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Wormwood Forest

Author : Mary Mycio
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309141273
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wormwood Forest written by Mary Mycio and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-08-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a titanic explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in 1986, spewing flames and chunks of burning, radioactive material into the atmosphere, one of our worst nightmares came true. As the news gradually seeped out of the USSR and the extent of the disaster was realized, it became clear how horribly wrong things had gone. Dozens died - two from the explosion and many more from radiation illness during the following months - while scores of additional victims came down with acute radiation sickness. Hundreds of thousands were evacuated from the most contaminated areas. The prognosis for Chernobyl and its environs - succinctly dubbed the Zone of Alienation - was grim. Today, 20 years after the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, intrepid journalist Mary Mycio dons dosimeter and camouflage protective gear to explore the world's most infamous radioactive wilderness. As she tours the Zone to report on the disaster's long-term effects on its human, faunal, and floral inhabitants, she meets pockets of defiant local residents who have remained behind to survive and make a life in the Zone. And she is shocked to discover that the area surrounding Chernobyl has become Europe's largest wildlife sanctuary, a flourishing - at times unearthly - wilderness teeming with large animals and a variety of birds, many of them members of rare and endangered species. Like the forests, fields, and swamps of their unexpectedly inviting habitat, both the people and the animals are all radioactive. Cesium-137 is packed in their muscles and strontium-90 in their bones. But quite astonishingly, they are also thriving. If fears of the Apocalypse and a lifeless, barren radioactive future have been constant companions of the nuclear age, Chernobyl now shows us a different view of the future. A vivid blend of reportage, popular science, and illuminating encounters that explode the myths of Chernobyl with facts that are at once beautiful and horrible, Wormwood Forest brings a remarkable land - and its people and animals - to life to tell a unique story of science, surprise and suspense.

Wormwood Forest

Author : Mary Mycio
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309094305
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Wormwood Forest written by Mary Mycio and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-08-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a titanic explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in 1986, spewing flames and chunks of burning, radioactive material into the atmosphere, one of our worst nightmares came true. As the news gradually seeped out of the USSR and the extent of the disaster was realized, it became clear how horribly wrong things had gone. Dozens died - two from the explosion and many more from radiation illness during the following months - while scores of additional victims came down with acute radiation sickness. Hundreds of thousands were evacuated from the most contaminated areas. The prognosis for Chernobyl and its environs - succinctly dubbed the Zone of Alienation - was grim. Today, 20 years after the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, intrepid journalist Mary Mycio dons dosimeter and camouflage protective gear to explore the world's most infamous radioactive wilderness. As she tours the Zone to report on the disaster's long-term effects on its human, faunal, and floral inhabitants, she meets pockets of defiant local residents who have remained behind to survive and make a life in the Zone. And she is shocked to discover that the area surrounding Chernobyl has become Europe's largest wildlife sanctuary, a flourishing - at times unearthly - wilderness teeming with large animals and a variety of birds, many of them members of rare and endangered species. Like the forests, fields, and swamps of their unexpectedly inviting habitat, both the people and the animals are all radioactive. Cesium-137 is packed in their muscles and strontium-90 in their bones. But quite astonishingly, they are also thriving. If fears of the Apocalypse and a lifeless, barren radioactive future have been constant companions of the nuclear age, Chernobyl now shows us a different view of the future. A vivid blend of reportage, popular science, and illuminating encounters that explode the myths of Chernobyl with facts that are at once beautiful and horrible, Wormwood Forest brings a remarkable land - and its people and animals - to life to tell a unique story of science, surprise and suspense.

Daughter of the Forest

Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429913460
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Daughter of the Forest written by Juliet Marillier and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love. Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac. But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift. To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once. Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Field Guide to Forest Plants of South-central Colorado

Author : David C. Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Field Guide to Forest Plants of South-central Colorado written by David C. Powell and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dark Forest

Author : Mark Norris
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1597812099
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Forest written by Mark Norris and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most in the Realm of Drugolin, ]otherly+ lore lingered as mysterious legends best suited for late night hearths. On rare occasions one might hear of strange visitations. Some of huge, radiant beings bearing aid and guidance. Others of dark, evil creatures summoning dread and death. All were a part of Drugolish legend, but few took them seriously. The westland village of Noy couldn't afford the apathy of its unenlightened, middleland neighbors. Its enclosing fortress walls stood as a monument to the frightening visitations it experienced, day and night. When the town's most celebrated +adventurer+ receives a prophetic lamp, he teams with one final group on a faith empowering mission into the dread regions of evil that could usher in an eternal age where mortals are like angels and God reigns supreme. Yahwin (God), Krystos (Jesus), Sahron (Satan), a host of otherly foes, +warrior angels, + and warrior prophets endued with extraordinary power all inhabit this peculiar realm in which +eschatologian+ Mark Norris +allegorizes+ +a prophetic+ tale that wars for the Millennium's victor's rights. What would you do if an angel materialized in your bedroom tonight, handed you a prophetic lampstand that projected the events of Satan's rebellion, and invited you to brave the powers of hell? The otherly+ is waiting, ...will you go? +Mark Norris (B.A. theology/M.A. journalism) has served as a pastor, Christian education director, radio teacher, TV ministries prayer director, and publishing house editor. Today he works as a liaison for the U.S. Army.+

Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom

Author : Rebecca L. Johnson
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1467711543
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom written by Rebecca L. Johnson and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, scientists believed radiation had created a vast and barren wasteland in which life could never resurface. But the Dead Zone, as the contaminated area is known, doesn't look dead at all. In fact, wildlife seems to be thriving there. The Zone is home to beetles, swallows, catfish, mice, voles, otters, beavers, wild boar, foxes, lynx, deer, moose?even brown bears and wolves. Yet the animals in the Zone are not quite what you'd expect. Every single one of them is radioactive. In Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom, you'll meet the international scientists investigating the Zone's wildlife and trying to answer difficult questions: Have some animals adapted to living with radiation? Or is the radioactive environment harming them in ways we can't see or that will only show up in future generations? Learn more about the fascinating ongoing research?and the debates that surround the findings?in one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

London is a Forest

Author : Paul Wood
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787138984
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book London is a Forest written by Paul Wood and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the rich diversity of London through a series of urban forest trails, this new, expanded edition of London is a Forest uncovers the fascinating stories and secrets the city holds. Through seven carefully devised paths, author Paul Wood explores the urban forest's geography, its past and future, and looks at the remarkable variety of life supported in this unique metropolitan ecosystem. For curious Londoners and anyone who’s fascinated by nature, a wealth of arboreal details, history, myth and anecdotes are revealed along the way. Complementing the trails, Wood looks in more detail at the fascinating stories of some of the iconic, and some of the less obvious species that define the urban forest. In London, 9 million people are crammed into just 600 square miles alongside 8.5 million trees. According to one UN definition, this makes the city a forest. The Forestry Commission agree, describing London as the world’s largest urban forest. And a particularly diverse and historic urban forest at that.

Wormwood Mire

Author : Judith Rossell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481443720
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Wormwood Mire written by Judith Rossell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spine-tingling sequel to Withering-by-Sea sees Stella sent away to the moldering old family estate, where she discovers two odd cousins—and a mystery. Eleven-year-old Stella Montgomery has always wondered about her family. What happened to her mother? And could she have a long-lost sister somewhere? Stella’s awful Aunts refuse to tell her anything, and now they have sent her away to the old family home at Wormwood Mire, where she must live with two strange cousins and their governess. But dark secrets slither and skulk within overgrown grounds of the house, and Stella must be brave if she’s to find out who—or what—she really is…

OTS.

Author : United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book OTS. written by United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical Services and published by . This book was released on with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bombshell

Author : James Reich
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593765614
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Bombshell written by James Reich and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bombshell is a feminist nuclear thriller set twenty-five years after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, in which an alienated young Russian woman born in its shadow undertakes a road trip across the U.S., waging a guerrilla war against the nuclear industry and leaving in her wake a trail of destruction and assassinations. Obsessed with would-be Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas, Varyushka Cash recreates her atomic past through escalating violence and her one true goal: an assault on the Indian Point nuclear plant on the bank of the Hudson River. All along she is relentlessly pursued by the CIA, eager to capture Varyushka on charges of domestic terrorism. The cat-and-mouse chase leads to a final showdown in a decimated and irradiated New York, there on the cusp of a frightening new future. The initial draft of Bombshell was completed five months before the Fukushima catastrophe, written from the author’s morbid suspicion that the twenty-fifth anniversary of catastrophe at Chernobyl, Pripyat, and beyond would be marked by an echo in the present, shadowed by the real threat present in our unguarded and deteriorating nuclear facilities. Bombshell is a combustible and commercial step forward by one of our most creative and intellectual writers today.

Rosewater

Author : Tade Thompson
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316449032
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Rosewater written by Tade Thompson and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosewater is the start of an award-winning trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices. *Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, winner *Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel, winner Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless -- people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again -- but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realization about a horrifying future. Tade Thompson's innovative, genre-bending, Afrofuturist series, the Wormwood Trilogy, is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. K. Jemisin, and Ann Leckie. Praise for Rosewater: "Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!" —Ann Leckie, award winning-author of Ancillary Justice "Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no one." —M. R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl with All the Gifts "A magnificent tour de force, skillfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas." —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time The Wormwood Trilogy Rosewater Rosewater Insurrection Rosewater Redemption

The Mysteries Of Light: Illumination, Intention and Desire In Photobooks

Author : Robert Dunn
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Mysteries Of Light: Illumination, Intention and Desire In Photobooks written by Robert Dunn and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysteries of Light is an original literary meditation on the significance and meaning of photobooks. Written by a photographer and novelist, the book brings a strong new light to the photobook phenomenon. It’s a mix of personal stories and examinations of such great artists as Robert Frank, Daido Moriyama, Saul Leiter, Alec Soth, Masahisa Fukase, and Christer Strömholm, as well as newcomers Daisuke Yokota, Laura El-Tantawy, and Jason Eskenazi. The Mysteries of Light is personal and passionate, fun, lively, informative, inspiring, and will help you understand photobooks—and get you jazzed about them—in a whole new way.

The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are

Author : Sean Padraig O'Donoghue
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623175704
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are written by Sean Padraig O'Donoghue and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide book for tapping into the medicinal power of wild plants for recovering and maintaining spiritual, emotional, and mental wellbeing. Our ancestors drew health, strength, nourishment, and meaning from their relationship to the natural world, and yet today most of us have lost that vital connection. It should then come as no surprise that we are living in an age of unprecedented anxiety, depression, loneliness, and illness. Drawing from herbal medicine, somatic psychology, Celtic wisdom, and his own experiences, author Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue outlines an approach to herbal healing for the mind and spirit that is uniquely suited to our modern times. Plants are our wild kindred and have the power to connect us with the life within and around us. O'Donoghue takes readers on a journey through some of the ways our bodies, minds, and spirits have become unbalanced in an unbalanced world. He then blends lyrical, mythic, and scientific understandings to help us to understand the potent power of plant medicine. Also included are simple rituals designed to deepen our connections to our own bodies, the land, and both new and familiar plant allies. This is the ideal book for anyone new to herbalism, as well as seasoned herbalists, naturopaths, body workers, and psychologists.

The Wormwood File: E-mail from Hell

Author : Forest, Jim
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608330818
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Wormwood File: E-mail from Hell written by Forest, Jim and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chernobyl

Author : David Erik Nelson
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737750804
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Chernobyl written by David Erik Nelson and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your readers will benefit from this collection of twenty-three essays that provide varying perspectives on the Chernobyl disaster. Essays discuss the development of the Soviet nuclear industry, radiation exposure, farming in contaminated zones, tourism, and other related topics. Personal stories about the accident will leave a lasting impression on readers as they learn about a control room worker who discusses the accident and life after, and hear from an Irish activist working with Chernobyl orphans. Essay sources include the International Atomic Energy Agency, Glenn Alan Cheney, and Yelena Starovoitova.

Forest Dark

Author : Nicole Krauss
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062431013
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Forest Dark written by Nicole Krauss and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book Named Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, PopSugar, and Globe and Mail "A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." —Philip Roth "One of America’s most important novelists" (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals—an older lawyer and a young novelist—whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert. Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents’ deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he’s felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic line. He also meets the rabbi’s beautiful daughter who convinces Epstein to become involved in her own project—a film about the life of David being shot in the desert—with life-changing consequences. But Epstein isn’t the only seeker embarking on a metaphysical journey that dissolves his sense of self, place, and history. Leaving her family in Brooklyn, a young, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton where she has stayed every year since birth. Troubled by writer’s block and a failing marriage, she hopes that the hotel can unlock a dimension of reality—and her own perception of life—that has been closed off to her. But when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a project she can’t turn down, she’s drawn into a mystery that alters her life in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life and humor, Forest Dark is a profound, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization—of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.

Revelation

Author :
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857861018
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.