Stone In A Landslide

Author : Maria Barbal
Publisher : Peirene Press
ISBN 13 : 1908670002
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone in a Landslide written by Maria Barbal and published by Peirene Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catalan modern classic, first published in 1985, now in its 50th edition, for the first time in English. The beginning of the 20th century: 13-year-old Conxa leaves her home village in the Pyrenees to work for her childless aunt. After years of hardship she finds love with Jaume - a love that will be thwarted by the Spanish Civil War. Approaching her own death, Conxa looks back on a life in which she has lost everything except her own indomitable spirit. Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'I fell in love with Conxa's narrative voice, its stoic calmness and the complete lack of anger and bitterness. It's a timeless voice, down to earth and full of human contradictory nuances. It's the expression of someone who searches for understanding in a changing world but senses that ultimately there may be no such thing.' Meike Ziervogel 'Sparse and haunting.' Katy Guest, Independent 'The compression is so deft, the young narrator's voice so strong, so particular, her straightforward evocation of the hard labour and rare pleasures of mountain life . . . so vibrant, that it makes me want to take scissors to everything else I read.' Richard Lea, Guardian 'A Pyrenean life told in a quietly effective voice.' Daniel Hahn, Independent 'There is an understated power in Barbal's depiction of how the forces of history can shape the life of the powerless.' Adrian Turpin, Financial Times 'A masterpiece of world literature and a shining example of the virtuosity of elegant and concise prose.' Pam Norfolk, Lancashire Evening Post 'Air-tight believability.' Matthew Tree, Times Literary Supplement ​ INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2010 FOYLES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2010

Author : Ernest Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landslides in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, Including a Consideration of Their Causes and Their Classification written by Ernest Howe and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oldrich Hungr
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439833710
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landslide Risk Management written by Oldrich Hungr and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landslide Risk Management comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, held in Vancouver, Canada, from May 31 to June 3, 2005. The first part of the book contains state-of-the-art and invited lectures, prepared by teams of authors selected for their experience in specific topics assigned to them by the JTC

Author : Kyoji Sassa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319049968
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment written by Kyoji Sassa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Third World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in June 2014. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in three full-color volumes and one mono-color volume.

Author : Peter Birkle
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439862990
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water-Rock Interaction XIII written by Peter Birkle and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 18th century, Neptunists and Plutonists had controversial opinions about the formation of the Earth and its lithological units. The former believed that rocks formed from the crystallization of minerals in the early Earth's oceans, the latter believed that rocks were formed in fire. Both theories ignored the importance of continuous wat

Author : Franz Hohler
Publisher : Harvill Press
ISBN 13 : 9781846559389
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Flood written by Franz Hohler and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful and melancholic novella, set in the Glarner mountains in Switzerland, is told from the viewpoint of a child whose innocence of the world is combined with an acute sense of the danger present beneath the harmony of nature. Seven-year-old Katharina Ryhner is sent up the mountain to stay with her grandmother while her mother gives birth to her sixth child. It rains everyday and all the talk is of the danger of landslides. The little girl worries. When the time comes to go home, Katharina, filled with an increasing and inexplicable sense of doom, refuses to leave. Then, hearing a deafening thunderclap, she looks down the valley: a huge chunk of the mountainside is hurtling towards her home.

Author : Helin Fu
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128224266
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rock Mechanics and Engineering written by Helin Fu and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock Mechanics and Engineering: Prediction and Control of Landslides and Geological Disasters presents the state-of-the-art in monitoring and forecasting geotechnical hazards during the survey and design, construction, and operation of a railway. This volume offers the latest research and practical knowledge on the regularity of disaster-causing activities, and the monitoring and forecasting of rockfalls, landslides, and debris flow induced by rainfall and human activity. The book gives guidance on how to optimize railway design, prevent and control measures during construction, and geological hazard remediation. The book also advises engineers on how to achieve traffic safety on high-speed railways. Eleven chapters present best practices in the prediction and control of landslides and rockfalls in geological disasters, derived from years of geotechnical engineering research and practice on high-speed railways in China. High-speed railways bring characteristic geotechnical challenges including a complete maintenance system, a long railway line, and the subjection of the geological body to cyclic loads. Since the damage to the geological body is influenced by fatigue as well as rock and soil strength and hydrology, the study of geotechnical hazards to high-speed rail is very complex. Monitoring and predicting such hazards on high-speed railways is a significant challenge to their safe construction and operation. Presents the latest technical achievement and development trends in landslide and rockfall forecasting Considers the challenges of high-speed railways to the prediction and control of geotechnical hazards Gives both in-situ and laboratory tests for rockfalls, and considers the collapse process of rock slopes Describes the principles of slope monitoring with specific reference to high-speed rail Details an automatic monitoring system for geotechnical hazards to high-speed rail

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
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Download or read book Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Professional Paper - United States Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: