With Light Steam

With Light Steam
Title With Light Steam PDF eBook
Author Bryon MacWilliams
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 157
Release 2014-10-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1609091655

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In 1996 Bryon MacWilliams left the relative stability of the United States for the chaos of post-Soviet Russia and stayed. Over the course of nearly twelve years he reported on academe and the sciences for the world's leading publications and sought out the best baths—or banyas—everywhere he went. His story of Russia through its cult of steam begins on a frosty Sunday morning in a gypsy cab traveling to a bathhouse in Moscow, where the steam is conjured by an out-of-work carpenter named Grisha, who takes on MacWilliams as a kind of apprentice, allowing him into an otherwise closed world through which MacWilliams could see himself, and Russia, with different eyes. The Russian bathers insist, only half-jokingly, that the American is a spy. Writing in a highly engaging style, MacWilliams travels the country to convey the breadth of banya culture and what it means to steam, a process that is at once a simple cleansing and a deep purification. It awakens the body and quiets the mind, generating waves of good feeling akin to an endorphin high. Each chapter of this splendid book is an episode—spanning from several hours to several days—from the Far North, Moscow, the Ural Mountains, the Solovetsky Islands, and a southern stretch of the Volga River. With Light Steam, the title is derived from the phrase used in banyas in lieu of goodbye, is the only book in English devoted to the banya and the only volume in any language to present Russia through the lens of its bath culture, the most Russian thing there is. General readers and scholars alike will be enchanted with this unforgettable portrait of a people and a millennia-spanning tradition.

User guide and indices to the initial inventory, molecular formula and UVCB indices

User guide and indices to the initial inventory, molecular formula and UVCB indices
Title User guide and indices to the initial inventory, molecular formula and UVCB indices PDF eBook
Author United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances
Publisher
Pages 724
Release 1979
Genre Chemical industry
ISBN

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Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory
Title Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 300
Release 1986
Genre Chemicals
ISBN

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Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory
Title Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory PDF eBook
Author United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances
Publisher
Pages 300
Release 1990
Genre Chemical industry
ISBN

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Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory: User guide and indices to the initial inventory : Substance name index

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory: User guide and indices to the initial inventory : Substance name index
Title Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory: User guide and indices to the initial inventory : Substance name index PDF eBook
Author United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances
Publisher
Pages 808
Release 1979
Genre Chemical industry
ISBN

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Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory: Initial inventory

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory: Initial inventory
Title Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory: Initial inventory PDF eBook
Author United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances
Publisher
Pages 732
Release 1979
Genre Chemical industry
ISBN

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Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory: User guide and indices to the ini tial inventory, substance name index

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory: User guide and indices to the ini tial inventory, substance name index
Title Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory: User guide and indices to the ini tial inventory, substance name index PDF eBook
Author United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances
Publisher
Pages 814
Release 1979
Genre Chemical industry
ISBN

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