The Brasilian Navigator

Author : John Purdy
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020329951
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brasilian Navigator written by John Purdy and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide for navigating the coasts of Brazil includes detailed information about the ports, currents, and hazards along the country's extensive coastline. Compiled by John Purdy to accompany Laurie's New General Chart of the coast of Brazil, it remains an invaluable resource for sailors and navigators. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Tucker J Marion
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148751252X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Innovation Navigator written by Tucker J Marion and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation is a top strategic priority for firms across all industries. In The Innovation Navigator, Tucker J. Marion and Sebastian K. Fixson explore four innovation archetypes or modes – "specialist," "venture," "community," and "network" – which feature prominently in the expanding innovation landscape. Specialists employ technologies to achieve entirely new solutions and superior product performance. New corporate ventures lower the barriers for employees to self-select into entrepreneurial projects, while reducing the constraints of bureaucracy. The community brings new sources of knowledge by expanding past the firm's boundaries, dramatically increasing the number of participants. The network creates partnerships and ecosystems that create innovations that could not be developed by individual companies alone. The Innovation Navigator guides the reader in exploring and exploiting these different modes of innovation. Individual chapters provide key insights into the inherent opportunities and challenges from a number of vantage points: from the impact on organizational resources to the role of incentives. The book also provides a framework for how firms can leverage dynamic mode shifts and multimode strategies. Firms across the industrial spectrum are profiled, from new additive manufacturing companies such as Formlabs, community-based solution providers like Forth, to traditional firms exploring new modes like GE Appliances and their FirstBuild initiative. The Innovation Navigator will assist executives in building the capabilities for peak performance in this new innovation landscape.

Author : Rüdiger Wehner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674247922
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Navigator written by Rüdiger Wehner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences A world-renowned researcher of animal behavior reveals the extraordinary orienteering skills of desert ants, offering a thrilling account of the sophisticated ways insects function in their natural environments. Cataglyphis desert ants are agile ultrarunners who can tolerate near-lethal temperatures when they forage in the hot midday sun. But it is their remarkable navigational abilities that make these ants so fascinating to study. Whether in the Sahara or its ecological equivalents in the Namib Desert and Australian Outback, the Cataglyphis navigators can set out foraging across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home. For almost half a century, Rüdiger Wehner and his collaborators have devised elegant experiments to unmask how they do it. Through a lively and lucid narrative, Desert Navigator offers a firsthand look at the extraordinary navigational skills of these charismatic desert dwellers and the experiments that revealed how they strategize and solve complex problems. Wehner and his team discovered that these insect navigators use visual cues in the sky that humans are unable to see, the Earth’s magnetic field, wind direction, a step counter, and panoramic “snapshots” of landmarks, among other resources. The ants combine all of this information to steer an optimal course. At any given time during their long journey, they know exactly where to go. It is no wonder these nimble and versatile creatures have become models in the study of animal navigation. Desert Navigator brings to light the marvelous capacity and complexity found in these remarkable insects and shows us how mini brains can solve mega tasks.

Author : James N. Green
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822371790
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brazil Reader written by James N. Green and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of the best-selling Brazil Reader dives deep into the past and present of a country marked by its geographical vastness and cultural, ethnic, and environmental diversity. Containing over one hundred selections—many of which appear in English for the first time and which range from sermons by Jesuit missionaries and poetry to political speeches and biographical portraits of famous public figures, intellectuals, and artists—this collection presents the lived experience of Brazilians from all social and economic classes, racial backgrounds, genders, and political perspectives over the past half millennium. Whether outlining the legacy of slavery, the roles of women in Brazilian public life, or the importance of political and social movements, The Brazil Reader provides an unparalleled look at Brazil’s history, culture, and politics.

Author : Peter Edward Russell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300091304
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prince Henry 'the Navigator' written by Peter Edward Russell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studie over de centrale rol die prins Hendrik de Zeevaarder (1394-1460) speelde bij de eerste Portugese ontdekkingsreizen.

Author : Robert O Harder
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513174
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying from the Black Hole written by Robert O Harder and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots—their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or simply unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people who operated the bomber, three wore navigator wings—two of those men were also bombardiers, the other an electronic warfare officer. Without the navigator-bombardiers in particular, executing the nuclear war strike plan or flying Southeast Asian conventional bombing sorties would have been impossible. This book reveals who these men were and what they did down in the “Black Hole,” a story told by one of their own.

Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New American Practical Navigator written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New American Practical Navigator written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New American Practical Navigator written by Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: