The Blue In The Air

Author : Marcello Carlin
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781846945960

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A former widower whose life was saved by writing about music spends a year waiting for his new wife to fly over from Toronto and join him in London. While he waits he observes that the world is subtly changing and that music has played a key part in these changes. A galaxy of characters, ranging from Marty Wilde to Jay-Z via Glenn Gould, Dorothy Squires, Britney Spears, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Patrick Cargill, Orson Welles and many forgotten others, conspire to alter his perspective, leading to a climax where he is finally united with his wife and the world chooses a new and better leader. The Blue in the Air is a gesture of defiance from a tiny but meaningful tugboat of resistance. At a time when we are repeatedly encouraged for reasons of demographic convenience to believe that music can change nothing and mean nothing, this writer demonstrates comprehensively that for those who stay awake, alert and alive, music still retains the power to change the fabric of the air we choose to breathe.

Author : Marcello Carlin
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781846947711

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The Blue in the Air by Marcello Carlin Pdf

A retrieved man tells how music, from Patrick Cargill to Jay-Z, retained the power to change the world in 2008. ,

Author : Conrad L. Kraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Air traffic control
ISBN : UOM:39015095295583

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A Broad-band Blue Lighting System for Radar Air Traffic Control Center by Conrad L. Kraft Pdf

Author : Lu Spinney
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781936787562

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Beyond the High Blue Air by Lu Spinney Pdf

“Like The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Beyond the High Blue Air is a spare, sharp memoir about the speed with which a comfortable existence can be blighted by grief.” —Bee Wilson, The Sunday Times Lu Spinney’s memoir Beyond the High Blue Air is at once a portrait of the fearlessness of familial love and the profound dilemma posed by modern medicine. When Spinney’s twenty–nine–year–old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, “he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp,” writes his mother, “skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead . . .” He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma. Thus begins the erratic loss—Miles first in a coma and then trapped in a fluctuating state of minimal consciousness—that unravels over the next five years. Spinney, her husband, and three other children put their lives on hold to tend to Miles at various hospitals and finally in a care home. They hold out hope that he will be returned to them. With blunt precision, Spinney chronicles her family’s intimate experience. And yet, as personal a book as this is, it offers universal meaning, presenting an eloquent and piercing description of what it feels to witness an intimate become unfamiliar. This is a story about ambiguous loss: the disappearance of someone who is still there. Three quarters of the way through, however, Spinney’s story takes a turn. The family and, to the degree that he can communicate, Miles himself come to view ending his life as the only possible release from the prison of his body and mind. Spinney, cutting her last thread of hope, wishes for her son to die. And yet, even as she allows this difficult revelation to settle, she learns that this is not her decision to make. Because Miles is diagnosed as being in a “minimally conscious state” rather than a “persistent vegetative state,” there is no legal way to bring about his death, a bewildering paradox that Spinney navigates with compassion and wisdom. This profound book encompasses the lyrical revelations of a memoir like Jean–Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as well as the crucial medical and moral insights of a book such as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.

Author : Lu Spinney
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782398882

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Beyond the High Blue Air by Lu Spinney Pdf

Aged 29, Lu Spinney's son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the years following her son Miles's accident, revealing his existence imprisoned in a limbo of fluctuating consciousness, at times agonizingly aware of his predicament. With unfailing honesty and courageous prose, Lu Spinney's memoir explores the very nature of self and the anguish of witnessing Miles's suffering as she and her family come to realise that, although he has been saved from death, he has not been brought back to a meaningful life.

Author : Lisa Glass
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781623654153

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Blue by Lisa Glass Pdf

Surfing is sixteen-year-old Iris's world, and when the ultra-talented Zeke walks into her life, it soon becomes her passion. Over one amazing summer, as she is drawn into his sphere, she experiences love, new friendships, but also loss, with an intensity she never dreamed of. But is Zeke all he seems? What hides beneath his glamorous and mysterious past? When Iris decides to try for her own surfing success, just as her ex-boyfriend comes back into her life, she will test her talent, and her feelings for Zeke, to the limit...

Author : Royal Society (London)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10499747

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (London) Pdf

Author : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Industrial arts
ISBN : UOM:39015035842866

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Journal of the Society of Arts by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Findlay Muirhead,Marcel Monmarché
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : UCAL:$B192333

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Paris and Its Environs by Findlay Muirhead,Marcel Monmarché Pdf

Author : Lisa Glass
Publisher : Quercus Children's Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781784292751

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Blue: Ride by Lisa Glass Pdf

'A STUNNING READ FOR SUMMER!' Reading in the Sunshine As a professional surfer, seventeen-year-old Iris has travelled the sun-kissed beaches of the globe. But after a tumultuous week in Miami leaves her heartbroken, Iris returns to her home town in the south coast of England. Putting her promising career on hold. Leaving behind Zeke, the boy who changed her world. Iris is desperate to get back to her old life, to the family and friends she grew up with. She wants to rediscover her passion for surfing. She needs to move on. But Iris soon realises it won't be that simple. Because while a summer romance might only last the season, first loves never truly leave you.

Author : M. F. MAURY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY by M. F. MAURY Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11548537

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Senate documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. J. OGLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026118895

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First Teachings about the Earth; Its Lands and Waters; Its Countries and States, Etc by M. J. OGLE Pdf

Author : Edward M. Sion
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935149965

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Through Blue Skies to Hell by Edward M. Sion Pdf

A “surprisingly revealing” look at air combat, combining a WWII bombardier’s journal with a present-day perspective (Aviation News). This comprehensive look at air war over Europe during the climactic year of World War II combines firsthand experience with expert analysis. The centerpiece is a mission-by-mission diary of 1st Lt. Richard R. Ayesh, bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress, who flew with the 100th Bombardment Group, 13th Combat Wing of the 8th Air Force—the legendary “Bloody 100th.” He received the Distinguished Flying Cross, Croix de Guerre, and Air Medal with Four Oak Leaf Clusters, among others. This book follows Ayesh’s progress from his youth during the Great Depression in Wichita, Kansas, which was rapidly becoming the air capital of the nation, to his arrival in England as a lieutenant in a bomber crew assigned to assault the Third Reich. The author provides a look at the principles of American daylight strategic bombing, while relaying the overall military situation on the ground and in the air just after D-Day. Covering all aspects of air war in a clear, concise, yet nontechnical manner, the book covers such topics as photo-reconnaissance, munitions and bomb types, aircraft characteristics, fighter and bomber tactics, bomber formations, strategic target selection, radars, countermeasures and counter-counter measures. The unaltered diary of Lt. Ayesh is presented mission-by-mission, punctuated by tragedy and heroism, with explanations and commentary of the significance of events and actions described en route. The result is one of the most frank and exciting works on the air war over Europe to date. After Lt. Ayesh is followed on his perilous return home in U-boat infested waters, the book assesses the effectiveness of US strategy in ultimately paralyzing the Nazi war machine. Finally, the complex moral issues raised by area and city bombing are explored, with twenty-first century implications.

Author : Henry Watts (F.C.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001498223

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A dictionary of chemistry and the allied branches of other sciences by Henry Watts (F.C.S.) Pdf