Extreme Frontiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extreme Frontiers write by Charley Boorman. This book was released on 2012-01-05. Extreme Frontiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charley Boorman is back on his bike exploring the world's second largest country - home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man. Canada is a country of extremes, and Charley knows all about pushing the limits. He goes dirt biking in New Brunswick, dives through old shipwrecks in Tobermory and rides along Butch Cassidy's old Outlaw Trail. He also meets a fascinating mix of people on his journey. As he heads across Canada, he plays ice hockey with a legend of the game; spends a day as a Mountie cadet and nearly meets a ghost in Winnipeg . . . Written with Charley's trademark enthusiasm and humour, Extreme Frontiers is fast-paced, hugely entertaining and packed with adventure (and rather a lot of mosquitoes).
Extreme Events in Nature and Society
Extreme Events in Nature and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extreme Events in Nature and Society write by Sergio Albeverio. This book was released on 2006-02-18. Extreme Events in Nature and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Significant, and usually unwelcome, surprises, such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture, are the topics of Extreme Events in Nature and Society. The book, authored by foremost experts in these fields, reveals unifying and distinguishing features of extreme events, including problems of understanding and modelling their origin, spatial and temporal extension, and potential impact. The chapters converge towards the difficult problem of anticipation: forecasting the event and proposing measures to moderate or prevent it. Extreme Events in Nature and Society will interest not only specialists, but also the general reader eager to learn how the multifaceted field of extreme events can be viewed as a coherent whole.
Extreme States of Matter
Extreme States of Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extreme States of Matter write by Vladimir E. Fortov. This book was released on 2010-11-16. Extreme States of Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures. These extreme states are generated, among other things, by strong shock, detonation and electric explosion waves, dense laser beams, electron and ion beams, hypersonic entry of spacecraft into dense atmospheres of planets, and in many other situations characterized by extremely high pressures and temperatures. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on the topic, this book will inform and fascinate all scientists dealing with materials properties and physics, and also serve as an excellent introduction to plasma-, shock-wave and high-energy-density physics for students and newcomers seeking an overview.
Science in an Extreme Environment
Science in an Extreme Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science in an Extreme Environment write by Philip Clements. This book was released on 2018-04-25. Science in an Extreme Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On February 20, 1963, a team of nineteen Americans embarked on the first expedition that would combine high-altitude climbing with scientific research. The primary objective of the six scientists on the team—who procured funding by appealing to the military and political applications of their work—was to study how severe stress at high altitudes affected human behavior. The expedition would land the first American on the summit of Mount Everest nearly three years after a successful (though widely disputed) Chinese ascent. At the height of the Cold War, this struggle for the Himalaya turned Everest into both a contested political space and a remote, unpredictable laboratory. The US expedition promised to resurrect American heroism, embodied in a show of physical strength and skill that, when combined with scientific expertise, would dominate international rivals on the frontiers of territorial exploration. It propelled mountaineers, scientists, and their test subjects 29,029 feet above sea level, the highest point of Chinese-occupied Tibet. There they faced hostile conditions that challenged and ultimately compromised standard research protocols, yielding results that were too exceptional to be generalized to other environments. With this book, Philip W. Clements offers a nuanced exploration of the impact of extremity on the production of scientific knowledge and the role of masculinity and nationalism in scientific inquiry.
The Frontiers of Europe
The Frontiers of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Frontiers of Europe write by Malcolm Anderson. This book was released on 1998-01-01. The Frontiers of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The political geography of Europe and consequentially, the issues confronting the European Union have changed radically since 1989. Understanding the complex nature of international frontiers in Europe is essential in contemporary politics.
