The Weather Composer


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The story of a teenage boy from a tribal society longing to save the world from any more weather disasters. He knows he needs a better eduction to be able to invent what he has seen. This visions could save the world from any more weather disasters, so he runs away for his village to the city to find a school where he can be educated.His tribe feels he is special to them and no one else should be part of his life. They send the village police after him,The conflict between his tribe and the world government education is described in unnerving accuracy and precision,




Weather the Weather!


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Don't miss this excellent opportunity for cross-curricular study as your students sing in varied musical styles about ever-changing weather conditions. Collaborate with your school's science department to perform the suggested experiments, incorporate the brief rhyming verse between each song to create a theatrical presentation, or simply sing the energizing music as it coordinates to daily weather conditions. Whether the weather is bright or bleak, your students will enjoy singing these songs any day of the week!




The Weather Handbook


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The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky and interpret its signs, and combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts to assess for themselves what the coming weather is likely to be. This handbook has been the standard reference for almost 20 years for students on Day Skipper and Yachtmaster courses, and the handbook of choice for skippers and crew of cruising and racing yachts. It has now been completely redesigned for the third edition to be more user friendly, with new photos and updated explanatory text. The book also addresses new sources of weather information that have exploded on to the market. There are countless websites and apps providing forecast data, and The Weather Handbook guides users in how to use and interpret this information for themselves. 'The perfect introduction to understanding weather' Practical Boat Owner




The Dohrman Prophecy


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Deep in a mystical forest, hidden by centuries of myth and stealth technologies, three monolithic stones rise like beacons- brought to this planet by an unknown source. The central obelisk is the most secret possession of the Church, and it is alive in ways that no one predicted, yet uncannily dormant.But there is One who will awaken it, but who? And when?-these speculations are whispered among the elite who have read the most secret of all books, The Dohrman Prophecy.The awakening has begun from a single journey by a single being, but all of us will feel the changes.




Harold Arlen


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"The book is filled with arresting detail about Arlen's career. . . This one is required reading for anyone who cares about American popular music, or, it goes without saying, musical theatre." -- Show Music




The Rest Is Noise


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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.




Haunted Weather


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Digital technology has changed the ways in which music is perceived, stored, distributed, mediated and created. The world of music is now a vast and complex jungle, teeming with CDs, MP3s, concerts, clubs, festivals, conferences, exhibitions, installations, websites, software programmes, scenes, ideas and competing theories. In the eye of the storm stands David Toop, shedding light on the most interesting music now being made ? on laptops, in downtown bars in Tokyo, wherever he finds it. Haunted Weather is part personal memoir and part travel journal, as well as an intensive survey of recent developments in digital technology, sonic theory and musical practice. Along the way Toop probes into the meaning of sound (and silence), offering fascinating insights into how computers can be used for improvisation. His wealth of musical knowledge provides inspiration for anyone interested in music.







Elizabeth's Song


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Historical-fiction based on the young life of Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, the noted African American folksinger, who wrote the famous song "Freight Train" when she was just eleven years old. Elizabeth's Song is the true-life story of Elizabeth (Libba) Cotten, the noted African American folksinger, guitarist, and songwriter. Against all odds, young Elizabeth teaches herself to play guitar left-handed on a borrowed instrument. Eventually, she earns enough money to buy a guitar of her very own, and is then inspired to write her first song--the folk classic "Freight Train," written when she was eleven years old. Elizabeth's unique style of playing guitar (upside down and backwards), from which the term "cotten picking" is derived, has influenced countless other artists. Elizabeth's story is one that will inspire people of all ages.




War and the Weather


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