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Category : Solar energy
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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A Pure Solar World
Author: Paul Youngquist
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292726368
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form improvisation in an ensemble setting with the devoted band he called the “Arkestra.” Sun Ra took jazz from the inner city to outer space, infusing traditional swing with far-out harmonies, rhythms, and sounds. Described as the father of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra created “space music” as a means of building a better future for American blacks here on earth. A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet. Paul Youngquist explores and assesses Sun Ra’s wide-ranging creative output—music, public preaching, graphic design, film and stage performance, and poetry—and connects his diverse undertakings to the culture and politics of his times, including the space race, the rise of technocracy, the civil rights movement, and even space-age bachelor-pad music. By thoroughly examining the astro-black mythology that Sun Ra espoused, Youngquist masterfully demonstrates that he offered both a holistic response to a planet desperately in need of new visions and vibrations and a new kind of political activism that used popular culture to advance social change. In a nation obsessed with space and confused about race, Sun Ra aimed not just at assimilation for the socially disfranchised but even more at a wholesale transformation of American society and a more creative, egalitarian world.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292726368
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form improvisation in an ensemble setting with the devoted band he called the “Arkestra.” Sun Ra took jazz from the inner city to outer space, infusing traditional swing with far-out harmonies, rhythms, and sounds. Described as the father of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra created “space music” as a means of building a better future for American blacks here on earth. A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet. Paul Youngquist explores and assesses Sun Ra’s wide-ranging creative output—music, public preaching, graphic design, film and stage performance, and poetry—and connects his diverse undertakings to the culture and politics of his times, including the space race, the rise of technocracy, the civil rights movement, and even space-age bachelor-pad music. By thoroughly examining the astro-black mythology that Sun Ra espoused, Youngquist masterfully demonstrates that he offered both a holistic response to a planet desperately in need of new visions and vibrations and a new kind of political activism that used popular culture to advance social change. In a nation obsessed with space and confused about race, Sun Ra aimed not just at assimilation for the socially disfranchised but even more at a wholesale transformation of American society and a more creative, egalitarian world.
Solar Story
Author: Allan Drummond
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1250780977
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
In his signature style, Allan Drummond tells the story of the largest solar plant in the world, the Noor Solar Power Plant in Morocco's Sahara Desert, in Solar Story—by relating it to the everyday life of a schoolgirl in a small village next to the plant. As we see on a class field trip, the plant is not only bringing reliable power to the village and far beyond, but is providing jobs, changing lives, and upending the old ways of doing things—starting within the girl's own family. Blending detail-filled watercolors, engaging cartoon-style narration, in-depth sidebars, and an afterword, the author showcases another real-world community going green in amazing ways. A “powerful” addition to the author’s acclaimed series about conservation and renewable energy innovations in everyday life.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1250780977
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
In his signature style, Allan Drummond tells the story of the largest solar plant in the world, the Noor Solar Power Plant in Morocco's Sahara Desert, in Solar Story—by relating it to the everyday life of a schoolgirl in a small village next to the plant. As we see on a class field trip, the plant is not only bringing reliable power to the village and far beyond, but is providing jobs, changing lives, and upending the old ways of doing things—starting within the girl's own family. Blending detail-filled watercolors, engaging cartoon-style narration, in-depth sidebars, and an afterword, the author showcases another real-world community going green in amazing ways. A “powerful” addition to the author’s acclaimed series about conservation and renewable energy innovations in everyday life.
Solar Energy Update
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Category : Solar energy
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Category : Solar energy
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Mercury and Venus
Author: Mellonee Carrigan
Publisher: World Book
ISBN: 9780716680604
Category : Mercury (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
""Presents facts about the composition, atmosphere, and history of exploration of Mercury and Venus and features large illustrations and photographs."-Provided by publisher"--
Publisher: World Book
ISBN: 9780716680604
Category : Mercury (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
""Presents facts about the composition, atmosphere, and history of exploration of Mercury and Venus and features large illustrations and photographs."-Provided by publisher"--
Speed of Light
Author: David M. Roche
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations for 2015
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Energy Research Abstracts
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Heat Pump Systems with Vertical Ground Heat Exchanger and Uncovered Solar Thermal Collectors
Author: Bertram, Erik
Publisher: MV-Verlag
ISBN: 3956454812
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Publisher: MV-Verlag
ISBN: 3956454812
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Fossil Energy Update
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Category : Fossil fuels
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Category : Fossil fuels
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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