Author: Alan E. Leviton
Publisher:
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Category : San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The California Academy of Sciences, Grove Karl Gilbert, and Photographs of the 1906 Earthquake, Mostly from the Archives of the Academy
Author: Alan E. Leviton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Collecting Evolution
Author: Matthew J. James
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199354596
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The story of the 1905-1906 voyage by the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, during which over 78,000 species were collected.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199354596
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The story of the 1905-1906 voyage by the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, during which over 78,000 species were collected.
A Wilderness of Rocks
Author: Melanie Schleeter McCalmont
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460271955
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Discover the University of Wisconsin collection of historic relief models, or three-dimensional maps. The University of Wisconsin relief models were crafted from 1875-1943 at the dawn of the analytics age. Relief models are an extremely effective visualization tool. They help us intuitively understand big data sets and to create spatial awareness--the knowledge of relationships between objects, places and ourselves. Each relief model is shown in beautiful color photography. Learn their fascinating stories of expeditions and earthquakes, mountains and museums, bankruptcy and battlefields, governments and glaciers....
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460271955
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Discover the University of Wisconsin collection of historic relief models, or three-dimensional maps. The University of Wisconsin relief models were crafted from 1875-1943 at the dawn of the analytics age. Relief models are an extremely effective visualization tool. They help us intuitively understand big data sets and to create spatial awareness--the knowledge of relationships between objects, places and ourselves. Each relief model is shown in beautiful color photography. Learn their fascinating stories of expeditions and earthquakes, mountains and museums, bankruptcy and battlefields, governments and glaciers....
Visual Plague
Author: Christos Lynteris
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262544229
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.” In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894–1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with exposing the patient’s body or medical examinations and operations. Instead, it played a key role in reconceptualizing infectious diseases by visualizing the “pandemic” as a new concept and structure of experience—one that frames and responds to the smallest local outbreak of an infectious disease as an event of global importance and consequence. As the third plague pandemic struck more and more countries, the international circulation of plague photographs in the press generated an unprecedented spectacle of imminent global threat. Nothing contributed to this sense of global interconnectedness, anticipation, and fear more than photography. Exploring the impact of epidemic photography at the time of its emergence, Lynteris highlights its entanglement with colonial politics, epistemologies, and aesthetics, as well as with major shifts in epidemiological thinking and public health practice. He explores the characteristics, uses, and impact of epidemic photography and how it differs from the general corpus of medical photography. The new photography was used not simply to visualize or illustrate a pandemic, but to articulate, respond to, and unsettle key questions of epidemiology and epidemic control, as well as to foster the notion of the “pandemic,” which continues to affect our lives today.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262544229
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.” In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894–1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with exposing the patient’s body or medical examinations and operations. Instead, it played a key role in reconceptualizing infectious diseases by visualizing the “pandemic” as a new concept and structure of experience—one that frames and responds to the smallest local outbreak of an infectious disease as an event of global importance and consequence. As the third plague pandemic struck more and more countries, the international circulation of plague photographs in the press generated an unprecedented spectacle of imminent global threat. Nothing contributed to this sense of global interconnectedness, anticipation, and fear more than photography. Exploring the impact of epidemic photography at the time of its emergence, Lynteris highlights its entanglement with colonial politics, epistemologies, and aesthetics, as well as with major shifts in epidemiological thinking and public health practice. He explores the characteristics, uses, and impact of epidemic photography and how it differs from the general corpus of medical photography. The new photography was used not simply to visualize or illustrate a pandemic, but to articulate, respond to, and unsettle key questions of epidemiology and epidemic control, as well as to foster the notion of the “pandemic,” which continues to affect our lives today.
The Harvestman Family Phalangodidae. 6
Author: Darrell Ubick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acanthaceae
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acanthaceae
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Centennial History of the Geological Society of Washington, 1893-1993
Author: Geological Society of Washington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region
Author: Doris Sloan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520241266
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"You can't really know the place where you live until you know the shapes and origins of the land around you. To feel truly at home in the Bay Area, read Doris Sloan's intriguing stories of this region's spectacular, quirky landscapes."—Hal Gilliam, author of Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region "This is a fascinating look at some of the world's most complex and engaging geology. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in an understanding of the beautiful landscape and dynamic geology of the Bay Area."—Mel Erskine, geological consultant "This accessible summary of San Francisco Bay Area geology is particularly timely. We are living in an age where we must deal with our impact on our environment and the impact of the environment on us. Earthquake hazards, and to a lesser extent landslide hazards, are well known, but the public also needs to be aware of other important engineering and environmental impacts and geologic resources. This book will allow Bay Area residents to make more intelligent decisions about the geological issues affecting their lives."—John Wakabayashi, geological consultant
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520241266
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"You can't really know the place where you live until you know the shapes and origins of the land around you. To feel truly at home in the Bay Area, read Doris Sloan's intriguing stories of this region's spectacular, quirky landscapes."—Hal Gilliam, author of Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region "This is a fascinating look at some of the world's most complex and engaging geology. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in an understanding of the beautiful landscape and dynamic geology of the Bay Area."—Mel Erskine, geological consultant "This accessible summary of San Francisco Bay Area geology is particularly timely. We are living in an age where we must deal with our impact on our environment and the impact of the environment on us. Earthquake hazards, and to a lesser extent landslide hazards, are well known, but the public also needs to be aware of other important engineering and environmental impacts and geologic resources. This book will allow Bay Area residents to make more intelligent decisions about the geological issues affecting their lives."—John Wakabayashi, geological consultant
Earth Sciences History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
The California Earthquake of 1906
Author: David Starr Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906
Author: Andrew Cowper Lawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description