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Field Recordings


Free Download Russell Brakefield, "Field Recordings "
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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Field Guide to the Common Bees of California Including Bees of the Western United States


Free Download Noel Badges Pugh, "Field Guide to the Common Bees of California: Including Bees of the Western United States"
English | 2013 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 0520272846, 0520272838 | EPUB | 14,0 mb
This engaging and easy-to-use natural history guidebook provides a thorough overview of native and honey bee biology and offers tools for identifying the most common bees of California and the Western United States. Full-color illustrations introduce readers to more than 30 genera of native bees, noting each one’s needs and habits and placing them in their wider context. The author highlights bees’ ties to our own lives, the food we eat, and the habitat we provide, and suggests ways to support bees in our own backyards.

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Einstein at Work on Unified Field Theory


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031521269 | 368 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 55 MB
This book meticulously examines over one hundred documents of research notes by Albert Einstein, many of which were previously unidentified, held in the archives of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech. Focused on Einstein’s quest for a five-dimensional unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism, the analysis provides unique insights into his mathematical skills, thinking, and modus operandi. This academic exploration also investigates the role of mathematics in Einstein’s theorizing with a special focus on projective geometry and delta functions.

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Effective Field Theory for Spontaneously Broken Symmetry


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031483774 | 445 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 23 MB
This open access book is about spontaneous symmetry breaking, which is a classic area of theoretical physics that lies at the core of many fascinating phenomena such as ferromagnetism, superfluidity, superconductivity, or the Higgs mechanism. The book brings an up-to-date overview of spontaneous symmetry breaking and of modern effective field theory description thereof. The topics covered include the classification of Nambu-Goldstone bosons, nonlinear realization of internal and spacetime symmetries and the construction of the corresponding effective actions, and selected applications. With in-depth exposition of conceptual foundations and numerous illustrative examples, the book is accessible to anybody having taken a basic course on quantum field theory. It serves as a self-contained text for graduate students and junior researchers in diverse areas of physics, but also as a useful reference for experts.

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Cultivating the empty field the silent illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi


Free Download Cultivating the empty field : the silent illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi By Honghzhi Zhengue, Taigen Dan Leighton, Yi Wu
2000 | 119 Pages | ISBN: 0804832404 | EPUB | 2 MB
Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch’an master Hongzhi’s Extensive Record.First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi is one of the most influential poets in all of Zen literature. This translation of Hongzhi’s poetry, the only such volume available in English, treats readers to his profound wisdom and beautiful literary gift. In addition to dozens of Hongshi’s religious poems, translator Daniel Leighton offers an extended introduction, placing the master’s work in its historical context , as well as lineage charts and other information about the Chinese influence on Japanese Soto Zen.Both spiritual literature and meditation instruction, Cultivating the Empty Field is sure to inspire and delight

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Birds of Colorado Field Guide, 2nd Edition


Free Download Birds of Colorado Field Guide (Bird Identification Guides), 2nd Edition by Stan Tekiela
English | April 27, 2021 | ISBN: 1647550823 | True EPUB | 354 pages | 40.7 MB
Learn to identify birds in Colorado, and make bird-watching even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela’s famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There’s no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don’t live in your area. This book features 136 species of Colorado birds organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a yellow bird and don’t know what it is? Go to the yellow section to find out.

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