Download or read book Winter South 02014 written by Benjamin E. Erlandson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-country drive from California to North Carolina in the dead of winter might seem like a burden to some, but not to Ben Erlandson. He sets off on his life-changing journey after losing his job and breaking up with his fiancée, knowing that he can no longer afford the high cost of living in San Francisco. The trip gives him the perfect opportunity to explore and take pictures of the southern portion of the United States, and he relishes the dramatic scenery of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina. He spends time at campsites and takes in beautiful landscapes, all the while asking himself questions about our place in the natural world. He also considers how technological tools and systems play into how we interact with each other and our environment. Written in a diary format, you'll be thrilled by the natural beauty, unforgettable encounters, and discoveries that define Winter South 02014.
Download or read book Tourism in Latin America written by Alexandre Panosso Netto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents eleven case studies of success about Latin America tourism. The cases are embedded in a framework describing the economic and cultural foundations of tourism development in the continent. Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Costa Rica are some of the Latin countries which have become examples and models for touristic development, respect for the environment and social inclusion. The book showcases some of the best practices, along with an analysis of how these projects helped improving the environmental and social surroundings and how return on investments has been ensured. Latin America is shown as an excellent example, with the Gross Domestic Product of the continent expanding intensely in the tertiary sector like leisure, hospitality, travel, tourism, entertainment, gastronomy, events and indoor and outdoor recreation. This book is a valuable resource both for professionals in the tourism industry and for researchers in tourism management.
Download or read book CDS CDS OTA 14 Years General Knowledge Topic wise Solved Papers 2007 2020 written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CDS CDS OTA 16 Years General Knowledge Topic wise Solved Papers 2007 2022 3rd Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CDS & CDS OTA 16 Years General Knowledge Topic wise Solved Papers (2007 - 2022) 3rd Edition CDS & CDS OTA 16 Years General Knowledge Topic-wise Solved Papers (2007 Feb - 2022 April)' consists of last 16 years from 2007 Paper 1 – 2022 Paper 1 solved papers of General Knowledge distributed into 9 topics. # In all there are 31 Question papers from 2007 to 2022 - I which have been divided into the above discussed 9 topics. Practicing these questions, aspirants will come to know about the pattern and toughness of the questions asked in the examination. # The book contains 3640+ MILESTONE MCQ’s from the above 31 Question papers. # The strength of the book lies in the originality of its question papers and Errorless Solutions. # The solution of each and every question is provided in detail (step-by-step) so as to provide 100% concept clarity to the students.
Download or read book CDS CDS OTA 15 Years General Knowledge Topic wise Solved Papers 2007 2021 2nd Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reimagining Rural written by Gregory M. Fulkerson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative standards that normalize urban life and render rural life as something unusual, exotic, or deviant. This includes exploring the role of the media as agenda setting agent, informing people what and how to think about rural life. Further it includes scrutinizing the institution of formal education that promotes a homogenous urban-oriented curriculum, while in the process, marginalizing the unique characteristics of local rural communities. These contributions are some of the only studies of their kind, investigating popular cultural representations of rural life, while providing powerful evidence and unique challenges for an urban society to rethink and reimagine rural life, while confronting the many stereotypes and myths that exist.
Download or read book Building and Delivering Sustainability Solutions Insights Methods and Case Studies written by Nathaniel K. Newlands and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustaining ecosystems to deliver what people need and value, while mitigating and adapting to global climate change and extreme event impacts, presents a complex set of environmental, economic, and social challenges in ensuring resilient and sustainable food production. The Climate Smart Landscape (CSL) approach has emerged as an integrated management strategy to address the increasing pressures on agricultural production, ecosystem conservation, rural livelihoods, climate change mitigation and adaptation. Deploying cheaper, more accurate, and efficient technology enables the harnessing of big data for use in solving sustainability challenges. With improved integrated analytical frameworks, statistical approaches, spatially- explicit models and indices, the CSL approach can be further developed and applied for more resilient, productive, and sustainable ecosystems. This eBook brings together original research, review, hypothesis, theory, and technology report articles, involving 87 authors from 9 countries across Asia, Europe, and North America. These articles present new methodological and technological innovation, findings, and insights across four themes: (1) landscape productivity and crop suitability, (2) variable crop requirements for water and nutrients, (3) crop health status, phenology, and phenotyping, and (4) crop disease assessment and prediction under integrated pest management (IPM).
Download or read book Final Fire written by Michael Mitchell and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See the world through a photographer’s eyes Final Fire is a companion piece to Mitchell’s much-praised 2004 memoir, The Molly Fire, a finalist for both the Writers’ Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction, and a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year. Nearly a half century ago, Mitchell abandoned a safe and secure academic career to become a “cowboy” with a camera and a keyboard. While he has always kept one foot planted firmly in the arts, as a working photographer his search for adventure took him through the Americas, into the High Arctic, across Europe, on to the Middle East, India, and the Far East. He photographed famous athletes, musicians, actors, politicians, revolutionaries, and more than a few criminals. The sum of these scary, strange, heartrending, and funny episodes is one man’s prescription for how to live in a bizarre and, best of all, never boring world. It is also a book about loss. Mitchell reflects on the invention of photography and its transformative effect on world culture and pays tribute to fellow photographers who led remarkable and frequently obsessive lives.
Download or read book Eddy current interactions in the ocean and their impacts on climate ecology and biology written by Feng Nan and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unthinkable written by Amanda Ripley and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how human beings react to danger–and what makes the difference between life and death Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? In her quest to answer these questions, award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley traces human responses to some of recent history’s epic disasters, from the explosion of the Mont Blanc munitions ship in 1917–one of the biggest explosions before the invention of the atomic bomb–to the journeys of the 15,000 people who found their way out of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. To understand the science behind the stories, Ripley turns to leading brain scientists, trauma psychologists, and other disaster experts. She even has her own brain examined by military researchers and experiences, through realistic simulations, what it might be like to survive a plane crash into the ocean or to escape a raging fire. Ripley comes back with precious wisdom about the surprising humanity of crowds, the elegance of the brain’s fear circuits, and the stunning inadequacy of many of our evolutionary responses. Most unexpectedly, she discovers the brain’s ability to do much, much better–with just a little help.
Download or read book Epistemologies of the South written by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
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Download or read book Losing Hearts and Minds written by Kate Imy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Losing Hearts and Minds explores the loss of British power and prestige in colonial Singapore and Malaya from the First World War to the Malayan Emergency. During this period, British leaders relied on a growing number of Asian, European and Eurasian allies and servicepeople, including servants, police, soldiers, and medical professionals, to maintain their empire. At the same time, British institutions and leaders continued to use racial and gender violence to wage war. As a result, those colonial subjects closest to British power frequently experienced the limits of belonging and the broken promises of imperial inclusion, hastening the end of British rule in Southeast Asia. From the World Wars to the Cold War, European, Indigenous, Chinese, Malay, and Indian civilians resisted or collaborated with British and Commonwealth soldiers, rebellious Indian troops, invading Japanese combatants, and communists. Historian Kate Imy tells the story of how Singapore and Malaya became sites of some of the most impactful military and anti-colonial conflicts of the twentieth century, where British military leaders repeatedly tried—but largely failed—to win the "hearts and minds" of colonial subjects.
Download or read book Maintenance Monitoring Safety Risk and Resilience of Bridges and Bridge Networks written by Tulio Nogueira Bittencourt and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintenance, Monitoring, Safety, Risk and Resilience of Bridges and Bridge Networks contains the lectures and papers presented at the Eighth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2016), held in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil, 26-30 June, 2016. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts and a DVD containing the full papers of 369 contributions presented at IABMAS 2016, including the T.Y. Lin Lecture, eight Keynote Lectures, and 360 technical papers from 38 countries. The contributions deal with the state-of-the-art as well as emerging concepts and innovative applications related to all main aspects of bridge maintenance, safety, management, resilience and sustainability. Major topics covered include: advanced materials, ageing of bridges, assessment and evaluation, bridge codes, bridge diagnostics, bridge management systems, composites, damage identification, design for durability, deterioration modeling, earthquake and accidental loadings, emerging technologies, fatigue, field testing, financial planning, health monitoring, high performance materials, inspection, life-cycle performance and cost, load models, maintenance strategies, non-destructive testing, optimization strategies, prediction of future traffic demands, rehabilitation, reliability and risk management, repair, replacement, residual service life, resilience, robustness, safety and serviceability, service life prediction, strengthening, structural integrity, and sustainability. This volume provides both an up-to-date overview of the field of bridge engineering as well as significant contributions to the process of making more rational decisions concerning bridge maintenance, safety, serviceability, resilience, sustainability, monitoring, risk-based management, and life-cycle performance using traditional and emerging technologies for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. It will serve as a valuable reference to all involved with bridge structure and infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and engineers from all areas of bridge engineering.
Download or read book Art and philosophy of peace Fronteversismo By Giuseppe Siniscalchi written by Giuseppe Siniscalchi and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and philosophy of peace Fronteversismo new art philosophy movement , co- authors : preface : Annamaria Mauro director of the National Museum of Matera , Texts by Charles Alphonse OFM Cap , serving in Rome as General Secretary for formation at the Capuchin Generalate , Margherita Cosentino art historian professor , Gemma Maria Gualdi Deputy Attorney General of the Republic at the Court of Appeals of Milan , Gabriele Guglielmino art professor and critic , Luciano Mazzocchi missionary and writer , Mimmo Muolo Vaticanist and deputy head of the Roman editorial staff of the newspaper Avvenire and writer , Giuseppe Siniscalchi lawyer and painter founder of Fronteversismo art and philosophy movement , Tiziana Viggiano doctor in philosophy member of councillor in the Municipality of Bernalda responsible for Cultural promoting Magna Graecia , Francesco Zecca OFM , he served the Order of Friars Minors as Guardian formator Provincial Secretary for Formation and Studies and Provincial definitor . Director of the S. Egidio Museum inside the church and convent S. Pasquale Baylon in Taranto . Member of Gpic ( center justice peace and integrity of creation) . The book expain the deep meanings of Fronteversismo paintings and philosophy in English and translation in Italian language
Download or read book Hellships Down written by Michael Sturma and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 12 September 1944, a wolfpack of U.S. submarines attacked the Japanese convoy HI-72 in the South China Sea. Among the ships sunk were two carrying Allied prisoners of war. Men who had already endured the trials of Japanese captivity faced a renewed struggle for survival at sea. This book tells the broader story of the HI-72 convoy through the stories of two survivors: Arthur Bancroft, who was rescued by an American submarine, and Charles "Rowley" Richards, who was rescued by the Japanese. The story of these men represents the thousands of Allied POWs who suffered not only the atrocious conditions of these Japanese hellships, but also the terror of friendly fire from their own side's submarines. For the first time, the personal, political and legal aftermath of these men's experiences is fully detailed. At its heart, this is a story of survival. Charting the survivors' fates from rescue to their attempts at retribution, this book reveals the trauma that continued long after the war was over.
Download or read book Oceanobs 19 An Ocean of Opportunity Volume I written by Tong Lee and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.
