books about: disturbances

books about: disturbances

books:

Disturbances

Snow Sense: A Guide to Evaluating Snow Avalanche Hazard

Jill A. Fredston, Doug Fesler

Alaska Mountain Safety Center, Incorporated, 1999

Review in Backpacker Magazine, May 1995
"Here's a book you should have. I know, I know, everybody says that but this is different. This book lays out what avalanches are and how they happen, and it will save your life. Now notice I didn't say this is a book you should have on your bookshelf. This one should ...

The Little Disturbances of Man (Contemporary American Fiction)

Grace Paley

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1985

Utterly Humane; Stylistic Economy
What makes Paley worth reading and important is her language, which is plain, simple english, but the order in which she places the words create sentences that burst with gut-life. Her sentences are like clever, immigrant hands--hard-won wisdom with an untiring lust ...

Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays

Tina Howe

Theatre Communications Group, 1993

Coastal Disturbances: 4 Plays by Tina Howe
Tina Howe's plays draw from a variety of emotions that could delight any reader or performer. Her unique style is refreshing and her contemporary in-your-face bluntness adds excitement to her dialogue. This is a great selection for those who enjoy contemporary ...

Storm Tactics Handbook: Modern Methods of Heaving-To for Survival in Extreme Conditions

Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey

Paradise Cay Publications, 1999

I had the first, the second is worth having too
My first copy was pretty worn, so I decided to buy this edition. Really interesting new stories, not only from the Pardeys expereinces in storms, but also from others. I liked the deductions made by folks from both ends of the experience spectrum, one a real novice, ...

Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel

Rivka Galchen

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Tzvi is real
Tzvi Gal-Chen, the real one, the infamous University of Oklahoma Professor, and father of the dehyphenated author Rivka Galchen, occupied the office next to mine at OU, in the years preceding his death. The novel cleverly recycles posthumous biographical material about ...

Varieties of Disturbance: Stories

Lydia Davis

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

smart and surprising
Anyone glancing through this book who thinks "well, gee, I could just write a bunch of one-line stories or prose poems and be as smart as Lydia Davis" will find, if they actually attempt this project, that only Lydia Davis is as smart as Lydia Davis. Whether you read ...

Extreme Weather: Understanding the Science of Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Floods, Heat Waves, Snow Storms, Global ...

H. Michael Mogil

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2007

Extreme Weather, Extremely Interesting!
I just finished reading a new book by H. Michael Mogil titled "Extreme Weather". Unlike many weather books which focus on a dynamic approach (highs, lows, jet streams) to explain weather this book looks at extreme weather by event type and discusses the processes and ...

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (P.S.)

Sebastian Junger

Harper Perennial, 2007

Hurricane Gloria
This book is amazing. Sebastian Junger went to a great deal of effort to write this book. It is historically accurate and all people and places are real. The only piece I have trouble with is after Andrea Gail is no longer heard from. Anything regarding what ...

The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)

David Laskin

Harper Perennial, 2005

The Children's Blizzard
I thought the book was well done, however there really was a lot of technical information that I thought detracted from the story itself. I know I skimmed over it, and went on to the content of the story. Over all I was pleased with the information and enjoyed ...

On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics and Art (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, No. ...

Ari Adut

Cambridge University Press, 2008

Penetrating and insightful
This is a novel take on a serious issue in modern life. Scandals are pivotal moments, but we don't really understand what makes them happen or what prevents them. Adut provides a deep and complex analysis of the phenomenon, and is an entertaining read. It covers art, ...

The Hungry Tide: A Novel

Amitav Ghosh

Houghton Mifflin, 2005

Character is plot, plot is character
I think they say that character is plot and plot is character. This book proves that theory. The meticulous detail lavished on developing each character including Piyali Roy, Kanai Dutt, Fokir and countless others is what gives this book it's raison d'etre. The ...

Stomach Ailments and Digestive Disturbances: How You Can Benefit from Diet, Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, ...

Michael T. Nd Murray

Prima Lifestyles, 1997

KEEP THIS BOOK IN PRINT!!!
This book has greatly helped my husband and myself to prevent gastric reflux. We use carrot juice (organic, and in moderation), DGL (De-Glycyrrhizinated Licorice) chewable tablets shortly before meals, Slippery-Elm throat lozenges, etc. Others I know have also been ...

The Great Galveston Disaster

Paul Lester

Pelican Publishing Company, 2006

Amazing similarity
The similarities between the hurricane's which struck Galveston, and New Orleans is, well, almost eerie. In reading the newspaper headlines in this book, if you did not know which storm they were writing about, it would be hard to tell the difference between the two. I ...

Story of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane

Pelican Publishing Company, 1999

Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy : A Comprehensive Method of Treating Human Disturbances : Revised and ...

Albert Ellis

Citadel, 1994

The definitive text on cognitive-behavior therapy.
The author has written the most lucid and powerful treatise dealing with the field of cognitive-behavior therapy in his work, "Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy". He continues to display his uncanny knack for communicating profound theories in plain, simple English ...