Red Weather

Author : Pauls Toutonghi
Publisher : Crown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307381552

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Red Weather by Pauls Toutonghi Pdf

The setting is Milwaukee, Wisconsin—if not America’s heart, then at least its liver—home to an array of breweries and abandoned factories and down-on-their-luck Eastern European immigrants. The year is 1989. Revolutions are sweeping through the nations of the Eastern Bloc. Communism is unraveling. And nobody feels this unraveling more piquantly than Yuri Balodis—a fifteen-year-old first-generation American living with his Latvian-immigrant parents in Milwaukee’s Third Ward. It’s a turbulent time. And when Yuri falls in love with Hannah Graham—the daring daughter of a prominent local socialist—chaos ensues. Within weeks, Yuri is ensnared by both Hannah and socialism. He joins the staff of the Socialist Worker. He starts quoting Lenin and Marx indiscriminately. His parents, of course, are horrified and deeply saddened. They try to educate him, to show him why, in their opinion, communism has ruined so many lives. But Yuri is stubborn. And his ideological betrayal will have more serious consequences than breaking his parents’ hearts. Red Weather is by turns funny and bittersweet, tinged with a rueful comic sense that will instantly remind you of the absurd complications of love. Pauls Toutonghi’s stunning debut novel is at once reminiscent of Michael Chabon’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.

Author : Janet McAdams
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780816599639

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Red Weather by Janet McAdams Pdf

This trip wasn’t about her, her need to escape. She had been too young when it happened. Too young to understand what could be worth risking everything for. Even now they seemed naïve, foolish in their belief that anything could change. They had tried to save a generation. If she couldn’t save them, she might find a way to finish their story. Neva Greene is seeking answers. The daughter of American Indian activists, Neva hasn’t seen or heard from her parents since they vanished a decade earlier, after planning an act of resistance that went terribly wrong. Discovering a long-overlooked clue to their disappearance, Neva follows their trail to Central America, leaving behind an uncaring husband, an estranged brother, and a life of lukewarm commitments. Determined to solve the mystery of her parents’ disappearance, Neva finds work teaching English in the capital city of tiny Coatepeque, a country torn by its government’s escalating war on its Indigenous population. As the violence and political unrest grow around her, Neva meets a man whose tenderness toward her seems to contradict his shadowy political connections. Against the backdrop of Central American politics, this suspenseful first novel from award-winning poet Janet McAdams explores an important chapter in American Indian history. Through finely drawn, compelling characters and lucidly beautiful prose, Red Weather explores the journey from loss to possibility, from the secrets of the past to the longings of the present.

Author : Liza Klaussmann
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385677493

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Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann Pdf

Summer seemed to arrive at that moment, with its mysterious mixture of salt, cold flesh and fuel. Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war. Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from the war distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, back at Tiger House, Nick and Helena--with their children, Daisy and Ed--try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder, the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. The members of the family spin out of their prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will ever be the same. Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment.

Author : Tim Vasquez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0970684061

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Weather Forecasting Red Book by Tim Vasquez Pdf

The Weather Forecasting Red Book is a groundbreaking reference that breaks away from theory and helps forecasters tackle everyday prediction problems. The book contains a wealth of information on real-life techniques, methods, and forecast systems. It draws upon a wealth of experience collected by the weather services of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The first section deals with observational systems, explaining what quantities of wind, temperature, and pressure really mean. The analysis section defines standards and conventions for weather maps. The forecasting section has over a hundred pages of techniques, methods, patterns, and basic ideas and principles. And in the numerical model section, key details of the latest models are explained. It's written by a forecaster for forecasters. If it's needed at the forecast desk, it's in here.

Author : Dan Cameron
Publisher : Didier Millet,Csi
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9814610542

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In Red Weather by Dan Cameron Pdf

In Red Weather tells the story of Dan Cameron, an ex-CIA agent and one of the last living insiders who witnessed the events that culminated in the alleged communist coup in Indonesia in 1965. The coup was the pecursor to the brutal transition that ended the advance of communisim in Southeast Asia and allowed the establishment of Suharto's New Order Government. Cameron landed as an idealistic but naive young spy in Surabaya in 1960. His greatest success was Operation Habrink in which, through hard work, persistence and sheer good luck, he was able to secure the top-secret opearting manuals for the Soviet Union's most advanced weaponry. These included the new deadly surface-to-air missiles that shot down Gary Powers and were decimating the B-52 flying fortresses during their first bombing raids in Vietnam. The story is full of original anecdotes, intrigue and, finally, betrayal. Written as a soulful and sensitive memoir, the book also reflects on the successes and errors of this crirical period in history.

Author : Andrew Demcak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132815759

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Catching Tigers in Red Weather by Andrew Demcak Pdf

Poetry. CATCHING TIGERS IN RED WEATHER, winner of the Three Candles Press Open Book Award (selected by Joan Larkin), is a collection of poems by a new voice that combines montage cut-ups with an informing dialectic that gives us a wide array of contemporary American viewpoints. By turns playful and serious, he deftly embraces and criticizes a popular culture that is too complicated to dismiss with swift and simple comments. It is a book of rich rewards. "Andrew Demcak is a poet unafraid of the harrowing, sometimes revelatory nature of modern life. Above all, these poems evoke the moments when people come together, both in violent and romantic ways, and they also train a keen eye on the aftermaths of our partings. CATCHING TIGERS IN RED WEATHER will remind everyone who reads it that beauty and fear come into the world hand-in-hand. Like any significant poetry, it will alter its readers' perspectives forever"--Kaya Oakes.

Author : Reginald Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822961490

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Red Clay Weather by Reginald Shepherd Pdf

The author died in 2008 after a difficult bout with cancer. Before his death, he had carefully selected the poems that make up this collection, so that the individual poems and the selection of poems for this collection were wholly his work. What he did not have time to do before his death was to arrange the sequence of the poems into a coherent collection. The editor attempts to discern an order inherent to the poems wherein they speak to one another and the sequence adds up to something larger than the individual poems.

Author : Doug Morris
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1329431391

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Canadian Aviation Weather by Doug Morris Pdf

Meteorology is at the top of the list as far as pilot "must-knows." Pilots not only have to know the intricacies of weather, but must understand weather to survive. This book will take any student, or seasoned pilot, from the basics of the atmosphere's composition to the topic of space weather. It's 32 chapters on the "A to Z" of aviation weather for Canadian pilots, and for others affiliated with the dynamic world of aviation weather!

Author : Huda Harajli
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781646116164

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All About Weather by Huda Harajli Pdf

Welcome to the wonderful world of weather! From the warm, balmy days of summer to the cold, crisp nights of winter, youngsters will learn all about the four seasons, as well as what the sun is, how clouds form, why it rains, what causes a rainbow, and so much more.

Author : Alison Hawes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780007186556

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Weather Report by Alison Hawes Pdf

Illustrations and photographs showing different weather patterns.

Author : B. D. Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fire risk assessment
ISBN : MINN:31951P010591464

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Weather Guide for the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System by B. D. Lawson Pdf

This weather guide includes detailed specifications for locating and instrumenting fire weather stations, taking weather observations, and overwintering the Drought Code component of the FWI System. The sensitivity of the FWI System components to weather elements is represented quantitatively. The importance of weather that is not directly observable is discussed in the context of fuel moisture and fire behavior. Current developments in the observation and measurement of fire weather and the forecasting of fire danger are discussed, along with the implications for the reporting of fire weather of increasingly automated fire management information systems.

Author : Andrew Blum
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443438612

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The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour through the global network that predicts our weather, the people behind it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planet The weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It’s a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones, and often the first thing we check each morning. Yet, behind all these humble interactions is the largest and most elaborate piece of infrastructure human beings have ever constructed—a triumph of both science and global cooperation. But what is the weather machine, and who created it? In The Weather Machine, Andrew Blum takes readers on a fascinating journey through the people, places, and tools of forecasting, exploring how the weather went from something we simply observed to something we could actually predict. As he travels across the planet, he visits some of the oldest and most important weather stations and watches the newest satellites blast off. He explores the dogged efforts of forecasters to create a supercomputer model of the atmosphere, while trying to grasp the ongoing relevance of TV weather forecasters. In the increasingly unpredictable world of climate change, correctly understanding the weather is vital. Written with the sharp wit and infectious curiosity Andrew Blum is known for, The Weather Machine pulls back the curtain on a universal part of our everyday lives, illuminating our changing relationships with technology, the planet, and our global community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015068375321

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American Revisions and Additions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jean Taft
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780448487403

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Worm Weather by Jean Taft Pdf

"Join in the rainy-day fun as kids splash through the puddles, affecting another weather enthusiast, a nearby worm. The worm delights in the weather just as much as the kids"--

Author : Sonali Fry,Norman Bridwell,Ken Edwards
Publisher : Clifford Publishing
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439394481

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Clifford the Weather Dog by Sonali Fry,Norman Bridwell,Ken Edwards Pdf

Clifford, the big red dog, and Emily Elizabeth explain the different types of weather they have on Birdwell Island. On board pages.