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Author: Linda Grashoff Publisher: ISBN: 9780692205860 Category : Languages : en Pages : 137
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A patch of iridescent film appears on a river far from tankers and motorboats. An oil spill? Not likely, as readers discover in They Breathe Iron: Artistic and Scientific Encounters with an Ancient Life Form. With text and photographs They Breathe Iron takes readers on a journey to discover what makes rust on a riverbed and the look of rainbows in a river. Science meets art in this first-person narrative about the iron-breathing bacteria that inhabit bodies of water all over the world. Focusing on Ohio's Vermilion River, the book explains how these bacteria live and why we should care about them. Linda Grashoff wrote They Breathe Iron from the viewpoint of a curious artist, incorporating scientific authority from two consultants: Eleanora Robbins, a biogeologist retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, and David H. Benzing, emeritus Robert S. Danforth professor of biology at Oberlin College. David W. Orr, a leading thinker in the environmental movement, wrote the forward. Intended for a general audience, They Breathe Iron can be savored for its photographs alone--many of which have appeared in galleries as well as in juried and curated shows in the South and Midwest. But the text will appeal to readers who, confronted with natural beauty, seek to understand how that beauty occurs. Others will appreciate the revelation of one artist's orientation to the physical world and the impact of that stance on her art. The fourteen short chapters are: * Colors in the Water * Geological Beginnings and Biological Developments * Iron Bacteria in the River * When and Where You'll See Them, When and Where You Won't * Leptothrix discophora: A Multiplicity of Appearances * Variety in Rusty Deposits * Other Bacterially Transformed Substances in the Vermilion River * How the Iron Bacteria Compare with Other Living Things * Redox Cycles of the Iron Bacteria * The Importance of Iron Bacteria * My Photography * The River * More Than Photography * Larger Issues of Place and Time Included are an appendix, endnotes, a glossary, and an index.
Author: Linda Grashoff Publisher: ISBN: 9780692205860 Category : Languages : en Pages : 137
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A patch of iridescent film appears on a river far from tankers and motorboats. An oil spill? Not likely, as readers discover in They Breathe Iron: Artistic and Scientific Encounters with an Ancient Life Form. With text and photographs They Breathe Iron takes readers on a journey to discover what makes rust on a riverbed and the look of rainbows in a river. Science meets art in this first-person narrative about the iron-breathing bacteria that inhabit bodies of water all over the world. Focusing on Ohio's Vermilion River, the book explains how these bacteria live and why we should care about them. Linda Grashoff wrote They Breathe Iron from the viewpoint of a curious artist, incorporating scientific authority from two consultants: Eleanora Robbins, a biogeologist retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, and David H. Benzing, emeritus Robert S. Danforth professor of biology at Oberlin College. David W. Orr, a leading thinker in the environmental movement, wrote the forward. Intended for a general audience, They Breathe Iron can be savored for its photographs alone--many of which have appeared in galleries as well as in juried and curated shows in the South and Midwest. But the text will appeal to readers who, confronted with natural beauty, seek to understand how that beauty occurs. Others will appreciate the revelation of one artist's orientation to the physical world and the impact of that stance on her art. The fourteen short chapters are: * Colors in the Water * Geological Beginnings and Biological Developments * Iron Bacteria in the River * When and Where You'll See Them, When and Where You Won't * Leptothrix discophora: A Multiplicity of Appearances * Variety in Rusty Deposits * Other Bacterially Transformed Substances in the Vermilion River * How the Iron Bacteria Compare with Other Living Things * Redox Cycles of the Iron Bacteria * The Importance of Iron Bacteria * My Photography * The River * More Than Photography * Larger Issues of Place and Time Included are an appendix, endnotes, a glossary, and an index.
Author: Anja Røyne Publisher: The Experiment ISBN: 1615196463 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 205
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This “excellent” popular science book explores just what we—and the things around us—are made of (Aftenposten, Norway). Some elements get all the attention: glittering gold, radioactive uranium—materials we call “precious” because they are so rare. But what could be more precious than the building blocks of life—from the oxygen in our air to the carbon in all living things? In The Elements We Live By, physicist and award-winning author Anja Røyne reminds us that we’d be lost without the quiet heroes of the periodic table. Our bodies need phosphorous to hold our DNA together, potassium to power our optic nerves, and many more elements—in just the right amounts—to function. Other fundamental elements keep our technology (and society) running: Our phones contain arsenic, boron, and gallium to control signals and store information; indium and tin for the touch screen; and lithium for the battery. Everything is made of elements—every galaxy, star, and planet—from the iron in Earth’s core to the silicon in its sand. But that doesn’t mean the elements we rely on will never run out; for example, about half the lithium we need is extracted from rocks in Australia, and the other half is from saltwater in Argentina and Chile. As Røyne travels the world to find where these elements exist (some in ever-shrinking amounts), she shows how vitally urgent it is for us to protect them—the elements of our very existence. “Not just a discussion of basic chemistry, this is a volume that looks at the human impact on the planet and what we can learn from nature...Useful for science or sociology courses that address the various impacts of natural resource development or for popular science readers.” —School Library Journal
Author: Martha Mason Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1608193209 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 369
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After contracting polio as a young girl Martha Mason of tiny Lattimore, North Carolina, lived a record sixty-one of her seventy-one years in an iron lung until her death in 2009, but she never let the 800-pound cylinder define her. The subject of a documentary film, an NPR feature, an ABC News piece, and a widely syndicated New York Times obituary, Martha enjoyed life, and people. From within her iron lung, she graduated first in her class in high school and at Wake Forest University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She was determined to be a writer and, with her devoted mother taking dictation, she became a journalist-but had to give up her career when her father became ill. Still, Martha created for herself a vast and radiant world-holding dinner parties with the table pushed right up to her iron lung, voraciously reading, running her own household, and caring for her mother when she became ill with Alzheimer's and increasingly abusive to Martha. When voice-activated computers became available, Martha wrote Breath, in part as a tribute to her mother. "This book is her story," writes Anne Rivers Siddons in her preface, "told in the rich words of a born writer. That she told it is a gift to everyone who will read it. That she told it is also as near to a miracle as most are likely to encounter."
Author: Frances de Pontes Peebles Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735211000 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 530
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"[A] glorious, glittery saga of friendship and loss... I read The Air You Breathe in two nights. (One might say I inhaled it.)." --NPR "Echoes of Elena Ferrante resound in this sumptuous saga."--O, The Oprah Magazine "Enveloping...Peebles understands the shifting currents of female friendship, and she writes so vividly about samba that you close the book certain its heroine's voices must exist beyond the page." -People The story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride--and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other. Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate. Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. Graça, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, is clever, well fed, pretty, and thrillingly ill behaved. Born to wildly different worlds, Dores and Graça quickly bond over shared mischief, and then, on a deeper level, over music. One has a voice like a songbird; the other feels melodies in her soul and composes lyrics to match. Music will become their shared passion, the source of their partnership and their rivalry, and for each, the only way out of the life to which each was born. But only one of the two is destined to be a star. Their intimate, volatile bond will determine each of their fortunes--and haunt their memories. Traveling from Brazil's inland sugar plantations to the rowdy streets of Rio de Janeiro's famous Lapa neighborhood, from Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood back to the irresistible drumbeat of home, The Air You Breathe unfurls a moving portrait of a lifelong friendship--its unparalleled rewards and lasting losses--and considers what we owe to the relationships that shape our lives.
Author: Paul R. Alexander Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1525525336 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 155
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Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges. Paul Alexander’s life is a saga that started in 1946 and has been profoundly shaped by the Polio epidemic of the early 1950’s. Survivors of the 1950’s Polio Epidemic in America are rare. Polio victims, like Paul Alexander, who require the assistance of an “Iron Lung” respirator for their life’s breath are even rarer. Paul Alexander has crafted his life against all odds and has a courageous and compelling story to share with us all. Victims of Polio, their families, friends and communities are struggling to cope with this obscure but still dangerous infectious disease. This book is a testimony to the strength of the human spirit and an affirmation of the need to continue efforts to eradicate the pestilence of Polio from the planet.
Author: J.C. Herz Publisher: Harmony ISBN: 0385348886 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 378
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The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFit's origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon. One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture, Learning to Breathe Fire combines vivid sports writing with a thoughtful meditation on what it means to be human. In the book, veteran journalist J.C. Herz explains the science of maximum effort, why the modern gym fails an obese society, and the psychic rewards of ending up on the floor feeling as though you're about to die. The story traces CrossFit’s rise, from a single underground gym in Santa Cruz to its adoption as the workout of choice for elite special forces, firefighters and cops, to its popularity as the go-to fitness routine for regular Joes and Janes. Especially riveting is Herz’s description of The CrossFit Games, which begin as an informal throw-down on a California ranch and evolve into a televised global proving ground for the fittest men and women on Earth, as well as hundreds of thousands of lesser mortals. In her portrayal of the sport's star athletes, its passionate coaches and its “chief armorer,” Rogue Fitness, Herz powerfully evokes the uniqueness of a fitness culture that cultivates primal fierceness in average people. And in the shared ordeal of an all-consuming workout, she unearths the ritual intensity that's been with us since humans invented sports, showing us how, on a deep level, we're all tribal hunters and first responders, waiting for the signal to go all-out.
Author: Michael Swanwick Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504025660 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 348
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A New York Times Notable Book: “Combining cyberpunk’s grit with dystopic fantasy, this iconoclastic hybrid is a standout piece of storytelling” (Library Journal). Jane is trapped as a changeling in an industrialized Faerie ruled by aristocratic high elves and populated by ogres, dwarves, night-gaunts, and hags. She is the only human in a factory where underage forced labor builds cybernetic, magical dragons that are weaponized and sent off to war. When the damaged dragon Melanchthon tempts Jane with promises of freedom, the stage is set for a daring escape that will shake the foundations of existence. Combining alchemy and technology, a coming-of-age story like no other, The Iron Dragon’s Daughter takes place against a dystopic mindscape of dark challenges and class struggles that force Jane to make costly decisions at every turn. A finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1994 Locus Award, The Iron Dragon’s Daughter a is one-of-a-kind melding of grimdark fantasy and cyberpunk grit from the Nebula Award–winning author of Stations of the Tide. It engages the reader in a nihilistic world in which nothing is as it seems and everything comes at a steep and often horrific price.
Author: Sarah Crossan Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408827190 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 386
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When oxygen levels plunge in a treeless world, a state lottery decides who will live inside the pod. Everyone else will slowly suffocate. Years later, society has divided into Premiums and Auxiliaries. Only Premiums can afford enough oxygen to live a normal life
Author: James Nestor Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735213631 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 306
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A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
Author: Linda Grashoff
Author: Linda Grashoff
Author: Anja Røyne
Author: Martha Mason
Author: Frances de Pontes Peebles
Author: Paul R. Alexander
Author: J.C. Herz
Author: Edgar Williams
Author: Michael Swanwick
Author: Sarah Crossan
Author: James Nestor