The Melting

Author : Lize Spit
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509838714

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The Melting by Lize Spit Pdf

'Challenging and disturbing, The Melting is an incredibly cruel fable about friendship and adolescence . . . Spit knows no fear. It is we, the readers, that are left trembling.' - Leïla Slimani, author of Lullaby Eva can trace the route to Pim’s farm with her eyes closed, even though she has not been to Bovenmeer for many years. There she grew up among the rape fields and dairy farms. There lies also the root of all their grief. Eva was one of three children born in her small Flemish town in 1988. Growing up alongside the boys Laurens and Pim, Eva sought refuge from her loveless family life in the company of her two friends. But with adolescence came a growing awareness of their burgeoning sexuality. Driven by their newly found desires, the children begin a game that will have serious and violent consequences for them all. Thirteen years after the summer she’s tried for so long to forget, Eva is returning to her village. Everything fell apart that summer, but this time she’ll be prepared. She has a large block of ice in her car boot and she’s ready to settle the score . . . Part thriller, part coming-of-age novel, The Melting is an extraordinary and unsettling debut from Lize Spit, a reckoning with adolescent cruelty and the scars it leaves.

Author : Lize Spit
Publisher : Picador
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760985912

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The Melting by Lize Spit Pdf

Eva can trace the route to Pim’s farm with her eyes closed, even though she has not been to Bovenmeer for many years. There she grew up among the rape fields and dairy farms. There lies also the root of all their grief. Eva was one of three children born in her small Flemish town in 1988. Growing up alongside the boys Laurens and Pim, Eva sought refuge from her loveless family life in the company of her two friends. But with adolescence came a growing awareness of their burgeoning sexuality. Driven by their newly found desires, the children begin a game that will have serious and violent consequences for them all. Thirteen years after the summer she’s tried for so long to forget, Eva is returning to her village. Everything fell apart that summer, but this time she’ll be prepared. She has a large block of ice in her car boot and she’s ready to settle the score . . . Part thriller, part coming-of-age novel, The Melting is an extraordinary and unsettling debut from Lize Spit, a reckoning with adolescent cruelty and the scars it leaves.

Author : Maria Thompson Daviess
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442903630

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The Melting of Molly (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) by Maria Thompson Daviess Pdf

Author : Jens Kurt Heycke
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781641773201

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Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire by Jens Kurt Heycke Pdf

The melting pot has been the prevailing ideal for integrating new citizens through most of America’s history, yet contemporary elites often reject it as antiquated and racist. Instead, they advocate multiculturalism, which promotes ethnic boundaries and distinct group identities. Both models have precedents across the centuries, as Jens Heycke demonstrates in a contribution to the debate that incorporates an international, historical perspective. Heycke surveys multiethnic polities in history, focusing on societies that have shifted between the melting pot and multicultural models. Beginning with ancient Rome, he demonstrates the appeal of a unifying, syncretic identity that diverse individuals can join, regardless of their ethnic or racial origins. He details how early Islam, with its ideal of an inclusive ummah, integrated diverse groups, and even different faiths, into a cohesive and flourishing society. Both civilizations eventually abandoned their integrative ideals in favor of a multicultural paradigm. The consequences of that paradigm shift are instructive for societies that seek to emulate it. In the modern era, many nations have implemented multicultural policies like group preferences to compensate for past injustices or current disparities. Heycke examines some notable examples: Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka. These nations were on a rough trajectory toward ethnic tolerance and comity, a trajectory that multicultural policies altered dramatically. They contrast with Botswana, a country that opposes group distinctions so resolutely that it prohibits the collection of racial and ethnic statistics. Since World War II, ethnic conflicts have killed over ten million people. But the consequences of ethnic division go far beyond that. Heycke analyzes those consequences in an international statistical survey of ethnic fractionalization. This survey, combined with the extensive historical record of multiethnic societies, illustrates the staggering costs of accentuating group differences and the benefits of a unifying identity that transcends those differences.

Author : Jami Attenberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101184639

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The Melting Season by Jami Attenberg Pdf

A tender, provocative story about the power of friendship, the thrill of self-discovery, and the strength it takes to escape the past. Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. She's also left behind her deepest, most shameful secrets-among them a dysfunctional family she's never quite been able to escape and a marriage whose most intimate moments have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought. But running away from the past isn't as easy as she had hoped. When Catherine reaches Las Vegas, she forms surprising new friendships that compel her to reveal what she had sworn she'd keep hidden, and teach her what human connection really means. Armed with this new knowledge, she is finally emboldened to uncover the truth about her family, come to understand what destroyed her marriage, and prevent her troubled sister from repeating her mistakes. Deeply compassionate and unflinchingly bold, The Melting Season is the story of an indelible character's journey from isolation to belonging, as well as an honest look at the things we feel we deserve from our lives- and how far we will go to find them.

Author : Celeste Conway
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307488121

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The Melting Season by Celeste Conway Pdf

Giselle is a cultured ballet student, the daughter of the famous ballerina Marina Parke-Vanova and the late dance historian Grigori Vanov. On her first-ever trip to "Westchest-ah", as her mother's deranged boyfriend Blitz calls it, she meets the most beautiful boy she's ever seen. Will introduces Giselle to the world beyond Manhattan, and for the first time, makes her feel comfortable outside her perfectly protected apartment on Central Park West. But Giselle has some issues to overcome--and some memories about her father that keep rising to the surface. With Will's help, Giselle must come to terms with her family's glorious--and not so glorious--past and focus on the future.

Author : Christopher White
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781250028853

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The Melting World by Christopher White Pdf

Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that they—and by extension all Rocky Mountain ice—will melt far faster than previously imagined. How long will the ice fields survive? What are the consequences on our environment? The Melting World chronicles the first extinction of a mountain ecosystem in what is expected to be a series of such global calamities as humanity faces the prospect of a world without alpine ice.

Author : Sammy Griffin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781499808360

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Mighty Meg 2: Mighty Meg and the Melting Menace by Sammy Griffin Pdf

In book 2 of the Mighty Meg series, Meg must save her school from a frozen phenomenon! Strange things are happening in Plainview! When Meg sees a wall of ice holding back a mountain of stones, she knows once the warm, spring weather comes and melts the ice, the stones are going to come crashing down. It's up to Mighty Meg to save the day! But can Meg stop the avalanche while still keeping her super secret?

Author : Tamar Jacoby
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786729739

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Reinventing the Melting Pot by Tamar Jacoby Pdf

Nothing happening in America today will do more to affect our children's future than the wave of new immigrants flooding into the country, mostly from the developing world. Already, one in ten Americans is foreign-born, and if one counts their children, one-fifth of the population can be considered immigrants. Will these newcomers make it in the U.S? Or will today's realities -- from identity politics to cheap and easy international air travel -- mean that the age-old American tradition of absorption and assimilation no longer applies? Reinventing the Melting Pot is a conversation among two dozen of the thinkers who have looked longest and hardest at the issue of how immigrants assimilate: scholars, journalists, and fiction writers, on both the left and the right. The contributors consider virtually every aspect of the issue and conclude that, of course, assimilation can and must work again -- but for that to happen, we must find new ways to think and talk about it. Contributors to Reinventing the Melting Pot include Michael Barone, Stanley Crouch, Herbert Gans, Nathan Glazer, Michael Lind, Orlando Patterson, Gregory Rodriguez, and Stephan Thernstrom.

Author : Clarence Whitney Kanolt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Firebrick
ISBN : IND:30000107155420

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Melting Points of Fire Bricks by Clarence Whitney Kanolt Pdf

Author : K. Wissbrun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461597384

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Melt Rheology and Its Role in Plastics Processing by K. Wissbrun Pdf

This book is designed to fulfill a dual role. On the one hand it provides a description of the rheological behavior of molten poly mers. On the other, it presents the role of rheology in melt processing operations. The account of rheology emphasises the underlying principles and presents results, but not detailed deriva tions of equations. The processing operations are described qualita tively, and wherever possible the role of rheology is discussed quantitatively. Little emphasis is given to non-rheological aspects of processes, for example, the design of machinery. The audience for which the book is intended is also dual in It includes scientists and engineers whose work in the nature. plastics industry requires some knowledge of aspects of rheology. Examples are the polymer synthetic chemist who is concerned with how a change in molecular weight will affect the melt viscosity and the extrusion engineer who needs to know the effects of a change in molecular weight distribution that might result from thermal degra dation. The audience also includes post-graduate students in polymer science and engineering who wish to acquire a more extensive background in rheology and perhaps become specialists in this area. Especially for the latter audience, references are given to more detailed accounts of specialized topics, such as constitutive relations and process simulations. Thus, the book could serve as a textbook for a graduate level course in polymer rheology, and it has been used for this purpose.

Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:4064066060756

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The Melting-Pot by Israel Zangwill Pdf

The Melting-Pot depicts the life of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, the Quixanos. David Quixano has survived a pogrom, which killed his mother and sister, and he wishes to forget this horrible event. He composes an "American Symphony" and wants to look forward to a society free of ethnic divisions and hatred, rather than backward at his traumatic past.

Author : John K. Alley,Haskiel Roy Shell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Fluorine mica
ISBN : UOM:39015078524991

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Melting Temperatures of Fluormicas and Related Compounds by John K. Alley,Haskiel Roy Shell Pdf

Author : John Kotter,Holger Rathgeber
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780399563928

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Our Iceberg Is Melting by John Kotter,Holger Rathgeber Pdf

The revised and updated tenth anniversary edition of the classic, beloved business fable that has changed millions of lives in organizations around the world. Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple story about doing well under the stress and uncertainty of rapid change. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard Business School’s John Kotter, it can help you and your colleagues thrive during tough times. On an iceberg near the coast of Antarctica, group of beautiful emperor pen­guins live as they have for many years. Then one curious bird discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home—and almost no one listens to him. The characters in the story—Fred, Alice, Louis, Buddy, the Professor, and NoNo—are like people you probably recognize in your own organization, including yourself. Their tale is one of resistance to change and heroic action, seemingly intractable obstacles and clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles. The penguins offer an inspiring model as we all struggle to adapt to new circumstances. Our Iceberg Is Melting is based on John Kotter's pioneer­ing research into the eight steps that can produce needed change in any sort of group. After finishing the story, you'll have a powerful framework for influencing your own team, no matter how big or small. This tenth anniversary edition preserves the text of the timeless story, together with new illustrations, a revised afterword, and a Q&A with the authors about the responses they've gotten over the past decade. Prepare to be both enlightened and delighted, whether you're already a fan of this classic fable or are discovering it for the first time.

Author : Robert A. Beall,F. Caputo,E. T. Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electric arc
ISBN : UOM:39015078540542

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Homogeneous Alloy Ingots Produced by Consumable-electrode Arc Melting by Robert A. Beall,F. Caputo,E. T. Hayes Pdf