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Book Digital Wilderness

    Book Details:
  • Author : F.L. Ciano
  • Publisher : FriesenPress
  • Release : 2014-07-28
  • ISBN : 146024950X
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Digital Wilderness written by F.L. Ciano and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Phillips is at the top of his career at Virton Technologies developing cutting edge software systems for government contractors. His biggest stress is dodging the growing pressure he’s been getting from, Gabriella, his long-time girlfriend. She wants him to settle down, get married and have kids. Life is good, but is he ready for the big commitment? The stakes change drastically when Edward accepts a sudden promotion to the corporate headquarters in Boston, taking him away from his tough personal decisions and introducing him to the mysterious Human Augmentation Digital Interface project. At first, HADI appears to be the perfect software to evolve humanity, touted to help the disabled walk again, allow the deaf to hear and the blind to see. Then, Edward meets Noc. Suddenly Edward discovers that this benevolent technology has a steep price and he is thrown into a lethal game of corporate espionage that leads to a nationwide manhunt for a deadly spy, a charge his enemies are intent to pin on him. Edward must sacrifice his freedom and risk everything he loves if he hopes to thwart Virton’s psychotic mastermind and save humanity from an insidious tool that will be able to control our very minds.

Book Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes

Download or read book Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes written by Kolbie Blume and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practice the Art of Watercolor with this Beginner’s Guide to Picturesque Mountains, Lakes, Sunrises and More From a striking Desert Sunset Silhouette to a majestic Icelandic Waterfall to an eye-catching Magical Snowy Forest, watercolor artist Kolbie Blume’s wilderness scenes are the perfect introduction to watercolor painting. Kolbie’s step-by-step instructions make it easy to paint stunning landscapes featuring all of the key elements of wilderness painting and teach you beginner-friendly techniques for colorful skies, mountains, trees, wildflowers, oceans, lakes, and more. Each chapter teaches progressively more advanced elements, allowing you to build upon your skills as you work through the projects. And the final chapter combines all of the elements in breathtaking scenes—like a Glassy Milky Way and an Aurora Glacier Lagoon—that you’ll be proud to hang on your wall or gift to a friend or family member. With all the tips, tricks, and techniques you need to master the basics of watercolor painting and instructions on how to paint every element of nature, this collection of wilderness landscapes is the go-to guide for both beginner painters and more experienced artists looking for new subjects to paint.

Book Creating Wilderness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Kupper
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2014-07-01
  • ISBN : 1782383743
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Creating Wilderness written by Patrick Kupper and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.

Book Light in the Wilderness

Download or read book Light in the Wilderness written by M. Catherine Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Light in the Wilderness: Explorations in the Spiritual Life," M. Catherine Thomas invites fellow seekers to search behind familiar gospel words and concepts to find greater revelation.

Book Webcraft  Mastering the Digital Frontier

Download or read book Webcraft Mastering the Digital Frontier written by Rumi Aktar and published by Ocleno. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a transformative journey through the digital frontier with "Web Alchemy: Navigating the Digital Frontier." This extraordinary book is your key to mastering the art and science of web development, from the foundational elements of HTML and CSS to the enchanting realms of JavaScript sorcery, server-side conjuring, and beyond. Discover the secrets of crafting captivating web experiences, ensuring accessibility for all, fortifying your applications against cyber threats, and creating adaptable, responsive, and even offline-ready web applications that rival native apps. With "Web Alchemy," you'll unlock the alchemical processes that turn code into captivating user experiences. Whether you're a novice web adventurer or a seasoned webmaster, this book offers a treasure trove of knowledge, practical insights, and hands-on guidance to fuel your journey. Join us in this quest to harness the web's transformative power and shape the digital world. The web is your canvas, and "Web Alchemy" is your spellbook. It's time to forge your own path in the digital frontier.

Book The Digital Wilderness

Download or read book The Digital Wilderness written by Sarah Chernik and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious about Internet Dating? Want the best of personal experiences and research on Internet dating, attraction, writing profiles and going on dates? Concerned about how to navigate moving an online relationship into real life? Then this is the book for you! This no-shame, inclusive guide takes its inspiration from the hiking and outdoor community guides. It's broken into easy to follow sections so you can look up exactly the topic you want or it can be read as a whole. Its based partly on the autobiographical experience of the author, partly on interviews with other Internet daters and partly on research to try to give Internet daters a well rounded glimpse into the adventure that is internet dating. Suitable for men and women, straight and LGTBQ, those new to relationships or those returning to the dating scene after a breakup, divorce or passing of a spouse, this book hopes to help you choose the best romantic adventure for yourself through becoming more informed about how to navigate the Digital Wilderness of Internet dating!

Book Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies

Download or read book Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies written by Paul S. Auerbach and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wilderness First Aid

Download or read book Wilderness First Aid written by Howard D. Backer and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in cooperation with the Wilderness Medical Society, this text is the definitive and essential wilderness first aid book. Ideal for use in the field and in class, this text tells how to ident

Book Digital Wilderness

    Book Details:
  • Author : F. L. Ciano
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-07-25
  • ISBN : 9781460249482
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Digital Wilderness written by F. L. Ciano and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Phillips is at the top of his career at Virton Technologies developing cutting edge software systems for government contractors. His biggest stress is dodging the growing pressure he's been getting from, Gabriella, his long-time girlfriend. She wants him to settle down, get married and have kids. Life is good, but is he ready for the big commitment? The stakes change drastically when Edward accepts a sudden promotion to the corporate headquarters in Boston, taking him away from his tough personal decisions and introducing him to the mysterious Human Augmentation Digital Interface project. At first, HADI appears to be the perfect software to evolve humanity, touted to help the disabled walk again, allow the deaf to hear and the blind to see. Then, Edward meets Noc. Suddenly Edward discovers that this benevolent technology has a steep price and he is thrown into a lethal game of corporate espionage that leads to a nationwide manhunt for a deadly spy, a charge his enemies are intent to pin on him. Edward must sacrifice his freedom and risk everything he loves if he hopes to thwart Virton's psychotic mastermind and save humanity from an insidious tool that will be able to control our very minds.

Book Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine E Book

Download or read book Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine E Book written by Paul S. Auerbach and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Dr. Auerbach’s renowned Wilderness Medicine text, Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition, is your portable, authoritative guide to the full range of medical and emergency situations that occur in non-traditional settings. Useful for experienced physicians as well as advanced practice providers, this unique medical guide covers an indispensable range of topics in a well-illustrated, highly condensed format – in print or on any mobile device – for quick access anytime, anywhere. An easy-access presentation ensures rapid retrieval and comprehension of wilderness medical information, with "Signs and Symptoms" and "Treatment" sections, bulleted lists, and quick-reference text boxes in every chapter. All chapters are thoroughly up to date, including new information on travel medicine, medications, immunizations, and field treatment of common conditions. Step-by-step explanations from wilderness medicine experts cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of wilderness emergencies and show you how to improvise with available materials. Comprehensive coverage includes dive medicine and water-related emergencies, mountain medicine and wilderness survival, global humanitarian relief and disaster medicine, high-altitude medicine, pain management, and much more. Line drawings and color plates help you quickly an accurately identify skin manifestations, plants, poisonous mushrooms, snakes, insects, and more. Useful appendices address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care.

Book Survival in the digital Wilderness

Download or read book Survival in the digital Wilderness written by Helmut Steigele and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more you enter the world of doing business the digital way, the more you realize that it needs capabilities which relate to one discipline: Organisational Resilience. The ability to anticipate and to absorb unwished surprises which have a direct relationship to your business and to your business relationships. As long as you are not aware that the business ecosystem you live in, the service value streams you use for customer interaction and the lifecycle mechanisms of Ecosystems play here a significant role, each disruption, each change in environment and each modification in customer demand patterns can become an existential issue. This Guide gives advice, examples and a storyboard to handle exactly this challenge.

Book Driven Wild

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul S. Sutter
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2009-11-23
  • ISBN : 0295989904
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Driven Wild written by Paul S. Sutter and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild qualities of those places while accommodating, and often encouraging, automobile-based tourism. By 1935, the founders of the Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of doing both. In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders--Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country’s wild places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were "driven wild"--pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal. Sutter demonstrates that the birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a growing belief among an important group of conservationists that the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of North America, but crucial American values as well. For them, wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not just wild nature, but ourselves as well.

Book A Symbol of Wilderness

Download or read book A Symbol of Wilderness written by Mark W. T. Harvey and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended to create a recreational lake in northwest Colorado and generate hydroelectric power, but would have flooded picturesque Echo Park Valley and threatened Dinosaur National Monument, straddling the Utah-Colorado border near Wyoming.

Book A Private Wilderness

Download or read book A Private Wilderness written by Sigurd F. Olson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writer Few writers are as renowned for their eloquence about the natural world, its power and fragility, as Sigurd F. Olson (1899–1982). Before he could give expression to The Singing Wilderness, however, he had to find his own voice. It is this struggle, the painstaking and often simply painful process of becoming the writer and conservationist now familiar to us, that Olson documented in the journal entries gathered here. Written mostly during the years from 1930 to 1941, Olson’s journals describe the dreams and frustrations of an aspiring writer honing his skills, pursuing recognition, and facing doubt while following the academic career that allowed him to live and work even as it consumed so much of his time. But even as he speaks with immediacy and intensity about the conditions of his apprenticeship, Olson can be seen developing the singular way of observing and depicting the natural world that would bring him fame—and also, more significantly, alert others to the urgent need to understand and protect that world. Author of Olson’s definitive biography, editor David Backes brings a deep knowledge of the writer to these journals, providing critical context, commentary, and insights along the way. When Olson wrote, in the spring of 1941, “What I am afraid of now is that the world will blow up just as I am getting it organized to suit me,” he could hardly have known how right he would prove to be. It is propitious that at our present moment, when the world seems once more balanced on the precipice, we have the words of Sigurd F. Olson to remind us of what matters—and of the hard work and the wonder that such a reckoning requires.

Book Through the Brazilian Wilderness

Download or read book Through the Brazilian Wilderness written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vicious

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jon T. Coleman
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 0300133375
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Vicious written by Jon T. Coleman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a continent and three centuries, American livestock owners destroyed wolves to protect the beasts that supplied them with food, clothing, mobility, and wealth. The brutality of the campaign soon exceeded wolves’ misdeeds. Wolves menaced property, not people, but storytellers often depicted the animals as ravenous threats to human safety. Subjects of nightmares and legends, wolves fell prey not only to Americans’ thirst for land and resources but also to their deeper anxieties about the untamed frontier. Now Americans study and protect wolves and jail hunters who shoot them without authorization. Wolves have become the poster beasts of the great American wilderness, and the federal government has paid millions of dollars to reintroduce them to scenic habitats like Yellowstone National Park. Why did Americans hate wolves for centuries? And, given the ferocity of this loathing, why are Americans now so protective of the animals? In this ambitious history of wolves in America—and of the humans who have hated and then loved them—Jon Coleman investigates a fraught relationship between two species and uncovers striking similarities, deadly differences, and, all too frequently, tragic misunderstanding.

Book The Promise of Wilderness

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Morton Turner
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2012-08-01
  • ISBN : 029580422X
  • Pages : 545 pages

Download or read book The Promise of Wilderness written by James Morton Turner and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that cover a full fourth of the nation's territory. But wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of the most powerful and troublesome ideas in American environmental thought, representing everything from sublime beauty and patriotic inspiration to a countercultural ideal and an overextension of government authority. The Promise of Wilderness examines how the idea of wilderness has shaped the management of public lands since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964. Wilderness preservation has engaged diverse groups of citizens, from hunters and ranchers to wildlife enthusiasts and hikers, as political advocates who have leveraged the resources of local and national groups toward a common goal. Turner demonstrates how these efforts have contributed to major shifts in modern American environmental politics, which have emerged not just in reaction to a new generation of environmental concerns, such as environmental justice and climate change, but also in response to changed debates over old conservation issues, such as public lands management. He also shows how battles over wilderness protection have influenced American politics more broadly, fueling disputes over the proper role of government, individual rights, and the interests of rural communities; giving rise to radical environmentalism; and playing an important role in the resurgence of the conservative movement, especially in the American West. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsq-6LAeYKk