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Author : Chris Turner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501115097

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The Patch by Chris Turner Pdf

"In its heyday, the oil sands represented an industrial triumph and the culmination of a century of innovation, experiment, engineering, policy, and finance. Fort McMurray was a boomtown, the centre of a new gold rush, and the oil sands were reshaping the global energy, political, and financial landscapes. The future seemed limitless for the city and those who drew their wealth from the bitumen-rich wilderness. But in 2008, a new narrative for the oil sands emerged. As financial markets collapsed and the scientific reality of the Patch's effect on the environment became clear, the region turned into a boogeyman and a lightning rod for the global movement combatting climate change. Suddenly, the streets of Fort McMurray were the front line of a high-stakes collision between two conflicting worldviews--one of industrial triumph and another of environmental stewardship--each backed by major players on the world stage. The Patch is the seminal account of this ongoing conflict, showing just how far the oil sands reaches into all of our lives. From Fort Mac to the Bakken shale country of North Dakota, from Houston to London, from Saudi Arabia to the shores of Brazil, the whole world is connected in this enterprise. And it requires us to ask the question: In order to both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?"--

Author : Edyta Sitar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Quilting
ISBN : 0996632247

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Quilter's Patch by Edyta Sitar Pdf

Author : Beth Kobliner Shaw,Jacob Shaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781476737362

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Jacob's Eye Patch by Beth Kobliner Shaw,Jacob Shaw Pdf

Being different can be hard. This funny, spirited story—written by bestselling author of Get a Financial Life Beth Kobliner Shaw with her son Jacob, and illustrated by award-winning picture book artist Jules Feiffer—encourages young readers to embrace the thing that makes them unique... Jacob is in a hurry—a really big hurry—to get to the store to buy a special toy. There's only one left, and if he doesn't get to it soon, he'll never forgive his mom and dad for making him late. Strangers often stop Jacob's parents on the street to ask about him. See, Jacob is unusual: He has an eye patch. Jacob knows people like to ask questions, but do they have to ask right now? Luckily, Jacob gets to the store in time, and he meets a new friend who has something different, too. In the end, Jacob's journey makes him more aware of other people’s feelings. Jacob's Eye Patch is the go-to book for talking about differences that kids can enjoy and parents can turn to for guidance. Everyone has something different! What’s your something? Share your child’s story at JacobsEyePatch.com.

Author : Simon A. Levin,Thomas M. Powell,John H. Steele
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642501555

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Patch Dynamics by Simon A. Levin,Thomas M. Powell,John H. Steele Pdf

From the preface by Joel E. Cohen: "A century from now humanity will live in a managed - or mismanaged - global garden. We are debating the need to preserve tropical forests. Farming of the sea is providing an increasing part of our fish supply. We are beginning to control atmospheric emissions. In 100 years, we shall use novel farming practices and genetic engineering of bacteria to manipulate the methane production of rice fields. The continental shelf will be providing food, energy, possibly even living space. To make such intensive management possible will require massive improvements in data collection and analysis, and especially in our concepts. A century hence we will live on a wired earth: the oceans and the crust of the earth will receive the same comprehensive monitoring now devoted to weather. As the peoples of currently developing countries increase their levels of wealth, the need for global management will become irresistible as impatience with the accidents of nature and intolerance of mismanagement of the environment - especially of living resources - grow. Our control of physical perturbations and chemical inputs to the environment will be judged by the consequences to living organisms and biological communities. How can we obtain the factual and theoretical foundation needed to move from our present, fragmented knowledge and limited abilities to a managed, global garden?" This problem was addressed in the lectures and workshops of a summer school on patch dynamics at Cornell University. The school emphasized the analysis and interpretation of spatial patterns in terrestrial and marine environments. This book contains the course material of this school, combining general reviews with specific applications.

Author : Nathan H. Schumaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Habitat (Ecology)
ISBN : UOM:39015043009904

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A Users Guide to the PATCH Model by Nathan H. Schumaker Pdf

Designed to project population of territorial terrestrial vertebrate species through time. Useful for investigations involving wildlife species that are mobile habitat specialists, pays careful attention to habitat pattern and quality. PATCH can accommodate a broad range of analyses, and is useful for both theoretical and applied investigations.

Author : Justina Chen,Justina Chen Headley
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Amblyopia
ISBN : 9781580890496

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The Patch by Justina Chen,Justina Chen Headley Pdf

Becca has amblyopia and needs to wear both glasses and an eye patch to strengthen her weak eye. She doesn't want the kids at school to know why she's wearing a patch, and leads her friends on imaginative adventures before she confesses to the real reason why she's wearing the eye patch.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 9781428936782

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Information security continued action needed to improve software patch management : report to congressional requesters. by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : Jean-Marie Lachapelle,Howard I. Maibach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642254918

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Patch Testing and Prick Testing by Jean-Marie Lachapelle,Howard I. Maibach Pdf

Knowledge in the field of allergic contact dermatitis continues to expand rapidly owing to progress in the chemical, immunological, and clinical fields, including improved techniques of patch testing and prick testing. The third edition of this important book, which includes additional color illustrations, has been extensively revised, updated, and expanded to reflect the most recent developments. These include advances in patch testing methodology, in particular the new chambers that are appearing on the market, revision of the baseline series of patch tests to reflect the latest evidence-based work, and additional testing procedures. The result is a superb guide to the current management of positive and negative patch test and prick test reactions that will be invaluable for all practicing dermatologists, from the beginner to the well-trained expert.

Author : Thomas G Smith,Harold Lecar,Steven J Redman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461476016

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Voltage and Patch Clamping with Microelectrodes by Thomas G Smith,Harold Lecar,Steven J Redman Pdf

Edited and authored by international experts on voltage and patch clamping, this volume is designed to help anyone undertaking experiments requiring the use of these techniques. The only book of its kind to bring together this wealth of information on theory as well as practical techniques, this is a volume that no one involved in voltage and patch clamping can afford to be without.

Author : Yvonne Porcella
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781571208781

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Magical Four-Patch and Nine-Patch by Yvonne Porcella Pdf

Noted fiber artist Yvonne Porcella turns her talents to the most basic quilt block patterns, Four-Patches and Nine-Patches, and she will turn your world upside down! Join her on the journey to creating your own innovative quilts. 10 incredible quilting projects. Quilts are constructed using simple strip piecing and foundation piecing. Yvonne's "e;Magical Numbering System"e; makes choosing fabrics practically painless. Suggestions for personalizing your work to make it yours alone.

Author : Matt Hern,Selena Couture,Daisy Couture,Sadie Couture
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773630717

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On This Patch of Grass by Matt Hern,Selena Couture,Daisy Couture,Sadie Couture Pdf

Exclusive online content, photos, and more, available here Parks are importantly fertile places to talk about land. Whether its big national parks, provincial campgrounds, isolated conservation areas, destination parks, or humble urban patches of grass, we tend to speak of parks as unqualified goods. People think of parks as public or common land, and it is a common belief that parks are the best uses of land and are good for everyone. But no park is innocent. Parks are lionized as “natural oases,” and urban parks as “pure nature” in the midst of the city — but that’s absurd. Parks are as “natural” as the roads or buildings around them, and just as political. Every park in North America is performing modernity and settler colonialism everyday. Furthermore, parks are not private property, but while they are called ‘public’, they are highly regulated spaces that normatively demand and closely control behaviours. Parks are a certain kind of property, and thus creations of law, and they are subject to all kinds of presumptions about what parks are for, and what kinds of people should be doing what kinds of things in them. Parks — as they are currently constituted — are colonial enterprises. On This Patch of Grass is an investigation into one small urban park — Vancouver’s Victoria Park, or Bocce Ball Park — as a way to interrogate the politics of land. The authors grapple with the fact that they are uninvited guests on the occupied and traditional territories of the Musqueam (xwməθkwəy̓əm), Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh), and Tsleil-Waututh (səliľwətaʔɬ) nations. But Bocce Ball Park is also a wonderful place in many ways, with a startling plurality of users and sovereignties, and all kinds of overlapping activities and all kinds of overlapping people co-existing more-or-less peaceably. It is a living exhibition of the possibilities of sharing land and perhaps offers some clues to a decolonial horizon. The book is a collaborative exercise between one white family and some friends looking at the park from a variety of perspectives, asking what we might say about this patch of grass, and what kinds of occupation might this place imply.

Author : Fatima Shad Kaneez
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789535104063

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Patch Clamp Technique by Fatima Shad Kaneez Pdf

This book is a stimulating and interesting addition to the collected works on Patch clamp technique. Patch Clamping is an electrophysiological technique, which measures the electric current generated by a living cell, due to the movement of ions through the protein channels present in the cell membrane. The technique was developed by two German scientists, Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann, who received the Nobel Prize in 1991 in Physiology for this innovative work. Patch clamp technique is used for measuring drug effect against a series of diseases and to find out the mechanism of diseases in animals and plants. It is also most useful in finding out the structure function activities of compounds and drugs, and most leading pharmaceutical companies used this technique for their drugs before bringing them for clinical trial. This book deals with the understanding of endogenous mechanisms of cells and their receptors as well as advantages of using this technique. It covers the basic principles and preparation types and also deals with the latest developments in the traditional patch clamp technique. Some chapters in this book take the technique to a next level of modulation and novel approach. This book will be of good value for students of physiology, neuroscience, cell biology and biophysics.

Author : Paul E. Johnson
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1429931957

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Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper by Paul E. Johnson Pdf

The true history of a legendary American folk hero In the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn't drinking) as a mill hand for one of America's new textile companies. Sam made a name for himself one day by jumping seventy feet into the tumultuous waters below Pawtucket Falls. When in 1827 he repeated the stunt in Paterson, New Jersey, another mill town, an even larger audience gathered to cheer on the daredevil they would call the "Jersey Jumper." Inevitably, he went to Niagara Falls, where in 1829 he jumped not once but twice in front of thousands who had paid for a good view. The distinguished social historian Paul E. Johnson gives this deceptively simple story all its deserved richness, revealing in its characters and social settings a virtual microcosm of Jacksonian America. He also relates the real jumper to the mythic Sam Patch who turned up as a daring moral hero in the works of Hawthorne and Melville, in London plays and pantomimes, and in the spotlight with Davy Crockett—a Sam Patch who became the namesake of Andrew Jackson's favorite horse. In his shrewd and powerful analysis, Johnson casts new light on aspects of American society that we may have overlooked or underestimated. This is innovative American history at its best.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374717193

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The Patch by John McPhee Pdf

The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It is divided into two parts. Part 1, “The Sporting Scene,” consists of pieces on fishing, football, golf, and lacrosse—from fly casting for chain pickerel in fall in New Hampshire to walking the linksland of St. Andrews at an Open Championship. Part 2, called “An Album Quilt,” is a montage of fragments of varying length from pieces done across the years that have never appeared in book form—occasional pieces, memorial pieces, reflections, reminiscences, and short items in various magazines including The New Yorker. They range from a visit to the Hershey chocolate factory to encounters with Oscar Hammerstein, Joan Baez, and Mount Denali. Emphatically, the author’s purpose was not merely to preserve things but to choose passages that might entertain contemporary readers. Starting with 250,000 words, he gradually threw out 75 percent of them, and randomly assembled the remaining fragments into “an album quilt.” Among other things, The Patch is a covert memoir.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459820753

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One Patch of Blue by Anonim Pdf

One patch of denim escapes from a pair of pants and becomes a stained-glass window, an ice-cream truck, a Ferris wheel, a fish tank and many other square surprises in this delightful board book by celebrated paper artist Marthe Jocelyn. Jocelyn's paper collages in this wordless search-and-find adventure will encourage little ones to look closely at the world around them and explore what they see.