Author: Jeff Wallach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580801034
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Driven to Extremes" is a rollicking collection highlighting "extreme" golf from one of the game's freshest voices.
Driven to Extremes
Author: Jeff Wallach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580801034
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Driven to Extremes" is a rollicking collection highlighting "extreme" golf from one of the game's freshest voices.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580801034
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Driven to Extremes" is a rollicking collection highlighting "extreme" golf from one of the game's freshest voices.
The Leather Manufacturer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leather industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leather industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Running to Extremes
Author: Lisa Tamati
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743317646
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The ultra-marathon runner takes on some of the world's most extreme races in an inspiring look at the reality of a long-distance runner.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743317646
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The ultra-marathon runner takes on some of the world's most extreme races in an inspiring look at the reality of a long-distance runner.
Dynamics and Predictability of Large-Scale, High-Impact Weather and Climate Events
Author: Jianping Li
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316467740
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Based largely on an International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology (ICDM) workshop, this timely volume, written by leading researchers in the field, covers a range of important research issues related to high-impact weather and extreme climate events. Dynamical linkages between these extremes and various atmospheric and ocean phenomena are examined, including Atlantic Multidecadal, North Atlantic, and Madden–Julian Oscillations; Annular Modes; tropical cyclones; and Asian monsoons. This book also examines the predictability of high-impact weather and extreme climate events on multiple time scales. Highlighting recent research and new advances in the field, this book enhances understanding of dynamical and physical processes associated with these events to help managers and policy makers make informed decisions to manage risk and prevent or mitigate disasters. It also provides guidance on future research directions in atmospheric science, meteorology, climate science, and weather forecasting, for experts and young scientists.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316467740
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Based largely on an International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology (ICDM) workshop, this timely volume, written by leading researchers in the field, covers a range of important research issues related to high-impact weather and extreme climate events. Dynamical linkages between these extremes and various atmospheric and ocean phenomena are examined, including Atlantic Multidecadal, North Atlantic, and Madden–Julian Oscillations; Annular Modes; tropical cyclones; and Asian monsoons. This book also examines the predictability of high-impact weather and extreme climate events on multiple time scales. Highlighting recent research and new advances in the field, this book enhances understanding of dynamical and physical processes associated with these events to help managers and policy makers make informed decisions to manage risk and prevent or mitigate disasters. It also provides guidance on future research directions in atmospheric science, meteorology, climate science, and weather forecasting, for experts and young scientists.
Extreme Philosophy
Author: Stephen Hetherington
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003824862
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Philosophy’s value and power are greatly diminished when it operates within a too closely confined professional space. Extreme Philosophy: Bold Ideas and a Spirit of Progress serves as an antidote to the increasing narrowness of the field. It offers readers–including students and general readers–twenty internationally acclaimed philosophers who highlight and defend odd, extreme, or ‘mad’ ideas. The resulting conjectures are often provocative and bold, but always clear and accessible. Ideas discussed in the book, include: propaganda need not be irrational science need not be rational extremism need not be bad tax evasion need not be immoral anarchy need not be uninviting democracy need not remain as it generally is humans might have immaterial souls human minds might have all-but-unlimited powers knowing might be nothing beyond being correct space and time might not be ‘out there’ in reality value might be the foundational part of reality value might differ in an infinitely repeating reality reality is One reality is vague In brief, the volume pursues adventures in philosophy. This spirit of philosophical risk-taking and openness to new, ‘large’ ideas were vital to philosophy’s ancient origins, and they may also be fertile ground today for philosophical progress.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003824862
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Philosophy’s value and power are greatly diminished when it operates within a too closely confined professional space. Extreme Philosophy: Bold Ideas and a Spirit of Progress serves as an antidote to the increasing narrowness of the field. It offers readers–including students and general readers–twenty internationally acclaimed philosophers who highlight and defend odd, extreme, or ‘mad’ ideas. The resulting conjectures are often provocative and bold, but always clear and accessible. Ideas discussed in the book, include: propaganda need not be irrational science need not be rational extremism need not be bad tax evasion need not be immoral anarchy need not be uninviting democracy need not remain as it generally is humans might have immaterial souls human minds might have all-but-unlimited powers knowing might be nothing beyond being correct space and time might not be ‘out there’ in reality value might be the foundational part of reality value might differ in an infinitely repeating reality reality is One reality is vague In brief, the volume pursues adventures in philosophy. This spirit of philosophical risk-taking and openness to new, ‘large’ ideas were vital to philosophy’s ancient origins, and they may also be fertile ground today for philosophical progress.
Michael Schumacher
Author: James Allen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553812145
Category : Automobile racing drivers
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Michael Schumacher has established himself as the outstanding Grand Prix driver of the 1990s. He has dominated the sport like no other driver since Fangio in the 1950s.By the start of the 1997 season, experts and onlookers alike regarded him as the best around, untouchable on his day, able to win races against drivers in superior machinery, able to master changing conditions while the others get confused. He demonstrated the rare blend of exceptional ability and nerve that defines a champion in any sport. He seemed to be on the brink of winning the World Championship.Then, in a split second at Jerez, everything changed. In an incident which was to be replayed and analysed time and again throughout the world's media, Schumacher's Ferrari collided with Williams, putting arch rival Villeneuve out of the race. Schumacher shrugged off what he called a 'mistake'. The press thought otherwise. By the next day he was cast as a villain in the eyes of the world.Under pressure to act, the FIA punished Schumacher severely. He became the first man in the history of the sport to be removed from the championship results for unsportsmanlike driving.At the start of the 1998 season Schumacher found himself playing the role of outcast. Armed with a more competitive Ferrari and with a passionate tea behind him, was it still possible for him to confirm his unique talent, to win races and, possibly, to win the Championship outright?Backed with the full co-operation of Schumacher and his staff, ITV pits commentator James Allen will give the full inside story of Ferrari's 1998 season - a year that could well see the redemption of Michael Schumacher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553812145
Category : Automobile racing drivers
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Michael Schumacher has established himself as the outstanding Grand Prix driver of the 1990s. He has dominated the sport like no other driver since Fangio in the 1950s.By the start of the 1997 season, experts and onlookers alike regarded him as the best around, untouchable on his day, able to win races against drivers in superior machinery, able to master changing conditions while the others get confused. He demonstrated the rare blend of exceptional ability and nerve that defines a champion in any sport. He seemed to be on the brink of winning the World Championship.Then, in a split second at Jerez, everything changed. In an incident which was to be replayed and analysed time and again throughout the world's media, Schumacher's Ferrari collided with Williams, putting arch rival Villeneuve out of the race. Schumacher shrugged off what he called a 'mistake'. The press thought otherwise. By the next day he was cast as a villain in the eyes of the world.Under pressure to act, the FIA punished Schumacher severely. He became the first man in the history of the sport to be removed from the championship results for unsportsmanlike driving.At the start of the 1998 season Schumacher found himself playing the role of outcast. Armed with a more competitive Ferrari and with a passionate tea behind him, was it still possible for him to confirm his unique talent, to win races and, possibly, to win the Championship outright?Backed with the full co-operation of Schumacher and his staff, ITV pits commentator James Allen will give the full inside story of Ferrari's 1998 season - a year that could well see the redemption of Michael Schumacher.
Book of Extremes
Author: Ted G. Lewis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319069268
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
What makes the 21st century different from the 20th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social, and global black-swan events happening with increasing frequency and severity. Book of Extremes is a tour of the current reality as seen through the lens of complexity theory – the only theory capable of explaining why the Arab Spring happened and why it will happen again; why social networks in the virtual world behave like flashmobs in the physical world; why financial bubbles blow up in our faces and will grow and burst again; why the rich get richer and will continue to get richer regardless of governmental policies; why the future of economic wealth and national power lies in comparative advantage and global trade; why natural disasters will continue to get bigger and happen more frequently; and why the Internet – invented by the US -- is headed for a global monopoly controlled by a non-US corporation. It is also about the extreme innovations and heroic innovators yet to be discovered and recognized over the next 100 years.Complexity theory combines the predictable with the unpredictable. It assumes a nonlinear world of long-tailed distributions instead of the classical linear world of normal distributions. In the complex 21st century, almost nothing is linear or normal. Instead, the world is highly connected, conditional, nonlinear, fractal, and punctuated. Life in the 21st century is a long-tailed random walk – Levy walks -- through extreme events of unprecedented impact. It is an exciting time to be alive.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319069268
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
What makes the 21st century different from the 20th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social, and global black-swan events happening with increasing frequency and severity. Book of Extremes is a tour of the current reality as seen through the lens of complexity theory – the only theory capable of explaining why the Arab Spring happened and why it will happen again; why social networks in the virtual world behave like flashmobs in the physical world; why financial bubbles blow up in our faces and will grow and burst again; why the rich get richer and will continue to get richer regardless of governmental policies; why the future of economic wealth and national power lies in comparative advantage and global trade; why natural disasters will continue to get bigger and happen more frequently; and why the Internet – invented by the US -- is headed for a global monopoly controlled by a non-US corporation. It is also about the extreme innovations and heroic innovators yet to be discovered and recognized over the next 100 years.Complexity theory combines the predictable with the unpredictable. It assumes a nonlinear world of long-tailed distributions instead of the classical linear world of normal distributions. In the complex 21st century, almost nothing is linear or normal. Instead, the world is highly connected, conditional, nonlinear, fractal, and punctuated. Life in the 21st century is a long-tailed random walk – Levy walks -- through extreme events of unprecedented impact. It is an exciting time to be alive.
The Clay-worker
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brick trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1546
Book Description
"The log of the clay worker": v. 100, p. 188-193.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brick trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1546
Book Description
"The log of the clay worker": v. 100, p. 188-193.
Rome and America
Author: Dean Hammer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009249592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Rome and America provides a timely exploration of the Roman and American founding myths in the cultural imagination. Defying the usual ideological categories, Dean Hammer argues for the exceptional nature of the myths as a journey of Strangers, but also traces the tensions created by the myths in attempts to answer the question of who We are. The wide-ranging chapters reassess both Roman antecedents and American expressions of the myth in some unexpected places: early American travelogues, westerns, bare-knuckle boxing, early American theater, government documents detailing Native American policy, and the writings of Noah Webster, W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Charles Eastman. This innovative volume culminates in an interpretation of the current crisis of democracy as a reversion of the community back to Strangers, with suggestions of how the myth can recast a much-needed discussion of identity and belonging.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009249592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Rome and America provides a timely exploration of the Roman and American founding myths in the cultural imagination. Defying the usual ideological categories, Dean Hammer argues for the exceptional nature of the myths as a journey of Strangers, but also traces the tensions created by the myths in attempts to answer the question of who We are. The wide-ranging chapters reassess both Roman antecedents and American expressions of the myth in some unexpected places: early American travelogues, westerns, bare-knuckle boxing, early American theater, government documents detailing Native American policy, and the writings of Noah Webster, W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Charles Eastman. This innovative volume culminates in an interpretation of the current crisis of democracy as a reversion of the community back to Strangers, with suggestions of how the myth can recast a much-needed discussion of identity and belonging.
The Middle Way
Author: Lou Marinoff
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402743443
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The human world is wobbly wildly off balance. Everywhere you look -- from the halls of Congress to the deserts of the Middle East -- institutions and societies are riven by discord. To his crisis-laden situation -- one that globalization cannot correct by economic means alone -- philosopher Lou Marinoff brings a much-needed antidote to extremism, offfering hope and guidance to everyone who feels powerless, frustrated, or frightened in a world that flirts daily with disaster. Drawing inspiration from three of humankind's greatest philosophers -- Aristotle, Buddha, and Confucius -- Marinoff maps a route from chaos to order, a path whose signposts can be read in the perennial wisdom of these "ABCs." Marinoff offers us a way to travel into a less violent, more cooperative, and most fulfilling future: "The Middle Way". -- From publisher's description.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402743443
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The human world is wobbly wildly off balance. Everywhere you look -- from the halls of Congress to the deserts of the Middle East -- institutions and societies are riven by discord. To his crisis-laden situation -- one that globalization cannot correct by economic means alone -- philosopher Lou Marinoff brings a much-needed antidote to extremism, offfering hope and guidance to everyone who feels powerless, frustrated, or frightened in a world that flirts daily with disaster. Drawing inspiration from three of humankind's greatest philosophers -- Aristotle, Buddha, and Confucius -- Marinoff maps a route from chaos to order, a path whose signposts can be read in the perennial wisdom of these "ABCs." Marinoff offers us a way to travel into a less violent, more cooperative, and most fulfilling future: "The Middle Way". -- From publisher's description.