Download or read book Jackson s Contraptions written by Cass Hollander and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jackson is always making new contraptions, but his contraptions don't always work. Do you think Jackson's contraptions will work this time?"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Jackson s Contraptions written by Cass Hollander and published by Scholastic Incorporated. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jackson is always making new contraptions, but his contraptions don't always work. Do you think Jackson's contraptions will work this time?"--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book The Grand Contraption written by David Park and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. No other book has provided as coherent, compelling, and learned a narrative on this subject of subjects. David Park takes us on an incredible journey that illuminates the multitude of elaborate "contraptions" by which humans in the Western world have imagined the earth they inhabit--and what lies beyond. Intertwining history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the physical sciences, this eminently readable book is, ultimately, about the "grand contraption" we've constructed through the ages in an effort to understand and identify with the universe. According to Park, people long ago conceived of our world as a great rock slab inhabited by gods, devils, and people and crowned by stars. Thinkers imagined ether to fill the empty space, and in the comforting certainty of celestial movement they discerned numbers, and in numbers, order. Separate sections of the book tell the fascinating stories of measuring and mapping the Earth and Heavens, and later, the scientific exploration of the universe. The journey reveals many common threads stretching from ancient Mesopotamians and Greeks to peoples of today. For example, humans have tended to imagine Earth and Sky as living creatures. Not true, say science-savvy moderns. But truth isn't always the point. The point, says Park, is that Earth is indeed the fragile bubble we surmise, and we must treat it with the reverence it deserves.
Download or read book Joy in the Morning written by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy in the Morning is a play by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews. Andrews was an American writer, here recounting the story of a young couple separated by World War I. The book follows their journey of love and sacrifice, as they struggle to overcome the challenges and uncertainties of wartime. The novel is a poignant tribute to the courage and resilience of those who served in the war, and a celebration of the enduring power of love.
Download or read book Perpetual Assassins written by Brian Huey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitted against the status quo, government, money, power-and pure evil, our hero, Matthew, and his enchanting and determined sidekick, Maria, fight to reclaim control over their future. On the morning of 9/11, the FBI director interrogates Matthew's enigmatic mentor, aka, Zebo. Our All-American savant is dead-set on finding the truth about people and events that have pursued him these past years, perhaps since birth. Every step proves to be more dangerous than the last. eace in the Maine North Woods is precious to Matthew and Maria as they prepare for a big move. Trouble converges on their haven in Cambridge. Can Matthew trust his highly-decorated Marine hero brother? Can he believe a fellow MIT genius with a dangerous secret of his own? Can Matthew avoid a stalker only known as Black Cap? Can he trust his friends? Can he trust anyone?
Download or read book Percy Jackson s Greek Heroes written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy, ( I've had some bad experiences in my time, but the heroes I'm going to tell you about were the original old school hard luck cases. They boldly screwed up where no one had screwed up before. . .) and enhanced with vibrant artwork by Caldecott Honoree John Rocco, this story collection will become the new must-have classic for Rick Riordan's legions of devoted fans--and for anyone who needs a hero. So get your flaming spear. Put on your lion skin cape. Polish your shield and make sure you've got arrows in your quiver. We're going back about four thousand years to decapitate monsters, save some kingdoms, shoot a few gods in the butt, raid the Underworld, and steal loot from evil people. Then, for dessert, we'll die painful tragic deaths. Ready? Sweet. Let's do this.
Download or read book Phonics Chapter Books 1 18 Teacher s Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reporting Live written by Lesley Stahl and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-01-19 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lively, down-to-earth narrative, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl reveals how she has kept her focus--and her sense of humor--in the competitive, often sexist world of political reporting. 16-page photo insert.
Download or read book Jackson s Girls written by K.N. Casper and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has all the Southern comforts any girl could want! Leanna Cargill is from up North—a damnyankee, as Southern folk say. But she's a steel magnolia if there ever was one—and she's determined to succeed at her new investigative job down South. All the more since a nasty divorce has recently left her completely responsible for her little girl. Jackson Fontaine may be a Southern gentleman, but he's also a wheeler-dealer businessman and as strong willed as they come. He's not about to let his sugar plantation and refinery go under—he has a little girl to care for, too—because of any operational irregularities Leanna Cargill may find. Despite that, they like each other a lot. And when circumstances force Leanna to live at Bellefontaine, they both see how easily the four of them—Leanna and Jackson and their two girls—could make that arrangement a permanent one….
Download or read book Problems of Vision written by Gerald Vision and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this break-through study, Gerald Vision proposes a new causal theory, one that engages provocatively with a species of direct realism and makes no use of the now discredited subjectivism.
Download or read book Virginia A Guide to the Old Dominion written by Federal Writers' Project and published by US History Publishers. This book was released on 1952 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Yellowstone Forever written by David Michael Delo and published by Kingfisher Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fabulous Chicago written by Emmett Dedmon and published by Garrett County Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the best-selling history of an American city like no other -- and of the vibrant people who built it. The Yankees who came west to gamble fortunes on the Board of Trade, the Swifts and Amours, Fields and McCormicks, and the new immigrants who worked in their stockyards, stores and railroads -- together and at odds they built Chicago out of the prairie mud, and built it again when the Great Fire destroyed it. This is a story of political turmoil, of corruption, of social striving and reform: the Haymarket Massacre, the Pullman Strike, Jane Adams of Hull House, and the notorious Al Capone. The entrepreneurial giants, the gangsters and mayors of legend, the poets, like Sandburg and MacLeish, and architects, like Frank Lloyd Wright -- all belong to Chicago, and populate this incredible book. From the Everleigh Club brothel to the patriotic song of George F. Root, Fabulous Chicago is a history that is alive with the unbelievable spirit of one of the world's great cities.
Download or read book Children Parents Lollipops written by Vladimir A. Tsesis and published by Vladimir Tsesis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas 2020 written by Bob Sehlinger and published by The Unofficial Guides. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to have fun and understand the crazy environment of a Vegas vacation The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas 2020 emphasizes how to have fun and understand the crazy environment that is today’s Vegas. With insightful writing, up-to-date reviews of major attractions, and a lot of local knowledge, The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas has it all. It is the only guide that explains how Las Vegas works and how to make every minute and every dollar of your time there count. Eclipsing the usual list of choices, the guide unambiguously rates and ranks everything from hotels, restaurants, and attractions to rental car companies. The book contains sections about the history of the town, and the chapters on gambling are fascinating.
Download or read book James Merrill and W H Auden written by P. Gwiazda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Merrill and W.H. Auden offers a substantial analysis of the literary and personal relationship between two major twentieth-century poets. As Gwiazda argues, Auden's prominence in the post-World War II American poetry scene as a homosexual poet and critic makes his impact on Merrill particularly noteworthy. Merrill's imaginary recreation of Auden in his occult verse trilogy The Changing Light at Sandover (1982) offers a powerful statement about the dynamics of poetic influence between gay male poets. Combining archival research, textual analysis, and aspects of queer theory, James Merrill and W.H. Auden examines Sandover's implications to the contentious issues of homosexual identity and self-representation.
Download or read book Bouncer written by Kipling Peterson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgell is a no-nonsense bouncer at a popular nightclub. When a violent shooter opens fire on the innocent crowd outside his bar, Georgell is shocked to find himself among the victims hit on the nightclub front steps. Unlike others, however, he surviveswith the consequences. Although his physical wounds heal, scars remain on his psyche. No one can reach himnot even his loving wifeso Georgell attempts to lose himself in work. In work, though, he finds no comfort. Georgell sees things. He swears dark shadows hang over unsuspecting patrons. These dark shadows appear dangerous; Georgell fears more people might get hurt. He also fears for his own sanity. It soon becomes apparent he isnt the only bouncer who can see the dark shadows. His coworker Moose sees them too, and its hard to ignore the sense of foreboding they share. Soon, they realize the most powerful dark being hovers over another bouncer at the establishment. Georgell and Moose have no idea why theyve been given the ability to see these creatures, but they know they must do something. This evil influence foreshadows darkness, and two mortal men must stand in the way of otherworldly demons or else say goodbye to life as they know it.
