Port Aransas-Corpus Christi Waterway, Texas (45-foot Project). Letter from the Secretary of the Army Transmitting a Letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, Dated July 9, 1968, Submitting a Report, Together with Accompanying Papers and Illustrations, on a Review of the Reports on Port Aransas-Corpus Christi Waterway, Texas (45-foot Project), Requested by a Resolution of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Adopted April 14, 1960

Port Aransas-Corpus Christi Waterway, Texas (45-foot Project). Letter from the Secretary of the Army Transmitting a Letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, Dated July 9, 1968, Submitting a Report, Together with Accompanying Papers and Illustrations, on a Review of the Reports on Port Aransas-Corpus Christi Waterway, Texas (45-foot Project), Requested by a Resolution of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Adopted April 14, 1960
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
Total Pages: 205
Release: 1968
Genre: Dredging
ISBN:
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Trust in Numbers

Trust in Numbers
Author: Theodore M. Porter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0691210543
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A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.

The Eastern Oyster

The Eastern Oyster
Author: Victor S. Kennedy
Publisher: University of Maryland Sea Grant Publications
Total Pages: 760
Release: 1996
Genre: Nature
ISBN:
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In 1966 Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act to promote marine research, education, and extension services in institutions along the nation's ocean and Great Lakes coasts. In Maryland a Sea Grant Program -- a partnership among federal and state governments, universities, and industries -- began in 1977, and in 1982 the University of Maryland was named the nation's seventeenth Sea Grant College. The Maryland Sea Grant College focuses its efforts on the Chesapeake Bay, with emphasis on the marine concerns of fisheries, seafood technology, and environmental quality. The first comprehensive review of the biology of the eastern oyster in more than thirty years. The twenty-one chapters synthesize every aspect of oyster biology -- for instance, general anatomy, physiology, the circulatory system, reproduction, genetics, diseases -- and issues related to management and aquaculture.

Isaac's Storm

Isaac's Storm
Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2000-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0375708278
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From the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.