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Ghost Wave

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Author : Chris Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2011-10-21

Ghost Wave written by Chris Dixon and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-21 with Sports & Recreation categories.

“Takes us to a place of almost mythic power and tells a story that unfolds like a long ride on a killer wave . . . compellingly written.” —Sebastian Junger, New York Times–bestselling author Rising from the depths of the North Pacific lies a fabled island, now submerged just fifteen feet below the surface of the ocean. Rumors and warnings about Cortes Bank abound, but among big wave surfers, this legendary rock is famous for one simple (and massive) reason: this is the home of the biggest rideable wave on the face of the earth. In this dramatic work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Chris Dixon unlocks the secrets of Cortes Bank and pulls readers into the harrowing world of big wave surfing and high seas adventure above the most enigmatic and dangerous rock in the sea. The true story of this Everest of the sea will thrill anyone with an abiding curiosity of and respect for mother ocean. “A terrific, deeply researched tale about a truly wild place. You couldn’t make up Cortes Bank, or the characters who’ve tried to make it theirs.” —William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life “A first-rate account of an amazing phenomenon and the people who tried to conquer and exploit it. A great read.” —Winston Groom, New York Times–bestselling author of Forrest Gump “After reading Chris’ most excellent account of the monstrous waves of the mysterious Cortes Bank—the Bermuda Triangle of the Pacific—I never thought I would ever consider riding a wave like this. But after surviving a five-foot, head-first fall from the stage earlier this year, I think I might be ready.” —Jimmy Buffett

Ghost Wave

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Author : Chris Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-10-25

Ghost Wave written by Chris Dixon and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-25 with Sports & Recreation categories.

'A remarkable story that will appeal to those who ride a board and those who have never set foot in the water alike.' NEWCASTLE HERALD In GHOST WAVE, Chris Dixon dives deep into the fascinating history of Cortes Bank and the motley brotherhood of argumentative, damaged, brave and quirky margin walkers who discovered and scaled the tallest mountain in the sea. Along the way, he'll show how these pioneering wave-addicts changed our very understanding of the science of surfing, while giving sea-level credence to environmentalists' fears that the weather is indeed going haywire. GHOST WAVE is the result of extensive interviews not only with these surfers and those close to them, but also with psychologists who provide insights into their strange addiction to deadly waves. Dixon draws on the knowledge of oceanographers and meteorologists as well as emulating his own experience as a lifelong surfer. 'The object of my obsession for the past few years has been a sunken island 100 miles off the southern California coast called the Cortes Bank. On just the right swells, in just the right conditions, the three foot deep summit of this mile-high mountaintop produces the biggest surfable wave on the face of the earth ...'

Ghosts Of The Tsunami

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Author : Richard Lloyd Parry
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-08-31

Ghosts Of The Tsunami written by Richard Lloyd Parry and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-31 with Social Science categories.

'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm 'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Literary Supplement On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. It was Japan's greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and spent six years reporting from the epicentre. Learning about the lives of those affected through their own personal accounts, he paints a rich picture of the impact the tsunami had on day to day Japanese life. Heart-breaking and hopeful, this intimate account of a tragedy unveils the unique nuances of Japanese culture, the tsunami's impact on Japan's stunning and majestic landscape and the psychology of its people. Ghosts of the Tsunami is an award-winning classic of literary non-fiction. It tells the moving, evocative story of how a nation faced an unimaginable catastrophe and rebuilt to look towards the future. **WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE**

Wave

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Author : Sonali Deraniyagala
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-03-05

Wave written by Sonali Deraniyagala and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • One woman's searing account of losing her entire family in a tsunami. “The most exceptional book about grief I’ve ever read.... As unsparing as they come, but also defiantly flooded with light.... Extraordinary.” —Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review In 2004, at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family—parents, husband, sons—were swept away by a tsunami. Only Sonali survived to tell their tale. This is her account of the nearly incomprehensible event and its aftermath.

Neural Plasticity For Rich And Uncertain Robotic Information Streams

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Author : Andrea Soltoggio
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2016-10-31

Neural Plasticity For Rich And Uncertain Robotic Information Streams written by Andrea Soltoggio and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-31 with Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry categories.

Models of adaptation and neural plasticity are often demonstrated in robotic scenarios with heavily pre-processed and regulated information streams to provide learning algorithms with appropriate, well timed, and meaningful data to match the assumptions of learning rules. On the contrary, natural scenarios are often rich of raw, asynchronous, overlapping and uncertain inputs and outputs whose relationships and meaning are progressively acquired, disambiguated, and used for further learning. Therefore, recent research efforts focus on neural embodied systems that rely less on well timed and pre-processed inputs, but rather extract autonomously relationships and features in time and space. In particular, realistic and more complete models of plasticity must account for delayed rewards, noisy and ambiguous data, emerging and novel input features during online learning. Such approaches model the progressive acquisition of knowledge into neural systems through experience in environments that may be affected by ambiguities, uncertain signals, delays, or novel features.

Advances And Applications Of Artificial Intelligence And Numerical Simulation In Risk Emergency Management And Treatment

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Author : Yunhui Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2023-07-24

Advances And Applications Of Artificial Intelligence And Numerical Simulation In Risk Emergency Management And Treatment written by Yunhui Zhang and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-24 with Science categories.

Heat Wave

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Author : Richard Castle
language : en
Publisher: Titan Books
Release Date : 2012-10-26

Heat Wave written by Richard Castle and has been published by Titan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-26 with Fiction categories.

A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove to be fatal. Secrets that lay hidden in the dark until one NYPD detective shines a light. Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City's top homicide squads. She's hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York's Finest. Pulitzer Prize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His wise-cracking and meddling aren't her only problems. As she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them. The one called heat.

Digital Imaging And Deconvolution

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Author : Enders A. Robinson
language : en
Publisher: SEG Books
Release Date : 2008

Digital Imaging And Deconvolution written by Enders A. Robinson and has been published by SEG Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Computers categories.

Covering ideas and methods while concentrating on fundamentals, this book includes wave motion; digital imaging; digital filtering; visualization aspects of the seismic reflection method; sampling theory; the frequency spectrum; synthetic seismograms; wavelet processing; deconvolution; seismic attributes; phase rotation; and seismic attenuation.

A Little White Shadow

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Author : Mary Ruefle
language : en
Publisher: Wave Books
Release Date : 2006-05-01

A Little White Shadow written by Mary Ruefle and has been published by Wave Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-01 with Poetry categories.

An exquisite art book of gentle and elegant found poetry.

The First Wave

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Author : Hoe Yeong Loke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019

The First Wave written by Hoe Yeong Loke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Democratization categories.