Weathered
Weathered

Author: Mike Hulme

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2016-06-15

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1473959039

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Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics of climate-change it is important to establish the different origins of the idea of climate itself and the range of historical, political and cultural work that the idea of climate accomplishes. In Weathered: Cultures of Climate, distinguished professor Mike Hulme opens up the many ways in which the idea of climate is given shape and meaning in different human cultures – how climates are historicized, known, changed, lived with, blamed, feared, represented, predicted, governed and, at least putatively, re-designed.

The Origin of Clay Minerals in Soils and Weathered Rocks
The Origin of Clay Minerals in Soils and Weathered Rocks

Author: Bruce B. Velde

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-07-18

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 3540756345

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Of huge relevance in a number of fields, this is a survey of the different processes of soil clay mineral formation and the consequences of these processes concerning the soil ecosystem, especially plant and mineral. Two independent systems form soil materials. The first is the interaction of rocks and water, unstable minerals adjusting to surface conditions. The second is the interaction of the biosphere with clays in the upper parts of alteration profiles.

Weathered Too Young
Weathered Too Young

Author: Marcia Lynn McClure

Publisher: Distractions Ink

Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0982192118

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Lark Lawrence was alone. In all the world there was no one who cared for her. Still, there were worse things than independence-and Lark had grown quite capable of providing for herself. Nevertheless, as winter loomed, she suddenly found herself with no means by which to afford food and shelter-destitute. Yet, Tom Evans was a kind and compassionate man. When Lark Lawrence appeared on his porch, without pause he hired her to keep house and cook for himself and his cantankerous elder brother, Slater. And although Tom had befriend Lark first, it would be Slater Evans-handsome, brooding and twelve years Lark's senior-who would unknowingly abduct her heart. Still, Lark's true age (which she concealed at first meeting the Evans brothers) was not the only truth she had kept from Slater and Tom Evans. Darker secrets lay imprisoned deep within her heart-and her past. However, it is that secrets are made to be found out-and Lark's secrets revealed would soon couple with the arrival of a woman from Slater's past to forever shatter her dreams of winning his love-or so it seemed. Would truth and passion mingle to capture Lark the love she'd never dared to hope for?

Chemical additives in weathered microplastic in the marine environment: occurrence and risk
Chemical additives in weathered microplastic in the marine environment: occurrence and risk

Author: Fauser, Patrik

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2022-04-06

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9289372931

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Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2022-520/ A Nordic project identified and measured residues of chemical additives in polyurethane (PUR) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Measurements were done in new plastic, and in plastic weathered for four months in Samnangerfjorden near Bergen. Targeted chemical analysis with GC-Orbitrap was performed for identification and GC-MS analysis for quantification. Four plasticizers were detected in PUR and three in PVC, before and after weathering: Dibutyl adipate, N-butylbenzenesulphonamide (only in PUR), dibutyl phthalate, and di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP). Maximum concentrations were approx. 1000 ng/g plastic. Also triphenyl phosphite and octadecyl 3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionate were identified. Risk quotients for copepods, cod and fulmar showed low risk. Additionally, non-target screening with GC-Orbitrap identified sixteen chemicals, of which two had hazard classifications.

How Latin America Weathered the Global
How Latin America Weathered the Global

Author: José De Gregorio

Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economics

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 088132678X

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The global financial and economic turmoil of 2008–09 plunged Europe and the United States into their worst economic downturns in 75 years. Many experts feared that developing regions like Latin America, which had experienced many of their own crises in recent decades, would be even worse affected. Instead, Latin America suffered only limited damage. Indeed the region’s GDP is 20 percent higher than its pre-crisis level. José De Gregorio, governor of the Central Bank of Chile from 2007 to 2011, explains Latin America’s success with a perspective that only an insider can have. This book focuses mainly on the seven largest economies of Latin America—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela—which together account for more than 90 percent of regional output. The author argues that strong performance during the crisis resulted from the sound macroeconomic and financial policies that these countries followed beforehand. Their accomplishments allowed them to undertake significant monetary and fiscal expansion in the context of robust financial systems. De Gregorio acknowledges that there was also an element of luck—in terms of improved terms of trade. This is a candid, searching, and dramatic case study of crisis preparation—and crisis management.

They Weathered the Storm
They Weathered the Storm

Author: Baldwin Ross Swift

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2003-04-10

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1410722317

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Tracing my ancestry was challenging and painful--yet, exciting. I encountered learning experiences at my every turn, and had to climb over many a brick wall during my research. I must say that my persistent, tireless efforts to achieve my goal proved beneficial and rewarding. This book has been written not only to spark an interest in its reader for family research, but also to document my gratitude for those who struggled and weathered the emotional storms and endured to strengthen and secure our family ties. Unlike the famous writer Alex Haley, I was unable to link my ancestors to the country of Africa. The trace only led me to the state of Georgia. Our ancestors had many shades of color--from ivory to chestnut, dark brown, and ebony. Hair was all ways from kinky to straight to curly. Eyes ranged from blue to grey and brown. And noses as well as ears showed up little all the way to big. There were high cheekbones on some and round faces on others. Some were tall, some short. I attribute their many features to the Caucasian, Creek, Cherokee, Blackfoot Indian, and the African American bloodline. I must note that no legal references were uncovered to verify the location from which our ancestors migrated. Information concerning our surnames--Banks, Walker, Ross, Swift, and Lockett--I leave for the future generation to uncover. I give each of you my blessings, and I assure you your discoveries will be worth the challenge of doing the job. In this book you will witness my research and view my memory. I hope that as you read it you will learn new aspects of yourself.

AK404 EXTREME WEATHERED VEHICLES
AK404 EXTREME WEATHERED VEHICLES

Author:

Publisher: AK-INTERACTIVE, S.L.

Published:

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Whether they are found on the factory floor or the junkyard pile, cars and trucks reveal a wide variety of materials, shapes and colors which makes them the perfect candidate to apply all types of finishing products and weathering techniques. This 127 page book covers everything from painting a small engine to creating an entire scene that bring life and context to a vehicle. This book will show you how to get the finest weathering effects to civilian vehicles. The contents of this book include work from Doozy Okugawa’s “Weathered Coffee Break”, Marc Reusser’s “A California Work Truck”, Per Olav’s “Old Rusty and Weary Hulk”, Virgil Suarez’s “A 1955 Chevrolet ‘Bel Air’, Scratchmod’s “Rusted 1941 Chevy”, as well as work from Chuck Doan. Soft Cover 127 pages and over 450 photos.

Four Weathered Soles + Light The Dark
Four Weathered Soles + Light The Dark

Author: The Yajnas

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-05-13

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1365936597

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This double release is the last collection of poetry from the first twenty years of the Kollektif Lucent Spectrum. Four Weathered Soles and Light The Dark delve into an intimate and personal side of the author. This collection acts as an end piece to the previously released works, but also as a launch point into the future for the collective.

Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors
Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors

Author: Dorothy E. Mosby

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 3319975358

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Quince Duncan is one of the most significant yet understudied Black writers in the Americas. A third-generation Afro-Costa Rican of West Indian heritage, he is the first novelist of African descent to tell the story of Jamaican migration to Costa Rica. Duncan’s work has been growing in popularity among scholars and teachers of Afro-Latin American literature and African Diaspora Studies. This translation brings two of his major novels to English-speaking audiences for the first time, Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors. The book will be invaluable for those eager to develop further their background in Afro-Latin American literature, and it will enable students and faculty members in other fields such as comparative literature to engage with the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American literary studies.