Tag: Sky

Free Download Erich Karkoschka, "The Observer’s Sky Atlas: With 50 Star Charts Covering the Entire Sky"
English | 2007 | pages: 168 | ISBN: 0387485376 | PDF | 21,0 mb
Can you remember being impressed by a clear starry sky? Look at the Milky Way through binoculars and it will reveal its many hundreds of thousands of stars, double stars, stellar clusters, and nebulae. If you are a new observer, it is not that easy to ?nd your way in this swarm of stars, but this atlas tries to make it as easy as possible. So now it is not just experienced amateurs that can enjoy looking at the heavens. Two additional observing aids are recommended. The ?rst is a planisphere, where one can dial in the time and day in order to see which constellations are visible and where they are in the sky. The second is an astronomical yearbook listing the current positions of the planets and all important phenomena. So, let us begin our journey around the night sky, and see what the universe can reveal to us! Sky Atlases Most sky atlases can be classi?ed into one of two major groups according to the number of stars they contain. Some atlases only show the stars visible to the nakedeye. As there are not more than a few thousand such stars, such charts can be simple and clear and can be arranged in a handy format. They are ideal for all naked-eye Facing page, top: The constellation Cygnus (Swan) in the midst of the northern Milky Way.

Free Download Jaynie Royal, "Howling Up to the Sky: The Opioid Epidemic"
English | 2018 | pages: 146 | ISBN: 1947548328 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Pact Press brings you Howling Up to the Sky, the second anthology in a series designed to spark conversation, promote awareness, and generate funds to assist in our battle against addiction. Contained within are throughtful, thought-provoking essays on addiction, recovery, loss and hope by Barbara Lodge, Abigail Warren, Sarah Ghoshal, Ken Benson, Anna Schoenbach, Laura Golden, and Alma McKinley. The anthology also includes a short story by Jenean McBearty and poems by Tom Pescatore, Susan Vespoli, Kerry Rawlinson, Edison Jennings, Cynthia McCain, Brian Koester, Jemshed Khan, Justin Karcher, Nathanael Stolte, Damian Rucci, Will Cordeiro, Larry Thacker, and Luke Muyskens. We are grateful to Catherine McDowell, Executive Director of Roots of Recovery, for her insightful forward.Pact Press is proud, in the sale of this anthology, to support the fine work of Shatterproof in their efforts to assist families and individuals struggling with addiction.

Free Download Christopher Shores – Duel for the Sky: Ten Crucial Air Battles of World War II Vividly Recreated
Grub Street | 1999 | ISBN: 189869799X | English | 212 pages | PDF | 173.23 MB
World War II was peppered with battles in the air. This book recreates ten of what the author considers to be the greatest of these battles. Each one has been chosen to provide as wide a variety of air forces and aircraft types as possible, and for the tactics involved and the particular significance. The author draws on archives of text and photographic material to provide a wealth of technical and background data. Accounts of battles recreated includes: the Blitzkrieg on Poland, the Battle of Britain, clashes for the Philippines and Guadalcanal, the struggle for Malta, the Marianas "turkey-shoot", tank-air engagements at Kursk and Mareth and the battles of attrition over Germany by night and day.

Free Download Nalini Nadkarni, "Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees"
English | 2008 | pages: 338 | ISBN: 0520248562, 0520261658 | PDF | 18,5 mb
World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In Between Earth and Sky, a rich tapestry of personal stories, information, art, and photography, she becomes our captivating guide to the leafy wilderness above our heads. Through her luminous narrative, we embark on a multifaceted exploration of trees that illuminates the profound connections we have with them, the dazzling array of goods and services they provide, and the powerful lessons they hold for us. Nadkarni describes trees’ intricate root systems, their highly evolved and still not completely understood canopies, their role in commerce and medicine, their existence in city centers and in extreme habitats of mountaintops and deserts, and their important place in folklore and the arts. She explains tree fundamentals and considers the symbolic role they have assumed in culture and religion. In a book that reawakens our sense of wonder at the fascinating world of trees, we ultimately find entry to the entire natural world and rediscover our own place in it.

Free Download Robert Jackson – Air War at Night: The Battle for the Night Sky Since 1915
Airlife Publishing | 2000 | ISBN: 1840371005 | English | 164 pages | PDF | 107.8 MB
Imagine a world with no visible horizon and no sight of the earth below – searching for a killer who may be fifty miles or fifty feet away. That was the experience that night – fighter crews endured from the start of aerial warfare until halfway into World War II. But even the invention of radio navigation aids and radar gave only a small clue in the night sky over Hitler’s Europe. As German fighters sought the Allied heavy bombers as they labored towards their distant targets, they were in turn pursued by Allied long – range night fighters. These days fighters carry sophisticated software – driven missiles that will hunt and destroy targets many miles away, night or day. Air War at Night describes the process by which the aircraft, equipment and strategy of night aerial warfare reached the operational perfection we take for granted today. 144 black/white photographs.

Free Download 5 Watercolor Landscapes Painting Sky And Foreground
Published 4/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 9.25 GB | Duration: 3h 50m
Paint 5 stunning landscapes. Learn how to use watercolor techniques for creating realistic and detailed landscapes

Free Download Christie Purifoy, "Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0800726669 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 3.4 mb
When Christie Purifoy arrived at Maplehurst that September, she was heavily pregnant with both her fourth child and her dreams of creating a sanctuary that would be a fixed point in her busily spinning world. The sprawling Victorian farmhouse sitting atop a Pennsylvania hill held within its walls the possibility of a place where her family could grow, where friends could gather, and where Christie could finally grasp and hold the thing we all long for-home.

Free Download Timothy Knatchbull, "From A Clear Blue Sky"
English | 2009 | pages: 432 | ISBN: 0091931479, 0091931460 | EPUB | 4,3 mb
A powerful survivor’s account of the IRA bomb that killed the author’s 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. Winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Award, and nominated for the 2009-2010 PEN/JR Ackerley prize.On the August bank holiday weekend in 1979, 14-year-old Timothy Knatchbull went out on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in County Sligo, Ireland. It was a trip that would cost four lives – and change his own for ever.The IRA bomb that exploded in their boat killed Knatchbull’s grandfather Lord Mountbatten, his grandmother Lady Brabourne, his twin brother Nicholas, and local teenager Paul Maxwell. In telling this story for the first time, Knatchbull is not only revisiting the terrible events he and his family lived through, but also writing an intensely personal account of human triumph over tragedy.For thirty years, Knatchbull has lived with the echoes of that the death of the twin from whom he had been inseparable; the loss of his adored grandparents, whose funerals along with his twin’s he and his parents were too injured to attend; the recovery from physical wounds; and the emotional legacy that proved harder to endure.In From A Clear Blue Sky Timothy Knatchbull delves into his past, present and future, and reveals a story of courage and fortitude as he, his family, and their English and Irish friends dealt with the shocking assassinations and their aftermath. Taking place in Ireland at the height of the Troubles, it gives a compelling insight into that period of Irish history. But more importantly it brings home that although tragedy can strike at any moment, the human spirit is able to recover and evolve over time.This book about truth and reconciliation, unflinching in its detail, asks searching questions about why human beings inflict misery on others, and holds lessons about how we can learn to forgive, to heal and to move on. It will resonate with readers the world over.

Free Download Greg Hoch, "Sky Dance of the Woodcock: The Habits and Habitats of a Strange Little Bird "
English | ISBN: 1609386272 | 2019 | 196 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Woodcock are one of the oddest birds in North America. They are a shorebird that got lost and ended up in the scrubby parts of the forest, and look like they were put together with the leftover parts of other birds. Oddities aside, each spring they rise to great beauty with their sky dance at dusk.

Free Download Joseph Kim, "Under The Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America"
English | 2016 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0544705270 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
An inspirational memoir about an abandoned young boy who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea and came to America in search of survival, freedom, and the pursuit of his wildest dreams. ¶ "Riveting."―✅Publishers Weekly (starred review) ¶ Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young boy’s normal life until he was five. Then disaster struck: the first wave of the Great Famine, a long, terrible ordeal that killed millions, including his father, and sent others, like his mother and only sister, on desperate escape routes into China. Alone on the streets, Joseph learned to beg and steal. He had nothing but a street-hardened survival instinct. Finally, in desperation, he too crossed a frozen river to escape to China. There a kindly Christian woman took him in, kept him hidden from the authorities, and gave him hope. Soon, through an underground network of activists, he was spirited to the American consulate, and became one of just a handful of North Koreans to be brought to the U.S. as refugees. Joseph knew no English barely had an education. Yet the kindness of his foster family changed his life. He mastered English, made it to college, and, against all odds, was able to achieve the American Dream.