Windblowne

Windblowne
Author: Stephen Messer
Publisher: Bluefire
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-05-10
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0375861858

Oliver seeks his eccentric great-uncle Gilbert's help in creating a kite for the all-important kite festival, but when Gilbert suddenly disappears, Oliver is guided by one of Gilbert's kites in a quest through different worlds to find him.

Windblown

Windblown
Author: Édouard Manceau
Publisher: Owlkids
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-03-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781771476706

An imaginative board book introduction to shapes and creativity When a gust of wind blows colorful scraps of paper onto a blank page, several animal shapes emerge from the pieces. But who do the scraps belong to? Where did all these pieces of paper come from? And what form will they take next? The chicken is sure the papers belong to them, but so is the fish, and so is the bird, and the snail, and the frog. Using the same small scraps of paper over and over again to create new animals throughout, Édouard Manceau has created a timeless cumulative tale that will delight and enchant children as they try to figure out just who the pieces of paper belong to. Newly available in board book format, this imaginative story is sure to delight the youngest of readers.

Windblown World

Windblown World
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2006-04-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0143036068

Selections from Jack Kerouac’s journals of the late 1940s and early 1950s – the raw material for what became his classic novel On the Road September 5, 2017, marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, this unique and indispensable volume is sure to become an integral element of the Beat oeuvre.

Wind Child

Wind Child
Author: Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1999-04-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780060249038

Unaware of her unusual parentage, Resshie grows up restless and longing to know the secrets of the wind and she uses her extraordinary ability as a weaver to help her achieve her dream.

Wind as a Geological Process

Wind as a Geological Process
Author: Ronald Greeley
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1987-08-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521359627

This book gives an account of geological aspects of windblown material. Aeolian processes play an important role in modifying the surface of the Earth, and they are also active on Mars. Additionally, they are thought to occur on Venus and possibly Titan as well. The authors describe the following aspects: wind as a geological process, the aeolian environment, physics of particle motion, aeolian abrasion and erosion; aeolian sand deposits and bedforms, interaction of wind and topography and windblown dust. A particular strength of the book is that it deals with aeolian processes in a planetary context, rather than as a purely terrestrial phenomenon. In so doing, the authors ably demonstrate how we can gain better understanding of the Earth through comparative planetology. This paperback reissue will enable the book to be used as a text for advanced students in planetary science. Special terms are defined when they are first used. There is a glossary and an exhaustive bibliography.

Mechanics of Wind-blown Sand Movements

Mechanics of Wind-blown Sand Movements
Author: Xiaojing Zheng
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2009-04-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540882545

Mechanics plays a fundamental role in aeolian processes and other environmental studies. This proposed book systematically presents the new progress in the research of aeolian processes, especially in the research on mechanism, theoretical modelling and computational simulation of aeolian processes from the viewpoint of mechanics. Nowadays, environmental and aeolian process related problems are attracting more and more attention. We hope this proposed book will provide scientists and graduate students in aeolian research and other environmental research some mechanical methods and principles and introduce aeolian related problems of environment to mathematical and mechanical scientists.

Manga Mania: Magical Girls and Friends

Manga Mania: Magical Girls and Friends
Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780823029686

The author's distinctive step-by-step approach to drawing manja shoujo, funny mascots, magical boys, fighting teams, and supporting characters is accompanied by detailed instructions on how to design layouts. Original.

Understanding Earth

Understanding Earth
Author: Frank Press
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780716796176

'Understanding Earth' takes students step-by-step to an understanding of, and possible solutions for, a specific conceptual problem in geology, offering guiding questions and exercises.