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Category : Heating
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
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Something New in the Air
Author: Lorna RothPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773528567
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A definitive history of the pioneering efforts of Television Northern Canada and APTN.
Something in the Air
Author: Marc FisherPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307547094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A sweeping, anecdotal account of the great sounds and voices of radio–and how it became a bonding agent for a generation of American youth When television became the next big thing in broadcast entertainment, everyone figured video would kill the radio star–and radio, period. But radio came roaring back with a whole new concept. The war was over, the baby boom was on, the country was in clover, and a bold new beat was giving the syrupy songs of yesteryear a run for their money. Add transistors, 45 rpm records, and a young man named Elvis to the mix, and the result was the perfect storm that rocked, rolled, and reinvented radio. Visionary entrepreneurs like Todd Storz pioneered the Top 40 concept, which united a generation. But it took trendsetting “disc jockeys” like Alan Freed, Murray the K, Wolfman Jack, Cousin Brucie, and their fast-talking, too-cool-for-school counterparts across the land to turn time, temperature, and the same irresistible hit tunes played again and again into the ubiquitous sound track of the fifties and sixties. The Top 40 sound broke through racial barriers, galvanized coming-of-age kids (and scandalized their perplexed parents), and provided the insistent, inescapable backbeat for times that were a-changin’. Along with rock-and-roll music came the attitude that would literally change the “voice” of radio forever, via the likes of raconteur Jean Shepherd, who captivated his loyal following of “Night People”; the inimitable Bob Fass, whose groundbreaking Radio Unnameable inaugurated the anything-goes free-form style that would come to define the alternative frontier of FM; and a small-time Top 40 deejay who would ultimately find national fame as a political talk-show host named Rush Limbaugh. From Hunter Hancock, who pushed beyond the limits of 1950s racial segregation with rhythm and blues and hepcat patter, to Howard Stern, who blew through all the limits with a blue streak of outrageous on-air antics; from the heyday of summer songs that united carefree listeners to the latter days of political talk that divides contentious callers; from the haze of classic rock to the latest craze in hip-hop, Something in the Air chronicles the extraordinary evolution of the unique and timeless medium that captured our hearts and minds, shook up our souls, tuned in–and turned on–our consciousness, and went from being written off to rewriting the rules of pop culture.
Command Of The Air
Author: General Giulio DouhetPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782898522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.
Something in the Air
Author: Richard HofferPublisher: Free Press
ISBN: 9781416588955
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Sports Illustrated senior writer Richard Hoffer records the unforgettable athletic achievements of the 1968 U.S. Olympic team in Mexico City.
Metal Worker, Plumber and Steam Fitter
Author: Something New Under the Sun
Author: Alexandra KleemanPublisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 1984826301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in “a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality” (Time) LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vulture, Thrillist, Literary Hub “An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure.”—Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies Novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But California is not as he imagined. Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick finds an unlikely partner in Cassidy Carter—the cynical starlet of his film—and the two investigate the sun-scorched city, where they discover the darker side of all that glitters in Hollywood. Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment—a bold exploration of environmental catastrophe in the age of alternative facts, and “a ghost story not of the past but of the near future” (The New York Times).
There Is Something in the Air
Author: David YarbroughPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781436308472
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
There is something in the air. Are you ready for a journey? Buckle up and accompany me for a close up view of what really goes on behind the wire to keep nerve gas and other chemical agents out of our air here in the United States. Is the wire to keep nerve gas inside or to maintain secrets? Observe the pathways for nerve gas and other chemical agents to enter our environment and the air we breathe, then you decide. Would you report safety problems regarding the nerve gas to your superiors. What should you do? Experience how it feels to be labeled unpatriotic, watch your employer embarrass and lie about your children then ward off conspiracy after conspiracy to defend yourself in an effort to save your career until your superiors use the United States Court and federal prosecutors to indict you for eight counts of felonies. Watch your excellent reputation be destroyed, almost overnight to become evil, in order to ruin your credibility so the safety problems can be ignored. Watch federal whistle blowing protection laws be thrown out the window because the army has learned a way to circumvent the law to retaliate by incarcerating you in a federal penitentiary. The only retaliation that could be more extreme would be to murder the whistle blowers but don't discount murder! Continue with me for a trip through the federal government rehabilitation program behind the wire at the most secure federal correction complex in the United States, the home of the Supermax nick named the Alcatraz of the Rockies in Florence, Colorado and prison chambers for the most wicked men in our society. Be brave, my word is my sword and it is true so I promise you will return safely and honorably. We will have fun times and at times we will smile but we will also experience tragedy and some of vilest ordeals life has to offer. A life of education is filled with opposites and we will experience a seemingly unending array of them. Meet some new friends. Enjoy their company and conversation but guard yourself at all times and pray that you will never meet some of the other men and women you read about in person. The few individuals who do not want to be counted among my friends and who participated against me appeared to believe the mission was infallible; at all costs the chemical agents must burn baby burn, full speed ahead, and any other course to destroy these weapons would be unpatriotic, satanic, and blasphemous. I promise that you will be rewarded by reinforcing your own determination to be the same type of person in your professional life at work that you profess to be at home with your family and friends. You will add a more clear definition to family, service, deceit, freedom, friendship, love, hate, patriotism, service, conspiracy, and sabotage. This journey is my book. It is a story that must be told to embolden future references to chemical agent destruction efforts with factual discovery and honesty. You should be aware of this story before determining your own conclusions. As for me I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. I felt the pain and joy as I lived it. I climbed up the ladder before I fell. I was defeated, I was lost, then I was awakened, and now I am climbing again. We will see the story together by using the full set of puzzle pieces to form a complete picture and I will explain why the lines exist in between the pieces regarding the chemical agent destruction program. The army will give you a perfect picture then describe the border as being safe and pretend the lines between the pieces do not exist. They will say trust us, we care about safety, safety is of utmost importance, don't ask specific questions, and stay away. Free agency is yours so you be the judge. Why were the deadly weapons made? Are the deadly weapons being destroyed and validated as destroyed safely by our sampling and analytical procedures? Or, are the deadly weapons just being destroyed? My friends and I have bee
Parliamentary Debates
Author: New Zealand. ParliamentPublisher:
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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