Fins

Author : Brian K. Hall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226313405

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Fins into Limbs by Brian K. Hall Pdf

Long ago, fish fins evolved into the limbs of land vertebrates and tetrapods. During this transition, some elements of the fin were carried over while new features developed. Lizard limbs, bird wings, and human arms and legs are therefore all evolutionary modifications of the original tetrapod limb. A comprehensive look at the current state of research on fin and limb evolution and development, this volume addresses a wide range of subjects—including growth, structure, maintenance, function, and regeneration. Divided into sections on evolution, development, and transformations, the book begins with a historical introduction to the study of fins and limbs and goes on to consider the evolution of limbs into wings as well as adaptations associated with specialized modes of life, such as digging and burrowing. Fins into Limbs also discusses occasions when evolution appears to have been reversed—in whales, for example, whose front limbs became flippers when they reverted to the water—as well as situations in which limbs are lost, such as in snakes. With contributions from world-renowned researchers, Fins into Limbs will be a font for further investigations in the changing field of evolutionary developmental biology.

Author : Byron M. Jaquet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : UOM:39015086507160

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Wind-tunnel Investigation of Effects of Ventral Fins at Two Positions on Lateral-stability Derivatives of 45© High-wing Model Oscillating in Yaw by Byron M. Jaquet Pdf

An investigation was made in the Langley stability tunnel to determine the effects of ventral fins at two positions (zero and -70 degrees dihedral) on the lateral stability derivatives of a 45 degrees swept high-wing model oscillating in yaw. The effect of the ventral fins on the stability derivatives was determined with and without the vertical and horizontal tails for an angle-of-attack range of zero to 30 degrees at a Mach number of 0.13 and a Reynolds number of 830,000, based on the wing mean aerodynamic chord. The steady-state derivatives for a similar model without ventral fins are also presented. No discussion of the data has been made in order to expedite their publication.

Author : Sanger M. Burk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UIUC:30112106954073

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Exploratory Wind-tunnel Investigation of Deployable Flexible Ventral Fins for Use as an Emergency Spin-recovery Device by Sanger M. Burk Pdf

Spin-tunnel tests have been conducted on dynamic models of two fighter airplanes to explore the feasibility of using deployable flexible ventral fins as an emergency spin-recovery device. Various fin configurations, deflections, and locations were tested. The results indicated that the fins provided satisfactory spin recoveries for the models tested.

Author : Francois Proulx
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487532185

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Victims of the Book by Francois Proulx Pdf

Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insistently characterized excessive reading as an emasculating illness that afflicted French youth. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen’s masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise de jeunesse (Youth in Crisis, 1897), La Crise virile (Crisis of Virility, 1898), La Vie stérile (A Sterile Life, 1892), and La Mortelle Impuissance (Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, François Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen’s reading habits. Fin-de-siècle writers responded to this pathologization of reading with a profusion of novels addressed to young male readers, paradoxically proposing their own novels as potential cures. In the early twentieth century, this corpus was critically revisited by a new generation of writers. Victims of the Book shows how André Gide and Marcel Proust in particular reworked the fin-de-siècle paradox to subvert cultural norms about literature and masculinity, proposing instead a queer pact between writer and reader.

Author : William Knoedelseder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780062289094

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Fins by William Knoedelseder Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Brew chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the remarkable life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling, thereby revolutionized the way cars were made, marketed, and even imagined. Harleys Earl’s story qualifies as a bona fide American family saga. It began in the Michigan pine forest in the years after the Civil War, traveled across the Great Plains on the wooden wheels of a covered wagon, and eventually settled in a dirt road village named Hollywood, California, where young Harley took the skills he learned working in his father’s carriage shop and applied them to designing sleek, racy-looking automobile bodies for the fast crowd in the burgeoning silent movie business. As the 1920s roared with the sound of mass manufacturing, Harley returned to Michigan, where, at GM’s invitation, he introduced art into the rigid mechanics of auto-making. Over the next thirty years, he functioned as a kind of combination Steve Jobs and Tom Ford of his time, redefining the form and function of the country’s premier product. His impact was profound. When he retired as GM’s VP of Styling in 1958, Detroit reigned as the manufacturing capitol of the world and General Motors ranked as the most successful company in the history of business. Knoedelseder tells the story in ways both large and small, weaving the history of the company with the history of Detroit and the Earl family as Fins examines the effect of the automobile on America’s economy, culture, and national psyche.

Author : Ross B. Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Mach number
ISBN : UIUC:30112106741272

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Effects of Body and Fin Deflections on the Aerodynamic Characteristics in Pitch of a 0.065-scale Model of a Four-stage Rocket Configuration at Mach Numbers of 1.41 and 1.82 by Ross B. Robinson Pdf

Author : F. L. Thompson,Robert Rowe Gilruth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024794898

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Notes on the Stalling of Vertical Tail Surfaces and on Fin Design by F. L. Thompson,Robert Rowe Gilruth Pdf

It may be concluded that the stalling of vertical tail surfaces is not in itself a dangerous condition. Provided sufficient directional stability exists at large angles of sideslip, the tail stall may occur with modern airplanes, as with those of the past, without the knowledge of or concern to the pilot.

Author : Susan Klaus
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608091232

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Shark Fin Soup by Susan Klaus Pdf

Christian Roberts is the prime suspect when his wife, Allie, is murdered on their sloop in the Caribbean. Grief-stricken and unstable, he must evade arrest to fulfill Allie’s dying plea – to “save the sharks”. Shark finning has been decimating the species as the Asian demand for shark fin soup escalates. The disappearance of sharks from the ocean will threaten the entire marine ecosystem, and Allie’s dedication to stop the shark slaughter had been unshakable. Christian, reeling from the loss of his wife, steels himself to avoid arrest, determined to honor Allie’s wish. With help from his friend, Vince Florio, Christian attacks those responsible. Under the guise of an eco-terrorist calling himself Captain Nemo, he uses brutal vigilante tactics to eliminate shark fin soup from every restaurant menu in the world. But those who are amassing great fortunes from this Asian specialty will not be easily stopped. Nor will the FBI agent hounding Christian’s every move.

Author : Jude Angelini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476789309

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Hyena by Jude Angelini Pdf

"In the vein of Charles Bukowski, Augusten Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson is Jude Angelini, host of Sirius Radio's wildly popular "The All Out Show", and his collection of brutally honest and blackly comical autobiographical essays"--

Author : Dennis David
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 1610609255

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Fifties Fins by Dennis David Pdf

Inspired by advances in aviation, tailfin became the most potent symbols of 1950s American affluence. This look back at the greatest automotive styling craze ever features modern color photos of tailfins and the cars they adorned, from the first subtle examples on the 1948 Cadillac to the absurd variations commonplace by 1959.

Author : John John Bajet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Bedtime
ISBN : 140719769X

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Bedtime for Baby Shark: Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo by John John Bajet Pdf

Billedbog. Late at night in an ocean dark and deep, one Baby Shark would not go to sleep. Sing and dance along with Baby Shark as he gets ready for bed

Author : Tera Lynn Childs
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781848779730

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Just For Fins by Tera Lynn Childs Pdf

Half-mermaid, half-human Lily's life is a whirlpool of complication. Not only does she have to step up and help childhood friend Tellin, whose kingdom is under threat from the changing ocean climate, she has to face the fact that an ancient mer law might separate her from her human boyfriend Quince after all . . .

Author : Fuchsia Dunlop
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780393357752

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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China (Second Edition) by Fuchsia Dunlop Pdf

The modern classic that redefined the travel food memoir, with a new foreword from Bee Wilson. Fuchsia Dunlop, the first Westerner to train at the prestigious Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, “has done more to explain real Chinese cooking to non-Chinese cooks than anyone” (Julia Moskin, New York Times). In Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper, Dunlop recalls her rapturous encounters with China’s culinary riches, alongside her brushes with corruption, environmental degradation, and greed. The resulting memoir is a vibrant portrait of Chinese culinary culture, from the remote Gansu countryside to the enchanting old city of Yangzhou. The most talked-about travel narrative when it was published a decade ago, this reissue of Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper remains a thrilling adventure that you won’t be able to put down.

Author : Fuchsia Dunlop
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780393248982

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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China (First edition) by Fuchsia Dunlop Pdf

"Not just a smart memoir about cross-cultural eating but one of the most engaging books of any kind I've read in years." —Celia Barbour, O, The Oprah Magazine After fifteen years spent exploring China and its food, Fuchsia Dunlop finds herself in an English kitchen, deciding whether to eat a caterpillar she has accidentally cooked in some home-grown vegetables. How can something she has eaten readily in China seem grotesque in England? The question lingers over this “autobiographical food-and-travel classic” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433082033394

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The Encyclopædia Britannica by Anonim Pdf