When The Rains Come

Author : John Alcock
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816528357

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Life in the desert is a waiting game: waiting for rain. And in a year of drought, the stakes are especially high. John Alcock knows the Sonoran Desert better than just about anyone else, and in this book he tracks the changes he observes in plant and animal life over the course of a drought year. Combining scientific knowledge with years of exploring the desert, he describes the variety of ways in which the wait for rain takes placeÑand what happens when it finally comes. The desert is a land of five seasons, featuring two summersÑhot, dry months followed by monsoonÑand Alcock looks at the changes that take place in an entire desert community over the course of all five. He describes what he finds on hikes in the Usery Mountains near Phoenix, where he has studied desert life over three decades and where frequent visits have enabled him to notice effects of seasonal variation that might escape a casual glance. Blending a personal perspective with field observation, Alcock shows how desert ecology depends entirely on rainfall. He touches on a wide range of topics concerning the desertÕs natural history, noting the response of saguaro flowers to heat and the habits of predators, whether soaring red-tailed hawk or tiny horned lizard. He also describes unusual aspects of insects that few desert hikers will have noticed, such as the disruptive color pattern of certain grasshoppers that is more effective than most camouflage. When the Rains Come is brimming with new insights into the desert, from the mating behaviors of insects to urban sprawl, and features photographs that document changes in the landscape as drought years come and go. It brings us the desert in the harshest of timesÑand shows that it is still teeming with life.

Author : Tom Pow
Publisher : Polygon
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 184697206X

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A mélange of a Malawi folk tale and the true story of three children who must be looked after by their grandmother, this book highlights some of the challenges facing the African country and demonstrates how those challenges are being handled. Filled with joy, color, and laughter, it showcases the work of the Malawi Underprivileged Mothers charity in the hopes of raising awareness to their cause.

Author : Mzi Mahola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-17
Category : South African poetry (English)
ISBN : 1458359905

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When Rains Come, Mzi Mahola's second collection is strongly reminiscent of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Eperience. The childhood poems, gently nostalgic for a rural and traditional upbringing, are told in a voice that hints at premonitions of regret and anger. The adult poems contemplate the toll taken by liberation on the moral values of a traditional upbringing. The anger is controlled and the bitterness tempered by compassion and humane clear-sightendnedss. On Strange Things The myth here expressed is one of a general, sociological Fall, ad is located in the cultural matrix of Intabazebhukazana, Hogsback mountains, which is both a physical and imaginative Eden and Wilderness -Nicholas Meihuzen, English Academy Review "...a regretful subtlety that retains a nostalgic innocence while acknowledgng the harsh adult realities. *-*Stanley Nyamfukudza, SA Review of Books Mahola's tone is intensely private, usually meditative and spmbre; and his style has a humble simplicity that might cause his observations to be overlooked. *-*Chris Doherty, New Coin Mzi Mahola was born in 1949 in Lushington, near Alice, in the eastern Cape and grew up under the Hogsback Mountains. He moved to New Brighton and in 1979 became the South African amateur bantamweight champion. He worked for the Port Elizabeth Museum, first as a technical assistant, then as a n educator, until 1997. In 1999 he completed a BA Honors degree in Literature from Vista University with a dissertation on the poet Tatamkhulu Afrika. He married and has four children. Carapace poets is an imprint of SNAILPRESS. When rains come is a seventh in a series of collections assciated with Carapace Magazine. Mzi Mahola's second anthology 'When Rain Comes' was published in 2000 by Carapace and won a Rhode's University Olive Schreiner Literature Prize and the Wits University English Academy for South Africa voted the volume, Best English Poetry Book in South Africa for the period 2000 and 2001. A common High School English poetry collection Textbook reference.

Author : Alexandra Fuller
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780345814876

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Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller Pdf

Looking to rebuild after a painful divorce, Alexandra Fuller turns to her African past for clues to living a life fully and without fear. A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of 2 deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller's own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she confronts the tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and the family she left behind in Africa. A breathtaking achievement, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a memoir of such grace and intelligence, filled with such wit and courage, that it could only have been written by Alexandra Fuller. Leaving Before the Rains Come begins with the dreadful first years of the American financial crisis when Fuller's delicate balance--between American pragmatism and African fatalism, the linchpin of her unorthodox marriage--irrevocably fails. Recalling her unusual courtship in Zambia--elephant attacks on the first date, sick with malaria on the wedding day--Fuller struggles to understand her younger self as she overcomes her current misfortunes. Fuller soon realizes that what is missing from her life is something that was always there: the brash and uncompromising ways of her father, the man who warned his daughter that "the problem with most people is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live." Fuller's father--"Tim Fuller of No Fixed Abode" as he first introduced himself to his future wife--was a man who regretted nothing and wanted less, even after fighting harder and losing more than most men could bear. Leaving Before the Rains Come showcases Fuller at the peak of her abilities, threading panoramic vistas with her deepest revelations as a fully grown woman and mother. Fuller reveals how--after spending a lifetime fearfully waiting for someone to show up and save her--she discovered that, in the end, we all simply have to save ourselves. An unforgettable book, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a story of sorrow grounded in the tragic grandeur and rueful joy only to be found in Fuller's Africa.

Author : Jan Chipchase,Sarah Fathallah,Grace Su Lei Naing
Publisher : Field Institute
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781939727206

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When It Rains, It Pours by Jan Chipchase,Sarah Fathallah,Grace Su Lei Naing Pdf

When It Rains, It Pours is the third publication from Proximity Designs, a Yangon-based social business and one of Myanmar’s largest providers of agricultural products and services. The book provides a panoramic view of the sesame ecosystem in Myanmar, with a deep dive from the perspective of small farmers, and offers tangible opportunities to address the challenges they face. Known as the forgotten crop for its tendency to be overshadowed by the more established paddy, sesame is grown in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone by an estimated 500,000 farmers. Myanmar is also one of the top exporters of sesame in the world, with even greater export potential, but many factors threaten the livelihood of sesame farmers, such as climate change, labor shortages and pests and diseases. The publications is the output of eight weeks of intensive research conducted in Myanmar’s main sesame growing areas by a team of ten design researchers, seven from Proximity’s own team and three from world-renowned design firm Studio D Radiodurans. Using a design research approach, the team sought to deliver a deep, human understanding of the problems sesame farmers face and opportunities to overcome them.

Author : Ofelia Zepeda
Publisher : Sun Tracks
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816538874

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"A reissued edition of a groundbreaking multilingual poetry collection with a new foreword by Ofelia Zepeda"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Munayem Mayenin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781447715269

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Poetry of Ruins and Rains by Munayem Mayenin Pdf

Author : Denise Crittendon
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781915202130

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Where it Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon Pdf

Lileala has just been named the Rare Indigo – beauty among beauties – and is about to embrace her stardom, until something threatens to change her whole lifestyle and turn the planet of Swazembi upside down. -- Colonized by the descendants of Earth’s West African Dogon Tribe, the planet of Swazembi is a blazing, color-rich utopia and famous vacation center of the galaxy. No one is used to serious trouble in this idyllic, peace-loving world, least of all the Rare Indigo. But Lileala’s perfect, pampered lifestyle is about to be shattered. The unthinkable happens and her glorious midnight skin becomes infected with a mysterious disease. Where her skin should glisten like diamonds mixed with coal, instead it scabs and scars. On top of that, she starts to hear voices in her head, and everything around her becomes confusing and frightening. Lileala’s destiny, however, goes far beyond her beauty. While searching for a cure, she stumbles upon something much more valuable. A new power awakens inside her, and she realizes her whole life, and the galaxy with it, is about to change… File Under: Science Fiction [ True Colors | Embrace the Change | What Will Be | Dancing in the Rain ]

Author : Kenneth Pickett Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Soil conservation
ISBN : UVA:X030354116

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Farms the Rains Can't Take by Kenneth Pickett Davis Pdf

Author : Xavier Poshiwa,G. Ravindra Chary
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811678615

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Climate Change Adaptations in Dryland Agriculture in Semi-Arid Areas by Xavier Poshiwa,G. Ravindra Chary Pdf

This book highlights the approaches for achieving trans-disciplinary research integration for “semi-arid dryland agriculture systems” under changing climates, while also identifying the elements of a collaborative research agenda that are needed to advance global food security. The book emphasizes climate change being a reality and how drylands are bearing the brunt in diverse ways. The major impact of dryland agriculture is on communities that need to: avoid the short- and long-term impacts of the changing climate; adapt strategies that can minimize these impacts; and be able to mitigate climate change, for which they need climate smart interventions. These interventions are only realized through knowledge and experience sharing among stakeholders from different sectors and backgrounds. It is in this context that the publication was seen as a necessity in order to bring together ideas that will transform lives and build adaptation capacities, thereby providing the much-needed products in communities leading to development

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Aeronautics and Space Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2022 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : UCR:31210019134699

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Aircraft Noise Abatement by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Aeronautics and Space Technology Pdf

Author : Frederick Bartlett Goddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89058475443

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Where to Emigrate and why by Frederick Bartlett Goddard Pdf

Author : David Shulman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226755786

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Spring, Heat, Rains by David Shulman Pdf

“Rocks. Goats. Dry shrubs. Buffaloes. Thorns. A fallen tamarind tree.” Such were the sights that greeted David Shulman on his arrival in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the spring of 2006. An expert on South Indian languages and cultures, Shulman knew the region well, but from the moment he arrived for this seven-month sojourn he actively soaked up such simple aspects of his surroundings, determined to attend to the rich texture of daily life—choosing to be at the same time scholar and tourist, wanderer and wonderer. Lyrical, sensual, and introspective, Spring, Heat, Rains is Shulman’s diary of that experience. Evocative reflections on daily events—from explorations of crumbling temples to battles with ineradicable bugs to joyous dinners with friends—are organically interwoven with considerations of the ancient poetry and myths that remain such an inextricable part of life in contemporary India. With Shulman as our guide, we meet singers and poets, washermen and betel-nut vendors, modern literati and ancient gods and goddesses. We marvel at the “golden electrocution” that is the taste of a mango fresh from the tree. And we plunge into the searing heat of an Indian summer, so oppressive and inescapable that when the monsoon arrives to banish the heat with sheets of rain, we understand why, year after year, it is celebrated as a miracle. An unabashedly personal account from a scholar whose deep knowledge has never obscured his joy in discovery, Spring, Heat, Rains is a passionate act of sharing, an unforgettable gift for anyone who has ever dreamed of India.

Author : Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek,Lucy Lloyd
Publisher : Daimon
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9783856306038

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Specimens of Bushmen Folklore by Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek,Lucy Lloyd Pdf

This new edition of the long-out-of print classic collection of Bushman tales provides a fascinating look into the life of these little-known people. As Megan Biesele writes in her Foreword: The fact that a family of trained linguists and their associates sat down between 1870 and 1884 with a group of /Xam people who had been temporarily sprung free of imprisonment in Cape Town's Breakwater Prison has immense potential consequences. San people today, like indigenous peoples all over the world, are quietly organizing educational futures for themselves which will make fine use of this record of the intellectual history of their culture. This edition reproduces the English text of the 1911 edition and is richly illustrated with photographs.

Author : Dr. Victor T. Nyarko
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798823004091

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Former & Latter Rains by Dr. Victor T. Nyarko Pdf

God said, "I will pour out My Spirit, in the last days, upon all flesh." This, He began at Pentecost only as minor beginning. Before Christ's return, the Holy Spirit will precede in immanence, power, and glory to prepare the church because Christ isn't coming for a defeated church still struggling with sin and divisions, but a glorious church without spot nor wrinkle. The outpouring of God's spirit in this end times will depend on how desirous the church is for His presence. After the earth opens its mouth due to dryness and desire rain from God, former and latter rains of revival are the fulfillment of this desire. Isaiah 37:3b "..for the children are come to birth, and there is not strength to bring forth". May it never be said of today's church that we came close to birth and had no strength to deliver. Read, Repent, Be Revived.