Author: Erik Kar Jun Leung
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 9781622776368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book contains insights and firsthand experiences of people of color, women, and LGBT individuals working in the wind band field. Chapters address racism and the Black experience in America and band music; the intersection of Asian culture and a career in music; experiences and insights of esteemed female band directors; queer identity and visibility in the wind band; encouragement, wisdom, and advice for empowering women in music; unique approaches to programming diverse works by diverse composers. The book also features an annotated bibliography of works by underrepresented composers.
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0679748385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A beautifully packaged hardcover edition of the poem that captivated the nation and quickly became a national bestseller. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: Vivian E. Thomson
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2017-04-21
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0262036347
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities. The United States has pledged to the world community a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 26–28 percent below 2005 levels in 2025. Because much of this reduction must come from electric utilities, especially coal-fired power plants, coal states will make or break the U.S. commitment to emissions reduction. In Climate of Capitulation, Vivian Thomson offers an insider's account of how power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level. Thomson, a former member of Virginia's State Air Pollution Control Board, identifies a “climate of capitulation” in state government—a deeply rooted favoritism toward coal and electric utilities in states' air pollution policies. Thomson narrates three cases involving coal and air pollution from her time on the Air Board. She illuminates the overt and covert power struggles surrounding air pollution limits for a coal-fired power plant just across the Potomac from Washington, for a controversial new coal-fired electrical generation plant in coal country, and for coal dust pollution from truck traffic in a country hollow. Thomson links Virginia's climate of capitulation with campaign donations that make legislators politically indebted to coal and electric utility interests, a traditionalistic political culture tending to inertia, and a part-time legislature that depended on outside groups for information and bill drafting. Extending her analysis to fifteen other coal-dependent states, Thomson offers policy reforms aimed at mitigating the ingrained biases toward coal and electric utilities in states' air pollution policy making.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hearing to begin a national dialogue about the future of America's space program. Witnesses: Daniel Goldin, Admin., NASA; Howard McCurdy, Prof. of Public Admin., Amer. Univ.; Eilene Galloway, Hon. Dir., International Inst. for Space Law; Rick Norman Tumlinson, Pres., Space Frontier Fdn.; and Charles Conrad, chmn., Universal Space Lines. Also, testimony submitted for the record by: Marcia Smith, Former Exec. Dir., Nat. Comm. on Space; Louis Friedman, Exec. Dir., The Planetary Soc.; Keith Cowing, Ed., NASA Watch; Nat. Comm. on Space: Space for America; Pat Dasch, Exec. Dir., Nat. Space Soc.; and Elliot Pulham, Sr. V.P., U.S. Space Fdn.
Author: Janette Oke
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2016-08-02
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1441229914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Inspiring Conclusion to a Popular Series with a TV tie-in When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever. But the town's rapid growth brings many challenges. A second teacher is assigned, and Beth finds herself going head-to-head with a very different philosophy of education--one that dismisses religion and rejects God. Fearful for the children who sit under the influence of Robert Harris Hughes, Beth struggles to know how to respond. At the same time, Beth wonders if Jarrick is considering a position at her father's company simply for her sake. Should she admit her feelings on the matter? Or keep silent and allow Jarrick to make up his own mind?
Author: Karen Schreck
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1402264038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One year—he'll be gone for one year and then we'll be together again and everything will be back to the way it should be. The day David left, I felt like my heart was breaking. Sure, any long–distance relationship is tough, but David was going to war—to fight, to protect, to put his life in danger. We can get through this, though. We'll talk, we'll email, we won't let anything come between us. I can be on army girlfriend for one year. But will my sweet, soulful, funny David be the same person when he comes home? Will I? And what if he doesn't come home at all...? "A tender and honest examination of love, longing, and loyalty in the face of modern war."—Laura Ruby, author of Bad Apple "While He Was Away is a wonderful love story with writing that is skillful and true."—Amy Timberlake, author of That Girl Lucy Moon
Author: J. B. Harbord
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2015-01-09
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 3954274418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Harbord's Glossary of Navigation was for more than 100 years the leading handbook for the navigation on the seas. This is a reprint of the second edition (1874).