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Tales of the Metric System

Author : Imraan Coovadia
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821445642
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Metric System written by Imraan Coovadia and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country’s transition from imperial to metric measurements as his catalyst, holding South Africa up and examining it from the diverse perspectives of his many characters. An elite white housewife married to a radical intellectual; a rock guitarist; the same guitarist’s granddaughter thirty years later; a teenaged boy at the mercy of mob justice—each story takes place over one of ten days across the decades, and each protagonist has his own stakes, her own moment in time, but each is equally caught in the eddies of change. Tales of the Metric System is clear eyed, harrowing, and daring.

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Tales of the Metric System

Author : Imraan Coovadia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781415207239
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Metric System written by Imraan Coovadia and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From a Natal boarding school in the seventies and Soviet spies in London in the eighties to the 1995 Rugby World Cup and intrigue in the Union Buildings, Tales of the Metric System shows how ten days spread across four decades send tidal waves through the lives of ordinary and extraordinary South Africans alike."--Dust jacket.

Whatever Happened to the Metric System?

Author : John Bemelmans Marciano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 160819941X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Whatever Happened to the Metric System? written by John Bemelmans Marciano and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intriguing tale of why the United States has never adopted the metric system, and what that says about us. The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces in a pound, one hundred pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world around us, it seems like a confusing tool to use. So how did we end up with it? Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch. Yet it never happened, and the reasons for that get to the root of who we think we are, just as the measurements are woven into the ways we think. John Marciano chronicles the origins of measurement systems, the kaleidoscopic array of standards throughout Europe and the thirteen American colonies, the combination of intellect and circumstance that resulted in the metric system's creation in France in the wake of the French Revolution, and America's stubborn adherence to the hybrid United States Customary System ever since. As much as it is a tale of quarters and tenths, it is a human drama, replete with great inventors, visionary presidents, obsessive activists, and science-loving technocrats. Anyone who reads this inquisitive, engaging story will never read Robert Frost's line “miles to go before I sleep” or eat a foot-long sub again without wondering, Whatever happened to the metric system?

Measure for Measure

Author : Alex Hebra
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801870729
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Measure for Measure written by Alex Hebra and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will draw readers interested in recreational math. Hebra emphasizes how quantities are defined and derived from basic units, and converted from one system to another... Good fun for the numerically minded.Booklist

Meter Means Measure

Author : S. Carl Hirsch
Publisher : Viking Children's Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Meter Means Measure written by S. Carl Hirsch and published by Viking Children's Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the creation and development of the metric system and explains why its adoption by the United States is both inevitable and desirable.

The Dimensions of the Cosmos

Author : Randy Bancroft
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781478773276
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Dimensions of the Cosmos written by Randy Bancroft and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally, our world was described using a plethora of provincial ad hoc measurement units only of everyday dimensions. The US inch was initially defined as the length of three barleycorn placed end-to-end, and is the current basis of US shoe sizes. The invention of the microscope and telescope in the 17th century revealed unimagined new macroscopic and microscopic worlds. The Dimensions of the Cosmos takes the reader on a tour of these hidden worlds with the only measurement system designed to intuitively describe them, the modern metric system. From metric worlds that describe atoms, viruses, bacteria, quantum dots, and pollen to those which describe planets, solar systems, stars, galaxies and the universe itself, the reader moves from Yoctoworld through Yottaworld. The sizes and stories of these objects are related so the reader experiences the immense diversity and wonder found in our current understanding of the natural world.

The Amazing Story of Measurement

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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Amazing Story of Measurement written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational comic book promotes Lufkin as "the world's leading manufacturer of tapes and rules" and member of the Cooper Group.

The Metric System

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Manufactures Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Metric System written by United States. Congress. Senate. Manufactures Committee and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Metric System

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metric System written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Postcolonial Poetics

Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319903411
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Poetics written by Elleke Boehmer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading. The book’s eight chapters explore the ways in which postcolonial writing in English from various 21st-century contexts, including southern and West Africa, and Black and Asian Britain, interacts with our imaginative understanding of the world. Throughout, the focus is on reading practices, where reading is taken as an inventive, border-traversing activity, one that postcolonial writing with its interests in margins, intersections, subversions, and crossings specifically encourages. This close, sustained focus on reading, reception, and literariness is an outstanding feature of the study, as is its wide generic range, embracing poetry, essays, and life-writing, as well as fiction. The field-defining scholar Elleke Boehmer holds that literature has the capacity to keep reimagining and refreshing how we understand ourselves in relation to the world and to some of the most pressing questions of our time, including resistance, reconciliation, survival after terror, and migration.

The metric system

Author : Metric System
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The metric system written by Metric System and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga

Author : Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821447300
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga written by Mohamedou Ould Slahi and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic story of a Bedouin family’s survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. The days of Ahmed and the other families in their nomadic freeg are ruled by the rhythms of changing seasons, the needs of his beloved camel herd, and the rich legends and stories that link his life to centuries of tradition. But Ahmed’s world is threatened—by the French colonizers just beyond the horizon, the urbanization of the modern world, and a drought more deadly than any his people have known. At first, Ahmed attempts to ignore these forces by concentrating on the ancient routines of herding life. But these routines are broken when a precious camel named Zarga goes missing. Saddling his trusted Laamesh, praying at the appointed hours, and singing the songs of his fathers for strength, Ahmed sets off to recover Zarga on a perilous journey that will bring him face to face with the best and the worst of humanity and test every facet of his Bedouin desert survival skills.

The Royal Treasure Measure

Author : Trudy Harris
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1467701297
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Treasure Measure written by Trudy Harris and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Balbazar's kingdom has made a mess of measuring. Curtains are too long, robes are too short, and no one knows how to solve the problem. People measure length with everything from candlesticks to sausages to spoons. Finally, King Balbazar holds a contest. Who will come up with the winning unit of measurement—and what will it be?

The Metric System

Author : Paul Challen
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778743521
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Metric System written by Paul Challen and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book takes young readers on a trip to a science lab where they will learn about the metric system. Simple text shows ways of measuring length (meters and centimeters), temperature (Celsius), and weight (grams and kilograms). Comparisons between key metric measurements and similar U.S. customary measurements, such as yards, inches, and Fahrenheit, help children understand the two systems.

The African Novel of Ideas

Author : Jeanne-Marie Jackson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691212406
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The African Novel of Ideas written by Jeanne-Marie Jackson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries The African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today. Examining works from the Gold Coast, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, and tracing how such writers as J. E. Casely Hayford, Imraan Coovadia, Tendai Huchu, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and Stanlake Samkange reconcile deep contemplation with their social situations, Jeanne-Marie Jackson offers a new way of reading and understanding African literature. Jackson begins with Fante anticolonial worldliness in prenationalist Ghana, moves through efforts to systematize Shona philosophy in 1970s Zimbabwe, looks at the Ugandan novel Kintu as a treatise on pluralistic rationality, and arrives at the treatment of “philosophical suicide” by current southern African writers. As Jackson charts philosophy's evolution from a dominant to marginal presence in African literary discourse across the past hundred years, she assesses the push and pull of subjective experience and abstract thought. The first major transnational exploration of African literature in conversation with philosophy, The African Novel of Ideas redefines the place of the African experience within literary history.

A Spy In Time

Author : Imraan Coovadia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781955085274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book A Spy In Time written by Imraan Coovadia and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Ilube Nommo Award for Best Novel Finalist for the 2019 Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science-Fiction Novel Award-winning South African novelist Imraan Coovadia tells the story of a fledgling temporal secret agent named Enver Eleven. Enver teams up with a new handler, Shanumi Six, on a vital mission to preserve humanity's legacy. In Enver Eleven's city, fair-skinned people are a rarity and have been for centuries. They work as acrobats and jugglers or apply skin-darkening creams to conceal their condition. Johannesburg is the city that survived the end of the world thanks to the shelter provided by the thousands of miles of mining tunnels running beneath it. It's Enver's job at the Agency to make sure that the end of the world doesn't come again. He and his mentor, Shanumi Six, specialize in the hot spots of the twentieth century-Marrakech, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo-where they travel in search of an elusive enemy, guided by the collective intelligence of the Agency's thinking machines which limit time travel to the bare minimum. When Shanumi vanishes on an assignment, Enver finds himself in the middle of a catastrophe which will require him to put his assumptions to the test in an atmosphere of conspiracy and intrigue.