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Book Sea Drift

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  • Author : Peter Joseph Capelotti
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780813529783
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Sea Drift written by Peter Joseph Capelotti and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heyerdahl's radical thesis of a prehistoric world where ancient mariners traveled between continents on ocean currents electrified the postwar world. His Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft sold twenty million copies in sixty-five languages.".

Book Sea Drift

Download or read book Sea Drift written by Hercules Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Drift of Sea Ice

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  • Author : Matti Leppäranta
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2011-03-22
  • ISBN : 3642046835
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Drift of Sea Ice written by Matti Leppäranta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition of The Drift of Sea Ice presents the fundamental laws of sea ice drift which come from the material properties of sea ice and the basic laws of mechanics. The resulting system of equations is analysed for the general properties of sea ice drift, the free drift model and analytical models for ice drift in the presence of internal friction, and the construction of numerical ice drift models is detailed. This second edition of a much lauded work, unique on this topic in the English language, has been revised, updated and expanded with much new information and outlines recent results, in particular in relation to the climate problem, mathematical modelling and ice engineering applications. The current book presents the theory, observations, mathematical modelling techniques, and applications of sea ice drift science. The theory is presented from the beginning on a graduate student level, so that students and researchers coming from other fields such as physical oceanography, meteorology, physics, engineering, environmental sciences or geography can use the book as a source book or self-study material. First the drift ice material is presented ending with the concept of ‘ice state’ – the relevant properties in sea ice dynamics. Ice kinematics observations are widely presented with the mathematical analysis methods, and thereafter come drift ice rheology – to close the triangle material – kinematics – stress. The momentum equation of sea ice is derived in detail and its general properties are carefully analysed. Then follow two chapters on analytical models: free drift and drift in the presence of internal friction: These are very important tools in understanding the dynamical behaviour of sea ice. The last topical chapter is numerical models, which are the modern tool to solve ice dynamics problem in short term and long term problems. The closing chapter summarises sea ice dynamics applications and the need of sea ice dynamic knowledge and gives some final remarks on the future of this branch of science.

Book Sea Drift

Download or read book Sea Drift written by Hercules Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Unreasonable Woman

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  • Author : Diane Wilson
  • Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
  • Release : 2005-09-15
  • ISBN : 1603580417
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book An Unreasonable Woman written by Diane Wilson and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back. She launches a campaign against a multibillion-dollar corporation that has been covering up spills, silencing workers, flouting the EPA, and dumping lethal ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride into the bays along her beloved Texas Gulf Coast. In an epic tale of bravery, Wilson takes her fight to the courts, to the gates of the chemical plant, and to the halls of power in Austin. Along the way she meets with scorn, bribery, character assassination, and death threats. Finally Wilson realizes that she must break the law to win justice: She resorts to nonviolent disobedience, direct action, and hunger strikes. Wilson's vivid South Texas dialogue resides somewhere between Alice Walker and William Faulkner, and her dazzling prose brings to mind the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, replete with dreams and prophecies.

Book West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative  Discipline reviews

Download or read book West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative Discipline reviews written by Robert A. Bindschadler and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative  Volume 2  Discipline Reviews

Download or read book West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative Volume 2 Discipline Reviews written by Robert A. Bindschadler and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drift

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  • Author : Caroline Bergvall
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781937658205
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Drift written by Caroline Bergvall and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting new volume exploring the power and provocation of medieval English and the trope of the seafarer

Book Vaughan Williams Essays

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  • Author : Robin Wells
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351537792
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Vaughan Williams Essays written by Robin Wells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serious scholarship on the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams is currently enjoying a lively revival after a period of relative quiescence, and is only beginning to address the enduring affection of concert audiences for his music. The essays that comprise this volume extend the study of Vaughan Williams's music in new directions that will be of interest to scholars, performers and listeners alike. This volume contains the work of eleven North American scholars who have been recipients of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship based at the composer's own school, Charterhouse, which was created and has been supported by the Carthusian Trust since 1985. This wide-ranging and detailed collection of essays covers the spectrum of genres in which Vaughan Williams wrote, including dance, symphony, opera, song, hymnody and film music. The contributors also employ a range of analytical and historical methods of investigation to illuminate aspects of Vaughan Williams's compositional techniques and influences, musical, literary and visual.

Book Sea Drift

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  • Author : Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Sea Drift written by Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frederick Delius

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  • Author : Mary Christison Huismann
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-07-26
  • ISBN : 1135848971
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Frederick Delius written by Mary Christison Huismann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Delius is among the most celebrated English composers of the 20th century. Widely studied and performed, his works are considered models of the British impressionist school and continue to fascinate students and scholars centuries later. This research guide serves as a ready reference for students and scholars, but will also be interesting to read and useful for anyone who wants to know where to begin to learn more about this important composer.

Book Whitman s Drift

Download or read book Whitman s Drift written by Matt Cohen and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American ninteenth century witnessed a media explosion unprecedented in human history, and Walt Whitman's poetry reveled in the potentials of his time: "See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press, " he wrote. "See, the electric telegraph, stretching across the Continent, from the Western Sea to Manhattan." Still, as the budding poet learned, books neither sell themselves nor move themselves: without an efficient set of connections to get books to readers, the democratic, media-saturated future that Whitman imagined would have remained warehoused. Whitman's works sometimes ran through the "many-cylinder'd steam printing-press" and were carried in bulk on "the strong and quick locomotive." Yet during his career, his publications did not follow a progressive path toward mass production and distribution. Whitman's Drift asks how the many options for distributing books and newspapers shaped the way writers wrote and readers read. Studying nineteenth-century literature and how it circulated can help us understand not just how to read Whitman's works and times, but how to understand what is happening to our imaginations now, in the midst of the twenty-first century media explosion. -- from back cover.

Book Delius and the Sound of Place

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  • Author : Daniel M. Grimley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018-12-06
  • ISBN : 1108470394
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Delius and the Sound of Place written by Daniel M. Grimley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a radical and interdisciplinary analysis that will transform readers' understanding of this deeply compelling early twentieth-century composer.

Book Adrift at Sea

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  • Author : Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
  • Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
  • Release : 2016-09-22
  • ISBN : 1772780057
  • Pages : 27 pages

Download or read book Adrift at Sea written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and published by Pajama Press Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1981. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a fishing boat overloaded with 60 Vietnamese refugees drifts. The motor has failed; the hull is leaking; the drinking water is nearly gone. This is the dramatic true story recounted by Tuan Ho, who was six years old when he, his mother, and two sisters dodged the bullets of Vietnam’s military police for the perilous chance of boarding that boat. Told to multi-award-winning author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and illustrated by the celebrated Brian Deines, Tuan’s story has become Adrift At Sea, the first picture book to describe the flight of Vietnam’s “Boat People” refugees. Illustrated with sweeping oil paintings and complete with an expansive historical and biographical section with photographs, this non-fiction picture book is all the more important as the world responds to a new generation of refugees risking all on the open water for the chance at safety and a new life.

Book John Alden Carpenter

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  • Author : Howard Pollack
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780252070143
  • Pages : 556 pages

Download or read book John Alden Carpenter written by Howard Pollack and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His original yet refined orchestral music was championed by Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner, Otto Klemperer, Serge Koussevitzky, and other celebrated conductors, and his sensitive songs were performed by such legendary singers as Alma Gluck and Kirsten Flagstad.".

Book New World Symphonies

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  • Author : Jack Sullivan
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300072310
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book New World Symphonies written by Jack Sullivan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book shows for the first time the profound and transformative influence of American literature, music, and mythology on European music. Although the impact of the European tradition on American composers is widely acknowledged, Jack Sullivan demonstrates that an even more powerful musical current has flowed from the New World to the Old. The spread of rock and roll around the world, the author contends, is only the latest chapter in a cross-cultural story that began in the nineteenth century with Gottschalk in Paris and Dvorák in New York. Sullivan brings popular and canonical culture into his wide-ranging discussion. He explores the effects on European music of American authors as diverse as Twain, DuBois, Melville, and Langston Hughes, examining in particular Dvorák's fascination with Longfellow, the obsession of Debussy and Ravel with Poe, and the inspiration Whitman provided for Holst, Vaughan Williams, and dozens more. Sullivan uncovers the African American musical influence on Europe, beginning with spirituals and culminating in the impact of jazz on Stravinsky, Bartók, Walton, and others. He analyzes the lure of Hollywood and Broadway for such composers as Weill, Korngold, and Britten and considers the power of the American landscape--from the remoteness of the prairie to the brutal energy of the American city. In European music, Sullivan finds, American culture and mythology continue to resonate.

Book Sea Drift

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  • Author : Hercules Robinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1866
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Sea Drift written by Hercules Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: