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1) Clouds
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The Clouds is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. It was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and it was not well received, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year. It was revised between 420-417 BC and thereafter it was circulated in manuscript form. No copy of the original production survives, and scholarly analysis indicates that...
2) Cloud dance
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Clouds of many shapes and sizes drift and dance across the sky. Includes factual information on the formation and different kinds of clouds.
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Mundy's Landing volume 2
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New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub returns to Mundy's Landing-a small town where bygone bloodshed has become big business.
Hair neatly braided, hands serenely clasped, eyes closed, the young woman appeared to be sound asleep. But the peaceful tableau was a madman's handiwork. Beneath the covers, her white nightgown was spattered with blood. At daybreak, a horrified family would discover her corpse tucked into their guest room. The...
12) A cloud a day
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"A Cloud a Day urges all of us to keep our heads in the clouds with 365 fascinating formations from Pretor-Pinney's extraordinary collection that combines cloud images with a short piece of cloud science, an inspiring sky quotation, or a detail of the sky depicted in a classic painting. They are clouds to inspire a moment of calm atmospheric contemplation each day. The book helps explain almost every kind of cloud type in easy laymen terms"--
14) Clouds
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Clouds have been objects of delight and fascination throughout human history; their fleeting magnificence and endless variety have inspired scientists and daydreamers alike. Clouds and the ever-changing patterns they create have long symbolized the restlessness and unprecitability of nature. life without clouds would not be physically possible - alongside their rain-bearing function, they act as a finely tuned planetary thermostat - but it would also...
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In A Sideways Look at Clouds, Maria attempts to understand the science behind clouds, blending history and wonder as she revelas the complexity and beauty of those "visible masses of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the earth." Whether taking a painting class, swimming into fogbanks, or visiting a "Sky Factory," her investigations are terrifically funny yet deeply informative--and her newfound appreciation for the clouds...
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