Escape the Vortex

Escape the Vortex
Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385386702

"The Alpha and Omega teams are in a race for the six essential elements that can fuse into a new source of clean energy, but the elements are scattered throughout the galaxy, and the teams are running out of time."--

Polar Vortex

Polar Vortex
Author: Shani Mootoo
Publisher: Akashic Books
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1617758701

A novel reminiscent of the works of Herman Koch and Rachel Cusk, in which a lesbian couple attempts to escape the secrets of their pasts. “[Mootoo’s] unsettling latest examines how secrets always come back to haunt us—especially the ones we’ve managed to keep from ourselves.” —Globe & Mail, one of the 100 Favorite Books of 2020 One of Autostraddle‘s Best Queer Books of 2020 Polar Vortex is a seductive and tension-filled novel about Priya and Alex, a lesbian couple who left the big city to relocate to a bucolic countryside community. It seemed like a good way to leave their past behind and cement their newish, later-in-life relationship. But there’s leaving the past behind—and then there’s running away from awkward histories. Priya has a secret—a long-standing on-again, off-again relationship with a man, Prakash. In Priya’s mind Prakash is little more than an old friend, but in reality things are a bit complicated. Why has she never told Alex about him? Prakash has tracked Priya down in her new life, and before she realizes what she’s doing, she invites him to visit. Alex is not pleased, and soon the existing cracks in their relationship widen, revealing secrets Alex herself would have preferred to keep. Into the fissure walks Prakash, whose own agenda forces all three to face the inevitable consequences of their choices.

Through the Vortex

Through the Vortex
Author: Terrance Alexi
Publisher: Writer's Showcase Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-10
Genre: Bermuda Triangle
ISBN: 9780595131730

Department of Natural Resources Agent Mike Thompson always considered himself open-minded. But taking the myth of the Bermuda Triangle seriously was too much. Then the disappearances began right outside his back door. Finally, it came for him. "Through The Vortex" takes the reader on a wild ride into another dimension, where time means nothing and anyone is likely to show up. This book truly goes where no man or woman has gone before and lived to tell about it.

Project Alpha

Project Alpha
Author: D. J. MacHale
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385386583

Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that'll search for a source to solve Earth's energy crisis.

The Vortex

The Vortex
Author: José Eustasio Rivera
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2018-04-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0822371766

Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. A story populated by con men, rubber barons, and the unrelenting landscape, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the sensational human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom and one of the most famous renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literary history.

Pacific Vortex!

Pacific Vortex!
Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1983
Genre: Abyssal zone
ISBN: 0553276328

A Dirk Pitt adventure.

Vortex

Vortex
Author: Chris Ryan
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2009
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 1862302812

Events spiral rapidly out of control when Ben Tracey heads for the Northumbrian moors with his cousin Annie to spot hen harriers - protected birds of prey. For the birds are nesting near a military base where a small group of renegade researchers are finalizing the details on a very secret - and very illegal project: Project Vortex.

Vortex

Vortex
Author: Troy Denning
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Science fiction
ISBN: 0099542765

Includes a Star Wars novels timeline at beginning of book.

The Way Out

The Way Out
Author: Peter T. Coleman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0231552157

The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too—and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine that they hold much more extreme views than they actually do. We have cordoned ourselves off: we prefer to date and marry those with similar opinions and are less willing to spend time with people on the other side. How can we loosen the grip of this toxic polarization and start working on our most pressing problems? The Way Out offers an escape from this morass. The social psychologist Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences. Deploying the concept of attractors in dynamical systems, he explains why we are stuck in this rut as well as the unexpected ways that deeply rooted oppositions can and do change. Coleman meticulously details principles and practices for navigating and healing the difficult divides in our homes, workplaces, and communities, blending compelling personal accounts from his years of working on entrenched conflicts with lessons from leading-edge research. The Way Out is a vital and timely guide to breaking free from the cycle of mutual contempt in order to better our lives, relationships, and country.

Fluid-Structure Interactions

Fluid-Structure Interactions
Author: Michael P. Païdoussis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781107652958

Structures in contact with fluid flow, whether natural or man-made, are inevitably subject to flow-induced forces and flow-induced vibration: from plant leaves to traffic signs and to more substantial structures, such as bridge decks and heat exchanger tubes. Under certain conditions the vibration may be self-excited, and it is usually referred to as an instability. These instabilities and, more specifically, the conditions under which they arise are of great importance to designers and operators of the systems concerned because of the significant potential to cause damage in the short term. Such flow-induced instabilities are the subject of this book. In particular, the flow-induced instabilities treated in this book are associated with cross-flow, that is, flow normal to the long axis of the structure. The book treats a specific set of problems that are fundamentally and technologically important: galloping, vortex-shedding oscillations under lock-in conditions, and rain-and-wind-induced vibrations, among others. The emphasis throughout is on providing a physical description of the phenomena that is as clear and up-to-date as possible.