Snow

Author : Lynne Quarmby
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780228005094

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Watermelon Snow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Concern about the climate crisis is widespread as humans struggle to navigate life in uncertain times. From the vantage of a schooner full of artists on an adventure in the high Arctic, biologist Lynne Quarmby explains the science that convinced her of an urgent need to act on climate change and recounts how this knowledge - and the fear and panic it elicited - plunged her into unsustainable action, ending in arrests, lawsuits, and a failed electoral campaign on behalf of the Green Party of Canada. Watermelon Snow weaves memoir, microbiology, and artistic antics together with descriptions of a sublime Arctic landscape. At the top of the warming world, Quarmby struggles with burnout and grief while an aerial artist twirls high in the ship's rigging, bearded seals sing mournfully, polar bears prowl, and glaciers crumble into the sea. In a compelling narrative, sorrow and fear are balanced by beauty and wonder. The author's journey back from a life out of balance includes excursions into evolutionary history where her discoveries reveal the heart of human existence. The climate realities are as dark as the Arctic winter, yet this is a book of lightness and generosity. Quarmby's voice, intimate and original, illuminates the science while offering a reminder that much about the human experience is beyond reason. Inspiring and deeply personal, Watermelon Snow is the story of one scientist's rediscovery of what it means to live a good life at a time of increasing desperation about the future.

Author : Deborah Kerbel
Publisher : Pajama Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1772781355

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Snow Days Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Sparkling rhyme and unique collage illustrations celebrate all the activities snow makes possible for preschoolers and all the emotions it inspires

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488077197

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Snow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD* A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick “Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format…superbly rich and sophisticated.”—New York Times Book Review The incomparable Booker Prize winner’s next great crime novel—the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford—flinty, visibly Protestant and determined to identify the murderer—faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in the tight-knit community he begins to investigate. As he delves further, he learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. And when his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the community’s secrets, like the snowfall itself, threaten to obliterate everything. Beautifully crafted, darkly evocative and pulsing with suspense, Snow is “the Irish master” (New Yorker) John Banville at his page-turning best. Don't miss John Banville's next novel, April in Spain!

Author : Chie Sakakibara
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816529612

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Whale Snow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

As a mythical creature, the whale has been responsible for many transformations in the world. It is an enchanting being that humans have long felt a connection to. In the contemporary environmental imagination, whales are charismatic megafauna feeding our environmentalism and aspirations for a better and more sustainable future. Using multispecies ethnography, Whale Snow explores how everyday the relatedness of the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska and the bowhead whale forms and transforms “the human” through their encounters with modernity. Whale Snow shows how the people live in the world that intersects with other beings, how these connections came into being, and, most importantly, how such intimate and intense relations help humans survive the social challenges incurred by climate change. In this time of ecological transition, exploring multispecies relatedness is crucial as it keeps social capacities to adapt relational, elastic, and resilient. In the Arctic, climate, culture, and human resilience are connected through bowhead whaling. In Whale Snow we see how climate change disrupts this ancient practice and, in the process, affects a vital expression of Indigenous sovereignty. Ultimately, though, this book offers a story of hope grounded in multispecies resilience.

Author : Kate Messner
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452123981

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Over and Under the Snow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Over the snow, the world is hushed and white. But under the snow exists a secret kingdom of squirrels and snow hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many other animals that live through the winter safe and warm, awake and busy, under the snow. Discover the wonder and activity that lies beneath winter s snowy landscape in this magical book.

Author : P.D. Eastman
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780553509069

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Snow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Just in time for the holidays, enjoy this wintry classic about the joys of playing in the snow. the perfect read aloud for a snow day--or any day this winter! This classic Beginner Book edited by Dr. Seuss is a delightful ode to winter. Brrrrr—it snowed! From snowball fights and skiing to fort building and snowman-making, P. D. Eastman and Roy McKie’s Snow will have young readers eager for the kind of fun only a wintry-white day can bring. Perfect for enjoying with a cup of hot cocoa, it makes an ideal gift for the holidays, and happy occasions of all kinds! Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning. "Joyful verse relates the many ways to enjoy snow. First graders will love it." --Chicago Tribune

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663610614

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Snow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Robert Munsch
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443146166

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So Much Snow! Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A blizzard is coming, but Jasmine loves snow! So off she goes to school, as the snow gets deeper, and deeper, and deeper...

Author : Lisa Broadie Cook
Publisher : Walker Childrens
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0802788580

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Martin MacGregor's Snowman Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

How can a snowman fanatic build a snowman if there’s NO snow? Martin MacGregor lives for building snowmen. All year long he sits and he waits and he dreams of deep snowdrifts and blinding blizzards. So what’s poor Martin to do when winter comes and there’s no snow? Martin finds it hard to be patient, but he develops all sorts of alternate plans for building his snowmen. Unfortunately, his creative genius backfires every time, and he may still be grounded by the time next winter comes around!

Author : Robert R. Blackburn,National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bridges
ISBN : 9780309087995

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Snow and Ice Control Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Waubgeshig Rice
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773052441

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Moon of the Crusted Snow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.

Author : Terrance L. Lewis
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literature and history
ISBN : 1433106620

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C.P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers as Mid-twentieth-century History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book studies C.P. Snow's eleven-volume series of novels (Strangers and Brothers) as documents detailing the social and political life of mid-twentieth-century Britain, and points out the uses for the novels in the academic study of that time period. Both Snow and his central character, Lewis S. Eliot, started from unremarkable origins in terms of their mutual background in the lower reaches of the middle class, their dreams of success in their teen years, and their early professional education in a new, struggling academic institution in the mid-1920s. Neither could really be considered typical for men of their class. Eliot's working life would include being a very minor town clerk, a barrister, an advisor to a powerful industrialist, a Cambridge don, a moderately powerful civil servant, and finally, in early retirement, a writer. Eliot would befriend members of both the traditional and Jewish upper classes, scholars and brilliant scientists, powerful behind-the-scenes civil servants, second-tier British and Nazi politicians, financiers and industrialists, Communists, and writers and artists, providing a fairly broad overview of parts of the middle class and ruling elites of the periods. Snow's sequence of novels is therefore useful to the historian of twentieth-century Britain, both in understanding the period as it recedes away from common experience and in presenting the period in the classroom. Snow was a classic twentieth-century writer who presented a more balanced account of the British «governing classes» of the middle third of the twentieth century than did the upper-class (and would-be upper-class) or working-class writers of the same period. His novels provide an insight that every student of twentieth-century Britain must have on hand.

Author : Mark Cassino,Jon Nelson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780811879736

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The Story of Snow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

How do snow crystals form? What shapes can they take? Are no two snow crystals alike? These questions and more are answered in this visually stunning exploration of the science of snow. Perfect for reading on winter days, the book features photos of real snow crystals in their beautiful diversity. Snowflake-catching instructions are also included.

Author : Eric Carle
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593660522

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Dream Snow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

It's December 24th, and the old farmer settles down for a winter's nap, wondering how Christmas can come when there is no snow! In his dream he imagines a snowstorm covering him and his animals—named One, Two, Three, Four and Five—in a snowy blanket. But when the farmer awakens, he finds that it has really snowed outside, and now he remembers something! Putting on his red suit, he goes outside and places gifts under the tree for his animals, bringing holiday cheer to all. "Few in number are the parents who have made it through their toddler's years on just one copy of Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Dream Snow has similar ingredients: a simple story, lively collage-like illustrations and a fun gimmick for little hands . . ." —Time "This is a simple, well-told story about a simple farmer. . . . Viewers. . . will want to get their hands on it." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Carle fans and toddlers learning the basics will . . . enjoy the gentle text and creative design features." —Booklist "The pictures are in Carle's trademark richly colored and textured collages that capture the snowy magic of Christmas." —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Jane Street
Publisher : Parkway Publishers, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : Horses
ISBN : 1887905561

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Snow Baby Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Based on the true story of a horse that, despite being bred a racehorse, shows her true beauty in loyal and loving service to children.