Out of the Mountains
Title | Out of the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | David Kilcullen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2015-05-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190230967 |
Analyzes four megatrends—population growth, urbanization, coastal life and connectedness-and concludes that future conflict is increasingly likely to occur in sprawling coastal cities; in underdeveloped regions of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia; and in highly networked, connected settings, in a book that also looks at gangs, cartels and warlords.
East of the Mountains
Title | East of the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | David Guterson |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2012-05-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1408834758 |
When Dr Ben Givens left his Seattle home he never intended to return. It was to be a journey past snow-covered mountains to a place of canyons, sagelands and orchards, where, on the verges of the Columbia River, Ben had entered the world and would now take his leave of it.
Mountains Come Out of the Sky
Title | Mountains Come Out of the Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Will Romano |
Publisher | Backbeat Books |
Total Pages | 467 |
Release | 2010-09-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1617133752 |
(Book). From its artful beginnings (Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, the Mothers of Invention, and those progressive forebearers, the Sgt. Pepper-era Beatles), through the towering guitar solos, monumental synthesizer banks, and mind-boggling special effects of the Golden Age of Prog (Rush, Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP, Genesis, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, UK), through the radio-friendly "pop era" (Asia, the Phil Collins-led Genesis, and a reformed Yes), and right up to the present state of the art (Marillion, Spock's Beard, and Mars Volta), this is a wickedly incisive tour of rock music at its most spectacular. This is indeed the book prog rock fans have been waiting for, the only one of its kind, as fantastic as the subjects it covers.
When I Was Young in the Mountains
Title | When I Was Young in the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Rylant |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 33 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0140548750 |
Caldecott Honor Book! "An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, taking baths in the kitchen, sharing family times, each is eloquently portrayed here in both the misty-hued scenes and in the poetic text." -Association for Childhood Education International
Voices from the Mountains
Title | Voices from the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Guy Carawan |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0820318825 |
A rich mosaic of photographs, words, and songs, Voices from the Mountains tells the turbulent story of the Appalachian South in the twentieth century. Focusing on the abuses of the coal industry and the grassroots struggle against mine owners that began in the 1960s, Guy and Candie Carawan have gathered quotations from a variety of sources; words and music to more than fifty ballads and songs, laments and satires, hymns and protests; and more than one hundred and fifty photographs of longtime Appalachian residents, their homes, their countryside, the mines they work in, and the labor battles they have fought. The "voices" that speak out in these pages range from the mountain people themselves to such well-known artists as Jean Ritchie, Hazel Dickens, Harriet Simpson Arnow, and Wendell Berry. Together they tell of the damage wrought by strip mining and the empty promises of land reclamation; the search for work and a new life in the North; the welfare rights, labor, antipoverty, and black lung movements; early days in the mines; disasters and negligence in the coal industry; and protest and change in the coal fields. Dignity and despair, poverty and perseverance, tradition and change--Voices from the Mountains eloquently conveys the complex panorama of modern Appalachian life.
My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)
Title | My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics) PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Craighead George |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 2004-04-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0142401110 |
Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude-and danger-of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew.
The City & the Mountains
Title | The City & the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Eça de Queirós |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Portugal |
ISBN | 9780835794800 |