The Shoreline of Falling
Author : Roderick Ford
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Roderick Ford
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : David K. Brezinski
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 081370040X
"Emanating from the Fall Line city of Baltimore, site of the 2015 GSA Annual Meeting, these trips reflect the diversity of geological features in the mid-Atlantic region including the Piedmont, Appalachian Mountains, and Coastal Plain, and the importance of geology on the development and construction of the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., metropolitan area"--
Author : Marcelo Gleiser
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0465031714
Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of allHow much can we know about the world? In this book, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know. Gleiser shows that by aband.
Author : Wallace Kaufman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 1984-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822382946
Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you—all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doomed conflict with an age-old pattern of beach migration. Yet it need not be so. Conservationist Wallace Kaufman teams up with marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., in an evaluation of America's beaches from coast to coast, giving sound advice on how to judge a safe beach development from a dangerous one and how to live at the shore sensibly and safely.
Author : Mel Goldstein
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0819569631
Hot and humid, crisp and cold, or frigid and icy, the climate affects everything from what we wear to what we grow and what kind of work we do. In Dr. Mel’s Connecticut Climate Book, beloved Connecticut meteorologist “Dr. Mel” Goldstein explains how the weather in the state changes from season to season, and how weather and climate work together. The book also delivers a fascinating account of Connecticut’s weather history covering the past three centuries. Blizzards, cold waves, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and heat waves are included—documented with photographs, data plots and graphs, and meteorological explanation. This invaluable handbook showcases a variety of data and lore on Connecticut’s weather systems. Dr. Mel’s Connecticut Climate Book contains information about what to expect from each season, details and stories about Connecticut’s most famous historical storms, archival photos, and charts of temperatures and weather patterns—all in a format that is fun to read. Ebook Edition Note: All photographic images have been redacted. Ebook does include all line art and appendixes.
Author : State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut
Publisher :
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Botany
ISBN :
The series includes Biennial report of the commissioners of the State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Shore protection
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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1434946304
Author : Dirk Frankenberg
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0807872369
For some years, The Nature of North Carolina's Southern Coast has stood as an essential resource for all who treasure our coastal environment. In this book, Dirk Frankenberg describes the southern coast's beaches, inlets, and estuaries and instructs readers in the responsible exploration and enjoyment of some of North Carolina's most precious natural areas. From Ocracoke Inlet to the South Carolina border, this field guide provides a close-up look at a complex ecosystem, highlighting the processes that have shaped, and continue to shape, North Carolina's southern coast. Frankenberg identifies over 50 different areas of interest along 180 miles of coastline and presents images to help identify natural processes, plants, and plant communities. In addition, he addresses threats to these fragile coastal areas and possible solutions for these threats. Tom Earnhart's new foreword brings the book up to date, helping us appreciate why a deeper understanding of this environment is crucial to its continued enjoyment. Southern Gateways Guide is a registered trademark of the University of North Carolina Press
Author : Elizabeth O'Connor
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593700929
A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dissonance of finding oneself by exploring life outside one’s community In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful yet blisteringly harsh islands that her hardscrabble family has called home for generations. The arrival of two English ethnographers who hope to study the island culture, then, feels like a boon to her—both a glimpse of life outside her community and a means of escape. The longer the ethnographers stay, the more she feels herself pulled towards them, reckoning with a sensual awakening inside herself, despite her misgivings that her community is being misconstrued and exoticized. With shimmering prose tempered by sharp wit, Whale Fall tells the story of what happens when one person's ambitions threaten the fabric of a community, and what can happen when they are realized. O'Connor paints a portrait of a community and a woman on the precipice, forced to confront an outside world that seems to be closing in on them.