History of the Rain, Paperback

Reducere. Rain tells the story of the Dream Walker Maya, an empathic clairvoyant who experiences history through the eyes of other Dream Walkers across time....

Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source...

Reducere. A Ms. magazine, Refinery29, and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read of 2021 A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thoug...

Reducere. Long Rain is an exquisite collection of five line poems (tanka) and short prose (haibun), organized around the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire and Wate...

Reducere. This book covers three interesting subject areas that span over a half-century in the life of Trevor James Constable. The hidden history area invol...

Written originally in Me'phaa, Hubert Matiuwaa's First Rain is a selection of poems that emerged from responding to the death of a grandmother who ...

Reducere. Mary Austin's love of the desert is everywhere evident in The Land of Little Rain, a collection of fourteen vignettes about the land and people of ...

Reducere. RAIN HAS SEARCHED FOR A PLACE TO CALL HOME. BUT THERE'S NOWHERE TO HIDE WHEN THE NIGHT SKY LIGHTS UP WITH TERROR.... Torn from the embrace of her p...

Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores...

Reducere. 1940: It's the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose-step into Paris, when President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term and Kansas Citi...

The incredible true story of how a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history--years before the Black D...

Approaching the unfolding climate catastrophe conceptually through its dissolution of the categories of "man-made" and "natural" disasters, A Histo...

Reducere. ``Rhythm in the Rain`` is a nonfiction narrative about the jazz community in the Pacific Northwest that examines the people, places, and events tha...

Reducere. Description"What is poetry? Poetry is art made with words. The rest of this book is about what that means."Speak Like Rain goes through the artisti...

Reducere. Like so many of us, Lucinda Fleeson wanted to escape what had become a routine life. So, she quit her big-city job, sold her suburban house, and mo...

Taking the reader through the remote wilds of the jungle, showing the parching heat and the relentless rain that these men experienced, Rhodes Jame...

Reducere. Inspired by a year of hiking 120 desert canyons, Where the Rain Children Sleep is nature writing in the best tradition of Edward Abbey, Ellen Meloy...

Reducere. Master military historian John Keegan's groundbreaking analysis of combat and warfareThe Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a...

Reducere. In August 1944, a few hundred men defended a hill near Mortain, France, against a massive German counterattack. For most of the six days and nights...

Reducere. Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and t...

Reducere. Many indigenous cultures recognise a deep connection between people and their land--a heart-weaving of inhabitants and history that lies, sleeping ...

DescriptionHeaven's Breath, the first history of the wind, looks at this ubiquitous and invisible entity from the point of view of geography, biolo...

Reducere. Many leading deities of the Aztec pantheon were worshipped by previous Mesoamerican civilizations, gods such as Tlaloc, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipo...

Reducere. Claire Swedberg and Rita Hupy conducted hundreds of interviews to investigate what role a community plays in the arts, and what the arts can bring ...

America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But Japan has only begun to fight. . . . In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A...

Contributor(s): Author: David R. MontgomeryDirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting ou...

Princes, Vikings, and the history of tenth-century England come together in this saga of exploration and unrequited love. Prince Rumon of France, d...

Description Rock Art of Kentucky is the first comprehensive documentation of the fragile remnants of Kentucky's prehistoric Native American rock ar...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of An...

As a working palace, the Istana is tradition firmly rooted in the present. It has links with Singapore's colonial past, being first a nutmeg planta...

Rightly called the saddest story in rock 'n' roll history, this Creedence biographynewly updatedwith stories from band members, producers, business...

DescriptionLater Emperors is four poems, each of which approaches Roman history from a very different perspective. It is also four voices, each one...

Reducere. A fascinating look at weather, including a wealth of unusual proverbial and naturalist lore. Makes the vagaries of the weather comprehensible, from...

Reducere. DescriptionIt's 1888. Can Belle Carson reinvent her life by moving next door to Thomas Edison's winter estate?From New York Times bestselling autho...

Reducere. DescriptionAs mothers of humanity and warrior queens, African women have played an extraordinary role in the civilization of mankind. The story of ...

Reducere. "James Chisholm was a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune sent to report on the gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical ...

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Reducere. A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story--Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens thr...

Reducere. A victorious American army, having driven through Belgium almost unopposed, ran head-on into German soldiers on their own home ground, in some of t...

Reducere. Keep her secret Keep her safeOn the 14th November 1940, Hitler's bombs rain down on Coventry. From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young ...

Reducere. "Exotic, entertaining . . . an] exceptional first novel."--San Francisco Chronicle The year is 1861. After two centuries of isolation, Japan has op...

Reducere. DescriptionSpring has come to Ireland, where Thorgrim Night Wolf, new-made Lord of V k-l , and the three hundred Viking warriors under his command ...

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Reducere. Wildsam Field Guides: Seattle reveals this gem of the Northwest through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and roote...

Reducere. This collection of American Indian legends was gathered by Gene Meany Hodge from authentic sources in the 1930s and centers around the sacred super...

Reducere. DescriptionChapter OneThe Morning StarAnd there appeared a great wonder in Heaven, A woman clothed with the sun, And the moon under her feet. -- Re...

Reducere. Description"This tale brings a turbulent time to life with nuance and sensitivity."JOCELYN GREEN, award-winning author of the Heroines Behind the L...

Reducere. Perplexity and wonder are integral parts of Tung-Hui Hu's poetry, which is as elegant as it is surprising.--Rain TaxiThis fresh and unexpected poet...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always rai...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even ...

Reducere. One of the Best Books of the Year The New York Times - San Francisco Chronicle - The Economist - Kirkus Reviews In the twenty-first century, airpla...

Melbourne's a city you get to know from the inside out - you have to walk it to love it. My favourite time to do this is at night. That's when you ...

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Immortals Kendal and Piper welcome their new child and celebrate the defeat of an old enemy by returning to their home outside New Orleans. The las...

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Since the beginning of time, four billion life forms have been created.Ninety-nine percent are now extinct.The human species is the youngest of the...

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Reducere. This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of schola...

Reducere. If you think Oregon is the land of eternal rain, think again. It's a place of wide-open spaces, with just 3.6 million inhabitants in nearly 100, 00...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Timothy WhiteFrom The Beatles' patronage of his 1968 debut album to his Grammy awards for Hourglass, James Taylor has remai...

Reducere. A must-have resource for anyone wishing to unlock the mysteries of Kyoto's 1150-year-old Gion Festival. "A month of rituals, five processions, coun...

Reducere. Having been diagnosed as bipolar, with psychotic disorders, havingattempted suicide and having a history of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorderand anxiet...

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Reducere. - A compelling tale of heart-stopping adventure and immersion in nature -Searching for solitude in the wilderness, Helen Lloyd went to Iceland via ...

Reducere. The Indo-Iranian Anahita is an ancient Persian Goddess, who became a Zoroastrian Yazata (or Angel) and is still part of contemporary Zoroastrianism...

Reducere. Chanca piedra is Spanish for "stone breaker, " which describes its very long history of use in the Peruvian Amazon for treating and preventing kidn...

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"Of course I had to end up here . . ." Over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the muddy fields...

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