City At The Waters Edge

Author : Carl Zimmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684856239
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Water's Edge written by Carl Zimmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody Out of the Pond At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we got here, what we left behind, and what we brought with us. We all know about evolution, but it still seems absurd that our ancestors were fish. Darwin's idea of natural selection was the key to solving generation-to-generation evolution -- microevolution -- but it could only point us toward a complete explanation, still to come, of the engines of macroevolution, the transformation of body shapes across millions of years. Now, drawing on the latest fossil discoveries and breakthrough scientific analysis, Carl Zimmer reveals how macroevolution works. Escorting us along the trail of discovery up to the current dramatic research in paleontology, ecology, genetics, and embryology, Zimmer shows how scientists today are unveiling the secrets of life that biologists struggled with two centuries ago. In this book, you will find a dazzling, brash literary talent and a rigorous scientific sensibility gracefully brought together. Carl Zimmer provides a comprehensive, lucid, and authoritative answer to the mystery of how nature actually made itself.

Author : Betsy McCully
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813539153
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City at the Water's Edge written by Betsy McCully and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concrete floors and concrete walls, buildings that pierce the sky, taxicabs and subway corridors, a steady din of noise. These things, along with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges make New York City not only the cultural and financial capital of the United States, but one of the largest and most impressive urban conglomerations in the world. With distinctions like these, is it possible to imagine the city as any more than this? City at the Water's Edge invites readers to do just that. Betsy McCully, a long-time urban dweller, argues that this city of lights is much more than a human-made metropolis. It has a rich natural history that is every bit as fascinating as the glitzy veneer that has been built atop it. Through twenty years of nature exploration, McCully has come to know New York as part of the Lower Hudson Bioregion-a place of salt marshes and estuaries, sand dunes and barrier islands, glacially sculpted ridges and kettle holes, rivers and streams, woodlands and outwash plains. Here she tells the story of New York that began before the first humans settled in the region twelve thousand years ago, and long before immigrants ever arrived at Ellis Island. The timeline that she recounts is one that extends backward half a billion years; it plumbs the depths of Manhattan's geological history and forecasts a possible future of global warming, with rising seas lapping at the base of the Empire State Building. Counter to popular views that see the city as a marvel of human ingenuity diametrically opposed to nature, this unique account shows how the region has served as an evolving habitat for a diversity of species, including our own. The author chronicles the growth of the city at the expense of the environment, but leaves the reader with a vision of a future city as a human habitat that is brought into balance with nature.

Author : Michael Keefe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lake Geneva written by Michael Keefe and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned for its historic mansions, posh resorts, and deep blue waters, Lake Geneva is a haven for Chicago's movers and shakers since the Great Fire of 1871. This guide talks about Lake Geneva, providing images and details from local residents. It features tours of lakeshore homes, engaging profiles, and insights into the local scene.

Author : Allen Dale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Water's Edge written by Allen Dale and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Kornblum
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565127056
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Sea in the City written by William Kornblum and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York is a city of few boundaries, a city of well-known streets and blocks that ramble on and on, into our literature, dreams, and nightmares. We know the city by the byways that split it, streets like Broadway and Madison and Flatbush and Delancey. From those streets, peering down the blocks and up at the top floors, the city seems immense and endless. And though the land itself may end at the water, the city does not. Long before Broadway was a muddy cart track, the water was the city's most distinguishing feature, the rivers the only byways of importance. Some people, like William Kornblum, still see the city as an urban archipelago, shaped by the water and the people who have sailed it for goods, money, pirate's loot, and freedom. For them, the City will always be an island. William Kornblum--New York City native, longtime sailor, urban sociologist, and first-time author--has spent decades plying the waterways of the city in his ancient catboat, Tradition. In At Sea in the City, he takes the reader along as he sails through his hometown, lovingly retelling the history of the city's waterfront and maritime culture and the stories of the men and women who made the water their own. In At Sea in the City and in Kornblum's own humility, humor, and sense of wonder, one detects echoes of E. B. White, John McPhee, and Joseph Mitchell.

Author : Stephen Letherman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426208685
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Geographic Field Guide to the Water's Edge written by Stephen Letherman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beaches, shorelines, and riverbanks"--Cover.

Author : Beverly M. Rathbun
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465344543
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Water's Edge written by Beverly M. Rathbun and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I hope it isn’t one of those crazy places where they make you strip naked and roll around in wet paint,” Fern says when her family sends her to a creative arts retreat at the Water’s Edge. After the demise of her twenty year marriage Fern DeGiulio believes she has successfully put her life back together. Her family believes she needs to get out more. Meet new people. While communing with nature at the Water’s Edge, Fern meets Daniella, Dannie, Stevens. Her attraction to Dannie ignites a desire that Fern thought she’d buried years ago. But Dannie is a fixer, and when she attempts to fix what has been broken in Fern’s life it leads to a tumultuous relationship. The Water’s Edge is a naturalists’ adventure, a love story, and a reminder that there is always an opportunity to begin again

Author : Ronald S. Fehribach
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 149187399X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Below the Water's Edge written by Ronald S. Fehribach and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have we been someone before? Is there a cycle to life that passes personality and societys characteristics through the generations, much like our physical characteristics are passed by various chemical configurations? What about many major religions that base their belief on reincarnation or past lives, and often times their leadership on someones presupposed link to the past? What about all those individuals claiming to have been someone before? What is the possibility that you have been someone before, and if so who? How does one find out about ones own possibilities and ones impact on todays existence? Many feel that meditation is the way to enter this world of deep inner knowledge and to bring awareness of this past cycle. Hypnosis has also been used to offer an abundance of examples to illustrate the possibility of our having been here before. To get past our immediate existence and regress through our birth to a world of spirits from the past is indeed an adventure, if such a world even exists. Please join me now for a journey into an unseen world.

Author : Tricia Cusack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351575732
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Identity at the Water's Edge written by Tricia Cusack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The water's edge, whether shore or riverbank, is a marginal territory that becomes invested with layers of meaning. The essays in this collection present intriguing perspectives on how the water's edge has been imagined and represented in different places at various times and how this process contributed to the formation of social identities. Art and Identity at the Water's Edge focuses upon national coastlines and maritime heritage; on rivers and seashore as regions of liminality and sites of conflicting identities; and on the edge as a tourist setting. Such themes are related to diverse forms of art, including painting, architecture, maps, photography, and film. Topics range from the South African seaside resort of Durban to the French Riviera. The essays explore successive ideological mappings of the Jordan River, and how Czech cubist architecture and painting shaped a new nationalist reading of the Vltava riverbanks. They examine post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans as a filmic spectacle that questions assumptions about American identity, and the coast depicted as a site of patriotism in nineteenth-century British painting. The collection demonstrates how waterside structures such as maritime museums and lighthouses, and visual images of the water's edge, have contributed to the construction of cultural and national identities.

Author : John Hubchenko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737396765
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Key West at the Water's Edge written by John Hubchenko and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key West at the Water's Edge is a book in three parts, and each part has a different mood. Part one depicts the life and times of a subset of the population of Key West five decades ago. The main characters are two couples who live and work in the little city. Part one traces how these characters meet, form relationships, and get on with their lives, setting a scene of placid environs and chicanery.The protagonist, Freddy is an offensive person at the start of the book. He criticizes and mimics everyone and every group. Despite this, he has a widely diverse group of friends who have come to know him and see through his haze of bad jokes and alcohol. They try to reform his bad habits. Part two moves the story through nettling insecurities, and, finally; part three ends in a clash of forces. As part two begins things seem amiss. One of the characters, his buddy, Wayne, is secretive; odd and threatening occurrences begin. Menacing characters enter the scene and cause a bit of mayhem. At the end of Part Two tragedy strikes, which sets the stage for Part Three, which entails retribution, and cat-and-mouse pursuits, circular chases, and a sea chase ensues.