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| Author | : T. Lindsay Baker |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 1985-01-01 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9780806119014 |
Traces the history of the use of windmills in the United States and surveys the various types of American windmills
| Author | : Joseph Pittman |
| Publisher | : Kensington Publishing Corp. |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2011-09-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0758273851 |
This lyrical debut novel celebrates the joys and tears of love lost and found, and of a life renewed--in a most unexpected place. . . At thirty-four, Brian Duncan has it all. A trendy Manhattan life, a high-powered PR job, and a gorgeous fiancée with an exciting future of her own. Then, in a single moment of deception, Brian's world crumbles. Bitterly betrayed, he decides to toss away all he has worked for. Irresistibly drawn to the road, he leaves the city's busy streets behind. . . On a hillside along New York's Hudson River Valley, Brian is transfixed by the beauty of an enormous windmill. Running toward it is a lovely little girl and her alluring mother, Annie Sullivan, who owns the windmill. The two strike a chord in Brian's heart and soon he discovers the small-town charms of Linden Corners--and of Annie, whose elusive quality matches his own questions about life. And as their relationship deepens into passion, through the force of nature and the hand of fate, Brian will learn that love comes in unexpected ways. Pittman's debut novel is a feel-good fantasy. . . a nice feel for pace and place."--Publishers Weekly
| Author | : Dick Hays |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780890153949 |
This is more than a "how to" book about installing, maintaining and repairing. While the book was written to help the professional windmiller as well as the rancher, farmer or country gentleman who is a do-it-yourselfer, it will be of interest to the fan of western Americana
| Author | : Eric A. Kimmel |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2004-04-02 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780374318253 |
A self-proclaimed knight Señor Quexada has read so many books about knights in shining armor that he thinks he is one. He gives himself a name more fitting for a knight -- Don Quixote -- and sets off one evening with his squire. At dawn they come across what Don Quixote recognizes as an army of monstrous giants. "Master!" cries Sancho Panza. "They are only windmills!" But Don Quixote knows what he has to do . . . Don Quixote is the creation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Eric A. Kimmel skillfully and cleverly crystallizes the character, and with his powerful line and vibrant color Leonard Everett Fisher completes the funny, loving portrait.
| Author | : Manuel Duran |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2008-10-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0300134967 |
Cervantes’ Don Quixote is the most widely read masterpiece in world literature, as appealing to readers today as four hundred years ago. In Fighting Windmills Manuel Durán and Fay R. Rogg offer a beautifully written excursion into Cervantes’ great novel and trace its impact on writers and thinkers across centuries and continents. How did Cervantes write such a rich tale? Durán and Rogg explore the details of Cervantes’ life, the techniques with which he constructed the novel, and the central themes of the adventures of Don Quixote and his earthy squire Sancho Panza. The authors then provide an insightful, panoramic view of Cervantes’ powerful influence on generations of writers as diverse as Descartes, Voltaire, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Twain, and Borges.
| Author | : Catherine Ryan Hyde |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2009-03-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307472434 |
From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a provocative and unlikely love story that starts on a New York subway car and blossoms under the windmills of the Mojave Desert.Both Sebastian and Maria live in worlds ruled by fear. Sebastian, a lonely seventeen-year-old, is suffocating under his dominant father's control; Maria, a young mother of two, is trying to keep peace at home despite her boyfriend's abuse. When their eyes meet across a subway car one night, these two strangers find a connection that neither can explain or ignore. They dream of a new future and agree to run away together, only to find that each has kept a major secret from the other. In this tremendously moving novel, Catherine Ryan Hyde shows us how two people trapped by life's circumstances can break free and find a place in the world where love is genuine and selfless.
| Author | : T. Lindsay Baker |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780806138022 |
Presents nearly 180 striking images of historic windmills across North America, capturing the wind machines in a wide range of settings and uses and documenting both the construction of commercial machines and the innovative designs of individuals who built their own.
| Author | : Richard Leslie Hills |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1996-09-12 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521566865 |
The wind is a fickle source of power. Windspeeds are frequently too low to be of any practical use, so that windpower has generally remained a marginal resource. Since the inception of windpower around 1000 AD, technology has been deployed to obtain the most economical power from wind. The author traces its technical evolution, concentrating on the growth in understanding of wind and charting crucial developments in windmill design. The history of the windmill is focused on North Western Europe, drawing on the origins of the first horizontal windmills in Persia, Tibet and China. Industrial applications such as in textiles, papermaking and mining are examined. Gradually, windmills were improved but were finally eclipsed by steam engines in the nineteenth century due to increased levels of industrialisation. The book concludes with a look at the recent re-emergence of windpower as a viable source of power in the wake of the energy crisis.
