Meander

Author : Jeremy Seal
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448139228
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meander written by Jeremy Seal and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression - an invitation Jeremy Seal is duty-bound to accept while travelling the length of it in a one-man canoe. At every twist and turn of his journey, from the Meander's source in the uplands of Central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, Seal illuminates his account with a wealth of cultural, historical and personal asides. It is a journey that takes him from Turkey's steppe interior - the stamping ground of such illustrious adventurers as Xerxes, Alexander the Great and the Crusader Kings - to the great port city of Miletus, home of the earliest Western philosophers. Along the way Seal unpicks the history of this remarkable region, but he also encounters a rich assortment of contemporary characters who reveal a rural Turkey on the cusp of change. Above all, this is the story of a river that first brought the cultures of East and West into contact - and conflict - with one another, its banks littered with the spoil of empires, the marks of war, and the detritus of recent industrialisation. At once epic, intimate and insightful, Meander is a brilliant evocation of a land between two worlds.

Author : Jane Alison
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1948226138
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meander, Spiral, Explode written by Jane Alison and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read . . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom to explore but with enough guidance to thrive." ―Maris Kreizman, Vulture A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 | A Poets & Writers Best Books for Writers As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: “For centuries there’s been one path through fiction we’re most likely to travel― one we’re actually told to follow―and that’s the dramatic arc: a situation arises, grows tense, reaches a peak, subsides . . . But something that swells and tautens until climax, then collapses? Bit masculosexual, no? So many other patterns run through nature, tracing other deep motions in life. Why not draw on them, too?" W. G. Sebald’s Emigrants was the first novel to show Alison how forward momentum can be created by way of pattern, rather than the traditional arc--or, in nature, wave. Other writers of nonlinear prose considered in her “museum of specimens” include Nicholson Baker, Anne Carson, Marguerite Duras, Gabriel García Márquez, Jamaica Kincaid, Clarice Lispector, Susan Minot, David Mitchell, Caryl Phillips, and Mary Robison. Meander, Spiral, Explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let’s leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. It will appeal to serious readers and writers alike.

Author : Peter Frederick Lagasse
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 0309088143
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook for Predicting Stream Meander Migration written by Peter Frederick Lagasse and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2004 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Wooster
Publisher : Excelsior Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781438484686
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meander: Making Room for Rivers written by Margaret Wooster and published by Excelsior Editions. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the author's own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.

Author : Mickey Wangler
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387670859
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mick's Meander's written by Mickey Wangler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a boy that becomes a man spanning Europe to America. He followed his dream and passion to become a carpenter and build homes. This is the story of that journey.

Author : Alessandra Crosato
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586039158
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analysis and Modelling of River Meandering written by Alessandra Crosato and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the morphological changes of non-tidal meandering rivers at the spatial scale of several meanders. With this purpose, a physics-based mathematical model, MIANDRAS, has been developed for the simulation of the medium-term to long-term evolution of meandering rivers. Application to several real rivers shows that MIANDRAS can properly simulate both equilibrium river bed topography and planimetric changes. Three models of different complexity can be obtained by applying different degrees of simplification to the equations. These models, along with experimental tests and field data, constitute the tools for several analyses. At conditions of initiation of meandering, it is found that river bends can migrate upstream and downstream. This depends on meander wave length and width-to-depth ratio, irrespective of whether the parameters are in the subresonant or the superresonant range.

Author : Anna Karnauhova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110533022
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meanders written by Anna Karnauhova and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book’s subject is meanders (connected, oriented, non-self-intersecting planar curves intersecting the horizontal line transversely) in the context of dynamical systems. By interpreting the transverse intersection points as vertices and the arches arising from these curves as directed edges, meanders are introduced from the graphtheoretical perspective. Supplementing the rigorous results, mathematical methods, constructions, and examples of meanders with a large number of insightful figures, issues such as connectivity and the number of connected components of meanders are studied in detail with the aid of collapse and multiple collapse, forks, and chambers. Moreover, the author introduces a large class of Morse meanders by utilizing the right and left one-shift maps, and presents connections to Sturm global attractors, seaweed and Frobenius Lie algebras, and the classical Yang-Baxter equation. Contents Seaweed Meanders Meanders Morse Meanders and Sturm Global Attractors Right and Left One-Shifts Connection Graphs of Type I, II, III and IV Meanders and the Temperley-Lieb Algebra Representations of Seaweed Lie Algebras CYBE and Seaweed Meanders

Author : Massimiliano Ghinassi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119424461
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fluvial Meanders and Their Sedimentary Products in the Rock Record (IAS SP 48) written by Massimiliano Ghinassi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sinuous form and peculiar evolution of meandering rivers has long captured the imagination of people. Today, meandering rivers exist in some of the most densely populated areas in the World, where they provide environmental and economic wealth and opportunities, as well as posing hazards. Through geological time, the ancestors of these modern meanders built deposits that are now host to mineral resources, groundwater, and hydrocarbons. This Special Publication illustrates the breadth of current research on meandering rivers and their deposits. The collection of research papers demonstrates the state of science on fluvial process–product relationships. The articles cover fundamental and applied studies of both modern and ancient rivers, are based on state-of-the-art technology, include complementary philosophical approaches, and span a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. This book includes some of the most recent advances in the study of the morphodynamics and sedimentology of meandering rivers, and is an important resource for those who want to investigate fluvial systems and their deposits.

Author : Angela Walters
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1617455210
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free-Motion Meandering written by Angela Walters and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finishing your own quilts is easier than you think Turn the corner to free-motion success with a meandering makeover! Best-selling author Angela Walters shows you that free-motion quilting doesn't have to be scary - with a couple designs in your pocket, you can finish almost any quilt on your home machine and enjoy the process. Practice 8 meandering stitches for beginners, plus creative variations on each, with step-by-step visuals and quilted samples. Start your free-motion journey on the right foot with proven techniques to help you disguise mistakes and transition between designs with ease. • Thrive at free-motion quilting with popular teacher and best-selling author Angela Walters • Just starting out? Angela includes the basics of quilting and supplies • Troubleshoot mistakes, master the meander, and practice fluid movement between quilt stitches

Author : Walter Basil Langbein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River Meanders--theory of Minimum Variance written by Walter Basil Langbein and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geometry of a meander is that of a random walk whose most frequent form minimizes the sum of the squares of the changes in direction in each unit length. Changes in direction closely approximate a sine function of channel distance. Depth, velocity, and slope are adjusted so as to decrease the variance of shear and the friction factor in a meander over that in an otherwise comparable straight reach of the same river.