Tag: Field

Trespassing Dirt Stories and Field Notes


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English | ISBN: 0814333745 | 2008 | 176 pages | EPUB | 1059 KB
Trespassing is composed in equal amounts of short fiction and essays that illustrate the impact of modern factory farms―confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs)―on a rural Michigan community. Michigan author Janet Kauffman debunks the myth of the idyllic "clip art" farm of decades past by giving readers a close-up look at mega-meat and mega-milk, the extreme amounts of animal waste and barren countryside CAFOs produce, and the people who live in the midst of this new rural landscape threatened by agricultural sprawl. Trespassing considers the consequences of violating nature’s limits, giving readers a vivid impression of the irreversible damage that violation causes to our habitat.

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Startup CXO A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams (Techstars)


Free Download Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams (Techstars) by Matt Blumberg, Peter M. Birkeland, Scott Dorsey
English | June 9, 2021 | ISBN: 1119772575 | 640 pages | PDF | 4.03 Mb
One of the greatest challenges for startup teams is scaling because usually there’s not a blueprint to follow, people are learning their function as they go, and everyone is wearing multiple hats. There can be lots of trial and error, lots of missteps, and lots of valuable time and money squandered as companies scale. Matt Blumberg and his team understand the scaling challenges―they’ve been there, and it took them nearly 20 years to scale and achieve a successful exit. Along the way they learned what worked and what didn’t work, and they share their lessons learned in Startup CXO.

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Parallel Lifetimes Fluctuations in the Quantum Field


Free Download Ramtha Ramtha, "Parallel Lifetimes: Fluctuations in the Quantum Field"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1578731151 | EPUB | pages: 96 | 2.3 mb
Part of Ramtha Fireside Series on the topic of parallel universes and creating dramatic change in our life using the principles of quantum physics. "A shift in quantum state brings a parallel lifetime, and now everything in that lifetime is different. The relationship to you and your environment is lifted, for what compelled you before is not a compelling influence in the new shift. You are now in a parallel existence. In the parallel existence our mind does not leave our body behind in the old state but rather the body can also live in parallel existences because it is made of quantum material. It is now shifted into the new hall, the new life, and everything is different. What becomes apparent is that the climax that governed your life once before is now at rest. The old climax is not apparent in the new life and its influences are not seen in people, places, things, times, and events. That is the truth. This knowledge is the key to the kingdom of heaven." – Ramtha

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Out-of-Field Teaching Across Teaching Disciplines and Contexts


Free Download Linda Hobbs, "Out-of-Field Teaching Across Teaching Disciplines and Contexts"
English | ISBN: 9811693277 | 2022 | 402 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This edited book is a compilation of research by the members of the Out-of-Field Teaching Across Specialisations (OOF-TAS) Collective, and is the second book by the Collective. It extends from the work begun in the 2019 book, Examining the Phenomenon of "Teaching Out-of-Field" by showcasing the broad range of research agendas and findings relating to this phenomenon internationally. This book provides research and commentary relating to the out-of-field teaching phenomenon in primary, secondary and tertiary education, and across different subjects. It provides snapshots of the effects, causes, measurement, and other characteristics of out-of-field teaching in and across contexts, including states and countries, school types and school levels, subjects and specializations. The different chapters provide commentary at different units of analysis, and focus on: the effects of out-of-field teaching for teachers and their students; the school contexts/cultures that do or do not support them; the leadership practices that assign the teachers to out-of-field subjects; and the systems that create/perpetuate the need for out-of-field teaching assignments. Chapter 15 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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Medicinal Plants of North America A Field Guide, 3rd Edition


Free Download Medicinal Plants of North America: A Field Guide, 3rd Edition by Jim Meuninck
English | April 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1493077864 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 12.40 MB
This exquisitely detailed, full-color field guide provides the identification details and practical information needed to find and properly use many of the medicinal plants and wild plant foods that provide chemicals necessary for optimum health and disease prevention.

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Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology A Practical Guide


Free Download Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology: A Practical Guide By Joanna M. Setchell, Deborah J. Curtis
2011 | 456 Pages | ISBN: 0521194091 | PDF | 4 MB
Building on the success of the first edition and bringing together contributions from a range of experts in the field, the second edition of this guide to research on wild primates covers the latest advances in the field, including new information on field experiments and measuring behaviour. It provides essential information and advice on the technical and practical aspects of both field and laboratory methods, covering topics such as ethnoprimatology; remote sensing; GPS and radio-tracking; trapping and handling; dietary ecology; and non-invasive genetics and endocrinology. This integrated approach opens up new opportunities to study the behavioural ecology of some of the most endangered primates and to collect information on previously studied populations. Chapters include methodological techniques; instructions on collecting, processing and preserving samples/data for later analysis; ethical considerations; comparative costs; and further reading, making this an invaluable tool for postgraduate students and researchers in primatology, behavioural ecology and zoology.

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Field Recordings


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English | ISBN: 0814344968 | 2018 | 80 pages | EPUB | 462 KB
Firmly rooted in the dramatic landscapes and histories of Michigan, Field Recordings uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of personal origin, family, art, and masculinity. The speakers of these poems navigate Michigan’s folklore and folkways while exploring more personal connections to those landscapes and examining the timeless questions that occupy those songs and stories. With rich musicality and lyric precision, the poems in Field Recordings look squarely at what it means to be a son, a brother, an artist, a person.

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