After The Wave

Author : Sandrine Collette
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609455682

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Just After the Wave by Sandrine Collette Pdf

Surviving the environmental apocalypse has its own consequences in this novel of “tense, tightly controlled, and genuinely devastating prose” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). When a volcano collapses in the ocean and generates a tidal wave of biblical proportions, the world disappears around Louie, his parents and his eight siblings. Their house, perched on what was once the top of a hill, now stands on a tiny island. As far as the eye can see there is only silver water. Their survival is nothing short of miraculous. But with that miracle come devastating new dilemmas. The vast waters around them are routinely shaken by violent storms, like jolts of rage. As the waters continue to rise. Higher ground must be found, and calculations must be made: How much longer until their little island is gone? How far is the next refuge? And how many members of the family can fit in their tiny rowboat? From the acclaimed author of Nothing But Dust comes “a breathtaking novel that tells a tale of resilience, love, and all the invisible but powerful ties that bind a family together” (France Bleu).

Author : Sonali Deraniyagala
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771025389

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Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala Pdf

A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family. On December 26, Boxing Day, Sonali Deraniyagala, her English husband, her parents, her two young sons, and a close friend were ending Christmas vacation at the seaside resort of Yala on the south coast of Sri Lanka when a wave suddenly overtook them. She was only to learn later that this was a tsunami that devastated coastlines through Southeast Asia. When the water began to encroach closer to their hotel, they began to run, but in an instant, water engulfed them, Sonali was separated from her family, and all was lost. Sonali Deraniyagala has written an extraordinarily honest, utterly engrossing account of the surreal tragedy of a devastating event that all at once ended her life as she knew it and her journey since in search of understanding and redemption. It is also a remarkable portrait of a young family's life and what came before, with all the small moments and larger dreams that suddenly and irrevocably ended.

Author : Todd Strasser
Publisher : Ember
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307979124

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The Wave by Todd Strasser Pdf

This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in a California school in 1969. A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. The results are astounding. The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hilter Youth, has its own salute, chants, and special ways of acting as a unit and sweeps beyond the class and throughout the school, evolving into a society willing to give up freedom for regimentation and blind obedience to their leader. All will learn a lesson that will never be forgotten.

Author : Michele Ruth Gamburd
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253011503

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The Golden Wave by Michele Ruth Gamburd Pdf

In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath: the chaos and loss of the flood itself; the sense of community and leveling of social distinctions as people worked together to recover and regroup; and the local and national politics of foreign aid as the country began to rebuild. In The Golden Wave, Gamburd describes how the catastrophe changed social identities, economic dynamics, and political structures.

Author : Rick Yancey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101599013

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The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey Pdf

The riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The 5th Wave, hailed by Justin Cronin as “wildly entertaining.” How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race. Cassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate. Praise for The 5th Wave “Just read it.”—Entertainment Weekly “A modern sci-fi masterpiece.”—USA Today “Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”—Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review “Nothing short of amazing.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Gripping!”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Everyone I trust is telling me to read this book.”—The Atlantic Wire

Author : Morton Rhue (pseud. van Todd Strasser.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9001874797

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The Wave by Morton Rhue (pseud. van Todd Strasser.) Pdf

Author : Peg Kehret
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481445535

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Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret Pdf

When an earthquake hits on their family vacation, can Kyle and his sister survive the following tsunami? The Worst Vacation Ever! Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast with his family would be great. He’d never flown before, and he’s never seen the Pacific Ocean. One evening Kyle is left in charge of his younger sister, BeeBee, while his parents attend an adults-only Salesman of the Year dinner on an elegant yacht. Then the earthquake comes—starting a fire in their hotel! As Kyle and BeeBee fight their way out through smoke and flame, Kyle remembers the sign at the beach that said after an earthquake everyone should go uphill and inland, as far from the ocean as possible. Giant tsunami waves—three or four stories high—can ride in from the sea and engulf anyone who doesn’t escape fast enough. Kyle and BeeBee flee uphill as a tsunami crashes over the beach, the hotel, and the town. The giant wave charges straight up the hillside and through the woods where the children are running for their lives. The perfect vacation has become a nightmare! Somehow Kyle and BeeBee have to outwit nature’s fury and save themselves from tsunami terror.

Author : Adrian Constantin
Publisher : SIAM
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781611971866

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Nonlinear Water Waves with Applications to Wave-Current Interactions and Tsunamis by Adrian Constantin Pdf

This overview of some of the main results and recent developments in nonlinear water waves presents fundamental aspects of the field and discusses several important topics of current research interest. It contains selected information about water-wave motion for which advanced mathematical study can be pursued, enabling readers to derive conclusions that explain observed phenomena to the greatest extent possible. The author discusses the underlying physical factors of such waves and explores the physical relevance of the mathematical results that are presented. The book is intended for mathematicians, physicists and engineers interested in the interplay between physical concepts and insights and the mathematical ideas and methods that are relevant to specific water-wave phenomena. The material is an expanded version of the author's lectures delivered at the NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences organized by the Mathematics Department of the University of Texas-Pan American in 2010.

Author : Susan Casey
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780385666688

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The Wave by Susan Casey Pdf

A riveting and rollicking tour-de-force about the terrifying power of nature's most deadly phenomena — colossal waves — and the scientists and super surfers who are obsessed with them. The New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth probes the dramatic convergence of baffling gargantuan waves that pummel oil rigs and sink massive ships, the extreme surfers willing to stare down death in order to ride them, and the marine scientists trying to unlock the physics of these waves, the climate changes that are provoking them, and what chaos they might wreak. Susan Casey explores the phenomenon of monster waves and how they have become an obsession for extreme surfers like Laird Hamilton — who serves as the author's guide as she takes the reader into the intense, white-knuckle world of 100-foot waves.

Author : Dong-Sheng Jeng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107160002

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Mechanics of Wave-Seabed-Structure Interactions by Dong-Sheng Jeng Pdf

An in-depth look at the mechanics of combined stresses imposed on the seabed from wave action and marine infrastructure.

Author : Jill Forbes
Publisher : McMillin Pub Llc
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253323673

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The Cinema in France by Jill Forbes Pdf

A generation of film goers was brought up on the nouvelle vague, admiring the works of Godard and Truffaut, Chabrol, Rohmer and Resnais. These film makers are household names to film lovers, but who are their successors? This major study of the contemporary French cinema demonstrates the richness and variety of French art film. It discusses the works of eleven important film makers, many of whom, like Luc Moullet, Philippe Garrel or Andre Techine, will be virtually unknown to non-French viewers. It also looks at the genres in which French art cinema primarily functions - the thriller, comedy, political and documentary cinema, the history film and women's cinema. The study shows how cinema has played a vital role in the social and cultural debates that have taken place in France since 1968: What has become of the working class? What is wrong with the family? How are women oppressed? What is meant by popular culture? Can the mass media be trusted? Is American cultural domination inevitable? The question of representation is of vital concern in our image-dominated societies. This book demonstrates that French film makers have made a tremendous contribution to changing our ways of seeing and our perception of reality, and that their work is central to maintaining an independent audio-visual culture in Europe.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780358446286

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Under the Wave at Waimea by Paul Theroux Pdf

From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.

Author : Sonali Deraniyagala
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781405520652

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Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala Pdf

The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life has been undone? Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story - the loss of her two boys, her husband, and her parents - without artifice or sentimentality. In the stark language of unfathomable sorrow, anger, and guilt: she struggles through the first months following the tragedy -- someone always at her side to prevent her from harming herself, her whole being furiously clenched against the reality she can't face; and then reluctantly emerging and, over the ensuing years, slowly allowing her memory to function again. Then she goes back through the rich and joyous life she's mourning, from her family's home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo while learning the balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and her fundamental need to keep her family, somehow, still with her.

Author : Euan A. Ashley,Euan Ashley,Josef Niebauer
Publisher : Remedica
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cardiology
ISBN : 9781901346220

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Cardiology Explained by Euan A. Ashley,Euan Ashley,Josef Niebauer Pdf

One of the most time-consuming tasks in clinical medicine is seeking the opinions of specialist colleagues. There is a pressure not only to make referrals appropriate but also to summarize the case in the language of the specialist. This book explains basic physiologic and pathophysiologic mechanisms of cardiovascular disease in a straightforward manner, gives guidelines as to when referral is appropriate, and, uniquely, explains what the specialist is likely to do. It is ideal for any hospital doctor, generalist, or even senior medical student who may need a cardiology opinion, or for that ma.

Author : Rick Yancey
Publisher : Large Print Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1594139814

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The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey Pdf

Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.