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Author: John Tilston Publisher: ISBN: 9781471657948 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Main Beach Queensland, in Australia, is a virtual island at the northern tip of the glamorous Gold Coast, Australia's holiday playground. It is well known for its high-rise apartment blocks and the upmarket restaurants and boutiques that line its high street, Tedder Avenue. Yet once you venture to its fringes, to the golden sands of its beaches to the east and tranquility of MacIntosh Island to the south, to the bustling Broadwater to the west and the rejuvenated Spit to its north, you will be struck by its natural beauty. This book is an exploration and a celebration of the natural rhythms of Main Beach, of the creatures that pass through and the ones here all year round, of the migrating sand and beach habitat, of the relentless ocean waves and the bush life.
Author: John Tilston Publisher: ISBN: 9781471657948 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Main Beach Queensland, in Australia, is a virtual island at the northern tip of the glamorous Gold Coast, Australia's holiday playground. It is well known for its high-rise apartment blocks and the upmarket restaurants and boutiques that line its high street, Tedder Avenue. Yet once you venture to its fringes, to the golden sands of its beaches to the east and tranquility of MacIntosh Island to the south, to the bustling Broadwater to the west and the rejuvenated Spit to its north, you will be struck by its natural beauty. This book is an exploration and a celebration of the natural rhythms of Main Beach, of the creatures that pass through and the ones here all year round, of the migrating sand and beach habitat, of the relentless ocean waves and the bush life.
Author: Patrick Buckridge Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press ISBN: 9780702234682 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
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"By the Book is an indispensable history of the literature of Queensland from its establishment as a separate colony in the mid-nineteenth century through major economic, political and cultural transformations to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Queensland figures in the Australian imagination as a frontier, a place of wild landscapes and wilder politics, but also as Australia's playground, a soft tourist paradise of warm weather and golden beaches. Based partly on real historical divergences from the rest of Australia, these contradictory images have been questioned and scrutini.
Author: G. Buzsáki Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199828237 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 465
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Studies of mechanisms in the brain that allow complicated things to happen in a coordinated fashion have produced some of the most spectacular discoveries in neuroscience. This book provides eloquent support for the idea that spontaneous neuron activity, far from being mere noise, is actually the source of our cognitive abilities. It takes a fresh look at the coevolution of structure and function in the mammalian brain, illustrating how self-emerged oscillatory timing is the brain's fundamental organizer of neuronal information. The small-world-like connectivity of the cerebral cortex allows for global computation on multiple spatial and temporal scales. The perpetual interactions among the multiple network oscillators keep cortical systems in a highly sensitive "metastable" state and provide energy-efficient synchronizing mechanisms via weak links. In a sequence of "cycles," György Buzsáki guides the reader from the physics of oscillations through neuronal assembly organization to complex cognitive processing and memory storage. His clear, fluid writing-accessible to any reader with some scientific knowledge-is supplemented by extensive footnotes and references that make it just as gratifying and instructive a read for the specialist. The coherent view of a single author who has been at the forefront of research in this exciting field, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in our rapidly evolving understanding of the brain.
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Task Force on Shore Protection Publisher: ISBN: Category : Shore protection Languages : en Pages : 894
Author: J. Goldammer Publisher: Birkhäuser ISBN: 3034872569 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 280
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In evolutionary time scales natural disturbances have affected the vegetation on Earth. During the Quaternary the forest biomes of the tropics were subjected to manifold disturbances. Climate changes and climate oscillations were associated with changing precipitation and drought regimes, flooding, siltation, landslides, etc. The prehistorical forest was also influenced by the effects of large wildlife populations. Large-scale catastrophies in the forest biomes were mainly caused by abiotic environmental alterations, the small-scale disturbances were and still are related to both biotic and abiotic processes. Both the large-and the small-scale disturbances have played a significant role in shaping distribution, dynamics, structure and composition of the paleoforest. After the expansion of hominids and early humans, and later, by modern humans, the anthropogenic influences on the tropical forest began to overlap natural disturbances. Today's anthropogenic impacts on the tropical forests differ qualitatively and quanitatively from the natural disturbances. The speed of tropical deforestation and savannization is dramatically increasing. The physical and chemical impacts of forest conversion and biomass burning add to other anthropogenic influences on the atmosphere and climate. The expected anthropogenic climate change will also have considerable impacts on the tropical flora and fauna. The book on "Tropical Forests in Transition" synthesizes information on changing environmental conditions and human impacts on the tropical forest by looking back to the paleoecology, analyzing the impact of modern human populations and modeling the future of the tropical forest in a changing environment. The aim of the book is to strengthen multidisciplinary thinking in disturbance ecology.
Author: Traci C. West Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479885045 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 321
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How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and Africa as we seek to end intimate violence in this country? The U.S. has consistently positioned itself as a moral exemplar, seeking to export its philosophy and values to other societies. Yet in this book, Traci C. West argues that the U.S. has much to learn from other countries when it comes to addressing gender-based violence. West traveled to Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil to interview activists involved in the struggle against gender violence. In each of these places, as in the United States, Christianity and anti-black racism have been implicated in violence against women. In Ghana and Brazil, in particular, their Christian colonial and trans-Atlantic slave trade histories directly connect with the socioeconomic development of the Americas and historic incidents of rape of black slave women. With a transnational focus on religion and racism, West brings a new perspective to efforts to systemically combat gender violence. Calling attention to forms of violence in the U.S. and international settings, such as marital rape, sex trafficking of women and girls, domestic violence, and the targeting of lesbians, the book offers an expansive and nuanced view of how to form activist solidarity in tackling this violence. It features bold and inspiring approaches by black women leaders working in each setting to uproot the myriad forms of violence against women and girls. Ultimately, West calls for us to learn from the lessons of Africana activists, drawing on a defiant Africana spirituality as an invaluable resource in the quest to combat the seemingly chronic problem of gender-based violence.
Author: John Tilston
Author: John Tilston
Author: Patrick Buckridge
Author: G. Buzsáki
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Author: United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Task Force on Shore Protection
Author: J. Goldammer
Author: Anne E. Maczulak
Author: Traci C. West
Author: Catherine Read