Plume

Plume
Author: Kathleen Flenniken
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0295805897

The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where "every father I knew disappeared to fuel the bomb," and worked at Hanford herself as a civil engineer and hydrologist. By the late 1980s, declassified documents revealed decades of environmental contamination and deception at the plutonium production facility, contradicting a lifetime of official assurances to workers and their families that their community was and always had been safe. At the same time, her childhood friend Carolyn's own father was dying of radiation-induced illness: "blood cells began to err one moment efficient the next / a few gone wrong stunned by exposure to radiation / as [he] milled uranium into slugs or swabbed down / train cars or reported to B Reactor for a quick run-in / run-out." Plume, written twenty years later, traces this American betrayal and explores the human capacity to hold truth at bay when it threatens one's fundamental identity. Flenniken observes her own resistance to facts: "one box contains my childhood / the other contains his death / if one is true / how can the other be true?" The book's personal story and its historical one converge with enriching interplay and wide technical variety, introducing characters that range from Carolyn and her father to Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and Manhattan Project health physicist Herbert Parker. As a child of "Atomic City," Kathleen Flenniken brings to this tragedy the knowing perspective of an insider coupled with the art of a precise, unflinching, gifted poet. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iSaR9mfeeM

Plume: World Explorer

Plume: World Explorer
Author: Tania McCartney
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2022-05-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1743588895

Hitch a ride on the Albatross Express and travel the globe with Plume: World Explorer. This exciting new picture book series for little ones celebrates culture, diversity and the natural wonders of our world. Plume is not your typical Antarctic penguin. Sporting a bright yellow plume on the top of his head, Plume is bored of black and white, of shuffling around and snoozing on icebergs. He much prefers to cook, read, knit and sky dive. He craves colour, adventure, excitement! He wants to seize the world he’s discovered in the books of his fantastical, glacier library (the largest in the Southern Hemisphere). Plume's great hope is to grow the hearts and minds of his penguin friends. Through his travels, children will engage with themes such as friendship, acceptance, understanding and the wellbeing of our planet. Plume is truly a book series for our times.

Plume

Plume
Author: Isabelle Simler
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017-08-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1467464562

New York Times selection for Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017 In this lovely book, young readers are introduced to a variety of beautiful birds, from the familiar chicken to the exotic ibis. But lurking in the background of every page is a cat, who also seems very interested in the birds. With its funny illustrations and engaging concepts, this clever counting book will invite readers to linger over every page.

Plumes

Plumes
Author: Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300142854

From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers, from New York's Lower East Side to entrepreneurial farms in the American West, this text explores the details of a remarkably vibrant yet ephemeral culture.

Plume Omnibus

Plume Omnibus
Author: K Lynn Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 161855297X

"[T]he hit western webcomic, PLUME, comes to an end! [T]he Omnibus tells the entire saga of Vesper Grey and her supernatural (and reluctant) guardian Corrick in the Old West. On their way to recover some stolen artifacts, they start to learn the gritty truth about the past and how far they're willing to go to avenge it."--

Rocket Exhaust Plume Phenomenology

Rocket Exhaust Plume Phenomenology
Author: Frederick S. Simmons
Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2000
Genre: Science
ISBN:

This new book deals with the phenomenology of rocket exhaust plumes as the targets of space-based surveillance systems. Topics include the physical and chemical processes in rocket engines and their exhaust plumes, particularly in regard to flow properties, gas dynamics, and radiative mechanisms that are responsible for the generation of emission in rocket exhaust plumes at infrared and other wavelengths. System designers in a number of defense-related areas will be able to put the information in this book to immediate use.

A Certain Plume

A Certain Plume
Author: Henri Michaux
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1681372266

A bilingual edition of the most famous of Henri Michaux's poetry collections, now in a new translation from the French. The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another, losing shape, taking new forms, at perpetual risk from reality. He is a personification of the imagination as subject to innumerable pratfalls and disgraces, and yet indestructible for all that. In this new bilingual edition, with translations by Richard Sieburth, the entire Plume cycle appears for the first time in English in the form in which Michaux originally published it.

Plates, Plumes, and Paradigms

Plates, Plumes, and Paradigms
Author: Gillian R. Foulger
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Total Pages: 898
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813723884

Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes

Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes
Author: Gillian R. Foulger
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Total Pages: 1012
Release: 2007
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813724309

Presents a collection of papers discussing various hypotheses and models of planetary plumes.