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Author : Katharine Anderson,Helen M. Rozwadowski
Publisher : Science History Publications/USA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 088135144X
Author : Sean Rodman
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459805538
Will and Big O are brothers, on the run and trying to stay together. Breaking into cars for small change, they stumble across a kidnap victim and end up in a fight for their lives.
Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119558448
Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,Kenneth T. Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Hydrographic surveying
ISBN : WISC:89078550357
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556032757007
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
ISBN : UIUC:30112040414259
Author : D. Phil Turnipseed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Erosion
ISBN : UOM:39015037739664
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Ground Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Transportation
ISBN : LOC:00078986542
Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112007336552
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Beach erosion
ISBN : UCSD:31822033874561
Author : Hali Felt
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466847460
Her maps of the ocean floor have been called "one of the most remarkable achievements in modern cartography", yet no one knows her name. Soundings is the story of the enigmatic, unknown woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. Before Marie Tharp, geologist and gifted draftsperson, the whole world, including most of the scientific community, thought the ocean floor was a vast expanse of nothingness. In 1948, at age 28, Marie walked into the newly formed geophysical lab at Columbia University and practically demanded a job. The scientists at the lab were all male; the women who worked there were relegated to secretary or assistant. Through sheer willpower and obstinacy, Marie was given the job of interpreting the soundings (records of sonar pings measuring the ocean's depths) brought back from the ocean-going expeditions of her male colleagues. The marriage of artistry and science behind her analysis of this dry data gave birth to a major work: the first comprehensive map of the ocean floor, which laid the groundwork for proving the then-controversial theory of continental drift. When combined, Marie's scientific knowledge, her eye for detail and her skill as an artist revealed not a vast empty plane, but an entire world of mountains and volcanoes, ridges and rifts, and a gateway to the past that allowed scientists the means to imagine how the continents and the oceans had been created over time. Just as Marie dedicated more than twenty years of her professional life to what became the Lamont Geological Observatory, engaged in the task of mapping every ocean on Earth, she dedicated her personal life to her great friendship with her co-worker, Bruce Heezen. Partners in work and in many ways, partners in life, Marie and Bruce were devoted to one another as they rose to greater and greater prominence in the scientific community, only to be envied and finally dismissed by their beloved institute. They went on together, refining and perfecting their work and contributing not only to humanity's vision of the ocean floor, but to the way subsequent generations would view the Earth as a whole. With an imagination as intuitive as Marie's, brilliant young writer Hali Felt brings to vivid life the story of the pioneering scientist whose work became the basis for the work of others scientists for generations to come.
Author : Michael Gaudio
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452960906
A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images Colonial depictions of the North and South American landscape and its indigenous inhabitants fundamentally transformed the European imagination—but how did those images reach Europe, and how did they make their impact? In Sound, Image, Silence, noted art historian Michael Gaudio provides a groundbreaking examination of the colonial Americas by exploring the special role that aural imagination played in visible representations of the New World. Considering a diverse body of images that cover four hundred years of Atlantic history, Sound, Image, Silence addresses an important need within art history: to give hearing its due as a sense that can inform our understanding of images. Gaudio locates the noise of the pagan dance, the discord of battle, the din of revivalist religion, and the sublime sounds of nature in the Americas, such as lightning, thunder, and the waterfall. He invites readers to listen to visual media that seem deceptively couched in silence, offering bold new ideas on how art historians can engage with sound in inherently “mute” media. Sound, Image, Silence includes readings of Brazilian landscapes by the Dutch painter Frans Post, a London portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison’s early Kinetoscope film Sioux Ghost Dance, and the work of Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting. It masterfully fuses a diversity of work across vast social, cultural, and spatial distances, giving us both a new way of understanding sound in art and a powerful new vision of the New World.
Author : American Geophysical Union
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Geophysics
ISBN : UOM:39015035489577
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2980440
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Harbors
ISBN : UCAL:B3077190