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Book The Great Horizon

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  • Author : Cale Glendening
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2024-11-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Great Horizon written by Cale Glendening and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the characters and locations of Kevin Costner’s Western film opus, Horizon: An American Saga Chapters One and Two, through Cale Glendening’s intimate cast portraits and behind-the-scenes photography. Horizon: An American Saga Is Kevin Costner’s beautiful and complex look at the settling of the West, exploring the lure of the frontier and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Channeling classic Western photography with gorgeous images in both black-and-white and color, photographer Cale Glendening offers a deeper look into each of the characters of Horizon. Shooting each member of the cast between takes on set, these portraits give readers an intimate glimpse into what it takes to inhabit such a harsh western landscape. This extraordinary collection also features glorious location photography to complete the vision of Horizon. Featuring more than 250 spectacular, never-before-seen images, essays and reflections on filming from the cast and crew, script excerpts, and a foreword by Kevin Costner, The Great Horizon is a thrilling ode to the art of filmmaking. This is the perfect gift for fans of moviemaking, fine art photography, and the Old West. EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL: Features never-before-seen portraits of cast members in character and behind the scenes including Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Luke Wilson, Abbey Lee, Sam Worthington, Isabelle Fuhrmann, Tatanka Means, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jena Malone, Michael Rooker, Danny Houston, Owen Crow Shoe, Giovanni Ribisi, Tom Payne, Will Patton, and Ella Hunt. STUNNING IMAGES: Curated from photos shot throughout Horizon's filming, this remarkable volume features photographs of the cast in an emotionally raw state between takes and beautiful location photography shot across Utah. UNPARALLELED COLLECTOR’S ITEM: Singular and unprecedented, The Great Horizon is a powerful tribute to the films that offer fans a rare glimpse into the creation of a vast western saga.

Book Over the Horizon

Download or read book Over the Horizon written by David M. Edelstein and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time, uncertainty, and great power politics -- The arrival of imperial Germany -- The rise of the United States -- The resurgence of interwar Germany -- The origins of the Cold War -- Conclusion and the rise of China

Book Deepwater Horizon

Download or read book Deepwater Horizon written by Earl Boebert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 20, 2010, the crew of the floating drill rig Deepwater Horizon lost control of the Macondo oil well forty miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Escaping gas and oil ignited, destroying the rig, killing eleven crew members, and injuring dozens more. The emergency spiraled into the worst human-made economic and ecological disaster in Gulf Coast history. Senior systems engineers Earl Boebert and James Blossom offer the most comprehensive account to date of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Sifting through a mountain of evidence generated by the largest civil trial in U.S. history, the authors challenge the commonly accepted explanation that the crew, operating under pressure to cut costs, made mistakes that were compounded by the failure of a key safety device. This explanation arose from legal, political, and public relations maneuvering over the billions of dollars in damages that were ultimately paid to compensate individuals and local businesses and repair the environment. But as this book makes clear, the blowout emerged from corporate and engineering decisions which, while individually innocuous, combined to create the disaster. Rather than focusing on blame, Boebert and Blossom use the complex interactions of technology, people, and procedures involved in the high-consequence enterprise of offshore drilling to illustrate a systems approach which contributes to a better understanding of how similar disasters emerge and how they can be prevented.

Book Before and after the Horizon

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  • Author : David Penney
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
  • Release : 2013-09-10
  • ISBN : 1588344525
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Before and after the Horizon written by David Penney and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion volume to an exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York reveals how Anishinaabe (also known in the United States as Ojibwe or Chippewa) artists have expressed the deeply rooted spiritual and social dimensions of their relations with the Great Lakes region. Featuring 70 color images of visually powerful historical and contemporary works, Before and After the Horizon is the only book to consider the work of Anishinaabe artists overall and to discuss 500 years of Anishinaabe art history.

Book The Horizon Book of Great Cathedrals

Download or read book The Horizon Book of Great Cathedrals written by Jay Jacobs and published by New York : American Heritage Publishing Company; book distributed by Houghton Mifflin, Boston. This book was released on 1968 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of men and their monuments - of the soaring structures that embodied the spirit of the Middle Ages

Book The Age of Napoleon

Download or read book The Age of Napoleon written by J. Christopher Herold and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE AGE OF NAPOLEON is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality as well as the portrait of an entire age. J. Christopher Herold tells the fascinating story of the Napoleonic world in all its aspects -- political, cultural, military, commercial, and social. Napoleon"s rise from common origins to enormous political and military power, as well as his ultimate defeat, influenced our modern age in thousands of ways, from the map of Europe to the metric system, from styles of dress and dictators to new conventions of personal behavior.

Book The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Victorian England

Download or read book The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Victorian England written by Christopher Hibbert and published by McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1975 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Disaster on the Horizon

Download or read book Disaster on the Horizon written by Bob Cavnar and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster on the Horizon is a behind-the-scenes investigative look at the worst oil well accident in US history, which led to the current environmental and economic catastrophe on the Gulf Coast. Cavnar uses his 30 years in the business to take readers inside the disaster, exposing the decisions leading up to the blowout and the immediate aftermath. It includes personal accounts of the survivors, assembled from testimony during various investigations, as well as personal interviews with survivors, witnesses, and family. It also provides a layman's look at the industry, its technology, people, and risks. It deconstructs events and decisions made by BP, Transocean, and the US Government before and after the disaster, and the effects of those decisions, both good and bad. Cavnar explains what happened in the Gulf, explores how we arrived at deep water drilling in the first place and then charts a course for how to avoid these disasters in the future.

Book Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

Download or read book Beyond the Blue Event Horizon written by Frederik Pohl and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederik Pohl was on a streak when this Hugo Award–finalist novel was published in 1980. Now back in print after an absence of nearly a decade, this unique science fiction novel is as fresh and entertaining as ever. The story begins when the hero of Gateway finances an expedition to a distant alien spaceship that may end famine forever. On the ship, the explorers find a human boy, and evidence that reveals a powerful alien civilization is thriving on a transport ship headed right for Earth.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy

Download or read book The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy written by Charles L. Mee and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrasts Italian Renaissance cultural, economic, and technological achievements with the widespread crime, violence, and political greed of the era.

Book Beyond the Horizon

Download or read book Beyond the Horizon written by Colin Angus and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June, 2004, Colin Angus left Vancouver on his bicycle. Nearly two years later, he rolled back in, looking like a castaway, and having completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. Angus cycled, skiied, and rowed a route that took him to Alaska, across the Bering Sea and the Siberian winter, across Europe from Moscow to Portugal, then across the Atlantic to Costa Rica–a 156-day rowing odyssey. From there it was a short 8,300 kilometre ride back to Vancouver. Along the way he burned through 4,000 chocolate bars, 72 inner tubes, 250 kgs of freeze-dried foods, 31 dorado fish (caught from the sea), 2 offshore rowboats, 4 bicycles, 80 kgs of clothing. And he showed the world that if he can travel 43,000 kilometres without polluting the planet, then the rest of us can get off our butts, and clean up our own acts. “We lay in the rowboat cabin as the seas swelled and the sky boiled like a devil’s cauldron. Slanting yellow sun beams cut between black squalls, and corrugated cirrus clouds interlaced the remaining areas of blue. Huge anvil heads roiled and billowed, like slow-moving atomic explosions. Flashes of lightning illuminated the IMAX screen of the horizon. Such energy and volatility would have been breathtakingly beautiful, if we had been watching from nearly anywhere else, and if it weren’t for the fact that it was all just a prelude to a killer storm. It was hard to believe that yet another tropical cyclone was heading our way. We had chosen the worst hurricane season in recorded history to make our five-month, 10,000 km unsupported rowboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. Now, two months into our voyage, it looked very likely our expedition might come to an abrupt end. Our voyage across the Atlantic was only a part of a much larger expedition: an attempt to complete the first human-powered circumnavigation of the planet. So far we had trekked, skied, cycled, canoed, and rowed non-stop across three continents and were half-way across our second ocean. Now, as I huddled in the dog-house sized cabin with my fiancée waiting for the Hurricane Epsilon to reach us, I cursed myself for ever believing I could achieve such an impossible quest.” —From Beyond the Horizon

Book The Emerald Horizon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cornelia F. Mutel
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2008-03
  • ISBN : 1587297477
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book The Emerald Horizon written by Cornelia F. Mutel and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Emerald Horizon, Cornelia Mutel combines lyrical writing with meticulous scientific research to portray the environmental past, present, and future of Iowa. In doing so, she ties all of Iowa's natural features into one comprehensive whole. Since so much of the tallgrass state has been transformed into an agricultural landscape, Mutel focuses on understanding today’s natural environment by understanding yesterday’s changes. After summarizing the geological, archaeological, and ecological features that shaped Iowa’s modern landscape, she recreates the once-wild native communities that existed prior to Euroamerican settlement. Next she examines the dramatic changes that overtook native plant and animal communities as Iowa’s prairies, woodlands, and wetlands were transformed. Finally she presents realistic techniques for restoring native species and ecological processes as well as a broad variety of ways in which Iowans can reconnect with the natural world. Throughout, in addition to the many illustrations commissioned for this book, she offers careful scientific exposition, a strong sense of respect for the land, and encouragement to protect the future by learning from the past. The “emerald prairie” that “gleamed and shone to the horizon’s edge,” as botanist Thomas Macbride described it in 1895, has vanished. Cornelia Mutel’s passionate dedication to restoring this damaged landscape—and by extension the transformed landscape of the entire Corn Belt—invigorates her blend of natural history and human history. Believing that citizens who are knowledgeable about native species, communities, and ecological processes will better care for them, she gives us hope—and sound suggestions—for the future.

Book Horizon

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  • Author : Barry Lopez
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2019-03-19
  • ISBN : 0525656219
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book Horizon written by Barry Lopez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity’s thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today’s ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.

Book Global Justice and Our Epochal Mind

Download or read book Global Justice and Our Epochal Mind written by Xunwu Chen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Justice and Our Epochal Mind explores the mind of our epoch, defined as the period since the Nuremberg Trial and the establishment of the United Nations in 1945. Xunwu Chen examines four defining ideas of this epoch—global justice, cosmopolitanism, crimes against humanity, and cultural toleration—as well as the structural relationships among these ideas. Chen argues that the mind of our epoch is essentially the mind of humanity. Its world view, horizon, standpoint, norms, standards, and vocabularies are of humanity, by humanity, and for humanity, and all are embodied in human institutions and practices throughout the globe. Meanwhile, our epochal mind has a dialectical relationship with particular cultures bearing normative force. As a metaphysical subjectivity and substance, humanity is the source of all human values in our epoch and defines what can and should be human values and virtues. Humankind, therefore, are a people with socio-political and legal sovereignty, sharing a common fate. This novel study brings a cross-cultural approach and will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, political science, sociology, and the humanities more broadly.

Book Best of Ken Jackson

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  • Author : Ken Jackson
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2010-06-30
  • ISBN : 1453520341
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Best of Ken Jackson written by Ken Jackson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I started off as a musician in high school playing guitar and bass. Coming out of high school, I know some of my own songs as well as other artists. I didnt start writing poems for a while though. Except in high school, for English class, I wrote a poem going Lets blow up the rotten school and build ourselves a swimming pool.. and that raised an issue of school threats similar to bomb threats of this day and age. Then there was this dirty poem I wrote in my early 20s. But I was still writing songs then. I took some college courses in jazz, piano, songwriting and creative writing. Back in 85 I recorded with that famous producer. Butch was who produced Neverworld of nirvana, a number one album of the year in the early 90s. Then in 86 I started a 20 year sentence for a crime. This is where I started writing poetry. I took a uw-extension course in creative writing. I wrote a few and people liked them so I wrote more. There came a time where I used poetry as therapy. I would write 2 poems for every 2 weeks. And that beats writers block. A lot of BEST OF KEN JACKSON has that stuff. Then I was released in 99 and I put out a bunch of rock n roll albums. I was also participating in a monthly poetry group for a while. There is a section of this book I wrote using a variety of student researchers. Thank you for reading this book. Ken Jackson

Book Latin American Horizons

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  • Author : Don Stephen Rice
  • Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780884022077
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Latin American Horizons written by Don Stephen Rice and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1993 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Correlation Papers   Cretaceous

Download or read book Correlation Papers Cretaceous written by Charles Abiathar White and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: