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The Winds Of History
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Author : Andreas Zeman
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-09-18
The Winds Of History written by Andreas Zeman and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-18 with categories.
A History Of The Wind
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Author : Alain Corbin
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2022-11-09
A History Of The Wind written by Alain Corbin and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-09 with History categories.
Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet, despite its presence at the heart of human experience, the wind has evaded scrutiny in our chronicles of the past. In this brilliantly original volume, Alain Corbin sets out to illuminate the wind’s storied history. He shows how, before the nineteenth century, the noisy emptiness of wind was experienced and described only according to the sensations it provoked. Imagery of the wind featured prominently in literature, from the ancient Greek epics through the Renaissance and romanticism to the modern era, but little was known about where the wind came from and where it went. It was only in the late eighteenth century, with the discovery of the composition of air, that scientists began to understand the nature of wind and its trajectories. From that point on, our understanding of the wind was shaped by meteorology, which mapped the flows of winds and currents around the globe. But while science has enabled us to understand the wind and, in some respects, to harness it, the wind has lost nothing of its mysterious force. It still has the power to destroy, and in the wind’s ethereal presence we can still feel its connection with creation and death.
On The Road Of The Winds
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Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-11-07
On The Road Of The Winds written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Social Science categories.
The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth’s surface and encompasses many thousands of islands that are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue carvers of remote Easter Island, and the famed traders of Melanesia. Decades of archaeological excavations—combined with allied research in historical linguistics, biological anthropology, and comparative ethnography—have revealed much new information about the long-term history of these societies and cultures. On the Road of the Winds synthesizes the grand sweep of human history in the Pacific Islands, beginning with the movement of early people out from Asia more than 40,000 years ago and tracing the development of myriad indigenous cultures up to the time of European contact in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. This updated edition, enhanced with many new illustrations and an extensive bibliography, synthesizes the latest archaeological, linguistic, and biological discoveries that reveal the vastness of ancient history in the Pacific Islands.
Sails Winds
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Author : Michael Eaude
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Sails Winds written by Michael Eaude and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Valencia (Spain) categories.
The Works Of Francis Bacon The History Of Winds The History Of Condensations And Rarifactions And Physical Essays
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Author : Francis Bacon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1815
The Works Of Francis Bacon The History Of Winds The History Of Condensations And Rarifactions And Physical Essays written by Francis Bacon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1815 with categories.
Winds Of Change
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Author : Peter Hennessy
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2020-09-29
Winds Of Change written by Peter Hennessy and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with History categories.
From the celebrated author of Never Again and Having It So Good, a wonderfully vivid new history of Britain in the early 1960s Harold Macmillan famously said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain too - its society; its relationship with Europe; its nuclear and defence policy. And where it was not blowing hard enough - the United Kingdom's economy - great efforts were made to sweep away the cobwebs of old industrial practices and poor labour relations. Life was lived in the knowledge that it could end in a single afternoon of thermonuclear exchange if the uneasy, armed peace of the Cold War tipped into a Third World War. In Winds of Change we see Macmillan gradually working out his 'grand design' - how to be part of both a tight transatlantic alliance and Europe, dealing with his fellow geostrategists Kennedy and de Gaulle. The centre of the book is 1963 - the year of the Profumo Crisis, the Great Train Robbery, the satire boom, de Gaulle's veto of Britain's first application to join the EEC, the fall of Macmillan and the unexpected succession to the premiership of Alec Douglas-Home. Then, in 1964, the battle of what Hennessy calls the tweedy aristocrat and the tweedy meritocrat - Harold Wilson, who would end 13 years of Conservative rule and usher in a new era. As in his acclaimed histories of British life in the two previous decades, Never Again and Having it so Good, Peter Hennessy explains the political, economic, cultural and social aspects of a nation with inimitable wit and empathy. No historian knows the by-ways as well the highways of the archives so well, and no one conveys the flavour of the period so engagingly. The early sixties live again in these pages.
By Favourable Winds
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Author : James Andrew Fraser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
By Favourable Winds written by James Andrew Fraser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Chatham (N.B.) categories.
Meeting Of The Winds
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Author : Marjorie M. Selody
language : en
Publisher: Falkland, B.C. : M. Selody
Release Date : 1990
Meeting Of The Winds written by Marjorie M. Selody and has been published by Falkland, B.C. : M. Selody this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Falkland (B.C.) Biography categories.
Heaven S Breath
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Author : Lyall Watson
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2019-08-13
Heaven S Breath written by Lyall Watson and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with Nature categories.
A “comprehensive and fascinating study” of how wind has shaped the world as we know it, affecting all aspects of human and natural life—from geography to political history, plant life to psychology, and biology to philosophy (The Observer) Wind is everywhere and nowhere. Wind is the circulatory system of the earth, and its nervous system, too. Energy and information flow through it. It brings warmth and water, enriches and strips away the soil, aerates the globe. Wind shapes the lives of animals, humans among them. Trade follows the path of the wind, as empire also does. Wind made the difference in wars between the Greeks and Persians, the Mongols and the Japanese. Wind helped to destroy the Spanish Armada. And wind is no less determining of our inner lives: the föhn, mistral, sirocco, Santa Ana, and other “ill winds” of the world are correlated with disease, suicide, and even murder. Heaven’s Breath is an encyclopedic and enchanting book that opens dazzling new perspectives on history, nature, and humanity.
Why The Wind Blows
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Author : Matthys Levy
language : en
Publisher: Upper Access Books
Release Date : 2007
Why The Wind Blows written by Matthys Levy and has been published by Upper Access Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Through the use of true stories of exploration, Why the Wind Blows looks at how these adventures were influenced by the weather and man's ignorance of its consequences. The science of meteorology is gently interspersed throughout the text, so that understanding weather becomes an integral part of the stories. Concluding with the influence of modern civilization on the changing climate and its world-altering consequences, the author challenges the reader to take action now to alter the effects of global warming on future generations.