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UNINA9910464914503321 |
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Birkhead T. R. |
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Titolo |
Great Auk Islands : a field biologist in the Arctic / / by Tim Birkhead ; illustrated by David Quinn |
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London : , : T & A.D. Poyser, , 2010 |
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1-4725-9711-7 |
1-4081-3785-2 |
1-282-98652-X |
9786612986529 |
1-4081-3784-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Auks |
Birds |
Great auk |
Sea birds |
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Arctic regions |
Canada, Northern |
Newfoundland and Labrador Labrador |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published in 1993 by T & AD Poyser Ltd. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Horizon opening; Chapter 2 Margins of the universe; Chapter 3 Nameless days; Chapter 4 The lives of Great Auks; Chapter 5 Labrador; Chapter 6 Skouts, SkuttOcks and Strangers; Chapter 7 Between species in Labrador; Chapter 8 The fertile sea; Chapter 9 Changes; Appendix 1: List of common and systematic names; Appendix 2: Notes on the local seabird names used in Labrador; References; Index |
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"A book for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology and animal behaviour. The Arctic is one of the world's last great wildernesses: a place of outstanding beauty, history and extraordinary wildlife in which seabirds form an important component |
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of a rich, marine environment. Like many other remote regions, it is under threat from human activities, but to protect it we need to understand it. That understanding can come only through scientific research and the central threat of this book is to examine how such research is actually done. It describes the business of conducting biological studies on seabirds in remote parts of eastern Canada. Several themes are engagingly interwoven: the sheer beauty of the Arctic environment, the intriguing biology of its wildlife, and the discovery and exploitation of enormous seabird colonies, including the destruction of the Great Auk. Tim Birkhead describes in personal detail the different facets of research and brings to life both the difficulties and the excitement of working in the Arctic. What is it like setting up a camp for four months on a remote and uninhabited island not far from the North Pole? How does it feel to commute daily by inflatable boat amidst icebergs to study-areas located on towering cliffs, set between ice-blue glaciers? What do you do when a Polar bear decides that you have invaded its Arctic home? Why are the seabird colonies in the high Arctic so enormous? What do we know about lifestyle of the extinct Great Auk? In 1992 Canada's legendary cod fishery was finally destroyed - what are the consequences of this for other wildlife? These are just a few of the questions dealt with in this book. Our future as a species depends upon science and the understanding it brings of the world we live in. The work of scientists often appears obscure, but in this book, Tim Birkhead has used his experience of seven summers in the Arctic to write an accessible and straightforward account of how research is actually done in the field. The text is enriched by David Quinn's illustrations, and by numerous photographs in both black and white, and colour."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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UNINA9910586637403321 |
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Architecture and Resilience : Interdisciplinary Dialogues / / edited by Kim Trogal, Irena Bauman, Ranald Lawrence and Doina Petrescu |
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Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018] |
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©2019 |
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1-351-65966-9 |
1-315-15947-3 |
1-351-65965-0 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (300 pages) : 135 illustrations, text file, PDF |
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ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning |
city |
climate change |
ecology |
energy |
environment |
geography |
practice |
sustainability |
theory |
urban |
Architecture and climate |
Sustainable architecture |
Architecture and society |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Introduction: Architecture and Resilience on a Human ScaleKim Trogal, Irena Bauman, Ranald Lawrence and Doina Petrescu Dialogue: Narratives of Resilience 2. Collective documenting of extreme urban transformations; evidence of urban resilience during war in Sarajevo |
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(1992-1996) Armina Pilav 3. Future Works: stories resilience and resourcefulness Renata Tyszczuk & Julia Udall 4. Building and Bearing Witness in Calais. An interview with Grainne Hassett Grainne Hassett with Irena Bauman Dialogue: Community resilience and the right to housing 5. Social architectures of age-friendly community resilience: lessons from niche intentional community development Helen Jarvis 6. Building eco-homes for all: inclusivity, justice and affordability Jenny Pickerill 7. Micro-resilience and justice in So Paulo Beatrice De Carli Dialogue: New pedagogies of resilience 8. Tackling climate change: comparing studio approaches in Sheffield and Cape Town Ranald Lawrence and Kevin Fellingham 9. Architecture of multiple authorship: beyond the academic year Sandra Denicke-Polcher 10. Provocateurs or Consultants? The role of Sheffield School of Architecture in the co-production of Castlegate An Interview with Carolyn Butterworth Carolyn Butterworth with Ranald Lawrence Dialogue: Challenging Climate Denial 11. Building resilience in the built environment Susan Roaf 12. The new imagination in a culture of uncare Sally Weintrobe 13. Management before fabric An interview with Irena Bauman Irena Bauman with Ranald Lawrence and Kim Trogal Dialogues: Resilience Ethics and Interdependence 14. Resilient subjects: on feminist practice Elke Krasny and Meike Schalk 15. Resilience as interdependence: learning from the care ethics of subsistence practices Kim Trogal 16. The Organic Internet Panayotis Antoniadis 17. Living resiliency: between planning and the grassroots. An interview with Daniel DOca Daniel DOca with Kim Trogal and Doina Petrescu Dialogues: Scales of resilience concerning the city, the region and globalization 18. Globalization, Risk, and Resistance: The production of new spaces of conflict and resilience Axel Becerra Santacruz 19. Learning from New Orleans: Social resilience for urban ecosystems Marchella Del Signore & Cordula Roser Gray 20. From city policy to neighbourhood. An interview with Tina Saaby Tina Saaby with Irena Bauman 21. Commons-Based Urban Resilience: an interview with Constatin Petcou and Doina Petrescu - atelier darchitecture autogre (aaa) aaa with Kim Trogal Index. |
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Resilience will be a defining quality of thetwenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not resilient. Our urban infrastructures, our buildings, our economies, our ways of managing and governing are still too tightly bound to models of unrestrained free-market growth, individualism and consumerism. Research has shown that the crises arising from climate change will become increasingly frequent and increasingly severe. It is also known that the effects of climate change are not evenly distributed across places and people, and neither are the resources needed to meet these challenges. We will need specific responses in place that engage with, and emerge from, citizens ourselves. This volume takes resilience as a transformative concept to ask where and what architecture might contribute. Bringing together cross-disciplinary perspectives from architecture, urban design, art, geography, building science and psychoanalysis, it aims to openup multiple perspectives of research, spatial strategies and projects that are testing how we can build local resilience in preparation for major societal challenges, defining the position of architecture in urban resilience discourse. |
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UNINA9910483021803321 |
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Titolo |
Mobile Social Signal Processing : First International Workshop, MSSP 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, September 7, 2010, Invited Papers / / edited by Roderick Murray-Smith |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
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[1st ed. 2014.] |
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1 online resource (XIV, 101 p. 26 illus.) |
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Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 8045 |
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User interfaces (Computer systems) |
Human-computer interaction |
Data mining |
Multimedia systems |
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction |
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery |
Multimedia Information Systems |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Mobile Phones and Social Signal Processing for Analysis and Understanding of Dyadic Conversations -- Turns Analysis for Automatic Role Recognition -- Speaker Diarization of Multi-party Conversations Using Participants Role Information: Political Debates and Professional Meetings -- Invisible, Passive, Continuous and Multimodal Authentication -- The Metaphysics of Communications Overload -- Capturing Performative Actions for Interaction and Social Awareness -- Negotiation Models for Mobile Tactile Interaction -- Direct Tactile Coupling of Mobile Phones with the feel abuzz System -- A Multimodal Contact List to Enhance Remote Communication. |
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This book contains papers invited after the First International Workshop on Mobile Social Signal Processing, MSSP 2010, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2010. The 9 revised papers included in this |
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volume represent the diversity of two fields of research, Mobile HCI and Social Signal Processing, and areas of overlap. They cover a wide range of topics spanning from approaches for effective interaction with mobile and wearable devices to modelling, analysis and synthesis of nonverbal behaviour in human-human and human-machine interactions. |
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