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Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment. In July 1789 he sailed from Càdiz in the purpose-built corvettes, Descubierta and Atrevida. On board the vessels were scientists and artists and an array of the latest surveying and astronomical instruments. The voyage lasted more than five years. On his return Malaspina began work on seven-volume account of the voyage, to dwarf the narratives of his predecessors in the Pacific such as Cook and Bougainville. But he became involved in political intrigue, was imprisoned, and then spent the rest of his life in obscure retirement in Italy. He never resumed work on the great edition, and his journal remained long unpublished. Only now is justice being done to the achievements of what for long was a forgotten voyage. This second volume in a series of three contains Malaspina''s diario or journal, newly translated into English and with commentary, covering the period from 15 December 1790 to 15 November 1792, when he visited the Pacific coasts of Central and North America, as far north as Alaska, before crossing the ocean to the Philippines.

Teacher unions are a prominent feature of the Australian education scene. More than 80 per cent of teachers in government schools (and a growing proportion in nongovernment schools) are members of teacher unions, and union representatives are influential in many policy areas. This review examines the structure and role of teacher unions in three states (New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia), and analyses the rapidly changing shape of teacher unionism at the federal level. Each of the four authors has a detailed knowledge of the operations of Australian teacher unions. The challenging views they present should help to stimulate research and debate on this important aspect of Australian education.

Sophia is fantasy fiction with spiritual themes in the lineage of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, or G. K. Chesterton. It''s a novel that explores timeless themes in the context of our modern world where girls are, quite literally, divine! Mother and Sophia have no beginning and no ending. They simply are. They didn''t come from anywhere, and they aren''t going anywhere. This might sound boring, but it isn''t, because Mother and Sophia know what to do with their eternity. They write, and they sing. And when they do, whole worlds spring into existence. They''re about to write another world into life, but this one is different. This one has characters that they want to welcome into their own world. But how are they supposed to do that? Sophia has an idea.

This book is published as a supplement to the DOT Supervisor Reasonable Suspicion Training Course and is designed to be both a learning tool and an ongoing reference guide for supervisors. This book will assist in understanding the regulations involved for each applicable DOT subagency including the FMCSA, FAA, FRA, FTA, PHMSA and USCG.

Full colour atlas containing more than 400 maps, charts, photographs, and associated text examining epidemics within displaced populations over the past 150 years, including coverage of disease transmission and abatement strategies during war and natural disasters.--

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Ancient mariners search the seven seas to discover the ancient world of vast treasures that have eluded famous pirates across the centuries. Ophir is an insight into the world of so called secret codes used to veil a true secret and a young George Anson, Captain William Kidd and other infamous sea rovers share a secret that many men have died for. Captain William Kidd was murdered by the British state and the codes of Shugborough hall are being constructed against the back drop of Nicolas Poussin''s artwork and points to the Knights Templar and another secret Order.

Embracing the reality of hell means setting aside moderation. It means admitting that our sin is dark and heinous to the point of eternal damnation; that the white light of God''s character and glory justly destroys those who have fallen short of his glory; and that that our non-Christians friends have nothing greater to fear. That''s tough to do when you havemoderate views of your sin, your friend''s sin, and of God''s glory.Embracing the reality of hell also means going against the fallen cultural structures and belief systems of this world, all of which conspire together with our own hearts to repeat the serpent''s promise of a moderate outcome, "You will surely not die."As hard as it is to stare at the doctrine of hell, surely it must be salubrious to our faith to do so from time to time. It forces us to once again reckon with who God is and who we are. We hope this issue of the 9Marks Journal will help all of us to do just that.

California has been a site of subduction since about 155 Ma. The Franciscan complex accumulated in front of, and beneath, the crystalline leading edge of the North American Plate: a belt of oceanic crust and mantle known as the Coast Range Ophiolite. Near Paskenta, California, the blueschist facies Franciscan rocks (South Fork Mountain Schist) are juxtaposed against the ophiolitic rocks along the Coast Range Fault. These Franciscan rocks have risen ~15 km and the ophiolitic rocks at least 3 km and perhaps as much as 10 km. The intervening Coast Range Fault has a near vertical dip. It has previously been interpreted as a rotated east-dipping thrust fault that formed by subduction underthrusting, an east-dipping décollement to a series of out-of-sequence imbricated thrusts, and a high-angle west-dipping reverse fault that formed by collisional overthrusting. To explain the unroofing of the Franciscan rocks, it has been interpreted as a high-angle normal fault. Notably, fault-related kinematic data in support of tectonic models for Coast Range Fault movement and ophiolite emplacement are sparse. To constrain the geometry and kinematics of the Coast Range Fault and ophiolite emplacement, three geologic transects were made along sinuous roads near Paskenta. Approximately 30 km of roadcut is present along the ~60 km length of road. Exposures are typically less than two meters high, but locally as tall as 20 m, along roadcuts that extend for tens to a few hundred meters. Lithologies were mapped in the roadcut exposures and the attitudes of fault planes and direction and sense of slip was measured. Data were obtained on 275 faults traceable for e" meter. Within serpentinite shear zones, the attitudes of 1159 minor faults were measured. Mapping revealed that although all parts of the ophiolite suite are present near Paskenta, the pieces are well shuffled. For example, slabs of layered radiolarian chert are found in the western part of the ophiolite near the Franciscan rocks and masses of serpentinite are present in the eastern part near the steeply eastwards dipping strata of the depositionally overlying Great Valley Group (Knoxville Formation). In addition, faults and serpentinite shear zones are heterogeneously distributed. In the Paskenta area, the ophiolite is not simply an upturned slab of oceanic crust. It is well described as an ophiolitic mélange. Stereographic analysis reveals the pattern of faulting along each transect is similar with most faults striking roughly north-south and steeply dipping - near-parallel to the Coast Range Fault. For major faults with full kinematic observations, normal offsets (n = 226) dominate over those with reverse offset (n = 97). Movement patterns recorded in the minor faults found in the serpentinite shear zones are less defined, but overall patterns appear similar. Uplift of the Franciscan complex and Coast Range Ophiolite near Paskenta was accomplished not just by normal, near-vertical movement along the Coast Range Fault, but also by slip along the numerous faults and shear zones within the ophiolite belt. However, faulting associated with the ascent of Franciscan rock does not appear to be sufficient to account for the thorough disruption of the ophiolite terrane in this area. The ophiolitic mélange was probably generated prior to ophiolite emplacement in an oceanic transform setting