Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound

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This acidly funny account of the battle over an offshore wind farm is both a fascinating window on the business and politics of energy and a scathing portrait of the ruling class.

When Jim Gordon set out to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, he knew some people might object. But there was a lot of merit in creating a privately funded, clean energy source for energy-starved New England, and he felt sure most people would recognize it eventually. Instead, all Hell broke loose. Gordon had unwittingly challenged the privileges of some of America's richest and most politically connected people, and they would fight him tooth and nail, no matter what it cost, and even when it made no sense.

Cape Wind is a rollicking tale of democracy in action and plutocracy in the raw as played out among colorful and glamorous characters on one of our country's most historic and renowned pieces of coastline. As steeped in American history and local color as The Prince of Providence; as biting, revealing and fun as Philistines at the Hedgerow, it is also a cautionary tale about how money can hijack democracy while America lags behind the rest of the developed world in adopting clean energy.

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Outrageous Hypocrisy Revealed.......2007-09-07

Well researched and written. This book should be read by everyone who is really concerned about the reduction in use of fossil fuels. The outrageous hypocrisy of politicians of both parties as well as some of the beautiful people who claim to support the development of alternative energy sources is laid out for all to see.

A must read for any energy entrepreneur.......2007-09-03

It would be shame for an energy entrepreneur to be tripped up by the obfuscation described in this great book without its warning. Extensively researched, masterfully written, a lesson of the times. Read it and learn! Bet you won't be able to put it down,

Cutting edge history in the making.......2007-08-21

Cape Wind is a brilliant account of a project that has the potential to revolutionize the energy future of the US. It couldn't be more timely, given the current energy crisis, the need for serious and concrete solutions and the fact that the controversy over the project is happening at this very moment.

The authors provide a powerful experience - the opportunity to gain a thorough understanding of the politics and history of this project as it unfolds every day. The presentation of the facts and players is fascinating; their delivery of the story is incredibly entertaining.

Read it now and stay tuned to the project - History is being made!

Amazing... We need a documentary on this!!!.......2007-08-21

There's too much happening here to not have a well executed and informative documentary on this. It may seem like a small issue to those outside of it, but it's implications reach much further than the Cape.

Read this easy to follow and well written account of this project and engage yourself into todays questions about our planet and our political stratosphere.

Tad over the top- but very valuable for students & voters.......2007-08-20

We used the Cape Wind story in public policy class this winter (b4 this book came out), & students were fascinated. This book does illuminate the major actors, and provides in depth background for why a policy with this many public benefits has been stalled for years. Romney, the Kennedys, Alaskan politicians, and the Cape Cod Times (although they are good about my letters when I go home)should be ashamed of themselves.

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Revenge of the Whale
Revenge Of The Whale
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Revenge Of The Whale
Nathaniel Philbrick
Manufacturer: Audio Bookshelf
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ASIN: 0976193205

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Revenge of the Whale.......2006-04-27

This book is an interesting book. In this book the main characters are Thomas Nickerson a cabin boy aboard the whale ship Essex, the first mate Owen Chase, and the captain George Pollard Jr. This book starts out in a place in New England called Nantucket. Then as the book progresses the rest of the book pretty much takes place on the sea.

This book is an interesting book because it is interesting to learn about whaling. One thing that amazed me was how dangerous whaling could be. It sounded not only dangerous, but a job that required a lot of skill. If you like whaling stories this is the right book for you. If you are a person who likes survival stories this is a great book for you. Also if you like stories that take place at sea this is also the perfect book for you. This book was adapted from the National Book Award-Winner In the Heart of the Sea. So, if you like the book in the heart of the sea I would advise this book.

~ Nico

Revenge Of The Whale.......2006-04-27

The book that I read was "Revenge Of The Whale" by Nathaniel Philbrick. I thought that this book was ok because it was very suspencful,scary, a little of humor, and gory. I discovered reading this book that I feel bad about what we have done in the past to the whales.
This book is about a crew member on the boat Essex his name was Thomas Nickerson. Thomas Nickerson is the cabin boy on the boat. The fact that he got a chance to fo whaling was the most exciting thing in his life. He is also the youngest crew member and also the youngest out of the few people that survived the attack of a sperm whale. He is far away from home in the middle of the ocean with nothing to eat the only thing he had was a little boat the big sea and hope. Will hope help him though? How will he survive?
This book makes you feel as if you are standing in the eyes of young Nickerson. Very adventuros book filled with suspence, action, and sadness. This nook is very simular to "I The Heart Of The Sea." I would recomend this book to somone who likes scary books. I hope you like this book and have a fun time reading it!

~Kiersten

A Review of Revenge of the Whale.......2006-04-26

"All aboard the Essex," with George Pallard as your Captain. The crew members will be staying out on sea for almost two years. The crew of the Essex is sailing, looking for whales, but having a little trouble with that until they spot a Sperm whale. Little did they know that that whale could cost the crew their lives.

The Sperm whale has attacked their ship and forced all of the men to divide up and live for two or more months on little whaling boats. The crew is left with only 3 pounds of hardtack a day and only half a pint of water. All the men are struggling to stay alive, there is soon cannibalism and not enough water to keep the crew living. None of the men know what is going to happen next.

The author gives alot of detail with his writing. There are parts in this book that i did not like very much; the starving, the blood and gore, and the act of cannibalism. I also felt
bad and sorry for what happens to the crew aboard the Essex. You would enjoy this book if you like true stories out on the sea. If you like survival stories, you would also like this book. It was a long ride aboard the Essex but now they are coming home.

~Morgan

Revenge of the Whale.......2006-04-26

Revenge of the Whale is a book about the "Essex", a whaling ship in the early 1820s.
Thomas Nickerson is a 14-year-old boy that lives on the small island of Nantucket, right off of Cape Cod. He decides that he is going to go on his first whaling journey on the "Essex", under the command of George Pollard jr., the Captain, Owen Chase, the first mate, and Matthew Joy, the second mate.
After a series of unlucky events, Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, and a few other crew members find themselves in the middle of the Pacific ocean being attacked by a Male, 80-ton Sperm whale. The whale rammed the "Essex" twice leaving it on it's side.
Once the rest of the crew comes back from the whale they were hunting, they decide to try and sail for any land. Once they gather what provisions they could find, they set sail in three small whaleboats.
George Pollard jr. and Owen Chase decide not to sail to the closest islands, the Society Islands, in fear of cannibals, and instead sail South then East, to get the South American Coast. The boats soon start to run out of food, and the only way to survive may be to consume their fallen comrades.
This Book is a true story of 20 sailors and their struggle for life at sea. I thought this book was very interesting since it was a true story. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes realistic and intense survival stories.

-by Alex

Revenge of the Whale.......2006-04-26

Sound Images of the Ocean: in Research and Monitoring

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Sound Images of the Ocean: in Research and Monitoring
Peter Wille
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ASIN: 3540241221

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Sound Images of the Ocean is the first book of its kind which offers a comprehensive overview of acoustic imaging applications in the various fields of marine research, utilization, surveillance, and protection. The book employs 400 sound images of the sea floor and of processes in the sea volume, contributed by more than 120 marine experts from 22 nations. Written to be accessible to professionals in diverse related fields, the concise accompanying explanations of the complex relationships revealed by the images strive to condense the results to an essential "message." The book develops an interdisciplinary understanding of underwater acoustics and its diagnostic capabilities in order to visualize in detail the two thirds of the surface of the globe otherwise hidden from view. The high resolution but ship dependent acoustic imagery is compared with its satellite dependent counterpart, the large scale sea floor imagery by scanning the gravity deformed sea surface.

The CD included with the book enables users to rotate zoom into relief globe, as well as, into selected large sound images. It also contains animations and underwater flights and sound tracks.

High-Frequency Seafloor Acoustics (Underwater Acoustics)

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High-Frequency Seafloor Acoustics (Underwater Acoustics)
Darrell Jackson , and Michael Richardson
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Transducers and Arrays for Underwater Sound (Underwater Acoustics)

ASIN: 0387341544

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This book is a research monograph on high-Frequency Seafloor Acoustics. It will provide a critical evaluation of the data and models pertaining to high-frequency acoustic interaction with the seafloor, which will be of interest to researchers in underwater acoustics and to developers of commercial and military sonars.

Models and data are presented so as to be readily usable, backed up by extensive explanation. Much of the data is new, and the discussion in on two levels: concise descriptions in the main text backed up by extensive technical appendices.

This monograph will provide ready access to data and current models and a clear path through a somewhat confusing literature. There is an extensive bibliography, and the main text points towards the essential literature.

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Ocean of Sound
David Toop
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A member of a radical editorial collective on the cutting edge of British music criticism in the 1970s, later a critic for more standard papers, including the Times, David Toop'S second book covers a vast expanse of music. His tour-de-force survey describes a dissonant and invigorating clash of music and noise from western classical to Javanese gamelan, from Claude Debussy to Miles Davis to Brian Eno, from disco to techno to ambient. He discusses the changes in our sound world caused by the global reach of radio and recordings, and shows himself a rigorous pluralist, open to all styles and forms, but unafraid to offer robust criticism in any musical sphere.

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Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. A culture absorbed in perfume, light and ambient sound developed in response to the intangibility of 20th century communications. David Toop traces the evolution of this culture, through Erik Satie to the Velvet Undergound; Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix.

David Toop, who lives in London, is a writer, musician and recording artist. His other books are Rap Attack 3 and Exotica.

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Broaches a vast subject in an engaging and refreshing way.......2006-02-21

I love to read about music, but there are so few good music writers it seems. This book approaches the development of incidental, ambient, experimental, avant garde, and world musics in a way that mimics the music itself - with random bursts of observations, anecdotes, interviews, and just plain bizarre missives. I encourage anyone with a sense of adventure and an open mind to grab a copy.

There is a similarly-titled double CD which came out to accompany the book, but I can't see it on Amazon. It is as eclectic as the book and features a lot of the artists interviewed and mentioned - Sun Ra, Aphex Twin, and others. I have played the CD to death and would recommend it. You gotta respect a compilation that puts The Beach Boys right next to African Headcharge, or My Bloody Valentine next to Brian Eno - and makes it work so well.

The book also features a list of albums and artists in the appendix, which I found useful as a way of doing further research.

Another book in a similar vein is Kodwo Eshun's "More Brilliant Than The Sun", though it focuses solely on the innovators in electronic music.

Liked it a lot.......2005-07-06

If you like ambient, or....atmospheric music of any sort you should give this book a chance as it a nice erudite survey of the various genres and musicians that are linked to..or been influenced by ambient music. It is not a linear survey thru time, but rather this book reminds me of a map which Toop rolls around visiting here and there with a few jumps now and then as he discusses how in the last 100 years "music has reflected the world back to itself and to its listeners". The writing is enjoyable, and full of poetry, such that I kept finding myself underlining odd bits and pieces every few pages and I wound up compiling them for myself for future reference. There is also a nice bibliography and discography at the end of the book.

Fascinating and frustrating.......2001-09-14

Incredible in many ways, Toop's book attempts to trace a quiet revolution in twentieth century music. One cannot deny the impressive breadth of his knowledge, from Stockhausen to Miles all the way to Future Sound of London and their ilk. His writing is quite often beautiful, if occasionally one feels like he is writing too many words to actually say anything.

Ultimately, however, I leave the book feeling a bit underwhelmed. Ironically, it is the book's very eclecticism that works against it. I personally did not see the connectionsbetween, say, the music of Kraftwerk and Toop's (admittedly fascinating) discussion of the sound of the Amazon jungle. These disgressions ultimately make the book useless as a survey. Of course, I doubt that it was meant to be so, but Toop fails to make the kinds of connections that have given books by Greil Marcus and others a fascinating unity.

Perhaps, though, this is the point. Much like the ambient music that serves as the centerpoint of the book, this book simply floats by, not asking you to make any conclusions. It is probably best read in bits, before bed or in the bathroom, where the individual moments of brilliance can be better appreciated. Very ambient, indeed.

Ambient insights.......2000-06-02

David Toop is both a musician and writer, having done ambient music, dub music with the likes of Prince Far I, and of course numerous written articles on ambient and experimental aspects of popular music. I'd have to say that this book is perhaps one of the definitive studies on this musical genre, covering the aesthetics, listening practica, concepts, influences, directions, and so on of this growing musical field in a very inclusive and insightful style. This is perhaps one of the best written companions to everything ambient, as well as influences on ambient music from as far afield as Sun Ra and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Anyone interested in knowing more...either in scope, or deeper within...on ambient should obtain a copy of this book.

fragments and sound bites.......2000-01-08

This is an amazing document on the sonic explorations of the last 100 years, from improv classical to backwords dub lines to the tweak tweak nob movements of our techno, this book is brought with a fun if not intoxicating writing style. the ending of this book is getting even better with jungle sounds (the nature not the genre)

Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and Prediction (Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering ; V. 11)

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Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and Prediction (Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering ; V. 11)
Stanislaw R. Massel
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ASIN: 9810221096

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This book is intended as a handbook for professionals and researchers in the areas of Physical Oceanography, Ocean and Coastal Engineering and as a text for graduate students in these fields.

It presents a comprehensive study on surface ocean waves induced by wind, including basic mathematical principles, physical description of the observed phenomena, practical forecasting techniques of various wave parameters and applications in ocean and coastal engineering, all from the probabilistic and spectral points of view.

The book commences with a description of mechanisms of surface wave generation by wind and its modern modeling techniques. The stochastic and probabilistic terminology is introduced and the basic statistical and spectral properties of ocean waves are developed and discussed in detail.

The bulk of material deals with the prediction techniques for waves in deep and coastal waters for simple and complex ocean basins and complex bathymetry. The various prediction methods, currently used in oceanography and ocean engineering, are described and the examples of practical calculations illustrate the basic text.

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The first portion of this comprehensive textbook on ocean acoustics and acoustical oceanography introduces the basic tools used to determine the detailed characteristics of physical and biological bodies and processes at sea. Written by many internationally recognized ocean researchers, the following fifteen chapters describe modern research developments. This invaluable textbook for students in oceanography, engineering, and physics will also serve as a reference for researchers and professionals.

Ocean and Seabed Acoustics: A Theory of Wave Propagation

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Ocean and Seabed Acoustics: A Theory of Wave Propagation
George V. Frisk
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Provides a balanced view of specific theoretical and experimental results in the ocean acoustics community, with a modern perspective associated with important developments in acoustical oceanography during the last 30 years.

This Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island Sound

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A must read for those interested in L.I.S.
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This Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island Sound
Tom Andersen
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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ASIN: 0300102879

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This lively and readable book traces the history of Long Island Sound and tells the stories of the scientists and citizens who have been working to restore and preserve it.

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A must read for those interested in L.I.S........2004-06-15

What a fantastic book. As a marine biology educator on Long Island Sound, I found this book to be an essential part of my course. I am requiring it as summer reading for my course. It is full of history and information. If you use the Sound at all, this book is a must read!

Wonderful Book.......2002-11-30

I came across this book while doing research for a segment that I was going to do for National Public Radio. Since I am only 15 I wasn't really around to witness the battle to save LIS, and I needed to know some history about the area from that time. This book helped the most out of all the materials that I read. It started by describing the time European sailors first laid their eyes on LIS to present day. He takes you on a journey through all of LIS history and presents every point of view when explaining the battle conservationists had to fight to get the government to cooperate. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in LIS. It is not a book that takes a lot of past knowledge to read, but very informative. Good work Mr. Andersen. A lot of work went into this book and it shows.

Ocean Acoustics: Theory and Experiment in Underwater Sound

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Ocean Acoustics: Theory and Experiment in Underwater Sound
Ivan Tolstoy , and Clarence Clay
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