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A collection of short poems about life in rural Puerto Rico and
elsewhere.
Published in 1999. Analyzing and chronicling the continued
development of key information, communication and fast transport
networks at a global and regional level, this book looks at the
transition to an information-based economy, and its urban impacts,
at a global, regional and city level. The book outlines the change
by defining it as the third great societal transition in the
history of human settlement, and points to key factors that have
fuelled progress. These include the growth of global
telecommunications and fast transport networks; the coming together
of information and communication technologies and their links to
transport and land use; the shift to information and knowledge as a
resource base for new industries; the increasing movement of people
and information; the emergence of cities as economic entities,
network nodes, and centres for generating, exchanging and
processing information, and, most significantly, the competition
among cities for these new key elements of of the urban economy.
Published in 1999. Analyzing and chronicling the continued
development of key information, communication and fast transport
networks at a global and regional level, this book looks at the
transition to an information-based economy, and its urban impacts,
at a global, regional and city level. The book outlines the change
by defining it as the third great societal transition in the
history of human settlement, and points to key factors that have
fuelled progress. These include the growth of global
telecommunications and fast transport networks; the coming together
of information and communication technologies and their links to
transport and land use; the shift to information and knowledge as a
resource base for new industries; the increasing movement of people
and information; the emergence of cities as economic entities,
network nodes, and centres for generating, exchanging and
processing information, and, most significantly, the competition
among cities for these new key elements of of the urban economy.
A collection of short poems about life in rural Puerto Rico and
elsewhere.
Headline Series, No. 149, September-October, 1961.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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Earth (Paperback)
John Dickey
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Discovery Miles 5 280
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From the formation of the solar system, 4.6 billion years ago, to
the fate of the Sun as a fading white dwarf, six billion years from
today, Earth: A Narrative in Verse recounts the epic of Earth's
evolution in 44 cantos that document the struggle of irrepressible
Life with inevitable Death. Astronomy, geology and biology are
melded in poems that employ and celebrate the sounds and symbols of
science to describe the formation of planets, tectonic motions,
climate change, catastrophic happenings, and the odyssey of
terrestrial Life from single cells to complex organisms and finally
back to single cells, the last earthlings. Sobering yet uplifting,
the work presents Earth in the context of universal time and space.
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