Author: Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566896282
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Art about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space—Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s experiences moving through the Alaskan outdoors. In Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan observes shorelines, mountains, bald eagles, and Black fellow travelers while feeling menaced by the specter of nature writing. She considers the meaning of open spaces versus enclosed ones and maps out the web of queer relationships that connect her to this quaint Alaskan town. Triangulating the landscapes she moves through with glacial backdrops in the work of Black conceptual artists and writers, Sabatini Sloan complicates tropes of Alaska to suggest that the excitement, exploration, and possibility of myth-making can also be twinned by isolation, anxiety, and boredom. Borealis is the first book commissioned for the Spatial Species series, edited by Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen. The series investigates the ways we activate space through language. In the tradition of Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Spatial Species titles are pocket-sized editions, each keenly focused on place. Instead of tourist spots and public squares, we encounter unmarked, noncanonical spaces: edges, alleyways, diasporic traces. Such intimate journeying requires experiments in language and genre, moving travelogue, fiction, or memoir into something closer to eating, drinking, and dreaming.
Northern Lights
Author: George Bryson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781570612909
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Electric green pierced by neon blue, shocking pink spinning into violent red, and shimmering purple sidled up against deep indigo: never before have you seen such high-octane colors in the sky, and never before has a book shown the northern lights-aurora borealis-in such vivid color. In Northern Lights, photographers Calvin Hall and Daryl Pederson bring to print nearly a hundred photographs of this amazing natural phenomenon, shot from remote locations all over Alaska and using no filters or digital enhancement. Just as fascinating are the legends, myths, and science surrounding this polar phenomenon, described by George Bryson. As 2002 marks the peak viewing time of the northern lights in an eleven-year cycle, this book brings the elusive magic of the northern lights to stargazers near and far.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781570612909
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Electric green pierced by neon blue, shocking pink spinning into violent red, and shimmering purple sidled up against deep indigo: never before have you seen such high-octane colors in the sky, and never before has a book shown the northern lights-aurora borealis-in such vivid color. In Northern Lights, photographers Calvin Hall and Daryl Pederson bring to print nearly a hundred photographs of this amazing natural phenomenon, shot from remote locations all over Alaska and using no filters or digital enhancement. Just as fascinating are the legends, myths, and science surrounding this polar phenomenon, described by George Bryson. As 2002 marks the peak viewing time of the northern lights in an eleven-year cycle, this book brings the elusive magic of the northern lights to stargazers near and far.
Observers of the Aurora Borealis in Europe
Author: Eric Chassefiere
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1394226268
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The spectacular reappearance of the aurora borealis at the beginning of the 18th century, often observed simultaneously from different observatories in Europe, mobilized and federated a large community of astronomers on a European scale. It encouraged them to communicate the results of their observations and, in compiling exhaustive catalogs of information, has helped to establish a system of the aurora borealis that can be further studied in the future, according to the experimental method inherited from the previous century. This book is dedicated to some of the main aurora observers in Europe and to the human, institutional and philosophical context in which they evolved in the first half of the 18th century. Its reading should be seen as a retrospective journey through the scholarly world of the Enlightenment, during which the same scholars are frequently encountered and reencountered, yet each time in different contexts, or from different angles, with the aim of compiling an account of the swarming of ideas and encounters that constituted the development of experimental science in this pivotal period.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1394226268
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The spectacular reappearance of the aurora borealis at the beginning of the 18th century, often observed simultaneously from different observatories in Europe, mobilized and federated a large community of astronomers on a European scale. It encouraged them to communicate the results of their observations and, in compiling exhaustive catalogs of information, has helped to establish a system of the aurora borealis that can be further studied in the future, according to the experimental method inherited from the previous century. This book is dedicated to some of the main aurora observers in Europe and to the human, institutional and philosophical context in which they evolved in the first half of the 18th century. Its reading should be seen as a retrospective journey through the scholarly world of the Enlightenment, during which the same scholars are frequently encountered and reencountered, yet each time in different contexts, or from different angles, with the aim of compiling an account of the swarming of ideas and encounters that constituted the development of experimental science in this pivotal period.
Photogaphing the Aurora Borealis
Author: Andy Long
Publisher: Firrst Light Photography, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Numerous years back while leading an Alaska brown bears workshop, Andy saw some books of aurora borealis images. He was hooked and a winter trip to Alaska to photograph the incredible beauty presented on the pages of those books was soon to follow. Ever since his initial scouting trip he has been leading workshops yearly to the far north to let others see, experience and photograph this amazing phenomenon. While his true love is wildlife, Andy will tell you his favorite thing to see and photograph is the northern lights. His passion of teaching others about the aurora can now reach more people through this book. Come take a journey to see some beautiful shots of the aurora and learn how you can take shots like this when (not if) offered the chance to visit an area where the sky comes alive with color. When you want to experience this, visit Andy’s website and sign up for a northern lights workshop and let him take you to the best spots possible and personally teach you.
Publisher: Firrst Light Photography, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Numerous years back while leading an Alaska brown bears workshop, Andy saw some books of aurora borealis images. He was hooked and a winter trip to Alaska to photograph the incredible beauty presented on the pages of those books was soon to follow. Ever since his initial scouting trip he has been leading workshops yearly to the far north to let others see, experience and photograph this amazing phenomenon. While his true love is wildlife, Andy will tell you his favorite thing to see and photograph is the northern lights. His passion of teaching others about the aurora can now reach more people through this book. Come take a journey to see some beautiful shots of the aurora and learn how you can take shots like this when (not if) offered the chance to visit an area where the sky comes alive with color. When you want to experience this, visit Andy’s website and sign up for a northern lights workshop and let him take you to the best spots possible and personally teach you.
Harvard Business Case Borealis
Author: Sven Brueninghaus
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638213714
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 2,0 (B), University of Applied Sciences Essen (MBA International Financial Management Program), course: Startegic Management Accounting, language: English, abstract: Borealis is the outcome of a merger of the petrochemical divisions of Statoil Norway and Neste Oy Finland in 1994. It is a fully integrated and the biggest European polyolefins producer with production plants in different European countries and it’s head office in Copenhagen / Denmark. Directly after the merger Borealis had to create a common budget for the combined entity. The separate budgets of Statoil and Neste in the past had the traditional purposes of budgets: make planning and controlling easier for the management. The head of budgeting of Neste Oy became head of corporate control of Borealis and he was willing to leave the traditional budgeting behind and replace it by a new and innovative management steering approach with different purposes. During a period of three years he abandoned the traditional budgeting process and replaced it by a conglomerate of different management tools. This case describes the reason why and how it came to the different budgeting approach and what kind of concept was implemented instead of the traditional budgeting process. It also includes the hopes, which the Borealis management had with the different approach and the results of it. In the following shall be discussed what the advantages and the disadvantages of the new financial and steering system are compared with the abandoned budgeting system either from a theoretical and practical point of view. For this discussion the traditional budgeting process is described in the first place. It includes the budgeting process within Borealis and in theory. Then the new approach of Borealis is described in part 3. In part 4. the advantages will be discussed and in part 5 the disadvantages will be figured out and discussed. In the last part a conclusion will be done, which will try to judge if the new financial and steering approach within Borealis does really achieve it’s expected purposes compared with the abandoned budgeting system.
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638213714
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 2,0 (B), University of Applied Sciences Essen (MBA International Financial Management Program), course: Startegic Management Accounting, language: English, abstract: Borealis is the outcome of a merger of the petrochemical divisions of Statoil Norway and Neste Oy Finland in 1994. It is a fully integrated and the biggest European polyolefins producer with production plants in different European countries and it’s head office in Copenhagen / Denmark. Directly after the merger Borealis had to create a common budget for the combined entity. The separate budgets of Statoil and Neste in the past had the traditional purposes of budgets: make planning and controlling easier for the management. The head of budgeting of Neste Oy became head of corporate control of Borealis and he was willing to leave the traditional budgeting behind and replace it by a new and innovative management steering approach with different purposes. During a period of three years he abandoned the traditional budgeting process and replaced it by a conglomerate of different management tools. This case describes the reason why and how it came to the different budgeting approach and what kind of concept was implemented instead of the traditional budgeting process. It also includes the hopes, which the Borealis management had with the different approach and the results of it. In the following shall be discussed what the advantages and the disadvantages of the new financial and steering system are compared with the abandoned budgeting system either from a theoretical and practical point of view. For this discussion the traditional budgeting process is described in the first place. It includes the budgeting process within Borealis and in theory. Then the new approach of Borealis is described in part 3. In part 4. the advantages will be discussed and in part 5 the disadvantages will be figured out and discussed. In the last part a conclusion will be done, which will try to judge if the new financial and steering approach within Borealis does really achieve it’s expected purposes compared with the abandoned budgeting system.