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Author : Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt
Publisher : Inhabit Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Adoption
ISBN : 192709528X
In this tale of guilt and consequence, the actions of two children lead them to flee punishment by escaping to the sky as thunder and lightning.
Author : Ashley Bryan
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Folklore
ISBN : PSU:000049290332
The story of how Lightning, a mischievous young ram, and Thunder, his sheep mother, are banished to the sky is told in this "delightful Nigerian folktale. . . . Written to be read aloud, with bits of rhyme and unexpected wordplay. Bryan's uniquely vibrant, swirling, light-filled paintings (enliven) every page".--"Kirkus Reviews", pointered review. Full color.
Author : Lauren Redniss
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780679644729
Note: This eBook file contains many richly detailed full-color images and makes use of unconventional page layouts. Because of this, readers will be required to zoom in on each page to read the text and see the finer detail of the artwork. [It has not been optimized for devices that display only in black and white.] From the National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive, comes a dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage that grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its danger and its beauty, why it happens and what it means. WINNER OF THE PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND SHELF AWARENESS Weather is the very air we breathe—it shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages. This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss visits the headquarters of the National Weather Service, recounts top-secret rainmaking operations during the Vietnam War, and examines the economic impact of disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on extensive research and countless interviews, she examines our own day and age, from our most personal decisions—Do I need an umbrella today?—to the awesome challenges we face with global climate change. Redniss produced each element of Thunder & Lightning: the text, the artwork, the covers, and every page in between. She created many of the images using the antiquated printmaking technique copper plate photogravure etching. She even designed the book’s typeface. The result is a book unlike any other: a spellbinding combination of storytelling, art, and science. Praise for Thunder & Lightning “[An] aesthetically charged and deeply researched account . . . a wild rainstorm of a book, pelting the reader with ideas and inspiration.”—Nature “A gorgeous and illuminating illustrated study of weather in all its tempestuous variety . . . Redniss’s combo of fact, folklore, and vibrant etched copperplate prints enthralls.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Eerily beautiful . . . Contains plenty of scientific explanation (including more than a few nods toward global warming), but also far-flung personal stories that illuminate the beauty, wonder and chaos inherent in the elements.”—The New York Times “Magical . . . Redniss has . . . shown us how human beings live with nature—fighting, coexisting, taming, predicting via leech barometer and radar and intuition.”—The New York Times Book Review “[A] twenty-first-century genius . . . The reader willing to put herself fully in Redniss’s hands will be rewarded with a delicious feeling of being enveloped by a phenomenon that eclipses the chiming trivialities of daily life.”—Elle “Redniss is one of the most creative science writers of our time—her combination of beautiful artwork, reporting, and poetic prose brings science to life in ways that words alone simply cannot.”—Rebecca Skloot “Redniss combines her own dual punch of expressive art and impressive erudition to give an entirely new take on all that happens above our heads.”—Adam Gopnik “A strange and wonderful thing, the work of a first-class mind that refuses to submit to any categories or precedent.”—Dave Eggers
Author : Jerdine Nolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152060065
Thunder Rose vows to grow up to be more than just big and strong, thank you very kindly--and boy, does she ever But when a whirling storm on a riotous rampage threatens, has Rose finally met her match?
Author : Thomas Petri
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fire control (Gunnery)
ISBN : 9781438945965
ANGLICO: "Super Grunts" of 1st ANGLICO were deployed to all four tactical zones of Vietnam in small mobile fire control teams, providing support to U.S. Army and allied elements. This organization was the last tactical unit to stand down from the war and gained distinction as the only Marines in-country reporting directly to MACV. Working closely with Korean Marines, recounting several actions involving these legendary warriors from the Land of the Morning Calm, this little known but highly effective unit had an impact on the war far greater than their small numbers. Field radio operators and naval gunfire spotters composed the tactical membership of this unit. Both professions were cross trained in each competence, and each in turn was further qualified as tactical air controllers. An airborne capable platoon was established, mandating many ANGLICOs attend jump school and undertake other specialty training in the event they are called on to enter combat by unconventional means. Not being able to predict who they may be called on to support, training was pushed to the level of the most elite forces in the free world. BLUE DRAGONS: Most men of the Blue Dragon Brigade came of age during a war that raged fierce on their own homeland little more than a decade earlier. During a short lived occupation by North Korea, the people of the south endured extremely harsh treatment by would be conquerors. Events of recent history still burned in their hearts and haunted their dreams. They were mostly all children at the time leaving scarcely a man untouched by personal tragedy that could only be forged in a crucible of terror. Many were orphaned and all shared a thirst to settle a score that only those who drink deep from the same cup of dread can truly understand.
Author : Patricia Polacco
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698115811
A loud clap of thunder booms, and rattles the windows of Grandma's old farmhouse. "This is Thunder Cake baking weather," calls Grandma, as she and her granddaughter hurry to gather the ingredients around the farm. A real Thunder Cake must reach the oven before the storm arrives. But the list of ingredients is long and not easy to find . . . and the storm is coming closer all the time! Reaching once again into her rich childhood experience, Patricia Polacco tells the memorable story of how her grandma--her Babushka--helped her overcome her fear of thunder when she was a little girl. Ms. Polacco's vivid memories of her grandmother's endearing answer to a child's fear, accompanied by her bright folk-art illustrations, turn a frightening thunderstorm into an adventure and ultimately . . . a celebration! Whether the first clap of thunder finds you buried under the bedcovers or happily anticipating the coming storm, Thunder Cake is a story that will bring new meaning and possibility to the excitement of a thunderstorm.
Author : Paulette Bourgeois
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781550744033
When his animal friends offer amusing explanations for thunder and lightning, Franklin overcomes his fear of such storms.
Author : Jan Mark
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141361864
When Andrew's family moves house, he strikes up an unexpected friendship with his neighbour Victor. There isn't a thing Victor doesn't know about the RAF planes flying overhead and the two boys are soon busy tracking their movements. Then Andrew discovers that Victor's beloved Lightnings are due to be scrapped... Thunder and Lightnings won the Carnegie Medal in 1976.
Author : Wendy Pfeffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439425042
Simple text and photographs describe two features of storms, thunder and lightning.
Author : Randy Storms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : 0890816654
Author : Phil Esposito,Peter Golenbock
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1572437693
Hall of Famer Phil Esposito takes fans into his storied career that saw him skate in 10 All-Star games, play for three of the most storied franchises in professional hockey--Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers--and become the first general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Author : Arthur Geisert
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781592703364
Thunderstorm follows the course of a storm through midwestern farm country minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, from late morning into late afternoon. As always with Arthur Geisert, it is a meticulously executed and visually stunning piece of work. Other than the timeline that runs along the bottom border of the illustrations, there is no text, and the illustrations are continuous. Through keen observation, Geisert beautifully captures the nuances and details of a midwestern thunderstorm, from the ever-changing color of the sky, to the actions of the human inhabitants, to the reactions of the natural world to the wind and rain. America's heartland is somewhat unfamiliar territory in the realm of picture books, but in Thunderstorm, Geisert has provided readers with valuable, breathtaking insight into one of its most natural occurrences. Arthur Geisert grew up in Los Angeles, California, and claims not to have seen a pig until he was an adult. Trained as a sculptor in college, Geisert learned to etch at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. Geisert has published just about a book a year for the past thirty years. Every one of his books has been illustrated with etchings. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Horn Book Magazine. In 2010 his book Ice was selected as a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated book of the year. Geisert currently lives in a converted bank building in Bernard, Iowa.
Author : Mike Graf
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Lightning
ISBN : PSU:000032821741
Provides information and safety tips relating to lightning and thunderstorms.
Author : Philip Dray
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812968101
“Dray captures the genius and ingenuity of Franklin’s scientific thinking and then does something even more fascinating: He shows how science shaped his diplomacy, politics, and Enlightenment philosophy.” –Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Today we think of Benjamin Franklin as a founder of American independence who also dabbled in science. But in Franklin’s day, the era of Enlightenment, long before he was an eminent statesman, he was famous for his revolutionary scientific work. Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray uses the evolution of Franklin’s scientific curiosity and empirical thinking as a metaphor for America’s struggle to establish its fundamental values. He recounts how Franklin unlocked one of the greatest natural mysteries of his day, the seemingly unknowable powers of lightning and electricity. Rich in historical detail and based on numerous primary sources, Stealing God’s Thunder is a fascinating original look at one of our most beloved and complex founding fathers.
Author : Alice K. Flanagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1567664512
Simple text describes thunder and lightning, what causes these phenomena, and what they can do to the Earth.