Ripples in Our Time Line - 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 Ripples in Our Time Line write by Mark Wolfal. This book was released on 2005-06. Ripples in Our Time Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An old New England cemetery with scandalous headstones...a dirt road filled with wandering livestock...an empty foundation where once a thriving mill stood...a rocky coastline deserted in winter. This is the essence of "Ghosts Along the Road," part historical, part travel guide, part local New England humor. All this and more awaits the armchair traveler when he embarks upon 26 different "roads less traveled" in Rona Mann's part of southwestern Rhode Island and southeastern Connecticut. Each chapter explores the character of a different town or village and makes you want to head for the car to experience it for yourself.
The Ripple Effect
The Ripple Effect - 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 Ripple Effect write by Alex Prud'homme. This book was released on 2011-06-07. The Ripple Effect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What he found was shocking: as the climate warms and world population grows, demand for water has surged, but supplies of freshwater are static or dropping, and new threats to water quality appear every day. The Ripple Effect is Prud’homme’s vivid and engaging inquiry into the fate of freshwater in the twenty-first century. The questions he sought to answer were urgent: Will there be enough water to satisfy demand? What are the threats to its quality? What is the state of our water infrastructure—both the pipes that bring us freshwater and the levees that keep it out? How secure is our water supply from natural disasters and terrorist attacks? Can we create new sources for our water supply through scientific innovation? Is water a right like air or a commodity like oil—and who should control the tap? Will the wars of the twenty-first century be fought over water? Like Daniel Yergin’s classic The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, Prud’homme’s The Ripple Effect is a masterwork of investigation and dramatic narrative. With striking instincts for a revelatory story, Prud’homme introduces readers to an array of colorful, obsessive, brilliant—and sometimes shadowy—characters through whom these issues come alive. Prud’homme traversed the country, and he takes readers into the heart of the daily dramas that will determine the future of this essential resource—from the alleged murder of a water scientist in a New Jersey purification plant, to the epic confrontation between salmon fishermen and copper miners in Alaska, to the poisoning of Wisconsin wells, to the epidemic of intersex fish in the Chesapeake Bay, to the wars over fracking for natural gas. Michael Pollan has changed the way we think about the food we eat; Alex Prud’homme will change the way we think about the water we drink. Informative and provocative, The Ripple Effect is a major achievement.
GILLIAN DOUGLAS: RESURRECTION & METAMORPHOSIS
GILLIAN DOUGLAS: RESURRECTION & METAMORPHOSIS - 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 GILLIAN DOUGLAS: RESURRECTION & METAMORPHOSIS write by Robert Grant Wealleans. This book was released on 2018-12-06. GILLIAN DOUGLAS: RESURRECTION & METAMORPHOSIS available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gillian Louise Douglas is 107, yet her eidetic mind is still sharp. Near the end of her life, the former operative, CIA officer and U.S. Marshal, Gillian Douglas, sponsors a scientist who promises "cellular immortality" & a return to youth for Gillian using her patented "repair viruses." Fatimah Sorenson, the protZgZ and inventor, possessing advanced degrees in artificial intelligence, robotics, & astronomy warns of a cosmic apocalypse she has predicted based upon her astronomy thesis and her grand plan to create a race of robots, immortal human constructs in disguise, for the purpose of surviving the radiation storm she predicts is coming Earth's way fifty years hence in 2147. Intriguing, suspenseful, and a love story of many parts & players while lurking in the shadows, a mysterious entity is at work. You will be stunned at the finale of this exciting journey of rebirth and change & the cosmic romance that portends great things for humanity & the cosmos.
Optics in Our Time
Optics in Our Time - 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 Optics in Our Time write by Mohammad D. Al-Amri. This book was released on 2016-12-12. Optics in Our Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Light and light based technologies have played an important role in transforming our lives via scientific contributions spanned over thousands of years. In this book we present a vast collection of articles on various aspects of light and its applications in the contemporary world at a popular or semi-popular level. These articles are written by the world authorities in their respective fields. This is therefore a rare volume where the world experts have come together to present the developments in this most important field of science in an almost pedagogical manner. This volume covers five aspects related to light. The first presents two articles, one on the history of the nature of light, and the other on the scientific achievements of Ibn-Haitham (Alhazen), who is broadly considered the father of modern optics. These are then followed by an article on ultrafast phenomena and the invisible world. The third part includes papers on specific sources of light, the discoveries of which have revolutionized optical technologies in our lifetime. They discuss the nature and the characteristics of lasers, Solid-state lighting based on the Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology, and finally modern electron optics and its relationship to the Muslim golden age in science. The book’s fourth part discusses various applications of optics and light in today's world, including biophotonics, art, optical communication, nanotechnology, the eye as an optical instrument, remote sensing, and optics in medicine. In turn, the last part focuses on quantum optics, a modern field that grew out of the interaction of light and matter. Topics addressed include atom optics, slow, stored and stationary light, optical tests of the foundation of physics, quantum mechanical properties of light fields carrying orbital angular momentum, quantum communication, and Wave-Particle dualism in action.
The Star and the Abyss
The Star and the Abyss - 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 Star and the Abyss write by . This book was released on . The Star and the Abyss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
