Wind Over Water
Title | Wind Over Water PDF eBook |
Author | David W. Haines |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2012-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0857457411 |
Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraordinary variation in the migrants’ origins and trajectories. These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in Osaka to African entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, from Vietnamese women seeking husbands across the Chinese border to Pakistani Muslim men marrying women in Japan, from short-term business travelers in China to long-term tourists from Japan who ultimately decide to retire overseas. Illuminating the ways in which an Asian-based analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration patterns, the contributors provide important new theoretical insights for a broader understanding of global migration, and innovative methodological approaches to the spatial and temporal complexity of human migration.
Between Wind and Water
Title | Between Wind and Water PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Warner Brace |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Collection of experiences, descriptions, and recollections of life along and near the New England coast.
Wind, Water And Fire: The Other Renewable Energy Resources
Title | Wind, Water And Fire: The Other Renewable Energy Resources PDF eBook |
Author | Gerard M Crawley |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2021-02-25 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9811225931 |
This volume focuses on a few renewable energy sources, viz. wind energy plus energy from water movement and natural temperature differences that in principle could provide enormous energy resources. Energy from wind has been a rapidly growing source of energy as wind turbines have grown in size and especially as wind turbines have moved offshore. Hydroelectric dams have continued to be used as energy sources particularly in developing countries. Other energy sources using water, including waves and tidal sources, are also discussed in this volume. Finally, the volume discusses differences between deep and surface ocean temperatures plus the extraction of energy from the earth's extremely large energy resource of magma deep below the surface. These latter two energy resources in particular require further development and the current book describes the latest advances coupled with pointing possible paths forward.
Wind and Water
Title | Wind and Water PDF eBook |
Author | Carole J. Hyder |
Publisher | Hyder Enterprises Incorporated |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | House & Home |
ISBN | 9780966443400 |
"Wind and Water" presents Feng Shui in a simple, easy-to-read format, offering suggestions that can be implemented on a daily basis or per focus issues.
The Natural Navigator
Title | The Natural Navigator PDF eBook |
Author | Tristan Gooley |
Publisher | The Experiment |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2012-06-05 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1615191550 |
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.
Children of the Wind and Water
Title | Children of the Wind and Water PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Krensky |
Publisher | Cartwheel Books |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Children's stories |
ISBN | 9780590469630 |
Depicts traditional lifestyles of children in five different tribes of North American Indians through vignettes set in a time almost two hundred years ago. The tribes are the Muskogee, Dakota, Huron, Tlingit, and Nootka.
Wind Strategy
Title | Wind Strategy PDF eBook |
Author | David Houghton |
Publisher | Fernhurst Books Limited |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2016-09-13 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1909911852 |
The wind powers everything a sailor does and this book will help you to understand it. As a result you will be more prepared for your race, able to anticipate changes in the wind better and know what to do when they come. The first edition of this book was published in 1986, and it has been the go-to wind book for dinghy champions ever since. This new-look fourth edition is fully updated for modern forecasting and analyses a revised set of popular racing venues around the world: unveiling what to expect from the weather at over 25 regatta locations, it will get you ahead of the competition and powering up the leaderboard.