The Great American Blackout
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The Great American Blackout
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Author : Delicate Trend
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-02-06
The Great American Blackout written by Delicate Trend and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Science categories.
Witness a natural spectacle like no other with Witness the Darkness: Your Guide to the 2024 American Solar Eclipse. This comprehensive guide equips you with everything you need to experience the awe-inspiring phenomenon of a total solar eclipse crossing North America on April 8, 2024. You'll find the science behind the eclipse: Understand the celestial mechanics that create this captivating event, including the path of totality, its duration, and what to expect during different phases. Planning your eclipse adventure: Choose the perfect location within the path of totality, navigate logistics like lodging and travel, and discover hidden gem viewing spots. Safe viewing practices: Protect your eyes with essential information on certified eclipse glasses, filters, and safe viewing techniques. Beyond the darkness: Explore the rich cultural and historical significance of eclipses, delve into the science conducted during totality, and uncover the secrets revealed by the Sun's corona. Whether you're a seasoned eclipse chaser or a curious first-timer, Witness the Darkness will guide you on an unforgettable journey into the heart of a total solar eclipse.
When The Lights Went Out
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Author : David E. Nye
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2010-01-29
When The Lights Went Out written by David E. Nye and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-29 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Blackouts—whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism—offer snapshots of electricity's increasingly central role in American society. Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965? In California when rolling blackouts hit in 2000? In 2003, when a cascading power failure left fifty million people without electricity? We often remember vividly our time in the dark. In When the Lights Went Out, David Nye views power outages in America from 1935 to the present not simply as technical failures but variously as military tactic, social disruption, crisis in the networked city, outcome of political and economic decisions, sudden encounter with sublimity, and memories enshrined in photographs. Our electrically lit-up life is so natural to us that when the lights go off, the darkness seems abnormal. Nye looks at America's development of its electrical grid, which made large-scale power failures possible and a series of blackouts from military blackouts to the “greenout” (exemplified by the new tradition of “Earth Hour”), a voluntary reduction organized by environmental organizations. Blackouts, writes Nye, are breaks in the flow of social time that reveal much about the trajectory of American history. Each time one occurs, Americans confront their essential condition—not as isolated individuals, but as a community that increasingly binds itself together with electrical wires and signals.
The Great American Gamble
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Author : Joe Menzer
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2008-12-22
The Great American Gamble written by Joe Menzer and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-22 with Sports & Recreation categories.
"One of NASCAR's greatest stories is brought to life in this meticulous, highly entertaining replay of the day that changed everything for the sport." —Lars Anderson, Sports Illustrated "Joe Menzer has done an excellent job in telling the story of one ofNASCAR's most important races, a tale that includes the vibrant storiesof the cast of characters who participated." —Mike Hembree, NASCAR Scene "A magnificent book, one that should be in the library of every diehard race fan." —Jerry Bonkowski, National NASCAR columnist, Yahoo! Sports and on-air personality, Sirius NASCAR Radio It could so easilyhave been a disaster . . . Everyone knew it, from CBS executives and owners of local CBS affiliates to NASCAR founder Big Bill French to driver and NASCAR booster Darrell Waltrip. If anything went wrong with the first-ever live, start-to-finishbroadcast of America's premier stock car race, a lot of people were going to lose a lot of money. It would also be the last-ever live broadcast of a NASCAR event. The Great American Gamble tells the gripping tale of the event that instead made NASCAR the multibillion dollar powerhouse it is today: the 1979 Daytona 500. Based on new interviews with all the major drivers in the race andothers involved, including Richard Petty, crew chief Dale Inman andKyle Petty, Bobby Allison and Donnie Allison, Cale Yarborough, BennyParsons, Junior Johnson, Buddy Baker, Darrell Waltrip, A. J. Foyt, Ned Jarrett, Humpy Wheeler, Ken Squier, Richard Childress, Jim Hunter, David Pearson, Doug Rice, Ricky Rudd, Geoffrey Bodine, Sterling Marlin, Marvin Panch, Leonard Wood, Eddie Wood, Larry McClure, and Michael Waltrip,this is the ultimate, high-octane account of the most important race inNASCAR history.
The Life Of A Girl Named Merle
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Author : ,Merle
language : en
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2022-11-03
The Life Of A Girl Named Merle written by ,Merle and has been published by Covenant Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Fiction categories.
The Life of a Girl Named Merle is an autobiography of my life. While I was born and raised in a big city, I am more of a country girl at heart. I had a good childhood, worked most of my life, and married with a family of my own. I had good times, funny times, exciting times, and some sad times, but most of all, a wonderful life. My name is special to me as you will read in my story. You can say it's my name that made me strong. So the point is, a title is just a title, like a book is just a book; but it is the contents, along with its title, that tells the story.
The Great American Stickup
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Author : Robert Scheer
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-09-07
The Great American Stickup written by Robert Scheer and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-07 with Business & Economics categories.
In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story -- the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms -- Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. This is a story largely forgotten or overlooked by the mainstream media, who wasted more than two decades with their boosterish coverage of Wall Street. Scheer argues that the roots of the disaster go back to the free-market propaganda of the Reagan years and, most damagingly, to the bipartisan deregulation of the banking industry undertaken with the full support of "progressive" Bill Clinton. In fact, if this debacle has a name, Scheer suggests, it is the "Clinton Bubble," that era when the administration let its friends on Wall Street write legislation that razed decades of robust financial regulation. It was Wall Street and Democratic Party darling Robert Rubin along with his clique of economist super-friends -- Alan Greenspan, Lawrence Summers, and a few others -- who inflated a giant real estate bubble by purposely not regulating the derivatives market, resulting in the pain and hardship millions are experiencing now. The Great American Stickup is both a brilliant telling of the story of the Clinton financial clique and the havoc it wrought -- informed by whistleblowers such as Brooksley Born, who goes on the record for Scheer -- and an unsparing anatomy of the American business and political class. It is also a cautionary tale: those who form the nucleus of the Clinton clique are now advising the Obama administration.
Blackout
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Author : James Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2005-07-05
Blackout written by James Goodman and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-05 with Social Science categories.
On July 13, 1977, there was a blackout in New York City. With the dark came excitement, adventure, and fright in subway tunnels, office towers, busy intersections, high-rise stairwells, hotel lobbies, elevators, and hospitals. There was revelry in bars and restaurants, music and dancing in the streets. On block after block, men and women proved themselves heroes by helping neighbors and strangers make it through the night. Unfortunately, there was also widespread looting, vandalism, and arson. Even before police restored order, people began to ask and argue about why. Why did people do what they did when the lights went out? The argument raged for weeks but it was just like the night: lots of heat, little light--a shouting match between those who held fast to one explanation and those who held fast to another. James Goodman cuts between accidents, encounters, conversations, exchanges, and arguments to re-create that night and its aftermath in a dizzying accumulation of detail. Rejecting simple dichotomies and one-dimensional explanations for why people act as they do in moments of conflict and crisis, Goodman illuminates attitudes, ideas, and experiences that have been lost in facile generalizations and analyses. Journalistic re-creation at its most exciting, Blackout provides a whirlwind tour of 1970s New York and a challenge to conventional thinking.
A Brief History Of Bullshit In America
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Author : Dr. Brandon Day
language : en
Publisher: New Horizons Publishing
Release Date : 2023-02-12
A Brief History Of Bullshit In America written by Dr. Brandon Day and has been published by New Horizons Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-12 with Humor categories.
From coffee enemas to religious cults to Barrack Obama and Donald Trump, this book is total bullshit! A book every young person should read. It fosters freethinking, healthy skepticism, and it reminds us that we shouldn't easily accept everything we hear as truth. A Brief History of Bullshit in America is a funny and easy to read book that examines the bullshit obsessed "post-truth era" of today and how we got here. It is filled with information, misinformation, disinformation, and any other sort of bullshit you can think of. If you consider yourself to be connoisseur of good bullshit, then you will love this book! Bullshit can be so many things. It could be anything from a degree in Gender Studies to something simple as a three-word campaign slogan, or even something as complicated as our nation’s 6,550-page tax code. Political speeches, self-help books, marketing, press conferences, tax code, song lyrics, conspiracy theories, many college majors, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the multi-billion-dollar diet industry, medicine, and even the Constitution of the United States itself are all some form of bullshit in one way or another. Bullshit is everywhere all around us. It influences the clothes we wear, shapes our political views, and even determines what food we eat. This book will examine some of the greatest bullshitters of all time and celebrate their accomplishments. Bullshitters are beautiful highly intelligent individuals, and they play a vital role in our world. They start almost all of our wars, make our drugs, sell us our cars, raise and lower our taxes, regulate our economy, they tell us what to wear, and in many instances what to believe. This book will also give you some basic bullshit strategies that you can use in your own life as well.
Cambridge English For Schools 2 Teacher S Book
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Author : Andrew Littlejohn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-05-23
Cambridge English For Schools 2 Teacher S Book written by Andrew Littlejohn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-05-23 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Aimed at young students, this comprehensive book includes an 'A-Z of Methodology' reference section. The levels 1-4 contain around 80 hours of class work depending on the various options used. The Starter level provides around 40-60 hours of class work.
The Great American Novel
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Author : Philip Roth
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2013-07-02
The Great American Novel written by Philip Roth and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-02 with Fiction categories.
Philip Roth's richly imagined satiric narrative, The Great American Novel, turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an unfettered farce Featuring heroism and perfidy, lively wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee. "Roth is better than he's ever been before.... The prose is electric." (The Atlantic) Gil Gamesh is the only pitcher who ever tried to kill the umpire, and John Baal, The Babe Ruth of the Big House, never hit a home run sober. But you've never heard of them -- or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history -- because of the communist plot and the capitalist scandal that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory.
The Great American Mission
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Author : David Ekbladh
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-08
The Great American Mission written by David Ekbladh and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-08 with History categories.
The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority became symbols of American liberalism's ability to marshal the social sciences, state planning, civil society, and technology to produce extensive social and economic change. For proponents, it became a valuable weapon to check the influence of menacing ideologies such as Fascism and Communism. Modernization took on profound geopolitical importance as the United States grappled with these threats. After World War II, modernization remained a means to contain the growing influence of the Soviet Union. Ekbladh demonstrates how U.S.-led nation-building efforts in global hot spots, enlisting an array of nongovernmental groups and international organizations, were a basic part of American strategy in the Cold War. However, a close connection to the Vietnam War and the upheavals of the 1960s would discredit modernization. The end of the Cold War further obscured modernization's mission, but many of its assumptions regained prominence after September 11 as the United States moved to contain new threats. Using new sources and perspectives, The Great American Mission offers new and challenging interpretations of America's ideological motivations and humanitarian responsibilities abroad.