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Katelyn, Mo, and Leon have a new enemy - fire-breathing creatures destroying the Amazon rainforest! Can the Renegades save the human race before the world goes up in flames?In this fast-paced action adventure series, The Renegades are called upon to use their superpowers to combat threats to the world's climate.Holed up on a ranch in Texas, the Renegades are recouping after their Arctic adventures. But a bout of mysterious fires soon sees them fly off to the Amazon, where deadly fire-breathing creatures called Flamejantes are destroying the rainforest. Katelyn, Mo, and Leon must team up with local indigenous activists to stop them. And it looks like something - or someone - sinister is behind the creatures' sudden appearance...Combining urgent issues about the climate emergency and exciting new superheroes with unique powers, this graphic novel is not just a gripping adventure but an important discussion of climate change and its potentially devastating consequences.
The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell studies the compositions for wind band by twentieth-century composer Henry Cowell, a significant and prolific figure in American fine art music from 1914-1965. The composer is noteworthy and controversial because of his radical early works, his interest in non-Western musics, and his retrogressive mature
The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell studies the compositions for wind band by twentieth-century composer Henry Cowell, a significant and prolific figure in American fine art music from 1914-1965. The composer is noteworthy and controversial because of his radical early works, his interest in non-Western musics, and his retrogressive mature style-along with notoriety for his imprisonment in San Quentin on a morals charge. Eleven chapters are organized both topically and chronologically. An introduction, conclusion, series of eight appendices, bibliography, and discography complete this comprehensive study, along with an audio playlist of representative works, hosted on the CMS website.
Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities, despite political repression and surveillance.
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