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It has long been a government secret in the UK that Manchester is
the home of man made weather. In neighbouring Salford, cloud
machines are manufactured, and their owners are registered and
certificated. Cirrus Cumulus and Percival White are two
respectable, certified cloud machine operators, working together on
a machine called the Nimbus. Down on the ground, they share a home
in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn. Cirrus' reserved nature is
perfectly partnered with Percival's rather bawdy behaviour.
Operating out of Wythenshawe Weather Centre, they make a great
team, taking on search and rescue, fundraising, foreign aid, and
some more unusual projects. As crew of the Nimbus, they are
occasionally called upon to fight criminal cloud activity. Other
weather tasks are of vital importance, while some are just bizarre.
In this collection of short stories, the crew of the Nimbus weaves
magic in the sky but also in the hearts of colleagues and friends
alike.
The series was written to be aligned with CAPS. A possible work
schedule has been included. Each topic start with an overview of
what is taught, and the resources you need. There is advice on
pave-setting to assist you in completing the work for the year on
time. Advice on how to introduce concepts and scaffold learning is
given for every topic. All the answers have been given to save you
time doing the exercises yourself. Also included are a full-colour
poster and CD filled with resources to assist you in your teaching
and assessment.
You don't tell an American to switch off her light; you build her a
better light bulb. A leading British doctor with a radical plan to
save the NHS and a Silicon Valley billionaire with a radical plan
to halt climate change, meet outside an abandoned train on a salt
flat in South America. A landscape so bright in its whiteness that
it isn't easy to look at, and so uninterrupted in its flatness
there's no echo. For Kimsa and his daughter who live there, the
arrival of these strangers initially seems like an opportunity.
Until they both stake their claim on the land, each following their
ruthless pursuit of 'the greater good'. Al Smith's landmark play
premieres at the Royal Court following his 2016 hit Harrogate which
saw him nominated for Most Promising Playwright at the 2017 Evening
Standard Theatre Awards.
High-Resolution Solid-State NMR of Silicates and Zeolites Günter Engelhardt and Dieter Michel "I strongly recommend this book as an important reference for scientists concerned with the structural properties of siliceous materials." —Applied Spectroscopy This well-organized and up-to-date text gives a thorough account of the wide range of applications of multinuclear high-resolution solid-state NMR spectroscopy in silicate and zeolite science, with emphasis on the kinds of chemical information retrievable from NMR experiments. 1988 (0 471-91597-1) 485 pp. The Chemistry of Silica Solubility, Polymerization, Colloid and Surface Properties, and Biochemistry Ralph K. Iler A major component of the earth’s solid surface and the constituent of sand, silica—an ageless natural staple—is also integral to industries as diverse as chemistry, biology, medicine, agriculture, metallurgy, and mining. This landmark reference details the chemistry surrounding the research and development of silica as well as information on its production and production control. 1979 (0 471-02404-X) 866 pp. The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds Parts 1 and 2 Edited by Saul Patai and Zvi Rappoport "This volume will probably become the first reference consulted for C-Si chemistry…" —Choice This authoritative account of organic compounds containing carbon-silicon bonds brings specialists up-to-date to the field’s latest innovative turns. The emphasis in this compilation of studies—from 17 prominent researchers—is on small molecules, single bonds, analysis, structure, synthesis, spectroscopy, and reaction mechanisms. Part 1:1989 (0 471-91441-X) 892 pp. Part 2:1989 (0 471-91992-6) 1,668 pp.
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Radio (Paperback)
A.L. Smith
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R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Lying there, drifting up into those ancient lights was exactly like
looking into the past. It is looking into the past. History, I
think, is just a property of light. Charlie Fairbanks was born in
the dead center of the United States at the dead center of the
twentieth century. Americans are going to the Moon and Charlie's
sure he'll be the first one there. But as he shines his spotlight
on the Moon, so too does it illuminate the darker side to his
nation's history. Radio is a story about memory, love and
spaceships.
Somewhere near the bleak Head of the Valleys there is a housing
estate called Texas-2. Here a vibrant cast of characters, related
by blood and dislocated by time, hunt, hate and love each other
over the course of a dark yet hilarious narrative. Through this
landscape wanders Hank Evans, epileptic and visionary, a lost soul
in search of final meaning. Leading to Texas-2 is a riveting
account of violent lives and human redemption in a Wales seldom so
revealed in all its stark, bizarre reality. Aled Smith has created
a brilliant and lively world; a world imagined over two brutal days
and rooted in a place that may never be seen in quite the same way
again.
There's gossip going around that we're all like him. That we're all
paper thin, that it's all been painted over, and each one of us is
gonna sit down one day and not be able to stand up, like we've
disappeared to ourselves. Harrogate tells the story of a father
struggling to confront his obsessions head-on without destroying
his family. It is a play about how we perform versions of ourselves
depending on what company we keep, and how we project onto others
versions of the people we want to see, rather than accepting who
stands in front of us. The play is a triptych about obsession,
repression and lust. It received its world premiere on the 11
September 2015 as part of the HighTide Theatre Festival and this
edition has been published for its subsequent production in October
2016.
From the Flight Engineer's station on board the Nimbus almost any
kind of weather could be produced to order and order it was for
purposes galore. Whether it is for fund raising, industrial
sabotage or TV Dramas, it was available from Wythenshawe Weather
Centre, and aboard the Nimbus it was the Flight Engineer who
controlled it all. This is the third book on weather making by the
author, the first being -'Making Rain and Other Things Is Our
Business!' and the second, - 'A Clouds Life'. Tony Smith is a
retired Further Education Lecturer and former RAFVR(T) and SCC RNR
Officer. He has a wealth of experience of young people and all
things flying. As a Bachelor of Education and former glider pilot,
he is suitably qualified to waffle on about a lot of things. When
Tony's head is not in the clouds he builds model aircraft and helps
a local Brass band. Tony is married and has two daughters, two
grand daughters and a grandson. He lives in Atherton, a former
mining and mill town in the North West of England.
Apparently, back in the day us McClouds used to be the Thanes of
Queensferry, before all that shit got stamped out by the English .
. . We've got Royal Blood in us he says, and he says when we
eventually realise we should've voted Yes not No Dad's gonna rise
up to be Thane of Queensferry once more. Pop Sheeran, proudly
shouldering the family trade of restoring the Forth Bridge, is
about to lose it all. A global corporation has bought this Scottish
icon, bringing with them innovative new paint. How will Pop fight
back when he realises he's painting himself out of a job? Diary of
a Madman is a sharply political, witty new adaptation of Gogol's
classic story, reimagined in a contemporary Scotland on the brink
of voting for independence. The play received its world premiere at
the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 5 August 2016 before opening at
the Gate Theatre, London, in September 2016.
Weather solutions know no boundaries as this book will demonstrate.
Eddie Stormbart had a winning idea and he created a huge cloud
machine that had a rain-making capacity four times that of current
models and he called it 'Cloudtanic'. In Scarborough the town
council hired a drizzle to quell any trouble from agitated
holidaymakers. Oban's 'Fresh Food Gathering' was saved by fresh
water deliveries and watercress was the main beneficiary. Great
Yarmouth's 'slot machines' provided a jackpot shower. The Cloud
Museum in deeper Salford is a revelation. Crime extends to all
sectors of society and the world of weather is no exception. Two
amorous undergraduates completed work experience aboard cloud
machines. A honeymoon cruise onboard a cloud machine was a dream
come true for an American couple. You can enjoy all this stuff
without getting wet, but it would still be advisable to have an
umbrella handy - better to be safe rather than drenched!
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The life of a cloud, or at least, one of those made by a machine
operating from Wythenshawe Weather Centre, is unbelievably varied.
Rain and drizzle you might expect but delivering spies, saving
ships in distress, helping with missile tests and keeping amorous
couples apart will probably come as a complete surprise, but the
man in the driving seat sees it all and more. Why not join him or
her and see (well at least read) for yourself.
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