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Author |
: Tasha G. Oren |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813534801 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813534800 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Currents by : Tasha G. Oren
Rhetoric about media technology tends to fall into two extreme categories: unequivocal celebration or blanket condemnation. This is particularly true in debate over the clash of values when first world media infiltrate third world audiences. Bringing together the best new work on contemporary media practices, technologies, and policies, the essayists in Global Currents argue that neither of these extreme views accurately represents the role of media technology today. New ways of thinking about film, television, music, and the internet demonstrate that it is not only media technologies that affect the cultures into which they are introduced--it is just as likely that the receiving culture will change the media. Topics covered in the volume include copyright law and surveillance technology, cyber activism in the African Diaspora, transnational monopolies and local television industries, the marketing and consumption of "global music," "click politics" and the war on Afghanistan, the techno-politics of distance education, artificial intelligence and global legal institutions, and traveling and "squatting" in digital space. Balanced between major theoretical positions and original field research, the selections address the political and cultural meanings that surround and configure new technologies.
Author |
: Robert Marsh |
Publisher |
: Elsevier |
Total Pages |
: 554 |
Release |
: 2021-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780128160602 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0128160608 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ocean Currents by : Robert Marsh
Ocean Currents: Physical Drivers in a Changing World opens with a general introduction to the character, measurement, and simulation of ocean currents, leading to a physical and dynamical framework for understanding the wide variety of flows encountered in the oceans. The book comprises chapters covering distinct aspects of contrasting ocean currents: broad and slow, deep and shallow, narrow and swift, large scale and small scale, low latitudes and high latitudes, and moving in horizontal and vertical planes. Through this approach the authors cover a wide range of applications, from local to global, with considerable geographical context. - Provides analyses of ocean observations and numerical model simulations, highlighting the pathways and drift associated with ocean currents, around the World Ocean, linked to online exercises for instructors and students that extend this perspective - Presents applications to natural phenomena, showing how ocean currents shape marine ecosystems, helping researchers understand the distribution and adaptation of life in the oceans - Addresses societal challenges, specifically how ocean currents disperse pollutants (e.g. plastic) from coastal sources and how the global ocean circulation is central to our changing climate, helping students and researchers develop an interdisciplinary approach to global environmental change
Author |
: Antony Joseph |
Publisher |
: Newnes |
Total Pages |
: 447 |
Release |
: 2013-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780123914286 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0123914280 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Measuring Ocean Currents by : Antony Joseph
Measuring Ocean Currents: Tools, Technologies, and Data covers all major aspects of ocean current measurements in view of the implications of ocean currents on changing climate, increasing pollution levels, and offshore engineering activities. Although more than 70% of the Earth is covered by ocean, there is limited information on the countless fine- to large-scale water motions taking place within them. This book fills that information gap as the first work that summarizes the state-of-the-art methods and instruments used for surface, subsurface, and abyssal ocean current measurements. Readers of this book will find a wealth of information on Lagrangian measurements, horizontal mapping, imaging, Eulerian measurements, and vertical profiling techniques. In addition, the book describes modern technologies for remote measurement of ocean currents and their signatures, including HF Doppler radar systems, satellite-borne sensors, ocean acoustic tomography, and more. Crucial aspects of ocean currents are described in detail as well, including dispersion of effluents discharged into the sea and transport of beneficial materials—as well as environmentally hazardous materials—from one region to another. The book highlights several important practical applications, showing how measurements relate to climate change and pollution levels, how they affect coastal and offshore engineering activities, and how they can aid in tsunami detection. - Coverage of measurement, mapping and profiling techniques - Descriptions of technologies for remote measurement of ocean currents and their signatures - Reviews crucial aspects of ocean currents, including special emphasis on the planet-spanning thermohaline circulation, known as the ocean's "conveyor belt," and its crucial role in climate change
Author |
: Glenda Tibe Bonifacio |
Publisher |
: Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2017-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781787144842 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1787144844 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Currents in Gender and Feminisms by : Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
This collection examines the ongoing shared struggles of diverse groups of women in Canada and beyond focusing on a diverse range of themes to explore the centrality of gender and feminist praxis in western and non-western contexts.
Author |
: John H. Steele |
Publisher |
: Academic Press |
Total Pages |
: 638 |
Release |
: 2010-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780080964867 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0080964869 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ocean Currents by : John H. Steele
Ocean Currents is a derivative of the Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 2nd Edition and serves as an important reference on current ocean current knowledge and expertise in one convenient and accessible source. Its selection of articles—all written by experts in their field—focuses on key ocean current concepts. Its topics include ocean currents, the circulation of deep water, the contrasting circulations of the seas, the circulation in fjords, estuaries and the effects of rivers, and the intermittency and variability of the oceans. Ocean Currents serves as an ideal reference for topical research. References related articles on ocean currents to facilitate further research Richly illustrated with figures and tables that aid in understanding key concepts Includes an introductory overview of ocean currents and then explores each topic in detail, making it useful to experts and graduate-level researchers Topical arrangement makes it the perfect desk reference
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: Elsevier |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2014-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780080870403 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0080870406 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ocean Currents by :
Ocean Currents
Author |
: Janeen Mason |
Publisher |
: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 36 |
Release |
: 2012-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1589808622 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781589808621 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ocean Commotion: Caught in the Currents by : Janeen Mason
29,000 bathtub toys make history. It was an accident at sea in 1992 that proved the ocean currents are connected. When a cargo ship dropped a bathtub-toy-filled container into the Pacific, the little quackers bobbed along the globe's waterways, coming to rest on beaches near and far. This fictionalized account of the event is accompanied by maps charting the toys' travel pattern, a glossary, and a summary of the highly publicized event.
Author |
: James Rennell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 1832 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0019291825 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Investigation of the Currents of the Atlantic Ocean by : James Rennell
Author |
: Karen Eva Carr |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 2022-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789145779 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789145775 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shifting Currents by : Karen Eva Carr
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.
Author |
: Terry Smith |
Publisher |
: Laurence King |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1856697169 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781856697163 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Art by : Terry Smith
Contemporary Art: World Currents argues that, in recent decades, a worldwide shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred. This has not, however, been a uniform change from one phase or styles in the history of art to another. Rather artists everywhere have embraced the contemporary world's teeming multiplicity, its proliferating differences and its challenging complexities. Alongside more that 370 key works, Terry Smith shows how contemporary art achieved definitive force in the markets and museums of the major art centres during the 1980s and then became a global phenomenon as artworlds everywhere began to connect more closely. New communicative technologies and expanding social media are now shaping the future of art. This book breaks new ground in tracing how modern, traditional and indigenous art became contemporary in each cultural region of the world. Diversity - the contemporaneity of difference - not a convergence towards sameness, Smith argues, is what makes today's art contemporary.