Download or read book Beggar s Sky written by Wil McCarthy and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wildly original alien contact novel, set against a vivid backdrop of near-Earth corporate intrigue. Trillionaire Igbal Renz has constructed a starship capable of making the twenty-year journey to Alpha Centauri. So why is he stopping at barely one-tenth that distance, with a cargo of a hundred frozen scientists and diplomats? Rumors abound that Renz Ventures, Inc., has made contact with . . . something. And yet, as deadly stealth ships prowl the space lanes and as the corporate space race threatens to devolve into outright warfare, the Four Horsemen of space industry are discovering firsthand that even in a limitless and lawless frontier, no one can ever be truly self-sufficient. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for Poor Man’s Sky : “Full bore show-your-work SF and a tense lunar mystery! A thrilling read.” —Max Gladstone, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author “Wil McCarthy’s skill at crafting a believable, deeply science-grounded future is on full display. He brings us the mother of all locked-room mysteries wrapped in a vision of lunar colonization that rings a bit more true than we might be comfortable with. Small, gritty moments of inspired futurism pepper Poor Man’s Sky and remind us that no matter where we go, our human nature follows.” —Kimberly Unger, author of The Extractionist and Nucleation Praise for Rich Man’s Sky : “Action SF built on a hard foundation of cutting-edge science.” —Walter Jon Williams “An action-crammed story that darts at hyper-speed from Burning Man, Nevada, to Suriname to a convent on the Moon to an orbiting colony that’s clearly up to something. A jam-packed adventure fizzing with mind-blowing concepts, and a great read!” —Connie Willis “ . . . plenty of verisimilitude . . . superbly intriguing and captivating . . . bravura historical recreations, full of conjectural material. . . . Presenting us with a colorful cast of characters from across the millennia who have thick and rich existences, and affirming that the cosmic stream of life flows forcefully despite all small blockades, McCarthy has written a novel that looks both forwards and backwards, thus making a stellar return to the field.” — Locus Praise for Wil McCarthy: “McCarthy is an entertaining, intelligent, amusing writer, with Heinlein’s knack for breakneck plotting and, at the same time, Clarke’s thoughtfulness.” — Booklist “Imagination really is the only limit.” — The New York Times The future as McCarthy sees it is a wondrous place.” — Publishers Weekly “Wil McCarthy demonstrates that he has a sharp intelligence, a galaxyspanning imagination, and the solid scientific background to make it all work.” —Connie Willis

Download or read book Backhaul beggar written by Zhang Cheng and published by Publicationsbooks. This book was released on with total page 1800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing this, it seems that the little boy is going to use his killer skill again. The belle who sees everything about the little boy can't help but feel soft again, but there is nothing she can do.

Download or read book Financial Inclusion Schemes in India written by Firdous Ahmad Malik and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exclusion of the destitute population from the formal financial system is a long-standing problem in India. This book examines the performance of financial inclusion policies in India to understand their impact on two urban vulnerable groups, Slum Dwellers and Beggars. This study includes analysis at the national level, the variables of the financial inclusion index like Penetration, Availability, and Usage from 2006 to 2020 from the world bank data set. Similarly, the authors examine five policies on financial inclusion by conducting a primary level survey on two urban capital cities of Lucknow and Kolkata, using a well-structured questionnaire for data collection. The authors uses two sampling techniques: simple random in the case of beggars, and stratified random in the case of slum dwellers. This book highlights the difference between financial access and non-access of household respondents in capturing the impacts of financial inclusion schemes on their socio-economic condition and financial behavior. The findings indicate that access to these schemes is extremely limited for the underprivileged population, such as beggars and slum dwellers. The analysis has shown that claims made by the government are not based on real-life occurrences. This book demonstrates that these programs have a negligible effect on life-deprived people. This book will be of interest to academia, policymakers, and society at large.

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Download or read book Wordsworth Hemans and Politics 1800 1830 written by Benjamin Kim and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politics, 1800–1830: Romantic Crises is a study of the political lives of William Wordsworth and Felicia Hemans between 1800 and 1830. Tracing trajectories from the first decade of the nineteenth century to the meeting of the two authors in 1830, Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politicsargues that the dominant paradigm for their political thought was that of “crisis.” Obsessed with the mysterious connections between the individual, the home, and the state, Wordsworth and Hemans portrayed all three in a common crisis that would be resolved in the future. Both writers articulated historical moments when the tenuousness of the present society gave glimpses into a future one. Building on and reacting to the strong critical statements of the 80s and 90s that tended to see the political views of Wordsworth and Hemans as formed by personal crises, Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politicsargues that far from being tied to personal circumstances, crises were staged by Wordsworth and Hemans to argue for clear political positions on a wide variety of topics. Because crises come with claims of singularity, the use of crises to explain historical change finds its origin in revolutionary ideology. But because imagined crises proliferated throughout the Romantic period, crises no longer signaled earth-shattering change, but business as usual. The ideology of crises carried the tension between revolution and modernity that haunted the Romantic period. Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politicspresents revisionary readings of major works and contributes to long-standing discussions on a number of different topics: dissenting politics, poor relief, gender roles in peace and wartime, and the nature of historical memory, to name a few. By focusing on the dramatic nature of crisis narratives, Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politicsresponds to master narratives of the Romantic period that limit and simplify political expression. The book restores complexity to the political lives of two poets who fashioned revolutionary ideology for their own ends.

Download or read book The Sea Beggars written by Cecelia Holland and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sixteenth-century family joins with pirates and William of Orange to fight the Spanish Inquisition in this novel of the Dutch Revolt by “a first-class storyteller” (People). Consistently ranked among the top authors of historical fiction, along with Mary Renault, Mary Stewart, Phillipa Gregory, and Diana Gabaldon, the great Cecelia Holland now transports readers to the sixteenth-century Netherlands in an exciting tale of resistance and rebellion against cruel Spanish oppressors that combines unforgettable fictional characters with real historic personages. No one was safe from religious persecution in the Dutch Low Countries when the “conqueror king,” Phillip II of Spain, dispatched the Catholic Church’s Inquisition to the Netherlands in the late 1500s. The van Cleef family has suffered mightily, with a father executed by a Spanish hangman and a mother driven into madness. Now their children, Jan and Hanneke, must survive on their own by any means necessary as fate carries them down separate but equally dangerous paths. Jan’s destiny is on the high seas—and ultimately in the royal court of England’s Queen Elizabeth—as he and his uncle Pieter boldly retake the old man’s captive ship and join the infamous pirates known as the Sea Beggars in their quest to drive the enemy invaders from Dutch waters. Remaining behind in Antwerp, Hanneke, meanwhile, is forced to endure a series of devastating trials that would crush a young woman of weaker spirit and sensibilities. Strong, courageous, and independent, she embarks on a harrowing journey to Germany in the company of refugee ruler William of Orange ahead of the impending terror of Spain’s sadistic Duke of Alva. But young Hanneke soon realizes there can be no escape or safe haven anywhere as long as her country is in chains, and she vows to dedicate her life to the perilous cause of freedom. A sweeping and epic historical novel rich in color and stunning period detail, Holland’s The Sea Beggars is an enthralling, action-packed adventure that interweaves fact with brilliant invention. It is yet one more fictional excursion into the breathtaking world of the past by an author the New York Times praises as “a literary phenomenon.”

Download or read book The cloud family is very young written by Zhang Cheng and published by Publicationsbooks. This book was released on with total page 1974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book not only has the painstaking efforts of Lao Hu, but also has the advice of Dongda University. The original language and lengthy space in the book are also reduced as much as possible, and efforts are made to make this book play its best level

Download or read book The Begging Question written by Erik Hansson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik Hansson examines Swedish society's reactions to the presence of European Union citizens, mainly Romanian and Bulgarian Roma, begging in the 2010s.

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Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of W B Yeats Illustrated written by W. B. Yeats and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 1736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the seventh volume of a new series of publications by Delphi Classics, the best-selling publisher of classical works. Many poetry collections are often poorly formatted and difficult to read on eReaders. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the poetical works and plays of W. B. Yeats, with illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version: 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Yeats' life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Ten poetry collections – the most poems possible due to US copyright restrictions * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems and plays * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * 19 plays, including rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital print * Features two autobiographies - discover Yeats' literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: to comply with US copyright restrictions, poetry collections, plays and autobiographical works published after 1922 cannot appear in this volume. Once these later works enter the US public domain, they will be added as a free update to the eBook. CONTENTS The Poetry Collections The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics The Wind Among The Reeds Poems from the Shadowy Waters Two Narrative Poems In the Seven Woods The Green Helmet and Other Poems Responsibilities The Wild Swans at Coole Michael Robartes and The Dancer The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Plays The Countess Cathleen The Land of Heart’s Desire Diarmuid and Grania Where There is Nothing Cathleen ni Houlihan The Hour-Glass The Pot of Broth The King’s Threshold On Baile’s Strand Deirdre The Unicorn from the Stars The Green Helmet The Shadowy Waters The Hour-Glass (verse version) At the Hawk’s Well The Dreaming of the Bones The Only Jealousy of Emer Calvary The Player Queen The Autobiographies Reveries over Childhood and Youth The Trembling of the Veil

Download or read book Mingdi Fengyunlu Volume 5 written by liping guo and published by liping guo. This book was released on with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Compendium of the Teachings of Sri Sathya Sai Baba written by and published by Sai Towers Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Compilation Of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Significant Statements On Individual Subjects. More Than 1100 Such Subjects Have Been Identified And The Definitive Statements Of Sri Sathya Sai Baba Are Quoted With Relevant Documentation Of Their Sources. The Special Merit Of The Compilation Is That Recently Published Statements Are Preferred. The Subjects Are Presented In Alphabetical Order To Facilitate Easy Reference. A Sanskrittoenglish Glossary Is Also Appended. This Is An Invaluable Resource Book Of Baba'S Teachings Placed At The Service Of The Students, Teachers, Research Scholars, Study Groups And Casual Readers.

Download or read book Sutra of Bian Que written by Bing FengDeChengShi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jiading, the imperial court was in a state of turmoil, with smoke rising in all directions in the north, and the imperial government in the south Song Dynasty was in a more peaceful corner, not thinking about going north anymore, and still living a happy life of singing and dancing. Shi Mi Yuan, a powerful official, had killed a famous Gold Resisting Scholar, but after gaining the actual power, he had actually restored the main culprit that had caused the death of King Yue Feiyue. He was reprimanded by the people as an ancient sinner, such as Qin Hui, and his title as a loyal sacrifice had been completely broken for Jin and Mongolia. Resisting the Golden Name Han Ying with this accusation of the crimes of Shi Mi Yuan, Shi Mi Yuan with hatred in his heart, liaising with Han's adversary, Queen Yang, and joining forces to accuse Han Long of having an affair with Jin Guo, selling the owner for honor. Since Song Ning Zong knew Han Yu's character and ignored him, Shi Mi Yuan secretly connected with the Kingdom of Jin to lure experts into the martial world and prepare to make a move against a famous man of his generation. The already restless martial arts world was once again filled with a bloody storm. Close]

Download or read book A Concordance to the Entire Works of Alfred Tennyson written by Daniel Barron Brightwell and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Defying Heaven In Another World written by Du Sheng and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ye Xiangtian was an ordinary person, but he couldn't help but come to his rescue when he unintentionally witnessed someone beating and robbing a young girl. He was struck in the head by a criminal, and his soul was transported to another set of Another World."This was a continent filled with Profound Qi. Ye Tian Tian had become a beggar, and no one dared to make a move against him. If he wanted to change his fate, he would have to learn Profound Qi and become the expert of this world.In order to cultivate, Ye Xiangtian had to join the Sky Profound Sect to cultivate the Mystical Arts. However, the requirement was for each disciple to reach the primordial body Eighth Rank.In order to join the Sky Profound Sect, Ye Xiangtian had to work hard to increase his physique.However, a rich kid was bullying him.Ye Xiangtian had accidentally saved a Profound Realm expert and gained his recognition as a disciple. However, he was severely injured by a powerful enemy and was facing death.However, the strong enemy that killed him was the great power of the continent, Mo Tian Sect.In order to seek revenge, Ye Xiangtian silently cultivated. In a single battle, he had accidentally revealed one of the supreme techniques in his expert. It was found out by the Mo Tian Sect. Mo Tian Sect sent out their expert to chase after Ye Tiantian.Ye Xiangtian entered the Demon Forest Mountain Range and fought over cultivation resources with the son of the Sect's Master, killing the son of the Sect's Master."Master was furious, he decided to avenge his son. In order to survive, Ye Tian Tian could only continue to become stronger, until he became the first generation expert that annihilated the Mo Tian Sect."