Terra Firma

Author : David Wardlaw Scott
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781473352094

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Terra Firma: the Earth Not a Planet, Proved from Scripture, Reason, and Fact by David Wardlaw Scott Pdf

In this compelling work on Flat Earth Theory, David Waldo Scott uses a collection of scripture, reason, and fact to argue against the idea that the earth is a planet. Since its publication in 1901, Terra Firma: the Earth Not a Planet, Proved From Scripture, Reason, and Fact has become one of the primary texts on the subject and is a wonderful insight into the philosophy of a bygone age. Focussing on the work made by ‘modern astronomers’, Scott draws on testimonies from travellers past, biblical scriptures, as well as other concepts from flat earth theorists to produce a wide-ranging collection of evidence to support his argument. Chapters in the book include: - The Adamic Creation - The Nebular Hypothesis: Examination of Three Alleged Proofs of the World’s Globularity - The World Circular, But Not Globular; Has Immovable Foundations, Therefore Not a Planet - The Horizontally of Land and Water Proved - The Sun, Moon, and Stars, According to Modern Astronomy - The Deluge – Biblical Account Despite being written over a decade ago, this work by David Waldo Scott continues to inspire modern generations. This edition by Read & Co. Books features an introduction to astronomy and is an interesting read for those interested in Flat Earth Theory and Christianity.

Author : François Joseph Pons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : NYPL:33433067329957

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A Voyage to the Eastern Part of Terra Firma, Or the Spanish Main, in South-America, During the Years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804 by François Joseph Pons Pdf

Author : Fadi Masoud,Brent Ryan
Publisher : Actar
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1948765381

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Terra-Sorta-Firma by Fadi Masoud,Brent Ryan Pdf

A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanizing and expanding coastline. For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds; "reclaiming" land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds. While these artificial coastlines are sites of tremendous real estate, civic, and infrastructural investments, they are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Terra-Sorta-Firma documents the global extent of reclaimed coastal lands, and provides a framework for comparison across varying geographies, cultures, and histories. It renders visible the ubiquity and precarity of urban coastal reclamation in an age of increased environmental and economic indeterminacy. It challenges designers, developers, policymakers, engineers, and urbanists to reconsider the design and construction of land itself, and to re-imagine this most fundamental of all infrastructures along a gradient of inundation.

Author : Barbara Hammond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786829627

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Terra Firma by Barbara Hammond Pdf

TERRA FIRMA is set in a not-so-distant Beckettian future–years after a conflict known as the Big War, in which a tiny kingdom wrestles with the problems of running a nation–and opposing notions of what makes a citizen, a country, and a civilization.

Author : James Powell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781416576785

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Mysteries of Terra Firma by James Powell Pdf

In Mysteries of Terra Firma, James Lawrence Powell tells an engrossing three-part tale of how we came to understand the ground on which we walk, and how that ground holds the key to the greatest secrets of deep space and time. Naming his profound stories Time, Drift, and Chance, he tells of the three twentieth-century revolutions in thought that created the amazing science of Earth -- and of all planets to the edge of the universe. The riddle that drove the first revolution is obvious and yet in 1904 remained impenetrable: how old is Earth? An encounter between the imperious Lord Kelvin and a New Zealand farm-boy-turned-physicist, Ernest Rutherford, set the stage for the solution and launched a golden century of geology. As a result, scientists learned that if the 4.5 billion years of geologic time were compressed into a single twenty-four-hour period, Homo sapiens would have arrived only in the last second. The geological Revolution of Time reveals how long the ground on which we walk has existed, and how briefly we have trod that ground. In the early twentieth century, German meteorologist and polar explorer Alfred Wegener proposed a counterintuitive, heretical theory: that terra firma is not so firm; instead of being fixed in place, continents drift. In 1926, petroleum geologists convened in New York City to discuss Wegener's radical idea, where it was met with outrage and skepticism: "If we are to believe Wegener's hypothesis we must forget everything which has been learned in the last seventy years and start all over again," one attendee said. Forty years later, a new generation did exactly that. The Revolution of Drift, the second part of Powell's narrative, showed us how the ground on which we walk moves. Throughout geologic time, meteorites have incessantly bombarded everything in the solar system. Far from serene and predictable, the planets are ruled by random violence on an unimaginable scale. Once a mountain-sized meteorite flew through space, struck the Earth, killed the dinosaurs and two-thirds of all species, and spared the small hamster-sized creature that happened to be our ancestor. The chance of that happening again is essentially zero. So, the final revolution in Powell's history of a golden century of geology is the Revolution of Chance. Simply put, this revolution in thought has transformed our understanding of how lucky we really are. If we can learn so much from considering no more than the rocks beneath our feet, what will we learn when we begin walking on other planets? Mysteries of Terra Firma is both charming in its storytelling and staggering in its implications. Discovering the ground on which we stand is a fascinating journey into our past -- and our future.

Author : David Wardlaw Scott
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1901-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Terra Firma by David Wardlaw Scott Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index

Author : Hugo Bernard
Publisher : Stephane Bergeron
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775236962

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Replika: Terra Firma by Hugo Bernard Pdf

TERRA FIRMA is the last book in the Replika Trilogy. In order to stop Henry from starting a new iteration of reality, Morgan attempts to backtrack to Terra Firma, the place where the bodies are flesh and bone. But when he discovers the unfamiliar realities of the past, he realizes that navigating the blurry line between reality and the simulation is much more challenging than he ever imagined. Meanwhile, Henry recruits t an unsuspecting teen to help him eliminate Morgan. Reunited in the Virt, Summer and Catch get messed up in a rising conflict. HUGO BERNARD wraps up the Replika series with a blockbuster of a story, bringing us to a conclusion even the Qintellect could not have predicted.

Author : François Joseph Pons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : NYPL:33433067329973

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A Voyage to the Eastern Part of Terra Firma by François Joseph Pons Pdf

Author : Guy Hands
Publisher : Random House
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781473598782

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The Dealmaker by Guy Hands Pdf

An inside account of the multi-billion pound world of private equity and a masterclass on the art of deal-making. The Dealmaker is a frank and honest account of how a severely dyslexic child who struggled at school went on to graduate from Oxford and become a serial entrepreneur. It describes Guy Hand's career in private equity, first at Nomura and then as head of his own company, Terra Firma. It looks in detail at the huge deals that Terra Firma has done over the years, involving everything from cinema chains and pubs to waste management, aircraft leasing and green energy. And it offers a brutally honest appraisal of the deal that almost bankrupted him - the acquisition of multinational music recording and publishing company EMI in 2007, just as a global financial crash loomed on the horizon. Above all, he gives the reader a real sense of what it's like inside the secretive world of private equity, describing in frank detail the pressures and rewards involved. Insightful and page-turning, The Dealmaker will prove inspirational and essential reading for all those who want to understand how huge business negotiations are done, and what makes one of private equity's biggest players tick.

Author : J. M. Ledgard
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780374714468

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Terra Firma Triptych by J. M. Ledgard Pdf

From the author of Submergence comes a digital-original triptych of essays that examine humanity in the modern age. Terra Firma Triptych begins in a wilderness in South Sudan. J. M. Ledgard is there in search of a still point, untouched by humankind--a goal complicated by the contingent of armed rangers accompanying him. Next, a trip through Rwanda--taking a borrowed car toward crocodile-infested lakes near the border with Burundi--a road trip that unexpectedly ends up at the site of the country's proposed future in the sky. And finally Ledgard takes us straight into a vision of that very future, of a continent poised to take advantage of current and near-future technological advances--a vision that feels Star Trek fanciful at first, then not just practical but necessary. As a novelist, Ledgard is celebrated for his ability to allow his imagination and ideas to fly wide and free even as he grounds his stories in contemporary political reality, earning simultaneous comparisons to both W. G. Sebald and John le Carré. As a journalist, he has covered East Africa for The Economist for more than a decade. In Terra Firma Triptych, Ledgard is able to summon the searching, soaring, poetic voice of the novelist and to latch it to the gritty vision of the reporter on the ground to show us a world in which connectivity has become paramount, in which isolation and uncharted landscapes verge on obsolete, and yet new frontiers still beckon. Each panel of the triptych informs the one before--each goads us forward even as it questions the acceleration. What is certain is that we are hurtling into tomorrow together, and our potential depends on the generosity of our imagination.

Author : Frederique Ait-Touati,Alexandra Arenes,Axelle Gregoire
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262046695

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Terra Forma by Frederique Ait-Touati,Alexandra Arenes,Axelle Gregoire Pdf

Charting the exploration of an unknown world—our own—with a new cartography of living things rather than space available for conquest or colonization. This book charts the exploration of an unknown world: our own. Just as Renaissance travelers set out to map the terra incognito of the New World, the mapmakers of Terra Forma have set out to rediscover the world that we think we know. They do this with a new kind of cartography that maps living things rather than space emptied of life and available to be conquered or colonized. The maps in Terra Forma lead us inward, not off into the distance, moving from the horizon line of conventional cartography to the thickness of the ground, from the global to the local. Each map in Terra Forma is based on a specific territory or territories, and each tool, or model, creates a new focal point through which the territory is redrawn. The maps are “living maps,” always under construction, spaces where stories and situations unfold. They may map the Earth’s underside rather than its surface, suggest turning the layers of the Earth inside out, link the biological physiology of living inhabitants and the physiology of the land, or trace a journey oriented not by the Euclidean space of GPS but by points of life. These speculative visualizations can constitute the foundation for a new kind of atlas.

Author : Stephen Platt
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781912460380

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Terra Firma by Stephen Platt Pdf

Author : Andrew Leyshon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191024740

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Reformatted by Andrew Leyshon Pdf

The impact of digital technology on the musical economy has been profound. From its production, reproduction, distribution, and consumption, the advent of MP3 and the use of the Internet as a medium of distribution has brought about a significant transformation in the way that music is made, how it is purchased and listened to, and, significantly, how the musical economy itself is able to reproduce itself. In the late 1990s the obscure practice of 'ripping' tracks from CDs through the use of compression programmes was transformed from the illegal hobby of a few thousand computer specialists to a practice available to millions of people worldwide through the development of peer-to-peer computer networks. This continues to have important implications for the viability of the musical economy. At the same time, the production of music has become more accessible and the role of key gatekeepers in the industry—such as record companies and recording studios— has been undermined, whilst the increased accessibility of music at reduced cost via the Internet has revalorised live performance, and now generates revenues higher than recorded music. The early 21st century has provided an extraordinary case study of an industry in flux, and one that throws light on the relationship between culture and economy, between passion and calculation. This book provides a theoretically grounded account of the implications of digital technology on the musical economy, and develops the concept of the musical network to understand the transformation of this economy over space and through time.

Author : Thomas Salmon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1739
Category : Geography
ISBN : NLS:V001489509

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Modern History by Thomas Salmon Pdf

Author : David Wardlaw Scott
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498021999

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Terra Firma 1901 by David Wardlaw Scott Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.