Download or read book Smiling on a Troubled Planet written by David O. Idahosa and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smiling on a Troubled Planet by David O. Idahosa A British-born Arab man studying at University College in London decides to be recruited by the terrorist group ISIS, in an attempt to liberate them from their world of hatred and vengeance. An American billionaire who believes he can make the world become a better place for humanity. A Japanese student schooled in Canada and later finds a job in the United States. An African writer residing in Paris. A French-born Arab woman who is a lawyer in France and working for many politicians. A refugee born and raised in Ethiopia who moves, with his parents, to live in Somalia—a place torn apart by war—prompting him to flee to Europe on a boat after his parents are killed by terrorists. These six people are called by the Universe when their souls journey to the land of the immortals, where they encounter the gods and goddesses. On returning to Earth to carry out the risky tasks of healing humanity and returning it to its maker. They face a series of events and obstacles from their unknown foes. But they will not relinquish their commitments to humanity and nature, or cease to love and cherish the planet they inhabit, and allow it to be set ablaze by problems that could bring it to annihilation. Will they be a success or will they be exterminated from the surface of the Earth?
Download or read book Planet Omar Accidental Trouble Magnet written by Zanib Mian and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the exciting middle-grade series starring a Muslim boy with a huge imagination—now in paperback! Welcome to the imaginative brain of Omar! Omar and his family have just moved, and he is NOT excited about starting at a new school. What if the work is too hard or the kids are mean or the teacher is a zombie alien?! But when Omar makes a new best friend, things start looking up. That is, until a Big Mean Bully named Daniel makes every day a nightmare! Daniel even tells Omar that all Muslims are going to be kicked out of the country . . . Could that possibly be true? Luckily, Omar's enormous imagination and goofy family help him get through life's ups and downs. Omar's funny, relatable narrative is the perfect answer to the call for both mirrors and windows to fill bookshelves with diverse stories. An NPR Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Best Book of the Year A USBBY Outstanding International Book Selection A Top 10 NYPL Best Book of the year A Middle East Book Award Nominee A Fuse #8 Great Middle Grade Novels of 2020 list A Bluestem Book Award Nominee (Illinois) A Maine Student Book Award Nominee A Sasquatch Award Nominee (Washington)
Download or read book Miles Won t Smile written by Jackie Azua Kramer and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy is excited to be a big sister. She gives her little brother, Miles, lots of toys. Miles loves to play with the toys, cooo with Dad, and goo-goo with Mom. He smiles and plays with everyone except Daisy. What can Daisy do to get a smile too? For little readers ages 4 years and up.
Download or read book Planet Earth Is Blue written by Nicole Panteleakos and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tender and illuminating. A beautiful debut." --Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me A heartrending and hopeful debut novel about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in the Cosmos, Mockingbird, and The Thing About Jellyfish. Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger--it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program. They planned to watch the launch together. But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home. While foster families and teachers dismiss Nova as severely autistic and nonverbal, Bridget understands how intelligent and special Nova is, and all that she can't express. As the liftoff draws closer, Nova's new foster family and teachers begin to see her potential, and for the first time, she is making friends without Bridget. But every day, she's counting down to the launch, and to the moment when she'll see Bridget again. Because Bridget said, "No matter what, I'll be there. I promise."
Download or read book Why Talking Is Not Enough written by Susan Page and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Talking Is Not Enough, written by Susan Page, author of the acclaimed bestseller If I’m So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? presents a novel relationship strategy based on subtle, powerful changes in your own actions. This method shows you the magic of “Keep your mouth out of it!” Page’s pioneering eight-step program invites you to give up problem solving and move directly to a warmer, more loving and fun relationship, based on universal spiritual principles. In this book you will learn how to transform your relationship into a Spiritual Partnership by adopting these Eight Loving Actions: Adopt a Spirit of Good Will Give Up Problem Solving Act as If Practice Restraint Balance Giving and Taking Act on Your Own Practice Acceptance Practice Compassion
Download or read book The Trouble With You Earth People written by Katherine MacLean and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: The Trouble with You Earth People (1968) Unhuman Sacrifice (1958) The Gambling Hell and the Sinful Girl (1975) Syndrome Johnny (1951) Trouble with Treaties (1959) with Tom Condit The Origin of the Species (1953) Collision Orbit (1954) The Fittest (1951) These Truths (1958) Contagion (1950) Brain Wipe (1973) The Missing Man (1971)
Download or read book Troubling Children written by Joel Best and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of childrenâ in particular, of younger children. This collection reflects those recent interest. While most researchers have focused on social problems involving adolescents, this volume offers instead original case studies of problems concerning preadolescent children. The papers that Best has gathered here represent different theoretical and methodological approaches. They report on social issues in Albania, Kenya, and Japan as well as in the United States. The range of social problems they address is a wide one, from broad societal crises to decision-making within families. Topics include the effects of economic and social crises in Africa and Eastern Europe; concerns about crack use and other forms of fetal endangerment; parental decisions about spanking, toy choices, and letting children listen to rock music; schooling in day care and elementary and junior high schools; and children's perceptions of environmental crises. Troubling Children adds a new dimension to courses in social problems. It also offers a different set of perspectives for those concerned with sociology of preadolescent children and their discontents.
Download or read book Lip Service Smiles in Life Death Trust Lies Work Memory Sex and Politics written by Marianne LaFrance and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A charming, thoughtful book, one that makes a powerful case for smiles as ‘social acts with consequences.’ ”—Boston Sunday Globe When someone smiles, the effects are often positive: a glum mood lifts; an apology is accepted; a deal is struck; a flirtation begins. But change the circumstances or the cast of a smile, and the terms shift: a rival grins to get under your skin; a bully’s smirk unsettles his mark. Marianne LaFrance, called the world’s expert on smiles, investigates the familiar grin and finds that it is not quite as simple as it first appears. LaFrance shows how the smile says much more than we realize—or care to admit: not just cheerful expressions, smiles are social acts with serious consequences. Drawing on her research conducted at Yale University and Boston College as well as the latest studies in psychology, medicine, anthropology, biology, and computer science, LaFrance explores the compelling science behind the smile. Who shows more fake smiles, popular kids or unpopular kids? Is it good or bad when a bereaved person smiles? These are some of the questions answered in this groundbreaking and insightful work. To read it is to learn just how much the smile influences our lives and our relationships.
Download or read book The Future We Choose written by Christiana Figueres and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cautionary but optimistic book about the world’s changing climate and the fate of humanity, from Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac—who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015. The authors outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement’s climate targets. In the other, they lay out what it will be like to live in a regenerative world that has net-zero emissions. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination and optimism. The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us what governments, corporations, and each of us can, and must, do to fend off disaster.
Download or read book This Book Needs No Title written by Raymond Smullyan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1986-10-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, This Book Needs No Title is Raymond Smullyan's budget of living paradoxes—the author of What is the Name of This Book? Including eighty paradoxes, logical labyrinths, and intriguing enigmas progress from light fables and fancies to challenging Zen exercises and a novella and probe the timeless questions of philosophy and life.
Download or read book Lost in Antiquity written by William Kurfman and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With astonishing insight and vivid narration, Kurfman writes an inspiring account of a young man's passage into maturity.
Download or read book The Late Great Planet Earth written by Hal Lindsey and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of The Late Great Planet Earth cannot be overstated. The New York Times called it the "no. 1 non-fiction bestseller of the decade." For Christians and non-Christians of the 1970s, Hal Lindsey's blockbuster served as a wake-up call on events soon to come and events already unfolding -- all leading up to the greatest event of all: the return of Jesus Christ. The years since have confirmed Lindsey's insights into what biblical prophecy says about the times we live in. Whether you're a church-going believer or someone who wouldn't darken the door of a Christian institution, the Bible has much to tell you about the imminent future of this planet. In the midst of an out-of-control generation, it reveals a grand design that's unfolding exactly according to plan. The rebirth of Israel. The threat of war in the Middle East. An increase in natural catastrophes. The revival of Satanism and witchcraft. These and other signs, foreseen by prophets from Moses to Jesus, portend the coming of an antichrist . . . of a war which will bring humanity to the brink of destruction . . . and of incredible deliverance for a desperate, dying planet.
Download or read book Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet written by Thomas Murphy, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook for general-education college course on the physics of energy and its role in the broader context of society. Topics include exponential growth, economic growth, population, the role of space exploration, energy units, thermal energy, fossil fuels, climate change, hydroelectricity, wind power, solar power, biological energy, nuclear energy, comparison of alternative energy options, the role of human psychology, prospects for a plan, and adaptation strategies. Appendices include refreshers on math and chemistry, selected answers from end-of-chapter problems, and worthwhile tangents. Contains 195 graphics, 70 tables, a glossary, bibliography, and index.
Download or read book Karaka the Legend of Juno written by Michelle Williams and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the distant future, all of mankind will face the greatest threat it has ever known. The balance between good and evil will be tested, and the fate of the galaxy rests with a small group of displaced time travelers who are racing to figure out who they are and what they are supposed to do. Juno is a system on the verge of war with Nerin, a race of ultimate evil beings. They believe to end their suffering is the genocide of all mankind. The crew of the Star Dancer, having dealt with the Nerin in the past, becomes entangled with Juno and her people. It is now a race to save Juno and restore order before the Nerin attack and destroy the system.
Download or read book Legend of the Impossible Pine Tree written by B C Danei and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legend of the Impossible Pine Tree: Ancient Wisdom for a Troubled Planet By: B C Danei This is a rare opportunity to witness a current-day Hopi grandfather passing ancient wisdom to his son and grandchildren around a campfire. John Tale-Weaver Jones takes us back in time to tell how a mythical tree learned how to harness the power of the mind – the same power we all possess and use every single moment. Do we use it correctly or contribute to the world’s chaos? Hopi Elders are warning us that our planet is out of balance. They have pled to the United Nations assembly for all to come together with loving hearts to join in healing the Earth. Just pretty words? Tale-Weaver sheds light on how things really work! The Mayan Calendar is ending. It’s time to believe in old legends, to receive a message of hope for these troubled times.
Download or read book Smile When You re Lying written by Chuck Thompson and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bangkok to Bogotá, a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows the truth about travel Travel writer, editor, and photographer Chuck Thompson has spent more than a decade traipsing through thirty-five (and counting) countries across the globe, and he's had enough. Enough of the half-truths demanded by magazine editors, enough of the endlessly recycled clichés regarded as good travel writing, and enough of the ugly secrets fiercely guarded by the travel industry. But mostly, he's had enough of returning home from assignments and leaving the most interesting stories and the most provocative insights on the editing-room floor. From getting swindled in Thailand to running afoul of customs inspectors in Belarus, from defusing hostile Swedish rockers backstage in Germany to a closed-door meeting with travel execs telling him why he's about to be fired once again, Thompson's no-holds-barred style is refreshing, invigorating, and all those other adjectives travel writers use to describe spa vacations where the main attraction is a daily colonic. Smile When You're Lying takes readers on an irresistible series of adventures in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and beyond; details the effects of globalization on the casual traveler and ponders the future of travel as we know it; and offers up a treasure trove of travel-industry secrets collected throughout a decidedly speckled career.
Download or read book New Earth written by Ben Bova and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fans of hard sf will enjoy this space adventure” that follows Farside in the Grand Tour series from the six-time Hugo Award winner (Library Journal). The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth. All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years each way, so even if they are able to get back to Earth, nearly 200 years will have elapsed. They will have aged only a dozen years thanks to cryonic suspension, but their friends and family will be gone and the very society that they once knew will have changed beyond recognition. The explorers are going into exile, and they know it. They are on this mission not because they were the best available, but because they were expendable. Upon landing on the planet they discover something unexpected: New Earth is inhabited by a small group of intelligent creatures who look very much like human beings. Who are these people? Are they native to this world, or invaders from elsewhere? While they may seem inordinately friendly to the human explorers, what are their real motivations? What do they want? Moreover, the scientists begin to realize that this planet cannot possibly be natural. They face a startling and nearly unthinkable question: Could New Earth be an artifact?
