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Summary of Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides

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Summary of Catherine Musemeche s Lethal Tides Book PDF

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09T22:59:00Z
Category : History
ISBN : 9798350001402

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In December 1941, marine biologist Mary Sears was sent to Peru to help save the country’s guano industry, which was threatened by a lack of birds to eat the fish that made up its primary source of income. #2 In December 1941, marine biologist Mary Sears was sent to Peru to help save the country’s guano industry, which was threatened by a lack of birds to eat the fish that made up its primary source of income. She was a planktonologist, but she had never gone on an expedition. #3 Mary Sears was a planktonologist who was sent to Peru in December 1941 to help save the country’s guano industry, which was threatened by a lack of birds to eat the fish that made up its primary source of income. She was unable to collect any specimens because the men on the boat did not want to let her go to sea. #4 In December 1941, marine biologist Mary Sears was sent to Peru to help save the country’s guano industry, which was threatened by a lack of birds to eat the fish that made up its primary source of income. The prohibition on women sailing on oceanographic vessels grew out of ancient taboos that originated in myths and legends.

Lethal Tides

Catherine Musemeche
Lethal Tides Book PDF

Author : Catherine Musemeche
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062991713

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"Magnificently researched, brilliantly written, Lethal Tides is immensely entertaining and reads like an action novel. Catherine Musemeche has brought to life the incredible work of the scientists and researchers who made such a remarkable contribution to America’s war effort in the Pacific theater during WWII.” —Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy, Ret.), #1 New York Times bestselling author of Make Your Bed and The Hero Code Lethal Tides tells the story of the virtually unknown Mary Sears, “the first oceanographer of the Navy,” whose groundbreaking oceanographic research led the U.S. to victory in the Pacific theater during World War II. In Lethal Tides, Catherine Musemeche weaves together science, biography, and military history in the compelling story of an unsung woman who had a dramatic effect on the U.S. Navy’s success against Japan in WWII, creating an intelligence-gathering juggernaut based on the new science of oceanography. When World War II began, the U.S. Navy was unprepared to enact its island-hopping strategy to reach Japan. Anticipating tides, planning for coral reefs, and preparing for enemy fire was new ground for them, and with lives at stake it was ground that had to be covered quickly. Mary Sears, a marine biologist, was the untapped talent they turned to, and she along with a team of quirky marine scientists were instrumental in turning the tide of the war in the United States’ favor. The Sears team analyzed ocean currents, made wave and tide predictions, identified zones of bioluminescence, mapped deep-water levels where submarines could hide and gathered information about the topography and surf conditions surrounding the Pacific islands and Japan. Sears was frequently called upon to make middle-of-the-night calculations for last-minute top-secret landing destinations and boldly predicted optimal landing times and locations for amphibious invasions. In supplying these crucial details, Sears and her team played a major role in averting catastrophes that plagued earlier amphibious landings, like the disastrous Tarawa, and cleared a path to Okinawa, the last major battle of World War II.

Bolo!

David Weber
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Author : David Weber
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743498722

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Bolo! by David Weber Pdf

The author continues the history of the Bolo--gigantic robot tanks controlled by tireless electronic brains programmed to admit no possibility of defeat--in four short novels, one of them published here for the first time.

Old Soldiers

David Weber
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Author : David Weber
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416508984

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Old Soldiers by David Weber Pdf

The sole survivors of the Dinochrome Brigade's 39th Battalion--Captain Maneka Trevor and Bolo known as Lazarus--are all that stand between a deperate, secret colony of humanity and destruction of the human race.

City of a Million Dreams

Jason Berry
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Author : Jason Berry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469647159

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City of a Million Dreams by Jason Berry Pdf

In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm--a city legendary for its noisy, complicated, tradition-rich splendor. In City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry delivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death, and rebirth, Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods. Berry orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor William C. C. Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine, an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition; Sister Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist of the 1960s; and Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade his life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of the beloved city, famous the world over for mysterious rituals as people dance when they bury their dead.

The Seasons

Luke Fischer,David Macauley
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Author : Luke Fischer,David Macauley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438484266

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The Seasons by Luke Fischer,David Macauley Pdf

Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art, their significance for philosophy and environmental theory has remained largely unexplored. This pioneering book demonstrates the ways in which inquiry into the seasons reveals new and illuminating perspectives for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism. The Seasons opens up new avenues for research in these fields and provides a valuable resource for teachers and students of the environmental humanities. The innovative essays herein address a wide range of seasonal cultures and geographies, from the traditional Western model of the four seasons––spring, summer, fall, and winter––to the Indigenous seasons of Australia and the Arctic. Exemplifying the crucial importance of interdisciplinary research, The Seasons makes a compelling case for the relevance of the seasons to our daily lives, scientific understanding, diverse cultural practices, and politics.

The East River

Erik Baard,Thomas Jackson,Richard Melnick
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Author : Erik Baard,Thomas Jackson,Richard Melnick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 073853787X

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The East River by Erik Baard,Thomas Jackson,Richard Melnick Pdf

The East River captures the history of New York's premier waterway. The river, a source of life for Native Americans, spawned communities from Brooklyn to Harlem. Its shipyards and docks projected American enterprise around the world. The waterfront, an industrial and commercial dynamo, forged a continent. The dreams of immigrants who arrived and lived on its banks created this nation. The river's strong currents guarded prisons and hospital quarantines while keeping secret legends of gold on its bottom. The sinews of a great city are knitted by more than a score of its tunnels and bridges. Today, a renaissance draws people to this river, the heart of New York.

A Nation Under God?

R. Bruce Douglass,Joshua Mitchell
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Author : R. Bruce Douglass,Joshua Mitchell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0742507513

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A Nation Under God? by R. Bruce Douglass,Joshua Mitchell Pdf

A Nation under God? is a collection of original essays by political and legal theorists on the future of religion as an active influence in American public life. This book displays a distinctive set of arguments on topics that range from the ethics of religious witness in public life to the future of civil religion in America.

My heart in your hands

Naitsikile Iizyenda,Jill Kinahan
My heart in your hands Book PDF

Author : Naitsikile Iizyenda,Jill Kinahan
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789991642819

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My heart in your hands by Naitsikile Iizyenda,Jill Kinahan Pdf

My heart in your hands is a platform for poets in Namibia to speak out. It lays bare the hearts of nearly 100 poets who have with courage, honesty, and love, spilled their thoughts, tears, rage, regrets, love and laughter onto the pages of this book. This collection celebrates the country’s natural beauty, stands in awe of the strength of our people, expresses anger at the inequality and injustices present in our society and imagines idyllic dreams and hopes for a better future. The poems display rich poetic nuances, vary in length and form and give a textured view of the poets and the environments they represent, a true reflection of Namibian diversity, and a glimpse into our soul.

Twin Tales: Are All Men Alike, and, The Lost Titian

Arthur Stringer
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Author : Arthur Stringer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547416166

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Twin Tales: Are All Men Alike, and, The Lost Titian by Arthur Stringer Pdf

"Twin Tales" is a collection of two novellas by the Canadian author Arthur Stringer: "Are All Men Alike" and "The Lost Titian." According to the author, both stories are similar, presenting different plots and making an exciting read for any literature fan.

Selected Plays

James Purdy
Selected Plays Book PDF

Author : James Purdy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9781566637985

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Selected Plays by James Purdy Pdf

"James Purdy's Selected plays will break your damaged little heart."--John Winter."James Purdy's plays have much of the exciting existentiality that infuses his novels and seem content to take drama to interesting places it does not always want to go." -- Edward Albee."James Purdy is an authentic American genius." --Gore Vidal.

Second Sight

Aoife Clifford
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Author : Aoife Clifford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643131887

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Second Sight by Aoife Clifford Pdf

When Eliza Carmody returns to her small hometown after a destructive wildfire, she witnesses a crime that draws her back into the mysteries of a childhood she thought she’d left behind for good. When the biggest legal case of her career brings Eliza Carmody back to Kinsale, the hometown she thought she had left forever, she witnesses an old friend commit a crime that sends her on a dangerous quest to uncover the mysteries of her childhood that the rest of the town seems willing to ignore. With her friend on the run and the police investigating the bones of an unidentified dead body at a historic homestead near town, Eliza becomes convinced that the truth lies in her memories of the New Year’s Eve years ago when her friend Grace disappeared from Kinsale forever. While Eliza desperately explores the connections between the crimes of the present and those of the past, she begins to suspect that no one — even her own family — is telling the truth.

James Purdy: Selected Plays

James Purdy
James Purdy Selected Plays Book PDF

Author : James Purdy
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781615780105

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James Purdy: Selected Plays by James Purdy Pdf

Hailed as a creative genius (TLS) and a singular American visionary (New York Times), James Purdy may be best known for his remarkable novels, but he is also an astonishing playwright who has written nine full-length and twenty short plays. Purdy is one of the few contemporary American writers capable of writing tragedy-Tennessee Williams called him a uniquely gifted man of the theater. This collection presents four riveting and beautifully crafted works: Brice, The Paradise Circus, Where Quentin Goes, and Ruthanna Elder. Each explores a range of emotional and familial tangles, as fathers betray their sons and squander their inheritances, siblings compete for parental affection, and husbands and wives try to salvage meaning from their broken marriages. The plays are written in Purdy's authentic idiom, which Paul Bowles called the closest [we have] to a classical American colloquial.

Blue Song

Henry I. Schvey
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Author : Henry I. Schvey
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826274571

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Blue Song by Henry I. Schvey Pdf

In 2011, the centennial of Tennessee Williams’s birth, events were held around the world honoring America’s greatest playwright. There were festivals, conferences, and exhibitions held in places closely associated with Williams’s life and career—New Orleans held major celebrations, as did New York, Key West, and Provincetown. But absolutely nothing was done to celebrate Williams’s life and extraordinary literary and theatrical career in the place that he lived in longest, and called home longer than any other—St. Louis, Missouri. The question of this paradox lies at the heart of this book, an attempt not so much to correct the record about Williams’s well-chronicled dislike of the city, but rather to reveal how the city was absolutely indispensable to his formation and development both as a person and artist. Unlike the prevailing scholarly narrative that suggests that Williams discovered himself artistically and sexually in the deep South and New Orleans, Blue Song reveals that Williams remained emotionally tethered to St. Louis for a host of reasons for the rest of his life.

Wild Child

Patrick Barkham
Wild Child Book PDF

Author : Patrick Barkham
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781783781928

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Wild Child by Patrick Barkham Pdf

“Quiet but compelling arguments about the importance of kids getting out more and connecting to nature . . . A book that deserves to flourish.” —The Guardian From climbing trees and making dens, to building sandcastles and pond-dipping, many of the activities we associate with a happy childhood take place outdoors. And yet, the reality for many contemporary children is very different. The studies tell us that we are raising a generation who are so alienated from nature that they can’t identify the commonest birds or plants, they don’t know where their food comes from, they are shuttled between home, school and the shops and spend very little time in green spaces—let alone roaming free. In this timely and personal book, celebrated nature writer Patrick Barkham draws on his own experience as a parent and a forest school volunteer to explore the relationship between children and nature. Unfolding over the course of a year of snowsuits, muddy wellies, and sunhats, Wild Child is both an intimate story of children finding their place in the natural world and a celebration of the delight we can all find in even modest patches of green. “Entrancing . . . If ever there was a book to fuel the ecological interest of future generations, this is it.”—Isabella Tree, author of Wilding “Barkham takes us through a year giving his children an education in wildness. He encourages them that a physical relationship with wildlife is of the utmost importance . . . His memoir reveals the abundance of wildlife that can be explored in our own back gardens.” —The Herald