The Lo-Tech Navigator

Author: Tony Crowley
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 1574091913
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
The Lo-Tech Navigator explains the principles lie behind traditional navigation instruments and explores unusual and long forgotten navigation techniques.

The Lo-tech Navigator

Author: Tony Crowley
Publisher: Seafarer Books
ISBN: 9780954275037
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
Today, with the rapid advances in science and technology, increasing numbers of sailors and boat owners venture across the world's oceans relying almost entirely on electronic aids and global positioning systems.

The Natural Navigator

Author: Tristan Gooley
Publisher: The Experiment
ISBN: 1615190465
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.

The Natural Navigator, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Author: Tristan Gooley
Publisher: The Experiment
ISBN: 1615197141
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
“A truly vital book for any outdoor adventurer.”—Cabin Life Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. A windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong could point the way home, and they still do—if you know how to look. With The Natural Navigator, his first book, Tristan Gooley invited us to notice the directional clues hidden all around: in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, growing plants, and habits of wildlife. A decade after publication, this modern classic still reminds us that we can find south by joining the horns of the crescent moon—and find adventure in our own backyards.

The Barefoot Navigator

Author: Jack Lagan
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472903269
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
The Barefoot Navigator is an unusual and fascinating exploration of the skills of navigation employed by the ancients and transferrable to the present day. The first half of the book investigates the navigation capabilities of seafarers long before modern navigation instruments or charts became available. For example, how did the Polynesians manage to populate an area of ocean larger than North America simply by analysing clouds, currents, wind direction, sun, stars and the flight patterns of ocean birds? And how did the Vikings routinely travel between Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia - huge tracts of treacherous water? The second part of the book analyses how the techniques of the ancients can be employed by 21st century seafarers to supplement today's navigational hardware - especially in survival situations. This is a unique analysis of practical technology-free navigation, whose techniques can easily be employed by modern navigators to supplement their personal navigation skills in order to just 'know' where they are. It will fascinate navigators and landlubbers alike.

A Mariner's Miscellany

Author: Peter H. Spectre
Publisher: Seafarer Books
ISBN: 9780954706210
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
The period from the late eighteenth century to the first part of the nineteenth century was characterised by change: rapid industrial change, the agricultural revolution, political, economic and social reform. Yet there was also continuity, which led to tensions between improvement and resistance, modernity and tradition, rich and poor. Revolution, Radicalism and Reform provides a foundation for the study of the political, economic and social developments of the period. Topics covered include: Pitt and Liverpool, the French wars, the age of Peel, economy and industrialisation, poverty and Chartism. Revolution, Radicalism and Reform is part of the Cambridge Perspectives in History series. The book matches the requirements of the OCR examination specifications. It is suitable for all Advanced Subsidiary (AS) students, as well as students and undergraduates needing an introduction to the period. The book also contains a document study section on the condition of England at that time.

Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare

Author: Lyle Berkowitz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447143272
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
This book provides an extensive review of what innovation means in healthcare, with real-life examples and guidance on how to successfully innovate with IT in healthcare.

The Weekend Navigator, 2nd Edition

Author: Robert Sweet
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071759964
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 659

Book Description
Read what the the U.S. Power Squadron and the U.S. Coast Guard trust as the definitive authority on electronic navigation, now updated with the latest electronic technologies and methods The Weekend Navigator teaches you how to navigate using today's tools and methods, including the latest technologies such as smart phones. While electronic navigation is here to stay, author Bob Sweet recognizes that they are still based on traditional charts and piloting skills, and he combines the two to pass along to you a solid understanding of all the principles of marine navigation. In addition to its continued ground-breaking instruction for the now-digital process of navigation on board power- and sailboats, Sweet helps you understand recent options for chartplotters, less expensive handheld GPS units, smart phones, and the navigation possibilities presented by phone apps. New to this edition is a section entitled "Ooops," which provides an insightful collection of boating accident tales resulting from common GPS and chartplotters no-nos. Using The Weekend Navigator, you can get on the water right away and learn to navigate in an afternoon with GPS; master chart-and-compass piloting while, not before, he or she departs; plot courses and fix positions on paper or electronic charts; and more.

Revolutionizing Workshops

Author: Max Jalowski
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 365833312X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Dr. Max Jalowski designs strategies for revolutionizing workshops by introducing persuasive technology.His results show that investigating the behavior of participants in design workshops offers various application potentials for persuasive technology. He presents scenarios how established persuasive technologies can be used in participatory design and how new technologies can be designed. Furthermore, he presents four artifacts for the application in workshopswhich contribute to the generation of design knowledge. Finally,he derives design principles to support future applications and research. About the authorDr. Max Jalowski is a postdoctoral researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Department of Information Systems, Chair of Information Systems – Innovation and Value Creation (Prof. Dr. Kathrin M. Möslein). His research focuses ondesigningtechnologies, persuasive technology, user behavior in creativeprocesses and digital innovation.

The Navigator

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation (Aeronautics)
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description