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Water Mask

Author : Monica Devine

Publisher : University of Alaska Press

Page : 177 pages

File Size : 40,16 MB

Release : 2019-03-15

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1602233721

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Water Mask is an adventurous memoir from Monica Devine, an itinerant therapist who travels to villages throughout Alaska and builds a life in this vast, captivating landscape. She traverses mountains, navigates sea ice with whalers, and whirls two thousand feet above tundra with a rookie bush pilot; she negotiates the death of her father, and the near-loss of her family’s cabin on the Copper River. Her journey is exhilarating—but not without reminders of the folly of romanticizing a northern landscape that both rejects and beguiles. Reflections on family, place, and culture are woven into a seductive tapestry of a life well-lived and well-loved.



Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015

Author : Osvaldo Gervasi

Publisher : Springer

Page : 786 pages

File Size : 19,95 MB

Release : 2015-06-18

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3319214101

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The five-volume set LNCS 9155-9159 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2015, held in Banff, AB, Canada, in June 2015. The 232 revised full papers presented in 22 workshops and a general track were carefully reviewed and selected from 780 initial submissions for inclusion in this volume. They cover various areas in computational science ranging from computational science technologies to specific areas of computational science such as computational geometry and security.



Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2014

Author : Beniamino Murgante

Publisher : Springer

Page : 869 pages

File Size : 20,93 MB

Release : 2014-07-03

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3319091441

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The six-volume set LNCS 8579-8584 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2014, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in June/July 2014. The 347 revised papers presented in 30 workshops and a special track were carefully reviewed and selected from 1167 initial submissions. The 289 papers presented in the workshops cover various areas in computational science ranging from computational science technologies to specific areas of computational science such as computational geometry and security.



The Japanese Skincare Revolution

Author : Chizu Saeki

Publisher : Kodansha Amer Incorporated

Page : 126 pages

File Size : 10,94 MB

Release : 2008-11-28

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 9784770030832

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A guide for women of various ages and races who want to have beautiful skin, and don't want to spend lots of money on cosmetics and treatments to achieve it. It introduces readers to the lotion mask; hand techniques for toning the muscles of the face; and lymph massages for draining toxins and improving blood flow. Japanese women are renowned for their beautiful skin, but until now there has been no book in English that reveals the secrets of the typical Japanese beauty routine. 'The Japanese Skincare Revolution' is the first guide for women of all ages and races who want to



Geographic Information and Cartography for Risk and Crisis Management

Author : Milan Konecny

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 449 pages

File Size : 16,47 MB

Release : 2010-03-15

Category : Science

ISBN : 364203442X

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Cartography and geographic information (GI) are remarkably appropriate for the requirements of early warning (EW) and crisis management (CM). The use of geospatial technology has increased tremendously in the last years. ICT has changed from just using maps created in advance, to new approaches, allowing individuals (decision-makers) to use cartography interactively, on the basis of individual user's requirements. The new generation of cartographic visualizations based on standardisation, formal modelling, use of sensors, semantics and ontology, allows for the better adaptation of information to the needs of the users. In order to design a new framework in pre-disaster and disaster management safety/security/privacy aspects of institutions and citizens need to be considered. All this can only be achieved by demonstrating new research achievements, sharing best practices (e.g. in the health area) and working towards the wider acceptance of geospatial technology in society, with the help of education and media. This book will outline research frontiers and applications of cartography and GI in EW and CM and document their roles and potentials in wider processes going on in information/knowledge-based societies.



Kale & Caramel

Author : Lily Diamond

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 32,33 MB

Release : 2017-05-02

Category : Cooking

ISBN : 1501123416

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Born out of the popular blog Kale & Caramel, this sumptuously photographed and beautifully written cookbook presents eighty recipes for delicious vegan and vegetarian dishes featuring herbs and flowers, as well as luxurious do-it-yourself beauty products. Plant-whisperer, writer, and photographer Lily Diamond believes that herbs and flowers have the power to nourish inside and out. “Lily’s deep connection to nature is beautifully woven throughout this personal collection of recipes,” says award-winning vegetarian chef Amy Chaplin. Each chapter celebrates an aromatic herb or flower, including basil, cilantro, fennel, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage, thyme, lavender, jasmine, rose, and orange blossom. Mollie Katzen, author of the beloved Moosewood Cookbook, calls the book “a gift, articulated through a poetic voice, original and bold.” The recipes tell a coming-of-age story through Lily’s kinship with plants, from a sun-drenched Maui childhood to healing from heartbreak and her mother’s death. With bright flavors, gorgeous scents, evocative stories, and more than one hundred photographs, Kale & Caramel creates a lush garden of experience open to harvest year round.





Information and Communication Technologies and Sustainable Development

Author : Stanislav Dovgyi

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 481 pages

File Size : 23,28 MB

Release : 2023-12-19

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3031468805

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The book highlights the most important research areas in ICT, their impact on e-society, environment sustainable development, namely analytics, security, geoinformation systems, and mathematical modeling. The studies contain a discussion on artificial intelligence in various spheres of society, practical implementation of the IoT, geoinformation systems, and remote sensing of the earth. The book focuses on improving services providing, system architecture for SDN, forecasting social and environment sustainable development based on global information space, a new approach to radio electronics systems for the novel cloud infrastructure implementation. The results are used for novel systems and to promote new approaches for e-societies. The book offers a valuable resource for specialists of R&D organizations, the management of state administration who are involved in sustainable society development, professors, university lecturers, Ph.D. students, and bachelor and master degree students.



Disaster Preparedness

Author : United States. Department of the Air Force

Publisher :

Page : 56 pages

File Size : 12,84 MB

Release : 1969

Category : Civil defense

ISBN :

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Satellite Altimetry for Earth Sciences

Author : Frédéric Frappart

Publisher : MDPI

Page : 484 pages

File Size : 50,81 MB

Release : 2019-04-09

Category : Science

ISBN : 3038976806

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Satellite altimetry is a radar technique for measuring the topography of the Earth’s surface. It was initially designed for measuring the ocean’s topography, with reference to an ellipsoid, and for the determination of the marine geoid. Satellite altimetry has provided extremely valuable information on ocean science (e.g., circulation surface geostrophic currents, eddy structures, wave heights, and the propagation of oceanic Kelvin and Rossby waves). With more than 25 years of observations, it is also becoming vital to climate research, providing accurate measurements of sea level variations from regional to global scales. Altimetry has also demonstrated a strong potential for geophysical, cryospheric, and hydrological research and is now commonly used for the monitoring of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheet topography and of terrestrial surface water levels. This book aims to present reviews and recent advances of general interest in the use of radar altimetry in Earth sciences. Manuscripts are related to any aspect of radar altimetry technique or geophysical applications. We also encourage manuscripts resulting from the application of new altimetric technology (SAR, SARin, and Ka band) and improvements expected from missions to be launched in the near future (i.e., SWOT).