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The changes to rail freight in Wales and the Borders since the 1980s have been dramatic in many ways and have often been a knock-on effect of huge transformations in the industries that the railway serves, most notably, the coal-mining sector. These have led to a railway with a slimmed-down infrastructure and renewed traction and rolling-stock fleets.Until the 1980s, coal was still the lifeblood of many railway lines in South Wales. However, one by one, the pits closed, leaving just a handful of surface operations still active in 2020. The sight and sound of a Class 37 winding its way up a steep-sided valley is now a distant memory. Industrial decline has affected other traffics too, with the loss of the heavy iron ore trains to Llanwern and many other flows. However, Welsh rail freight is far from dead. Class 60-hauled oil and steel trains still ply the South Wales main line, and there have even been small revivals such as cement from Penyffordd.Illustrated with over 150 stunning photographs, many of which are previously unpublished, this volume looks at the changing face of rail freight in Wales and the Borders, detailing the changes in traction, rolling stock and railway infrastructure over four decades.
History. --- Railroads Freight. --- Railroad Engineering --- Technology & Engineering
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Josquin des Prez and His Musical Legacy is the most up-to-date contribution to the research on one of the most important and internationally famous composers of the Renaissance. This monograph offers factual information on the composer as well as insights into his 16th-century and modern reception, a survey of the sources of his music, and a discussion of the thorny issue of authorship. Willem Elders, one of the most distinguished scholars of Josquin's music, also discusses the influence of Gregorian chant as a source of inspiration and explains the various aspects of Josquin's symbolic language. Each individual work (including some of those in the old Josquin edition now considered inauthentic) receives a short discussion of relevant contextual aspects and interesting musical features. Ranges and lengths are given for each work. The style is adapted to the professional musicologist as well as to the 'music lover' and performer.
78 DES PREZ, JOSQUIN --- Muziek--DES PREZ, JOSQUIN --- Academic collection
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Lorsque deux bombes nucléaires sont tombées sur Hiroshima et Nagasaki les 6 et 9 août 1945, le monde entier a réalisé que l'humanité avait atteint un point de non-retour dans sa capacité d'autodestruction. Aujourd'hui, l'Anthropocène est en train de provoquer la sixième extinction de masse et tous les signaux sont au rouge: hausse des émissions de GES, fonte des glaciers, feux de forêt, inondations, réfugiés climatiques... Pour Chomsky, ces deux menaces exigent une réponse qui ne peut être que de portée mondiale. Dans un contexte de montée en puissance des grandes entreprises mondialisées qui ont privé les États de leur capacité de façonner l'avenir, il plaide pour la signature urgente de traités internationaux contraignants sur le climat et l'armement, et lance un appel à une mobilisation populaire sans précédent. Seul Noam Chomsky a su communiquer avec une telle passion les liens qui unissent les deux catastrophes d'origine humaine auxquelles fait face la civilisation, soit le bouleversement du climat et l'apocalypse nucléaire, et jamais n'a-t-il lancé ses mises en garde et ses appels à l'action de façon aussi impressionnante. – Daniel Ellsberg, lanceur d'alerte des Pentagon Papers
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"Those who regard him as a “doom and gloom” critic will find an unexpected Chomsky in these pages. Here the world-renowned author speaks for the first time in depth about his career in activism, and his views and tactics. Chomsky offers new and intimate details about his life-long experience as an activist, revealing him as a critic with deep convictions and many surprising insights about movement strategies. The book points to new directions for activists today, including how the crises of the Coronavirus and the economic meltdown are exploding in the critical 2020 US presidential election year. Readers will find hope and new pathways toward a sustainable, democratic world."--
Social action --- Political participation --- Political activists --- Chomsky, Noam. --- United States --- Politics and government.
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