Army's role in the Persian Gulf War from August 1990 to February 1991. Shows the various strands that came together to produce the army of the 1990s and how that army in turn performed under fire and in the glare of world attention. Retains a sense of immediacy in its approach. Contains maps which were carefully researched and compiled as original documents in their own right. Includes an index.

Libyan Sands

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Author : Ralph Alger Bagnold
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781906011338
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Libyan Sands written by Ralph Alger Bagnold and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.A. Bagnold was a pioneer of desert exploration who is credited with making the first recorded east-west crossing of the Libyan Desert. 'Libyan Sands' is the story of a desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara.

House of Sand and Fog: A Novel

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Author : Andre Dubus III
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393070352
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book House of Sand and Fog: A Novel written by Andre Dubus III and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award finalist, Oprah’s Book Club pick, #1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture A recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—yearns to restore his family’s dignity in California. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold onto the one thing she has left?her home. And her lover, a married cop, is driven to extremes to win her love. Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters—people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on—careen toward inevitable conflict. Their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.

The City of Sand

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Author : Tianxia Bachang
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0553524119
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The City of Sand written by Tianxia Bachang and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multimillion-copy bestseller in China—now available in English! In this heart-pounding adventure, a group of individuals who have come together for an expedition, each with a specific interest, soon find themselves motivated by one common goal: the sheer will to survive. THE QUEST: To find the lost city of Jingjue, a once-glorious kingdom, along with the burial chamber of its mysterious queen. Both lie buried under the golden dunes of the desert, where fierce sandstorms and blazing heat show no mercy. THE TEAM: Teenagers Tianyi, who has the ability read the earth and sky through feng shui, and Kai, Tianyi’s best friend and confidant; Julie, a wealthy American whose father vanished on the same trek a year ago; Professor Chen, who wants to fulfill a lifelong dream; and Asat Amat, a local guide gifted in desert survival. THE OBSTACLES: Lethal creatures of the desert and an evil force that wants to entomb the explorers under the unforgiving sands of China’s Taklimakan Desert forever. Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang, whose recent work includes NEVER GROW UP, the translation from Chinese of the autobiography from action movie superstar Jackie Chan.

The World in a Grain

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Author : Vince Beiser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399576444
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The World in a Grain written by Vince Beiser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres' stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and inspires us. It's the ingredient that makes possible our cities, our science, our lives--and our future. And, incredibly, we're running out of it. The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it--and sometimes, even kill for it. It's also a provocative examination of the serious human and environmental costs incurred by our dependence on sand, which has received little public attention. Not all sand is created equal: Some of the easiest sand to get to is the least useful. Award-winning journalist Vince Beiser delves deep into this world, taking readers on a journey across the globe, from the United States to remote corners of India, China, and Dubai to explain why sand is so crucial to modern life. Along the way, readers encounter world-changing innovators, island-building entrepreneurs, desert fighters, and murderous sand pirates. The result is an entertaining and eye-opening work, one that is both unexpected and involving, rippling with fascinating detail and filled with surprising characters.

When the East Wind Blows

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Author : Barbara H. Martin
Publisher : Jawbone Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780966805406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book When the East Wind Blows written by Barbara H. Martin and published by Jawbone Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1998-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The East Wind Blows is a fictional account of WWII. This story takes over where the history books stop -- with the human side of the civilian struggle. Elisabeth, a German mother of four young children and her maid, Helga, flee the incoming Russian front. As they move toward the west, they find themselves in the center of the most devastating carpet bombings of the war. The women and children, along with an escaped Jew from a concentration camp, must overcome death, destruction, and hunger during the final days of the collapse of the Nazi Regime.

Airman's Odyssey

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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781774640654
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Airman's Odyssey written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sand in the Wind

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Author : Robert Roth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sand in the Wind written by Robert Roth and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictionalized account of a Marine Corps rifle squad for thirteen months during 1967-1968 detailing the day-to-day trials of the Infantry grunt in the field.

Mochi's War

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Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493013947
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Mochi's War written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado Territory in 1864 wasn't merely the wild west, it was a land in limbo while the Civil War raged in the east and politics swirled around its potential admission to the union. The territorial governor, John Evans, had ambitions on the national stage should statehood occur--and he was joined in those ambitions by a local pastor and erstwhile Colonel in the Colorado militia, John Chivington. The decision was made to take a hard line stance against any Native Americans who refused to settle on reservations--and in the fall of 1864, Chivington set his sights on a small band of Cheyenne under the chief Black Eagle, camped and preparing for the winter at Sand Creek. When the order to fire on the camp came on November 28, one officer refused, other soldiers in Chivington's force, however, immediately attacked the village, disregarding the American flag, and a white flag of surrender that was run up shortly after the soldiers commenced firing. In the ensuing "battle" fifteen members of the assembled militias were killed and more than 50 wounded Between 150 and 200 of Black Kettle’s Cheyenne were estimated killed, nearly all elderly men, women and children. As with many incidents in American history, the victors wrote the first version of history--turning the massacre into a heroic feat by the troops. Soon thereafter, however, Congress began an investigation into Chivington's actions and he was roundly condemned. His name still rings with infamy in Colorado and American history. Mochi’s War explores this story and its repercussions into the last part of the nineteenth Century from the perspective of a Cheyenne woman whose determination swept her into some of the most dramatic and heartbreaking moments in the conflicts that grew through the West in the aftermath of Sand Creek.

A Sand Book

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Author : Ariana Reines
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1947793330
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book A Sand Book written by Ariana Reines and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award "Mind-blowing." —Kim Gordon DEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning and ecstasy, sex and love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, tracking new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times.

Wartime Writings 1939-1944

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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156027533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Wartime Writings 1939-1944 written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2002-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reconnaissance pilot for France during World War II, Antoine de Saint-Exupery spent many dangerous days in the air above enemy occupied territory. "Wartime Writings" recounts some of his aviation exploits.

Wind, Sand and Stars

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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151970872
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Wind, Sand and Stars written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscences by a flyer in Africa, South America and Europe.