Future Days

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Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612194753
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Book Synopsis Future Days by : David Stubbs

Download or read book Future Days written by David Stubbs and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the men and women who transformed postwar Germany—and created a musical genre that revolutionized rock and roll and gave birth to hip-hop. West Germany after World War II was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europe. But this orphaned landscape proved fertile ground for a generation of musicians who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the strange and beautiful sounds that became known as Krautrock. Eschewing the easy pleasures of rock and roll and the more substantive seductions of blues and jazz, they took their inspiration from elsewhere: the mysticism of the East; the fractured classicism of Stockhausen; the grinding repetition of industry; the dense forests of the Rhineland; the endless winding of Autobahns. Faust, Neu!, Cluster, Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Düül II, Can, Kraftwerk—the influence of these groups’ music on Western popular music is incalculable. They were key to the development of movements ranging from post-punk to electronica and hip-hop and have directly inspired artists as diverse as David Bowie, Talking Heads, and LCD Soundsystem. Future Days is the brilliantly reported, deeply researched story of the groups that created Krautrock, and a social and cultural history of the Germany that challenged, inspired, and repelled them.

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Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612194745
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Future Days written by David Stubbs and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2015 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Faber and Faber Ltd"--Title page verso.

To Future Days

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480958026
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis To Future Days by : James Van Dycke

Download or read book To Future Days written by James Van Dycke and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Future Days By: James Van Dycke To Future Days is a science fiction adventure in which people are not only attached to computers and technology, but they have become them.

Future Days

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571283349
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Future Days written by David Stubbs and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Germany following the Second World War was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europe. But this disorientating landscape proved fertile ground for a generation of musicians who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the experimental and various sounds that became known as Krautrock. Eschewing the Anglo-American jazz/blues tradition, they took their inspiration from elsewhere: the mysticism of the East; the fractured classicism of Stockhausen; the pneumatic repetition of industry and the dense forests of the Rhineland; the endless winding of Autobahns. Faust, Neu!, Cluster, Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Düül II, Can and Kraftwerk. These may not all be household names, but the influence of their ruminative, expansive compositions upon Western popular music is incalculable. These groups were key to the development of postpunk, electronica and ambient music. Without them Bowie would not have made his Berlin trilogy, Talking Heads would have been a straight-ahead rock band, and the Pet Shop Boys would have a completely different stage act. Future Days is an in-depth study of this meditative, sometimes abstract, often very beautiful music and the groups that made it, throwing light on the social and political context that informed them. It's an indispensable book for those wanting to understand how much of today's music came about, and to discover a wealth of highly influential and pioneering musicians.

Powder Days

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Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488069050
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Powder Days by : Heather Hansman

Download or read book Powder Days written by Heather Hansman and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A Boston Globe Bestseller!* *An Outside Magazine Book Club Pick!* *Winner of the International Ski Association's Ullr Book Award!* "A sparkling account."—Wall Street Journal An electrifying adventure into the rich history of skiing and the modern heart of ski-bum culture, from one of America's most preeminent ski journalists The story of skiing is, in many ways, the story of America itself. Blossoming from the Tenth Mountain Division in World War II, the sport took hold across the country, driven by adventurers seeking the rush of freedom that only cold mountain air could provide. As skiing gained in popularity, mom-and-pop backcountry hills gave way to groomed trails and eventually the megaresorts of today. Along the way, the pioneers and diehards—the ski bums—remained the beating heart of the scene. Veteran ski journalist and former ski bum Heather Hansman takes readers on an exhilarating journey into the hidden history of American skiing, offering a glimpse into an underexplored subculture from the perspective of a true insider. Hopping from Vermont to Colorado, Montana to West Virginia, Hansman profiles the people who have built their lives around a cold-weather obsession. Along the way she reckons with skiing's problematic elements and investigates how the sport is evolving in the face of the existential threat of climate change.

Futuredays

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Publisher : Owl Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805001204
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Futuredays by : Isaac Asimov

Download or read book Futuredays written by Isaac Asimov and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations created in France to celebrate the turn of the century, show scenes depicting the future of air travel, helicopters, undersea colonies, agriculture and the radio

A Brief History of the Future

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474602770
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Book Synopsis A Brief History of the Future by : John Naughton

Download or read book A Brief History of the Future written by John Naughton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. John Naughton's book intersperses wonderful personal stories with an authoritative account of where the Net actually came from, who invented it and why and where it might be taking us. Most of us have no idea how the Internet works, or who created it. Even fewer have any idea what it means for society and the future. In a cynical age, John Naughton has not lost his capacity for wonder. He examines the nature of his own enthusiasm for technology and traces its roots in his lonely childhood and in his relationship with his father. A Brief History of the Future is an intensely personal celebration of vision and altruism, ingenuity and determination and, above all, of the power of ideas, passionately felt, to change the world.

Downriver

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643267X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Downriver by : Heather Hansman

Download or read book Downriver written by Heather Hansman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country, as it provides water for 33 million people. Stopped up by dams, slaked off by irrigation, and dried up by cities, the Green is crucial, overused, and at risk, now more than ever. Fights over the river’s water, and what’s going to happen to it in the future, are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year. As a former raft guide and an environmental reporter, Heather Hansman knew these fights were happening, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective—from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft, to paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers, city officials, and other people met along the way, Downriver is the story of that journey, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the West.

Journals of the House of Commons

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Journals of the House of Commons written by Great Britain House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mojo Collection

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 184767643X
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mojo Collection by : Various Mojo Magazine

Download or read book The Mojo Collection written by Various Mojo Magazine and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest albums of all time . . . and how they happened. Organised chronologically and spanning seven decades, The MOJO Collection presents an authoritative and engaging guide to the history of the pop album via hundreds of long-playing masterpieces, from the much-loved to the little known. From The Beatles to The Verve, from Duke Ellington to King Tubby and from Peggy Lee to Sly Stone, hundreds of albums are covered in detail with chart histories, full track and personnel listings and further listening suggestions. There's also exhaustive coverage of the soundtrack and hit collections that every home should have. Like all collections, there are records you listen to constantly, albums you've forgotten, albums you hardly play, albums you love guiltily and albums you thought you were alone in treasuring, proving The MOJO Collection to be an essential purchase for those who love and live music.

The Jurist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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A Coconut’S Reflections

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546246258
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)

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Book Synopsis A Coconut’S Reflections by : Willie G(arcia)

Download or read book A Coconut’S Reflections written by Willie G(arcia) and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centered reminds me that I have many more roads to travel, many more things to achieve . . . and I will continue to be centered, being more responsible in order to achieve my goals and make my dreams come true! As Willie G. spoke and read the words, following a discussion, his students began to understand what they had done wrong or why they were taking those actions. There was a feeling of relief and gratitude for this instructor that appeared to be more like a grandfather figure than a teacher. He had kept his word to not inform others unless the student was intending to injure himself/herself or another, and now the student would keep theirs. He used verses to make a statement about the situation, and now he wants to share these thoughts with others.

The Animal in the Secret World of Darwin

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450292054
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis The Animal in the Secret World of Darwin by : Michel Bergeron

Download or read book The Animal in the Secret World of Darwin written by Michel Bergeron and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientist Charles Darwin discretely opened the possibility of a purely animalistic origin for the human species. He repeatedly insisted that the differences between humans and others were a question of degree only. Sciences were, however, taken in the opposite direction, where these differences cannot have been generated by the natural processes of biological evolution. In The Animal in the Secret World of Darwin, author Michel Bergeron discuses the effects on the sciences caused by the presence of questions on humanity only answerable with religious beliefs. His investigation suggests that significant elements of perceived humanity have remained sufficiently narrowly defined to continue to agree with religious beliefs over the entire period starting with the scientific revolution centuries ago and reaching the present. Instead, he questions, could we be the simple animal who can only live on the belief not to be a simple animal? To alleviate these biases on the sciences of life, Bergeron advocates a different synthesis between Darwinism and Lamarckism. He further asks: How can sciences pretend to a cosmology neutral in term of religious influence since all of its complex mathematical developments were made under the constraint that we can link the present directly to the Big Bang?

All Gates Open

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571311512
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis All Gates Open by : Rob Young

Download or read book All Gates Open written by Rob Young and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: CAN. It consists of two books. In Book One, Rob Young gives us the full biography of a band that emerged at the vanguard of what would come to be called the Krautrock scene in late sixties Cologne. With Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay - two classically trained students of Stockhausen - at the heart of the band, CAN's studio and live performances burned an incendiary trail through the decade that followed: and left a legacy that is still reverberating today in hip hop, post rock, ambient, and countless other genres. Rob Young's account draws on unique interviews with all founding members of CAN, as well as their vocalists, friends and music industry associates. And he revisits the music, which is still deliriously innovative and unclassifiable more than four decades on. All Gates Open is a portrait of a group who worked with visionary intensity and belief, outside the system and inside their own inner space. Book Two, Can Kiosk, has been assembled by Irmin Schmidt, founding member and guiding spirit of the band, as a 'collage - a technique long associated with CAN's approach to recording. There is an oral history of the band drawing on interviews that Irmin made with musicians who see CAN as an influence - such as Bobby Gillespie, Geoff Barrow, Daniel Miller, and many others. There are also interviews with artists and filmmakers like Wim Wenders and John Malkovitch, where Schmidt reflects on more personal matters and his work with film. Extracts of Schmidt's notebook and diaries from 2013-14 are also reproduced as a reflection on the creative process, and the memories, dreams, and epiphanies it entails. Can Kiosk offers further perspectives on a band that have inspired several generations of musicians and filmmakers in the voices of the artists themselves. CAN were unique, and their legacy is articulated in two books in this volume with the depth, rigour, originality, and intensity associated with the band itself. It is illustrated throughout with previously unseen art, photographs, and ephemera from the band's archive.

The Light of Other Days

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429959622
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Light of Other Days written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant mind that brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stephen Baxter, one of the most cogent SF writers of his generation, comes a novel of a day, not so far in the future, when the barriers of time and distance have suddenly turned to glass. When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses cutting-edge physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times—around every corner, through every wall—the result is the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy, forever. Then the same technology proves able to look backward in time as well. The Light of Other Days is a story that will change your view of what it is to be human. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Architects of the Web

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Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471325734
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Architects of the Web written by Robert H. Reid and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1999-02-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A terrific book that captures the explosion of creativity and business evolution at the center of the Internet phenomenon. A tantalizing mix of diverse players with utopian visions, animated by equal parts aggression and delight. A true saga of our time."-James F. Moore author, The Death of Competition; Chairman, Geo Partners Research Inc. Architects of the Web presents the dynamic history of the Web's creation and evolution-as well as its emergence as a dynamic business tool-through revealing profiles of its architects, the brilliant minds who have helped thrust the Web onto desktops and corporate agendas around the world. A diverse, ambitious group, the architects of the Web are: * Marc Andreessen, Netscape * Ariel Poler, I/PRO * Rob Glaser, Progressive Networks Andrew Anker, HotWired * Kim Polese, Marimba * Halsey Minor, C/NET * Mark Pesce, VRML * Jerry Yang, Yahoo!

In the Days of Thy Youth. Sermons on Practical Subjects, Preached at Marlborough College from 1871 to 1876

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368725149
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book In the Days of Thy Youth. Sermons on Practical Subjects, Preached at Marlborough College from 1871 to 1876 written by F. W. Farrar and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.