Reflections of a River Town
Author | : Les Passees, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Memphis (Tenn.) |
ISBN | : 9780961136406 |
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Author | : Les Passees, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Memphis (Tenn.) |
ISBN | : 9780961136406 |
Author | : Peter Hessler |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2010-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062028987 |
A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society. Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Red Wing (Minn.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Les Passees, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Memphis (Tenn.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Moss Winterton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Shreveport (La.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bonnie Geisert |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0395908914 |
Describes, in brief text and illustrations, a year in the life of a river bank town and the many changes that occur throughout the seasons.
Author | : Kent Otto Stever |
Publisher | : North Star Press of St. Cloud |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-06 |
Genre | : City and town life |
ISBN | : 9780878397143 |
Harsh as the times of post-World War II days were in appearance, the 1950s comprised an era of proven practice--with common denominators of honesty and truth binding together the "kinder, gentler ways."
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Red Wing (Minn.) |
ISBN | : |
Short essays contributed by local residents.
Author | : Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sean W. Fleming |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Hydrology |
ISBN | : 9780691168784 |
The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us Rivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work? Why do rivers run where they do? Where do their waters actually come from? How can the same river flood one year and then dry up the next? Where the River Flows takes you on a majestic journey along the planet's waterways, providing a scientist's reflections on the vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us. Sean Fleming draws on examples ranging from common backyard creeks to powerful and evocative rivers like the Mississippi, Yangtze, Thames, and Congo. Each chapter looks at a particular aspect of rivers through the lens of applied physics, using abundant graphics and intuitive analogies to explore the surprising connections between watershed hydrology and the world around us. Fleming explains how river flows fluctuate like stock markets, what "digital rainbows" can tell us about climate change and its effects on water supply, how building virtual watersheds in silicon may help avoid the predicted water wars of the twenty-first century, and much more. Along the way, you will learn what some of the most exciting ideas in science--such as communications theory, fractals, and even artificial life--reveal about the life of rivers. Where the River Flows offers a new understanding of the profound interrelationships that rivers have with landscapes, ecosystems, and societies, and shows how startling new insights are possible when scientists are willing to think outside the disciplinary box.