Waiting on the Weather

Waiting on the Weather

Author: Teruyo Nogami

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

Published: 2006-09-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781933330099

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A revealing memoir about the director and his films, by his first assistant for fifty years.


Waiting for Rain

Waiting for Rain

Author: Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780143029649

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In the Kolkata of the early 1970s, the naxalite insurgency holds the city in thrall. Somsundar, an unemployed youth, and Manju, a young woman brought up in the protected environment of the upper middle class, wrestle with reality and change as the city, gripped by a symbolic drought, waits desperately for rain


'Warrior-In-Waiting'

'Warrior-In-Waiting'

Author: E.G Farman

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-06-23

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0244495718

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The book paints a picture of air force life in the 40s, 50s & 60s, including the period when the Cold War nearly became the opposite. ""One of the Wellingtons had begun an overshoot, but as the engines reached full power the nose had shot skywards, the aircraft had climbed for a moment then stall-turned into the ground and burned. As they started the overshoot, the instructor had taken the backthrust from the elevators, and his backrest had broken away under the strain, sending him over backwards, still holding the wheel. That was all that it had taken to kill three men."" ""A manoeuvre to practise in the simulator was the escape. They would need to be five miles away at bomb-burst and running away from the pressure wave but some had not thought it through. Survival required an instant tight, diving turn while closing the bomb doors and pushing the aircraft to its limiting speed. Less imaginative captains would ask how far away they were at bomb-burst and I would reply "Three-quarters of a mile."


Waiting

Waiting

Author: Ghassan Hage

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2009-07-15

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0522860001

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In this rich and insightful collection of essays, leading anthropologist Ghassan Hage brings together academics across political science, philosophy, anthropology and sociology for an examination into the experience of waiting. What is it to wait? What do we wait for? And how is waiting connected to the social worlds in which we live? From Beckett's darkly comic play Waiting for Godot, to the perpetual waiting of refugees to return home or to moments of intense anticipation such as falling in love or the birth of a baby, there are many ways in which we wait. This compelling collection of essays suggests that this experience is among the essential conditions that make us human and connect us to others.


It's Cloudy Today

It's Cloudy Today

Author: Kristin Sterling

Publisher: Lerner Publications ™

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1541502892

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Clouds drift and float. They move above Earth. Sometimes they are white and puffy. Sometimes they are dark and cover the sky. What happens when the weather is cloudy? Read this book to find out! Learn all about kinds of weather in the What’s the Weather Like? series - part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!


Big Weather

Big Weather

Author: Mark Svenvold

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-05-02

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780805080148

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The author profiles real tornadoes and severe weather patterns over six thousand miles of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, known as Tornado Alley.


Report

Report

Author: Maryland Geological Survey

Publisher:

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13:

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CONTENTS.--Vol. I (1897)--Vol. II (1898)--Vol. III (1899)--Vol. IV (1902)--Vol. V (1905)--Vol. VI (1906)--Vol. VII (1908)--Vol. VIII (1909)--Vol. IX (1911)--Vol. X (1918)--Vol. XI (1922)--Vol. XII (1928)--Vol. XIII (1937)--Vol. XIV (1941)


Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars

Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars

Author: Douglas Brode

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2012-06-14

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0810885123

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In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time. It was followed by two sequels and three prequels, all of which became blockbusters. Comic books, novels, graphic novels, and magazines devoted to the films have added to the mythology of George Lucas’s creation. Despite the impact of the franchise on popular culture, however, discussion of the films from a scholarly perspective has not kept pace with the films. In Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology, Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka have assembled an intriguing collection of essays addressing the influences that shaped the films, as well as the impact the franchise has had on popular culture. Contributors to this volume discuss the Star Wars universe and what its connection to various cultural touchstones—from fairy tales and Joseph Campbell to Disneyland and Marvel comics—mean to viewers. Essays examine the films in the franchise as well as incarnations of the Star Wars universe in video games, comic books, and television programs, including the films’ influence on new generations of filmmakers. A companion volume to Sex, Politics, and Culture in Star Wars, Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars is a diverse collection of criticism that investigates the dynamic force that Star Wars has become in popular culture, from every imaginable angle.