Download or read book Coves of Departure written by John Seibert Farnsworth and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that has been called "a love song to nature," the author documents the latest decade of his explorations of the Baja peninsula and the Sea of Cortez. While much of the book narrates his experience as a writing professor taking undergraduates on sea kayak expeditions to the Isla Espiritu Santo archipelago each year during spring break, the book also reflects on experiences with a condor restoration project in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, and an altogether different teaching experience based in a field station on Bahia de los Angeles. While the author’s intent is to evoke Baja ecologies in fresh ways, the reader comes to realize that he’s also describing how education can become a transformational experience. A retired scuba instructor who turned to academics and went on to receive his college’s highest teaching award, Dr. Farnsworth believes that education should be a lifelong adventure, and that explorations of the natural world should be animated by reverence and delight.

Download or read book Standard Instrument Departures civil written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arrivals and Departures by Selected Ports written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arrivals and Departures by Selected Ports written by United States Travel Service. Research and Analysis Division and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arrivals and Departures by Selected Ports written by United States Travel Service. Office of Research and Analysis and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Southern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Southern Pacific Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Climatological Data for the United States by Sections written by United States. Weather Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book German Departures written by D.C. Riechel and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At sunrise on the first of April 1928, an ordinary young man of eighteen years left his home town, a village in the Thuringian hills of Germany, and went to Hamburg." Thus begins a departure from the ageless myth of initiation: an adventuring April fool discovers life, loss, and love, by way of the sea. The lad stumbles into the employ of Worldmate Shipping, an unusual company of sea captains who put their oars in troubled waters. Along the way the lad becomes a scullion, a murder suspect, a waiter in ships, a stowaway and a seaman. The story unfolds in the years from 1928 to 1935, in the Germany of the Nazi seizure of power and in the America (and Europe) of the Great Depression. It is a tale of ships and seaports, of smuggling, shipwreck, and daring rescues of the persecuted; and to borrow from "Tristram Shandy," a tale at the same time digressive and progressive, with excursions into German history and geography as well as into questions of life as literature, and the ways of words.

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Download or read book Military Departures Homecomings and Death in Classical Athens written by Owen Rees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sheds new light on the experience of ancient Greek warfare by identifying and examining three fundamental transitions undergone by the classical Athenian hoplite as a result of his military service: his departure to war, his homecoming from war having survived, and his homecoming from war having died. As a conscript, a man regularly called upon by his city-state to serve in the battle lines and perform his citizen duty, the most common military experience of the hoplite was one of transition – he was departing to or returning from war on a regular basis, especially during extended periods of conflict. Scholarship has focused primarily on the experience of the hoplite after his return, with a special emphasis on his susceptibility to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but the moments of transition themselves have yet to be explored in detail. Taking each in turn, Owen Rees examines the transitions from two sides: from within the domestic environment as a member of an oikos, and from within the military environment as a member of the army. This analysis presents a new template for each and effectively maps the experience of the hoplite as he moves between his domestic and military duties. This allows us to reconstruct the effects of war more fully and to identify moments with the potential for a traumatic impact on the individual.

Download or read book Monthly Weather Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American and English Railroad Cases New Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Introduction to the theory and practice of plane and spherical trigonometry and the orthographic and stereographic projections of the spheres etc written by Thomas KEITH (Teacher of Mathematics.) and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Rapid Departures written by Vincent Katz and published by Atelie Editorial. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Art. Poems by Vincent Katz, art by Mario Cafiero, and translations into the Portugese by Regina Alfarano, these collections of departures "leave their impressions like scraps of conversations on streets and highways. They leave nuances of precise colors of each time and place visited, like engravings by travelers in former times. They leave sculpted marks in the communal vista of a deserted beach or the architectonic, anonymous traces of humanity investigated in the big city" - Fancisco Foot Hardman.

Download or read book Evaluating Indices that Measure Departure of Current Landscape Composition from Historical Conditions written by Robert E. Keane and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A measure of the degree of departure of a landscape from its range of historical conditions can provide a means for prioritizing and planning areas for restoration treatments. There are few statistics or indices that provide a quantitative context for measuring departure across landscapes. This study evaluated a set of five similarity indices commonly used in vegetation community ecology (Sorenson's Index, Chord Distance, Morisita's Index, Euclidean Distance, and Similarity Ratio) for application in estimating landscape departure (where departure = 1 - similarity). This involved comparing composition (vegetation type by area) of a set of reference landscapes to the compositions of 1,000 simulated historical landscapes. Stochastic simulation modeling was used to create a diverse set of synthetic reference and historical landscapes for departure index evaluation. Five reference landscapes were created to represent various degrees of expected departure from historical conditions. Both reference and historical landscapes were created to contain four important factors that could potentially influence departure calculation: (1) number of classes defining landscape composition, (2) dominance of the classes, (3) variability of area with the classes, and (4) temporal autocorrelation. We found that most evaluated indices are useful but not optimal for calculating departure. The Sorenson's Index appeared to perform the best with consistent and precise behavior across the ranges of the four treatments. The number of classes used to describe vegetation had the strongest influence on index performance; landscape composition defined by few classes had the least accurate, most imprecise, and most highly variable departure estimates. While results from this study show the utility of similarity indices in evaluating departure, it is also evident that a new set of statistics are needed to provide a more comprehensive analysis of departure for future applications.