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UNINA9910463398703321 |
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Autore |
Cerulean Susan |
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Titolo |
Coming to pass : Florida's coastal islands in a gulf of change / / Susan Cerulean ; photographs by David Moynahan ; designed by Erin Kirk New |
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Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (303 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Islands - Florida - Apalachicola Bay |
Island ecology - Florida - Apalachicola Bay |
Coastal ecology - Florida - Apalachicola Bay |
Electronic books. |
Apalachicola Bay (Fla.) Environmental conditions |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Passing of a Palm Cathedral; PART 1 Origin Stories; 1 Sand Supply; 2 Front Beach; 3 Relict Ridges; 4 Middens and Lagoons; 5 The Passes; 6 Upland: Where the Beach Used to Be; PART 2 Territory; 7 The First People; 8 Beach Badges; 9 Claiming a Space on the Sand: Willets; 10 What the Eagle Calls Home; 11 The Rights of Birds; PART 3 Diminishing Islands; Direct Take; 12 The Ways We Fish; 13 Oystercatchers; 14 Robbing the River; Habitat Loss; 15 Evolution's Larger Concerns: Beach Mice; 16 Counting Christmas Birds; Pollution; 17 Stealing the Dark from Sea Turtles |
18 Standing Watch for OilClimate Change and Sea Level Rise; 19 "The Shore, Being of Shifting Sand"; 20 Sand Envy; 21 The Edge; PART 4 We Are Not Separate; 22 Candlemas: Reclaiming the Rhythm of Time; 23 Red Wolves; 24 We Are Not Separate; Saint Island Prayer; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography |
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Coming to Pass tells the story of a little-developed necklace of northern Gulf Coast islands. Both a field guide to a beloved and impermanent Florida landscape and a call for its protection, Susan Cerulean's memoir chronicles the uniquely beautiful coast as it once |
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was, as it is now, and as it may be as the sea level rises. For decades, Cerulean has kayaked, hiked, and counted birds on and around Dog, the St. Georges, and St. Vincent Islands with family and friends. She has collected scallops, snorkeled over a fallen lighthouse a mile offshore, and cast nets and fishing lines into cyclical run |
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UNINA9910711207003321 |
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Autore |
Leonhardt Rodney W |
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Titolo |
Calibration service for laser power and energy at 248 nm / / Rodney W. Leonhardt |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Gaithersburg, MD : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, , 1998 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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NIST technical note ; ; 1394 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Excimer lasers - Calibration |
Lasers - Industrial applications |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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1998. |
Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes. |
Title from PDF title page. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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