The Infinite Tides

Author : Christian Kiefer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408829196

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The Infinite Tides by Christian Kiefer Pdf

Mathematical genius. Brilliant engineer. Revered astronaut. Keith Corcoran is all of these things and more, but his otherworldly talents do nothing to prepare him for the tragedy that befalls his family, or its irrevocable outcomes. After a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station, Keith returns to a house that has already ceased to be a home - emptied entirely of furniture and the people he loves. It is here that Keith tries to make sense of the ghosts, the memories and the feelings that he can barely acknowledge. His experiences in space quickly fade into the distant past. What remain in their wake are endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, big box stores and enormous parking lots. Within this seemingly hopeless expanse, an eccentric man from a distant country presents an opportunity for redemption. Their unlikely friendship leads Keith to an understanding of all he has lost, and a sense of how to live under the weight of gravity. The Infinite Tides is a captivating and comic tragedy about love, loss and resilience. An indelible and nuanced portrait of modern life as viewed through the prism of American suburbia, it tenderly illuminates the strengths and weaknesses that flow through us all.

Author : Betsy Cornwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547927725

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Tides by Betsy Cornwell Pdf

Set on the Isles of Shoals, remote islands off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, this page-turning YA debut weaves the Celtic ocean lore of selkies and a compelling mystery into a story about family secrets and love.

Author : Adam Nicolson
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781250862952

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Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson Pdf

Adam Nicolson explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rock pools with a scientist’s curiosity and a poet’s wonder in this beautifully illustrated book. The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes. Look down as you crouch over the shallows and you will find a periwinkle or a prawn, a claw-displaying crab or a cluster of anemones ready to meet you. No need for binoculars or special stalking skills: go to the rocks and the living will say hello. Inside each rock pool tucked into one of the infinite crevices of the tidal coastline lies a rippling, silent, unknowable universe. Below the stillness of the surface course different currents of endless motion—the ebb and flow of the tide, the steady forward propulsion of the passage of time, and the tiny lifetimes of the rock pool’s creatures, all of which coalesce into the grand narrative of evolution. In Life Between the Tides, Adam Nicolson investigates one of the most revelatory habitats on earth. Under his microscope, we see a prawn’s head become a medieval helmet and a group of “winkles” transform into a Dickensian social scene, with mollusks munching on Stilton and glancing at their pocket watches. Or, rather, is a winkle more like Achilles, an ancient hero, throwing himself toward death for the sake of glory? For Nicolson, who writes “with scientific rigor and a poet’s sense of wonder” (The American Scholar), the world of the rock pools is infinite and as intricate as our own. As Nicolson journeys between the tides, both in the pools he builds along the coast of Scotland and through the timeline of scientific discovery, he is accompanied by great thinkers—no one can escape the pull of the sea. We meet Virginia Woolf and her Waves; a young T. S. Eliot peering into his own rock pool in Massachusetts; even Nicolson’s father-in-law, a classical scholar who would hunt for amethysts along the shoreline, his mind on Heraclitus and the other philosophers of ancient Greece. And, of course, scientists populate the pages; not only their discoveries, but also their doubts and errors, their moments of quiet observation and their thrilling realizations. Everything is within the rock pools, where you can look beyond your own reflection and find the miraculous an inch beneath your nose. “The soul wants to be wet,” Heraclitus said in Ephesus twenty-five hundred years ago. This marvelous book demonstrates why it is so. Includes Color and Black-and-White Photographs

Author : Sara Freeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735241985

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Tides by Sara Freeman Pdf

A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2022 “I loved it.” —Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace "Brilliant, elegant, and unsparing." —Emma Cline "Irresistible... I read it in an afternoon but I'll be thinking about it for a long time." —Douglas Stuart, author of Young Mungo From an astounding new voice in Canadian literature comes an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town with a dead cellphone and barely any money. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming in the night ocean. In her state of emotional extremis, the sea at the town's edge is rendered bleak, luminous, implacable. As her money runs out and tourist season comes to a close, Mara finds a job at the local wine store. There, she meets Simon, the shop's soft-spoken, lonely owner. Confronted with the possibility of connection with Simon and the slow return of her desires and appetites, the reasons for her flight begin to emerge. Reminiscent of works by Rachel Cusk, Jenny Offill, and Sheila Heti, Tides is a spare, visceral debut novel about the nature of selfhood, intimacy, and the private narratives that shape our lives. A shattering and unforgettable debut.

Author : Sir George Howard Darwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Nebular hypothesis
ISBN : UOM:39015017166375

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The Tides and Kindred Phenomena in the Solar System by Sir George Howard Darwin Pdf

Author : James Greig McCully
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814338189

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Beyond the Moon by James Greig McCully Pdf

Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors. Step by step, by analogy and illustration, "Beyond the Moon" describes how the cyclical motion of the near solar system is impressed upon the earth's oceans, and how the hydraulics over the continental shelf and the geography of the coastline orchestrate this rhythm into the bewildering variety of tide patterns seen around the globe. This volume demystifies the complexity of the tides by systematically examining its many constituents and demonstrates that: ?Nature is, at once, awesome in complexity and beautiful in simplicity.?Contents: The Tides in History. The Challenge of Understanding the Tides on EarthThe Lunar OrbitSolar Influences and Solar?Lunar Interaction. Gravitation and Tractal ForcesCelestial HarmonicsThe Coriolis Force and Oceanic Amphidromes. Coastal Kelvin Waves. Tidal Currents. Sea LevelThe Seiche Effect and Basins of Oscillation. Tidal IntermixingCoastal Geography and Near Shore Topography, Resonant Co-Oscillation and Sustained ForcingShallow Estuaries and Tidal Pumping. Tidal BoresThe Computation of the Tide-Tables. Chaos TheoryThe Weather and the Tides. Atmospheric TidesTidal Influence on Marine Biology. The Tides and Saltwater Fishing. Practical Tide-Table Information for Coastal BoatersThe Constituents of the Tides on Earth. Synopsis of Tidal InfluencesEpilogueDefinitions Readership: Undergraduate oceanography students and secondary science students, as well as their teachers. The general public with an interest in science and nature. Coastal boaters, sailors, yachtsmen, and fishermen.

Author : Christian Kiefer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780871408853

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The Animals: A Novel by Christian Kiefer Pdf

“[A] galloping great read... [a] genuine work of art.”—Porter Shreve, San Francisco Chronicle, front-page review Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals unable to survive in the wild —raptors, a wolf, and his beloved bear, Majer, among them. He hopes to marry the local vet and live out a quiet life, until a childhood friend is released from prison and threatens to reveal Bill’s darkest secrets. Suddenly forced to confront his criminal past, Bill battles fiercely to preserve both the shelter and his hard-won new identity. Alternating between the past and the present, The Animals builds powerfully toward the revelation of Bill’s defining betrayal—and the drastic lengths he’ll go to in order to escape the consequences.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520262492

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Infinite City by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

What makes a place? Rebecca Solnit reinvents the traditional atlas, searching for layers of meaning & connections of experience across San Francisco.

Author : Mattias Green,Joao C. Duarte
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323908528

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A Journey Through Tides by Mattias Green,Joao C. Duarte Pdf

A Journey Through Tides is a fully comprehensive text on the history of tides. It brings together geology and oceanography and discusses, in detail, new ideas that have emerged about how tectonics and tides interact. In addition, the book provides an overview of Earth’s history, from the perspective of tidal changes, while also highlighting other fascinating phenomena (e.g., solid Earth tides and links between tides and earthquakes). Sections cover an introduction to tides for oceanography students and scientists from other disciplines, cover the Earth’s deep time processes, and include several case studies of specific topics/processes that apply to a earth science disciplines. There are many other processes that drive and modify the tides, hence this book also describes why there is a tide, how it has changed since Earth’s early days, and what consequences the tides, and changes in the tides, have on other parts of the Earth system. Presents a fully comprehensive overview on tides that goes beyond the field of oceanography Provides a state-of-the-art review on science related to tides, a fundamental element in the Earth System that regulates our planet Explores the limits of our knowledge, including much ongoing research on deep time tides, future tides, tides in exoplanets, and more Includes a website with tectonic animations and associated tidal evolution videos for interactive learning

Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Aspect
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446565512

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Tides of Light by Gregory Benford Pdf

Now in a new, revised edition, the fourth book of the Nebula Award-winning author's Galactic Center series is a classic tale of man's future and fate--and the greatest mystery from outer space that humanity has ever encountered.

Author : Don Robertson
Publisher : Don Robertson
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Reconciling Dark Matter, Dark Energy and two high tides by Don Robertson Pdf

This is an eight-paged paper that explores our understanding of gravity, black holes, dark energy, dark matter, event horizons, gravity waves, the speed of light, the speed of gravity, grand unifying theories, and the possibility of time waves; each from the perspective of grid systems. There isn't a single equation. This is pure metaphysics, intended to raise questions, and challenge assumptions. To encourage discussion, the paper closes with a new explanation for why there are two high tides, and provides a prediction about how gravity works to cause two high tides. [email protected]

Author : Karsten Harries
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 026258218X

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Infinity and Perspective by Karsten Harries Pdf

A philosophical exploration of the origin and limits of the modern world.

Author : Devyn Quinn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101198193

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Siren's Call by Devyn Quinn Pdf

Read Devyn Quinn's blogs and view her pictures on the Penguin Community. A new paranormal romance series that follows desire into the depths of the ocean Lighthouse keeper Tessa Lonike savors her solitude on Little Mer, an island off the coast of Maine, guarding her true identity as a mermaid. But when Tessa spots a man thrashing around in the ice cold waters during a storm, she must use her ability as a mermaid to pull him to shore. And a year later, when Kenneth meets her again, he's determined not to let Tessa slip away. But when Tessa'a archaeologist ex-lover comes back to town with a clue to her heritage, she may be forced to leave her happiness behind...

Author : Chen Qiufan
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765389329

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Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan Pdf

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers. Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. She’s a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics -- from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic limbs — are sent to be recycled. These amass in towering heaps, polluting every spare inch of land. On this island off the coast of China, the fruits of capitalism and consumer culture come to a toxic end. Mimi and thousands of migrant waste workers like her are lured to Silicon Isle with the promise of steady work and a better life. They're the lifeblood of the island’s economy, but are at the mercy of those in power. A storm is brewing, between ruthless local gangs, warring for control. Ecoterrorists, set on toppling the status quo. American investors, hungry for profit. And a Chinese-American interpreter, searching for his roots. As these forces collide, a war erupts -- between the rich and the poor; between tradition and modern ambition; between humanity’s past and its future. Mimi, and others like her, must decide if they will remain pawns in this war or change the rules of the game altogether. "An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul as well as brain. Chen Qiufan is an astute observer, both of the present world and of the future that the next generation is in danger of inheriting." – David Mitchell, New York Times bestselling author of Cloud Atlas At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Thaddeus Hutyra
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9783739686714

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Magnum Opus by Thaddeus Hutyra Pdf

My actual name is Tadeusz Hutyra,though for the English/American worldI have adopted the name Thaddeus Hutyra. I am the founder of "The PoetryUniverse", "River of Poetry" and a numberof other poetry groups on Facebook. Born in mountainous Rajcza, Poland.I spent my childhood and teenage years therestudying and I also participatedin the "Solidarity movement" againstthe communist regime. Emigrating to New Zealand when Polandwas still in the Soviet thaw I became a citizenwithin five years, living in the capital cityWellington, often called "Windy Wellington". Afterwards I travelled worldwide, I havebeen to amongst other places China, thoughI finally settled down in Belgium. The USA had always been my intended finaldestination after my departure from Poland.America, especially New York City with itsStatue of Liberty still remain my dream.The freedoms cherished by America arean unstoppable trend that I am fully behind,wishing the same to all individuals acrossthe world, freedom, human rights and love. In the meantime I am feeling quitecomfortable living in the European Union,a great project of all Europeans whichcame true. I express my deep wish readers will enjoyreading this book. If it will be the case thenI will be able to say 'Mission Accomplished',thank you.