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Author : Hali Felt
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2013-07-02
Soundings written by Hali Felt and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Her maps of the ocean floor have been called "one of the most remarkable achievements in modern cartography", yet no one knows her name. Soundings is the story of the enigmatic, unknown woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. Before Marie Tharp, geologist and gifted draftsperson, the whole world, including most of the scientific community, thought the ocean floor was a vast expanse of nothingness. In 1948, at age 28, Marie walked into the newly formed geophysical lab at Columbia University and practically demanded a job. The scientists at the lab were all male; the women who worked there were relegated to secretary or assistant. Through sheer willpower and obstinacy, Marie was given the job of interpreting the soundings (records of sonar pings measuring the ocean's depths) brought back from the ocean-going expeditions of her male colleagues. The marriage of artistry and science behind her analysis of this dry data gave birth to a major work: the first comprehensive map of the ocean floor, which laid the groundwork for proving the then-controversial theory of continental drift. When combined, Marie's scientific knowledge, her eye for detail and her skill as an artist revealed not a vast empty plane, but an entire world of mountains and volcanoes, ridges and rifts, and a gateway to the past that allowed scientists the means to imagine how the continents and the oceans had been created over time. Just as Marie dedicated more than twenty years of her professional life to what became the Lamont Geological Observatory, engaged in the task of mapping every ocean on Earth, she dedicated her personal life to her great friendship with her co-worker, Bruce Heezen. Partners in work and in many ways, partners in life, Marie and Bruce were devoted to one another as they rose to greater and greater prominence in the scientific community, only to be envied and finally dismissed by their beloved institute. They went on together, refining and perfecting their work and contributing not only to humanity's vision of the ocean floor, but to the way subsequent generations would view the Earth as a whole. With an imagination as intuitive as Marie's, brilliant young writer Hali Felt brings to vivid life the story of the pioneering scientist whose work became the basis for the work of others scientists for generations to come.
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Author : Doreen Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-07-12
Soundings written by Doreen Cunningham and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY categories.
“This book is a gorgeous journey…You will be glad you’ve joined her.” —Susan Orlean, author of On Animals and The Library Book In this memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska. In this striking blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier. Throughout the journey she explores the stories of the whales and their young calves—their history, their habits, and their attempts to survive the changes humans have brought to the ocean. Cunningham’s voice is powerful: sharp, profound, sensitive, and unflinching. A story of courage and resilience, Soundings is about the migrating whales and all we can learn from them as they mother, adapt, and endure, their lives interrupted and threatened by global warming. It is also a riveting journey onto the Arctic Sea ice and into the changing world of Indigenous whale hunters, where Doreen becomes immersed in the ancient values of the Iñupiaq whale hunt and falls in love. For this is Doreen’s story, too—a fierce, feminist tale, touching on her childhood and her time living in a Women’s Refuge with her baby, becoming a mother, just like the whales. Lyrical, brave, and fearlessly honest, Soundings is an unforgettable journey.
Soundings From The Atlantic
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Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-04-08
Soundings From The Atlantic written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-08 with categories.
Frequency And Transient Soundings
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Author : Alexander A. Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
Release Date : 1983
Frequency And Transient Soundings written by Alexander A. Kaufman and has been published by Elsevier Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Electromagnetic fields categories.
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Author : Seamus Heaney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Soundings written by Seamus Heaney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with English poetry categories.
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Author : Arthur Hamilton Gibbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
Soundings written by Arthur Hamilton Gibbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with England categories.
Friendship between motherless English girl and her artist father.
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Author : Augustine Martin
language : en
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-10
Soundings written by Augustine Martin and has been published by Gill & Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with Poetry categories.
Soundings was first published in 1969. It was intended as an 'interim' anthology of poetry for the Leaving Certificate until such time as a more permanent volume could be devised. Twenty six years later it was replaced. In the meantime it had passed through the hands of hundreds of thousands of students in Ireland. Soundings might have been replaced but it was never fully forgotten. Old copies ended up with an individual personality honed out of manual annotations and thoughts, not all of them provided by the teacher. Scrawls in biro or pencil testified to the thoughts and daydreams many users. A surprising number of copies ended up in attics only to be rediscovered with delight many years later and to be given treasured status in new homes. One former student recalled how Soundings was the first school book to treat her as an adult. It made no concessions to the 'teenager'. It didn't patronise. Its imagery was entirely in the poetry. The typography was appalling but the cover design still resonates. A decade after its demise, second hand copies of Soundings were fetching surprising prices. It was widely discussed in chat-rooms on the web. There were increasing demands for a reprint. So here is Soundings, in its original form just as you remember it. The same stony grey soil of Patrick Kavanagh's Monaghan; T.S.Eliot's same women who come and go talking of Michaelangelo. Please enjoy once more!
New World Soundings
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Author : Richard M. Morse
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2020-02-03
New World Soundings written by Richard M. Morse and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-03 with History categories.
Originally published in 1989. In New World Soundings, cultural historian Richard Morse takes a series of sharply focused looks at the Americas. He inquires into the ways in which speech and poetry evoke the common historical experience of North and South America and examines the transatlantic "sea changes" of European languages. He uses political ideology to contrast the traditions of Anglo and Latin America, while surveying contemporary pressures for ideological change. In the book's final sections, he addresses the North-South transaction from yet three more angles, ruminating on the problems involved in conveying the Latin American experience to U.S. students, considering the impediments to U.S.-Puerto Rican understanding, and recounting the mythic adventures of McLuhanaima, "the world's first Brazilianist," as he travels through the exotic land he has chosen for definitive research.
Soundings From The Atlantic
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Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-15
Soundings From The Atlantic written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-15 with categories.
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Author : Rod Dunne
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-09
Soundings written by Rod Dunne and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with Fiction categories.
What becomes of a deep space explorer once a long-settled land is reached? Astronaut Linien Primae arrives on Aesop, a human colony 4000 years in the making. For most arrivals, conforming to the leisure classes is a way of life, all watched over and entertained by Cybernet's Neural Swarm. But a society of docile unquestioning citizens makes for a sickly sort of equality. It's too much like voluntary servitude for Linien... and he wants none of it. Irish author Rod Dunne unleashes the third of his science-fiction series featuring the autonomous anti-hero Linien Primae. Other books in the series include (1) Terra Swarm and (2) Erebus