Michael Lanza, "Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0807001198 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.6 mb
A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to share these special places with his two young children. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and understands what lies ahead: Alaska's tidewater glaciers are rapidly retreating, and the abundant sea life in their shadow departs with them. Encroaching tides threaten beloved wilderness coasts like Washington's Olympic and Florida's Everglades. Less snowfall and hotter summers will diminish Yosemite's world-famous waterfalls. And it is predicted that Glacier National Park's 7,000-year-old glaciers will be gone in a decade.

Be More Taylor Swift: Fearless Advice on Following Your Dreams and Finding Your Voice by DK
English | March 3rd, 2022 | ISBN: 0241558255 | 74 pages | True EPUB | 3.87 MB
What would Taylor do?

Basic Knowledge About Home Electricity System: Wring And Repair home Electricity System for Beginners by MCARTHUR KATIE
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09SCPY18V | 65 pages | EPUB | 5.36 Mb
Electrical wiring keeps the power flowing through your home. It is run to power lighting, outlets, and devices throughout your home including appliances. Some wiring is low-voltage for things such as doorbells, while other wiring is much larger for large loads to power things such as ovens, ranges, welders, sub-panels, wells, and air conditioners.

Rick Broadbent, "Barry Sheene: The Official Photographic Celebration of the Legendary Motorcycle Champion"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1472944585 | 224 pages | EPUB | 153.4 MB
Barry Sheene is arguably the greatest British motorcycle racing rider of all time. A chancer, lovable rogue and the leading sports star of his era, adored by the public and press alike, he won two world motorcycle championships in 1976 and 1977. He achieved iconic status by being involved in some horrific crashes and was dubbed 'the bionic man' on account of the amount of metal used to reconstruct his legs after a particularly bad accident. He later emigrated to Australia and became a leading commentator. He died of cancer in 2003.

Aztec History for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the Aztec Empire and Civilization, from the Aztecs Settling in the Valley of Mexico to the Spanish Conquest (History for Children) by Captivating History
English | January 21, 2022 | ISBN: 1637165536 | 85 pages | EPUB | 4.95 Mb
Travel back in time to the vast expanse of Mesoamerica (Central America) to discover who the Aztecs were, how they built their impressive empire, and how this race of mighty warriors was eventually defeated.

Alda Benjamen, "Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space"
English | ISBN: 1108838790 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Examining the relationship between a strengthened Iraqi state under the Baʿth regime and the Assyrians, a Christian ethno-religious group, Alda Benjamen studies the role of minorities in twentieth-century Iraqi political and cultural history. Relying on extensive research in Iraq, including sources uncovered at the Iraqi National Archives in Baghdad, as well as in libraries and private collections in Erbil, Duhok, and Mosul, in Arabic and modern Aramaic, Benjamen foregrounds the Iraqi periphery as well as the history of bilingualism to challenge the monolingual narrative of the state. By exploring the role of Assyrians in Iraq's leftist and oppositional movements, including gendered representations of women, she demonstrates how, within newly politicized urban spaces, minorities became attracted to intellectual and political movements that allowed them to advance their own concerns while engaging with other Iraqis of their socio-economic background and relying on transnational community networks. Assyrian intellectuals not only negotiated but also resisted government policies through their cultural production, thereby achieving a softening of Baʿthist policies towards the Assyrians that differed markedly from those of later repressive eras.

Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond By Peter Dayan
2011 | 190 Pages | ISBN: 075466791X | PDF | 14 MB
In 1877, Ruskin accused Whistler of 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face'. Was he right? After all, Whistler always denied that the true function of art was to represent anything. If a painting does not represent, what is it, other than mere paint, flung in the public's face? Whistler's answer was simple: painting is music - or it is poetry. Georges Braque, half a century later, echoed Whistler's answer. So did Braque's friends Apollinaire and Ponge. They presented their poetry as music, too - and as painting. But meanwhile, composers such as Satie and Stravinsky were presenting their own art - music - as if it transposed the values of painting or of poetry. The fundamental principle of this intermedial aesthetic, which bound together an extraordinary fraternity of artists in all media in Paris, from 1885 to 1945, was this: we must always think about the value of a work of art, not within the logic of its own medium, but as if it transposed the value of art in another medium. Peter Dayan traces the history of this principle: how it created our very notion of 'great art', why it declined as a vision from the 1960s, and how, in the 21st century, it is fighting back.

Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture: Conflict, Resistance, and Agency By Mieke Bal, Miguel Hern Ndez-Navarro, Miguel A. Hernandez-Navarro
2012 | 354 Pages | ISBN: 9042032634 | PDF | 3 MB
This book explores the idea that art can enact small-scale resistances against the status quo in the social domain. These acts, which we call "little resistances," determine the limited yet potentially powerful political impact of art. From different angles, seventeen authors consider the spaces where art events occur as "political spaces," and explore how such spaces host events of disagreements in migratory culture. The newly coined word "migratory" refers to the sensate traces of the movements of migration that characterize contemporary culture. In other words, movement is not an exceptional occurrence in an otherwise stable world, but a normal, generalized process in a world that cannot be grasped in terms of any given notion of stability. Thus the book offers fresh reflections on art's power to move people, in the double sense of that verb, and shows how it helps to illuminate migratory culture's contributions to this process.

Are Dolphins Really Smart?: The mammal behind the myth By Justin Gregg
2013 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 019966045X | PDF | 2 MB
How intelligent are dolphins? Is their communication system really as complex as human language? And are they as friendly and peaceful as they are made out to be? Justin Gregg weighs up the claims made about dolphin intelligence and separates scientific fact from fiction. He presents the results of the latest research in animal behaviour, and puts our knowledge about them into perspective with comparisons to scientific studies of other animals, especially the crow family and great apes. He gives fascinating accounts of the challenges of testing what an animal with flippers and no facial expressions might actually be thinking. Gregg's evidence-based approach creates a comprehensive and up-to-date study of this fascinating animal which will appeal to all those intrigued by dolphin behaviour.

J. Samaine Lockwood, "Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1469625369 | PDF | pages: 239 | 2.8 mb
In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. Lockwood argues that regionalism in New England was part of a widespread woman-dominated effort to rewrite history. Lockwood demonstrates that New England regionalism was an intellectual endeavor that overlapped with colonial revivalism and included fiction and history writing, antique collecting, colonial home restoration, and photography. The cohort of writers and artists leading this movement included Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Morse Earle, and C. Alice Baker, and their project was taken up by women of a younger generation, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, who extended regionalism through the modernist moment.