Author: S. M. Saxby (R.N.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Yachtsman's Manual and Sea Officer's Guide. With Practical Hints for the Successful Preparation for Board of Trade Examination and Master's Certificate
Author: S. M. Saxby (R.N.)The Yachtsman's Manual and Sea Officer's Guide, Etc
Author: S. M. SAXBYProminent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Class
Author: Paul FussellPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671792253
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.
American Practical Navigator
Author: Nathaniel BowditchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Cognition in the Wild
Author: Edwin HutchinsPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262581469
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation—its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and the details of its implementation in actual practice aboard large ships. The result is an unusual interdisciplinary approach to cognition in culturally constituted activities outside the laboratory—"in the wild." Hutchins examines a set of phenomena that have fallen in the cracks between the established disciplines of psychology and anthropology, bringing to light a new set of relationships between culture and cognition. The standard view is that culture affects the cognition of individuals. Hutchins argues instead that cultural activity systems have cognitive properties of their own that are different from the cognitive properties of the individuals who participate in them. Each action for bringing a large naval vessel into port, for example, is informed by culture: the navigation team can be seen as a cognitive and computational system. Introducing Navy life and work on the bridge, Hutchins makes a clear distinction between the cognitive properties of an individual and the cognitive properties of a system. In striking contrast to the usual laboratory tasks of research in cognitive science, he applies the principal metaphor of cognitive science—cognition as computation (adopting David Marr's paradigm)—to the navigation task. After comparing modern Western navigation with the method practiced in Micronesia, Hutchins explores the computational and cognitive properties of systems that are larger than an individual. He then turns to an analysis of learning or change in the organization of cognitive systems at several scales. Hutchins's conclusion illustrates the costs of ignoring the cultural nature of cognition, pointing to the ways in which contemporary cognitive science can be transformed by new meanings and interpretations. A Bradford Book
Wrinkles in Practical Navigation ...
Author: Squire Thornton Stratford LeckyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Innovation with Purpose
Author: Lockheed MartinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781882771394
Category : Aerospace industries
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The Green Web
Author: Martin HoldgatePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134189370
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the often turbulent story of the IUCN and its achievements in, and influence on, conservation and environmental policy worldwide - establishing national parks and protected areas and defending threatened species.
Structures
Author: J E GordonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140136282
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
In "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains the importance and properties of different structures.