Hundred Feet Tall

Author : Benjamin Scheuer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534432208

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Hundred Feet Tall by Benjamin Scheuer Pdf

Guess How Much I Love You meets Someday in this gentle read-aloud picture book that shows us that with just the right amount of care and support, even the smallest of seeds can grow to stand one hundred feet tall. Thanks for the love that you’ve shown me Right now I’m so very small But with water and light I will keep gaining height And then one day I’ll stand at a hundred feet tall Hundred Feet Tall is a tender ode to the power of unconditional, immutable love. Because no matter how small you are now, with patience and persistence, with encouragement and devotion, you, too, will someday grow strong.

Author : Benjamin Scheuer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1801060789

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Can Troedfedd o'r Llawr / Hundred Feet Tall by Benjamin Scheuer Pdf

A bilingual adaptation of Hundred Feet Tall by Benjamin Scheuer. Youre never too small to make a big difference! This story follows a family of rabbits as they find a seed and help it grow into a large tree.

Author : Benjamin Scheuer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534432185

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Hibernate with Me by Benjamin Scheuer Pdf

Based on the song of the same name by Benjamin Scheuer, Hibernate with Me is a gentle reminder that no matter how sad, small, or scared you feel, you are always worthy of love, and that brighter days are always ahead. Sometimes you feel small. Sometimes you feel shy. Sometimes you feel worried, and you might not know why. Sometimes you want nobody to see. Darling, you can hibernate with me. If you feel scared or lost, or even just a little shy, love means there will always be a place to hibernate together. A place that’s cozy, warm, and safe.

Author : Adam Nicolson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780061238826

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Sea Room by Adam Nicolson Pdf

In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad—"Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres. . . . Puffins and seals. Apply."—and thus found the Shiants. With a name meaning "holy or enchanted islands," the Shiants for millennia were a haven for those seeking solitude, but their rich, sometimes violent history of human habitation includes much more. When he was twenty-one, Nicolson inherited this almost indescribably beautiful property: a landscape, soaked in centuries-old tales of restless ghosts and Bronze Age gold, that cradles the heritage of a once-vibrant world of farmers and fishermen. In Sea Room, Nicolson describes and relives his love affair with the three tiny islands and their strange and colorful history in passionate, keenly precise prose—sharing with us the greatest gift an island bestows on its inhabitants: a deep engagement with the natural world.

Author : Cameron Hardiman
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780733642418

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Ten Feet Tall and Not Quite Bulletproof by Cameron Hardiman Pdf

Cameron Hardiman lived a life most young boys could only dream of. Every morning he put on a navy blue police flight suit, grabbed his flight helmet, and prepared to work on the police helicopter. He could be called to anything during a shift, to search for a missing child, to pull an injured driver from a wrecked car, or a dangerous sea rescue. He saw his fair share of trauma and dealt with it like most coppers would: he quickly put each dangerous job out of his mind as soon as it was over. But one particular rescue in Bass Strait brought about a reckoning - and Cameron was never the same again. This is the brilliantly told, white-knuckle story of one cop learning every lesson the hard way - and coming to find out that being not quite bulletproof doesn't mean that you're not a good cop.

Author : California. State Board of Forestry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MSU:31293029008814

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Biennial Report of the California State Board of Forestry for the Years ... by California. State Board of Forestry Pdf

Author : John-Michael Kuczynski
Publisher : John-Michael Kuczynski
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Epistemology in the 21st Century: Five Works by John-Michael Kuczynski Pdf

Five distinctively modern works on the theory of knowledge. Table of Contents The Basic Principles of Knowledge Management Epistemology in an Hour A Crash Course in Epistemology Epistemology Empiricism and Its Limits

Author : Robert E. Pike
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393248609

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Tall Trees, Tough Men by Robert E. Pike Pdf

In this robust, informal book, Robert E. Pike tells the colorful story of logging and log-driving in New England. The New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the United States. The daily life of the loggers was hard — working in deep icy water fourteen hours a day, sleeping in wet blankets, eating coarse food, and constantly risking their lives. Their pay was very low, yet they were proud to call themselves loggers. When they came out of the woods after the spring drives, they ebulliently spent their pay carousing in the staid New England towns. Robert E. Pike, who as a youth worked in the woods and on the rivers, writes affectionately and knowingly, with humorous anecdotes, of every detail of lumbering. He describes the daily life of the logging camps, giving a picture of the different specialist jobs: the camp boss, the choppers, the sawyers and filers, the scaler, the teamsters, the river men, the railroaders, and the lumber kings. His descriptions bring the reader vividly into the woods, smelling the tangy, newly cut timber, hearing the boom of the falling trees. "The author's lively prose matches the temper of his subject. . . . This is basic history, geography, psychology, economics, and folklore all rolled into one top-quality volume." — R. S. Monahan, New York Times Book Review

Author : John Edward Huth
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674072824

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The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth Pdf

Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death. Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fog bank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena—the way the Vikings used the sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and “read” waves to guide their explorations. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth’s compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view.

Author : Michael Cohen
Publisher : Interactive Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781922332257

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And Other Essays by Michael Cohen Pdf

In this essay collection, the sequel to his A Place to Read, Michael Cohen presents the odd idea of the suicide note as a writing project that can be critiqued like any other, describes encounters with illegal border crossers in south Texas, and ponders the sudden popularity of books about atheism. Books are a frequent subject here, and Cohen makes an argument for The Maltese Falcon as the Great American Novel, searches for the perfect, the Platonic, nature handbook, and compares playing golf to reading about it. Reading is, for him, as engrossing a form of experience as any other—say hitchhiking through the Southwest with an old friend, the joys of flying small planes, or the charm of studying ancient Greek while people-watching at the gym, all experiences chronicled here. He looks back at the effect a 1956 collision of two airliners over the Grand Canyon had on him as a kid fond of flying, and how he learned about the joys of good food during a wanderjahr in Europe. Many of these essays begin with a question: whether Americans deserve their reputation for materialism, why we seem to have lost the climate change battle, and whether talking to yourself might really be beneficial. Another frequent topic is how our ideal places cannot avoid being bruised by time. He looks at what happened as the Tucson bars of his college days closed or morphed into very different places. He traces seasonal changes in the desert. He notes what happens to its effect when a giant cross beside I-40 in Texas is joined by equally giant windmills. And he takes a mind’s-eye tour through Paris’s terrace cafés and their literary associations after the 2015 terrorist attack there.

Author : Kimmy Beach
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781772122961

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Nuala by Kimmy Beach Pdf

"Shh, my Nuala. I am with you. Today I shall teach you the newness of you." As the Engine breathes life into Nuala, her gaze falls on Teacher-Servant, the chosen one. He alone will be able to hear her thoughts and interpret her emotions. But soon Teacher-Servant starts to worry that Nuala will be able to give away her thoughts freely. Set in an atypical dystopian world, Nuala is startlingly original and inventive, echoing the work of Margaret Atwood, José Saramago, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Beach's dark, fearless imagination has created a time and space that are at once remote and strange, but absorbing and deeply credible. Nuala leaves the reader with much to consider about the nature of love, possessiveness, jealousy, envy, and autonomy.

Author : Michel Bruneau
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781633888241

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The Blessings of Disaster by Michel Bruneau Pdf

Are we doomed? As individuals, certainly, eventually, inevitably. But as a species? As a civilization? Leading catastrophe engineer Michel Bruneau thinks perhaps not. The Blessings of Disaster draws on knowledge from multiple disciplines to illustrate how our civilization’s future successes and failures in dealing with societal threats—be they pandemics, climate change, overpopulation, monetary collapse, and nuclear holocaust—can be predicted by observing how we currently cope with and react to natural and technological disasters. Maybe most importantly, this entertaining and often counter-intuitive book shows how we can think in better ways about disasters, to strengthen and extend our existence as both individuals and as a species. When it comes to rare extreme events, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornados, volcanic eruptions, technological accidents, terrorist attacks, pandemics, and even existential threats, it is in our nature to set ourselves up for disasters because the gamble may be worth it. But only maybe. The Blessing of Disaster is the very real story of the relationship between humans and disasters – and it’s not a simple one. Bringing together his decades-long career spanning the globe as an earthquake and disaster engineer, detailed catastrophe case studies from extreme events like Japan’s Kobe earthquake and category 5 hurricanes in the American South, along with thoughtful and practical solutions, Bruneau provides a thorough examination of the structural challenges that face today’s (and tomorrow’s) world. How we cope with today’s threats is indicative of what the future holds. Contrary to popular forecasts, it is not all gloom and doom – but some of it definitely is.

Author : Tony Evans
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433686573

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Detours by Tony Evans Pdf

God has a plan for your life. More often than not, it’s a detour, one that can leave you feeling temporarily stalled and slowed down. Which nobody likes. But detours are necessary if any improvements are going to be made on the paths we travel. Or if any wreck is going to be cleaned up or a hazard avoided. Detours are designed for our own good, regardless of how we view or feel about them. Detours are a good thing that often feels bad. Tony knows a thing or two about detours, and one of the things he knows for certain is that God works through detours to bring about His blessing. To deliver you to the place He has created just for you. Yet what we often do is try as hard as we can to work our own way to the circumstances we believe are best for us. Using examples from the life of Joseph, Tony will leave readers with answers to the following questions: How do you find the destiny God has designed for your life? How can you make the most of the detours God has planned for you? Is there a way to shorten a detour and speed up your progression in life? What is the purpose of a detour?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556039651005

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Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, Haleakalā, Maui by Anonim Pdf

Author : david russell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781409250029

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DAVID RUSSELL Poems from the Fifties by david russell Pdf

poems by David Russell found again after fifty years!