The Ocean River
Author : Henry Chapin
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Gulf Stream
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Author : Henry Chapin
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Gulf Stream
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Author : John D. Milliman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107612181
Rivers provide the primary link between land and sea. Utilizing the world's largest database, this book presents a detailed analysis and synthesis of the processes affecting fluvial discharge of water, sediment and dissolved solids. The ways in which climatic variation, episodic events, and anthropogenic activities - past, present and future - affect the quantity and quality of river discharge are discussed in the final two chapters. The book contains 26 tables and more than 165 figures - many in full color - including global and regional maps. The book's extensive appendix presents the 1534-river database as a series of 44 tables and 132 maps that provide quantitative data regarding the discharge of water, sediment and dissolved solids. The complete database is also presented within a GIS-based package available online at www.cambridge.org/milliman. River Discharge to the Coastal Ocean provides an invaluable resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students in hydrology, oceanography, geology, geomorphology and environmental policy.
Author : Somadeva Bhaṭṭa
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0814788165
The name of Soma·deva's eleventh-century Ocean of the Rivers of Stories is no boast: in more than 20,000 verses it tells more than 250 tales. The reader has only to enjoy being swept away in the flood of stories, said to spring from that source of so much classical Indian literature, "The Long Story"--Publisher description.
Author : Charles Lattimore Howard
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1501831046
For those who seek to find new depths in their spiritual lives, Pond River Ocean Rain helps readers wade into the beautiful water that is God through stories, questions, and accessible illustrations. Feel the Living Water wash over you while contemplating chapters on stillness (such as a pond), the full trust in God’s will (much like the rush of a river), peace within mystery (as experienced in the depths of the ocean), and the movement of God’s relentless love for us (the refreshing rain we receive). Pond River Ocean Rain, like all bodies of water, is simple, occasionally wild, and consistently beautiful. And there are depths that, when explored, reveal abundant life for all who jump in.
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Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 1954
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Author : Henry Chapin
Publisher :
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 1954
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Author : S. A. Paipetis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1402087845
In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of Homeric science were just poetic concepts (which on many occasions does not explain the astonishing details of design and manufacture, like the ones included in the present volume), they seem to prove that these achievements were well within human capability. In addition, the substantial development of machine theory during the early post-Homeric age shows that the Homeric descriptions were a kind of prophetic conception of these machines, and scientific research must be a quest for the fundamental principles of knowledge available during the Late Bronze Age and the dawn of the Iron Age. Such investigations must of necessity be strongly interdisciplinary and also proceed continuously in time, since, as science progresses, new elements of knowledge are discovered in the Homeric Epics, amenable to scientific analysis. This book brings together papers presented at the international symposium Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, which took place at Ancient Olympia in 2006. It includes a total of 41 contributions, mostly original research papers, covering diverse fields of science and technology, in the modern sense of these words.
Author : Henry Chapin
Publisher :
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Gulf Stream
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Author : Arthur Dorros
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 1993-05-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0064451151
Water is always flowing, from a brook to a stream, to a river to the ocean. Read and find out more about how water shapes the earth and why it is important to keep our water clean.
Author : John R. Wagner
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1760462179
Anthropologists have written a great deal about the coastal adaptations and seafaring traditions of Pacific Islanders, but have had much less to say about the significance of rivers for Pacific island culture, livelihood and identity. The authors of this collection seek to fill that gap in the ethnographic record by drawing attention to the deep historical attachments of island communities to rivers, and the ways in which those attachments are changing in response to various forms of economic development and social change. In addition to making a unique contribution to Pacific island ethnography, the authors of this volume speak to a global set of issues of immense importance to a world in which water scarcity, conflict, pollution and the degradation of riparian environments afflict growing numbers of people. Several authors take a political ecology approach to their topic, but the emphasis here is less on hydro-politics than on the cultural meaning of rivers to the communities we describe. How has the cultural significance of rivers shifted as a result of colonisation, development and nation-building? How do people whose identities are fundamentally rooted in their relationship to a particular river renegotiate that relationship when the river is dammed to generate hydro-power or polluted by mining activities? How do blockages in the flow of rivers and underground springs interrupt the intergenerational transmission of local ecological knowledge and hence the ability of local communities to construct collective identities rooted in a sense of place?