The Tropical Turn

Author : Sureshkumar Muthukumaran
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : 9780520390843

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This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels the breathtaking anthropogenic peregrinations of these familiar crops from their homelands in tropical and subtropical Asia to the Middle East and the Mediterranean, showing the significant impact South Asia had on the ecologies, dietary habits, and cultural identities of peoples across the ancient world. In the process, Sureshkumar Muthukumaran offers a fresh narrative history of human connectivity across Afro-Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the late centuries BCE.

Author : Sureshkumar Muthukumaran
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : 9780520390836

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The Tropical Turn by Sureshkumar Muthukumaran Pdf

This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels the breathtaking anthropogenic peregrinations of these familiar crops from their homelands in tropical and subtropical Asia to the Middle East and the Mediterranean, showing the significant impact South Asia had on the ecologies, dietary habits, and cultural identities of peoples across the ancient world. In the process, Sureshkumar Muthukumaran offers a fresh narrative history of human connectivity across Afro-Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the late centuries BCE.

Author : James Rodger Fleming
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198862734

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First Woman: Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere by James Rodger Fleming Pdf

Clouds are the spark plugs in the heat engine of the tropical atmosphere, and heat from the tropics drives the planet's general circulation. Atmospheric scientists didn't know this in the 1950s, but Joanne Simpson, the first American woman to earn a Ph.D. in meteorology, did. Most histories of meteorology focus on polar and temperate regions and the accomplishments of male scientists. They marginalize or erase completely the contributions of female researchers. Joanne's work on the tropical atmosphere did not fit this pattern. Joanne had a lifelong passion for clouds and severe storms. She flew into and above them, photographed them, modeled them, attempted to modify them, and studied them from all angles. She held two university professorships, married three times, had two lovers (one secret), mentored a generation of meteorologists, and blazed a trail for other women to follow. This book is about Joanne's personal and professional life, her career prospects as a woman in science, and her relationship to the tropical atmosphere. These multifaceted and interacting textual streams constitute a braided narrative and form a complex dynamic system that displays surprising emergent properties. Is Joanne Simpson best remembered as a pioneer woman scientist or the best tropical scientist of her generation? She was both, with the emphasis on best scientist.

Author : Stewart Bell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781443427111

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Bayou Of Pigs by Stewart Bell Pdf

A remarkable tale of greed, treachery and deceit in one of the most outlandish criminal stunts ever conceived: the theft of a nation In 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from Canada and the United States set off on a preposterous mission: invade an impoverished Caribbean country, overthrow its government in a coup d'etat, install a puppet prime minister and transform the island into a crooks’ paradise. Their leader was a Texas soldier of fortune named Mike Perdue. His lieutenant was a Canadian Nazi named Wolfgang Droege. Their destination: Dominica. For two years, they recruited fighting men, wooed investors, stockpiled weapons and forged links with the mob, leftist revolutionaries and militant Rastafarians. They called their invasion Operation Red Dog, and they were going to make millions. All that stood in their way were two federal agents from New Orleans on the biggest case of their lives. Set in the Caribbean, Canada and the American South at the end of the Cold War, and based on hundreds of pages of declassified U.S. government documents, as well as exclusive interviews with those involved, Bayou of Pigs tells the true story of Canadian and American men who tried to steal a tropical paradise.

Author : Weihong Qian,Xiaolong Shan,Haoyuan Liang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814525206

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Typhoon Turning Atlas by Weihong Qian,Xiaolong Shan,Haoyuan Liang Pdf

Typhoons with unusual tracks are difficult to forecast with respect to whether, when, and where typhoon turning occurs based on traditional synoptic charts and numerical weather forecast model products. This typhoon turning atlas provides an additional tool to deal with the typhoon turning question by using a physical decomposition method together with thousands of plots. In particular, this atlas provides important information of 322 historical typhoons that occurred in the past three decades and demonstrates how they were influenced respectively. Contents:Variable DecompositionTyphoons Without Obvious Turning MotionsIntensity Peaked in the South China SeaIntensity Peaked in the PhilippinesIntensity Peaked in the Taiwan AreaIntensity Peaked in the East Seas of ChinaIntensity Peaked in the Pacific Readership: Graduates, researchers, and meteorologists who are interested in typhoons and forecasting, earth science, meteorology, and complex systems. Keywords:Typhoon Turning;Atlas;Physical Decomposition;Tropical CycloneKey Features:This atlas provides typhoon tracking, covers mathematical decomposition, and provides spherical-harmonic expansionClassification of the positions from tropical disturbance to a typhoon's peak intensity as well as an explanation of the diagnostic method of typhoon motions in this atlas will be surely useful as a good reference for researchers and forecasters in the practice of typhoon prediction

Author : Megan Raby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781469635613

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American Tropics by Megan Raby Pdf

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American "tropical biologists" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity. Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.–Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.

Author : Jeffrey D. Needell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521333740

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A Tropical Belle Epoque by Jeffrey D. Needell Pdf

This book, originally published in 1987, is a socio-cultural analysis of a tropical belle epoque: Rio de Janeiro between 1898 and 1914. It relates how the city's elite evolved from the semi-rural, slave-owning patriarchy of the coffee-port seat of a monarchy into an urbane, professional, rentier upper crust dominating the centre of a 'modernising' oligarchical republic. It explores such varied topics as architecture, literature, prostitution, urban reform, the family, secondary schools, and the salon. It evokes a milieu increasingly marked by Europe, demonstrating how French and English culture permeated the lives of elite members who adapted it to their needs and perspectives as a dominant stratum of relatively recent and varied origin. This exploration of cultural 'dependency' in a unique, cosmopolitan, fin-de-siecle urban culture will also interest those concerned with the broader questions of culture and colonialism during the high tide of European imperialism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HN52Q7

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The Century Dictionary Supplement by Anonim Pdf

Author : Georg Hartwig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Botany
ISBN : OSU:32435050452242

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Wonders of the Tropical Forests by Georg Hartwig Pdf

Author : Chris Thorogood
Publisher : Paperscapes
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 023300601X

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The Tropical Hothouse (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) by Chris Thorogood Pdf

The Tropical Hothouse features press-out shapes, enabling you to transform the book into a work of art, creating a landscape of over 50 rare and exotic hothouse plants.

Author : Adrian Forsyth,Ken Miyata
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781439144749

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Tropical Nature by Adrian Forsyth,Ken Miyata Pdf

Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.

Author : Otis Warren Barrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:$B254128

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The Tropical Crops by Otis Warren Barrett Pdf

Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Atlantic Ocean
ISBN : HARVARD:HWF6YN

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Notes on the Northern Atlantic for the Use of Travellers by Richard Brown Pdf

Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : UCSC:32106015214593

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Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : NYPL:33433000878250

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Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Pdf