The Theory Of Clouds
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The Theory Of Clouds
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Author : Stéphane Audeguy
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2007
The Theory Of Clouds written by Stéphane Audeguy and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
The novel tells the story of Akira Kumo, a retired couturier living in Paris, owner of the world's largest collection of books about clouds, and Virginie Latour, whom Kumo hires to help catalogue his library. While they work he tells her the story behind three figures in particular, all British, all obsessed by clouds: Luke Howard, a real-life Quaker who in 1802 wrote the first treatise classifying clouds (we still use it today); a painter named Carmichael, clearly based on John Constable, one of the most famous cloud painters of all time, and a fictional amateur meteorologist named Richard Abercrombie, who aspires to write the definitive book on cloud description, which would come to be known in cloud circles as the Abercrombie Protocol. Kumo sends Virginie Latour to London to buy the Protocol. By the end of the novel, we learn the Protocol's great secret; we understand what binds these men together; and and we learn that Kumo himself is a survivor of the Hiroshima blast, in whose cloud his family vanished.
A Theory Of Cloud
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Author : Hubert Damisch
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2002
A Theory Of Cloud written by Hubert Damisch and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art categories.
This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The authors basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: the cloud. On a literal level, this could be represented by the absence of the sky, as in Brunelleschis legendary first experiments with panels using perspective. Or it could be the vaporous swathes that Correggio uses to mediate between the viewer on earth and the heavenly prospect in his frescoed domes at Parma. Insofar as the cloud is a semiotic operator, interacting with the linear order of perspective, it also becomes a dynamic agent facilitating the creation of new types of pictorial space. (Damisch puts the signifer cloud between slashes to indicate that he deals with clouds as signs instead of realistic elements.) This way of looking at the history of painting is especially fruitful for the Renaissance and Baroque periods, but it is also valuable for looking at such junctures as the nineteenth century. For example, Damisch invokes Ruskin and Turner, who carry out both in theory and in practice a revision of the conditions of appearances of the cloud as a landscape feature. Even for the twentieth century, he has illuminating things to say about how his reading of cloud applies to the painters Leger and Batthus. In short, Damisch achieves a brilliant and systematic demonstration of a concept of semiotic interaction that touches some of the most crucial features of the Western art tradition.
Some Problems In The Theory Of The Formation Of Clouds And Precipitation
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Author : N. S. Shishkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Some Problems In The Theory Of The Formation Of Clouds And Precipitation written by N. S. Shishkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Clouds categories.
Some Problems In The Theory Of The Formation Of Clouds And Precipitation
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Author : Nikolaĭ Sergeevich Shishkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Some Problems In The Theory Of The Formation Of Clouds And Precipitation written by Nikolaĭ Sergeevich Shishkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Clouds categories.
Research on clouds and precipitation has undergone considerable development in the Soviet Union during the last forty years. In the pre-war years, a great deal of data was collected from the network of weather stations on clouds and precipitation; synoptic methods of forecasting these phenomena were developed; a substantial amount of laboratory research was carried out on thunderstorm electricity and the mechanism of precipitation formation; and research was begun on clouds in the vicinity of mountains. Immediately after the war, research was renewed in the Soviet Union on the active modification of clouds and fog. Physical methods have been developed for forecasting cloudiness and precipitation, based on the solution to dynamic atmosphere equations and energy relationships. In recent years, more and more effort has been put into cloud research and into the development of methods of active modification.
Faces In The Clouds
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Author : Stewart Elliott Guthrie
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-04-06
Faces In The Clouds written by Stewart Elliott Guthrie and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-06 with Religion categories.
Religion is universal human culture. No phenomenon is more widely shared or more intensely studied, yet there is no agreement on what religion is. Now, in Faces in the Clouds, anthropologist Stewart Guthrie provides a provocative definition of religion in a bold and persuasive new theory. Guthrie says religion can best be understood as systematic anthropomorphism--that is, the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things and events. Many writers see anthropomorphism as common or even universal in religion, but few think it is central. To Guthrie, however, it is fundamental. Religion, he writes, consists of seeing the world as humanlike. As Guthrie shows, people find a wide range of humanlike beings plausible: Gods, spirits, abominable snowmen, HAL the computer, Chiquita Banana. We find messages in random events such as earthquakes, weather, and traffic accidents. We say a fire "rages," a storm "wreaks vengeance," and waters "lie still." Guthrie says that our tendency to find human characteristics in the nonhuman world stems from a deep-seated perceptual strategy: in the face of pervasive (if mostly unconscious) uncertainty about what we see, we bet on the most meaningful interpretation we can. If we are in the woods and see a dark shape that might be a bear or a boulder, for example, it is good policy to think it is a bear. If we are mistaken, we lose little, and if we are right, we gain much. So, Guthrie writes, in scanning the world we always look for what most concerns us--livings things, and especially, human ones. Even animals watch for human attributes, as when birds avoid scarecrows. In short, we all follow the principle--better safe than sorry. Marshalling a wealth of evidence from anthropology, cognitive science, philosophy, theology, advertising, literature, art, and animal behavior, Guthrie offers a fascinating array of examples to show how this perceptual strategy pervades secular life and how it characterizes religious experience. Challenging the very foundations of religion, Faces in the Clouds forces us to take a new look at this fundamental element of human life.
Cloud Computing
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Author : Dan C. Marinescu
language : en
Publisher: Newnes
Release Date : 2013-05-30
Cloud Computing written by Dan C. Marinescu and has been published by Newnes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-30 with Computers categories.
Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice provides students and IT professionals with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. Beginning with a discussion of parallel computing and architectures and distributed systems, the book turns to contemporary cloud infrastructures, how they are being deployed at leading companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple, and how they can be applied in fields such as healthcare, banking and science. The volume also examines how to successfully deploy a cloud application across the enterprise using virtualization, resource management and the right amount of networking support, including content delivery networks and storage area networks. Developers will find a complete introduction to application development provided on a variety of platforms. Learn about recent trends in cloud computing in critical areas such as: resource management, security, energy consumption, ethics, and complex systems Get a detailed hands-on set of practical recipes that help simplify the deployment of a cloud based system for practical use of computing clouds along with an in-depth discussion of several projects Understand the evolution of cloud computing and why the cloud computing paradigm has a better chance to succeed than previous efforts in large-scale distributed computing
Contribution To The Theory Of Radiation Properties Of Clouds
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Author : K. S. Shifrin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Contribution To The Theory Of Radiation Properties Of Clouds written by K. S. Shifrin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Clouds categories.
Contribution S To The Theory Of The Constitution Of Clouds
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Author : Mount Washington Observatory
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Contribution S To The Theory Of The Constitution Of Clouds written by Mount Washington Observatory and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Cloud physics categories.
Rain Formation In Warm Clouds
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Author : A. M. Selvam
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-02-12
Rain Formation In Warm Clouds written by A. M. Selvam and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-12 with Science categories.
This book aims to promote the understanding of some of the basic mathematical and scientific issues in the subjects relating to climate dynamics, chaos and quantum mechanics. It is based on substantial research work in atmospheric science carried out over twenty years. Atmospheric flows exhibit self similar fractal fluctuations, a signature of long-range correlations on all space-time scales. Realistic simulation and prediction of atmospheric flows requires the incorporation of the physics of observed fractal fluctuation characteristics in traditional meteorological theory. A general systems theory model for fractal space-time fluctuations in turbulent atmospheric flows is presented and applied to the formation of rain in warm clouds. This model gives scale-free universal governing equations for cloud growth processes. The model predicted cloud parameters are in agreement with reported observations, in particular, the cloud drop-size distribution. Rain formation can occur in warm clouds within 30 minutes as observed in practice under favourable conditions of moisture supply in the environment. Traditional cloud physical concepts for rain development requires over an hour for a full-sized raindrop to form. The book provides background reading for postgraduate students of Meteorology, Atmospheric Sciences/Physics, Environmental Sciences, and scientists working in the field of the topic of the book as well as the multidisciplinary field of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos.
The Black Cloud
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Author : Fred Hoyle
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2010-09-02
The Black Cloud written by Fred Hoyle and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-02 with Fiction categories.
A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant black cloud that comes towards Earth and sits in front of the sun, causing widespread panic and death. A select group of scientists and astronomers - including the dignified Astronomer Royal, the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe and the maverick, eccentric Professor Kingsly - engage in a mad race to understand and communicate with the cloud, battling against trigger happy politicians. In the pacy, engaging style of John Wyndham and John Christopher, with plenty of hard science thrown in to add to the chillingly credible premise (he manages to foretell Artificial Intelligence, Optical Character Recognition and Text-to-Speech converters), Hoyle carries you breathlessly through to its thrilling end.