Download or read book Tangled Planet written by Kate Blair and published by DCB. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's taken 400 years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination. Beta Earth is an uninhabited, untouched planet that seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa has to colonise with her crewmates. The first night Ursa is on Beta Earth her world goes out of control when she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature with sharp teeth, something that shouldn't even be on the planet, but nobody believes her. As injuries and bodies start piling up, Ursa must figure out who to trust when her fellow crewmates start taking sides between Venture's safety and the hope of creating a home on Beta Earth. If Ursa and her people can't find out what's really going on in the forest, their already fragile society won't survive.
Download or read book The Tangled Wing written by Melvin Konner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital updating of a seminal work of science First published to great acclaim twenty years ago, The Tangled Wing has become required reading for anyone interested in the biological roots of human behavior. Since then, revolutions have taken place in genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. All of these innovations have been brought into account in this greatly expanded edition of a book originally called an "overwhelming achievement" by The Times Literary Supplement. A masterful synthesis of biology, psychology, anthropology, and philosophy, The Tangled Wing reveals human identity and activity to be an intricately woven fabric of innumerable factors. Melvin Konner's sensitive and straightforward discussion ranges across topics such as the roots of aggression, the basis of attachment and desire, the differences between the sexes, and the foundations of mental illness.
Download or read book Transferral written by Kate Blair and published by DCB. This book was released on 2015-10-24 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, England, present day. This is the world as we know it, but with one key difference: medical science has found a way to remove diseases from the sick. The catch? They can only transfer the diseases into other living humans. The government now uses the technology to cure the innocent by infecting criminals. It is into this world that Talia Hale is born. Now sixteen and the daughter of a prime ministerial candidate, she discovers that the effort to ensure that bad things happen only to bad people has turned a once-thriving community into a slum, and has made life perilous for two new friends. When Talia’s father makes an election promise to send in the police to crack down on this community, Talia can only think of how much worse things will be for her friends. Will she defy her father to protect them, even if it means costing him the election? Tranferral, the debut from Kate Blair, is a chilling look at a world gone wrong because of its efforts to do right.
Download or read book Dark Planet written by Charles W Sasser and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kadar San, a human-Zentadon crossbreed distrusted by both humans and Zentadon, is dispatched with a Deep Reconnaissance Team (DRT) to the Dark Planet of Aldenia. His mission: use his telepathic powers to sniff out a Blob assault base preparing to attack the Galaxia Republic. Dominated by both amazing insect and reptile life forms, and by an evil and mysterious Presence, Aldenia was once a base for the warlike Indowy who used their superior technology to enslave the Zentadon and turn them into super warriors to deploy against humans. The DRT comes under attack not only from savage denizens of the Dark Planet, but also from the mysterious Presence, which turns team member against team member and all against Kadar San. The Presence promises untold wealth and power to any member of the team unscrupulous enough to unleash the contents of a Pandora's box-like remnant of Indowy technology. The box's possessor poses a greater threat than the entire Blob nation, for he is capable of releasing untold horrors upon the galaxy. Kadar San finds himself pitted against a human killer, an expert sniper, in a desperate struggle to save both the Republic and the human female he has come to love. Like all Zentadon, however, Kadar San cannot kill without facing destruction himself in the process, and he has no choice but to kill. In order to save the galaxy, Kadar San must face the truth . . . no one will leave the Dark Planet .
Download or read book The Tangle of Science written by Ann C. (PhD candidate Thresher, PhD candidate University of California San Diego) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. What underwrites this reliability? This book argues that the standard answers--the scientific method, rigour, and objectivity--are insufficient for the job. Here we propose a new model of science which places its products front and centre. In The Tangle of Science we show how any reliable piece of science is underpinned by a vast, diverse, and thick network of other scientific products. In doing so we bring back into focus areas of science that have been long neglected, emphasizing how every product, from the screws that hold the space shuttle together, to ways of measuring the consumer price index, to Einstein's theory of general relativity, work together to support results we can trust.
Download or read book Apocalyptic Planet written by Craig Childs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the deserts of Chile, through the genetic wasteland of central Iowa, to the drowned land bridge of the Bering Sea, the author of House of Rain uncovers the cataclysms that tell us what could be next—and the undeniable science that reveals both the earth’s strengths and frailties. "A fascinating travelog of an excitable, seething and perilous planet." —Science News Ours is not a stable planet. It is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters and extremes of climate. In this exhilarating exploration of our globe, Craig Childs goes to where the apocalypse can be seen now and reveals what could be next: forthcoming ice ages, super volcanoes, and the conclusion of planetary life cycles. Childs delivers a sensual feast in his descriptions of the natural world. Bearing witness to the planet’s sweeping and perilous changes, he shows how we can alter the future, and how the world will live on, though humans may not survive to see it.
Download or read book A Mist of Memories written by Kate Blair and published by Cormorant Books. This book was released on 2023-05-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lost island wreathed in whispering mists, two mysterious incidents, and a quest for the truth. Ajay is desperately searching for his friend and crush, Oleander, who has gone missing. All his suspicions and all his investigations come up empty, and he’s left with the fear that Oleander is dead. But he has one clue: she once told him of an island that no one can remember. Could this island in the mist have the answers to what happened to Oleander? And what about the girl Ajay meets who seems to know all there is to know about the island, but has lost most of her memories? Unlocking those memories could help both teens to find the truth.
Download or read book Tangled Alphabets written by León Ferrari and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibition presents new insights into these artists' visual deconstructions of language and examines the connections and collisions among visual art, the word and the social world.
Download or read book Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds written by Ev Cochrane and published by Ev Cochrane. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fossil Gods offers a comparative analysis of some of the greatest gods of antiquity, including Inanna, Horus, and Thor. The basic thesis holds that many mythological traditions surrounding these gods can only be understood by reference to extraordinary planetary events.
Download or read book The Perilous Planet written by Otis Adelbert Kline and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the Perilous Planet series:Planet of Peril, Prince of Peril,and Port of Peril
Download or read book How to Save Your Planet One Object at a Time written by Tara Shine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'an unpreachy guide [...] free of jargon and full of often surprising information.' The Times Change starts at home. In the office. Change starts with you. Your family. Your friends. Change starts with everyday things. One object at a time. Sometimes it can feel overwhelming thinking about all that needs to be done to save our planet. This book is the antidote to that feeling. Easy to read and easy to do – here’s all the information and inspiration you need to make a difference, simply by making smart choices about everyday objects, tasks and habits. Environmental scientist Dr Tara Shine guides you from room to room and occasion to occasion with environmentally friendly solutions, backed by science. From swapping bottled soap to bars, to replacing cling film with a simple plate, you will reduce your environmental footprint in an instant, while saving money. This book busts persistent myths and will once and for all show that living sustainably can be both fun and convenient. Besides, it will not only have a positive impact on the environment, but your wellbeing too! 'Dr. Tara Shine is an enlightened big-picture thinker, and with this book she shows that she is equally and delightfully adept at bringing details into focus. This book is all about realising the power you have as an individual by informing yourself, asking questions and making smart choices. By getting becoming active and joining the conversation, you become empowered and you do something about the problem we face rather than feeling powerless in its presence.' Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Download or read book Ecological Solidarities written by Krista E. Hughes and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating on the premise that our failure to recognize our interconnected relationship to the rest of the cosmos is the origin of planetary peril, this volume presents academic, activist, and artistic perspectives on how to inspire reflection and motivate action in order to construct alternative frameworks and establish novel solidarities for the sake of our planetary home. The selections in this volume explore ecologies of interdependence as a frame for religious, theological, and philosophical analysis and practice. Contributors examine questions of justice, climate change, race, class, gender, and coloniality and discuss alternative ways of engaging the world in all its biodiversity. Each essay, poem, reflection, and piece of art contributes to and reflects upon how to live out entangled differences toward positive global change. Constructive and practical, global and local, communal and personal, Ecological Solidarities is an innovative contribution to the discourses on relational and liberative thought and practice in religion, philosophy, and theology. It will be welcomed by scholars of World Christianity and theology as well as seminary students, activists, and laity interested in issues of justice and ecology.
Download or read book Using Stories to Teach Maths Ages 9 to 11 written by Steve Way and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make the teaching of Maths a more exciting and creative cross-curricular experience! This new series provides original and fun stories, sketches and poems to use as the basis for teaching objectives from the Mathematics Programme of Study. The stories are supported by differentiated lesson plans and original resources such as card games and suggestions for kinaesthetic activities. Ages 9-11 stories include: Sneaky Circles, Hank Bullman rides into Certain City, Space Chase, Mediaevel Mode, Metric Measures Poem, Ratio Poem. The stories have been road-tested in schools and the children thoroughly enjoyed them!
Download or read book Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet written by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch. Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.
Download or read book Many Skies written by Arthur Upgren and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Earth had several moons or massive rings like Saturn? What if the Sun were but one star in a double-star or triple-star system? What if Earth were the only planet circling the Sun? These and other imaginative scenarios are the subject of Arthur Upgren's inventive book Many Skies: Alternative Histories of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Stars. Although the night sky as we know it seems eternal and inevitable, Upgren reminds us that, just as easily, it could have been very different. Had the solar sytem happened to be in the midst of a star cluster, we might have many more bright stars in the sky. Yet had it been located beyond the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, we might have no stars at all. If Venus or Mars had a moon as large as ours, we would be able to view it easily with the unaided eye. Given these or other alternative skies, what might Ptolemy or Copernicus have concluded about the center of the solar sytem and the Sun? This book not only examines the changes in science that these alternative solar, stellar, and galactic arrangements would have brought, it also explores the different theologies, astrologies, and methods of tracking time that would have developed to reflect them. Our perception of our surroundings, the number of gods we worship, the symbols we use in art and literature, even the way we form nations and empires are all closely tied to our particular (and accidental) placement in the universe. Many Skies, however, is not merely a fanciful play on what might have been. Upgren also explores the actual ways that human interferences such as light pollution are changing the night sky. Our atmosphere, he warns, will appear very different if we have belt of debris circling the globe and blotting out the stars, as will happen if advertisers one day pollute space with brilliant satellites displaying their products. From fanciful to foreboding, the scenarios in Many Skies will both delight and inspire reflection, reminding us that ours is but one of many worldviews based on our experience of a universe that is as much a product of accident as it is of intention.
Download or read book Lonely Planet Great Britain written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 1902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's Great Britain is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Gaze at the graceful architecture of Canterbury Cathedral, stride around the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle or through the mountains of Wales, and soak up Roman, medieval and Victorian history - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Great Britain and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Great Britain: Full-colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights provide a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, art, food, drink, sport, politics Covers London, Canterbury, Southeast England, Oxford, Cotswolds, Southwest England, Cambridge, East Anglia, Birmingham, the Midlands, the Marches, Yorkshire, Manchester, Liverpool, Northwest England, The Lake District, Cumbria, Newcastle, Northeast England, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Pembrokeshire, South Wales, Hay-on-Wye, Mid-Wales, Snowdonia, North Wales, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Southern Scotland, Stirling, Central Scotland, Inverness, Northern Highlands & Islands, and more. The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Great Britain is our most comprehensive guide to Britain, and is perfect for discovering both popular and off-the-beaten-path experiences. Need a city guide? Check out Lonely Planet's London for an in-depth look at all the city has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) *Source: Nielsen BookScan: Australia, UK, USA, 5/2016-4/2017 eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Download or read book Distant Planet SF Boxed Set Illustrated Edition written by Ray Bradbury and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 1757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the golden age of science fiction with some of the best stories of intergalactic wars, space adventures and alien contact:_x000D_ Ray Bradbury:_x000D_ Jonah of the Jove-Run _x000D_ Zero Hour _x000D_ Rocket Summer _x000D_ Lorelei of the Red Mist _x000D_ The Creatures That Time Forgot _x000D_ Asleep in Armageddon _x000D_ Defense Mech _x000D_ Lazarus Come Forth _x000D_ Morgue Ship _x000D_ The Monster Maker _x000D_ A Little Journey _x000D_ Leigh Brackett:_x000D_ Black Amazon of Mars _x000D_ Child of the Sun _x000D_ Citadel of Lost Ships _x000D_ Enchantress of Venus _x000D_ Last Call From Sector 9G _x000D_ Outpost on Io _x000D_ Queen of the Martian Catacombs _x000D_ Shannach _x000D_ Terror Out of Space _x000D_ The Beast-Jewel of Mars _x000D_ The Blue Behemoth _x000D_ The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter _x000D_ The Jewel of Bas _x000D_ The Stellar Legion _x000D_ The Vanishing Venusians _x000D_ Thralls of the Endless Night _x000D_ Poul Anderson:_x000D_ Captive of the Centaurianess _x000D_ Lord of a Thousand Sun _x000D_ Out of the Iron Womb _x000D_ Sargasso of Lost Starships _x000D_ Star Ship _x000D_ Swordsman of Lost Terra _x000D_ The Virgin of Valkarion _x000D_ Tiger by the Tail _x000D_ Witch of the Demon Seas _x000D_ Jerome Bixby:_x000D_ Cargo to Callisto _x000D_ Tubemonkey _x000D_ The Crowded Colony _x000D_ Vengeance on Mars _x000D_ Clifford D. Simak:_x000D_ Message From Mars _x000D_ Mr. Meek Plays Polo _x000D_ Mr. Meek—Musketeer _x000D_ The Shipshape Miracle _x000D_ Damon Knight_x000D_ The Star Beast _x000D_ Doorway to Kal-Jmar _x000D_ The Third Little Green Man _x000D_ The Avenger _x000D_ Frederik Pohl:_x000D_ Asteroid of the Damned _x000D_ Conspiracy on Callisto _x000D_ Double-Cross _x000D_ Let the Ants Try _x000D_ Gardner F. Fox:_x000D_ When Kohonnes Screamed _x000D_ The Warlock of Sharrador_x000D_ Werwile of the Crystal Crypt_x000D_ Sword of the Seven Suns_x000D_ Vassals of the Lode-Star_x000D_ Engines of the Gods by Gardner_x000D_ Tonight the Stars Revolt!_x000D_ The Last Monster_x000D_ Man nth_x000D_ The Man the Sun-Gods Made
