Turner

Author : Chris Turner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501115097

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The Patch by Chris Turner Pdf

"In its heyday, the oil sands represented an industrial triumph and the culmination of a century of innovation, experiment, engineering, policy, and finance. Fort McMurray was a boomtown, the centre of a new gold rush, and the oil sands were reshaping the global energy, political, and financial landscapes. The future seemed limitless for the city and those who drew their wealth from the bitumen-rich wilderness. But in 2008, a new narrative for the oil sands emerged. As financial markets collapsed and the scientific reality of the Patch's effect on the environment became clear, the region turned into a boogeyman and a lightning rod for the global movement combatting climate change. Suddenly, the streets of Fort McMurray were the front line of a high-stakes collision between two conflicting worldviews--one of industrial triumph and another of environmental stewardship--each backed by major players on the world stage. The Patch is the seminal account of this ongoing conflict, showing just how far the oil sands reaches into all of our lives. From Fort Mac to the Bakken shale country of North Dakota, from Houston to London, from Saudi Arabia to the shores of Brazil, the whole world is connected in this enterprise. And it requires us to ask the question: In order to both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?"--

Author : Franny Moyle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241964552

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Turner by Franny Moyle Pdf

The man behind the paintings: the extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose to lead in the last years of his life. A near mythical figure in his own lifetime, Franny Moyle tells the story of the man who was considered visionary at best and ludicrous at worst. A resolute adventurer, he found new ways of revealing Britain to the British, astounding his audience with his invention and intelligence. Set against the backdrop of the finest homes in Britain, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, this is an astonishing portrait of one of the most important figures in Western art and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.

Author : Margaret Wade-Lewis
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643363370

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Lorenzo Dow Turner by Margaret Wade-Lewis Pdf

The first biography of the acclaimed African American linguist and author of Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect In this first book-length biography of the pioneering African American linguist and celebrated father of Gullah studies, Margaret Wade-Lewis examines the life of Lorenzo Dow Turner. A scholar whose work dramatically influenced the world of academia but whose personal story—until now—has remained an enigma, Turner (1890-1972) emerges from behind the shadow of his germinal 1949 study Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect as a man devoted to family, social responsibility, and intellectual contribution. Beginning with Turner's upbringing in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., Wade-Lewis describes the high expectations set by his family and his distinguished career as a professor of English, linguistics, and African studies. The story of Turner's studies in the Gullah islands, his research in Brazil, his fieldwork in Nigeria, and his teaching and research on Sierra Leone Krio for the Peace Corps add to his stature as a cultural pioneer and icon. Drawing on Turner's archived private and published papers and on extensive interviews with his widow and others, Wade-Lewis examines the scholar's struggle to secure funding for his research, his relations with Hans Kurath and the Linguistic Atlas Project, his capacity for establishing relationships with Gullah speakers, and his success in making Sea Island Creole a legitimate province of analysis. Here Wade-Lewis answers the question of how a soft-spoken professor could so profoundly influence the development of linguistics in the United States and the work of scholars—especially in Gullah and creole studies—who would follow him. Turner's widow, Lois Turner Williams, provides an introductory note and linguist Irma Aloyce Cunningham provides the foreword.

Author : Tina Turner
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780847869169

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Tina Turner: That's My Life by Tina Turner Pdf

The first authorized pictorial autobiography for the trade by the legendary Tina Turner, containing iconic as well as never-before-seen candid photos, letters, and other personal items of The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, from her early career to today. Tina Turner has always been a glorious force to be reckoned with; for more than sixty years, Tina has captivated audiences all over the world. For the first time, Tina has assembled an exceptional collection of images and ephemera to mark her eightieth birthday. Lavishly illustrated, Tina Turner: That's My Life features the work of world-renowned photographers including Peter Lindbergh, Annie Leibovitz, Bruce Weber, Anton Corbijn, Herb Ritts, Andy Warhol, Lord Snowdon, and Paul Cox among others. Also showcased are illustrations by fashion designers who were inspired by Tina, including Christian Louboutin, Antonio, and Bob Mackie. Additionally, Tina delved into her personal archive, and That's My Life showcases some of Tina's most famous dresses, wigs, and shoes. Comments handwritten by Tina Turner herself are included, and as well as handwritten letters from such friends as Beyoncé, Giorgio Armani, Bryan Adams, Oprah Winfrey, and Mick Jagger and others. Tina Turner: That's My Life is a comprehensive window into the world of Tina Turner, and is the perfect celebration of this storied performer that is sure to wow longtime and new fans alike.

Author : Leo Costello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351561853

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J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History by Leo Costello Pdf

J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History is an in-depth consideration of the artist's complex response to the challenge of creating history paintings in the early nineteenth century. Structured around the linked themes of making and unmaking, of creation and destruction, this book examines how Turner's history paintings reveal changing notions of individual and collective identity at a time when the British Empire was simultaneously developing and fragmenting. Turner similarly emerges as a conflicted subject, one whose artistic modernism emerged out of a desire to both continue and exceed his eighteenth-century aesthetic background by responding to the altered political and historical circumstances of the nineteenth century.

Author : Andre E. Johnson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496843890

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The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner by Andre E. Johnson Pdf

Henry McNeal Turner (1834–1915) was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of America’s earliest Black activists and social reformers, and an outspoken proponent of emigration. In The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit, Andre E. Johnson has compiled selected political speeches, sermons, lectures, and religious addresses delivered by Turner in their original form. Alongside Turner’s oratory, Johnson places the speeches in their historical context and traces his influence on Black social movements in the twentieth century, from W. E. B. Du Bois’s idea of cultural nationalism to Marcus Garvey’s "Back to Africa" movement, the modern-day civil rights movement, the Black Power movement, James Cone’s Black liberation theology, and more. While Turner was widely known as a great orator and published copious articles, essays, and editorials, no single collection of only Turner’s speeches has yet been published, and scholars have largely ignored his legacy. This volume recovers a lost voice within American and African American rhetorical history, expanding the canon of the African American oratorical tradition.

Author : J.T. Krul
Publisher : Aspen Comics
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Michael Turner's Fathom: Volume 3 Collected Edition by J.T. Krul Pdf

Collecting issues #0 through #10. The deadly tides of change rise above the surface in the exciting third chapter of the best-selling action-adventure series, FATHOM! Humankind faces a new threat to their existence from the ancient and powerful underwater race - the Black - while the return of the villainous Killian sends shockwaves throughout the already-devastated world of the Blue. Meanwhile, Aspen Matthews attempts to adjust to life above the water, but soon discovers that a future - and past - threat emerges to destroy her newly found safe haven!

Author : Edmund PACKE (M.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1735
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019237790

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An Answer to Dr. Turner's Letter to Dr. Jurin, on the subject of Mr. Ward's Drop and Pill. Wherein his ignorance of chymical pharmacy is ... exposed, etc by Edmund PACKE (M.D.) Pdf

Author : Peter Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798564475778

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Linebound by Peter Turner Pdf

Linebound is an old Eastern Townships word referring to those who have been banned for legal reasons from crossing the nearby border between Quebec and Vermont. Peter Turner's novel is the story of a country lawyer navigating the borderlands of life. Charlie England, an Anglo born in 1975 on his family's 200-year old Eastern Townships farm rides both sides of the line between English and French culture, the vividness of life and bleakness of death, and the profound changes from a centuries old way of life to a world with no apparent regard for what it has lost. With humour, humility, and honesty, we trace Charlie's path between harsh and hilarious early lessons in farm and country life to football scholarships and heartache at Laval. Punctuated by absurd but uniquely human legal cases threaded through a married life that rolls through valleys of passion then isolation, Linebound is the story of a man caught in a moment of social, cultural, and personal upheaval and the messy space of difference and tolerance that is vital to making it all work.

Author : William ROBSON (of York.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019459962

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Truth Vindicated, and Error Exposed: being remarks on Mr. Turner's pamphlet, entitled: “Arminianism in the Oven,” etc by William ROBSON (of York.) Pdf

Author : Max Turner
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781443405096

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Night Runner by Max Turner Pdf

For Zack Thomson, living in the Nicholls Ward isn’t so bad. After his parents died, he developed strange and severe allergies, and the mental institution was the only place where he could be properly looked after. As strange as it was, it was home. He could watch as much television as he wanted; his best friend Charlie visited him often enough; and Nurse Ophelia -- the prettiest no-nonsense nurse ever -- sometimes took him bowling. Of course, that didn’t mean he had it easy. His allergies restricted his diet to strawberry smoothies, and being the only kid at the hospital could get lonely. But it never once crossed Zack’s mind to leave...until the night someone crashed through the front doors and told him to run. Now he’s on a race for answers -- about his past, his parents, and his strange sickness -- even as every step takes him closer to the darkest of truths.

Author : Joel Turner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981346430

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Controlled Process Shooting by Joel Turner Pdf

Target Panic is not a disease, it is a hard wired self preservation system all of us have. Due to this reaction nearly every shooter will encounter a Target Panic associated issue at some point in their shooting career. However, with proper education on how we are wired, and instruction on how to approach the problem most shooters can remedy and improve their shooting dramatically. In the book we provide a detailed explanation of what Target Panic is, the mental and physical symptoms of what an archer might experience with Target Panic, and a step by step guide to implementing Joel Turner's Controlled Process Shooting system.

Author : Simon Turner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857456090

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Politics of Innocence by Simon Turner Pdf

Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent "disciplining mechanisms" of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. While the refugees are expected to behave as innocent, helpless victims, the question of victimhood among Burundian Hutu is increasingly challenged, following the 1993 massacres in Burundi and the Rwandan genocide. The book explores how different groups within the camp apply different strategies to cope with these issues and how the question of innocence and victimhood is itself imbued with ambiguity, as young men struggle to recuperate their masculinity and their political subjectivity.

Author : Lizzy Stewart
Publisher : Tate
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1849765189

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Meet the Artist: JMW Turner by Lizzy Stewart Pdf

Meet the Artist: J. M. W. Turner is packed with inspiring activities for budding young artists. Create colorful Turneresque landscapes and seascapes, experiment with watercolors, and paint portraits of your friends and family. Starting with a brief introduction to the life of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), an English painter known for his evocative land- and seascapes, the book offers a series of drawing-based activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in the artist's work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of actual artworks and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, this book, like all titles in the Meet the Artist series, encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences.

Author : Andrew MacDonald
Publisher : Cosmotheist Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733648127

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The Turner Diaries by Andrew MacDonald Pdf

A futuristic action-adventure novel, has been an underground bestseller for more than four decades. It chronicles a future America wracked by government oppression, revolutionary violence, and guerrilla war.