Invisible Iceberg

Author : Joel N. Myers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781510776647

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Invisible Iceberg by Joel N. Myers Pdf

Discover the impactful ways that climate and weather changed the very course of human history from the founder and CEO of AccuWeather! Join AccuWeather founder and CEO Dr. Joel N. Myers on a journey from the beginning of time to the modern day to see how weather and climate impacted world events throughout history, both the good and the bad. Learn about the comet that hit Earth almost 67 million years ago, and how it triggered a massive climate disruption that led to the extinction of the dinosaur; the dramatic climate shift in 1213 BC that created the conditions for the Ten Plagues of Egypt, a foundational moment in three major world religions; how superior knowledge of the winds allowed the ancient Greeks to prevail over Persian attackers in 400 BC; the volcano in 44 BC that helped launch the Roman Empire; how Tropical storms thwarted Mongol invaders and preserved an independent Japan in 1273; how the "Little Ice Age" ushered in the age of the European Witch Trials, which eventually influenced the Salem Witch Trials; the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in 1609 in an Atlantic hurricane that inspired Shakespeare's last play TheTempest; the fog that helped to create an independent United States of America during the Revolutionary War; the storm in 1814 that ended the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte; the "Great White Hurricane," i.e. two major blizzards, that helped create the New York Subway System in 1888; and so much more! Also explored are weather what-ifs, including the haunting question: Would the hurricane that remained off the coast have prevented the deadly attacks of September 11, 2001, if it had just moved inland? Dr. Myers founded AccuWeather, the world's most accurate source of highly localized weather forecasts and warnings everywhere in the world, in 1962, and ever since, he has been the foremost authority on all things weather. Invisible Iceberg: When Climate and Weather Shaped History is an exciting, sometimes shocking, trip around the world and through time to prove once and for all that weather really does shape the world and the course of history!

Author : Douglas B. Bailey
Publisher : CSS Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780788017971

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Clips And Quips For Midnight Oil Sermons And Last Minute Sunday School Lessons by Douglas B. Bailey Pdf

Writing sermons and preparing Sunday school lessons can be a very frustrating experience when you just can't seem to find the appropriate words, images, and expressions to add zest to an otherwise humdrum presentation. Douglas Bailey's collection of "verbal clip art" -- metaphors, figures of speech, visual images, and other word gimmicks -- is sure to liven up any discussion. Organized in an outline format (making it easy to locate material suited for various topics and themes), Clips And Quips is a veritable "toolchest" of items guaranteed to jumpstart the imagination and stimulate creative writing. This is a helpful resource to enable people who seek to communicate the Christian gospel to do so with freshness and vitality. Bailey uses specific images and metaphors -- from plainclothes people to runaway trucks to bucket brigades -- to make vivid the nature and power of God in ordinary human experience. Harry B. Adams Professor of Pastoral Theology Yale Divinity School Clips And Quips For Midnight Oil Sermons And Last-Minute Sunday School Lessons challenges preachers and teachers to reach for faith language that is grounded in the timeless message of God's love but is as timely as Monday morning's newspaper. This resource is a catalyst, not a crutch. It evokes word power by showing how biblical metaphor leaps from narrative history to our biography and alerts us to scripture's connection with our lives today. Doug Bailey offers us a simple entrance to a grand theater of wordcraft that demonstrates how God's truth can set us free. Thomas E. Dipko Executive Vice President United Church Board for Homeland Ministries If you thrill to the turn of a well-crafted phrase, become excited over the use of fresh metaphors, and are engaged by open, imaginative use of language in exploration of the mystery of God, you will want to read Clips And Quips For Midnight Oil Sermons And Last-Minute Sunday School Lessons. Dr. Bailey offers the spiritual community a unique language resource that may be utilized not only in the development and writing of sermons, but also in a variety of ways to create education and communication materials. As "clip art for the soul," the word pictures in this book spark the reader's imagination far beyond the written page. Sandra Goode Bricker Executive Director and Campus Minister, United Christian Center Ohio State University An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, Douglas B. Bailey is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A.), Yale Divinity School (B.D., S.T.M.), and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D.). In addition to serving pastorates in Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin, Bailey spent over 20 years in administration for Franklin County Children's Services in Columbus, Ohio. Bailey contributed to the 1998 Daily Book of Prayer published by United Church Press, and continues to serve as a supply pastor for vacationing clergy.

Author : Bonnie Costello
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 067424690X

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Elizabeth Bishop by Bonnie Costello Pdf

The poet Elizabeth Bishop is said to have a prismatic way of seeing. In this companion to her poetry, making connections between modern art and modern poetry, Bonnie Costello aims to give a sense of the poet and her ways of seeing and writing.

Author : Robert Dale Parker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Women and literature
ISBN : 0252015096

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The Unbeliever by Robert Dale Parker Pdf

Parker shows the struggle with confusion and wonder about things Bishop can never make quiet or clear - about sexuality, politics, tbe burdens of imagination, the fate of the self. He explores Bishop's troubled family background and her concerns with gender and sexuality to offer new and persuasive readings of her poems and her poetic career.

Author : Brett C. Millier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520203457

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Elizabeth Bishop by Brett C. Millier Pdf

Biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop that pieces together the compelling and painful story of her life and traces the writing of her poems.

Author : Kit Bonner Carolyn Bonner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 1610606809

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Great Ship Disasters by Kit Bonner Carolyn Bonner Pdf

Author : Olivier Remaud
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509551484

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Thinking Like an Iceberg by Olivier Remaud Pdf

When we imagine the polar regions, we see a largely lifeless world covered in snow and ice where icebergs drift listlessly through frozen waters, like solitary wanderers of the oceans floating aimlessly in total silence. But nothing could be further from the truth. This book takes us into the fascinating world of icebergs and glaciers to discover what they are really like. Through a series of historical vignettes recalling some of the most tragic and most exhilarating encounters between human beings and these gigantic pieces of matter, and through vivid descriptions of their cycles of birth and death, Olivier Remaud shows that these entities are teeming with many forms of life and that there is a deep continuity between iceberg life and human life, a complex web of reciprocal interconnections that can lead from the deadliest to the most vital. And precisely because there is this continuity, icebergs and glaciers tell us something important about life itself – namely, that it thrives in the most unexpected of places, even where there seems to be no life at all. At a time when we are increasingly aware that the melting of ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice is one of the many disastrous consequences of global warming, this beautiful meditation is a poignant reminder of the interconnectedness of all life and the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystems.

Author : Bratianu, Constantin
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466683198

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Organizational Knowledge Dynamics: Managing Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, Sharing, and Transformation by Bratianu, Constantin Pdf

Promoting organizational knowledge is an important consideration for any business looking toward the future. Understanding the dynamics of knowledge-intensive organizations is a crucial first step in establishing a strong knowledge base for any organization. Organizational Knowledge Dynamics: Managing Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, Sharing, and Transformation introduces the idea that organizational knowledge is composed of three knowledge fields: cognitive knowledge, emotional knowledge, and spiritual knowledge. This book is useful for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in knowledge management, intellectual capital, human resources management, change management, and strategic management.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Cross-cultural orientation
ISBN : 9781428926936

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Culture matters trainer's guide. by Anonim Pdf

"Offers additional information on using the Culture Matters Workbook. The Guide includes approximately 40 exercises from Culture Matters, dealing with the most important concepts in the book, and presents them with extensive background, delivery notes, and lesson plans." Organized into four parts: Using Culture Matters in Pre-Service Training, Trainer Notes for Selected Exercises from Culture Matters, Supplemental Group Exercises, Additional Resources for Cross-Cultural Trainers

Author : C. Walker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781403979483

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God and Elizabeth Bishop by C. Walker Pdf

In God and Elizabeth Bishop Cheryl Walker takes the bold step of looking at the work of Elizabeth Bishop as though it might have something fresh to say about religion and poetry. Going wholly against the tide of recent academic practice, especially as applied to Bishop, she delights in presenting herself as an engaged Christian who nevertheless believes that a skeptical modern poet might feed our spiritual hungers. This is a book that reminds us of the rich tradition of religious poetry written in English, at the same time taking delicious detours into realms of humour, social responsibility, and mysticism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN : PURD:32754068482300

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Looking at Ourselves and Others by Anonim Pdf

"Looking at Ourselves and Others contains lesson plans, activities, and readings that help students understand components of their own culture and leads them to appreciate and understand differences between their culture and that of others."--Home page.

Author : Louis Charbonneau
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936535873

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The Ice by Louis Charbonneau Pdf

The world’s most hostile environment just became even deadlier... Brutal, unforgiving, and breathtaking—for American biologist Kathy McNeely, much of Antarctica’s lure lies in its dangerous beauty. Part of an international research team sent to study the long-term effects of an oil spill on the ecology, Kathy’s focus is on the penguin population. As she uncovers a mysterious new threat to the birds, a sudden blizzard drives more than snow to her team’s remote field camp. Archaeologist-turned-adventurer Brian Hurley isn’t the kind of man to stay in one place very long. But the fierce whiteout conditions force him to postpone training for his record-breaking sledge run to the South Pole. He’s not the only one stranded at the scientists’ camp—a pair of cagey energy contractors and a dogged L.A. journalist also wait for the severe weather to pass. As the storm rages on, a dangerous and potentially deadly spate of accidents plagues the Ice. Missing supplies, damaged equipment, and communication errors—too many to be coincidence—spur rumors of sabotage. Someone is conducting unsanctioned research in protected areas, and they’ve discovered something so valuable, they will do anything keep it secret.

Author : Kastner Ruth E
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781783266487

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Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles by Kastner Ruth E Pdf

This captivating book presents a new, unified picture of the everyday world around us. It provides rational, scientific support for the idea that there may well be more to our reality than meets the eye…Accessible and engaging for readers with no prior knowledge of quantum physics, author Ruth Kastner draws on the popular transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics to explain our ‘quantum reality.’ Her book focuses on modern-day examples and deals with big philosophical questions as well as ideas from physics.If you have any interest in quantum physics, this book is for you — whether you be a physics student or academic, or simply an inquisitive reader who wants to delve deeper into the reality of the world around you. Dr Ruth Kastner has received two National Science Foundation awards for the study of interpretational issues in quantum theory.

Author : Salman M. A. Salman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 082134613X

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Groundwater by Salman M. A. Salman Pdf

"Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource for most of the world's citizens. The current trends indicate that the overall situation is likely to deteriorate further, at least for the next decade, unless the water profession eschews "business as usual" practices, which can only allow incremental changes to occur." Groundwater is the least understood and least appreciated, yet the most important, natural resource available to mankind. Groundwater represents about 97% of the existing fresh water resources, excluding the resources locked in polar ice. More than one and a half billion people in the urban parts of the world today depend on groundwater. Groundwater supply is more reliable than the seasonal, and sometimes erratic, surface water and provides the main line of defense against drought. Moreover, the quality of groundwater is, by and large, superior to surface water and cheaper to develop. However, when available, data on groundwater is very scanty. As a result, the World Bank is now paying increasing attention to this valuable resource, through both operations and sector work. This publication represents the proceeding of the seminar "Groundwater: Legal and Policy Perspectives" that was organized by the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank. It explains some basic technical aspects of groundwater, surveys the regulatory framework for it, and discusses the World Bank experience and international law regarding this precious resource. It is a timely publication and should also assist in a better understanding and appreciation of this valuable source. It will be of interest to Bank staff, borrowing country officials, international agencies and research organizations working on groundwater.

Author : Christopher Hood,B. Guy Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134411849

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Reward for High Public Office by Christopher Hood,B. Guy Peters Pdf

The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems, a particularly rich set of cases for exploring the causes and consequences of the rewards of high public office, having some of the most generous and most meagre reward packages in the world. There are a range of economic, political and cultural explanations for the rewards provided by governments. Likewise, these choices are assumed to have a number of consequences, including variations in the levels of corruption and economic success. Reward for High Public Office includes case studies focusing on Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Singapore. It will interest students and researchers of politics, public administration and Asian studies.