15 Results for : gelled
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The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 850min
Travel the world with Eric Weiner, the New York Times best-selling author of The Geography of Bliss, as he journeys from Athens to Silicon Valley - and throughout history, too - to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times. In The Geography of Genius, acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. He explores the history of places, like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley, to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity. And, with his trademark insightful humor, he walks the same paths as the geniuses who flourished in these settings to see if the spirit of what inspired figures like Socrates, Michelangelo, and Leonardo remains. In these places, Weiner asks, "What was in the air, and can we bottle it?" This link can be traced back through history: Darwin's theory of evolution gelled while he was riding in a carriage. Freud did his best thinking at his favorite coffeehouse. Beethoven, like many geniuses, preferred long walks in the woods. Sharp and provocative, The Geography of Genius redefines the argument about how genius came to be. His reevaluation of the importance of culture in nurturing creativity is an informed romp through history that will surely jump-start a national conversation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Weiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007292/bk_sans_007292_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Staking a Claim: Jake Simmons, Jr. and the Making of an African-American Oil Dynasty , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 561min
From the post-Reconstruction period to the modern civil rights era, nearly a century of state-sanctioned economic subjugation created what many regard as a permanent Black underclass in America.What would have happened had freed slaves truly been enfranchised into the political and economic system after the Civil War? Staking a Claim examines the life of Jake Simmons, Jr. - the international tycoon who was the most successful African American in the history of the oil industry - and affords us a rare perspective on this question.Simmons’s great-grandfather Cow Tom, a slave interpreter to a Creek Indian, rose to become the first Black chief of a Native American tribe. This was in Indian Territory (which later became Oklahoma), where Blacks were able to secure rights denied them in the White-controlled states. Cow Tom passed on a unique legacy of independence and entrepreneurial spirit that gelled in Jake. His resolve strengthened by his studies with Booker T. Washington, Jake took a series of calculated risks that allowed him to accomplish what would have seemed impossible to many and become enormously rich at it.He began by brokering oil leases for Black landowners, who had formerly been cheated by White drillers in Oklahoma and Texas. Expanding his operations into postcolonial Africa, he negotiated amiably where America’s multinational oil giants feared to tread, winning enormous concessions while earning the goodwill of African leaders.As a political power broker, Jake Simmons was no less impressive. He remained throughout his life what he called “a crusader for human dignity”. In 1938, he brought one of the first school desegregation cases to the Supreme Court. It was said that while he served as the head of Oklahoma’s NAACP, his opinion held sway over 10,000 voters. White politicians across the South vied for his support. He asked his sons, “How the hell can a Black man stay in bed in the morning when White men rule t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carolyn McDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213353/bk_acx0_213353_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Gelled Bicontinuous Microemulsions
Gelled Bicontinuous Microemulsions - A New Type of Orthogonal Self-Assembled Systems. Auflage 2014: ab 106.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Gelled Bicontinuous Microemulsions
Gelled Bicontinuous Microemulsions - A New Type of Orthogonal Self-Assembled Systems: ab 96.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Pickup Truck
Like most bands this one is an outgrowth of earlier incarnations. Long had the two songwriter guitarists Peter and Phil (recently bereaved of their old band Vellum) sat huddled in their basement sandbox, cranking out tune after tune, only to be abandoned by erstwhile lead mandolinists, lady bassists and zoo-mad drummers. It was indeed a 'Sorry' state of affairs when the vocally-challenged dismal duo was finally annointed by grace and given a new lease on their musical existences by the addition of a true singer, Allison. Though perhaps self effacing to a fault, the newly-minted trio nevertheless embarked upon a grand journey, a journey of personal growth, a journey of vocal legitimacy. The first demo CD was still full of laments, based upon the earlier anguish of surviving a band on the rocks but the re-build was strongly underway. It could be said that this 'new confidence' gelled at an early performance at a local gathering of psychiatric luminaries, wherein one of the audience members told the band afterword that they were 'not bad, not bad at all'. Among the aforementioned laments was, of course, despite Allison's vocal boost, a deep seated unmet need for a 'bassman or a drummer'. This was an on-going challenge for the band but, as luck would have it, and just at the critical moment, the talented drummer Paul came along through the community grapevine, to join up and round out the line-up. With the addition of Paul, the band is definitely on the up and up, and the Pickup Truck album seems proof of he pudding.- Shop: odax
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