A Changing Wind

Author : Wendy Hamand Venet
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820351360

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A Changing Wind by Wendy Hamand Venet Pdf

In 1845 Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. A Changing Wind is the first history to explore what it meant to live in Atlanta during its rapid growth, its devastation in the Civil War, and its rise as a “New South” city during Reconstruction. A Changing Wind brings to life the stories of Atlanta’s diverse citizens. In a rich account of residents’ changing loyalties to the Union and the Confederacy, the book highlights the unequal economic and social impacts of the war, General Sherman’s siege, and the stunning rebirth of the city in postwar years. The final chapter focuses on Atlanta’s collective memory of the Civil War, showing how racial divisions have led to differing views on the war’s meaning and place in the city’s history.

Author : Ion Bogdan Vasi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199842582

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Winds of Change by Ion Bogdan Vasi Pdf

In recent decades the global wind energy industry has undergone explosive growth, and there is still vast potential for wind to supply more of the world's energy. Though not only is wind power far from reaching its potential, its rise has been uneven and irregular. What factors influence the development of the wind energy industry, and why has it developed successfully in some places but not in others? In Winds of Change, Ion Bogdan Vasi argues that the development of wind energy is dependent not only on improvements in technology and economic forces, but also in large part on the efforts of the environmental movement. Vasi defines and analyses three pathways through which the environmental movement has contributed to industry growth: it has influenced the adoption and implementation of renewable energy policies, created consumer demand for clean energy, and changed the institutional logics of the energy sector. Vasi uses quantitative analysis to present the big picture of global wind power development, and qualitative research to understand why certain countries are world leaders in wind energy while others are relatively underdeveloped. Through interviews with renewable energy professionals and campaigners, he shows that environmental groups and activists participated actively in energy policymaking, pressured various organizations to purchase wind power, and formed new companies that specialized in wind-farm development. He also demonstrates that environmentalists contributed to wind turbine manufacturing by becoming entrepreneurs, innovators, and advocates. Winds of Change sheds much new light on how wind energy is adopted and why, and demonstrates how activists and social movements can contribute to the creation of new industries.

Author : John Saxon,William Alton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973351331

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A Change in the Wind by John Saxon,William Alton Pdf

The Holy Roman Empire has crumbled, and upon its bones Napoleon is building another. But the darkness is deeper than wars and politics, as a new spiritual battle is spreading across the Germanies. The wind is changing, as names of old gods are spoken again and a secret evil mentioned only in legend is arising, leaving the defense of the world to a handful of simple but brave souls.Tied closer to the darkness than he suspects, a young man with a past he cannot remember searches for his identity. He is helped by a young woman who--inspired by the ideals of the revolution--has ambitions of her own. Only Monsignor Frederick guesses the growing power of the ancient Nibelungen gold that seeks to conquer the world with an unholy new Reich. Against that he hastily assembles a small company to exorcise that ancient evil. All the while, a dying lost race with distant claims upon the gold fights to get it back for themselves, to restore their own ancient glory.Set in Central Europe at the beginning of the 19th Century, A Change in the Wind chronicles the spreading darkness and the deeds of those simple people caught in the grip of a fight they cannot win, and often cannot even fathom.

Author : Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106017814309

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South Wind Changing by Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh Pdf

"A Vietnamese refugee to the U.S. who was a young student in Saigon when the war ended tells movingly of surviving a Marxist re-education camp and escaping Vietnam by boat. His adventures in the U.S. includedearning a bachelors degree at Bennington College and learning the rhythms of English well enough to write this haunting, oddly pastoral memoir".--"Time".

Author : Ralf Weisse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540684916

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Marine Climate and Climate Change by Ralf Weisse Pdf

Marine environmental conditions such as storms, storm surges and wave heights are directly experienced by, for example, off-shore operations or coastal populations. The authors review and bring together the state-of-the-art and present day knowledge about historical changes, recent trends and concepts on how marine environmental conditions may change in the future as well as discuss models and data problems.

Author : Thomas F. Sheehan
Publisher : Rourke Educational Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1600445381

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Wind and Water at Work by Thomas F. Sheehan Pdf

Explains The Earth Is Always Changing, How Wind And Water Can Be Useful Resources But Also Can Cause Erosion, And Discusses Weather Changes.

Author : Samuel P. Richards
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820329994

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Sam Richards's Civil War Diary by Samuel P. Richards Pdf

This previously unpublished diary is the best-surviving firsthand account of life in Civil War-era Atlanta. Bookseller Samuel Pearce Richards (1824-1910) kept a diary for sixty-seven years. This volume excerpts the diary from October 1860, just before the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, through August 1865, when the Richards family returned to Atlanta after being forced out by Sherman's troops and spending a period of exile in New York City. The Richardses were among the last Confederate loyalists to leave Atlanta. Sam's recollections of the Union bombardment, the evacuation of the city, the looting of his store, and the influx of Yankee forces are riveting. Sam was a Unionist until 1860, when his sentiments shifted in favor of the Confederacy. However, as he wrote in early 1862, he had "no ambition to acquire military renown and glory." Likewise, Sam chafed at financial setbacks caused by the war and at Confederate policies that seemed to limit his freedom. Such conflicted attitudes come through even as Sam writes about civic celebrations, benefit concerts, and the chaotic optimism of life in a strategically critical rebel stronghold. He also reflects with soberness on hospitals filled with wounded soldiers, the threat of epidemics, inflation, and food shortages. A man of deep faith who liked to attend churches all over town, Sam often commments on Atlanta's religious life and grounds his defense of slavery and secession in the Bible. Sam owned and rented slaves, and his diary is a window into race relations at a time when the end of slavery was no longer unthinkable. Perhaps most important, the diary conveys the tenor of Sam's family life. Both Sam and his wife, Sallie, came from families divided politically and geographically by war. They feared for their children's health and mourned for relatives wounded and killed in battle. The figures in Sam Richards's Civil War Diary emerge as real people; the intimate experience of the Civil War home front is conveyed with great power.

Author : L. Butler,S. Stockwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137318008

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The Wind of Change by L. Butler,S. Stockwell Pdf

Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark six-week African tour, presaged the end of the British Empire in Africa. This book, the first to focus on Macmillan's 'Wind of Change', comprises a series of essays by leading historians in the field.

Author : Max Barrett
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0090033906

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The Changing Wind by Max Barrett Pdf

Author : Natalie Hyde
Publisher : Crabtree Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Earth (Planet)
ISBN : 0778717275

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How Do Wind and Water Change Earth? by Natalie Hyde Pdf

Learn how water and wind shape the landscape of Earth.

Author : Ruth Park
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 0207167613

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When the Wind Changed by Ruth Park Pdf

Josh is a little boy who likes to make faces. He practises his scary faces every day. If only Josh had listened when his father told him what would happen when the wind changed Ages 4+

Author : Janet Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0709198914

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The Changing Wind by Janet Turner Pdf

Author : Eugene Linden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Climate and civilization
ISBN : 9780684863528

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The Winds of Change by Eugene Linden Pdf

Are we better prepared than our ancestors were to deal with climate change? Explaining fast-changing science, Linden suggests that man must learn from the past to avoid a coming catastrophe. Illustrations throughout.

Author : Don Coldsmith
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553283341

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The Changing Wind by Don Coldsmith Pdf

Struggling to lead his people out of the darkness of the Stone Age, White Buffalo, the great Shaman, faces new dangers as change threatens to destroy his tribe and their traditions and the evil Gray Wolf of the Head-Splitters seeks blood vengeance

Author : Alessandro Nova
Publisher : McGill Queens Univ
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 077353833X

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The Book of the Wind by Alessandro Nova Pdf

InThe Book of the WindAlessandro Nova has selected texts and images to create a history of the wind that illustrates his belief that the artistic representation of the invisible, The metaphorical nature of the phenomenon, And The challenge that it presents for perception require increasing our inner world through an expansion of our perceptual horizon. The wind - a natural phenomenon both salutary and injurious - has inspired myths, literary texts, and works of art in every era and place.The Book of the Windoffers a contemporary and original reflection on one of the most intriguing questions in art history - how can the immaterial be depicted?