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Author: Max Frisch Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 136
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Frisch charts the crumbling landscape of an old man's consciousness as he slips away from himself toward death and reintegration with the age-old history of our planet. A "luminous parable...a masterpiece" (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. Illustrations. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Author: Neil Roberts Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1405155213 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 391
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The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago. This period has witnessed a shift from environmental changes determined by natural forces to those dominated by human actions, including those of climate and greenhouse gases. Understanding the environmental changes - both natural and anthropogenic - that have occurred during the Holocene is of crucial importance if we are to achieve a sustainable environmental future. Revised and updated to take full account of the most recent advances, the third edition of this classic text includes substantial material on the scientific methods that are used to reconstruct and date past environments, as well as new concepts such as the Anthropocene. The book is fully-illustrated, global in coverage, and contains case studies, a glossary and more than 500 new references.
Author: Sjors Roeters Publisher: Grin Publishing ISBN: 9783668430099 Category : Languages : en Pages : 20
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Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 9, Leiden University, course: Narrative, Voice and Fiction, language: English, abstract: Man in the Holocene is very much about a quest for or even the possibility to have a knowledge of the world. This is apparent in Geiser's efforts to fathom and order his surroundings by accumulating a wealth of knowledge represented by the considerable amount of secondary texts with which the main body of text is interlaced. Emphasis seems to be laid on man's finitude as a foundation of knowledge and the consequent self- constitutive power of the individual to produce knowledge. The mental deterioration of Geiser seems to further stress the finitude of man as a condition for knowledge. However, as Foucault poignantly makes clear, Man is a very recent invention and the individual is not self-constitutive of knowledge. Man thinks he is sovereign, all the while he is necessarily and inevitably bound by bodies of discourse that form the condition of his existence.
Author: David J. A. Evans Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 111865255X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 636
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Provides the first comprehensive review of the current state of the science on tills It is critical that glacial scientists continue to refine their interpretations of ancient archives of subglacial processes, specifically those represented by tills and associated deposits, as they form the most widespread and accessible record of processes at the ice-bed interface. Unfortunately, despite a long history of investigation and a lexicon of process-based nomenclature, glacial sedimentologists have yet to reach a consensus on diagnostic criteria for identifying till genesis in the geological record. What should be called till? Based on the author’s extensive field research, as well as the latest literature on the subject, this book attempts to provide a definitive answer to that question. It critically reviews the global till literature and experimental and laboratory-based assessments of subglacial processes, as well as the theoretical constructs that have emerged from process sedimentology over the past century. Drawing on a wide range of knowledge bases, David Evans develops a more precise, contemporary till nomenclature and new investigatory strategies for understanding a critical aspect of glacial process sedimentology. Provides an in-depth discussion of subglacial sedimentary processes, with an emphasis on the origins of till matrix and terminal grade and the latest observations on till evolution Describes contemporary laboratory and modelling experiments on till evolution and techniques for measuring strain signatures in glacial deposits Develops an updated till nomenclature based on an array of knowledge bases and describes new strategies for field description and analysis of glacial diamictons Written by an internationally recognised expert in the field, this book represents an important step forward in the modern understanding of glacial process sedimentology. As such, Till: A Glacial Process Sedimentology is an indispensable resource for advanced undergraduates and researchers in sedimentology, glacier science and related areas.
Author: Guadalupe Sánchez Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816530637 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 177
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"This book presents a synthesis of Mexican Paleoindian archaeology with an emphasis on the state of Sonora. The author uses extensive primary data concerning specific artifacts, assemblages, and other Mexican and Sonoran Paleoindian archaeology to demonstrate the insignificance of current international borders to the earliest peoples of North America"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Max Frisch
Author: Max Frisch
Author: Neil Roberts
Author: Max Frisch
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Author: Sjors Roeters
Author: Sjors Roeters
Author: David J. A. Evans
Author: Guadalupe Sánchez