The Perseids

Author : Teresa Dovalpage
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641292164
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death under the Perseids written by Teresa Dovalpage and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no such thing as a free cruise in Cuban American author Teresa Dovalpage's addictively clever new Havana mystery. Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a five-day cruise to Cuba. Although the circumstances surrounding the prize seem a little suspicious to Mercedes, Nolan’s current unemployment and their need to spice up their marriage make the decision a no-brainer. Once aboard, Mercedes is surprised to see two people she met through her ex-boyfriend Lorenzo: former University of Havana professor Selfa Segarra and down-on-his-luck Spanish writer Javier Jurado. Even stranger: they also received a free cruise. When Selfa disappears on their first day at sea, Mercedes and Javier begin to wonder if their presence on the cruise is more than coincidence. Mercedes confides her worries to her husband, but he convinces her that it’s all in her head. However, when Javier dies under mysterious circumstances after disembarking in Havana, and Nolan is nowhere to be found, Mercedes scrambles through the city looking for him, fearing her suspicions were correct all along.

Author : Karen E. Holmberg
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410860
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perseids written by Karen E. Holmberg and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perseids is a book of poems whose central concern is the way in which memory, perception, and imagination act as lenses to "magnify" experience, creating a state of heightened observation and attention to detail. The book contains two central points around which the other poems are clustered. First, the "Meditations in the Voice of Robert Hooke," a series of two poems, take on the persona of the seventeenth-century microscopist and inventor Robert Hooke, who was the first person to document verbally and graphically the micro world made newly visible by the invention of the microscope. In these poems, Hooke wonders at the fineness of creation, and is moved to expressions of religious awe by the perfection in the forms of nature compared to those made by man. In the second poem in this series, Hooke recalls a summer day spent with his mother in their garden, and meditates on the especial vividness of her presence with him in his memory and imagination, despite her death many years before. The other poem most critical to the collection is the title poem, "The Perseids." A late twentieth century attempt to create a version of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," this poem proceeds from a perspective common to several other poems in the collection: that of an airplane. This particular airplane is flying over the Long Island Sound at night, bringing the speaker of the poem home. Through the speaker's imagination and memory, the perspective of the poem shifts from the airplane itself to a moment during a childhood camping trip when she first saw the Perseid star showers with her family. The modes of vision and creativity involved in exploration and science form the main subjects and themes of this book, whose settings include a biology fieldwork session, the father's science classroom, and Linnaeus's Lapland explorations. Even poems not concerned explicitly with science, such as "Art and Archeology" and "The Zero at the Bone" (which concerns an exhibitionist) place and portray experience "under a microscope," rendering the landscape with scrupulous detail

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Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 46 pages
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Author : William Wallace Payne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
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Author : Philip M. Bagnall
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030766438
Total Pages : 417 pages
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Download or read book Atlas of Meteor Showers written by Philip M. Bagnall and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This atlas contains everything you need to know about meteor showers and how to observe them. It begins with the science behind these celestial fireworks, then equips you with all the practical knowledge you’ll need to make the most of these wonderful astronomical events. The book is rich with illustrations, graphs and resources to assist your hobby. In addition, it includes downloadable radiant charts, report sheets, radiant altitude data, plotting charts and more, to help you locate each shower, record its activity and plot individual meteors during your nights of observation. Intended for amateurs of all levels and requiring no special equipment, this accessible Atlas of Meteor Showers will hone your skills and keep you engaged throughout the year, no matter where you are in the world.

Author : Fred Schaaf
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486151263
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Starry Room written by Fred Schaaf and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring, enriching essays tell beginning star-gazers how to find and where to look for planetary conjunctions, a shooting star, streaking comets, a lunar eclipse, constellations, meteor showers, halos, and other celestial phenomena. 5 illustrations.

Author : British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 582 pages
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Download or read book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
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Total Pages : 978 pages
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Download or read book Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: