Download or read book Constant Bearing Decreasing Range written by Skip Vogel and published by Skip Vogel. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In addition to other social experiments of the 1970s, some members of the American judiciary ... offered freshly convicted criminals the option of joining the U.S. armed forces, instead of serving their sentences. As a result, the U.S. Navy, among the other branches, was diluted with criminally and psychologically dangerous miscreants, to the detriment of the service, and thus the safety of the nation. ... Captain Yorel, YN3 Lain Byrd, and Seaman Apprentice Sam Ellis ... share a dedication to their country and their duty, in stark contrast to the criminal irresponsibility, endless intrigue, and other misbehavior of the Navy's new human flotsam."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Underway Replenishment of Naval Ships written by Naval Surface Warfare Center (U.S.). Port Hueneme Division. Underway Replenishment Department and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Cruising Seamanship written by American Sailing and published by American Sailing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are reading this book and taking the corresponding ASA 106 course or watching a North U webinar– you take your sailing very seriously. Maybe you are studying to be able to venture out to find your own unspoiled cove in which to anchor or to lay back in an exotic port of call. You could be brushing up on an extended multi-day cruise with your family and friends or you might be thinking of making sailing your profession as an ASA Instructor. One thing is for sure, this book will give you a serious boost down the road to becoming a top-notch sailor and confident seaman; a rare and respected person in the world of yachting. You’ll find all this in the 150-page book from the American Association, the world’s leading sailing authority, in association with North U, the leader in performance sail education. You gotta read it!
Download or read book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math Cognition written by Marcel Danesi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of contemporary studies from various disciplinary perspectives written by some of the world's most renowned experts in each of the areas of mathematics, neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, semiotics, education, and more. Its purpose is not to add merely to the accumulation of studies, but to show that math cognition is best approached from various disciplinary angles, with the goal of broadening the general understanding of mathematical cognition through the different theoretical threads that can be woven into an overall understanding. This volume will be of interest to mathematicians, cognitive scientists, educators of mathematics, philosophers of mathematics, semioticians, psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, and all other kinds of scholars who are interested in the nature, origin, and development of mathematical cognition.
Download or read book The Neuroethology of Predation and Escape written by Keith T. Sillar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forces of natural selection have been a primary driver in the evolution of adaptive animal behaviours. On the one hand animals must evade predation in order to survive and pass on their genes; on other hand, and for the same underlying reasons, animals must also be capable of successfully capturing prey. This situation has led to an evolutionary arms race in which predator and prey are locked in the battle to survive. A common strategy in each situation is to enhance the speed of response, resulting in the evolution of neural, muscular and biomechanical designs that produce supremely fast and eye-catching behavioral responses. The aim of this book is to illuminate the design principles of escape and predatory behaviours using a series of case histories from different animal groups and to emphasize the convergent evolution of neural circuitry that optimizes the chances of survival. Using these case histories the authors describe sensory mechanisms that aid prey and predator detection, central neural circuit designs that increase speed of response and neuromuscular and biomechanical properties that aid the performance of escape and predatory movements.
Download or read book Charlie Class written by David E. Meadows and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Great battle scenes, believable heroes, plus villains you’ll love to hate.”—Joe Bull, author of Seas of Crisis October 1973, the Yom Kippur War puts Israel in a fight for its survival. Thousands of miles away, the conflict is drawing the world’s superpowers into action. Aboard the USS Manta Ray, Commander Mitchell “Mckay” Brandon receives orders to patrol the Strait of Gibraltar and make sure the way into the Mediterranean is clear for the American naval forces—no matter the odds. Meanwhile, the captain of a Russian nuclear sub has been ordered to intercept and delay any American response—an order he interprets as perssion to fire at will. Now, even as the conflict on land threatens to engulf the region, the fight taking place under the sea pushes the world’s superpowers into all-out war.
Download or read book The Origin of Ideas written by Mark Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so easily that we take this truly remarkable ability for granted? In The Origin of Ideas, Mark Turner offers a provocative new theory to answer these and many other questions. While other species do what we cannot-fly, run amazingly fast, see in the dark-only human beings can innovate so rapidly and widely. Turner argues that this distinctively human spark was an evolutionary advance that developed from a particular kind of mental operation, which he calls "blending": our ability to take two or more ideas and create a new idea in the "blend." Turner begins by looking at the "lionman," a 32,000-year-old ivory figurine, one of the earliest examples of blending. Here, the concepts "lion" and "man" are merged into a new figure, the "lionman." Turner argues that at some stage during the Paleolithic Age, humans reached a tipping point. Before that, we were a bunch of large, unimaginative mammals. After that, we were poised to take over the world. Once biological evolution hit upon making brains that could do advanced blending, we possessed the capacity to invent and maintain culture. Cultural innovation could then progress by leaps and bounds over biological evolution itself, leading to the highest forms of human cognition and creativity. For anyone interested in how and why our minds work the way they do, The Origin of Ideas offers a wealth of original insights-and is itself a brilliant example of the innovative thinking it describes.
Download or read book Bareboat Cruising Made Easy written by American Sailing and published by American Sailing. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bareboat Cruising Made Easy is not only the official textbook for the ASA Bareboat Cruising Standard (ASA 104), but also the definitive go-to resource for all sailors who enjoy cruising and destination oriented sailing. It is an all-in-one reference book that includes everything a cruising sailor needs to know, from general planning to technical guidance to sailing advice. From its 4 color, high-end illustrations and photographs to its modern, easy-to-read design, Bareboat Cruising Made Easy is a beauty. The 212 page book was created by a team of expert sailors, writers, editors and artists who shaped the content together, making it the most helpful, accurate, and all-inclusive chartering/cruising manual.
Download or read book Manuals Combined U S Coast Guard Cutterboat Defender Class Utility And Special Purpose Craft Boat Handbooks written by and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on with total page 4026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 4,000 total pages ... Manuals included: CUTTERBOAT–LARGE (CB-L) OPERATOR’S HANDBOOK SPECIAL PURPOSE CRAFTSHALLOW WATER (SPC-SW) OPERATOR’S HANDBOOK 45FT RESPONSE BOAT-MEDIUM (RB-M) OPERATOR’S HANDBOOK SPECIAL PURPOSE CRAFT – LAW ENFORCEMENT BOAT OPERATOR’S HANDBOOK CUTTERBOAT – OVER THE HORIZON (CB-OTH) MK III OPERATOR’S HANDBOOK DEFENDER CLASS OPERATOR’S HANDBOOK U.S. Coast Guard Boat Operations and Training (BOAT) Manual Volume I and II Boat Forces Operations Personnel Qualification Standard NON-STANDARD BOAT OPERATOR'S HANDBOOK 49' BUOY UTILITY STERN LOADING (BUSL) BOAT OPERATOR'S HANDBOOK MULTISERVICE HELICOPTER SLING LOAD: DUAL-POINT LOAD RIGGING PROCEDURES Multiservice Helicopter Sling Load: Basic Operations And Equipment
Download or read book Iconic Investigations written by Lars Elleström and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume also contains studies of media types such as music and visual images that are integrated into the overall project to deepen the understanding of iconicity – the creation of meaning by way of similarity relations. Iconicity is a fundamental but relatively unexplored part of signification in language and other media types. During the last decades, the study of iconicity has emerged as a vital research area with far-reaching interdisciplinary scope and the volume should be of interest for students and researchers interested in scholarly fields such as semiotics, cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor studies, poetry, intermediality, and multimodality.
Download or read book American Practical Navigator written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steel Wind written by Jeff Edwards and published by Braveship Books. This book was released on 2018-05-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if North Korea’s sudden turn towards peace is a cunning act of misdirection? A routine Coast Guard inspection of a cargo ship in the Caribbean turns into a vicious firefight with unidentified Asian commandos. The second attempt to board the vessel ends with a nuclear detonation. North Korea has been smuggling short and intermediate-range missiles into Cuba. An unknown number of nuclear warheads are hidden less than 100 miles from the tip of Florida. Every American city east of San Antonio is in the target zone. Scrambling to stop the flow of weapons to Cuba, the president orders the Atlantic Fleet to surround the island, cutting off all access. It’s the Cuban Missile Crisis all over again, but this time there won’t be a diplomatic resolution. The North Koreans have developed a secret weapon that rips through the blockade with ease, leaving burning ships and floating bodies in its wake. Against this unimagined threat stand a small detachment of United States Marines and a cutting-edge destroyer that’s never been tested in combat. It’s a battle we never expected to fight, against an enemy we can barely comprehend...
Download or read book The American Practical Navigator written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Pacific written by David E. Meadows and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Download or read book Dark Pacific Final Fathom written by David E. Meadows and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the man-made island fortress known as Sea Base, enemies are threatening from without and within. China seems poised to invade the island of Taiwan, with its ships and submarines swarming the area. And when an escort of American and British planes is ambushed by Chinese fighters, Sea Base prepares itself for a showdown. But the battle may already be lost. An assassin has infiltrated Sea Base to take out key personnel, and one of their own crewmembers may be a foreign agent. Now, Sea Base will have to fight the enemy on two fronts if it is to survive. “David Meadows is the real thing.”—Stephen Coonts “Great battle scenes, believable heroes, plus villains you’ll love to hate.”—Joe Buff, author of Deep Sound Channel
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