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Author | : Christopher Hallowell |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010-08-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0062013416 |
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Katrina's arrival on the Gulf Coast was a long time in coming. But it was assured. Since 1965, when Hurricane Betsy struck New Orleans, breached a levee, and flooded part of the city, everyone was waiting and talking about when the Big One would strike and do even more damage. Katrina was that hurricane, predictedand imagined before she struck, but so much worse in her reality. Holding Back the Sea is about the consequences of ignoring the warning signs that nature provides and the struggle to convince the rest of the country that South Louisiana lay in the path of destruction. The signs were not subtle; there were Hurricanes Andrew in 1992, George and Mitch in 1998, and Ivan in 2004, among others. At one time or another in their journeys north, they all threatened New Orleans. Some had headed right for the city before veering to the east and west, sparing the Big Easy and reinforcing the nickname. But the Big Easy ended -- at least in reputation -- on August 29, 2005, when the Big One came ashore as Katrina.
Author | : Rudolph A. Rosen |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2014-11-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1623492270 |
Download Texas Aquatic Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This classroom resource provides clear, concise scientific information in an understandable and enjoyable way about water and aquatic life. Spanning the hydrologic cycle from rain to watersheds, aquifers to springs, rivers to estuaries, ample illustrations promote understanding of important concepts and clarify major ideas. Aquatic science is covered comprehensively, with relevant principles of chemistry, physics, geology, geography, ecology, and biology included throughout the text. Emphasizing water sustainability and conservation, the book tells us what we can do personally to conserve for the future and presents job and volunteer opportunities in the hope that some students will pursue careers in aquatic science. Texas Aquatic Science, originally developed as part of a multi-faceted education project for middle and high school students, can also be used at the college level for non-science majors, in the home-school environment, and by anyone who educates kids about nature and water. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Author | : Jack E. Davis |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0871408678 |
Download The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction A National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 One of the Washington Post's Best Books of the Year In this “cri de coeur about the Gulf’s environmental ruin” (New York Times), “Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review). Hailed as a “nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester’s Atlantic” (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf is “by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of ‘America’s Sea’ ” (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America’s political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf’s fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood’s role in the country’s first offshore oil wells, this “vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a ‘national sacrifice zone’ ” (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers “a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written” (Edward O. Wilson).
Author | : Scarlett Hancock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781937514372 |
Download A Girl of the Gulf Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The story of the author's Grandmother, her life, her character and her times in tribute to a most remarkable woman.
Author | : Anil Menon |
Publisher | : Zubaan |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9383074175 |
Download Breaking the Bow Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A long time ago, a young prince, the heir to a great South-Asian kingdom, wielded Siva’s mighty bow and won the heart of a brave princess. The story of what happened next to the married couple—the Ramayana—told and re-told countless times over the centuries, begins where most stories end. The twenty-five stories in Breaking the Bow take a similar courageous leap into the unknown. Inspired by the Ramayana and its cultural importance, the anthology dares to imagine new worlds. Stories by some of the best writers in contemporary south-Asian fiction, including Abha Dawesar, Rana Dasgupta, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Tabish Khair, Kuzhali Manickavel, Mary Anne Mohanraj and Manjula Padmanabhan. Stories from India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, but also Holland, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States. Published by Zubaan.
Author | : Michael A Palmer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 1999-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439105804 |
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From the nineteenth century through the 1991 war with Iraq, this study of America's expanding role in the Persian Gulf traces the development of American commercial interests in the region and the resulting growth of military and political involvement.
Author | : Margaret Peterson Haddix |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011-01-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442430206 |
Download The House on the Gulf Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
[If only] Bran would stop acting weird....Probably he had a perfectly reasonable explanation for everything. I just couldn't imagine what it would be. When Britt's older brother, Bran, lands a summer job house-sitting for the Marquises, an elderly couple, it seems like a great opportunity. Britt and Bran have moved to Florida so their mother can finish college, and the house-sitting income will allow their mom to quit her job and take classes full-time. Having never lived in a real house before, Britt is thrilled. There's only one problem: Britt starts to suspect her family isn't supposed to be there. She's been noticing that Bran is acting weird and defensive -- he hides the Marquises' mail, won't let anyone touch the thermostat, and discourages Britt from meeting any of the neighbors. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Britt starts investigating and makes a startling discovery -- the Marquises aren't who Bran has led her and their mom to believe. So whose house are they staying in, and why has Bran brought them there? With unexpected twists and turns, award winner Margaret Peterson Haddix has again crafted a thriller that will grip readers until its stunning conclusion.
Author | : Richard Blanco |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2012-02-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0822978393 |
Download Looking for The Gulf Motel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family's emotional legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three movements, each one chronicling his understanding of a particular facet of life from childhood into adulthood. As a child born into the milieu of his Cuban exiled familia, the first movement delves into early questions of cultural identity and their evolution into his unrelenting sense of displacement and quest for the elusive meaning of home. The second begins with poems peering back into family again, examining the blurred lines of gender, the frailty of his father-son relationship, and the intersection of his cultural and sexual identities as a Cuban-American gay man living in rural Maine. In the last movement, poems focused on his mother's life shaped by exile, his father's death, and the passing of a generation of relatives, all provide lessons about his own impermanence in the world and the permanence of loss. Looking for the Gulf Motel is looking for the beauty of that which we cannot hold onto, be it country, family, or love.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nine-Foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 786 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Canals |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Select committee on nine-foot channel from the Great lakes to the gulf of Mexico |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1212 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Inland navigation |
ISBN | : |
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