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Free Download Chasing the Light : the Cloud Cult Story By Allister, Mark
2014 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0816696535 | PDF | 7 MB
"Cloud Cult’s grand, unkempt indie rock is at once jam band, emo, and avant-garde. Their songs, born out of personal tragedy, are otherworldly lessons in being human." -PitchforkDuring the past decade, Minnesota-grown band Cloud Cult has become one of the most inspirational indie bands, with a deeply devoted fan base and an approach to music and the environment that is hard not to admire. Beyond a musical biography, Chasing the Light tells the story of the heartbreaking yet affirming journey of lead singer and songwriter Craig Minowa and delves into the career of the band known by music lovers as the least cynical and most idealistic band in the country.Tracing Cloud Cult’s rise to critical acclaim, author Mark Allister details the band’s defining moments, beginning with the death of Craig and Connie Minowa’s two-year-old son and the hundreds of songs that grew out of the tragic loss. Allister describes the band’s unique philosophy and principles, including how Minowa created a zero carbon footprint for the band’s recording and touring, adopting DIY and green-sustainable practices well before the ideas became mainstream. Allister also presents a first-person account of a day in the life of a quintessential indie band and conveys the immense emotional impact of Cloud Cult’s albums and live shows. Described by a fan in the book as "the anthem for the soul searcher in us all," Cloud Cult’s music and message are both stirring and sincere.Featuring rarely seen photos from Cloud Cult’s history and passionate testimonials by fans, Chasing the Light is a testament to the profound influence one band’s personal evolution can have on its followers and on indie rock aficionados in search of beauty, meaning, and redemption.

English | 2007 | ISBN: 0800797035 | 256 Pages | EPUB | 885.6 KB
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Free Download Andrea Wulf, "Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0307744604, 0307700178 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 13.4 mb
A "thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size of the solar system, and paints a vivid portrait of the collaborations, rivalries, and volatile international politics that hindered them at every turn. * From the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature.

Free Download Pierre Petit, "Chasing Traces: History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia"
English | ISBN: 082489555X | 2024 | 320 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 8 MB
In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endangering themselves and others. Oral traditions and rare archives remain the main avenues to visit the past, but the national revolutionary narrative and the language of heritagization have strongly affected the local expression of historical memory. Yet this does not prevent local societies from producing their stories in their own terms, even if often in conflict with both national and Western categories. Producing history, ethnohistory, historical anthropology, and historical geography in the Southeast Asian highlands raises significant questions relating to methodology, epistemology, and ethics, for which most researchers are often ill-prepared. How can scholars manage to competently access information about the past? How is one to capture history-in-the-making through events, speech acts, rituals, and performances? How is the memory of the past transmitted―or not―and with what logic?

Free Download Mark Kitto, "Chasing China: How I Went to China in Search of a Fortune and Found a Life"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1602396574 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 0.8 mb
An astonishing, cautionary tale of how Westerner Mark Kitto built a successful media empire in China, creating and running 3 magazines, only to have the state take his business, and his livelihood, away.

Free Download David Grinspoon, "Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1250098963, 1250098971 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 29.8 mb
Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling…a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.

Free Download Melissa L. Sevigny, "Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest"
English | ISBN: 1609383931 | 2016 | 244 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 6 MB
In a lyrical mix of natural science, history, and memoir, Melissa L. Sevigny ponders what it means to make a home in the American Southwest at a time when its most essential resource, water, is overexploited and undervalued. Mythical River takes the reader on a historical sojourn into the story of the Buenaventura, an imaginary river that led eighteenth- and nineteenth-century explorers, fur trappers, and emigrants astray for seventy-five years. This mythical river becomes a metaphor for our modern-day attempts to supply water to a growing population in the Colorado River Basin. Readers encounter a landscape literally remapped by the search for "new" water, where rivers flow uphill, dams and deep wells reshape geography, trees become intolerable competitors for water, and new technologies tap into clouds and oceans.

Free Download Jeff Kanipe, "Chasing Hubble’s Shadows: The Search for Galaxies at the Edge of Time"
English | 2007 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0809034077, 0809034069 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Chasing Hubble’s Shadows is an account of the continuing efforts of astronomers to probe the outermost limits of the observable universe. The book derives its title from something the great American astronomer Edwin Hubble once wrote: "Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial." The quest for Hubble’s "shadows"-those unimaginably distant, wispy traces of stars and galaxies that formed within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang-takes us back, in effect, to the beginning of time as we are able to perceive it, when the first discrete stellar objects appeared out of what has lately come to be known as the "cosmic dark age." The information that is being gleaned from these dim sources-chiefly with the aid of Hubble’s namesake, the Hubble Space Telescope-promises to yield clues to many cosmic puzzles, including the nature of the mysterious "dark energy" that is now believed to pervade all of space.

Free Download Chasing the Ghost : Nobelist Fred Reines and the Neutrino
by Leonard A Cole
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811231052 | 300 Pages | True ePUB | 7.74 MB

Free Download Chasing Dragons: The True History of the Piasa: The Expanded Edition
by Mark Nickless, Laurie Bonner-Nickless
English | 2019 | ASIN: B07XL5619K | 141 Pages | ePUB | 8.26 MB