Ancient Rain
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The Ancient Rain
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Author : Domenic Stansberry
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2013-11-19
The Ancient Rain written by Domenic Stansberry and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with Fiction categories.
Edgar Award winner and master of contemporary noir Domenic Stansberry returns to San Francisco's North Beach and Dante Mancuso, the dark PI who grew up on its tough streets. After a career with a shadowy security firm with interests on both sides of the law, Dante has come home to put all that behind him and has gone to work for a private investigator. A call alerts him early one morning that Bill Owens, a fellow PI, has been charged with a notorious thirty-year-old killing. Bill was involved in a political group in the late sixties, which among other pranks and small-time crimes, held up a bank. Except that time, an innocent bystander was shot and killed. To clear Owens of these charges, Dante will have to retrace the original investigation through San Francisco's radical underground and bring in the man who was pulling the strings. The Ancient Rain is a chilling novel from one of crime fiction's finest. Stansberry spools out a narrative filled with deceit and betrayal, and in his hands the line between justice and revenge is razor sharp.
Ancient Rain
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Author : Tokyo (Japan). Contemporary Art Gallery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Ancient Rain written by Tokyo (Japan). Contemporary Art Gallery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
The Ancient Rain
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Author : Bob Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1981
The Ancient Rain written by Bob Kaufman and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Mr. Kaufman has a genuine lyric talent, and his poetry is sensuous, exciting, and charged with vitality." --Publishers Weekly
The Ancient Rain Poems 1956 1978
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
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The Ancient Rain Poems 1956 1978
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Author : Bob Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2017-05-17
The Ancient Rain Poems 1956 1978 written by Bob Kaufman and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-17 with Poetry categories.
"Mr. Kaufman has a genuine lyric talent, and his poetry is sensuous, exciting, and charged with vitality." —Publishers Weekly The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978 is San Francisco poet Bob Kaufman’s third collection and his first to be published since the late 1960s. One of the original Beat poets (the coinage "beatnik" is his), Kaufman’s work has always been essentially improvisational, often done to jazz accompaniment. And he became something of a legendary figure at the poetry readings in the early days of the San Francisco renaissance of the 1950s. With his extemporaneous technique, akin in many ways to Surrealist automatic writing, he has produced a body of work ranging from a visionary lyricism infused with satirical, almost Dadaistic elements to a prophetic poetry of political and social protest. Born in New Orleans of mixed Black and Jewish parentage, Kaufman was one of fourteen children. During twenty years in the Merchant Marine, he cultivated an intense taste for literature on his long sea voyages. Settling in California, in the ’50s, he became active in the burgeoning West Coast literary scene. Disappointment, drugs, and imprisonment led him to take a ten-year vow of complete silence that lasted until 1973. The present volume includes previously uncollected poems written prior to his pledge and newer work composed in the years 1973-1978, before the poet once again lapsed into silence.
Rain
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Author : Cynthia Barnett
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2015-04-21
Rain written by Cynthia Barnett and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-21 with Science categories.
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
Frog Hymns And Rain Babies
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Author : Gautamavajra Vajrācārya
language : en
Publisher: Marg Publications
Release Date : 2013
Frog Hymns And Rain Babies written by Gautamavajra Vajrācārya and has been published by Marg Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art, Indic categories.
Examines the influence of monsoons on the art, literature, and culture of India and the South Asian region.
On Impressions Of Rain Drops In Ancient And Modern Strata
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Author : Sir Charles Lyell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
On Impressions Of Rain Drops In Ancient And Modern Strata written by Sir Charles Lyell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with categories.
Rain Worship Among The Ancient Chinese And The Nahua Maya Indians
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Author : Dennis Wing-sou Lou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Rain Worship Among The Ancient Chinese And The Nahua Maya Indians written by Dennis Wing-sou Lou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Mayas categories.
The Weather Companion
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Author : Gary Lockhart
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2008-05-02
The Weather Companion written by Gary Lockhart and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-02 with Nature categories.
The Weather Companion An Album of Meteorological History, Science, Legend, and Folklore Throughout history, as farmer, sailor, hunter, and artist, humans have watched and worried about the weather. We have devised ways to observe it, to predict it, to protect ourselves from it, to take advantage of it. It plays a major role in the science and folklore of every culture. Gary Lockhart's The Weather Companion is a fascinating compendium of meteorological facts and fables, from ancient myths to the latest research, from the rain forests to the desert regions. You'll learn about the meteorology of Noah's flood; methods of forecasting; the behavior of weather cycles; weather predictors such as the thickness of corn husks, the height of saw grass, and the behavior of animals; weather prophets; and much more. Gary Lockhart reveals what makes rain "smell," how natural barometers work, and the long history of weather fish, once kept to predict rain, and revived during China's Cultural Revolution. You'll even learn the best time to go fishing! Beautifully illustrated, captivating and original, The Weather Companion is a delightful experience for all ages. Your skies and sunsets will never be the same.