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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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The American Journal of Science and Arts
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Catalogue of the Scientific Books in the Library
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain).
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Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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Catalogue of the Scientific Books in the Library of the Royal Society
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain). Library
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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Professional Papers of the Corps of R. Engineers
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet
Author: David Toomey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393345297
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Fifty years after Isaac's Storm, a riveting story of the first Hurricane Hunters, and the one crew who paid the ultimate price. "In a virtual age when tempests are monitored by global positioning and The Weather Channel, Stormchasers reminds us that our first understanding of hurricanes was directly built on the risks and sacrifices of living, breathing heroes," writes Hampton Sides (author of Ghost Soldiers). In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantánamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet swirling in the Caribbean: a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. In the wake of World War II, the Air Force and the Navy had discovered a new civilian arena where daring pilots could test their courage and skill. These Hurricane Hunters flew into raging storms to gauge their strength and predict their paths. Without computer, global positioning, or satellite support, they relied on rudimentary radar systems to locate the hurricane's eye and estimated the drift of their aircraft by looking at windblown waves below. Drawing from Navy documents and interviews with members of the squadron and relatives of the crew, Stormchasers reconstructs the ill-fated mission of Windham's crew from preflight checks to the chilling moment of their final transmission.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393345297
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Fifty years after Isaac's Storm, a riveting story of the first Hurricane Hunters, and the one crew who paid the ultimate price. "In a virtual age when tempests are monitored by global positioning and The Weather Channel, Stormchasers reminds us that our first understanding of hurricanes was directly built on the risks and sacrifices of living, breathing heroes," writes Hampton Sides (author of Ghost Soldiers). In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantánamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet swirling in the Caribbean: a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. In the wake of World War II, the Air Force and the Navy had discovered a new civilian arena where daring pilots could test their courage and skill. These Hurricane Hunters flew into raging storms to gauge their strength and predict their paths. Without computer, global positioning, or satellite support, they relied on rudimentary radar systems to locate the hurricane's eye and estimated the drift of their aircraft by looking at windblown waves below. Drawing from Navy documents and interviews with members of the squadron and relatives of the crew, Stormchasers reconstructs the ill-fated mission of Windham's crew from preflight checks to the chilling moment of their final transmission.
Narrative Science
Author: Mary S. Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009008781
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrative in science. Motivated and coordinated by the Narrative Science project, funded by the European Research Council, this volume offers integrated and insightful essays examining cases that run the gamut from geology to psychology, chemistry, physics, botany, mathematics, epidemiology, and biological engineering. Taking in shipwrecks, human evolution, military intelligence, and mass extinctions, this landmark study revises our understanding of what science is, and the roles of narrative in scientists' work. This title is also available as Open Access.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009008781
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrative in science. Motivated and coordinated by the Narrative Science project, funded by the European Research Council, this volume offers integrated and insightful essays examining cases that run the gamut from geology to psychology, chemistry, physics, botany, mathematics, epidemiology, and biological engineering. Taking in shipwrecks, human evolution, military intelligence, and mass extinctions, this landmark study revises our understanding of what science is, and the roles of narrative in scientists' work. This title is also available as Open Access.
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
Author: Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631495283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Washington Post • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 Finalist • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Kirkus Reviews • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 Library Journal • Best Science & Technology Books of 2020 Booklist • 10 Top Sci-Tech Books of 2020 New York Times Book Review • Editor's Choice With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. In this “compelling” chronicle (New York Times Book Review), Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America through its battles with hurricanes.Weaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, from the nameless storms that threatened the New World voyages to our own era of global warming and megastorms. Along the way, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes, and forces us to reckon with the reality that future storms will likely be worse, unless we reimagine our relationship with the planet.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631495283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Washington Post • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 Finalist • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Kirkus Reviews • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 Library Journal • Best Science & Technology Books of 2020 Booklist • 10 Top Sci-Tech Books of 2020 New York Times Book Review • Editor's Choice With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. In this “compelling” chronicle (New York Times Book Review), Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America through its battles with hurricanes.Weaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, from the nameless storms that threatened the New World voyages to our own era of global warming and megastorms. Along the way, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes, and forces us to reckon with the reality that future storms will likely be worse, unless we reimagine our relationship with the planet.
Catalogue of the Library of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, June 30, 1860
Author: United States Naval Academy. Library
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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A Directory for the North Atlantic Ocean, Comprising Instructions, General and Particular, for Its Navigation
Author: Alexander George Findlay
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Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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