Windblowne
Windblowne

Author: Stephen Messer

Publisher: Bluefire

Published: 2011-05-10

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0375861858

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Oliver seeks his eccentric great-uncle Gilbert's help in creating a kite for the all-important kite festival, but when Gilbert suddenly disappears, Oliver is guided by one of Gilbert's kites in a quest through different worlds to find him.

Windblown
Windblown

Author: Édouard Manceau

Publisher: Owlkids

Published: 2024-03-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781771476706

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An imaginative board book introduction to shapes and creativity When a gust of wind blows colorful scraps of paper onto a blank page, several animal shapes emerge from the pieces. But who do the scraps belong to? Where did all these pieces of paper come from? And what form will they take next? The chicken is sure the papers belong to them, but so is the fish, and so is the bird, and the snail, and the frog. Using the same small scraps of paper over and over again to create new animals throughout, Édouard Manceau has created a timeless cumulative tale that will delight and enchant children as they try to figure out just who the pieces of paper belong to. Newly available in board book format, this imaginative story is sure to delight the youngest of readers.

Windblown World
Windblown World

Author: Jack Kerouac

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-04-04

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0143036068

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Selections from Jack Kerouac’s journals of the late 1940s and early 1950s – the raw material for what became his classic novel On the Road September 5, 2017, marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, this unique and indispensable volume is sure to become an integral element of the Beat oeuvre.

The Wind Eye
The Wind Eye

Author: Robert Westall

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781846470288

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While vacationing on a remote part of the Northumberland coast, a troubled English family has a series of unsettling experiences traveling back in time and confronting the legendary power of St. Cuthbert.

Wind Child
Wind Child

Author: Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 1999-04-23

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780060249038

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Unaware of her unusual parentage, Resshie grows up restless and longing to know the secrets of the wind and she uses her extraordinary ability as a weaver to help her achieve her dream.

Wind Tunnel Designs and Their Diverse Engineering Applications
Wind Tunnel Designs and Their Diverse Engineering Applications

Author: Noor Ahmed

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2013-03-06

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9535110470

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This book is intended to be a valuable addition to students, engineers, scientists, industrialists, consultants and others providing greater insight into wind tunnel designs and their enormous research potential. It is a compilation of works from world experts on subsonic and supersonic wind tunnel designs, applicable to a diverse range of disciplines. The book is organised in two sections. The first section comprises of three chapters on various aspects of stationary and portable subsonic wind tunnel designs, followed by one chapter on supersonic wind tunnel and the final chapter discusses a method to address unsteadiness effects of fan blade rotation. The second section contains four chapters regarding wind tunnel applications across a multitude of engineering fields including civil, mechanical, chemical and environmental engineering.

Proceedings of the XV Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering
Proceedings of the XV Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering

Author: Francesco Ricciardelli

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 755

ISBN-13: 3030128156

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This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of wind engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the XV Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (IN-VENTO 2018), held in Naples, Italy on September 9-12, 2018. It covers highly diverse topics, including aeroelasticity, bluff-body aerodynamics, boundary layer wind tunnel testing, computational wind engineering, structural dynamics and reliability, wind-structure interaction, flow-induced vibrations, wind modeling and forecast, wind disaster mitigation, and wind climate assessment. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists.