Spindrifts

Racism, climate change, and violence are in the past. The new world values respect and collaboration with others. But are there secrets lurking in the shadows of the Land of Hope? What truth about the past is being covered up? When fifteen-year-old Fania returns from Immersion, she is shattered to learn that the next phase of her education is at home with Alicia, her granny. She had hoped for something far grander that would prepare her for an important role with the Earth Project. Their two strong personalities clash as Fania begins to learn more about the past and her family’s role in it. As Fania grows in confidence and power, she starts to wonder exactly what secrets Alicia is keeping in her underground lab. After Fania discovers the truth, she finds her calling: one that has the power to change everything.

An exciting account of ship to ship battle on the high seas. One family's struggle to survive after losing everything to the crown .

This guide for Super Mario 3D All-Stars offers a walkthrough for all three Mario classics. Inside this guide you will find: - A 100% Walkthrough - For Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy. - A complete guide on Super Mario 64, including: - A layout of Peach's Castle, with each course's location pinpointed, as well as an overview of each course. - Walkthroughs for every star, including all courses' 100-coin star. - How to get each of the power-up caps. - The location of every single Secret Star found in Peach's Castle. A complete guide on Super Mario Galaxy, including: - A Dome Overviews page outlining every galaxy found in each Dome. - Walkthroughs for every star, including hidden stars and comet stars, found in each galaxy. - A guide on how to unlock the Planet of the Trials galaxies. - Detailed coin-by-coin walkthroughs of Purple Coin levels. A complete guide on Super Mario Sunshine, including: - Walkthroughs for every shine in every episode. - How to find every Blue Coin. - Strategies on how to secure 100 Coins on every Course.

Agrometeorology is a comparatively young science. The beginnings of agrometeorological work came in the 20's of this century, when agrometeorology was a working branch of climatology. In the years following 1950 it then developed widely to an independent science. In this process, agrome teorology has not only gained a vast knowledge of the influence of meteorological conditions on plants and livestock in agriculture and damage prevention, but additionally evolved new advisory methods which are of great practical use in agriculture. Up to the present time there has been practically no specific training for an agrometeorologist. Agrometeoro logists are drawn, according to their training, from the ranks of general meteorology or from agriculture and its related biological disciplines. They must, therefore, them selves gather the knowledge for their agrometeorological work and combine for themselves the complex of agrome teorology from biological and meteorological information. This is usuaIIy far from easy, as the relevant literature is scattered among the most widely differing journals, partly in little-known foreign languages, and is thus very difficult of access. Comprehensive writings are to be found only in very few partial fields of agrometeorology. The subject of training problems has thus been treated as of utmost importance at the meetings ofthe Commission for Agrometeorology (CAgM) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), especially as agrometeorology has won such great significance and useful ness not only in the so-called underdeveloped countries in advancing a more productive agriculture, but also in coun tries whose agricultural standard is already high.

From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy and dread. A well-meaning locavore tries to butcher his backyard chickens humanely, only to find himself absorbed into the absurd violence of the pecking order. A student applying for a philosophy fellowship struggles to project himself into the thoughts of his hypothetical judges, becoming increasingly possessed and overpowered by the problem of other minds. And in “The Postcard,” a private detective is hired to investigate a posthumous message that a widower has seemingly received from his dead wife, leading him into a foggy landscape of lost memories, shifting identities, and strange doublings. Cerebral and eerie, captivating and profound, these twelve stories expertly guide us through the paranoia and obsession of everyday horrors, not least the horrors of overthinking what other people might be thinking. With all of Sims’s trademark virtuosity, innovation, and wit, Other Minds and Other Stories continues to expand the possibilities of contemporary fiction.

THE EXPLOSIVE SPECIAL FORCES MILITARY ACTION SERIES They are America’s ultimate weapon in the war on terror. On the sea, in the air, or over land, they go where no one else will go, and do what no one else can do… Brannigan’s Brigands are billeted aboard the attack ship USS Daley in the Arabian Sea when they are handed a mission: patrol a sector of Afghanistan near the Iranian border. But the routine assignment puts them dangerously close to a large, mobile corps of Iranian Special Forces who have their own agenda. They plan to organize the scattered jihadists across the Middle East into a giant, cohesive army—starting with a rebel force already in the Afghanistan highlands. Now, Brannigan and his SEALs are targeted to be the first infidels to die in the terrorists’ quest to establish no less than a modern day Persian Empire...

With heart-pounding descriptions of avalanches and treacherous ascents, Barry Blanchard chronicles his transformation from a poor Metis (half-breed) kid from the wrong side of the tracks to one of the most respected alpinists in the world. He describes early climbs attempted with nothing to guide him but written trail descriptions and the cajones of youth. He slowly acquires the skills, equipment and partners necessary to tackle more and more difficult climbs, farther and farther afield: throughout the Canadian Rockies, into Alaska and the French Alps and on to Everest, Peru, and the challenging mountains in Pakistan. From each he learns lessons that only nature and extreme endeavor can teach. This is the story of the culture of climbing in the days of punk rock and rock ‘n’ roll, accompanied by the rhythm of adrenaline and the arrogance of youth. It is a portrait of the power of the mountains to lift us – physically, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually – and the depths of relationships based on total trust in the person at the other end of a rope. Includes climbs with renowned alpinists such as Kevin Doyle, Mark Twight, David Cheesmond and Ward Robinson. 432 pages with photos and a playlist.