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The Shifting Pools

Author : Zoë Duncan
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN 13 : 1785630423
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Shifting Pools written by Zoë Duncan and published by Eye Books (US&CA). This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London. Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life. As she is drawn further into her dream world, she finds herself caught up in a fresh battle for survival. A dark, lyrical fantasy about healing and reconnecting with the full richness of the self.

Shifting Currents

Author : Karen Eva Carr
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145775
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Currents written by Karen Eva Carr and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies. Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners—swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans’ and Native Americans’ swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water’s power for themselves. They imagined that swimming would bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. As Carr reveals, this unresolved tension still sexualizes women’s swimming and marginalizes Black and Indigenous swimmers today. Thus, the history of swimming offers a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender, and power on a centuries-long scale.

Dark Pools

Author : Scott Patterson
Publisher : Crown Currency
ISBN 13 : 0307887197
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Dark Pools written by Scott Patterson and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the "bots"--artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans who've created them. In the beginning was Josh Levine, an idealistic programming genius who dreamed of wresting control of the market from the big exchanges that, again and again, gave the giant institutions an advantage over the little guy. Levine created a computerized trading hub named Island where small traders swapped stocks, and over time his invention morphed into a global electronic stock market that sent trillions in capital through a vast jungle of fiber-optic cables. By then, the market that Levine had sought to fix had turned upside down, birthing secretive exchanges called dark pools and a new species of trading machines that could think, and that seemed, ominously, to be slipping the control of their human masters. Dark Pools is the fascinating story of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots--many so self-directed that humans can't predict what they'll do next.

The Pool Theory

Author : Alexa Nazzaro
Publisher : Alexa Nazzaro
ISBN 13 : 0991816110
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book The Pool Theory written by Alexa Nazzaro and published by Alexa Nazzaro. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Splash!

Author : Howard Means
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306845644
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Splash! written by Howard Means and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming! From man's first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the splashing, sparkling pool party in your backyard, humans have been getting wet for 10,000 years. And for most of modern history, swimming has caused a ripple that touches us all--the heroes and the ordinary folk; the real and the mythic. Splash! dives into Egypt, winds through ancient Greece and Rome, flows mostly underground through the Dark and Middle Ages (at least in Europe), and then reemerges in the wake of the Renaissance before taking its final lap at today's Olympic games. Along the way, it kicks away the idea that swimming is just about moving through water, about speed or great feats of aquatic endurance, and shows you how much more it can be. Its history offers a multi-tiered tour through religion, fashion, architecture, sanitation and public health, colonialism, segregation and integration, sexism, sexiness, guts, glory, and much, much more. Unique and compelling, Splash! sweeps across the whole of humankind's swimming history--and just like jumping into a pool on a hot summer's day, it has fun along the way.

The Sum of Us

Author : Heather McGhee
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0525509577
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Sum of Us written by Heather McGhee and published by One World. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color. WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, BookRiot, Library Journal “This is the book I’ve been waiting for.”—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist Look for the author’s new podcast, The Sum of Us, based on this book! Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out? McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare. But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can’t do on our own. The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message, delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game. LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL

Sarah and the Big Wave

Author : Bonnie Tsui
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1250840430
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Sarah and the Big Wave written by Bonnie Tsui and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning nonfiction picture book tells the inspiring story of Sarah Gerhardt, one of the first female big-wave surfers. Have you ever seen a big wave? One that’s twenty, thirty, forty, even fifty feet tall? Here’s a better question: Would you ever surf a big wave? Sarah Gerhardt did—and this is her story. Sarah and the Big Wave, a tale of perseverance and indomitable spirit, is about the first woman to ride the waves at Mavericks, one of the biggest and most dangerous surf breaks in the world.

Wool Pools

Author : Dale W. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Wool Pools written by Dale W. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ecology of Southern California Vernal Pools

Author : Paul H. Zedler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Ecology of Southern California Vernal Pools written by Paul H. Zedler and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

California. Court of Appeal (1st Appellate District). Records and Briefs

Author : California (State).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California. Court of Appeal (1st Appellate District). Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Small Bodies of Water

Author : Nina Mingya Powles
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838852166
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Small Bodies of Water written by Nina Mingya Powles and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane 'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot 'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo – where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in northwest London. In lyrical, powerful prose, Small Bodies of Water weaves together memories, dreams and nature writing. Exploring everything from migration, food, family, earthquakes and the ancient lunisolar calendar, Nina reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures, and what it means to belong.

Welding Metallurgy

Author : Sindo Kou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119524857
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Welding Metallurgy written by Sindo Kou and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the extraordinary progress that welding metallurgy has experienced over the last two decades Welding Metallurgy, 3rd Edition is the only complete compendium of recent, and not-so-recent, developments in the science and practice of welding metallurgy. Written by Dr. Sindo Kou, this edition covers solid-state welding as well as fusion welding, which now also includes resistance spot welding. It restructures and expands sections on Fusion Zones and Heat-Affected Zones. The former now includes entirely new chapters on microsegregation, macrosegregation, ductility-dip cracking, and alloys resistant to creep, wear and corrosion, as well as a new section on ternary-alloy solidification. The latter now includes metallurgy of solid-state welding. Partially Melted Zones are expanded to include liquation and cracking in friction stir welding and resistance spot welding. New chapters on topics of high current interest are added, including additive manufacturing, dissimilar-metal joining, magnesium alloys, and high-entropy alloys and metal-matrix nanocomposites. Dr. Kou provides the reader with hundreds of citations to papers and articles that will further enhance the reader’s knowledge of this voluminous topic. Undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers and mechanical engineers will all benefit spectacularly from this comprehensive resource. The new edition includes new theories/methods of Kou and coworkers regarding: · Predicting the effect of filler metals on liquation cracking · An index and analytical equations for predicting susceptibility to solidification cracking · A test for susceptibility to solidification cracking and filler-metal effect · Liquid-metal quenching during welding · Mechanisms of resistance of stainless steels to solidification cracking and ductility-dip cracking · Mechanisms of macrosegregation · Mechanisms of spatter of aluminum and magnesium filler metals, · Liquation and cracking in dissimilar-metal friction stir welding, · Flow-induced deformation and oscillation of weld-pool surface and ripple formation · Multicomponent/multiphase diffusion bonding Dr. Kou’s Welding Metallurgy has been used the world over as an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and engineers alike. This new Third Edition is no exception.

Minnesota Botanical Studies

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Minnesota Botanical Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black

Author : Cookie Mueller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838858483
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black written by Cookie Mueller and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller, published in the UK for the first time. Mueller chronicles her high-risk, high-reward life in glorious technicolour, from becoming a part of John Waters' legendary acting troupe to becoming a mother, from describing the hedonism of 1980s New York to critiquing the government's dire response to the AIDS epidemic. Cookie's voice is fresh, wise, freewheeling and unafraid of darkness. Like a lysergic Nora Ephron, she is the candid flipside to the idealistic hippie dream. Whether good, bad or ugly, her stories are fiercely entertaining and reliably honest. Featuring a new introduction by Olivia Laing, this edition collects Mueller's stories, columns and writings, and presents a testament to a life lived courageously and well.

Relative Prices to Producers Under Selected Types of Milk Pools

Author : Thomas Gregory Stitts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Relative Prices to Producers Under Selected Types of Milk Pools written by Thomas Gregory Stitts and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waterlog

Author : Roger Deakin
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9781784700065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterlog written by Roger Deakin and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by John Cheever's classic short story, 'The Swimmer', Roger Deakin set out from his home in Suffolk to swim through the British Isles. The result of his journey is this personal view of an island race.