Download or read book Billy Stone s Two Worlds written by Roxy Steel and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12-year-old Billy found school boring and often got into trouble for daydreaming about flying in space, time travel, and wondering what it would be like if ants were as big as humans, would they eat humans? Billy knew this wasn’t a dream. Max takes Billy on many adventures, with excitement, laughter, tears, sadness and joy. He meets many friends along the way and learns the truth about how humans exploit animals in the most weird and unimaginable ways.
Download or read book The Lost Medallion written by Bill Muir and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of an archaeologist finds the lost medallion his father had been seeking and is transported back in time with his best friend for an adventure that will change his life forever.
Download or read book Science and Philosophy written by Alain Stahl and published by BioBitField. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid progress of science is shedding new light on the eternal questions of philosophy. Alain Stahl provides an exhaustive and coherent examination of the big questions that physics and the life sciences raise today. This book is a translation of the second French edition (2010), updated and expanded to include the most recent scientific findings. It will be of interest to anyone studying, working in, or thinking about science and philosophy. The author, Dr. Alain Stahl, a scientist by training, spent his outstanding professional career working as a chief technical officer and then managing director of several large French chemical companies. After retiring, he has focused his efforts on integrating insights from scientific and philosophical advances, and the present volume is the culmination of this synthesis.
Download or read book Hero of the Fleet written by William Stone and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Stone died on 10 January 2009 aged 108. He received a hero's funeral. Born in rural Devon, he joined the navy during the First World War, travelled the globe just before the British Empire's light began to fade and saw action in some of the most significant sea battles of the Second World War. Afterwards, he returned to Devon to run a barber's shop, an altogether more peaceable existence. As time passed, he became one of a dwindling number of men still alive who had served in the Great War. This meant that for some of the most momentous anniversaries clocked up recently - including the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War - William was a guest of honour. This autobiography bridges two wars and encompasses the remarkable episodes and adventures. It was an ordinary life lived in extraordinary times. He died at a time when the navy is attempting to embrace new ships that bear scant resemblance to those that William knew and face the challenges of a world that shrinks with every bold technological advance. His was a different kind of boldness. This is his astonishing story.
Download or read book The Devil s Book of Culture written by Benjamin Feinberg and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1950s, the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, Mexico, has drawn a strange assortment of visitors and pilgrims—schoolteachers and government workers, North American and European spelunkers exploring the region's vast cave system, and counterculturalists from hippies (John Lennon and other celebrities supposedly among them) to New Age seekers, all chasing a firsthand experience of transcendence and otherness through the ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms "in context" with a Mazatec shaman. Over time, this steady incursion of the outside world has significantly influenced the Mazatec sense of identity, giving rise to an ongoing discourse about what it means to be "us" and "them." In this highly original ethnography, Benjamin Feinberg investigates how different understandings of Mazatec identity and culture emerge through talk that circulates within and among various groups, including Mazatec-speaking businessmen, curers, peasants, intellectuals, anthropologists, bureaucrats, cavers, and mushroom-seeking tourists. Specifically, he traces how these groups express their sense of culture and identity through narratives about three nearby yet strange discursive "worlds"—the "magic world" of psychedelic mushrooms and shamanic practices, the underground world of caves and its associated folklore of supernatural beings and magical wealth, and the world of the past or the past/present relationship. Feinberg's research refutes the notion of a static Mazatec identity now changed by contact with the outside world, showing instead that identity forms at the intersection of multiple transnational discourses.
Download or read book Cut Stones and Crossroads written by Ronald Wright and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling through Peru, tracing the history of the Incas from their royal cities of Cusco and Machu Picchu to their mythic origin in Lake Titicaca, Ronald Wright explores a country of contrasts—between Spanish and Indian, past and present, coastal desert and mountainous interior. In his highly entertaining and perceptive account, Wright brings to life a complex culture, a land of ancient traditions seeking its place in the modern world. Embracing history, politics, anthropology, and literature, Cut Stones and Crossroadsis a fascinating travel memoir and the study of a civilization by a writer who has won international awards as both a novelist and a historian.
Download or read book Two Worlds written by Noeline Slowgrove and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An ancient civilisation of humans living underground on Mars, with the capability of space travel, have been abducting humans from Earth for thousands of years. The abducted people, over time have built an Earth Colony in a valley, deep within a mountain range. Both races live in harmony until probes from Earth begin landing on Mars. The ancient race fear Earth will endanger their fragile existence. So...they come up with a plan to send Colonists back to Earth with special abilities in order to bring about international peace on Earth. TWO WORLDS is the journal of Katherine Collins, a young woman, along with her fiancée, who have been abducted and settled in the Earth Colony. Chapter by chapter she writes of her experiences on Mars."
Download or read book Metaphysics of Science written by Markus Schrenk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysics and science have a long but troubled relationship. In the twentieth century the Logical Positivists argued metaphysics was irrelevant and that philosophy should be guided by science. However, metaphysics and science attempt to answer many of the same, fundamental questions: What are laws of nature? What is causation? What are natural kinds? In this book, Markus Schrenk examines and explains the central questions and problems in the metaphysics of science. He reviews the development of the field from the early modern period through to the latest research, systematically assessing key topics including: dispositions counterfactual conditionals laws of nature causation properties natural kinds essence necessity. With the addition of chapter summaries and annotated further reading, Metaphysics of Science is a much-needed, clear and informative survey of this exciting area of philosophical research. It is essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy of science and metaphysics.
Download or read book Hiding Billy written by and published by Aisle Seat Books. This book was released on with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions in a Seer Stone written by William L. Davis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America. Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period of 1,000 years, filled with hundreds of distinct characters and episodes, all cohesively tied together in an overarching narrative? Eyewitnesses claimed that Smith never looked at notes, manuscripts, or books—he simply spoke the words of this American religious epic into existence. Judging the truth of this process is not Davis's interest. Rather, he reveals a kaleidoscope of practices and styles that converged around Smith's creation, with an emphasis on the evangelical preaching styles popularized by the renowned George Whitefield and John Wesley.
Download or read book The Rolling Stones written by Audrey Borus and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 12, 1962, the Marquis Club in London debuted a new band. Scruffy-looking and irreverent, they performed music that hadn't really been heard on English shores, a combination of the blues, a style of music written and performed by slaves in the American South, and a newer genre, rock and roll. They called themselves The Rolling Stones. Through informative sidebars, fascinating direct quotations, and revealing personal facts, this book explores the past, present, and future of the legendary band that more than fifty years later, still keeps turning out hits.
Download or read book Guardian written by Dale W Watts and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Crains father went missing without a trace almost a year ago. When Billy is rescued from a pit by the village Hermit, he discovers the Hermit knows where his father is. Theres another world involved called Palithion. The Hermit takes Billy and his two friends to aid in his quest to awaken the sleeping wizard and help in the search of Billys father. There, they experience many adventures, encounter danger and see many wonders. Can they wake the sleeping wizard? Can Billy find his father is this vast new world?
Download or read book Puppy Dogs and Country Girls Don t Belong on City Streets written by Billy Stone and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young girl leaving her Alabama home for the first time ever, Julie Leigh was no different from any other country girls who dreamed of bright lights and large crowds screaming, "Julie, Julie". The book tells the story about a young person searching for success and responding to that small voice crying out: Go to Nashville, Julie Leigh, go to Nashville. Making it big in Nashville is not a straightforward road. There are many bypasses, detours, and sharp curves to navigate.
Download or read book Between Two Worlds written by John Stott and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published 1982 in the U.K. by Hodder and Stoughton, London, under the title "I Believe in Preaching."
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Download or read book Bill Graham Presents written by Bill Graham and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2004-05-05 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national best-selling autobiography of Bill Graham, the colorful, larger-than-life architect of the modern concert industry
Download or read book The Longman Companion to America in the Era of the Two World Wars 1910 1945 written by Patrick Renshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1910 and 1945 the United States transformed itself into a Super Power. By 1945, with rivals in Europe and Asia shattered by world war, she dominated global economic, financial and political arrangements and monopolised the atomic bomb. This new Companion to History is an indispensable guide to this critical period in US history. It includes: chronologies listing all the major events, both foreign and domestic; social and economic history, with many tables based on inaccessible data; scores of mini-biographies; listings of the major office holders; and maps.
