Extreme Nature

Extreme Nature

Author: Mark Carwardine

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0007596618

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A beautiful and fascinating portrait of the world’s most extreme wildlife, from the sexiest beast to the smelliest plant.


Extreme Events in Nature and Society

Extreme Events in Nature and Society

Author: Sergio Albeverio

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-02-18

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 354028611X

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Significant, and usually unwelcome, surprises, such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture, are the topics of Extreme Events in Nature and Society. The book, authored by foremost experts in these fields, reveals unifying and distinguishing features of extreme events, including problems of understanding and modelling their origin, spatial and temporal extension, and potential impact. The chapters converge towards the difficult problem of anticipation: forecasting the event and proposing measures to moderate or prevent it. Extreme Events in Nature and Society will interest not only specialists, but also the general reader eager to learn how the multifaceted field of extreme events can be viewed as a coherent whole.


Extreme Mammals

Extreme Mammals

Author: Patricia J. Wynne

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0486472868

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Colossal and teensy, swift and sluggish, these mammals tend to extremes. Thirty captioned images portray remarkable creatures, from extinct cousins of the rhinoceros to modern kangaroos, bats, and elephants.


Extreme Nature

Extreme Nature

Author: Gail Herman

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Published: 2003-09-15

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780448433370

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Offers facts about lightning, the planets, volcanoes, tornadoes, and sharks.


Extreme Nature

Extreme Nature

Author: Bill Curtsinger

Publisher: White Star

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788854400788

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Lovers of marine life and connoisseurs of photography will delight in this beautifully produced book dedicated to the surprising elements of the "unseen." In Extreme Nature, National Geographic photographer Bill Curtsinger takes us to locations around the globe, from the North to the South Poles, where he reveals in amazing detail the lives of elusive water creatures-some never before photographed-and those that are ubiquitous but rarely observed close up. These images represent some of the best of his thirty-year career, and here he reflects on the subtle elements that make his art so powerful.The splendid photography in Extreme Nature is the result of a profound sensitivity to the aquatic environment. "I worship the single-minded effort that still photography embodies," Curtsinger says, "the challenge, the solitary immersion in an animal's world and the rewards that are often found in such an adventure." The reader accompanies him on these adventures, plumbing the depths around icebergs and volcanoes, meeting sharks, sea turtles, seals, narwhals, whales, and many others along the way. As he shares his wondrous visions, the author also explains his approach to the photographic artistry. "My goal," he says, "is to immerse myself in an animal's world so that I can extract from those moments a new image, or a new insight into behavior heretofore unseen. I become the creature I pursue, in theory anyway . . ." This elegant book becomes a journey not only into aquatic wildlife but also into the art of photography itself.


Peculiar Plants

Peculiar Plants

Author: Anita Ganeri

Publisher: Raintree

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1406237957

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Readers learn about strange and unique plants.


Management of Extreme Situations

Management of Extreme Situations

Author: Pascal Lièvre

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-09-23

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1119662982

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In response to the rise of various forms of the extreme in economies, organizations and societies (such as disruptive innovation, climate emergency, financial crisis, high-risk sport, etc.), an ambitious 21st century program sets the agenda of management sciences around the unknown, disruption, uncertainty and risk. Management of Extreme Situations presents the research results from the conference organized at the Cerisy-la-Salle International Cultural Center, France, in 2016. It testifies to the existence of an international community that brings together, around management sciences, various disciplines studying the management concept of extreme situations. Through the analysis of varied contexts (polar and mountain expeditions, fire rescue services, exploration projects in the military field, creative industries, etc.), this book offers an initial grammar of the extreme. It presents a heuristic for the management of these situations – particularly in terms of sensemaking, ambidexterity and knowledge expansion.


Extreme Collecting

Extreme Collecting

Author: Graeme Were

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0857453637

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The material culture of persecution : collecting for the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum / Suzanne BardgettLyricism and offence in Egyptian archaeology collections / Stephen QuirkeContested human remains / Jack LohmanExtreme or commonplace : the collecting of unprovenanced antiquities / Kathy Walker TubbUnfit for society? : the case of the Galton Collection at UCL / Natasha McEnroeKnowing the new / Susan PearceThe global scope of extreme collecting : Japanese woodblock prints on the Internet / Richard WilkAwkward objects : collecting, deploying and debating relics / Jan GeisbuschGreat expectations and modest transactions : art, commodity and collecting / Henrietta LidchiExtremes of collecting at the Imperial War Museum, 1917-2009 : struggles with the large and the ephemeral / Paul CornishPlasticswhy not? : a perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics / Susan LambertTime capsules as extreme collecting / Brian DurransCanning cans, or, What you can do with tins : an interview with Robert Opie / J.C.H. King.


Extreme values

Extreme values

Author: G. G. Vega

Publisher: Babelcube Inc.

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1071528637

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Politics, science, technology, philosophy, economy, religion, races, ideologies, nations, everything, is involved, always with a single great war, the origin and the reason of all wars. For millennia, centuries, decades, years, day after day. Humanity has been involved in a bloody war. Beyond the conventional wars between nations and races, beyond the political wars, Beyond the social wars and beyond the family wars and conflicts of each individual.