Space in the Tropics

Space in the Tropics
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9780520219854
ISBN-13 : 0520219856
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Space in the Tropics by : Peter Redfield

This title compares the current space programme in French Guiana to the earlier penal colony of Devil's Island, highlighting cultural realignments in nature behind the evolution of global technology in a tropical rainforest.

Diary of an Overland Journey to Colorado

Diary of an Overland Journey to Colorado
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Total Pages : 33
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:13739013
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Synopsis Diary of an Overland Journey to Colorado by :

Collection contains a daily logbook written by a man (from Linneus, Mo.?) traveling in a party by wagon train from St. Joseph, Mo. to Denver, Colo.via the South Platte route in 1863; typed transcript (partly in summary form).

Space in the Tropics

Space in the Tropics
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 0520923421
ISBN-13 : 9780520923423
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Space in the Tropics by : Peter Redfield

Rockets roar into space—bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites—from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. In comparing the Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal experiment, Redfield connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe, nineteenth-century prison reform, the Dreyfus Affair, tropical medicine, postwar exploration of outer space, satellite technology, development, and ecotourism with a focus on place, and the incorporation of this particular place into greater extended systems. Examining the wider context of the Ariane program, he argues that technology and nature must be understood within a greater ecology of displacement and makes a case for the importance of margins in understanding the trajectories of modern life.

An Eye for the Tropics

An Eye for the Tropics
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 421
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ISBN-10 : 9780822388562
ISBN-13 : 0822388561
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis An Eye for the Tropics by : Krista A. Thompson

Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.

Dragon in the Tropics

Dragon in the Tropics
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780815705024
ISBN-13 : 0815705026
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Dragon in the Tropics by : Javier Corrales

Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regime—an outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support. This eye-opening book illuminates one of the most sweeping and unexpected political transformations in contemporary Latin America. Based on more than fifteen years' experience in researching and writing about Venezuela, Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold have crafted a comprehensive account of how the Chávez regime has revamped the nation, with a particular focus on its political transformation. Throughout, they take issue with conventional explanations. First, they argue persuasively that liberal democracy as an institution was not to blame for the rise of chavismo. Second, they assert that the nation's economic ailments were not caused by neoliberalism. Instead they blame other factors, including a dependence on oil, which caused macroeconomic volatility; political party fragmentation, which triggered infighting; government mismanagement of the banking crisis, which led to more centralization of power; and the Asian crisis of 1997, which devastated Venezuela's economy at the same time that Chávez ran for president. It is perhaps on the role of oil that the authors take greatest issue with prevailing opinion. They do not dispute that dependence on oil can generate political and economic distortions—the "resource curse" or "paradox of plenty" arguments—but they counter that oil alone fails to explain Chávez's rise. Instead they single out a weak framework of checks and balances that allowed the executive branch to extract oil rents and distribute them to the populace. The real culprit behind Chávez's success, they write, was the asymmetry of political power.

Placing Outer Space

Placing Outer Space
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780822373919
ISBN-13 : 0822373912
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Placing Outer Space by : Lisa Messeri

In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Mars Desert Research Station and a NASA research center to discuss ways scientists experience and map Mars. At a Chilean observatory and in MIT's labs she describes how they discover exoplanets and envision what it would be like to inhabit them. Today’s planetary science reveals the universe as densely inhabited by evocative worlds, which in turn tells us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the universe.

Climate Dynamics of the Tropics

Climate Dynamics of the Tropics
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 507
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ISBN-10 : 9789401131568
ISBN-13 : 9401131562
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Climate Dynamics of the Tropics by : S. Hastenrath

The first edition of my book "Climate and Circulation of the Tropics" was reasonably up to date to the middle of 1985. In a second printing in 1988 it was possible to complete a few literature references and to correct some misprints. However, vigorous research has taken place over the past five years in various areas of tropical climate dynamics, especially in the atmosphere-ocean mechanisms of climate anomalies, climate prediction, ocean circulation, and paleoclimates. Promising progress has also been made in the application of general circulation modelling to tropical climate problems. In the present second edition, named "Climate Dynamics of the Tropics", I have attempted to incorporate much of the recent work to late 1990. Chapters 8 and 9 have been essentially re-written, and major additions have been made to Chapters 4 and 12 in particular. I would like to acknowledge the continued support by the U.S. National Science Foundation over the past five years. B. Parthasarathy, Poona, and H. Lessmann, San Salvador, sent me updates of data series not easily accessible. I have benefitted from discussions with numerous colleagues in the United States and overseas. In the preparation of this second edition, Marilyn Wolff patiently transferred my illegible hand-written drafts onto word processor. Dierk Polzin and Dan Skemp assisted me with the creation of the page masters and the subject index and Christopher Collimore with the author index.

Space in the Tropics

Space in the Tropics
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Total Pages : 878
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:C3388562
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Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Space in the Tropics by : Peter W. Redfield

American Tropic

American Tropic
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Publisher : Knopf
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9781400042326
ISBN-13 : 1400042321
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis American Tropic by : Thomas Sanchez

A string of murders being committed by a mysterious voodoo assassin on the exotic island city of Key West pits a crusading environmental shock-jock and a homicide detective against a maelstrom of unscrupulous developers, scammers and everyday citizens. 25,000 first printing.

Don't Let Others Rent Space in Your Head

Don't Let Others Rent Space in Your Head
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780471781219
ISBN-13 : 0471781215
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Don't Let Others Rent Space in Your Head by : Gary Coxe

Praise for Don't Let Others Rent Space in Your Head "Gary offers rich advice for anyone who wishes to succeed in spite of his or her failures. Four simple steps may be all that stand in the way of your dreams becoming a reality. Here's to the good life! Cheers!" --Robin Leech, TV host "Gary has developed an uncanny ability to take people to the next level. A must-read for everyone, whether you want to improve your life, your sales, or your business. Gary definitely has it figured out. Well done!" --Harvey MacKay, New York Times bestselling author of Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive "Gary's thought process is one to admire and to achieve. Handling big business means changing your mindset, and Gary leads the way. An enjoyable book with great concepts for everyone in business and in personal life. A book you'll want to read twice." --Gordon "Butch" Stewart, owner of Sandals Resorts "A powerful and practical approach from someone who truly knows what he's talking about. You will be unstoppable after reading Gary's no-nonsense ideas on never giving up and becoming more successful." --Ron Rice, founder, President, and CEO of Hawaiian Tropics "Gary's book will take you beyond positive thinking and change your life for the better." --Ron Garl, President of Ron Garl Golf Design