Black Horizons

Author : U. L. Gooch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978676209
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Horizons written by U. L. Gooch and published by . This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Horizons is the memoir of an orphan who went from the bottom to become a pioneering aviator, businessman and politician in the post-Tuskegee Airmen era. As a poor African-American youngster picking cotton in a 1930s Tennessee field, U.L. Rip Gooch would look to the sky as airplanes flew overhead and think about escaping to a better life. Soon after World War II, he earned his pilot's license with "Chief" C. Alfred Anderson, but found that racist hiring practices among airlines and other companies did not allow employment of black aviators, even those who gained fame as Tuskegee Airmen. Rip fought back using business principles instead of violence. In time he built a million-dollar aviation business selling Mooney Aircraft in the Air Capital of the World (Wichita, Kansas), accrued 20,000 flight hours, and became one of the few black politicians in one of the most conservative states in the nation. *** "Sen. Rip Gooch is a man of integrity, a role model and a leader. He has served the people of Wichita and Kansas in ways that can never be measured." - Kathleen Sebelius, former governor of Kansas *** "As told in this book, the life of Rip Gooch has been a combination of joys and sorrows, challenges, opportunities and successes." - George Haley, former U.S. ambassador to Gambia

Author : Tom Moylan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317793552
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Horizons written by Tom Moylan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Michelle Magly
Publisher : Desert Palm Press
ISBN 13 : 9781948327220
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Horizons written by Michelle Magly and published by Desert Palm Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Taylor Morgan has never met an ikthian that wasn't trying to kill her, but when she accidentally takes one of the aliens hostage, she finds herself with an entirely new set of responsibilities. Her captive, Maia Kalanis, is no normal ikthian, and the encroaching Dominion is willing to do just about anything to get her back. Her superiors want to use Maia as a bargaining chip, but the more time Taylor spends alone with her, the more conflicted she becomes. Torn between Maia and her duty to her home-world, Taylor must decide where her loyalties lie.

Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slabs of the Sunburnt West written by Carl Sandburg and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Valerio Faraoni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331919240X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmological and Black Hole Apparent Horizons written by Valerio Faraoni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book overviews the extensive literature on apparent cosmological and black hole horizons. In theoretical gravity, dynamical situations such as gravitational collapse, black hole evaporation, and black holes interacting with non-trivial environments, as well as the attempts to model gravitational waves occurring in highly dynamical astrophysical processes, require that the concept of event horizon be generalized. Inequivalent notions of horizon abound in the technical literature and are discussed in this manuscript. The book begins with a quick review of basic material in the first one and a half chapters, establishing a unified notation. Chapter 2 reminds the reader of the basic tools used in the analysis of horizons and reviews the various definitions of horizons appearing in the literature. Cosmological horizons are the playground in which one should take baby steps in understanding horizon physics. Chapter 3 analyzes cosmological horizons, their proposed thermodynamics, and several coordinate systems. The remaining chapters discuss analytical solutions of the field equations of General Relativity, scalar-tensor, and f(R) gravity which exhibit time-varying apparent horizons and horizons which appear and/or disappear in pairs. An extensive bibliography enriches the volume. The intended audience is master and PhD level students and researchers in theoretical physics with knowledge of standard gravity.

Author : Sigurd F. Olson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452903606
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Horizons written by Sigurd F. Olson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the author's inspirational life story, told in his own words. Olson recounts a life lived on and for the land, from the wonder of boyhood fishing expeditions, to decades-long conservation battles.

Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151009961
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg written by Carl Sandburg and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1970 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of the complete poems of twentieth-century American poet Carl Sandburg.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251348375
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recarbonizing global soils – A technical manual of recommended management practices written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans. Soils as a carbon pool are one of the key factors in several Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 15, “Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss” with the SOC stock being explicitly cited in Indicator 15.3.1. This technical manual is the first attempt to gather, in a standardized format, the existing data on the impacts of the main soil management practices on SOC content in a wide array of environments, including the advantages, drawbacks, and constraints. This manual presents different sustainable soil management (SSM) practices at different scales and in different contexts, supported by case studies that have been shown with quantitative data to have a positive effect on SOC stocks and successful experiences of SOC sequestration in practical field applications. Volume 2 includes a description of hot spots of SOC stocks. This manual defines hot spots of SOC as areas that represent a proportionally little of the global land surface but on which SOC storage is highly effective; bright spots as large land areas with low SOC stocks per km2 that represent a potential for further carbon sequestration.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lariat written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Macelle Mahala
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810145162
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Theater, City Life written by Macelle Mahala and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macelle Mahala’s rich study of contemporary African American theater institutions reveals how they reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities. Arguing that the community in which a play is staged is as important to the work’s meaning as the script or set, Mahala focuses on four cities’ “arts ecologies” to shed new light on the unique relationship between performance and place: Cleveland, home to the oldest continuously operating Black theater in the country; Pittsburgh, birthplace of the legendary playwright August Wilson; San Francisco, a metropolis currently experiencing displacement of its Black population; and Atlanta, a city with forty years of progressive Black leadership and reverse migration. Black Theater, City Life looks at Karamu House Theatre, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre Company, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the African American Shakespeare Company, the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, and Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company to demonstrate how each organization articulates the cultural specificities, sociopolitical realities, and histories of African Americans. These companies have faced challenges that mirror the larger racial and economic disparities in arts funding and social practice in America, while their achievements exemplify such institutions’ vital role in enacting an artistic practice that reflects the cultural backgrounds of their local communities. Timely, significant, and deeply researched, this book spotlights the artistic and civic import of Black theaters in American cities.