Download or read book Endless Earth written by Vorzsak Milan and published by Letras. This book was released on with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the purpose of evolution? Why is velocity in the Universe limited to the speed of light? She is an elf from before the evolution of mankind, plunged into the year 2456. She claims to be the one who aided Father Earth in the design of all species of life on Earth. But her Parent has now sent her to the time of the ending of the world, which she swears to prevent. In her original life before the Ice Age, she struggles with Black, the leader of a tribe of primitive Homo sapiens. She despises him for his rough nature, but she eventually understands that it is her duty to get him started on the bumpy road to evolution. In her present, the intelligent races of the galaxy are pooling knowledge through the Archives, a galactic network of alien transmissions, to break the lightspeed barrier and finally open up the galaxy. But what is needed to make the Earth endless? This novel is a unique, fantastic theory on the history of evolution, based on hard, historic facts blended with fun fantasy. It also probes the future possibilities of mankind, as well as the laws of physics that govern the Universe, which humankind needs to see as a challenge in order to conquer the stars. It is a standalone story, but also the first part of a trilogy whose next volumes will also be published in the near future. The second volume, Endless Mars details the struggles of a long-ago Martian race to escape their dying planet, while the third instalment, entitled Endless Space, rounds up the story of all the intelligent races of the galaxy.
Download or read book Endless Forms written by Seirian Sumner and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, author of The Importance of Being Interested In this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading behavioural ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects’ secret world, their incredible diversity and complex social lives, and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance. Everyone worries about the collapse of bee populations. But what about wasps? Deemed the gangsters of the insect world, wasps are winged assassins with formidable stings. Conduits of Biblical punishment, provokers of fear and loathing, inspiration for horror movies: wasps are perhaps the most maligned insect on our planet. But do wasps deserve this reputation? Endless Forms opens our eyes to the highly complex and diverse world of wasps. Wasps are 100 million years older than bees; there are ten times more wasp species than there are bees. There are wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig; wasps that turn cockroaches into living zombies; wasps that live inside other wasps. There are wasps that build citadels that put our own societies to shame, marked by division of labor, rebellions and policing, monarchies, leadership contests, undertakers, police, negotiators, and social parasites. Wasps are nature’s most misunderstood insect: as predators and pollinators, they keep the planet’s ecological balance in check. Wasps are nature’s pest controllers; a world without wasps would be just as ecologically devastating as losing the bees, or beetles, or butterflies. Wasps are diverse and beautiful by every measure, and they are invaluable to planetary health, Professor Sumner reminds us; we’d do well to appreciate them as much as their cuter cousins, the bees.
Download or read book Collision Course written by Kerryn Higgs and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet. The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that “growth” is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution to virtually all social problems—poverty, debt, unemployment, and even the environmental degradation caused by the determined pursuit of growth. Meanwhile, warnings by scientists that we live on a finite planet that cannot sustain infinite economic expansion are ignored or even scorned. In Collision Course, Kerryn Higgs examines how society's commitment to growth has marginalized scientific findings on the limits of growth, casting them as bogus predictions of imminent doom. Higgs tells how in 1972, The Limits to Growth—written by MIT researchers Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William Behrens III—found that unimpeded economic growth was likely to collide with the realities of a finite planet within a century. Although the book's arguments received positive responses initially, before long the dominant narrative of growth as panacea took over. Higgs explores the resistance to ideas about limits, tracing the propagandizing of “free enterprise,” the elevation of growth as the central objective of policy makers, the celebration of “the magic of the market,” and the ever-widening influence of corporate-funded think tanks—a parallel academic universe dedicated to the dissemination of neoliberal principles and to the denial of health and environmental dangers from the effects of tobacco to global warming. More than forty years after The Limits to Growth, the idea that growth is essential continues to hold sway, despite the mounting evidence of its costs—climate destabilization, pollution, intensification of gross global inequalities, and depletion of the resources on which the modern economic edifice depends.
Download or read book Moderan written by David R. Bunch and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of chilling and prescient stories about ecological apocalypse and the merging of human and machine. Welcome to Moderan, world of the future. Here perpetual war is waged by furious masters fighting from Strongholds well stocked with “arsenals of fear” and everyone is enamored with hate. The devastated earth is coated by vast sheets of gray plastic, while humans vie to replace more and more of their own “soft parts” with steel. What need is there for nature when trees and flowers can be pushed up through holes in the plastic? Who requires human companionship when new-metal mistresses are waiting? But even a Stronghold master can doubt the catechism of Moderan. Wanderers, poets, and his own children pay visits, proving that another world is possible. “As if Whitman and Nietzsche had collaborated,” wrote Brian Aldiss of David R. Bunch’s work. Originally published in science-fiction magazines in the 1960s and ’70s, these mordant stories, though passionately sought by collectors, have been unavailable in a single volume for close to half a century. Like Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange, Bunch coined a mind-bending new vocabulary. He sought not to divert readers from the horror of modernity but to make us face it squarely. This volume includes eleven previously uncollected Moderan stories.
Download or read book Eden written by Hiroki Endo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutal virus has destroyed most of the human population leaving the paramilitary Propater forces in charge to pursue world domination.
Download or read book Existence and Heritage written by Tsenay Serequeberhan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores overlapping concerns and themes in African(a) and continental philosophy. In Existence and Heritage, Tsenay Serequeberhan examines what the European philosophical tradition has to offer when encountered from the outsider perspective of postcolonial African thought. He reads Kant in the context of contemporary international relations, finds in Gadamers work a way of conceiving relations among differing traditions, and explores Heideggers analysis of existence as it converges with Marxs critique of alienation. In the confluence of these different assessments, Serequeberhan articulates both a need and example of responding to Fanons call for a new kind of thinking in philosophy. He demonstrates both how continental philosophy can be a useful resource for theorizing Africas postcolonial condition and how postcolonial thought and African philosophy can provide a new way of approaching and understanding the Western tradition.
Download or read book Evolution Is Wrong written by Erich von Däniken and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fascinating Exploration on Why the Darwinists’ Theory No Longer Explains Everything There was once a set of ideas called the theory of evolution, conceived by clever people and confirmed by countless scientists. Then people discovered the electron microscope. This made it possible to make the molecules within the cell visible, and suddenly questions about evolution arose that were not possible before. Which force actually bundles the atoms in the right order? What moves the molecular chains into the correct position? How did the first living unit within the cell actually come about? How does inheritance work, how does information pass on to the next generation? Did humans descend only and exclusively from primates—as Charles Darwin and countless other great minds assumed—or did additional “engines” intervene in evolution? Today it is clear: countless questions can no longer be answered with the previous theory of evolution. There is a form of life called “Blob” (Physarum polycephalum). The “thing” has neither eyes nor ears, neither a mouth nor a nose or even a brain. Nevertheless, it takes in food, overcomes obstacles by the shortest route and exchanges information with other “blobs.” The “blob” contradicts any evolutionary thought that one develops from the other. Or the “gastric-brooding frogs” (Rheobatrachus) found in Australia. They hatch their young in the stomach. Impossible in a slow, evolutionary process. Everywhere there are characteristics of animals that do not want to fit into the theory of evolution anywhere. And man? Are we really the most adapted life-form on this planet? Today, more and more scientists who contradict the previous theory of evolution speak out. The theory fits the changes within the species, but it can no longer be reconciled with the inner workings of the cell. Some other influence that has so far escaped us is affecting evolution. It is called “Intelligent Design.” Intelligent planning is suspected behind this. Anyone or anything—a spirit of the universe? Aliens?—could be behind this planning. Erich von Däniken uses countless examples to demonstrate the impossibility of the previous evolutionary idea. He quotes scientists who argue against the previous teaching, but also those who defend it. Unfortunately, established science still refuses to look at discrepancies and holes in the theory of evolution, even though it is quite obvious that there is more going on with regard to the development of all species, as well as human culture, than could be explained by the theory of evolution alone.
Download or read book A Guide for Young Disciples of the Holy Saviour written by John Gregory Pike and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide for Young Disciples of the Holy Saviour in Their Way to Immortality written by John Gregory Pike and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voice of the Buddha written by Maria Heim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would a Buddhist theory of texts look like through the lens of the 5th-century thinker Buddhaghosa? In Voice of the Buddha, Maria Heim reads from the principal commentator, editor, and translator of the Theravada intellectual tradition, yielding fresh insight into all three collections of the early Pali texts: Vinaya, the Suttas, and the Abhidhamma. Buddhaghosa considered the Buddha to be omniscient, the Buddha's words to be "oceanic." Every word, passage, book--indeed the corpus as a whole--is taken to be "endless and immeasurable" in Buddhaghosa's view. Commentarial practice thus requires disciplined methods of expansion, drawing out the endless possibilities for meaning and application. Heim considers Buddhaghosa's theories of texts, and follows his practices of exegesis to discover how he explored scripture's infinity. By examining the significance of the immeasurability of scripture in commentarial practice and as a general principle, this book offers new tools to understand the huge scriptural and commentarial literature of the Pali tradition. And by taking seriously a traditional commentator's theory of texts, it beckons us to learn from commentaries themselves how we might read and interpret them and the texts on which they comment.
Download or read book Everlasting Arts and Sciences written by Bishop Bassey Effiong Orok and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a seasoned Prophet and reputable Spiritual Scientist, His Lordship Bishop Bassey Effiong Orok; Everlasting Arts and Sciences volume 1 unveils more than 3000 secrets of the universe, natures, souls, destinies, spirits, man, earth and its components and creatures. The manner the earth was created, road leading to it, the top secret and controlling agents of most dangerous sicknesses, and transferring key of creatures from one portion of the universe to another is here unveiled. The true composition, contents and natural tradition of man, star, water, soil, as well as the universal symbol of air, and the demarcation of the sky as linked to humanity are among the secrets revealed. Also unveiled is how the various satellites mounted by man in space will be dismantled by the Supernatural Power of the Universe. The true colours of fire and its last day operation is fact humanity should know. The most deadly fruit, most dangerous and sensitive parts in human body, as well as the several conditions of the earth are also unveiled. The center of the earth is identified in this book, and shocking among other unveiling top secrets is the true colour of Adam and Eve (our first parents), and that of Cain and Abel, with their twin sisters. Shadow, womans menstrual period, human face, hair, teeth, tongue, and the brain are also among the unveiling mysteries in this book. It is a book for all races, tongues, nations and colours of this last generation.
Download or read book Small Victories for the Soul VII written by Tom Sheehan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk a ways with me, here by the Saugus River and the Old Iron Works, where I played as a boy, where Arethusa bulbosa (dragon's mouth orchid or swamp pride) waits for spring and new reeds to hide the young of red-winged blackbirds, where indentured Scot servants worked off their passage, where Captain Kidd brought his treasure to bury on Vinegar Hill (not found yet by boy or man), all leading me to say: The Hour Falling Light Touches Rings of Iron (at the First Iron Works of America, Saugus, MA): You must remember, Pittsburgh is not like this, would never have been found without the rod bending right here, sucked down by the earth. This is not the thick push of the three rivers' water hard as name-calling.... Slag makes a bucket bottom feed iron rings unto water, ferric oxides, clouds of rust.
Download or read book Love Without Conditions written by Paul Ferrini and published by Paul Ferrini-Heartways Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible book from Jesus calling us to awaken to our own Christhood. Rarely has any book conveyed the teachings of the master in such a simple but profound manner. This book will help you to bring your understanding from the head to the heart so that you can model the teachings of love and forgiveness in your daily life.
Download or read book Stained Light written by Naomi Foyle and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astra Ordott tried - and failed - to deny her destiny. The final installment in the critically-acclaimed SF quartet 'for Hunger Games fans of all ages' (Library Journal). Perfect for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin, Joan Slonczewski and Joyce Carol Oates. For ten years Astra Ordott has lived as a traitor, hated by most of her fellow prisoners and abused by the guards. She made the ultimate sacrifice to save those she loved, voluntarily giving up her freedom when she handed herself over to the Is-Land authorities. Now long-simmering conflicts are beginning to boil over again as the wider world faces devastating threats both old and new. Non-Land and Is-Land are further from reunification than ever. Outside Astra's fortified Gaian homeland, an infertility crisis is threatening the survival of the human race, while the world's reliance on rare earth metals is infuriating the ancient spirits of the planet. Astra may have found her voice as a messenger of cosmic harmony - but is anyone listening?
Download or read book The Human Sea written by Vagif Sultanly and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The human sea" novel has a philosofical topic. The writer has created the character of a human whose life has turned into a tragedy because of the isolation from the socity. The novel talks about different aspects of the alienation problems.
Download or read book A BLIND TIE Selected Works written by Vagif Sultanly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of the author's work contains novels such as "The Human Sea" and "The Dream of Death" as well as a selection of his short stories written over many years. "The Human Sea" narrates the tragic life of a convict who escapes the death penalty and starts a new life in a strange city under a different name, while "The Dream of Death" reflects the chaos created in a small community by the destruction of a cemetery. Different short stories give literary depictions of the ethical problems that modern society faces such as alienation, becoming a stranger, being useless and not finding a meaning in life.
Download or read book THE LEGEND OF THE SNAKE written by Vagif Sultanly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel and short stories included in this book describe the problems inherent to modern Azerbaijani society such as alienation, loneliness, hopelessness, soullessness etc. against a background of sophisticated characters and events. The great, intellectual, path-defining writer of Azerbaijanian modern literature. Prof.dr.Eunkyung Oh (Seul, South Korea) Vagif Sultanly's figures and heroes are mostly owners of an inner dialog. Despite the torments and tragedies they are subjected to, they comprehend the essence of life as if through the prism of philosophy. Michael Brannock, writer (London, Great Britain) Vagif Sultanly is certainly a novelist who captures your attention however far removed you are from Azerbaijan. His subject matter is always a story with universal appeal. His nuances of alienation and the deep wish to belong are woven into this tale with mastery.The constant suspense keeps you turning the pages. An excellent read! Prof.Dr.Tamara Dragadze (London, Great Britain)
