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Book Wind Over Water

    Book Details:
  • Author : David W. Haines
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0857457403
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Wind Over Water written by David W. Haines and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories. These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in Osaka to African entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, from Vietnamese women seeking husbands across the Chinese border to Pakistani Muslim men marrying women in Japan, from short-term business travelers in China to long-term tourists from Japan who ultimately decide to retire overseas. Illuminating the ways in which an Asian-based analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration patterns, the contributors provide important new theoretical insights for a broader understanding of global migration, and innovative methodological approaches to the spatial and temporal complexity of human migration. David W. Haines is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. He is the author of Safe Haven? A History of Refugees in America (2010), has twice been a Fulbright scholar, and is a former president of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA). Keiko Yamanaka is a Lecturer in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work appears in a range of books and journals, including Pacific Affairs; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Diaspora; Asian and Pacific Migration Journal; and Publications of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). Shinji Yamashita is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tokyo and former president of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, the world's second largest national anthropology association. He is the author of Bali and Beyond: Explorations in the Anthropology of Tourism (2003).

Book Wind Over Water

    Book Details:
  • Author : David W. Haines
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2012-10-30
  • ISBN : 0857457411
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Wind Over Water written by David W. Haines and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories. These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in Osaka to African entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, from Vietnamese women seeking husbands across the Chinese border to Pakistani Muslim men marrying women in Japan, from short-term business travelers in China to long-term tourists from Japan who ultimately decide to retire overseas. Illuminating the ways in which an Asian-based analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration patterns, the contributors provide important new theoretical insights for a broader understanding of global migration, and innovative methodological approaches to the spatial and temporal complexity of human migration.

Book Between Wind and Water

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  • Author : Gerald Warner Brace
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2008-05-27
  • ISBN : 0881507970
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Between Wind and Water written by Gerald Warner Brace and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic collection of ponderings about maritime living for all lovers of Maine. In a series of distinguished novels Gerald Warner Brace has given us pictures of life along and near the New England coast. Between Wind and Water is the distillate of sixty years of living and cruising and sailing along the Maine coast. Each chapter deals with some phase of life on the coast, most having to do with boats or longshore work. Some are about people and their ways, others about the old life of saltwater farms, and others detail the hazards of fog and storm, the pleasures of unfamiliar waters, and the satisfaction of meeting the elements.

Book Wind and Water

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  • Author : Carole J. Hyder
  • Publisher : Hyder Enterprises Incorporated
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780966443400
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Wind and Water written by Carole J. Hyder and published by Hyder Enterprises Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wind and Water" presents Feng Shui in a simple, easy-to-read format, offering suggestions that can be implemented on a daily basis or per focus issues.

Book The Green Energy Ship Concept

Download or read book The Green Energy Ship Concept written by Max F. Platzer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book aims to show that technology currently exists to build and operate large autonomous sailing ships equipped with hydrokinetic turbines and electrolysers that could operate in high-wind ocean areas. This technology would enable seawater to be converted into storable hydrogen, thereby tapping into an inexhaustible energy reservoir sufficient for the transition to an emission-free global economy. The book is presented in two parts. Part one presents a broad look at possible solutions to the climate change challenge and provides an overview of current approaches. Part two introduces 12 specific technologies that could enable the green energy ship concept.

Book Estimation of Winds Over the Great Lakes

Download or read book Estimation of Winds Over the Great Lakes written by Donald T. Resio and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wind and Water

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  • Author : Onne van der Wal
  • Publisher : Bulfinch
  • Release : 2004-05-14
  • ISBN : 9780821228449
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Wind and Water written by Onne van der Wal and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 2004-05-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wind  Water And Fire  The Other Renewable Energy Resources

Download or read book Wind Water And Fire The Other Renewable Energy Resources written by Gerard M Crawley and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on a few renewable energy sources, viz. wind energy plus energy from water movement and natural temperature differences that in principle could provide enormous energy resources. Energy from wind has been a rapidly growing source of energy as wind turbines have grown in size and especially as wind turbines have moved offshore. Hydroelectric dams have continued to be used as energy sources particularly in developing countries. Other energy sources using water, including waves and tidal sources, are also discussed in this volume. Finally, the volume discusses differences between deep and surface ocean temperatures plus the extraction of energy from the earth's extremely large energy resource of magma deep below the surface. These latter two energy resources in particular require further development and the current book describes the latest advances coupled with pointing possible paths forward.

Book Analysis and Synthesis of Hurricane Wind Patterns Over Lake Okeechobee  Florida

Download or read book Analysis and Synthesis of Hurricane Wind Patterns Over Lake Okeechobee Florida written by Robert W. Schloemer and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the evolution of meteorological ideas and techniques, which will be combined with oceanographic techniques, to arrive at design values for the levees on the shores of Lake Okeechobee.

Book Ode to Mysticism

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  • Author : Hung Hin Cheong
  • Publisher : Joey Yap Research Group
  • Release : 2011-07-01
  • ISBN : 9675395990
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book Ode to Mysticism written by Hung Hin Cheong and published by Joey Yap Research Group . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Classics, Modern Revival One of the Four Poems of the ancient times, the classical text of Xuan Ji Fu is now translated with detailed line-by-line commentaries for easy absorption and reading. A definite must-have reference for any serious student or practitioner of Xuan Kong Feng Shui.

Book Wind Energy Utilization

Download or read book Wind Energy Utilization written by University of New Mexico. Technology Application Center and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ode to Flying Stars

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  • Author : Hung Hin Cheong
  • Publisher : Joey Yap Research Group
  • Release : 2011-07-01
  • ISBN : 9675395958
  • Pages : 89 pages

Download or read book Ode to Flying Stars written by Hung Hin Cheong and published by Joey Yap Research Group . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock The Hidden Codes of Flying Stars Closing the transliteration series of the Four Celebrated Poems of Xuan Kong is the Ode To Flying Stars, a translation of the much-discussed but yet arcane classical text of Flying Stars. An essential addition to the library of determined Feng Shui practitioners and students everywhere, this book presents knowledge in Xuan Kong Feng Shui in levels you never dreamt of before.

Book Techniques Development Laboratory Report

Download or read book Techniques Development Laboratory Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Natural Navigator

Download or read book The Natural Navigator written by Tristan Gooley and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.

Book Monthly Weather Review

Download or read book Monthly Weather Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Make Home Electricity from Wind  Water   Sunshine

Download or read book How to Make Home Electricity from Wind Water Sunshine written by John A. Kuecken and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction To Coastal Engineering And Management  Third Edition

Download or read book Introduction To Coastal Engineering And Management Third Edition written by J William Kamphuis and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the author's 49 years of experience as a practicing coastal engineer and 34 years as professor of coastal engineering and management at Queen's University. The book is therefore thoroughly practical in nature, but it also reflects newly relevant issues, such as consequences of failure, impacts of rising sea levels, aging infrastructure, real estate development, and contemporary decision making, design and education.This textbook is useful for undergraduate students, postgraduate students and practicing engineers. It covers waves, structures, sediment movement, coastal management, and contemporary coastal design and decision making. It presents both basic principles and engineering solutions. It discusses the traditional methods of analysis and synthesis (design), but also contemporary design methodologies, such as working with environmental impacts.The second edition expanded greatly on the topics of failure and resilience that surfaced as a result of recent disasters from hurricane surges and tsunamis. It updated the discussion of design and decision making for the 21st century, with many new examples.This third edition develops some of these topics further, but its largest new changes is the chapter on climate change. This chapter presents the basics of climate change and then goes on to stress the practical implications of the impacts of climate change, focusing on what is of importance to coastal and fluvial specialists.