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Agricultural Mechanics and Technology Systems
Agricultural Mechanics and Technology Systems presents focused, technically accurate coverage of all major skilled trade disciplines in agricultural contexts, including construction, electricity, welding, and power systems. In addition, the text provides a wealth of information and resources on careers in agricultural mechanics and promotes a deep understanding of supervised agricultural experiences (SAEs) and career development events (CDEs). The second edition has been updated with over 500 new images and 35 new Career Connection features to portray up-to-date tools, technologies, and career opportunities. A chapter on Precision Agriculture and Emerging Technologies introduces students to the many high-tech applications, including geographic information systems (GIS), telematics, sustainable energy sources, precision agriculture, wireless sensor networks, and the use of drones.
As Gravity Upon Some Aimless Rock in Space
"As Gravity Upon Some Aimless Rock in Space is a collection of three essays written by Brian Hoover; they represent his first serious effort at the form. The works--"A Rock Snob to His Infant daughter," "Notes from the Intersection of Memory and Lore,' and "The M. Scanlon Box"--medtiate in a footloose fashion on a wide variety of subjects (as essays are sometimes wont to do), ranging from children's music and soldier ants to cave drawings and college pranks, from boxes of letters and Jabba the Hutt to the open road and how we yearn to go home again. There are big ideas in here--snobbery, memory, sentimentality, nostalgia--side by side with the pedestrian--bad gifts, embellished stories, bedroom decor, and fallen trees. The impulse to digress has been honored wherever it surfaces. And there are footnotes--a goodly amount of footnotes"--Leaf iii.
Secrecy and Power
A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J. Edgar Hoover—former FBI director and America’s most controversial law enforcer—that draws on previously unknown personal documents, a study of FBI files, and the presidential papers of nine administrations. Secrecy and Power is a full biography of former FBI director, covering all aspects of Hoover’s controversial career from the Red Scare following World War I to the 1960s and his personal vendettas against Martin Luther King and the civil rights and antiwar movements.
Disparates
In English disparate means "different" or "miscellaneous"--apt descriptors of these essays by Patrick Madden. In Spanish, however, disparate means "nonsense," "folly," or "absurdity,"--words appropriate to Madden's goal of undercutting any notion that essays must be serious business. Thus, in this collection, the essays are frivolous and lively, aiming to make readers laugh while they think about such abstract subjects as happiness and memory and unpredictability. In this vein, Madden takes sidelong swipes at weighty topics via form, with wildly meandering essays, abandoned essays in honor of the long tradition of essayists disparaging their own efforts, and guerrilla essays--which slip in q...
Lion of Hollywood
Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age. An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an exhibitor but soon migrated to where the action and the power were—Hollywood. Through sheer force of energy and foresight, he turned his own modest studio into MGM, where he became the most powerful man in Hollywood, bending the film business to his will. He made great films, including the fabulous MGM musicals, and he made great stars: Garbo, Gable, Garland, and dozens of others. Through the enormously successful Andy Hardy series, Mayer pur...
Wild Echoes
In Wild Echoes, environmentalist and photographer Charles Bergman chronicles his experiences tracking down and interacting with the few remaining members of nine of North America's most endangered species. Bergman soars in the company of two of the last remaining California condors, swims with manatees, assists in the capture and release of a Florida panther, and comes face to face with the last remaining dusky seaside sparrow, a species now extinct. As he relates these and other poignant encounters, Bergman describes the factors, both manufactured and natural, that have led to the animals' endangerment. He also examines the efforts of those who hope to pull species back from the brink of extinction. Wild Echoes was originally published in 1990; this 2003 edition contains a new introduction and substantial updates on the good news and the bad concerning the current status of the species Bergman discusses.
