Download or read book Ladders written by Robert D. Cohen and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ladders is about how people throughout the ages have made their way to the top, by fair means or foul. The book starts with a description of the physical aspects of ladders (including staircases, which, for the purposes of Ladders, are regarded as ways of getting to the top. Included is a discussion of gravity, which opposes one’s ascent). It covers Isaac Newton dropping apples and working out a Law of Gravitation from his observations, and the friendly rivalry between Newton and Robert Hooke (who was interested in the same topic), as well as ladders in stockings, the history of the superstition that walking under a ladder brings bad luck, ladders in art, including representations of Jacob’s Ladder (from the Book of Genesis to the statue of a man carrying a ladder outside Edgware Road Underground Station), and the origins of the saying ‘honi soit qui mal y pense’. Robert is the author of a series of books describing the history, science, medicine, artistic representation and cuisine of various body parts which includes; Skin and Bones, Man and the Liver, Splancreas and other Offal, A Muscle Odyssey and Nephrosapiens – A History of Man’s Thinking about the Kidney. Ladders will appeal to those interested in history, science and medical books.
Download or read book Weird But True written by CENGAGE Learning and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 copies of Weird but True!
Download or read book Schild s Ladder written by Greg Egan and published by Greg Egan. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty thousand years, every observable phenomenon in the universe has been successfully explained by the Sarumpaet Rules: the laws governing the dynamics of the quantum graphs that underlie all the constituents of matter and the geometric structure of spacetime. Now Cass has stumbled on a set of quantum graphs that might comprise the fundamental particles of an entirely different kind of physics, and she has travelled three hundred and seventy light years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, in the hope of bringing this tantalising alternative to life. The “novo-vacuum” is predicted to begin decaying the instant it’s created, but even a short-lived, microscopic speck could shed light on the origins of the universe, and test the Sarumpaet Rules more rigorously than ever before. Cass’s experiment turns out to be more successful than anticipated: the novo-vacuum is more stable than the ordinary vacuum around it, and a region in which the new physics holds sway proceeds to expand out from Mimosa at half the speed of light. Six hundred years later, more than two thousand inhabited systems have been lost to the novo-vacuum. On the Rindler, a ship that has matched velocities with the encroaching border, people have come from throughout inhabited space to study the phenomenon. Most are Preservationists, hunting for a way to turn back the tide, but a few belong to another faction: Yielders, who believe that the challenge of adapting to survive on the far side of the border would reinvigorate a civilisation that has grown stale and insular. Tchicaya has come to the Rindler to join the Yielders, but when Mariama — a childhood friend whose example inspired him to abandon his own home world and traditions for a life of travel — arrives soon after, he is shocked to discover that she plans to help the Preservationists find a way to destroy the novo-vacuum. As a theoretical breakthrough leads to a sequence of experiments that begins to reveal the true richness of the world behind the border, tensions between the opposing factions grow. When a splinter group responds to these revelations with violent, unilateral action, Tchicaya and Mariama are forced into an uneasy alliance, and travel together through the border, balancing old and new loyalties against the fate of two incomparably different universes.
Download or read book Weird But True written by CENGAGE Learning and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 copies of Weird but True!
Download or read book Weird But True written by CENGAGE Learning and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 copies of Weird but True!
Download or read book Ladders Science 4 Let s Cook on Level written by and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the science of food.
Download or read book Ladders to Heaven written by Mike Shanahan and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Irresistible" - Literary Review Fig trees have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways: they are wish-fulfillers, rainforest royalty, more precious than gold. Ladders to Heaven tells their incredible story. They fed our pre-human ancestors, influenced diverse cultures and played a key role in the birth of civilisation. More recently, they helped restore life after Krakatoa's catastrophic eruption and proved instrumental in Kenya's struggle for independence. Figs now sustain more species of bird and mammal than any other fruit – in a time of falling trees and rising temperatures, they offer hope. Theirs is a story about humanity's relationship with nature, as relevant to our past as it is to our future.
Download or read book Science Ladders written by N. D'Anvers and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aristotle s Ladder Darwin s Tree written by J. David. Archibald and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading paleontologist David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for biological order from ancient times to the present and their influence on human beingsÕ perception of their place in nature. Specifically, Archibald focuses on ladders and trees, and the first appearance of trees to represent seasonal life cycles. Their use in ancient Roman decorations and genealogies was then appropriated by the early Christian Church to represent biblical genealogies. The late eighteenth century saw the idea of a tree reappropriated to visualize relationships in the natural world, sometimes with a creationist view, but in some instances suggesting evolution. Charles DarwinÕs On the Origin of Species (1859) exorcised the exclusively creationist view of the Òtree of life.Ó His ideas sparked an explosion of trees, mostly by younger acolytes in Europe. Although DarwinÕs influence waned in the early twentieth century, by midcentury his ideas held sway once again in time for another and even greater explosion of tree building, generated by the development of new theories on how to assemble trees, the birth of powerful computing, and the emergence of molecular technology. Throughout his far-reaching study, and with the use of many figures, Archibald connects the evolution of Òtree of lifeÓ iconography to our changing perception of the world and ourselves, offering uncommon insight into how we went from standing on the top rung of the biological ladder to embodying just one tiny twig on the tree of life.
Download or read book Ladders Science 4 Smart Animals above Level written by and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles linked together by the topic of smart animals
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Download or read book Exploring Above and Beyond written by CENGAGE Learning and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 copies of Exploring Above and Beyond Ladders Science consists of high interest science topics for Life, Earth, Physical Science, and STEM with engaging text and visuals that align to Next Generation Science Standards topics. Through this content, students develop a clearer understanding and appreciation for science concepts. Ladders Science includes three reading levels for each of the 36 titles. Students whose reading levels range from 2nd grade to 6th grade will appreciate the articles and introduction to National Geographic Explorers.
Download or read book Ladders Science 5 Conciencia Ecol gica Going Green on Level Physical Science written by Stephanie Harvey and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles linked together by the topic of sustainable practices
Download or read book Exploring Above and Beyond written by CENGAGE Learning and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 copies of Exploring Above and Beyond Ladders Science consists of high interest science topics for Life, Earth, Physical Science, and STEM with engaging text and visuals that align to Next Generation Science Standards topics. Through this content, students develop a clearer understanding and appreciation for science concepts. Ladders Science includes three reading levels for each of the 36 titles. Students whose reading levels range from 2nd grade to 6th grade will appreciate the articles and introduction to National Geographic Explorers.
Download or read book Ladders Science 5 the World s Ocean below Level written by National Geographic Learning and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles linked together by the topic of the ocean
Download or read book Exploring Coral Reefs written by CENGAGE Learning and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 copies of Exploring Coral Reefs Ladders Science consists of high interest science topics for Life, Earth, Physical Science, and STEM with engaging text and visuals that align to Next Generation Science Standards topics. Through this content, students develop a clearer understanding and appreciation for science concepts. Ladders Science includes three reading levels for each of the 36 titles. Students whose reading levels range from 2nd grade to 6th grade will appreciate the articles and introduction to National Geographic Explorers.
Download or read book Exploring Above and Beyond written by CENGAGE Learning and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 copies of Exploring Above and Beyond Ladders Science consists of high interest science topics for Life, Earth, Physical Science, and STEM with engaging text and visuals that align to Next Generation Science Standards topics. Through this content, students develop a clearer understanding and appreciation for science concepts. Ladders Science includes three reading levels for each of the 36 titles. Students whose reading levels range from 2nd grade to 6th grade will appreciate the articles and introduction to National Geographic Explorers.
