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Windshifts

Author : Jane Grossman
Publisher : Windshifts
ISBN 13 : 9781420869828
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Windshifts written by Jane Grossman and published by Windshifts. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever dreamed of running away to a tropical island? In 1996 Jane Grossman left behind a comfortable life in Chicago and set off with her husband on their 34-foot sailboat, Iniki, to sail South America. What began as a chance to simplify their lifestyle and to see the islands gradually evolved to a sojourn of self-discovery, renewal and triumph over breast cancer. "Windshifts" is a true sailing adventure that chronicles the wonder and excitement, the difficulties and fears from a woman's perspective. Vivid details and delightful descriptions of exotic lands, cultural interactions and inevitable conflicts of a husband and wife confined to close quarters involve the reader with all of their senses. More importantly, it is a reflection on dealing with the unexpected challenges that confront us all throughout our lives.

Skipper's Cockpit Racing Guide

Author : Tim Davison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472900332
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Skipper's Cockpit Racing Guide written by Tim Davison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Skipper's Cockpit Racing Guide is an at-a-glance reference for dinghy and yacht racers, covering everything they need to know to improve their performance – and win. From those in their first year of racing to old hands wondering why they're not winning, this guide covers an enormous amount of detail in a simple, easy to follow format. Topics are broken down into photo sequences, boxes, flowcharts, hints and tips, and cover: - setting your goals - assembling the right boat and gear - practising and tuning (straight line, tacking, gybing, rounding marks, doing penalties) - starting (planning, set-up of rig and foils) - race strategy (beating, reaching, running) - tactics against the opposition - crewing skills (trim, weight) - tides and currents (what affects the flow, using them to your advantage) - wind (wind shadows, wind bends, forecasts) - spinnakers (symmetric, asymmetric, hoist, gybe, drop) - rules (start, beat, reach, run) A final section on troubleshooting enables readers to rate their performance and identify areas for improvement, handily linking back to those pages in the book.

The Wind Shifts

Author : Francisco Aragón
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816548102
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Wind Shifts written by Francisco Aragón and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wind Shifts gathers, for the first time, works by emerging Latino and Latina poets in the twenty-first century. Here readers will discover 25 new and vital voices including Naomi Ayala, Richard Blanco, David Dominguez, Gina Franco, Sheryl Luna, and Urayoán Noel. All of the writers included in this volume have published poetry in well-regarded literary magazines. Some have published chapbooks or first collections, but none had published more than one book at the time of selection. This results in a freshness that energizes the enterprise. Certainly there is poetry here that is political, but this is not a polemical book; it is a poetry book. While conscious of their roots, the artists are equally conscious of living in the contemporary world—fully engaged with the possibilities of subject and language. The variety is tantalizing. There are sonnets and a sestina; poems about traveling and living overseas; poems rooted in the natural world and poems embedded in suburbia; poems nourished by life on the U.S.–Mexico border and poems electrified by living in Chicago or Los Angeles or San Francisco or New York City. Some of the poetry is traditional; some is avant-garde; some is informed by traditional poetry in Spanish; some follows English forms that are hundreds of years old. There are love poems, spells that defy logic, flashes of hope, and moments of loss. In short, this is the rich and varied poetry of young, talented North American Latinos and Latinas.

Gary Jobson's Championship Sailing

Author : Gary Jobson
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071423816
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Gary Jobson's Championship Sailing written by Gary Jobson and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004-08-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Jobson shares his expertise for a winning performance in sailboat racing. In the pages of Gary Jobson's Championship Sailing, the author shares more than 30 years of racing and sailing expertise at the highest levels of competition, covering every aspect of racing in one-design or handicap fleets from high-performance dinghies to big keelboats.

Who Owns the Wind?

Author : David McDermott Hughes
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839761156
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Who Owns the Wind? written by David McDermott Hughes and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the wind, and energy it produces, should not be private property The energy transition has begun. To succeed—to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar power—that process must be fair. Otherwise, mounting pop- ular protest against wind farms will prolong carbon pollution and deepen the climate crisis. David McDermott Hughes examines that anti-industrial, anti- corporate resistance, drawing on his time spent conducting field research in a Spanish village surrounded by wind turbines. In the lives of a community freighted with centuries of exploitation—people whom the author comes to know intimately—clean power and social justice fit together only awkwardly. A green economy will require greater efforts to get ordinary people such as these on board. Aesthetics, livelihood, property, and, most essentially, the private nature of wind resources—all these topics must be examined with fresh eyes.

Legal-institutional implications of wind energy conversion systems (WECS).

Author : Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Legal-institutional implications of wind energy conversion systems (WECS). written by Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Airborne Wind Shear Detection and Warning Systems: Third Combined Manufacturers' and Technologists' Conference, Part 2

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Airborne Wind Shear Detection and Warning Systems: Third Combined Manufacturers' and Technologists' Conference, Part 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wind

Author : Jan DeBlieu
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504008332
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Wind written by Jan DeBlieu and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wind has sculpted Earth from the beginning of time, but it has also shaped humans—our histories, religions and cultures, the way we build our dwellings, and how we think and feel. In this poetic, acclaimed work, Jan DeBlieu takes the tempests of her home, the North Carolina Outer Banks, as a starting point for considering how the world’s breezes and gales have made us who we are. She travels widely, seeking out the scientists, sailors and sages who, like her, are haunted by the movement of air.

Variability of the Monthly Mean Zonal Wind, 30-60 Km

Author : Lloyd V. Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Variability of the Monthly Mean Zonal Wind, 30-60 Km written by Lloyd V. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents an analysis of the monthly mean zonal wind and the standard deviation of the zonal wind about the monthly mean. The data are presented in tables and the analyses in time (months)-altitude (30 to 60 kilometers) cross-section as well as profiles for selected levels. The variability of the monthly mean zonal wind, 30 to 60 kilometers, is discussed by individual station. Also, there is a discussion of the altitudinal, latitudinal, monthly, and seasonal variations with a designation of four seasons - winter (dominated by westerlies but with occasional easterlies). November through March; spring transition of westerlies to easterlies, April and May; summer (persistent easterlies), June through August; and fall transition of easterlies to westerlies, September and October.

Wind Power For Dummies

Author : Ian Woofenden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470496371
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Wind Power For Dummies written by Ian Woofenden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consumer guide to small-scale wind electricity production! Maybe you're not T. Boone Pickens, but you can build your own home-sized wind-power empire right in your back yard. Wind Power For Dummies supplies all the guidance you need to install and maintain a sustainable, cost-effective wind generator to power your home for decades to come. This authoritative, plain-English guide walks you through every step of the process, from assessing your site and available wind sources to deciding whether wind power is the solution for you, from understanding the mechanics of wind power and locating a contractor to install your system to producing your own affordable and sustainable electricity. Guides you step by step through process of selecting, installing, and operating a small-scale wind generator to power your home Demystifies system configurations, terminology, and wind energy principles to help you speak the language of the pros Helps assess and reduce your energy needs and decide whether wind power is right for you Explains the mechanics of home-based wind power Shows you how to tie into the grid and sell energy back to the power company Offers advice on evaluating all of the costs of and financing for your project Provides tips on working with contractors and complying with local zoning laws Yes, you can do it, with a little help from Wind Power For Dummies.

Doppler Radar Systems and the Wind-shear Aviation Problem

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Doppler Radar Systems and the Wind-shear Aviation Problem written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wind Energy

Author : David E. Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Wind Energy written by David E. Newton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While covering the fascinating history of wind power as a whole, this timely handbook focuses on current technological developments and the promise—and pitfalls—of wind energy as part of the world's energy future. The use of wind power for the generation of electricity holds vast potential for solving the world's energy problems, but numerous technical and social issues must be addressed before that potential can be realized. This handbook will both educate students about current issues related to wind energy and introduce the ways in which mankind has harnessed the wind through the ages. The book covers topics as diverse as early windmills in Europe, the United States, China, and the Middle East; the development of wind farms for electricity generation; and political factors involved in the development of wind energy today. Conventional wind turbine mechanics are explained, as are the technical improvements that drive modern wind turbines and other wind systems. What makes the handbook unique is that it combines hard science with perspective pieces that address topics such as potential environmental damage that can result from modern wind technology, and how recent developments in wind turbine technology hold the promise for considerably reducing the cost of this alternate energy source, making it competitive with conventional fossil fuels. Readers will be engaged by extensive discussion of the economic, political, and ethical issues raised by the expanding use of wind energy in the United States and elsewhere, and they will be intrigued by a look at what wind power can mean to the planet's energy future.

Analysis and Synthesis of Hurricane Wind Patterns Over Lake Okeechobee, Florida

Author : Robert W. Schloemer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analysis and Synthesis of Hurricane Wind Patterns Over Lake Okeechobee, Florida written by Robert W. Schloemer and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the evolution of meteorological ideas and techniques, which will be combined with oceanographic techniques, to arrive at design values for the levees on the shores of Lake Okeechobee.

The Wind in His Circuits: with the Explanation of the Origin and Cause of Circular Storms and Equinoctial Gales. Illustrated with Numerous Diagrams, Etc

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Author : Robert Henry ARMIT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Wind in His Circuits: with the Explanation of the Origin and Cause of Circular Storms and Equinoctial Gales. Illustrated with Numerous Diagrams, Etc written by Robert Henry ARMIT and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wind Generated Ocean Waves

Author : I.R. Young
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080543804
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Wind Generated Ocean Waves written by I.R. Young and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1999-03-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goals of wind wave research are relatively well defined: to be able to predict the wind wave field and its effect on the environment. That environment could be natural (beaches, the atmosphere etc.) or imposed by human endeavour (ports, harbours, coastal settlements etc.). Although the goals are similar, the specific requirements of these various fields differ considerably. This book attempts to summarise the current state of this knowledge and to place this understanding into a common frame work. It attempts to take a balanced approach between the pragmatic engineering view of requiring a short term result and the scientific quest for detailed understanding. Thus, it attempts to provide a rigorous description of the physical processes involved as well as practical predictive tools.

Airborne Wind Shear Detection and Warning Systems: Third Combined Manufacturers' and Technologists' Conference, Part 1

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Airborne Wind Shear Detection and Warning Systems: Third Combined Manufacturers' and Technologists' Conference, Part 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Power from Wind

Author : Richard Leslie Hills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521566865
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Power from Wind written by Richard Leslie Hills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wind is a fickle source of power. Windspeeds are frequently too low to be of any practical use, so that windpower has generally remained a marginal resource. Since the inception of windpower around 1000 AD, technology has been deployed to obtain the most economical power from wind. The author traces its technical evolution, concentrating on the growth in understanding of wind and charting crucial developments in windmill design. The history of the windmill is focused on North Western Europe, drawing on the origins of the first horizontal windmills in Persia, Tibet and China. Industrial applications such as in textiles, papermaking and mining are examined. Gradually, windmills were improved but were finally eclipsed by steam engines in the nineteenth century due to increased levels of industrialisation. The book concludes with a look at the recent re-emergence of windpower as a viable source of power in the wake of the energy crisis.