Sound Of The Sea

Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393651454

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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans by Cynthia Barnett Pdf

A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year A stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that "will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation" (John Williams, New York Times Book Review). Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable history of our world through an examination of the unassuming seashell. She begins with their childhood wonder, unwinds surprising histories like the origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, and charts what shells and the soft animals that build them are telling scientists about our warming, acidifying seas. From the eerie calls of early shell trumpets to the evolutionary miracle of spines and spires and the modern science of carbon capture inspired by shell, Barnett circles to her central point of listening to nature’s wisdom—and acting on what seashells have to say about taking care of each other and our world.

Author : Herman Medwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 052182950X

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Sounds in the Sea by Herman Medwin Pdf

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Author : Jacqueline Harvey
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0733621686

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The Sound of the Sea by Jacqueline Harvey Pdf

This moving tale explores the relationship between a young boy, Samuel Sullivan, and his mother. Samuel is remembering the precious times he spent with his mother before she became ill and went away. With the love and support of his grandparents, Samuel gradually starts to understand and little by little realises that although his mother is gone, she is with him always.Jacqueline Harvey wrote this story one evening after an afternoon fishing trip to South Golden Beach, north of Byron Bay. A young boy about nine years old arrived with his fishing rod in hand accompanied by his very pregnant mother, and the pair evoked in her feelings of the incredible, often unspoken love, between a parent and child. Jacqueline began to think about a young boy she had known who had lost his mother at a young age, and the poignancy of his devastation and ultimate survival.Samuel s anger, grief and eventual acceptance of his mother s death are brilliantly depicted in Warren Crossett s beautiful illustrations.

Author : Andrea A. Davis
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810144606

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Horizon, Sea, Sound by Andrea A. Davis Pdf

In Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation, Andrea Davis imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses and formations, including multicultural citizenship, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and the hierarchical nuclear family. Drawing on Tina Campt’s discussion of Black feminist futurity, Davis offers the concept future now, which is both central to Black freedom and a joint social justice project that rejects existing structures of white supremacy. Calling for new affiliations of community among Black, Indigenous, and other racialized women, and offering new reflections on the relationship between the Caribbean and Canada, she articulates a diaspora poetics that privileges our shared humanity. In advancing these claims, Davis turns to the expressive cultures (novels, poetry, theater, and music) of Caribbean and African women artists in Canada, including work by Dionne Brand, M. NourbeSe Philip, Esi Edugyan, Ramabai Espinet, Nalo Hopkinson, Amai Kuda, and Djanet Sears. Davis considers the ways in which the diasporic characters these artists create redraw the boundaries of their horizons, invoke the fluid histories of the Caribbean Sea to overcome the brutalization of plantation histories, use sound to enter and reenter archives, and shapeshift to survive in the face of conquest. The book will interest readers of literary and cultural studies, critical race theories, and Black diasporic studies.

Author : B.R. Kerman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400930179

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Sea Surface Sound by B.R. Kerman Pdf

In its relentless pursuit of further knowledge, science tends to compartmentalize. Over the years the pursuit of What might be called geophysical acoustics of the sea-surface has languished. This has occured even through there are well-developed and active research programs in underwater acoustics, ocean hydrodynamics, cloud and precipitation physics, and ice mechanics - to name a few - as well as a history of engineering expertise built on these scientific fields. It remained to create a convergence, a dialogue across disciplines, of mutual benefit. The central theme of the Lerici workshop, perhaps overly simplified, was 'What are the mechanisms causing ambient noise at the upper surface of the ocean?' What could hydrodynamicists contribute to a better understanding of breaking wave dynamics, bubble production, ocean wave dynamics, or near-surface turbulence for the benefit of the underwater acoustics community? What further insights could fluid dynamicists gain by including acoustic measurements in their repertoire of instrumentation? While every attendee will have his or her percep tions of details, it was universally agreed that a valuable step had been taken to bring together two mature disciplines and that significant co-operative studies would undoubtedly follow. The scope of the workshop was enlarged beyond its original intent to also include the question of ice-noise generation. The success of this decision can be seen in high quality of the presentations. the contribution of its disciples in the other workshop discussions and the heightened awareness and interest of we other novices.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307834348

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The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima Pdf

A timeless story of first love set in a remote fishing village in Japan. • "A story that is both happy and a work of art.... Altogether a joyous and lovely thing." —The New York Times A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.

Author : Joanne Schwartz
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554988723

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Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz Pdf

Winner of CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Winner of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner with his family, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator of Sidewalk Flowers, show the striking contrast between a sparkling seaside day and the darkness underground where the miners dig. With curriculum connections to communities and the history of mining, this beautifully understated and haunting story brings a piece of Canadian history to life. The ever-present ocean and inevitable pattern of life in a Cape Breton mining town will enthrall children and move adult readers.

Author : L. S. Bark,P. P. Ganson,N. A. Meister
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483164953

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Tables of the Velocity of Sound in Sea Water by L. S. Bark,P. P. Ganson,N. A. Meister Pdf

Tables of the Velocity of Sound in Sea Water contains tables of the velocity of sound in sea water computed on a "Strela-3" high-speed electronic computer and a T-5 tabulator at the Computational Center of the Academy of Sciences. Knowledge of the precise velocity of sound in sea water is of great importance when investigating sound propagations in the ocean and when solving practical problems involving the use of hydro-acoustic devices. This book demonstrates the computations made for the velocity of sound in sea water, which can be found in two ways: by direct measurement with the aid of suitable equipment, and by calculation from formula expressing the dependence of the velocity on the temperature and salinity of the water. This book will be of great value to researchers and students.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Ocean Studies Board,Committee on Potential Impacts of Ambient Noise in the Ocean on Marine Mammals
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309133159

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Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Ocean Studies Board,Committee on Potential Impacts of Ambient Noise in the Ocean on Marine Mammals Pdf

For the 119 species of marine mammals, as well as for some other aquatic animals, sound is the primary means of learning about the environment and of communicating, navigating, and foraging. The possibility that human-generated noise could harm marine mammals or significantly interfere with their normal activities is an issue of increasing concern. Noise and its potential impacts have been regulated since the passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Public awareness of the issue escalated in 1990s when researchers began using high-intensity sound to measure ocean climate changes. More recently, the stranding of beaked whales in proximity to Navy sonar use has again put the issue in the spotlight. Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals reviews sources of noise in the ocean environment, what is known of the responses of marine mammals to acoustic disturbance, and what models exist for describing ocean noise and marine mammal responses. Recommendations are made for future data gathering efforts, studies of marine mammal behavior and physiology, and modeling efforts necessary to determine what the long- and short-term impacts of ocean noise on marine mammals.

Author : Kerr Thomson
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781910002285

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The Sound of Whales by Kerr Thomson Pdf

On a remote Scottish island, three children make a shocking discovery: two bodies on the beach, a whale and a man. Fraser and Hayley see it as the start of an adventure, but sensitive Dunny is distraught. What happened on the water just isn't natural ... and only by watching the whales can it be put right.

Author : Wayne Mansfield
Publisher : JMS Books LLC
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781634863735

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The Sound of the Sea by Wayne Mansfield Pdf

Liam’s life could be better. He’s recovering from a divorce and a bitter custody battle, which he loses. He dearly loves his six-year-old son, Lucas, but seeing him every second weekend is never enough. His one salvation is the sea. When he’s sitting on the sand, watching the waves rolling in, he feels at peace, calmed and restored. One day, the waves are particularly high, and the sea particularly rough. He’s surprised to see someone swimming in such choppy seas. When Liam calls out to the man, asking if he needs help, the man simply waves back. Liam thinks he must be an idiot. Little does he know the person he sees is no man, which he discovers two days later. When they meet, Liam is both horrified and fascinated. His curiosity produces a strange attraction that changes their lives irreversibly forever.

Author : Philip Lambert,Royal British Columbia Museum
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 077480825X

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Sea Stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska, and Puget Sound by Philip Lambert,Royal British Columbia Museum Pdf

In this expanded and revised edition of Sea Stars of British Columbia, originally published in 1981, Philip Lambert describes 43 species and subspecies of sea stars in the coastal waters of northwestern North America. Lambert has expanded the geographic area to include the region from Glacier Bay in southeastern Alaska to the waters of Juan de Fuca Strait and Puget Sound of northern Washington. The sea star fauna of this region is the most diverse of all the temperate waters of the world. The great age of the Pacific Basin, and the varied habitats along this complex coastline, created by scouring glaciers and other natural forces, have stimulated the evolution of many new forms. Although he covers the coastal waters down to 200 metres below the surface, Lambert lists 26 more species that live below 200 metres and 14 others that occur just outside the region covered by this book.

Author : Research Analysis Group,United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Underwater acoustics
ISBN : UIUC:30112069422340

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Physics of Sound in the Sea by Research Analysis Group,United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee Pdf

Author : Haley Stewart
Publisher : Pauline Books and Media
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780819891365

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The Strange Sound by the Sea by Haley Stewart Pdf

On the shores of Lyme Regis, where G.K. Chesterton takes his holidays, a strange sound haunts the night.... The sleuthing mice of Saint Wulfhilda’s Abbey School are back for a seaside adventure in this third installment of The Sister Seraphina Mysteries! Join Sister Seraphina, Sister Alberta, Dominic, and Marigold as they investigate some mysterious happenings on their summer holiday—and learn unexpected lessons about the corporal works of mercy and the gift of imagination along the way.

Author : Parragon Books
Publisher : Parragon Books
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1646380118

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Swim, Splash, in the Sea! by Parragon Books Pdf