Thaw

Author : Denis Kozlov,Eleonory Gilburd
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442644601

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The Thaw by Denis Kozlov,Eleonory Gilburd Pdf

The period from Stalin's death in 1953 to the end of the 1960s marked a crucial epoch in Soviet history. Though not overtly revolutionary, this era produced significant shifts in policies, ideas, language, artistic practices, daily behaviours, and material life. It was also during this time that social, cultural, and intellectual processes in the USSR began to parallel those in the West (and particularly in Europe) as never before. This volume examines in fascinating detail the various facets of Soviet life during the 1950s and 1960s, a period termed the 'Thaw.' Featuring innovative research by historical, literary, and film scholars from across the world, this book helps to answer fundamental questions about the nature and ultimate fortune of the Soviet order – both in its internal dynamics and in its long-term and global perspectives.

Author : Monica Roe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781590784969

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Thaw by Monica Roe Pdf

Dane is a thousand miles south of his home in northern New York. It's not the warm winter that keeps him off his skis, though. Not even creepy Isaac, who wanders by in Mardi Gras beads and a top hat, could block Dane from a Nordic race. Guillain-Barre Syndrome is the culprit, a paralyzing disease that has committed the high-school senior to a hospital bed indefinitely. Days in bed pass and Dane recalls both his former prowess and his disdain for the people in his life. Physical recovery is painfullu slow, though, and it becomes clear that Dane may not fully regain the use of his body, that he may become one of the losers he abhors. As this threat grows more immediate, either Dane's icy mind will crack, or the young man will learn to thaw.

Author : Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467747882

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Arctic Thaw by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson Pdf

Ice in the Arctic is disappearing—and opportunity is calling. As climate change transforms the top of the world, warmer conditions are exposing a treasure trove of energy resources previously trapped in ice. The Arctic's oil, natural gas, minerals, and even wind and hydroelectric power are becoming more accessible than ever before. With untold riches hanging in the balance, the race is on to control the Arctic and its energy potential. Oil companies vie for drilling rights that go to the highest bidder. Nations around the globe—whether they're on the Arctic's doorstep or half a world away—hope to claim territory for themselves. And the indigenous peoples who have called this region home for thousands of years are determined to be on the ground floor of its development. But the Arctic's new possibilities come with grave risks. The pursuit of oil and natural gas threatens to further damage the Arctic's fragile ecosystems and accelerate global warming worldwide. International disputes over who owns which pieces of the Arctic could bring countries to the brink of war. The fate of the entire planet may hinge on how far people are willing to go to tap and control the Far North's energy resources. From oil rigs to military bases, the Arctic has never before hosted so many warring interests, and the stakes have never been so high. Join Stephanie Sammartino McPherson on a journey to the Far North to explore the energy controversies that will decide the future of the Arctic—and of the earth.

Author : Frederick Ross
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525518263

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A Deadly Thaw by Frederick Ross Pdf

When a team of researchers from Canada’s Arctic Institute travel to York Factory to disinter a grave, they unwittingly stumble upon more than they bargained for buried in the permafrost. Their research is focused on the old Hudson Bay Company fort cemetery, where they are attempting to find a definitive cause of the famed “York Factory Complaint” of 1833 – 1836. But alongside the now-opened grave of Joseph Charles, a “company man” who had succumbed to the “complaint” in 1836, they find a Hudson’s Bay point blanket, an artifact of particular significance to the archeologist of the team, Rachel Thompson, and an indication that Chipewyan people were likely buried there as well. Upon their return from York Factory, Thompson, another member of her team, and the bush pilot who ferried them to their research site, fall gravely ill. When infectious disease interns have the good fortune to be on hand in the remote north as part of a study, they examine the ailing pilot and are horrified to confirm that he suffers from smallpox, a disease thought eradicated worldwide in 1977. A simultaneous smallpox outbreak occurs in Russia, and suddenly the world must ask the question: how could a disease surviving only within the vault-like security of the world’s two level four containment labs have been unleashed to ravage millions? Could the melting permafrost be releasing this deadly contagion? Deadly Thaw is a richly imagined story that could be ripped from news headlines emerging from a planet struggling with the impacts of global climate change. Meticulously researched, steeped in history, and offering a touching lament for the fate of many First Nations people killed by smallpox infections carried from the “old world”, the story will have readers racing to reach its end and sleepless at imagining potential terrors that might await them.

Author : Eric Scigliano,Robert Max Holmes,Susan Natali,John Schade
Publisher : Braided River, the conservation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Science
ISBN : 1680512471

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The Big Thaw by Eric Scigliano,Robert Max Holmes,Susan Natali,John Schade Pdf

Permafrost--dark, ice-flaked, permanently frozen ground that lies under tundra and boreal forests across our northern regions--covers more than 12 percent of the earth's land mass. It exists in places that seem otherworldly and unimaginably remote to most of us, but the changes taking place in the permafrost layer may ultimately affect the lives of every person on Earth. InThe Big Thaw, readers meet a diverse team of scientists and students who have been studying the permafrost and what lies beneath: a vast store of ancient carbon, more than four times the quantity found in all of today's forests, which is releasing carbon dioxide and methane as the permafrost melts. The release of all this carbon would alter Earth's climate forever. Braving endless hordes of mosquitoes, quicksand, and extreme temperatures, the researchers are racing against the clock to educate us all about the changes we must make in order to preserve Earth's carbon balance.

Author : Chelsea Dingman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780820351315

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Thaw by Chelsea Dingman Pdf

Thaw delves into the issues at the core of a resilient family: kinship, poverty, violence, death, abuse, and grief. The poems follow the speaker, as both mother and daughter, as she travels through harsh and beautiful landscapes in Canada, Sweden, and the United States. Moving through these places, she examines how her surroundings affect her inner landscape; the natural world becomes both a place of refuge and a threat. As these themes unfold, the histories and cold truths of her family and country intertwine and impinge on her, even as she tries to outrun them. Unflinching and raw, Chelsea Dingman's poems meander between childhood and adulthood, the experiences of being a mother and a child paralleling one another. Her investigation becomes one of body, self, woman, mother, daughter, sister, and citizen, and of what those roles mean in the contexts of family and country.

Author : Sarah Ward
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466878099

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A Deadly Thaw by Sarah Ward Pdf

Lena Grey is found guilty of murdering her husband, who was found smothered in their bed. She offers no defense, and serves fourteen long years in prison. But within months of her release nearly two decades later, his body is found in a disused morgue, recently killed. Who was the man she killed before, and why did she lie about his identity? Detective Inspector Francis Sadler and his Derbyshire team try to discover how such a well-orchestrated deception could have occurred. DC Connie Childs is convinced that something greater than marital strife caused the murders, but before Lena can be questioned further, she vanishes. Back in Lena’s childhood home, her sister Kat, a therapist, is shocked by her sister’s duplicity. When she begins to receive mysterious packages from a young man claiming to know her sister’s location, Kat is drawn into her own investigation of her family’s well-hidden secrets. As her inquiries begin to collide with the murder investigation, a link to the sisters’ teenage lives emerges, and the line between victim and perpetrator becomes blurred in this tightly-plotted, compelling novel perfect for fans of Deborah Crombie and Sharon Bolton.

Author : Ezra B. W. Zubrow,Errol Meidinger,Kim Diana Connolly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781438475653

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The Big Thaw by Ezra B. W. Zubrow,Errol Meidinger,Kim Diana Connolly Pdf

Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment. Climate change, one of the drivers of global change, is controversial in political circles, but recognized in scientific ones as being of central importance today for the United States and the world. In The Big Thaw, the editors bring together experts, advocates, and academic professionals who address the serious issue of how climate change in the Circumpolar Arctic is affecting and will continue to affect environments, cultures, societies, and economies throughout the world. The contributors discuss a variety of topics, including anthropology, sociology, human geography, community economics, regional development and planning, and political science, as well as biogeophysical sciences such as ecology, human-environmental interactions, and climatology. At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Ezra B. W. Zubrow is Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology. At the University of Buffalo’s School of Law, Errol Meidinger is Distinguished Professor and Margaret W. Wong Professor of Law. At the University of Buffalo’s School of Law, Kim Diana Connolly is Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Advocacy and Experiential Education.

Author : Paul V. Sellmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : MINN:31951D03753631A

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The Classification and Geomorphic Implications of Thaw Lakes on the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska by Paul V. Sellmann Pdf

The lakes of the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska were classified, based on size, shape, orientation and distribution, into six lake units and three nonlake units. Regional slope and relief were demonstrated to control lake size, the largest lakes occurring on the flattest, northernmost segment of the Coastal Plain. Using ERTS-1 sequential imagery and existing photography and data, lakes were grouped according to three depth ranges, 1 m, 1-2 m and2 m. Deepest lakes have the longest period of summer ice cover. Ice on shallow lakes melts the earliest. Maximum depths of lakes were computed based on ice volume content of the perennially frozen ground (permafrost) and these agreed with observed values and ranges. The lake classification and regional ERTS-1 coverage also appear to provide additional information on the limits of late-Pleistocene transgressions on the Coastal Plain.

Author : North Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Highway engineering
ISBN : MINN:319510028417092

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Repetitive Loading Tests on Membrane-enveloped Road Sections During Freeze-thaw Cycles by North Smith Pdf

Author : Clarence Hall,Spencer Pritchard Howell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Explosives
ISBN : UOM:39015077560277

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Magazines and Thaw Houses for Explosives by Clarence Hall,Spencer Pritchard Howell Pdf

Author : J. Marchand,M. Pigeon,M.J. Setzer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780203627099

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Freeze-Thaw Durability of Concrete by J. Marchand,M. Pigeon,M.J. Setzer Pdf

Concrete durability in climates where freezing and thawing occurs is a continuing problem. It is particularly acute for highway and bridge structures, where de-icing salts are used to combat the effects of frost, snow and ice. These salts can cause damage to concrete and accelerate corrosion of reinforcements. This book presents the latest international research on this area, with contributions from North America and Europe which were presented at an international RILEM workshop.

Author : Steven. M. Cramer,Richard A. Walls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Frost resistant concrete
ISBN : UCBK:C101262461

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Strategies for Enhancing the Freeze-thaw Durability of Portland Cement Concrete Pavements by Steven. M. Cramer,Richard A. Walls Pdf

Author : Yu Wang
Publisher : Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781649971050

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Engineering Disturbed Rock Mass Structural Mechanics: Stress Disturbance and Freeze-Thaw on Rock Structure Deterioration by Yu Wang Pdf

This book is intended as a reference book for advanced graduate students and research engineers in rock mechanics related to mining, civil engineering, etc. Environmental and human-induced loading acting on manmade works is disturbed in essence. During construction and operation of major engineering projects, e.g., civil engineering, mining engineering, hydraulic engineering, bridge engineering and petroleum engineering, the structures built in or on rock mass not only bear the complex in situ conditions, e.g., stress, seepage, faulting, thermal and chemical coupling, but also often encounter a variety of stress disturbances during engineering construction and operation periods, the stress disturbance acted on rock mass structures can be low-medium strain rate, and also high strain rate. Along with the constructions on rock mass, a lot of disasters, e.g., tunnel rockburst, induced seismicity and sand liquefaction, are cyclic and dynamic processes.

Author : Edwin J. Chamberlain,Scott Erhard Blouin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Soil consolidation
ISBN : UCR:31210024935890

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Freeze-thaw Enhancement of the Drainage and Consolidation of Fine-grained Dredged Material in Confined Disposal Areas by Edwin J. Chamberlain,Scott Erhard Blouin Pdf