The Iliad
The Iliad

Author: Gareth Hinds

Publisher: Candlewick

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 076368113X

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In a companion volume to his award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey, the incomparable graphic novelist Gareth Hinds masterfully adapts Homer’s classic wartime epic. More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer's legendary account of this nine-year ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this stunning graphic novel adaptation — a thoroughly researched and artfully rendered masterwork — renowned illustrator Gareth Hinds captures all the grim glory of Homer's epic. Dynamic illustrations take readers directly to the plains of Troy, into the battle itself, and lay bare the complex emotions of the men, women, and gods whose struggles fueled the war and determined its outcome. This companion volume to Hinds’s award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey features notes, maps, a cast of characters, and other tools to help readers understand all the action and drama of Homer's epic.

Modeling and Practice of Erosion and Sediment Transport under Change
Modeling and Practice of Erosion and Sediment Transport under Change

Author: Mohamed Meddi

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 3039214314

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Climate and anthropogenic changes impact the conditions of erosion and sediment transport in rivers. Rainfall variability and, in many places, the increase of rainfall intensity have a direct impact on rainfall erosivity. Increasing changes in demography have led to the acceleration of land cover changes in natural areas, as well as in cultivated areas, and, sometimes, in degraded areas and desertified landscapes. These anthropogenized landscapes are more sensitive to erosion. On the other hand, the increase in the number of dams in watersheds traps a great portion of sediment fluxes, which do not reach the sea in the same amount, nor at the same quality, with consequences on coastal geomorphodynamics. This book is dedicated to studies on sediment fluxes from continental areas to coastal areas, as well as observation, modeling, and impact analysis at different scales from watershed slopes to the outputs of large river basins. This book is concentrated on a number of keywords: “erosion” and “sediment transport”, “model” and “practice”, and “change”. The keywords are briefly discussed with respect to the relevant literature. The contributions in this book address observations and models based on laboratory and field data, allowing researchers to make use of such resources in practice under changing conditions.

Mapping Travel
Mapping Travel

Author: Jordana Dym

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 9004499784

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Drawing on a thousand years of European travel writing and mapmaking, Dym suggests that after centuries of text-based itineraries and on-the spot directions guiding travelers and constituting their reports, maps in the fifteenth century emerged as tools for Europeans to support and report the results of land and sea travel. With each succeeding generation, these linear journey maps have become increasingly common and complex, responding to changes in forms of transportation, such as air and motor car ‘flight’ and print technology, especially the advent of multi-color printing. This is their story.

From weather observations to atmospheric and climate sciences in Switzerland
From weather observations to atmospheric and climate sciences in Switzerland

Author: Saskia Willemse

Publisher: vdf Hochschulverlag AG

Published: 2016-06-02

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 3728137456

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In 2016 the Swiss Society for Meteorology (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Meteorologie, SGM) celebrates its 100th anniversary. Compared to other meteorological societies it is not among the oldest ones. Nevertheless, meteorology has gone through such a remarkable evolution in the past 100 years that it is worthwhile to take a look back and recapitulate the developments of both science and SGM – and to reveal their interaction. The idea of this book is to give an overview of what has happened in the field of atmospheric sciences in Switzerland since the first systematic long-term meteorological observations until today.

Samurai Rising
Samurai Rising

Author: Pamela S. Turner

Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1580895859

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Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family—and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai. When the time came for the Minamoto clan to rise up against their enemies, Yoshitsune answered the call. His daring feats and impossible bravery earned him immortality.

Boston - The Delaplaine 2022 Long Weekend Guide
Boston - The Delaplaine 2022 Long Weekend Guide

Author: Andrew Delaplaine

Publisher: Gramercy Park Press

Published: 2021-08-07

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in BOSTON. Updated throughout the year, you'll save a lot of time using this concise guide. "Where do I start? I was so confounded by the number of things to do in Boston I couldn't get my head around everything. This book gave me some sense of the place." ---Rupert K., Manchester "The Delaplaine guide books 'cut to the chase.' You get what you need and don't get what you don't." -Wilma K., Seattle =LODGINGS, from budget to deluxe = RESTAURANTS, from the finest the area has to offer ranging down to the cheapest (with the highest quality). More than sufficient listings to make your Long Weekend memorable. =PRINCIPAL ATTRACTIONS -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.

An Infusion of Violets
An Infusion of Violets

Author: Nancy Naomi Carlson

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780857426451

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Using the same musical sense of language she applies to her translations, Nancy Naomi Carlson masterfully interprets herself in An Infusion of Violets. The sometimes erotic, sometimes melancholy landscapes she creates as the self-appointed sitar's "ragged throat, pitched / between here and when, / caught in quartertones," take our breath away. Carlson describes an interior world where tears can produce "so much salt a body floats away," where "music tuned to loss descends with rain," and where hope is placed in the "kill-cure." Here we encounter Carlson's ex-husbands and luminaries such as Rachmaninoff and Monet, among others. Filled with striking images and sensuous language, An Infusion of Violets is an evocative mix of formal and free-verse poems.

A Fossil History of Southern African Land Mammals
A Fossil History of Southern African Land Mammals

Author: D. Margaret Avery

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-11

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1108480888

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A comprehensive reference on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.