Download or read book Moa written by Quinn Berentson and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moa were the most unusual and unique family of birds that ever lived, a clan of feathered monsters that developed in isolation for many, many millions of years. They became extinct reasonably quickly after the arrival of the Maori, and were a distant memory by the time European explorers arrived. So the discovery and identification of their bones in the 1840s was a worldwide sensation, claimed by many to be the zoological find of the century. This book begins by recounting the story of discovery, which was characterised by an unbelievable amount of controversy and intrigue. Since then there has been an unbroken chain of new discoveries, culminating with intriguing revelations in recent years about the moa's biology, that have come to light through DNA testing and radio-dating. This is a fascinating and important book that richly recounts the life and death of our strangest bird. Packed with a fantastic range of illustrations, Moa fills an important gap in our natural history literature, a popular but serious book on this national icon.
Download or read book Moa written by Richard Wolfe and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1839, on the basis of a single mysterious fragment of bone from the other side of the world, the great English anatomist Richard Owen reached the conclusion that it came from an unknown gigantic flightless bird. Despite this being shortly before the time of Darwin and the great evolution debate, many initially thought Owen's claim preposterous. A huge new bird that couldn't fly? Like an Ostrich? Ridiculous! Owen's piece of bone is the starting point for Richard Wolfe's fascinating story of scientific intrigue and personality clashes in one of the nineteenth century's great natural history discoveries.
Download or read book Machine Learning for Data Streams written by Albert Bifet and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hands-on approach to tasks and techniques in data stream mining and real-time analytics, with examples in MOA, a popular freely available open-source software framework. Today many information sources—including sensor networks, financial markets, social networks, and healthcare monitoring—are so-called data streams, arriving sequentially and at high speed. Analysis must take place in real time, with partial data and without the capacity to store the entire data set. This book presents algorithms and techniques used in data stream mining and real-time analytics. Taking a hands-on approach, the book demonstrates the techniques using MOA (Massive Online Analysis), a popular, freely available open-source software framework, allowing readers to try out the techniques after reading the explanations. The book first offers a brief introduction to the topic, covering big data mining, basic methodologies for mining data streams, and a simple example of MOA. More detailed discussions follow, with chapters on sketching techniques, change, classification, ensemble methods, regression, clustering, and frequent pattern mining. Most of these chapters include exercises, an MOA-based lab session, or both. Finally, the book discusses the MOA software, covering the MOA graphical user interface, the command line, use of its API, and the development of new methods within MOA. The book will be an essential reference for readers who want to use data stream mining as a tool, researchers in innovation or data stream mining, and programmers who want to create new algorithms for MOA.
Download or read book Prodigious Birds written by Atholl Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prodigious Birds brings together the entire field of moa-related research, some 150 years of enquiry. The moa was a large flightless bird, hunted into extinction by the Maori tribes of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans. Atholl Anderson brings an historical perspective to the development of moa research and its formative debates, analytical methods and results, reviewing evidence from palaeontology, biology, archaeology, ethnography and history.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Moa written by Thomas Lindsay Buick and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moa written by Tamara Green and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what is known of the history and habits of the large extinct bird of New Zealand.
Download or read book The Lost World of the Moa written by T. H. Worthy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the rich and unusual fauna of prehistoric New Zealand, telling of one of the most dramatic extinctions of modern times. The moa, a giant flightless bird, was among the animals lost, the authors summarize what is known about the bird, reconstructing its life and ecology.
Download or read book Noah the Moa written by Janet Martin and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once upon a time in a place called Aotearoa there roamed gigantic flightless birds called moa. Sadly they are now extinct, alive only in our dreams and imaginations ... or are they? A tale of a young boy's encounter with the mighty Noah the Moa"--Back cover. Includes sheet music showing ukulele chords inside covers. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Download or read book The Unofficial Guide to Mall of America written by Beth Blair and published by Unofficial Guides. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unofficial Guide to Mall of America is the first of its kind. Never before has a guidebook been written about the Mall of America. The Unofficial Guide to Mall of America enhances visitors' experiences by assisting them through the entire process, from finding the right hotel and making the decision whether or not to rent a car or use the hotel shuttle. The various attractions are laid out and analyzed so that Mall of America-goers can decide what activities will enhance their experiences and which are simply tourist traps. In addition to ranking and describing the stores and restaurants, The Unofficial Guide to Mall of America, by Beth Blair, offers insight and tips that will not only make the visit fun for those looking for a general Mall of America experience but will also highlight things for people with special interests.
Download or read book Moa Sightings written by Bruce Spittle and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hunting pressure, habitat destruction, and introduced predators led to moa extinction by A.D. 1650 according to the previously held serial overkill model. In the currently accepted rapid "blitzkrieg" model, all the moas were gone by A.D. 1450, over 300 years before the first Europeans landed with Captain Cook in 1769. However a number of moa sighting claims have been made since 1769 and the moas lingered on until a later date in some remote, isolated areas."--Back cover.
Download or read book Goblin Girl written by Moa Romanova and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dating site match goes really wrong in this troubling, funny graphic memoir. Things seem to be looking up when Moa Romanova ― broke, depressed, and living in a squat above an old store ― matches with a very famous celebrity on a popular hook-up site. Not only does the 53-year-old man like Moa ― he also immediately validates and motivates her in a way that not even her therapist does, even offering to help financially support her artistic ambitions. However, Moa soon discovers that there are strings attached. Drawn in a style that's de Chirico by way of the '80s, Romanova's relatable graphic memoir is a thought-provoking debut.
Download or read book The Land of the Moa written by George Leitch and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the early 1890s, this play became the most widely performed New Zealand play in the country's history. It was designed around spectacular scenery and special effects, including a three-dimensional representation of the Pink Terraces and a realistic and technically demanding recreation of the Tarawera eruption.
Download or read book We re Going on a Moa Hunt written by Patrick McDonald and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We're going on a moa hunt. We're not scared. We're going to catch a big one. We're not scared! Uh-oh ... a tangly forest! Crack, creak snap! A New Zealand retelling of the classic adventure ... that takes readers on an exciting journey through the country's spectacular landscapes ... Sharp-eyed kids will love discovering the moa cleverly hidden in every scene of the hunt."--Publisher information
Download or read book Elmendorf Air Force Base AFB Alaska Military Operations Area MOA written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moa at Home written by Edwin Eugene Howell and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extinct Birds of New Zealand written by Alan James Drummond Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paintings of fifty-eight species of extinct New Zealand birds including the largest eagle the earth has ever seen with text on facing pages.
Download or read book Women and Appletrees written by Moa Martinson and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1985 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About this novel, which focuses on two young women early in the 20th century, both victims of sexual abuse, as they struggle to gain for themselves and their children the rights and opportunities usually denied to poor women, Tillie Olsen said, "I love and am ineradicably grateful for this book, this writer, as I have been but to a few dozen others in my lifetime... Images, scenes, relationships, comprehensions portrayed here will never leave us. She is a writer of international stature and significance."
