Plotting The Globe

Author : Avraham Ariel,Nora Ariel Berger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313056468

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Plotting the Globe by Avraham Ariel,Nora Ariel Berger Pdf

People use concepts such as time and date to structure their lives on a daily basis. They often measure their travel by marking points arranged along great circles on the globe. Yet most do not understand the origin and history of these terms and the stories of the intrepid adventurers, scientists, and seafarers who shaped our picture of the world today. Ariel transports readers to faraway lands and ancient cultures that span more than 3500 years of exploration. Phoenicians, Spaniards, Portuguese, British, French, and many others star in an epic that stretches from Lapland to Cape Horn, via Greenwich, Paris, the Andes and the Fortunate Islands. This book is a collection of stories and myths about geography, navigation, and geodesy— the science that deals with the Earth's figure and the interrelationship of selected points on its surface-that reaches far beyond dry scientific texts to concentrate on the people behind the discoveries. The knowledge and understanding of abstract notions such as the Prime Meridian, the Equator, and the International Date Line is conveyed through emphasis on the human spirit that motivated the pioneer scientists and sailors. It is a tale littered with heroes and villains, battles, tragedies and international intrigue. Readers will learn of a time when nothing was certain—even the shape and size of the earth were the subjects of fierce competition, conflict, and politics.

Author : Paula Bryant Pratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 156006255X

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Maps by Paula Bryant Pratt Pdf

Traces the evolution of mapmaking/cartography from ancient times to the present.

Author : Cyril Ransome
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000011114677

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Short Studies of Shakespeare's Plots by Cyril Ransome Pdf

"Originally delivered as popular lectures."--Pref. Hamlet.--Julius Cæsar.--Macbeth.--King Lear.--Richard II.--Othello, the Moor of Venice.--Coriolanus.--The tempest.

Author : Alan Bicker,Johan Pottier,Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134514045

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Participating in Development by Alan Bicker,Johan Pottier,Paul Sillitoe Pdf

Development has too often failed to deliver on its promises to poor nations. The policies imposed from above by international agencies and state bodies have frequently not met the needs and aspirations of ordinary people. Development agencies have been searching for sometime for alternative approaches. One of those being pioneered is 'indigenous knowledge', which aims to make local voices heard more effectively. However while it is increasingly acknowledged in development contexts, it is yet to be validated and accepted by anthropologists. It is self-evident to any anthropologist that effective development assistance will benefit from some understanding of local knowledge and practices. This therefore puts anthropology and anthropologists at the centre of development. This volume focuses on two major issues that anthropology might profitably address. First of all how to define indigenous knowledge and who should define it as it currently lacks disciplinary coherence. Secondly once this definition is achieved what methodologies should be used in such an interdisciplinary research endeavour when it must meet the demands of development (cost- and time-effective, intelligible to non-experts) while not compromising anthropological expectations. The new opportunities and their methodological implications are addressed in the chapters of this book in a range of ethnographic and institutional contexts and demonstrate how wide-reaching and how crucially important this debate has become. Participating in Development is a thought provoking and challenge collection. Its authors both define and validate the role of the anthropologist in development as well of development in anthropology.

Author : Gary Barwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9780345815514

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Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin Pdf

In the years around 1492, Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy, leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion. But Inquisition Spain is a dangerous time to be Jewish and Moishe joins a band of hidden Jews trying to preserve some forbidden books. He falls in love with a young woman, Sarah; though they are separated by circumstance, Moishe's wanderings are motivated as much by their connection as by his quest for loot and freedom. When all Jews are expelled from Spain, Moishe travels to the Caribbean with the ambitious Christopher Columbus, a self-made man who loves his creator. Moishe eventually becomes a pirate and seeks revenge on the Spanish while seeking the ultimate booty: the Fountain of Youth. Bestseller. Winner of the 2017 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. 2016.

Author : Jonathan Buckley,Sarah Raven
Publisher : Random House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781446416631

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The Great Vegetable Plot by Jonathan Buckley,Sarah Raven Pdf

'A vegetable plot is a beautiful thing to make, with the extra bonus of producing the best possible things to eat. If you get it right, the whole place can become your market, your haven and your playground.' So says Sarah Raven in The Great Vegetable Plot, an indispensable practical guide to creating the perfect vegetable garden with the minimum of fuss and effort. By eschewing the timely and unnecessary steps that can frustrate even the most patient gardener, Sarah's principles of speed and simplicity can help you to craft a plot that perfectly suits your needs - and lets you enjoy fresh, home-grown crops all year round. Sarah's straight-forward approach focuses on easy and rewarding vegetables that don't require huge amounts of time or space, meaning you don't need to devout hours to slavishly tending your plot. Beautifully illustrated with over 250 photographs from award-winning photographer Jonathan Buckley, this inspiring guide is ultimately all about pleasure - from the enjoyment you'll get from planting and growing your own produce to the priceless reward of having a wealth of fresh vegetables just outside your door.

Author : Canada. Department of Agriculture. Experimental Farms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3247062

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Report of the Dominion Experimental Farms by Canada. Department of Agriculture. Experimental Farms Pdf

Author : Canada. Experimental Farms Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015067307085

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Experimental Farms by Canada. Experimental Farms Service Pdf

Author : Jake VanderPlas
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781491912133

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Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas Pdf

For many researchers, Python is a first-class tool mainly because of its libraries for storing, manipulating, and gaining insight from data. Several resources exist for individual pieces of this data science stack, but only with the Python Data Science Handbook do you get them all—IPython, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, and other related tools. Working scientists and data crunchers familiar with reading and writing Python code will find this comprehensive desk reference ideal for tackling day-to-day issues: manipulating, transforming, and cleaning data; visualizing different types of data; and using data to build statistical or machine learning models. Quite simply, this is the must-have reference for scientific computing in Python. With this handbook, you’ll learn how to use: IPython and Jupyter: provide computational environments for data scientists using Python NumPy: includes the ndarray for efficient storage and manipulation of dense data arrays in Python Pandas: features the DataFrame for efficient storage and manipulation of labeled/columnar data in Python Matplotlib: includes capabilities for a flexible range of data visualizations in Python Scikit-Learn: for efficient and clean Python implementations of the most important and established machine learning algorithms

Author : Canada. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028003619

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Sessional Papers by Canada. Parliament Pdf

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.

Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555305

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Imperial Plots by Sarah Carter Pdf

Sarah Carter’s "Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies" examines the goals, aspirations, andchallenges met by women who sought land of their own. Supporters of British women homesteaders argued they would contribute to the “spade-work” of the Empire through their imperial plots, replacing foreign settlers and relieving Britain of its "surplus" women. Yet far into the twentieth century there was persistent opposition to the idea that women could or should farm: British women were to be exemplars of an idealized white femininity, not toiling in the fields. In Canada, heated debates about women farmers touched on issues of ethnicity, race, gender, class, and nation. Despite legal and cultural obstacles and discrimination, British women did acquire land as homesteaders, farmers, ranchers, and speculators on the Canadian prairies. They participated in the project of dispossessing Indigenous people. Their complicity was, however, ambiguous and restricted because they were excluded from the power and privileges of their male counterparts. Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains to the array of women who resolved to work on the land in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Author : Canada. Experimental Farms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2906541

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Reports by Canada. Experimental Farms Pdf

Author : Srinivasa Rao Poladi
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781789138665

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Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook by Srinivasa Rao Poladi Pdf

Build attractive, insightful, and powerful visualizations to gain quality insights from your data Key FeaturesMaster Matplotlib for data visualizationCustomize basic plots to make and deploy figures in cloud environmentsExplore recipes to design various data visualizations from simple bar charts to advanced 3D plotsBook Description Matplotlib provides a large library of customizable plots, along with a comprehensive set of backends. Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook is your hands-on guide to exploring the world of Matplotlib, and covers the most effective plotting packages for Python 3.7. With the help of this cookbook, you'll be able to tackle any problem you might come across while designing attractive, insightful data visualizations. With the help of over 150 recipes, you'll learn how to develop plots related to business intelligence, data science, and engineering disciplines with highly detailed visualizations. Once you've familiarized yourself with the fundamentals, you'll move on to developing professional dashboards with a wide variety of graphs and sophisticated grid layouts in 2D and 3D. You'll annotate and add rich text to the plots, enabling the creation of a business storyline. In addition to this, you'll learn how to save figures and animations in various formats for downstream deployment, followed by extending the functionality offered by various internal and third-party toolkits, such as axisartist, axes_grid, Cartopy, and Seaborn. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create high-quality customized plots and deploy them on the web and on supported GUI applications such as Tkinter, Qt 5, and wxPython by implementing real-world use cases and examples. What you will learnDevelop simple to advanced data visualizations in Matplotlib Use the pyplot API to quickly develop and deploy different plots Use object-oriented APIs for maximum flexibility with the customization of figuresDevelop interactive plots with animation and widgets Use maps for geographical plotting Enrich your visualizations using embedded texts and mathematical expressionsEmbed Matplotlib plots into other GUIs used for developing applicationsUse toolkits such as axisartist, axes_grid1, and cartopy to extend the base functionality of MatplotlibWho this book is for The Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook is for you if you are a data analyst, data scientist, or Python developer looking for quick recipes for a multitude of visualizations. This book is also for those who want to build variations of interactive visualizations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015177525

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Skyways by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Kirkbride
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Plot Against Heaven by Mark Kirkbride Pdf

Hell-bent on confronting God after the death of wife Kate, Paul gate-crashes Heaven. With immigration problems and a wall, Heaven turns out to be nowhere near as welcoming as expected. Both Heaven and Hell are modern and militarized, and the cold war that exists between them is about to heat up, with him in the middle of it. Caught on the wrong side of Heaven, Paul faces an impossible choice if he's to have any hope of seeing his wife again. *** “Mark Kirkbride’s The Plot Against Heaven is a slick and cunning tale that moves with the speed of a smart, classy thriller; brimming with invention, it conjures up a vision of the afterlife uniquely its own with a smooth economy that never slows its pace.” -Simon Bestwick, author of And Cannot Come Again: Tales of Childhood, Regret, and Innocence Lost