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Free Download Pulsating Stars: A NATURE Reprint by F. G. Smith , A. Hewish
English | PDF | 1968 | 100 Pages | ISBN : 1489961917 | 18.9 MB
THE discovery of the pulsating radio stars by Miss Jocelyn Bell, working with Dr Hewish at Cambridge, rivals the early classic discoveries of extraterrestrial radio sources in its importance and in its excitement. It may at first have seemed to be a lucky accident that the pulsars, as they are now called, should be detected first in an experiment designed to investigate the solar wind; the fact that for several months after the publica- tion of the discovery no other pulsars had been detected in any other radio observatory shows that the discovery followed naturally on the many years of work that Hewish has put into the study of another type of fluctuating signal, the interplanetary scintillation of discrete radio sources.

Free Download Thomas E. Jones, "Nature-Based Tourism in Asia’s Mountainous Protected Areas: A Trans-regional Review of Peaks and Parks "
English | ISBN: 3030768325 | 2021 | 340 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book provides holistic insights into management of protected areas across East Asia and identifies current trends in mountain tourism within the broader field of human geography and nature conservation. The book describes the diversification in visitors and expanding protected areas territories in different Asian countries during recent years. It also compares protected areas networks in the context of the changing demographic profiles of visitors and provides an interdisciplinary transnational appraisal of mountain-based tourism in Asia based on national and international statistics. The research combines specific case studies at the individual country and destination level with trans-regional trends, thereby offering analysis from both the perspective of supply (parks, protected areas, and stakeholders) and demand (mountain tourist market trends and segments). The book is a useful resource for students and academics in tourism and protected areas studies as well as social scientists and policy-makers interested in Asian countries.

Free Download Shiho Satsuka, "Nature in Translation: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies"
English | 2015 | pages: 281 | ISBN: 0822358808, 0822358670 | PDF | 2,6 mb
Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in Canada’s Banff National Park and illustrates how they aspired to become local "nature interpreters" by learning the ecological knowledge authorized by the National Park. The guides assumed the universal appeal of Canada’s magnificent nature, but their struggle in translating nature reveals that our understanding of nature-including scientific knowledge-is always shaped by the specific socio-cultural concerns of the particular historical context. These include the changing meanings of work in a neoliberal economy, as well as culturally-specific dreams of finding freedom and self-actualization in Canada’s vast nature. Drawing on nearly two years of fieldwork in Banff and a decade of conversations with the guides, Satsuka argues that knowing nature is an unending process of cultural translation, full of tensions, contradictions, and frictions. Ultimately, the translation of nature concerns what counts as human, what kind of society is envisioned, and who is included and excluded in the society as a legitimate subject.

Free Download Make Your Home a Nature Reserve: by Donna Mullen
English | April 22nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1788494725 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 2.23 MB
Bees, butterflies, bats, badgers …

Free Download Make Your Home a Nature Reserve: by Donna Mullen
English | April 22nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1788494725 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 2.23 MB
Bees, butterflies, bats, badgers …

Free Download Make Art with Nature: Find Inspiration and Materials From Nature by Pippa Pixley
English | April 9th, 2024 | ISBN: 0744091942 | 130 pages | True EPUB | 77.29 MB
Get creative and make incredible pieces of art using rocks, wood, berries, flowers, and leaves.

Free Download Ethohydraulics: A Method for Nature-Compatible Hydraulic Engineering
by Boris Lehmann, Katharina Bensing
English | 2022 | ASIN: B09WXP6ZG1 | 68 Pages | True PDF | 2.62 MB

Free Download Energy, Ecology and Environment: A Sustainable Nature by Gopal Nath Tiwari
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 241 Pages | ISBN : 9819939968 | 56 MB
This book covers topics related to climate change, weather, greenhouse effect, solar energy, various cycles including carbon, hydraulic, sulphur, renewable energy conservation, ecology and sustainable environment. The contents of the book include pedagogical elements, such as exercises, tables and figures at appropriate places in each chapter, including problems and objective questions at end of each chapter, to aid in learning. Further, the unit conversion from FPS system to SI unit of each parameter, namely length, energy, power, velocity and pressure force, etc, and some standard constants used in examples are also provided in the book. The book also includes discussion about renewable energy sources, namely solar energy, wind energy, biomass energy and geothermal energy, etc, their availability and eco-friendly nature. This book can be a useful reference for those in academia and industry.

Free Download Laura Smith, "Ecological Restoration and the U.S. Nature and Environmental Writing Tradition: A Rewilding of American Letters"
English | ISBN: 3030861473 | 2022 | 373 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book presents a critical history of the intersections between American environmental literature and ecological restoration policy and practice. Through a storying―restorying―restoring framework, this book explores how entanglements between writers and places have produced literary interventions in restoration politics. The book considers the ways literary landscapes are politicized by writers themselves, and by conservationists, activists, policymakers, and others, in defense of U.S. public lands and the idea of wilderness. The book profiles five environmental writers and examines how their writings on nature, wildness, wilderness, conservation, preservation, and restoration have variously inspired and been translated into ecological restoration programs and campaigns by environmental organizations. The featured authors are Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) at Walden Pond, John Muir (1838-1914) in Yosemite National Park, Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) at his family’s Wisconsin sand farm, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) in the Everglades, and Edward Abbey (1927-1989) in Glen Canyon. This book combines environmental history, literature, biography, philosophy, and politics in a commentary on considering (and developing) environmental literature’s place in conversations on restoration ecology, ecological restoration, and rewilding.

Free Download Martin Dieterich, Jan van der Straaten, "Cultural Landscapes and Land Use: The Nature Conservation ― Society Interface"
English | 2004 | pages: 234 | ISBN: 1402021046, 9048165911 | PDF | 1,7 mb
Cultural landscapes are created by people, and used by people, but still decidedly rich in biodiversity, and in harmony with nature. The landscapes of fairy tales, without dragons. Socio-economic complexity on top of biological diversity is the challenge nature conservation faces in the context of cultural landscape.