Wicked Weather
Title | Wicked Weather PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Faidley |
Publisher | Amherst Media, Inc |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2018-07-15 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1682033473 |
For the past 30 years, Warren Faidley has forecast, intercepted, and photographed some of the planet’s most extreme weather and natural disasters. As a photojournalist, natural disaster survival expert, and adventurer, his expeditions have covered countless miles. Along the way, he has witnessed both the dark side and breathtaking beauty of Mother Nature’s mysterious ways. He has journeyed into the heart of darkness as hurricanes Andrew and Katrina brought rage and ruin to thousands. Tornadoes, firestorms, earthquakes, and lightning bolts are forever recorded by his cameras, but his memories are filled with the human elements of hope and survival. In this book, you’ll discover over 150 photographs that chronicle Faidley’s quest to find the perfect image in the midst of total chaos and will read about his adventures in the midst of the roar of an EF5 tornado, grapefruit-size hailstones, severe thunder and lightning storms, forest fires, and more.
Wicked Weather for Walking
Title | Wicked Weather for Walking PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Platten |
Publisher | Sacristy Press |
Pages | 75 |
Release | 2021-11-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1789591910 |
A short guide through Holy Week, linking the story of Jesus' way to the cross with themes of pilgrimage and Christian discipleship in the twenty-first century.
Wicked Weather
Title | Wicked Weather PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Shulman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2007-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780696236891 |
Examines the dramatic and destructive effects of storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, droughts and floods.
Wicked Weather
Title | Wicked Weather PDF eBook |
Author | Mari C. Schuh |
Publisher | Wicked Weather |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781977103338 |
Wicked Weather
Title | Wicked Weather PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Shulman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Droughts |
ISBN | 9780696232770 |
Examines the dramatic and destructive effects of storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, droughts and floods.
Wicked Weather
Title | Wicked Weather PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Ganeri |
Publisher | |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Weather |
ISBN | 9781407103686 |
How to survive when things get horrible! Want to know: - how to deal with a blinding blizzard? - what to do when a tornado hits? - how it feels to get struck by lightning? With wicked weather facts, life-saving tips and heart-stopping survival stories. Geography has never been so horrible!
Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World
Title | Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World PDF eBook |
Author | Guru Madhavan |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2024-03-26 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0393651479 |
An ode to systems engineers—whose invisible work undergirds our life—and an exploration of the wicked problems they tackle. Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and planetary aspects—often occurring in health care, infrastructure, business, and policy—are known as wicked problems, and they are not going away anytime soon. In linked chapters focusing on key facets of systems engineering—efficiency, vagueness, vulnerability, safety, maintenance, and resilience—engineer Guru Madhavan illuminates how wicked problems have emerged throughout history and how best to address them in the future. He examines best-known tragedies and lesser-known tales, from the efficient design of battleships to a volcano eruption that curtailed global commerce, and how maintenance of our sanitation systems constitutes tikkun olam, or repair of our world. Braided throughout is the uplifting tale of Edwin Link, an unsung hero who revolutionized aviation with his flight trainer. In Link’s story, Madhavan uncovers a model mindset to engage with wickedness. An homage to society’s innovators and maintainers, Wicked Problems offers a refreshing vision for readers of all backgrounds to build a better future and demonstrates how engineering is a cultural choice—one that requires us to restlessly find ways to transform society, but perhaps more critically, to care for the creations that already exist.