Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140025910
Category : Cyclones
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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The Wind from Nowhere
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140025910
Category : Cyclones
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140025910
Category : Cyclones
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors
Author: L. W. Currey
Publisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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J.G. Ballard
Author: David Pringle
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Publisher: Hall Reference Books
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Harvest the Wind
Author: Philip Warburg
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807001074
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Winds sweeping through the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the central United States. Nowhere is wind’s promise more palpable than in Cloud County, Kansas, where the soaring turbines of the Meridian Way Wind Farm are boosting incomes and bringing green jobs to a community that has, for decades, watched its children drift away. In Harvest the Wind, Philip Warburg brings readers face-to-face with the people behind the green economy–powered resurgence in Cloud County and communities like it across the United States. This corner of Kansas is the first stop on an odyssey that introduces readers to farmers, factory workers, biologists, and high-tech entrepreneurs—all players in a transformative industry that is taking hold across America and around the globe. In this illuminating book, Warburg reveals both the remarkable growth of a breakthrough technology and the formidable challenges it faces. He visits epicenters of anti-wind opposition as well as communities that have embraced wind farms as neighbors. He guides readers through an Iowa turbine assembly plant that is struggling to compete in a global marketplace dominated by European and Chinese manufacturers. And he looks at the thousands of miles that wind-generated power will need to travel to reach American consumers. Harvest the Wind is an earthly antidote to loftier treatises on global warming and green energy. By showing us how practical solutions are being implemented at the local level, Warburg offers an inspirational look at how we can all pursue a saner and more sustainable energy future—while at the same time investing in the nation’s infrastructure and jumpstarting its economy.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807001074
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Winds sweeping through the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the central United States. Nowhere is wind’s promise more palpable than in Cloud County, Kansas, where the soaring turbines of the Meridian Way Wind Farm are boosting incomes and bringing green jobs to a community that has, for decades, watched its children drift away. In Harvest the Wind, Philip Warburg brings readers face-to-face with the people behind the green economy–powered resurgence in Cloud County and communities like it across the United States. This corner of Kansas is the first stop on an odyssey that introduces readers to farmers, factory workers, biologists, and high-tech entrepreneurs—all players in a transformative industry that is taking hold across America and around the globe. In this illuminating book, Warburg reveals both the remarkable growth of a breakthrough technology and the formidable challenges it faces. He visits epicenters of anti-wind opposition as well as communities that have embraced wind farms as neighbors. He guides readers through an Iowa turbine assembly plant that is struggling to compete in a global marketplace dominated by European and Chinese manufacturers. And he looks at the thousands of miles that wind-generated power will need to travel to reach American consumers. Harvest the Wind is an earthly antidote to loftier treatises on global warming and green energy. By showing us how practical solutions are being implemented at the local level, Warburg offers an inspirational look at how we can all pursue a saner and more sustainable energy future—while at the same time investing in the nation’s infrastructure and jumpstarting its economy.
J.G. Ballard
Author: Peter Brigg
Publisher: Mercer Island, Wash. : Starmont House
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Peter Brigg examines the life and work of British author J.G. Ballard, from his science fiction to his mainstream fiction. Starmont Reader's Guide 26.
Publisher: Mercer Island, Wash. : Starmont House
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Peter Brigg examines the life and work of British author J.G. Ballard, from his science fiction to his mainstream fiction. Starmont Reader's Guide 26.
The Great Plains, Second Edition
Author: Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496232593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University This iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its first publication in 1931. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment . . . constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders," Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics in arguing that the 98th Meridian constitutes an institutional fault line at which "practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered." This new edition of one of the foundational works of western American history features an introduction by Great Plains historian Andrew R. Graybill and a new index and updated design.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496232593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University This iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its first publication in 1931. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment . . . constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders," Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics in arguing that the 98th Meridian constitutes an institutional fault line at which "practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered." This new edition of one of the foundational works of western American history features an introduction by Great Plains historian Andrew R. Graybill and a new index and updated design.
Survey of Science Fiction Literature
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Books and Bookmen
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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