Download or read book The Grandparent s New Guide to the Universe Black and White written by Jaylynn Loreman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grandparent's new Guide to the Universe, by Jaylynn Loreman and Nancy Woodard has produced a masterpiece of facts lavishly illustrated with tons of pictures. This book is definitely a must-have for Grandparents everywhere. Dan Milburn, (Grandpa) is just the helper for this" labor of love" he calls it. The chance to do this project for Grandparents and Grandchildren alike, with my Grandchildren, is a monument to Grandparents and Grandchildren everywhere. It is a testimonial to tea- parties, wearing funny hats and building memories that will last a lifetime.
Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Download or read book A User s Guide to the Universe written by Dave Goldberg and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answers to science's most enduring questions from "Can I break the light-speed barrier like on Star Trek?" and "Is there life on other planets?" to "What is empty space made of?" This is an indispensable guide to physics that offers readers an overview of the most popular physics topics written in an accessible, irreverent, and engaging manner while still maintaining a tone of wry skepticism. Even the novice will be able to follow along, as the topics are addressed using plain English and (almost) no equations. Veterans of popular physics will also find their nagging questions addressed, like whether the universe can expand faster than light, and for that matter, what the universe is expanding into anyway. Gives a one-stop tour of all the big questions that capture the public imagination including string theory, quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and the beginning of time Explains serious science in an entertaining, conversational, and easy-to-understand way Includes dozens of delightfully groan-worthy cartoons that explain everything from special relativity to Dark Matter Filled with fascinating information and insights, this book will both deepen and transform your understanding of the universe.
Download or read book The Universe in Black and White written by Terry Favour and published by Hierophant Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever tried to wrap your head around quantum physics? Have you ever tried to comprehend concepts of time and space that have been popularized by the promoters of the ”new physics” and various eastern teachers? If you have, chances are either that your eyes glazed over or you felt as if your head might explode at any moment. Here for the first time, the concepts that have been propounded by the great thinkers and teachers of the twentieth century are made accessible in an illustrated guide. More importantly, this material is presented in a way that is non-threatening and fun. Using simple and delightful illustrations throughout, Favour, explores: The paradigm shift that has occurred, whether we are ready or not. How quantum physics and the new technology has challenged our experience of time and space. How the spiritual thought of East and West have melded. The relationship of self to oneness, of form to emptiness.
Download or read book I WAS 1ST WHITE MAN IN BLACK MUSLIMS written by John Marino and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion should be based on logical reasoning, truth, and bringing peace among the human family. I Was the First White Man in the Black Muslims is a memoir of a Catholic white man who converted to Muslim and left his religion. In this book, inspiring quotes and Bible verses from both Christian and Islam religion is presented as well as a little comparison between the two religions. Furthermore, it is upheld that a religion should be a body of knowledge based on principles and morals that are sit
Download or read book You Don t Know Everything Jilly P Scholastic Gold written by Alex Gino and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Gino, the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Melissa, is back with another sensitive tale based on increasingly relevant social justice issues. Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. The world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and hearing, differently from Emma, just as it will treat them both differently from their Black cousins. A big fantasy reader, Jilly makes a connection online with another fantasy fan, Derek, who is a Deaf, Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for help with Emma but doesn't always know the best way or time to ask for it. As she and Derek meet in person, have some really fun conversations, and become friends, Jilly makes some mistakes . . . but comes to understand that it's up to her, not Derek to figure out how to do better next time--especially when she wants to be there for Derek the most. Within a world where kids like Derek and Emma aren't assured the same freedom or safety as kids like Jilly, Jilly is starting to learn all the things she doesn't know--and by doing that, she's also working to discover how to support her family and her friends. With You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!, award-winning author Alex Gino uses their trademark humor, heart, and humanity to show readers how being open to difference can make you a better person, and how being open to change can make you change in the best possible ways.
Download or read book The African American Guide to Writing Publishing Non Fiction written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In college and graduate school, Jewell Parker Rhodes never encountered a single reading assignment or exercise that featured a person of color. Now she has made it her mission to rectify the situation, gathering advice and inspiring tips tailored for African Americans seeking to express their life experiences. Comprehensive and totally energizing, the African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction bursts with supportive topics such as: ·Finding your voice ·Getting to know your literary ancestors ·Overcoming a bruised ego and finding the determination to pursue your dreams ·Gathering material and conducting research ·Tapping sweet, bittersweet, and joyful memories ·Knowing when to keep revising, and when to let go The guide also features unforgettable excerpts from luminaries such as Maya Angelou, Brent Staples, Houston Baker, and pointers from bestselling African American authors Patrice Gaines, E. Lynn Harris, James McBride, John Hope Franklin, Pearl Cleage, Edwidge Danticat, and many others. It is a uniquely nurturing and informative touchstone for affirming, bearing witness, leaving a legacy, and celebrating the remarkable journey of the self.
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Download or read book The Mad Scientist s Guide to World Domination written by John Joseph Adams and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of original horror tales featuring "evil genius" archetype characters intent on ruling the world features contributions by Diana Gabaldon, Daniel Wilson, and Austin Grossman.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History written by Dan Stone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in the thirty-five chapters of this book. As well as diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history, The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History contains chapters which approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage, art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage, postcolonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines such as anthropology and philosophy. The Handbook covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Readers will find self-contained, state-of-the-art analyses of major subjects, each written by an acknowledged expert, as well as stimulating and novel approaches to newer topics. Combining empirical rigour and adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe.
Download or read book Grandparents Returning to Parenthood written by Tabitha Sage and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Inspirational story, the author gives the reader an inside look into the many years of misery she experienced by her daughter’s drug addictions. Through it all, she was able to find peace and reveals how she was able to recover. Recovery from pain to peace. She was not only was dealing with her own grieve and emotions, there was also the safety and well-being of her three grandchildren at risk. She gives us a glimpse into what she calls, her roller-coaster. “My rollercoaster was filled with shame, fear, anger, betrayal and disappointments”. Her life was truly turned upside down and it caused a lot of pain to a lot of people including her three very young grandchildren who the author eventually adopted. Suffering was controlling her life and she couldn’t live with the pain anymore. She refers to this point as hitting her rock bottom much like she hoped for her daughter to reach, in order for healing to begin. Reaching her rock bottom, opened her up to different forms of healing and transformation. She shares three tools that have contributed to her healing success and how these tools can be valuable to use with children as well. By implementing changes, shifts in acceptance, forgiveness, mind-set and her perception on addiction, took place within her, leading her to peace and happiness. The book is chuck-full of resources encouraging one’s own self-discovery. “My vision is to create inspiration in others to find themselves again and find peace in this unplanned journey”. Through her daughter addictions, raising her grandchildren who are now her children, and her own grief she shares a heartfelt and inspiring journey of a grandmother finding herself and how she did it.
Download or read book Field Guide to the Supernatural Universe written by Alyson Noël and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranger Things meets Sideways Stories from Wayside School in this quirky supernatural middle grade novel about a boy on an unlikely quest to uncover an enchanted book to defeat an unearthly nemesis—from New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noël. When he first started seeing ghosts, Max mistakenly assumed everyone else could see them, too. Now, after years of being blamed for the pranks of mischievous spirits, Max is determined to do whatever it takes to make himself normal. But when he’s sent to spend the summer with his eccentric grandfather, Ramhart, being normal becomes impossible. Here in Glimmerville, bakeries sell enchanted pies, the lake is infested with mermaids, the town’s beloved ghosts roam free, and Ramhart himself is celebrated as the world’s most famous monster hunter. At first, all Max wants is to survive the summer, but the more time he spends in Glimmerville, the more he starts to wonder if he’s finally found a place where he can truly be himself. But when a supernatural attack steals Ramhart’s soul, Max—with the help of a few new friends—must go on a quest to find his grandfather’s renowned Field Guide, an enchanted book that contains all the knowledge Ramhart has gathered about defeating unearthly nemeses. And if they don’t find the book fast, Glimmerville will crumble into chaos, and Max will lose the only person who’s ever made him feel at home.
Download or read book Grandma s on the Camino written by Mary O'Hara Wyman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Grandma's On the Camino, author Mary O'Hara Wyman, a 72 year old grandmother from San Francisco, relates her 2010 adventures walking 500 miles alone as a pilgrim on the Camino Frances. Her journey takes her from St. Jean Pied de Port in France, across the Pyrenees to Spain, then westward to the ancient spiritual destination of Santiago de Compostela. Through back-home reflections based on journal entries and postcards sent to her grand daughter, Mary describes engaging encounters with pilgrims of all ages and motivations, close-range observations of numerous animals on the trails, and the daily tasks of finding food and a bed each evening. Readers will gain keen insight into the physical day to day rigors facing a walking pilgrim, as Mary endured several falls on the trails, a serious foot injury, copious rain, mud and unseasonal cold and hot weather. Grandma's On the Camino will inspire pilgrims and armchair readers of any age with Mary's adventures and coping mechanisms, calmness under pressure, humorous outlook on life and truly spiritual approach to walking the Camino Frances to Santiago de Compostela. You will walk as a pilgrim with Mary through every word in the book.
Download or read book Mystical Travelling Guide Book written by Mira Wardhaningsih and published by StoryTale Studios. This book was released on with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the high mountains and the exotic jungles, and among the bustling cities, there are hushed, spine-chilling places scattered inside the Indonesian archipelago. Mystical Travelling Guide Book takes you into Indonesia’s caves full of legends, hidden cities of spirits, and cursed oceans, introducing you to Indonesia’s most famous haunted places, while also serving as a guide for a horror trip in Indonesia. Developed by StoryTale Studios, the team behind Indonesian horror game Pamali: Indonesian Folklore Horror, this book will uncover the most famous mythical places in Indonesia that would prepare you for a mystical journey throughout the islands of Indonesia. Also included in the book are the history of the places, how you can get there, and the mysteries that you may be able to reveal once you decide to visit.
Download or read book Cambridge Astronomy Guide written by William Liller and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990-08-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Astronomy Guide is intended for lovers of astronomy who wish to do more than just look at the night sky or marvel at glossy pictures of it. It tells you how to get outside and actually practise astronomy, even if you own nothing more than a simple camera. Astronomy, more than any other science, offers amateurs the opportunity to make meaningful and lasting contributions to the field. This Guide explains in simple non-mathematical terms how you can take stunning star photographs and then put them to use making valuable contributions to the science of astronomy. Ben Mayer's odd-numbered chapters provide a fascinating account told with much humour of how one raw amateur got started and quickly progressed to become one of the world's best known and in many ways most successful amateur astronomers. Bill Liller's even-numbered chapters provide a more extensive commentary on much of what Ben writes, plus some additional material which gives the professional point of view.
Download or read book King of the World written by David Remnick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali--with an Introduction by Salman Rushdie On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism. No one has captured Ali--and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated--with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb (and editor of The New Yorker). In charting Ali's rise from the gyms of Louisville, Kentucky, to his epochal fights against Liston and Floyd Patterson, Remnick creates a canvas of unparalleled richness. He gives us empathetic portraits of wisecracking sportswriters and bone-breaking mobsters; of the baleful Liston and the haunted Patterson; of an audacious Norman Mailer and an enigmatic Malcolm X. Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of one of the greatest athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time.
Download or read book Guide to Resources and Services written by Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
