Gaining Daylight

Author : Sara Loewen
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602231993

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Gaining Daylight by Sara Loewen Pdf

For many the idea of living off the land is a romantic notion left to stories of olden days or wistful dreams at the office. But for Sara Loewen it becomes her way of life each summer as her family settles into their remote cabin on Uyak Bay for the height of salmon season. With this connection to thousands of years of fishing and gathering at its core, Gaining Daylight explores what it means to balance lives on two islands, living within both an ancient way of life and the modern world. Her personal essays integrate natural and island history with her experiences of fishing and family life, as well as the challenges of living at the northern edge of the Pacific. Loewen’s writing is richly descriptive; readers can almost feel heat from wood stoves, smell smoking salmon, and spot the ways the ocean blues change with the season. With honesty and humor, Loewen easily draws readers into her world, sharing the rewards of subsistence living and the peace brought by miles of crisp solitude.

Author : Derek Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136387302

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Lighting Modern Buildings by Derek Phillips Pdf

Lighting in Architectural Design documents the part played by the independent lighting designer, leading to a greater understanding by architects and lighting engineers of the importance of lighting in architectural design.

Author : Ian R. Bartky
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0804756422

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One Time Fits All by Ian R. Bartky Pdf

One Time Fits All tells the story of the development, integration, and obstacles overcome in setting an the International Date Line, establishing the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and adopting Daylight Saving Time—including their global impacts on how the general public keeps time today.

Author : Drew Monkman
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781459701847

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Nature's Year by Drew Monkman Pdf

Whatever your interest may be, this month-by-month guide to the key natural events in Central and Eastern Ontario will let you know exactly what’s happening — and it’s often in your own backyard. Nature’s Year is an almanac of key events in nature occurring in Central and Eastern Ontario, a region that extends from the Bruce Peninsula and Georgian Bay in the west to Ottawa and Cornwall in the east. The book is a chronicle of the passing seasons designed to inform cottagers, gardeners, photographers, suburban backyard birders, and nature enthusiasts alike as to what events in nature to expect each month of the year. Whatever your interest may be — birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, invertebrates, plants, fungi, weather, or the night sky — just turn to a given month and you’ll find a list of what’s happening, often right in your own backyard. This book will also provide a reassuring measure of order and predictability to nature and help the reader become more attentive to and appreciative of the many wonders of the natural world that surround us in this exceptional region of Ontario.

Author : Konrad Domke,C. A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781845645502

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Light in Engineering, Architecture and the Environment by Konrad Domke,C. A. Brebbia Pdf

The Wessex Institute of Technology has for years been convening conferences on sustainable architecture and planning, design in nature, heritage architecture, and environmental health. With the growing importance of lighting in the creation of better, healthier environments, the enhancement of heritage architecture, and the recovery of urban areas, as well as new developments in more sustainable lighting it became clear that a conference focusing on lighting issues would be useful. This book contains the papers to be presented at the first International Conference on Lighting in Engineering, Architecture and the Environment, discussing the latest developments in a variety of topics related to light and illumination, from its engineering aspects to its use in art and architecture and the effect of light on living systems and human health. Ranging from discussions of technical issues regarding equipment design and light measurement to human perception of light and the effect of light on human health, the book will be of interest to architectures, planners, environmental health experts, and stage designers in academia, industry and government, as well as colleagues discussing the latest developments in a variety of topics related to light and illumination, from its engineering aspects to its use in art and architecture and the effect of light on living systems and human health.

Author : Alex Gambal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780761873976

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Climbing the Vines in Burgundy by Alex Gambal Pdf

This is a unique tale about the first non-Frenchman to ever own one of the Montrachet Grand Cru vineyards in Burgundy, France. Weaved throughout entertaining stories that celebrate the history of this world renowned region, is the chronicle of an American breaking through cultural barriers to find adventure and success. After a rather conventional start, Alex Gambal left his family's real estate and parking business to follow his passion for wine and winemaking. In 1993, he moved to Beaune, France with his wife and two children. For three years he worked with an exporter, to market and sell some of the oldest French family-owned domains in the world. He and his family were welcomed into a community of distinguished winemakers. In 1997, Alex launched a boutique winery--initially buying grapes and eventually owning 30 acres of vineyards that included the storied Grand Cru Batard Montrachet. Part memoir and part an account of practical business sense, this book is a unique personal story about how an American became a participant in the fabric of this exclusive community and in return gained a profound respect for Burgundy, its unique winemakers, and the romance of its vineyards. Please visit https: //www.climbingthevines.com/ for more information.

Author : Emma Teal Laukitis,Claire Neaton
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781632174345

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The Salmon Sisters: Harvest & Heritage by Emma Teal Laukitis,Claire Neaton Pdf

Follow the Salmon Sisters as they celebrate the seasons through the food, traditions, and rituals of their Alaskan home. Lush photography, charming illustrations, 60 comforting recipes, and 35 traditions showcase and honor the untamed spirit, natural bounty, and seasonal rhythms of land and sea. Open up the rich pages of Harvest & Heritage and step into another world. A landscape dotted with berries, wildflowers, and moose, an ocean rich with salmon, seafood, and kelp. A place of resilience and cherished traditions. While the landscape is vast, the community is tight-knit. This is the world of the Salmon Sisters and they are inviting you to join them through a year of changing seasons and comforting rituals. And yes, deeply satisfying food. The cookbook is organized by season. In each section, readers will find: Recipes ideal for the home cook Illustrated rituals and traditions Stories from Alaskan women on living and eating well A Solstice or Equinox menu to celebrate the seasonal harvest Expansive and intimate photography The recipes and projects are delicious and satisfying. For example, forage spruce tips and make Spruce Tip Ice Cream. Jig for a halibut and then make Halibut Burgers with Wild Chimichurri. Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton, aka the Salmon Sisters, grew up on a homestead in Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands, and they make their livelihood harvesting wild seafood from the pristine, bountiful waters around them. This luxe hardcover reflects their values and vision, with delicious recipes and lovely traditions that is seasonal eating and living at its best.

Author : Granville Johnson
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039184114

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Backstory by Granville Johnson Pdf

IN THIS UNFORGETTABLE MEMOIR, author Granville Johnson recounts his roller-coaster life growing up in Chicago’s Westside ghetto in the 1950s and ’60s. Anchored by his mother’s love and his own ambition and self-assurance, Granville contends with constant trauma, including fluke accidents, illness, the death of loved ones, institutionalized racism, violent gangs, and repeated sexual assault. While the legacy of that sexual assault becomes the one nemesis that Granville never fully defeats, he uses the pages of this inspiring book to remind others who have experienced similar assaults that what was done to them does not define them. Traumatic experiences definitely leave their mark, but as Granville so eloquently articulates, positive experiences and influences —like his mother—do as well.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce,United States. Congress. Senate. Interstate Commerce, Committee on,William Gibbs McAdoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1298 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Coal
ISBN : NYPL:33433004759233

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Federal Control of Systems of Communication by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce,United States. Congress. Senate. Interstate Commerce, Committee on,William Gibbs McAdoo Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10231017

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The Civil engineer & [and] architect's journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Laxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PRNC:32101072896549

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The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal by William Laxton Pdf

Author : Daniel B. Hunt
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491789087

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Origins by Daniel B. Hunt Pdf

Master Sergeant Sayer Kade leads a squad of Terra Corps preterhuman Geist Marines on a dangerous mission into the unknown. Dark forces churn inside the attack ship Revenge as the ghost of the captains dead wife haunts him into insanity - and warfare will never be the same... Geologist Haamar Ransans discovery promises to propel the desert world Telakia into an industrial powerhouse, while making Haamar extremely wealthy. Murder and intrigue swirl in this tale of corporate greed. Jordan Mackey traverses an apocalyptic, war-torn landscape searching for her father. As America and its allies launch a desperate bid to stop a Chinese invasion, Jordan finds the strength to survive, which leads to one of the most important discoveries in human history...

Author : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany,Lord Dunsany,Sidney Herbert Sime
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486228082

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Gods, Men and Ghosts by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany,Lord Dunsany,Sidney Herbert Sime Pdf

The world of the supernatural is explored in this anthology of tales about the bizarre and occult

Author : David Nikki Crouse
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646423989

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Trouble Will Save You by David Nikki Crouse Pdf

In these three deeply observed novellas, award-winning author David Nikki Crouse dramatizes the lives of women living in Interior Alaska. Each novella acts as an extended meditation on grief, loss, and the nature of imagination. Crouse’s usual storytelling gifts are on full display here, but the darkness found in past short story collections is balanced by images of stark beauty. In “Misfortune and Its Double,” a woman remembers—and manufactures—the story of an arduous cross-country drive that might not be entirely true. “A Rough Map of the Interior” follows a woman’s life from suicide attempt to hospitalization to a new kind of self-knowledge, and “Asmodeus Speaks” lingers on a Dungeon and Dragons roleplaying game in remote Fairbanks and its disruption when one of its players, a young Yupik man, goes missing. While Crouse’s prize-winning collection of short fiction The Man Back There offered up insights into a kind of self-destructive masculinity, these novellas now sensitively and persuasively capture the inner landscapes of women struggling with grief and isolation. Trouble Will Save You is a unique and fully realized work from a keenly empathetic writer. Praise for The Man Back There: “In this virtuoso collection of stories, David Crouse guides us directly to where the shadow lies—the disorienting loss, the surprising heartache, the forgotten wound—those inevitable areas of the psyche we all share and through which only truth, illuminated with a such a light touch here, can deliver us; The Man Back There is the work of the real thing.” —Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog “I chose these stories because they made me feel. I felt the characters like I would feel a stranger in a room or on a bus with me, with an irrational sympathy more animal than moral in its nature.” —Mary Gaitskill, 2007 Mary McCarthy Prize judge

Author : John Brooke Fieldhouse
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781800464322

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Architecture York by John Brooke Fieldhouse Pdf

You live in York UK, you’re thinking of paying a visit, or you just like buildings? Then this new work from John Brooke Fieldhouse is a must have! It’s a guide book. But it’s completely different, it’s not what you’d expect from the city of Vikings, Romans, the medieval, the Civil War, the Georgians, and the Victorians. It’s about the twentieth century and later – right up to 2018. Its buildings – public and private - how they’re designed, engineered, lit, heated, ventilated...and not just buildings, there are 130 plus items, including bridges, a flood barrier, details like windows, seating, handrails, landscaping, paving, all the things we touch when we move through a city, the things that make us feel good or bad. It’s 260 pages, 360 colour photographs, fifteen pages of indexes and an introduction, consisting of unsentimental and unvarnished answers by the author to over 30 questions on the book and York. Answering questions and always asking more. It’s not just the past, it’s all about the present and the future. We spend most of our lives in buildings, they are art, science, psychology and politics so it’s essential we all have our own view about them.