A Power Stronger Than Itself

Author : George E. Lewis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226477037
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Power Stronger Than Itself written by George E. Lewis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images. Moving from Chicago to New York to Paris, and from founding member Steve McCall’s kitchen table to Carnegie Hall, A Power Stronger Than Itself uncovers a vibrant, multicultural universe and brings to light a major piece of the history of avant-garde music and art.

Author : Terry S. Reynolds
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801872488
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stronger Than a Hundred Men written by Terry S. Reynolds and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many apparently simple devices, the vertical water wheel has been around for so long that it is taken for granted. Yet this "picturesque artifact" was for centuries man's primary mechanical source of power and was the foundation upon which mills and other industries developed. Stronger than a Hundred Men explores the development of the vertical water wheel from its invention in ancient times through its eventual demise as a source of power during the Industrial Revolution. Spanning more than 2000 years, Terry Reynolds's account follows the progression of this labor-saving device from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and America-covering the evolution of the water wheel itself, the development of dams and reservoirs, and the applications of water power.

Author : Wael Ghonim
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547774044
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution 2.0 written by Wael Ghonim and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Google executive and political activist tells the story of the Egyptian revolution he helped ignite through the power of social media. In the summer of 2010, thirty-year-old Google executive Wael Ghonim anonymously launched a Facebook page to protest the death of an Egyptian man at the hands of security forces. The page’s following expanded quickly and moved from online protests to a nonconfrontational movement. On January 25, 2011, Tahrir Square resounded with calls for change. Yet just as the revolution began in earnest, Ghonim was captured and held for twelve days of brutal interrogation. After he was released, he gave a tearful speech on national television, and the protests grew more intense. Four days later, the president of Egypt was gone. In this riveting story, Ghonim takes us inside the movement and shares the keys to unleashing the power of crowds in the age of social networking. “A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help of social media.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Revolution 2.0 excels in chronicling the roiling tension in the months before the uprising, the careful organization required and the momentum it unleashed.” —NPR.org

Author : Michael C. Heller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520975863
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Beyond Listening written by Michael C. Heller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual interference, and spectral haunting. The text investigates sound that is experienced in other parts of the body, altered by cross-wirings of the senses, weaponized by the military, or mediated and changed by cultural practices and memory. Building on recent scholarship in sound studies and affect theory, Heller questions not only how sound propagates acoustically but how sonic presences temper our total experience of the world around us.

Author : Cadwallader Colden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden ... 1711-[1775] written by Cadwallader Colden and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New-York Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year ... written by New-York Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New-York Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book Collections written by New-York Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1026 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Report of Debates, House of Commons written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
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Download or read book Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Heclo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199946000
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Thinking Institutionally written by Hugh Heclo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of critical thinking to convince western culture that to be rational, liberated, authentic, and modern means to be anti-institutional. In this mold-breaking book, Hugh Heclo moves beyond the abstract academic realm of thinking about institutions to the more personal significance and larger social meaning of what it is to think institutionally. His account ranges from Michael Jordan's respect for the game of basketball to Greek philosophy, from twenty-first-century corporate and political scandals to Christian theology and the concept of office and professionalism. Think what you will about one institution or another, but after Heclo, no reader will be left in doubt about why it matters to think institutionally.