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From Piglets to Prep School

Crossing a Chasm

By: Wendell A. Duffield

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On the universal quest for personal independence and for fulfillment of growing-up dreams, a small-town Minnesota boy turns to raising runt piglets as a way to earn spending money of his own. Then a series of mysterious and unexpected postcards from a school called Phillips Exeter Academy begins to arrive, flooding his plans with uncertainty and confusing his inexperienced parents as to what is best for their son. From Piglets To Prep School: Crossing A Chasm describes the unanticipated and fundamentally unwanted struggle that this young boy faces as the postcards, eventually inviting him to attend the school on scholarship, continue to interrupt a comfortably familiar existence in his home town a life of growing up in a virtual clone of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon of Prairie Home Companion. Though satisfied at home, an inner voice seduces him to abandon his youthful dreams and join the cadre of elite preppies in New England. Overnight, names of his schoolmates change from Gary Gardner and Duane Labs to David Rockefeller and Peter Benchley. The social, economic, cultural, and academic shocks of such change are immediate and stunning yet mostly manageable. This entertainingly illustrated book is a poignant and humorous memoir that will resonate with anyone who remembers his or her growing-up years. Share the fun, sadness, discoveries, disappointments, and pranks of a young hayseed kid uprooted from bucolic rural life and transplanted into the rocky New England garden of stuffy and highly competitive preppies. You'll be challenged to read the book without alternately laughing and crying as memories of your own early years are rekindled!

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059581963X

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9780595819638

Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb

By: Wendell A. Duffield

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Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb

By: Wendell A. Duffield

Welcome to the year 2025. Following a lengthy approval process seemingly driven more by politics than science, the nation's inventory of high-level radioactive waste is finally stored in underground passageways dug into the guts of Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Two years later, the unexpected and unthinkable happens a violent volcanic eruption blasts its way through the mountain. Because Yucca is saturated with the percolating abundant rainfall brought about by climate change, explosive steam bursts add to an already destructive eruption as two-thousand-degree magma mixes with water. Radioactive waste is erupted along with volcanic ash, creating the ultimate dirty bomb. The deadly mixture is blown downwind where it settles out over Las Vegas and Lake Mead. The city must be evacuated and the lake drained, displacing and disrupting the lives of millions of people for long into the future. Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb invites the reader to live vicariously through a scenario that experts consider unlikely, as measured by carefully calculated probability (popularly called "the odds") the very mathematical construct that sustains the gambling mecca of Las Vegas. Nonetheless, unlikely events can and do occur, and in this novel "the house" loses!

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0595885349

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9780595885343

Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb

By: Wendell A. Duffield

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From Piglets to Prep School

Crossing a Chasm

By: Wendell A. Duffield

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Jiggles, Rolf, and the Remarkable Finale to Frank Stone's Career

By: Wendell A. Duffield

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Jiggles, Rolf, and the Remarkable Finale to Frank Stone's Career

By: Wendell A. Duffield

As aging atheist and semi-retired geologist Frank Stone becomes depressed over the possibility that his exciting career of studying volcanoes is rapidly coming to an end, the opportunity to pursue one last project unexpectedly enters his university office. The bearer of this welcome news is Richard Stewart, the universitys seismologist. Stewart is a staunch Mormon, married and with several children. Stone is childless by choice, and is married to a lovely and widely published author of travel adventures. In spite of their fundamentally opposed views of the roles of science versus faith in lifes journey, the two professors join forces to correctly forecast and then monitor an eruption that feeds lava into the Grand Canyon, and thereby dams the Colorado River. Follow this fiery rocky tale as professional collaboration eventually leads to personal bonding. And learn the history of a score of real lava-flow dams that have clogged the Grand Canyon mere moments ago, in geologic time.

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119

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1491769181

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9781491769188

Tapping the Earth's Natural Heat

By: Wendell A. Duffield,John H. Sass,Michael L. Sorey

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Tapping the Earth's Natural Heat

By: Wendell A. Duffield,John H. Sass,Michael L. Sorey

Describes the potential for geothermal energy, the naturally occurring heat within the Earth. Summarizes information related to developing geothermal energy while minimizing its environmental impact. Discusses its versatility; it can be used in the generation of electricity, as well as direct use applications, such as space heating and industrial processes. Contains color photos, charts, and diagrams.

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DIANE Publishing

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0788119222

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When Pele Stirs

A Volcanic Tale of Hawai'i, Hemp, and High-Jinks

By: Wendell A. Duffield

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When Pele Stirs

A Volcanic Tale of Hawai'i, Hemp, and High-Jinks

By: Wendell A. Duffield

Follow scientists and technicians of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory as they scramble to take the pulse of Big Island volcanoes in attempts to forewarn the public of impending eruption; progress is made, but complete understanding of these powerful forces of nature remains frustratingly elusive. Watch bad guys and harmless hippies as they cultivate illegal gardens of marijuana on the slopes of Kilauea Volcano, directly in the path of searing lava flows; some growers pay the ultimate price for their addiction to pot and its ill-gotten financial rewards. But above all, listen to Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess, as she manipulates success and failure, even life and death, of human intruders on her volcano home. When Pele Stirs paints a realistic picture of life on the Big Island, and will help the reader understand why Christian missionaries have failed to eliminate the worship of Pele, in spite of their efforts to do so for nearly two centuries.

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1469739836

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9781469739830

Growing Up Near Lake Wobegon

From Piglets to Prep School

By: Wendell Duffield

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Growing Up Near Lake Wobegon

From Piglets to Prep School

By: Wendell Duffield

On the universal quest for personal independence and for fulfillment of growing-up dreams, a small-town Minnesota boy turns to raising runt piglets as a way to earn spending money of his own. But a series of mysterious and unexpected postcards from a prep school called Phillips Exeter Academy has begun to arrive, flooding his plans with uncertainty and confusing his inexperienced parents as to what is best for their son. "Growing Up Near Lake Wobegon: From Piglets To Prep School" describes the unanticipated and fundamentally unwanted struggle that this young boy faces as the postcards, eventually inviting him to attend the school on scholarship, continue to interrupt a comfortably familiar existence in his home town.a life of growing up in a virtual clone of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon of Prairie Home Companion. Though satisfied at home, an inner voice seduces him to abandon his youthful dreams and join the cadre of elite preppies in New England. Overnight, names of his schoolmates change from Gary Gardner and Duane Labs to David Rockefeller and Peter Benchley. The social, economic, and academic shocks of such change are immediate and stunning.yet manageable. This entertainingly illustrated book is a poignant and humorous memoir that will resonate with anyone who remembers his or her growing-up years. Share the fun, sadness, discoveries, disappointments, and pranks of a young hayseed kid uprooted from bucolic rural life and transplanted into the rocky New England garden of stuffy and highly competitive preppies. You'll be challenged to read the book without alternately laughing and crying as memories of your own early years are rekindled!

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Holmes and Frankfurter

Their Correspondence, 1912-1934

By: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.),Felix Frankfurter

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Holmes and Frankfurter

Their Correspondence, 1912-1934

By: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.),Felix Frankfurter

The first publication of an extensive correspondence between two of the century's greatest American jurists.

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UPNE

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0874517583

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9780874517583

When Pele Stirs

A Volcanic Tale of Hawai'i, Hemp, and High-Jinks

By: Wendell Duffield

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A Volcanic Tale of Hawai'i, Hemp, and High-Jinks

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0595302246

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From Piglets to Prep School

From Piglets to Prep School

Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb

Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb

Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb

Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb

From Piglets to Prep School

From Piglets to Prep School

Jiggles, Rolf, and the Remarkable Finale to Frank Stone's Career

Jiggles, Rolf, and the Remarkable Finale to Frank Stone's Career

Tapping the Earth's Natural Heat

Tapping the Earth's Natural Heat

When Pele Stirs

When Pele Stirs

Growing Up Near Lake Wobegon

Growing Up Near Lake Wobegon

Holmes and Frankfurter

Holmes and Frankfurter

When Pele Stirs

When Pele Stirs

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