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The Humboldt Current

Author : Aaron Sachs
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201614
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Humboldt Current written by Aaron Sachs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterly and beautifully written account of the impact of Alexander von Humboldt on nineteenth-century American history and culture The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he and his enormous legacy to American thought are virtually unknown. In The Humboldt Current, Aaron Sachs traces Humboldt's pervasive influence on American history through examining the work of four explorers—J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace, and John Muir—who embraced Humboldt's idea of a "chain of connection" uniting all peoples and all environments. A skillful blend of narrative and interpretation that also discusses Humboldt's influence on Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Melville, and Poe, The Humboldt Current offers a colorful, passionate, and superbly written reinterpretation of nineteenth-century American history.

The Humboldt Current

Author : Aaron Sachs
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143111924
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (119 download)

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The Fishmeal Revolution

Author : Kristin A. Wintersteen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520379632
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Fishmeal Revolution written by Kristin A. Wintersteen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- A deep history of the Humboldt Current ecosystem -- The new industrial ecology of animal farming in the Atlantic and Pacific worlds, 1840-1930 -- Protein from the sea : the "nutrition problem" and the industrialization of fishing in Chile and Peru -- The golden anchoveta : the making of the world's largest single-species fishery in Chimbote, Peru -- States of uncertainty : science, policy, and the bio-economics of Peru's 1972 fishmeal collapse -- The translocal history of industrial fisheries in Iquique and Talcahuano, Chile -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : glossary of marine species -- Appendix B :diagram of Humboldt Current trophic web -- Appendix C : major current systems of Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean -- Appendix D : world fisheries management zones -- Appendix E : world fisheries landings and ENSO events, 1950-2014.

The Invention of Nature

Author : Andrea Wulf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345806298
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Nature written by Andrea Wulf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. "Vivid and exciting.... Wulf’s pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus.” —The Boston Globe Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. In North America, Humboldt’s name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains, and a river. And yet the man has been all but forgotten. In this illuminating biography, Andrea Wulf brings Humboldt’s extraordinary life back into focus: his prediction of human-induced climate change; his daring expeditions to the highest peaks of South America and to the anthrax-infected steppes of Siberia; his relationships with iconic figures, including Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson; and the lasting influence of his writings on Darwin, Wordsworth, Goethe, Muir, Thoreau, and many others. Brilliantly researched and stunningly written, The Invention of Nature reveals the myriad ways in which Humboldt’s ideas form the foundation of modern environmentalism—and reminds us why they are as prescient and vital as ever.

GIWA Regional Assessments: Humboldt Current

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book GIWA Regional Assessments: Humboldt Current written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt

Author : Andrea Wulf
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524747378
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Andrea Wulf and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, but his most revolutionary idea was a radical vision of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. His theories and ideas were profoundly influenced by a five-year exploration of South America. Now Andrea Wulf partners with artist Lillian Melcher to bring this daring expedition to life, complete with excerpts from Humboldt's own diaries, atlases, and publications. She gives us an intimate portrait of the man who predicted human-induced climate change, fashioned poetic narrative out of scientific observation, and influenced iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, and John Muir. This gorgeous account of the expedition not only shows how Humboldt honed his groundbreaking understanding of the natural world but also illuminates the man and his passions.

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Publisher : Soffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 988855672X
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (885 download)

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Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States

Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691200807
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States written by Eleanor Jones Harvey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC September 18, 2020–January 3, 2021

The Behaviour, Population Biology and Physiology of the Petrels

Author : John Warham
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0080527787
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Behaviour, Population Biology and Physiology of the Petrels written by John Warham and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1996-06-10 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a lifetime's work with the group, John Warham has firmly established himself as one of the foremost experts on these birds. In this book he completes the major survey started in his earlier work, The Petrels: Their Ecology and Breeding Systems. The text is comprehensive, well illustrated, and fully referenced.Together with the earlier, companion volume, this encyclopedic treatment presents an amazingly detailed, yet accessible introduction to this important, much-studied bird family, for the biologist, the conservation manager, and the dedicated amateur ornithologist.Key Features* Authored by an authoritative expert in the field* Explores an important, model group of birds* Appeals to a conservation interest

The Passage to Cosmos

Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226871843
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Passage to Cosmos written by Laura Dassow Walls and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it, Humboldt espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty and order, the very idea of the whole it composes, are human achievements: cosmos comes into being in the dance of world and mind, subject and object, science and poetry. Humboldt’s science laid the foundations for ecology and inspired the theories of his most important scientific disciple, Charles Darwin. In the United States, his ideas shaped the work of Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman. They helped spark the American environmental movement through followers like John Muir and George Perkins Marsh. And they even bolstered efforts to free the slaves and honor the rights of Indians. Laura Dassow Walls here traces Humboldt’s ideas for Cosmos to his 1799 journey to the Americas, where he first experienced the diversity of nature and of the world’s peoples—and envisioned a new cosmopolitanism that would link ideas, disciplines, and nations into a global web of knowledge and cultures. In reclaiming Humboldt’s transcultural and transdisciplinary project, Walls situates America in a lively and contested field of ideas, actions, and interests, and reaches beyond to a new worldview that integrates the natural and social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. To the end of his life, Humboldt called himself “half an American,” but ironically his legacy has largely faded in the United States. The Passage to Cosmos will reintroduce this seminal thinker to a new audience and return America to its rightful place in the story of his life, work, and enduring legacy.

Humboldt and Jefferson

Author : Sandra Rebok
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813935709
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Humboldt and Jefferson written by Sandra Rebok and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humboldt and Jefferson explores the relationship between two fascinating personalities: the Prussian explorer, scientist, and geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) and the American statesman, architect, and naturalist Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). In the wake of his famous expedition through the Spanish colonies in the spring of 1804, Humboldt visited the United States, where he met several times with then-president Jefferson. A warm and fruitful friendship resulted, and the two men corresponded a good deal over the years, speculating together on topics of mutual interest, including natural history, geography, and the formation of an international scientific network. Living in revolutionary societies, both were deeply concerned with the human condition, and each vested hope in the new American nation as a possible answer to many of the deficiencies characterizing European societies at the time. The intellectual exchange between the two over the next twenty-one years touched on the pivotal events of those times, such as the independence movement in Latin America and the applicability of the democratic model to that region, the relationship between America and Europe, and the latest developments in scientific research and various technological projects. Humboldt and Jefferson explores the world in which these two Enlightenment figures lived and the ways their lives on opposite sides of the Atlantic defined their respective convictions.

Cosmos

Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Cosmos written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Intelligent Methods in Computing, Communications and Control

Author : Ioan Dzitac
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030536513
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Methods in Computing, Communications and Control written by Ioan Dzitac and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Computers Communications and Control 2020 (ICCCC2020), covering topics such as theory for computing and communications, integrated solutions in computer-based control, computational intelligence and soft computing, decision-making and support systems. The ICCCC was founded in Romania in 2006, and its eight editions have featured respected keynote speakers and leading computer scientists from around the globe.

Navigation of the Pacific Ocean

Author : Alexander Bridport Becher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navigation of the Pacific Ocean written by Alexander Bridport Becher and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nautical Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Nautical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1859

Author : Various
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108054501
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1859 written by Various and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1859 Nautical Magazine includes reports of British operations in East Asia, setbacks affecting submarine cables and the Franklin searches.