Tracks And Shadows

Author : Harry W. Greene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520292659

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Tracks and Shadows by Harry W. Greene Pdf

Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature, delves into the poetry of field biology, showing how nature eases our existential quandaries. More than a memoir, the book is about the wonder of snakes, the beauty of studying and understanding natural history, and the importance of sharing the love of nature with humanity. Greene begins with his youthful curiosity about the natural world and moves to his stints as a mortician's assistant, ambulance driver, and army medic. In detailing his academic career, he describes how his work led him to believe that nature’s most profound lessons lurk in hard-won details. He discusses the nuts and bolts of field research and teaching, contrasts the emotional impact of hot dry habitats with hot wet ones, imparts the basics of snake biology, and introduces the great explorers Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. He reflects on friendship and happiness, tackles notions like anthropomorphism and wilderness, and argues that organisms remain the core of biology, science plays key roles in conservation, and natural history offers an enlightened form of contentment.

Author : Douglas Spotted Eagle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136063909

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Vegas 5 Editing Workshop by Douglas Spotted Eagle Pdf

Nonlinear (NLE), or digital, editing software permits the manipulation of digitized video. Editors can cut, splice, create transitions, and do much more than was ever possible with conventional film editing techniques. In Vegas Editing Workshop 5, novice to intermediate Vegas users, including professional and hobbyist filmmakers, learn how to master the craft of editing with the latest version of Vegas, an NLE software application for the PC platform. This editing workshop, complete with a DVD Architect tool set, delivers firsthand guidance on the art and technique of editing using tutorial lessons that cover every essential operation. Experienced editors and novices alike benefit from real-world examples of how to work more efficiently. The book also covers the application's exceptional audio features.

Author : H. Bedford-Jones
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:4064066429614

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The Ship of Shadows by H. Bedford-Jones Pdf

This is an adventure novel that revolves around Eric Venable. Excerpt: Were this to be the tale, simply, of how Eric Venable fell and rose again from the depths, much might be said of his voyage to Tientsin River. It would bear much dwelling upon; it would in itself make, from the Horatio-Algerian viewpoint, an excellent moral tale. But it would delete all about Shinski and Marie, and the Shirvan diamond, and the burlap, -wrapped parcel; it would have to touch upon, Mrs. Ivanoff's pistol with discretion; and of course, it could say little about the poet Gerin's company of sh, shadows, or the devil Boris Kryalpin, or the ending of the Kum Chao.

Author : Cornelia Funke
Publisher : Pushkin Children's Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781782693307

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Reckless IV: The Silver Tracks by Cornelia Funke Pdf

The thrilling fourth instalment in Cornelia Funke's internationally bestselling Reckless series The fourth adventure through the Mirror leads to the Far East, where Jacob and Fox finally track down Will, who is travelling with rival hunter Nerron. In spite of his misgivings, Jacob agrees to go with them to the Island of the Foxes, in quest of another magical Mirror. But their search quickly leads them into more peril, and as Jacob seeks security for himself and Fox, he is reminded of a disturbing promise he once made that now threatens everything. Full of fairy tales and legends, old friends and new enemies, The Silver Tracks is the long-awaited fourth volume in the thrilling Reckless series.

Author : Edward Ernest Russell Tratman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Railroad tracks
ISBN : UVA:X001029878

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Railway Track and Track Work by Edward Ernest Russell Tratman Pdf

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122869139

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Training Manual [2000-]. by United States. War Department Pdf

Author : Harold Martinek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Image analysis
ISBN : MINN:31951D034257959

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Error Keys as Reference Aids in Image Interpretation by Harold Martinek Pdf

The Surveillance Systems Project is directed toward increasing knowledge related to the techniques and procedures for interpreting aerial imagery and reducing extracted information to its most usable form. One Task, specifically concerned with image interpretation displays, conducts research to develop improved reference materials to assist image interpreters in locating and correctly identifying objects of military significance in aerial photographs. Specially developed reference keys are tested in controlled studies with interpreter output measures as criteria. The present publication describes one of the first such studies. An 'error key', developed through analysis of interpreter errors and designed to help interpreters avoid common misidentifications, and a 'rights key' similar to keys currently used by image interpreters, were provided to accompany two sets of aerial imagery. Two performance measures based on this imagery were administered to three matched groups of interpreter trainees. One group used the 'error key', another group used the 'rights key', and a control group used no reference key. Performance data for the three groups--correct identifications, errors, and interpreters' confidence in their identifications--were analyzed. The 'error keys' resulted in substantial decrease in errors and increase in accuracy, but no difference in number of correct identifications. They also affected the differential between interpreters' confidence in right and wrong identifications, increasing the amount of difference in one performance measure, and decreasing the amount in the other. The 'rights key' did not have a significant effect on any aspect of performance measured.

Author : Ken Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985048492

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Tracks in Shadow by Ken Hughes Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$C196186

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Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Douglas Spotted Eagle
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136059582

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Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop by Douglas Spotted Eagle Pdf

Master the Vegas Pro 8 toolset, including its industry-leading HD and audio capabilities. This comprehensive guide delivers the nuts and bolts of the essential tasks, from installing the application to outputting, together with practical editing techniques and real-world examples for working more efficiently. Packed with all the necessary materials, including video footage, sequences, and detailed instructions, this book and DVD combo gives you a working knowledge of Vegas Pro 8. Better expert advice simply can't be found. Key features include: * Capturing video including HD, HDV, XDCAM, and AVCHD * Using editing tools, transitions, filters, and third-party plug-ins * Multicam production and editing * Color correction, titling and compositing * Recording and editing audio; using audio plug-ins * Creating and using Media Manager databases * Web video workflow * 24p HDCAM/DVCAM workflow for the independent filmmaker

Author : Linda O Keeffe,Isabel Nogueira
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000620474

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The Body in Sound, Music and Performance by Linda O Keeffe,Isabel Nogueira Pdf

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on developments beyond the western world, including movements growing across Latin America. Within the book, the body is situated as both the site and centre for knowledge making and creative production. Chapters explore how insightful theoretical analysis, new methods, innovative practises, and sometimes within the socio-cultural conditions of racism, sexism and classicism, the body can rise above, reshape and deconstruct understood ideas about performance practices, composition, and listening/sensing. This book will be of interest to both practitioners and researchers in the fields of sonic arts, sound design, music, acoustics and performance.

Author : Michael A. Stackpole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476702971

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World of Warcraft: Vol'jin: Shadows of the Horde by Michael A. Stackpole Pdf

Traces the aftermath of Cataclysm-induced disasters through Azeroth, where an all-out war erupts between the Horde and Alliance and threatens to consume both factions.

Author : Lynn Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Death
ISBN : 0590057707

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Shadows by Lynn Hall Pdf

Several days following her mother's death Audrey is attracted to a rare blue merle collie and drawn into the mystery of his background.

Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520239776

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Shadows of War by Carolyn Nordstrom Pdf

Annotation This book captures the human face of the frontlines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of contemporary war, power, and international profiteering in the 21st century.

Author : Philip Caputo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493012275

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IN THE SHADOWS OF THE MORNING: ESSAYS ON by Philip Caputo Pdf

Philip Caputo's passion for travel and adventure was inspired by the works of Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Herman Melville, and through the years this passion led to a rugged writer's life, filled with hair-raising experiences in the jungles of Vietnam, the rubble of Beirut, and the savannas of Africa. In the Shadows of the Morning collects Caputo's essays for the first time, each imbued with the powerful and memorable writing for which he has become so well known. In "The Ahab Complex," Caputo recalls a life-and-death struggle with a majestic giant blue marlin off the coast of Florida whose quarter-ton body "lit up as if a gigantic light had flashed in the water." He recounts his travels in Kenya's largest national park among the only lions to have a natural tendency to stalk and eat human beings, and where the accounts of their gruesome escapades invaded his dreams. In the title piece, he reflects on a harrowing trip down the Alaskan river that nearly claimed his son's life, nature's indifference to human loss, and an evocative account of letting go. In the Shadows of the Morning is a fascinating journey through a lifetime of profound experiences. Adventurers and lovers of great writing will welcome this collection of finely crafted essays by one of America's most gifted writers.