Author: Kobo Abe
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: dunes, woman
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1991-04-16
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0679733787
ISBN-13: 9780679733782
One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where, Sisyphus-like, they are pressed into shoveling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village."Abe follows with meticulous precision his hero’s constantly shifting physical, emotional and psychological states. He also presents...everyday existence in a sand pit with such compe
Author: Harriet T. Comstock
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: dunes, janet
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1437533531
ISBN-13: 9781437533538
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your u
Author: Harriet T. Comstock
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: dunes, janet
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 143753354X
ISBN-13: 9781437533545
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your u
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: novel, dunes, gardens
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2000-04-13
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0684863324
ISBN-13: 9780684863320
A sweeping, multifaceted tale of a young Native American pulled between the cherished traditions of a heritage on the brink of extinction and an encroaching white culture, Gardens in the Dunes is the powerful story of one woman’s quest to reconcile two worlds that are diametrically opposed.At the center of this struggle is Indigo, who is ripped from her tribe, the Sand Lizard people, by white soldiers who destroy her home and family. Placed in a government school to learn the ways of a white child, Indigo is rescued by the kind-hearted Hattie and her worldly husband, Edward, who undertak
Author: R. A. Bagnold
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: dunes, desert, sand, blown, physics
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-01-26
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0486439313
ISBN-13: 9780486439310
This classic work was used by NASA in studying sand dunes on Mars and is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students. The first book to deal exclusively with the behavior of blown sand and related land forms, its accessible style makes it an enduring reference. 84 figures. 16 halftones.
Author: Wolfgang Schirmer
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Keywords: geoarchaeorhein, soils, fossil, dunes
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 3825846067
ISBN-13: 9783825846060
Authors:J.R. Packham, A.J. Willi,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: shingle, marsh, salt, dunes, ecology
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1997-09-30
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0412579804
ISBN-13: 9780412579806
Life in coastal sand dunes, salt marshes and shingle banks presents a variety of challenges to their inhabitants. By describing the interactions of coastal organisms with the physical processes shaping the granular deposits within and on which they live, the authors illuminate many aspects of adaptation, population dynamics, community ecology, zonation and ecophysiology. A wide range of biological principles and geomorphological features are illustrated and there is lively discussion of the relevant aspects of applied biology, environmental threat and conservation management. Well-chosen examp
