Author: David Riley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595171095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The year is 1893, and the city is Chicago, and it's the start of the Columbian World Exposition. The eyes of the nation and the world are upon the Windy City. Octavia and Patrick Collins, fresh off the ship from Ireland, came there too, to live their dreams and their hopes. Just married, their love is strong and pure, but will undergo the tests and trials that are ahead as the story unfolds.
Burning Ice
Author: David Riley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595171095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The year is 1893, and the city is Chicago, and it's the start of the Columbian World Exposition. The eyes of the nation and the world are upon the Windy City. Octavia and Patrick Collins, fresh off the ship from Ireland, came there too, to live their dreams and their hopes. Just married, their love is strong and pure, but will undergo the tests and trials that are ahead as the story unfolds.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595171095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The year is 1893, and the city is Chicago, and it's the start of the Columbian World Exposition. The eyes of the nation and the world are upon the Windy City. Octavia and Patrick Collins, fresh off the ship from Ireland, came there too, to live their dreams and their hopes. Just married, their love is strong and pure, but will undergo the tests and trials that are ahead as the story unfolds.
BURNING ICE
Author: Renata Riva
Publisher: Roberta Prina
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Do you have what it takes to be a King? King Wes and the woman he loves—the most beautiful woman of the world—will marry soon. But the king’s life is far from perfect. Many don’t want him as king, and the neighbouring kingdom of Ehlebas threatens to take advantage of the turmoil. Ari finds an old dragon egg, an object coveted by many because it carries strong magic. When dreams of a scared, little dragon intrude in her sleep, however, Ari suspects that the egg may not be just an object after all. Henbane must face shadows from the past, and Tyss’s loyalty to Wes will be tested. The fight for power has begun. Magic is rare, but those who possess it can win any war.
Publisher: Roberta Prina
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Do you have what it takes to be a King? King Wes and the woman he loves—the most beautiful woman of the world—will marry soon. But the king’s life is far from perfect. Many don’t want him as king, and the neighbouring kingdom of Ehlebas threatens to take advantage of the turmoil. Ari finds an old dragon egg, an object coveted by many because it carries strong magic. When dreams of a scared, little dragon intrude in her sleep, however, Ari suspects that the egg may not be just an object after all. Henbane must face shadows from the past, and Tyss’s loyalty to Wes will be tested. The fight for power has begun. Magic is rare, but those who possess it can win any war.
Burning the Ice
Author: Laura J. Mixon
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312869038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
More than a hundred years after a small band of humans stole an antimatter-fueled starship and headed away at near-lightspeed, a colony of those renegades' descendants are now struggling to survive on Brimstone, a barely-habitable world of ice and bitter cold four dozen light-years from Earth. In the long run, they hope to slowly terraform Brimstone, making it, if not Earthlike, at least bearable. In the short run-well, life is hard, and everyone lives in everyone else's laps. Not easy for anyone. Particularly hard if, like Manda, you just aren't cut out to get along with others in conditions of constant crowding and zero privacy. Most people wouldn't be eager to get away from the main colony and work on a scientific project in the howling frozen wastes. For Manda, it's a deliverance. But news of the intelligent life she discovers in Brimstone's depths will change everything-if she can bring the news back to her fellows alive. For, it turns out, there are political plots and counterplots still active in the colony, dangerous twists tracing back to Earth itself...and outward to the stars.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312869038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
More than a hundred years after a small band of humans stole an antimatter-fueled starship and headed away at near-lightspeed, a colony of those renegades' descendants are now struggling to survive on Brimstone, a barely-habitable world of ice and bitter cold four dozen light-years from Earth. In the long run, they hope to slowly terraform Brimstone, making it, if not Earthlike, at least bearable. In the short run-well, life is hard, and everyone lives in everyone else's laps. Not easy for anyone. Particularly hard if, like Manda, you just aren't cut out to get along with others in conditions of constant crowding and zero privacy. Most people wouldn't be eager to get away from the main colony and work on a scientific project in the howling frozen wastes. For Manda, it's a deliverance. But news of the intelligent life she discovers in Brimstone's depths will change everything-if she can bring the news back to her fellows alive. For, it turns out, there are political plots and counterplots still active in the colony, dangerous twists tracing back to Earth itself...and outward to the stars.
Burning Ice
Author: David Buckland
Publisher: Gaia Project
ISBN: 9780993219245
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book documents the commitment, hard work and adventures of all those who have been part of the Cape Farewell project. Forty artists, scientists, educators and film crew have sailed into the ice of the High Arctic as part of the Cape Farewell expeditions ... Artwork from the Cape Farewell project features in several exhibitions, at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, December 2005; at the Natural History Museum, 1 June - 3 September 2006; the Liverpool Biennial, 14 September - 26 November 2006; and Eden Project, 2007/8"--Colophon
Publisher: Gaia Project
ISBN: 9780993219245
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book documents the commitment, hard work and adventures of all those who have been part of the Cape Farewell project. Forty artists, scientists, educators and film crew have sailed into the ice of the High Arctic as part of the Cape Farewell expeditions ... Artwork from the Cape Farewell project features in several exhibitions, at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, December 2005; at the Natural History Museum, 1 June - 3 September 2006; the Liverpool Biennial, 14 September - 26 November 2006; and Eden Project, 2007/8"--Colophon
Burn the Ice
Author: Kevin Alexander
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525558047
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
"Inspiring"—Danny Meyer, CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder, Shake Shack; and author, Setting the Table James Beard Award-winning food journalist Kevin Alexander traces an exhilarating golden age in American dining—with a new Afterword addressing the devastating consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on the restaurant industry Over the past decade, Kevin Alexander saw American dining turned on its head. Starting in 2006, the food world underwent a transformation as the established gatekeepers of American culinary creativity in New York City and the Bay Area were forced to contend with Portland, Oregon. Its new, no-holds-barred, casual fine-dining style became a template for other cities, and a culinary revolution swept across America. Traditional ramen shops opened in Oklahoma City. Craft cocktail speakeasies appeared in Boise. Poke bowls sprung up in Omaha. Entire neighborhoods, like Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and cities like Austin, were suddenly unrecognizable to long-term residents, their names becoming shorthand for the so-called hipster movement. At the same time, new media companies such as Eater and Serious Eats launched to chronicle and cater to this developing scene, transforming nascent star chefs into proper celebrities. Emerging culinary television hosts like Anthony Bourdain inspired a generation to use food as the lens for different cultures. It seemed, for a moment, like a glorious belle epoque of eating and drinking in America. And then it was over. To tell this story, Alexander journeys through the travails and triumphs of a number of key chefs, bartenders, and activists, as well as restaurants and neighborhoods whose fortunes were made during this veritable gold rush--including Gabriel Rucker, an originator of the 2006 Portland restaurant scene; Tom Colicchio of Gramercy Tavern and Top Chef fame; as well as hugely influential figures, such as André Prince Jeffries of Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville; and Carolina barbecue pitmaster Rodney Scott. He writes with rare energy, telling a distinctly American story, at once timeless and cutting-edge, about unbridled creativity and ravenous ambition. To "burn the ice" means to melt down whatever remains in a kitchen's ice machine at the end of the night. Or, at the bar, to melt the ice if someone has broken a glass in the well. It is both an end and a beginning. It is the firsthand story of a revolution in how Americans eat and drink.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525558047
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
"Inspiring"—Danny Meyer, CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder, Shake Shack; and author, Setting the Table James Beard Award-winning food journalist Kevin Alexander traces an exhilarating golden age in American dining—with a new Afterword addressing the devastating consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on the restaurant industry Over the past decade, Kevin Alexander saw American dining turned on its head. Starting in 2006, the food world underwent a transformation as the established gatekeepers of American culinary creativity in New York City and the Bay Area were forced to contend with Portland, Oregon. Its new, no-holds-barred, casual fine-dining style became a template for other cities, and a culinary revolution swept across America. Traditional ramen shops opened in Oklahoma City. Craft cocktail speakeasies appeared in Boise. Poke bowls sprung up in Omaha. Entire neighborhoods, like Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and cities like Austin, were suddenly unrecognizable to long-term residents, their names becoming shorthand for the so-called hipster movement. At the same time, new media companies such as Eater and Serious Eats launched to chronicle and cater to this developing scene, transforming nascent star chefs into proper celebrities. Emerging culinary television hosts like Anthony Bourdain inspired a generation to use food as the lens for different cultures. It seemed, for a moment, like a glorious belle epoque of eating and drinking in America. And then it was over. To tell this story, Alexander journeys through the travails and triumphs of a number of key chefs, bartenders, and activists, as well as restaurants and neighborhoods whose fortunes were made during this veritable gold rush--including Gabriel Rucker, an originator of the 2006 Portland restaurant scene; Tom Colicchio of Gramercy Tavern and Top Chef fame; as well as hugely influential figures, such as André Prince Jeffries of Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville; and Carolina barbecue pitmaster Rodney Scott. He writes with rare energy, telling a distinctly American story, at once timeless and cutting-edge, about unbridled creativity and ravenous ambition. To "burn the ice" means to melt down whatever remains in a kitchen's ice machine at the end of the night. Or, at the bar, to melt the ice if someone has broken a glass in the well. It is both an end and a beginning. It is the firsthand story of a revolution in how Americans eat and drink.
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
Author: Frank Kreith
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351467840
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
An air conditioning system consists of components and equipment arranged in sequential order to control and maintain an indoor environment. The goal is to provide a healthy and comfortable climate with acceptable air quality while being energy efficient and cost effective. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering covers all types of systems from institutional and commercial to residential. The book supplies the basics of design, from selecting the optimum system and equipment to preparing the drawings and specifications. It discusses the four phases of preparing a project: gathering information, developing alternatives, evaluating alternatives, and selling the best solution. In addition, the author breaks down the responsibilities of the engineer, design documents, computer aided design, and government codes and standards. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering provides you with an easy reference to all aspects of the topic. This resource addresses the most current areas of interest, such as computer-aided design and drafting, desiccant air conditioning and energy conservation. It is a thorough and convenient guide to air conditioning and refrigeration engineering.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351467840
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
An air conditioning system consists of components and equipment arranged in sequential order to control and maintain an indoor environment. The goal is to provide a healthy and comfortable climate with acceptable air quality while being energy efficient and cost effective. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering covers all types of systems from institutional and commercial to residential. The book supplies the basics of design, from selecting the optimum system and equipment to preparing the drawings and specifications. It discusses the four phases of preparing a project: gathering information, developing alternatives, evaluating alternatives, and selling the best solution. In addition, the author breaks down the responsibilities of the engineer, design documents, computer aided design, and government codes and standards. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering provides you with an easy reference to all aspects of the topic. This resource addresses the most current areas of interest, such as computer-aided design and drafting, desiccant air conditioning and energy conservation. It is a thorough and convenient guide to air conditioning and refrigeration engineering.
Fire, Ice, and Physics
Author: Rebecca C. Thompson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262043076
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters. Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science—fabricated climatology (when is winter coming?), astronomy, metallurgy, chemistry, and biology. Most fans of George R. R. Martin's fantastical world accept it all as part of the magic. A trained scientist, watching the fake science in Game of Thrones, might think, “But how would it work?” In Fire, Ice, and Physics, Rebecca Thompson turns a scientist's eye on Game of Thrones, exploring, among other things, the science of an ice wall, the genetics of the Targaryen and Lannister families, and the biology of beheading. Thompson, a PhD in physics and an enthusiastic Game of Thrones fan, uses the fantasy science of the show as a gateway to some interesting real science, introducing GOT fandom to a new dimension of appreciation. Thompson starts at the beginning, with winter, explaining seasons and the very elliptical orbit of the Earth that might cause winter to come (or not come). She tells us that ice can behave like ketchup, compares regular steel to Valyrian steel, explains that dragons are “bats, but with fire,” and considers Targaryen inbreeding. Finally she offers scientific explanations of the various types of fatal justice meted out, including beheading, hanging, poisoning (reporting that the effects of “the Strangler,” administered to Joffrey at the Purple Wedding, resemble the effects of strychnine), skull crushing, and burning at the stake. Even the most faithful Game of Thrones fans will learn new and interesting things about the show from Thompson's entertaining and engaging account. Fire, Ice, and Physics is an essential companion for all future bingeing.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262043076
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters. Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science—fabricated climatology (when is winter coming?), astronomy, metallurgy, chemistry, and biology. Most fans of George R. R. Martin's fantastical world accept it all as part of the magic. A trained scientist, watching the fake science in Game of Thrones, might think, “But how would it work?” In Fire, Ice, and Physics, Rebecca Thompson turns a scientist's eye on Game of Thrones, exploring, among other things, the science of an ice wall, the genetics of the Targaryen and Lannister families, and the biology of beheading. Thompson, a PhD in physics and an enthusiastic Game of Thrones fan, uses the fantasy science of the show as a gateway to some interesting real science, introducing GOT fandom to a new dimension of appreciation. Thompson starts at the beginning, with winter, explaining seasons and the very elliptical orbit of the Earth that might cause winter to come (or not come). She tells us that ice can behave like ketchup, compares regular steel to Valyrian steel, explains that dragons are “bats, but with fire,” and considers Targaryen inbreeding. Finally she offers scientific explanations of the various types of fatal justice meted out, including beheading, hanging, poisoning (reporting that the effects of “the Strangler,” administered to Joffrey at the Purple Wedding, resemble the effects of strychnine), skull crushing, and burning at the stake. Even the most faithful Game of Thrones fans will learn new and interesting things about the show from Thompson's entertaining and engaging account. Fire, Ice, and Physics is an essential companion for all future bingeing.
Nordic Runes
Author: Paul Rhys Mountfort
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892810932
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Reveals the ancient oracle based on the runic Elder Futhark alphabet of the Norse.
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892810932
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Reveals the ancient oracle based on the runic Elder Futhark alphabet of the Norse.
Fire on the Ice
Author: Tamsen Parker
Publisher: Swerve
ISBN: 1250153441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Welcome to the Snow and Ice Games where competition is not the only thing that is heating up! The fourth book in bestselling Tamsen Parker's romance series continues with two female skaters from opposite sides of the rink. Blaze Bellamy is the bad girl of the short track speed skating world. Looking like a roller derby bruiser when she’s not in her Team USA uniform, she’s an unlikely American heroine. She’s got a punk attitude to match her provocative dress and her dyed hair, and she’s determined to get onto the front pages of the papers regardless of how she has to do it. Maisy Harper is the workhorse of the Canadian women’s figure skating team. Serious, modest, and above all, polite, Maisy would prefer to win her victory on the ice rather than in the press, and is exasperated by Blaze’s antics. When she’s not lusting after her anyway. After they both failed to make the medal podium at the last Snow and Ice Games, they drowned themselves in gin—and each other. Despite their hookup being drunken, they both harbor fond memories of their night together and are keen for a repeat. But they’ve got different ways of going about getting what they want, and Blaze’s willingness to go to any lengths for the spotlight could ruin any chance she has with Maisy.
Publisher: Swerve
ISBN: 1250153441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Welcome to the Snow and Ice Games where competition is not the only thing that is heating up! The fourth book in bestselling Tamsen Parker's romance series continues with two female skaters from opposite sides of the rink. Blaze Bellamy is the bad girl of the short track speed skating world. Looking like a roller derby bruiser when she’s not in her Team USA uniform, she’s an unlikely American heroine. She’s got a punk attitude to match her provocative dress and her dyed hair, and she’s determined to get onto the front pages of the papers regardless of how she has to do it. Maisy Harper is the workhorse of the Canadian women’s figure skating team. Serious, modest, and above all, polite, Maisy would prefer to win her victory on the ice rather than in the press, and is exasperated by Blaze’s antics. When she’s not lusting after her anyway. After they both failed to make the medal podium at the last Snow and Ice Games, they drowned themselves in gin—and each other. Despite their hookup being drunken, they both harbor fond memories of their night together and are keen for a repeat. But they’ve got different ways of going about getting what they want, and Blaze’s willingness to go to any lengths for the spotlight could ruin any chance she has with Maisy.
Burning Book
Author: Jessica Bruder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416928243
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Jessica Bruderis a reporter for theOregonian.Her writing has also appeared in theNew York Times,theWashington Post,and theNew York Observer.She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416928243
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Jessica Bruderis a reporter for theOregonian.Her writing has also appeared in theNew York Times,theWashington Post,and theNew York Observer.She lives in Portland, Oregon.