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  Placing Names - Enriching and...

  Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall,...

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  Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its development in recent decades. Adopted by researchers in the Digital Humanities and Spatial Sciences, gazetteers provide a way to model the kind of complex cultural, vernacular, and perspectival ideas of place that can be located in texts and expanded into an interconnected framework of naming history. This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and impact of spatial reasoning into the digital age.

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  The Olive Season - Amour a New...

  Carol Drinkwater

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  “A lovely balance of memoir, travelogue and olive-growing how-to . . . Some of her adventures are quite funny.” —Publishers Weekly In this memoir, the author of The Olive Farm returns to the ten-acre property for which she and her fiancé scraped together their savings to buy—just back from their wedding on a tiny Polynesian island, loaded down with luggage and a large hand-painted didgeridoo. As Carol and Michel settle in as husband and wife, they experience the glamor of southern France at dinner parties in the company of aristocrats and at the world-renowned Cannes film festival, as well as the dirt-caked, sun-baked life of farmers—especially after their gardener heads to Algiers to arrange his youngest son’s wedding. For Carol, though, what matters most is that her longtime dream of motherhood finally promises to come true—and over the course of The Olive Season, she shares the story of her hopes and fears as she anticipates another kind of growth and nurturing. Alternately entertaining and emotionally poignant, this memoir is a rich portrait of love, longing, and the constant uncertainties of the cycle of life.

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  30 Passive Income Ideas

  Darryl James

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  The most trusted passive income guide to taking charge and building your passive income portfolio.Learn about:AppsPropertyDrop shippingNetwork marketingYouTubePlus 25 more passive income ideasIs life mediocre? Do you find yourself constantly working without much time or money left at the end of each month? Life, if you're not careful, can go a little something like this: education until your early 20s, get a good job, buy a used car, buy a house, get tied down to your job because of financial and family obligations, and then one day, when you are 65 years old, retire and live off your pension. The world is changing around us; people are working in a job even after 65. What if there was another way? What if you could retire a lot earlier and find a way to make your money work for you?For those who don't want a lifetime subscription to mediocrity or to work in a job you barely enjoy, there is an alternative — an expressway to extraordinary wealth that can explode your financial independence faster than any road out there.What makes this audiobook unique:You don't need a lot of money to get startedYou will learn trending methods for earning passive incomeYou will find out how to create multiple streams of passive incomeYou can set up the plan in an hourPowerful tips and strategies will help you with any passive income idea you decide to pursueMany of these passive income ideas require no Online knowledge at allThe information in this audiobook will help you to take your income to the next level and will help anyone who is interested in passive income and becoming financially free. Having income without limits, you will learn everything that you need to establish multiple streams of income. Can you see how now is a good time to take action? You are the author of your life. Be bold and take action today.

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  Secret Worlds - The...

  Martin Stevens

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  ‘What is it like to be a bat?’, the philosopher Thomas Nagel famously asked concerning consciousness. For biologist Martin Stevens, the question forms the starting point of an exploration of animal senses. How indeed does a bat—or an owl, a bee, or a platypus—experience the world?  Very differently to us humans, as we discover. Many animals experience a world far richer in sight, sound, and smell, and interact with each other in ways we simply don’t pick up, and which continue to surprise researchers. Who would imagine that rats and mice sing complex songs while courting; or that the humble dung beetle relies on light from the Milky Way above for guidance as it carries its precious cargo away from competitors. The world must show so much more colour to many birds, with four types of cones in their eyes instead of our three, and the ability to see into the ultraviolet. And that’s just considering the senses we share. What of those we have no inkling of—like the electric fields sensed by so many animals; or the magnetic maps used by migrating birds, and by sea turtles to find a current and return after many years to the shore where they hatched?  In this enthralling account, we learn not only of the wonder of animal senses, but how they work and how scientists go about investigating them. And, throughout, we consider how these senses came to be. For evolution is at the root of it all, as Stevens explains. Senses arose to enable animals to catch prey, to hide,and to mate more effectively, usually honed through fierce competition and arms races with predators. The result, over millions of years, is a wondrous panoply of ways of experiencing the world, against which our own senses often pale into insignificance.

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  Florida Manatees - Biology...

  John E. Reynolds

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  A photographic guide that “focuses on the beauty, grace and vulnerability of these herbivores, but it also covers other sea mammals and their habitats” (The Biologist). 
   
  Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 
   
  In this book, manatee expert John E. Reynolds III and famed photographer Wayne Lynch join forces to reveal the clearest portrait of manatees ever published. Florida Manatees is a song for the manatee, a celebration of the lives of these majestic creatures. Reynolds’s concise, informative text shares what scientists know about manatees, while Lynch’s beautiful photographs instantly demonstrate how special these “potatoes with whiskers” really are. By encouraging an appreciation of manatees, the authors hope to help ensure a future in which Floridians can find ways to coexist with and continue to enjoy these uniquely wonderful sirenian inhabitants of their state. 
   
  Included in this book:How manatees first came to Florida watersHow manatees fit into the ecosystems of FloridaWhat and how much manatees eatHow manatees behave and communicate with one anotherWhy manatees look the way they doWhy manatees have whiskersHow manatee mothers feed their young and much more 
   
  “A lovely book that sounds as though it would appeal primarily to scientists, but which offers inviting color photos and history that make it accessible to lay audiences both within Florida and outside the state.” —Donovan’s Literary Services

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  Health and Wealth on the Bosnian...

  Larisa Jašarevic

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  Larisa Jasarevic offers an unforgettable look at the everyday experiences of people living in post-socialist, post-war Bosnia. Not at all existing on the world's margins, Bosnians today are concerned with the good life and are as entangled in consumer debt as everyone else. The insecurities of living in an economy dominated by informal networks of trade, personal credit, and indebtedness are experienced by Bosnians in terms of physical ailments, some not recognized by Western medical science. Jasarevic follows ordinary Bosnians in their search for treatment—from use of pharmaceuticals to alternative medicines and folk healers of various kinds. Financial well-being and health are woven together for Bosnians, and Jasarevic adeptly traces the links between the two realms. In the process, she addresses a number of themes that have been important in studies of life under neoliberalism in other parts of the world.

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