Book of Waves, Stefan Helmreich

Автор: Helmreich, Stefan
Название: Oceanography
ISBN: 3956795415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783956795411
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: New approaches to the ocean enabled by the new field of (microbial) oceanography.

In recent years, a new field of scientific research has been put forward, the so-called (microbial) oceanography, which offers a new mapping of the ocean from its shiny surfaces to lightless sea floors. Oceanography combines techniques of molecular biology, gene sequencing, bioinformatics, and remote sensing, among others. Oceans are a crucial factor in global climate and necessary condition for human survival on earth, and findings from oceanography can help people better understand life (and survival) in the Anthropocene.

Not only are all life forms of marine origin, but the oceans also host extremophiles--that is, microbial life forms living under extreme conditions of heat, cold, lack of light--which are integral to understanding what possible alternative life forms might look like. It may be that such mainly anthropogenic forces as overfishing, pollution, deep-sea mining, and acidification suggest that a new concept of the ocean--Anthropocean--needs to be discussed. New approaches in cultural studies as well as in the history of sciences are shifting our vision of the ocean, considering the previous realm of immeasurable broad and depth as a fundamental contrast to a human history and culture in order to rewrite it.

Автор: Stefan Helmreich
Название: Book of Waves
ISBN: 1478019948 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478019947
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materiality through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language these avatars of nature at once periodic and irreversible, wild and pacific, ephemeral and eternal. For researchers and their publics, the meanings of waves also reflect visions of the ocean as an environmental infrastructure fundamental to trade, travel, warfare, humanitarian rescue, recreation, and managing sea level rise. Interleaving ethnographic chapters with reflections on waves in mythology, surf culture, feminist theory, film, Indigenous Pacific activisms, Black Atlantic history, cosmology, and more, Helmreich demonstrates how waves mark out the wakes and breaks of social histories and futures.

Автор: Helmreich, William
Название: The Things They Say behind Your Back
ISBN: 0878559531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780878559534
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Helmreich, William
Название: The Enduring Community
ISBN: 076580493X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765804938
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Helmreich Ernst Christian
Название: Religious Education in German Schools
ISBN: 0674492927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674492929
Издательство: Harvard University Press
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Автор: Helmreich Joseph
Название: The Return
ISBN: 125005219X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250052193
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Описание: Shawn will soon learn the truth about his abduction, the real reason for his return, and will find himself caught up in a global conspiracy that puts more than just one planet in danger. Equal parts science-fiction and globe-hopping thriller, The Return will appeal to fans of both, and to anyone who has ever wondered... what`s out there?