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Author: Orin Starn
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011-12-12
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0822352109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStarn examines the career of Tiger Woods, from child star to global sports celebrity. The author shows that the scandal following the revelation of Tiger's infidelities was like many similar media-generated scandals of recent years, and he brings an anthropologist's perspective to bear on Tigergate.
Author: Lloyd Spencer Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1643131710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today’s leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorers. George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to history. A century later, Lloyd Spencer Davis rediscovers Levick and his findings during the course of his own scientific adventures in Antarctica. Levick’s long-suppressed manuscript reveals not only an incredible survival story, but one that will change our understanding of an entire species. A Polar Affair reveals the last untold tale from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. It is perhaps the greatest of all of those stories—but why was it hidden to begin with? The ever-fascinating and charming penguin holds the key. Moving deftly between both Levick’s and Davis’s explorations, observations, and comparisons in biology over the course of a century, A Polar Affair reveals cutting-edge findings about ornithology, in which the sex lives of penguins are the jumping-off point for major new insights into the underpinnings of evolutionary biology itself.
Author: Farley Mowat
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780316586450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Nicklen
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1426205112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStriking photography of the polar regions and fauna found there.
Author: Jonathan Waterman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780393052190
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Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Published: 2011-03-02
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1420506897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne the least understood places in the world, the North and South poles have captivated the imagine of scientists, adventurers, and ordinary people for centuries. With an abundance of natural resources, including crude oil, and the possibility for new scientific breakthroughs, the race to understand the poles has at various times led many nations to make political claims in a rush to exercise control over this terrain. This comprehensive volume offers detailed accounts of the major polar explorations, the political and scientific stakes in the quest to map and contain the Arctic and Antarctica. Chapters discuss the contest for the North Pole, the "heroic age" of exploration of the South Pole during the beginning of the twentieth century, the evolution of scientific technology and its effect on research in the harsh environment, and the trends in modern polar research.
Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2005-09-13
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0375701486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA national bestselling author examines one of the mind's most exalted states—one that is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survival itself. “[Jamison is] that rare writer who can offer a kind of unified field theory of science and art.” —The Washington Post Book World With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough. Exuberance: The Passion for Life introduces us to such notably irrepressible types as Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, and Richard Feynman, as well as Peter Pan, dancing porcupines, and Charles Schulz’s Snoopy. It explores whether exuberance can be inherited, parses its neurochemical grammar, and documents the methods people have used to stimulate it. The resulting book is an irresistible fusion of science and soul.
Author: Cheryl Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-22
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1135336474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical theorists have long argued that passion has no place in the political realm where reason reigns supreme. But, is this dichotomy between reason and passion sustainable? Does it underestimate the indispensable role of passion in a fully democratic society? Drawing upon Plato, Rousseau, and contemporary feminist theorists, Cheryl Hall argues that passion is an essential component of a just political community and that the need to educate passion together with reason is paramount. Trouble with Passion provides a compelling defense of the crucial place of passion in politics.
Author: Timothy J Demy
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1682474852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S. Naval Institute Wheel Books provide important information, pragmatic advice, and cogent analysis on topics important to all naval professionals. Drawn from the U.S. Naval Institute's vast archives, the series combines articles from the Institute's flagship publication Proceedings, selections from the oral history collection, and Naval Institute Press books to create unique guides on a wide array of fundamental professional subjects. This Wheel Book explores the Arctic--a region with new strategic significance--and includes the following articles: America's Arctic Imperative by Admiral Robert J. Papp, USCG (Ret.) Preparing for Arctic Naval Operations by Commander Mika Raunu, Finnish Navy, and Commander Rory Berke, USN Cold Horizons: Arctic Maritime Security Challenges by Commander John Patch, USN (Ret.) In the Dark and Out in the Cold by Lieutenant Commander Magda Hanna, USN Geopolitical Icebergs by Dr. David P. Auerswald And more...
Author: James Hinton
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 752
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