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Mathematics for Mariners

Mathematics for Mariners

Chester Edward Dimick; Cuthbert Corwin Hurd

Literary Licensing, LLC
2012
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Mathematics For Mariners is a comprehensive guidebook that aims to equip seafarers with the necessary mathematical skills and knowledge to navigate the open seas. Written by Chester Edward Dimick, a seasoned sailor and educator, this book covers a wide range of topics, including algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, all of which are essential for understanding and applying navigation principles. The book is divided into four main sections, each of which focuses on a different aspect of maritime mathematics. The first section covers basic arithmetic and algebra, while the second section delves into geometry and trigonometry. The third section focuses on the use of logarithms and exponential functions in navigation, and the fourth and final section provides an introduction to calculus. Throughout the book, Dimick uses clear explanations, practical examples, and real-world scenarios to help readers understand the concepts and apply them to their own navigation challenges. Mathematics For Mariners is an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to master the mathematical skills needed to navigate the high seas.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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The Form of Cities

The Form of Cities

Alexander R. Cuthbert

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley Sons Ltd)
2006
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The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict.Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy.Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the prism of gender, for example.Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, but retains a sophisticated interpretative edge.Complements Designing Cities by the same author (Blackwell, 2003).
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The Form of Cities

The Form of Cities

Alexander R. Cuthbert

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley Sons Ltd)
2006
nidottu
The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict.Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy.Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the prism of gender, for example.Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, but retains a sophisticated interpretative edge.Complements Designing Cities by the same author (Blackwell, 2003).
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Global Childhoods

Global Childhoods

Kate Cregan; Denise Cuthbert

SAGE Publications Ltd
2014
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"An exciting and engagingly written book. The case studies are intriguing and the discussion of previous theories impeccable." - Dr. Heather Montgomery, The Open University "What is a child? Kate Cregan and Denise Cuthbert begin this path-breaking and compelling work with a deceptively simple question. From this seemingly straightforward formulation, they unravel, interrogate and engage with some of the most pressing issues related to children in the early 21st century... This book is an absolute must for scholars in all the fields of childhood studies." - Professor Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne Global Childhoods draws on the authors’ interdisciplinary backgrounds and original research in the fields of embodiment, theorisations of childhood, children's policy, child placement and adoption, and family formation. The book critically demonstrates how following from the modern construction of childhood which emerged unevenly from the late eighteenth century, the twentieth century saw the emergence of the conception of the normative global child, a figure finally enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The book offers a wide-ranging critical analysis of approaches to children and childhood across the social sciences. Through stimulating case studies which include the experiences of child soldiers, orphans, forced child migrants, and children and biomedicine, Cregan and Cuthbert critically test the notion of the ‘global child’ against the lived experiences of children around the globe. Kate Cregan and Denise Cuthbert draw on and contributes to debates on children and the idea of the child in a wide range of disciplines: sociology, anthropology, education, children's studies, cultural studies, history, psychology, law and development studies. In its historical coverage of the rise of the concepts of the child and the global child, its critical engagement with the theorisation of childhood, and its detailed case studies, the book is essential reading for the study of children and childhood.
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Global Childhoods

Global Childhoods

Kate Cregan; Denise Cuthbert

SAGE Publications Ltd
2014
nidottu
"An exciting and engagingly written book. The case studies are intriguing and the discussion of previous theories impeccable." - Dr. Heather Montgomery, The Open University "What is a child? Kate Cregan and Denise Cuthbert begin this path-breaking and compelling work with a deceptively simple question. From this seemingly straightforward formulation, they unravel, interrogate and engage with some of the most pressing issues related to children in the early 21st century... This book is an absolute must for scholars in all the fields of childhood studies." - Professor Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne Global Childhoods draws on the authors’ interdisciplinary backgrounds and original research in the fields of embodiment, theorisations of childhood, children's policy, child placement and adoption, and family formation. The book critically demonstrates how following from the modern construction of childhood which emerged unevenly from the late eighteenth century, the twentieth century saw the emergence of the conception of the normative global child, a figure finally enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The book offers a wide-ranging critical analysis of approaches to children and childhood across the social sciences. Through stimulating case studies which include the experiences of child soldiers, orphans, forced child migrants, and children and biomedicine, Cregan and Cuthbert critically test the notion of the ‘global child’ against the lived experiences of children around the globe. Kate Cregan and Denise Cuthbert draw on and contributes to debates on children and the idea of the child in a wide range of disciplines: sociology, anthropology, education, children's studies, cultural studies, history, psychology, law and development studies. In its historical coverage of the rise of the concepts of the child and the global child, its critical engagement with the theorisation of childhood, and its detailed case studies, the book is essential reading for the study of children and childhood.
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Haydn

Haydn

J. Cuthbert Hadden

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Haydn, by J. Cuthbert Hadden, is a classical music biography about the great Austrian composer, Joseph Haydn. The authority for Haydn's life is the biography begun by the late Dr Pohl, and completed after his death by E.V. Mandyczewski. To this work, as yet untranslated, every subsequent writer is necessarily indebted, and the present volume, which I may fairly claim to be the fullest life of Haydn that has so far appeared in English, is largely based upon Pohl. -J. Cuthbert Hadden (Franz) Joseph Haydn 31 March 1732 - 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio 2] and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet". Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterh zy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". Yet his music circulated widely, and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe. He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a teacher of Beethoven, and the older brother of composer Michael Haydn. Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria, a village that at that time stood on the border with Hungary. His father was Mathias Haydn, a wheelwright who also served as "Marktrichter", an office akin to village mayor. Haydn's mother Maria, n e Koller, had previously worked as a cook in the palace of Count Harrach, the presiding aristocrat of Rohrau. Neither parent could read music; n 4] however, Mathias was an enthusiastic folk musician, who during the journeyman period of his career had taught himself to play the harp. According to Haydn's later reminiscences, his childhood family was extremely musical, and frequently sang together and with their neighbours. Haydn's parents had noticed that their son was musically gifted and knew that in Rohrau he would have no chance to obtain serious musical training. It was for this reason that, around the time Haydn turned six, they accepted a proposal from their relative Johann Matthias Frankh, the schoolmaster and choirmaster in Hainburg, that Haydn be apprenticed to Frankh in his home to train as a musician. Haydn therefore went off with Frankh to Hainburg 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) away; he never again lived with his parents. Life in the Frankh household was not easy for Haydn, who later remembered being frequently hungry 5] and humiliated by the filthy state of his clothing. 6] He began his musical training there, and could soon play both harpsichord and violin. The people of Hainburg heard him sing treble parts in the church choir. There is reason to think that Haydn's singing impressed those who heard him, because in 1739 n 5] he was brought to the attention of Georg von Reutter, the director of music in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, who happened to be visiting Hainburg and was looking for new choirboys. Haydn passed his audition with Reutter, and after several months of further training moved to Vienna (1740), where he worked for the next nine years as a chorister.
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Haydn

Haydn

J. Cuthbert Hadden

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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