The Book of Clouds

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In 2004, Gavin Pretor-Pinney set up the Cloud Appreciation Society because he felt clouds got a bad press or were just ignored. Celebrating the wonder and variety of the earth - and the need to protect it - this is an eclectic collection of poetry from across time and continents. Diurnal Cycle of Tropospheric Winds over West Sumatra and Its Variability Associated with Various Climate and Weather Modes.

Tatiana’s also entranced by his voice: ”it was mesmeric, not quite as mesmeric as that of the S-Bahn announcer but as close any other voice would ever come.it's written with such brevity that it flies by in just a few hours, and somewhere along the way I did find myself enjoying it ever so slightly. Still, this is a minor complaint about a book that has so much to recommend it, not least its ability to convey both actual and distorted realities at once. Whether you’re a weather watcher, an enthusiast, or just really curious, this is a fun book to explore. For example, the sun pillar, or different shafts of bright light that stretch from the earth all the way up to the sky. Approximate reading age: for reading aloud to children aged 6+; for children aged 8+ to read on their own.

Tatiana compares fingernails to days: "You would only notice the erosion if my hands were at rest, otherwise the nails still looked elegant, a harmonious blur, just like the days themselves, which passed without consequence unless you pinned one down and examined it too closely. There was a spring to his utterances,” she tells us, “a buoyancy packed and delivered in anticipation of every stop, and I would put away my book or newspaper and sit back and listen to the stations as they were rolled off, one by one, uninterrupted — that is, if other presences didn’t interfere, such as plainclothes ticket inspectors or junkie musicians, their pleas for attention like dark blood clots in the city’s circulation. TV forecasts, online predictions and smartphone apps are all based on the same data – a number-crunched overview of how air pressure and temperature affects the weather over a large geographical area. Very granular level city description, except when she pinches bits of the map together like most movies do to fit the tourist attractions in closer together.

This book explains why clouds are in the sky, all the different types that they can explore, and provides kids with fun activities that help them enjoy and celebrate being outdoors. The overall effect is of one of those school science videos trying embarrassingly hard to make science ‘cool’ and ‘relevant’ but succeeds only in irritating its audience. Through Weiss, she meets Jonas, a meteorologist who, as a child in the GDR, took solace in the sky’s constant shape-shifting, an antidote to his grim and unyielding reality. The narrative vehicle for this contemporary analysis of Berlin is the story of Tatiana, a young woman from a Mexican Jewish family, who has lived in Berlin for several years.

Sometimes books about clouds and weather can be very scientific and difficult to understand but The Cloud Book follows a logical progression that is simple to follow, even if this is your first time picking up a book about clouds. From the Geisterbahnhof (ghost stations) left abandoned during the wall years to the announcements of the U-Bahn it is highly evocative of place. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. You understand the history of it all (like why it came about) and all of the challenges that have arisen when it comes to naming these ever-changing forms in the sky.The effect is to leave much unanswered, which can be a good thing, but it also made it difficult to understand the character’s alienation. Desk and exam copies of certain titles are available to lecturers who wish to consider books as course texts. History plays a big part in the book, and Tatiana works for an eldely man where she transcribes his work. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds change, culminating in an act of violence that will leave none of them untouched. The gaps in conversation were not because there was nothing to say but rather because there was too much to say.

In the summer of 1986, caught up in protests against the Berlin Wall, young Mexican tourist Tatiana is squeezed into a packed U-Bahn carriage when she finds herself staring into "the jowly face, the sweeping forehead, the deep-set, furnacey eyes". Some books really focus on educating you about cloud formations and also how they relate to the weather while other books give you a sense of reprieve from day-to-day life within four walls. This book serves as a cloud spotters guide that lets you know where clouds come from, why they look the way they do, and why they have been so fascinating to artists, poets, and even every child that has been given a crayon and a piece of paper. This helps with their bonding and is a fun activity they enjoy as a family when they go out camping.I love looking at clouds; in fact, even have a big Cloud Chart posted on a wall where I can look up the different types. It's hard to know what other readers would make of it and whether to recommend it due to it's strong reliance on the topography of Berlin to create it's story and moods. Now kids can find the answers to dozens of questions about the natural wonders of the sky and weather.