Download or read book The Hippo Chronos written by Matt Ritson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alex, his enigmatic dog Boris and his best mate Conna meet up with the new girls in school, Maddie and Bex, they witness a bizarre explosion at his reclusive neighbour Tom’s house. They are first on the scene and discover him lying hurt beside a strange mechanical sculpture, The Hippo-Chronos. Urgently, the dazed old Greek confronts Alex with a fantastic story which shocks the normally level-headed boy to the core: his father is not only alive and well, but trapped in Alexandria – in 48 BC!Over a period of days, the four listen while Tom tries to convince them of how the design and development of an ancient time-machine was entirely possible in the Great Library of Alexandria, just before it mysteriously burned to the ground. Is Tom going senile? Is there another more logical explanation to Alex’s dad’s disappearance? Or, could the whole intriguing tale somehow, just possibly be true after all? The Hippo-Chronos is a 2,000 year old mystery adventure which opens up a whole ancient, yet rational world for readers aged 14 and over. It is not a stuffy history lecture, but a bittersweet tale and very human adventure story of both modern and ancient youth. The story will be concluded in The Hippo-Tempus AKA The Alexandria Key.
Download or read book The Hippo Tempus written by Matt Ritson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this explosive conclusion to The Hippo-Chronos: AKA The Antikythera Key (Matador, 2011), Tynemouth schoolboy Alex’s reclusive neighbour Tom finishes retelling the Tale of Eos. Slowly, it wends its way across the globe and forward through time, eventually reaching its shocking climax. Alex and his friends Conna, Maddie and Bex listen on, sifting the evidence for clues. The old man works hard to convince the group that his odyssey is entirely true, but as the tale becomes more unbelievable, everyone struggles to decide what to make of it all – especially the old Greek himself. The old man speaks of a refugee family fleeing the siege of Alexandria, the boy-king Ptolemy, his ruthless sister and wife Cleopatra, assisted by her new partner, Julius Caesar. He speaks of the tomb of Alexander the Great; a conspiracy of silence regarding the burning of the Great Library of Alexandria and of dark events off the island of Antikythera. He also speaks of a superweapon of stealth – The Hippo-Tempus – poised somewhere in time, waiting to be unleashed against humanity by the grandly self-styled high priest ‘Zeus’. Does such a thing exist? If so, can Tom convince his friends to help him in his mission to stop the monster?This children’s historical fiction children opens up a whole ancient, yet rational world. It is a bittersweet tale and very human adventure story of both modern and ancient youth. Like the popular prequel, it’s a work of true crossover fiction that will be enjoyed by young adult readers aged 14 and older, and adults alike. The book also deals with the original rise of Roman fascism across the democratic Greek world.
Download or read book The Works of Aurelius Augustine Bishop of Hippo The sermon on the Mount expounded and The harmony of the evangelists written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hippos Let s Meet Mr Hippo written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Mr. Hippo and he's excited to play with you! Mr. Hippo will take you his natural habitat with the intention of inspiring you to take care of it too. This picture book is loaded with interesting facts to grow your knowledge on the environment and how changes affect the hippos. Go ahead and secure your copy today!
Download or read book Knowledge and Time written by Hans Primas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen. Its core is the relation between ways of learning and knowing on the one hand and different modes of time on the other. Partial Boolean logic and the associated notion of complementarity are used to express this relation, and mathematical tools of fundamental physics are used to formalize it. Along the way many central philosophical problems are touched and addressed, above all the mind-body problem. Completed only shortly before the death of the author, the text has been edited and annotated by the author's close collaborator Harald Atmanspacher.
Download or read book The Paraclete and Mahdi Or the Exact Testimony of Science to Revelations and Exposition of the Most Ancient Mysteries and Cults written by John Locke Estens and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gardening Philosophy for Everyone written by Dan O'Brien and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and gardens have been closely connected from the dawn of philosophy, with many drawing on their beauty and peace for philosophical inspiration. Gardens in turn give rise to a broad spectrum of philosophical questions. For the green-fingered thinker, this book reflects on a whole host of fascinating philosophical themes. Gardens and philosophy present a fascinating combination of subjects, historically important, and yet scarcely covered within the realms of philosophy Contributions come from a wide range of authors, ranging from garden writers and gardeners, to those working in architecture, archaeology, archival studies, art history, anthropology, classics and philosophy Essays cover a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from Epicurus and Confucius to the aesthetics and philosophy of Central Park Offers new perspectives on the experience and evaluation of gardens
Download or read book Its a Hippos World Hippopotamus Fun Facts For Kids written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These gentle giants are ready to play with you, kids! Learn about them and all the cute things they do in this highly educational book. Complete with pictures and stories to tell, this book is designed to appeal to kids and kids-at-heart. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn with the hippos! Grab a copy today!
Download or read book Hubert the Hippo written by Ian Lauder and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In HUBERT THE HIPPO [a children's picture book] a little hippo seeks: "The meaning of life."1985
Download or read book Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World written by Ariadna García-Bryce and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the sixteenth- and seventeeth-century Hispanic world in the framework of global Catholicism. It underscores the crucial role that the imitation of Christ plays in modeling how representative writers physically and mentally interiorize temporal impermanence as the Messiah’s suffering body becomes a paradigmatic as well as malleable marker of the avatars of earthly history. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which authors adapt Christ-centered conceptions of existence to accommodate both a volatile post-eschatological world and the increased dominance of mechanical clock time. As novel means of communing with Christ emerge, so too do new modes of sensing and understanding time, unleashing unprecedented cultural and literary reinvention. This is demonstrated through close analyses of writings by such influential figures as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Download or read book On Borrowed Time written by Harald Weinrich and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is short. This indisputable fact of existence has driven human ingenuity since antiquity, whether through efforts to lengthen our lives with medicine or shorten the amount of time we spend on work using technology. Alongside this struggle to manage the pressure of life’s ultimate deadline, human perception of the passage and effects of time has also changed. In On Borrowed Time, Harald Weinrich examines an extraordinary range of materials—from Hippocrates to Run Lola Run—to put forth a new conception of time and its limits that, unlike older models, is firmly grounded in human experience. Weinrich’s analysis of the roots of the word time connects it to the temples of the skull, demonstrating that humans first experienced time in the beating of their pulses. Tracing this corporeal perception of time across literary, religious, and philosophical works, Weinrich concludes that time functions as a kind of sixth sense—the crucial sense that enables the other five. Written with Weinrich’s customary narrative elegance, On Borrowed Time is an absorbing—and, fittingly, succinct—meditation on life’s inexorable brevity.
Download or read book How to Track a Hippo written by Henry Owens and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1900-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dung showing is a behavior in which hippos use their tails to fling their dung around to mark their territory. It is just one of several cringe-inducing things readers will learn about in this volume. The book is also full of less stomach-turning information, including facts about the hippo’s life cycle, habitat, and daily habits.
Download or read book Hippo written by Caroline Arnold and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative photo essay offers an engaging look at the second largest land animal (only the elephant is bigger). The lively text follows the hippo’s day-to-day life and behavior, both in captivity and in the wild, and examines the unique physical characteristics that allow hippos to lead their aquatic existence. Filled with nearly forty full-color photographs, Hippo offers youngsters a fascinating up-close view of this enormous African river dweller.
Download or read book The Hippo Not Amus written by Jan Payne and published by Scholastic Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young hippopotamus who is bored with his life sets out to discover "just the right kind of animal to be."
Download or read book Archaeo Astronometria written by Dean Clarke and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many books on the origin of astronomy some good and some very poorly address the issues of ancient mans interests in the stars. The ancient Sumer and Egyptian notions of music mostly confirms how ancient this notion is in their chorded progressions of tone. This notion is more an Upper Paleolithic celestial idea. In a sense man during this time man was beginning to have a concept of north, south, east and west in spatial terms. It involves the curvature of the ribs of Nut the Egyptian Sky Goddess as a ribbed vaulted sky, and sometimes in a horizon sense of a bowing arch of a stars path, or the curve of a bone in the stars moving path. The half way point of this fall for say our Nut, Adam and Eve would thus be about 27,000 BC which falls in a significant period Ice Age re-emergence and a deserts expanding in equator regions. These are only a small part of what had to addressed in origins of night sky studies. The point being this piece as fake or not is that the components of the animals, man, plants and mans artifacts were very early on displayed. We might ask in such a condition what was their night sky? If we look at all of these constellations they fall below the Celestial Equator in the South Pole region mostly. It would seem that all these birds to them being placed in the night sky like the stars and as they watched what directions the birds along with stars as to where they went in order to ascertain their relations to dusk or dawn night sky. What caused the South Africa plight of 80,000 BC? The Antarctica had been growing ice forms from 170,000 BC to 80,000 BC towards the north, and then around 70,000 BC there seemed to be a melting trend back south. In an astronomy sense we can thank him for larger game entering in the pantheon of the constellations, or the leaf, otter, and some constellations lost to time like the mammoths. What does this have to do with constellations, taboos, or the advent of Cro-Magnon man well in the depictions of constellation images? Slowly from east to west the stars move, but then it did not take man not long after 70,000 BC to note that some planets or stars seemed to move retrograde in the night sky? This book address what ideas did they show or have before or after these earth changes. As ideas such as: "Maybe, it was a lasso constellation for some animals capture as a God of Capture." And, "Somewhere around the time of 50,000 BC in the region of northern England to the region above the Black Sea there occurred a melting phase between the ice ages and cultures began to spread". The evidence of this is found by different locations in Europe and Central Europe of the use of rock shadows, stars noted by hands in movement, and certain hand symbols by star images or dots as stars not just stab marks. Ironic again that Man beside Woman on the pole treetop does not have strong reminders of the Adam-Eve Tree and the Serpent as maybe Draco? The symbol anciently always shows the snake at the foot of the tree or ascended the tree at the apex of the trunk which if astronomy wise would mean an ascended constellation to the Zenith or the Pole! Draco thus deposed Adam and Eve from their own constellation garden and domain by it ascending as an ancient Pole Axis Mundi? Thus the smoke screen really is a tied between this local area of France and Late Paleolithic Mans ideas of that region in the night sky of a certain year or month period of hunting. Although we have jumped forward in the time of ancient astronomy beginnings in a way really in this sense we have not. To the real beginnings of little known ancient astronomy.
Download or read book She Flies On written by Carter Heyward and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Simultaneously theological, spiritual, moral, political, social, autobiographical - First-person narrative of one who was at the forefront at a significant time in church - and secular - history
Download or read book The Hippo Hop written by Christine Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rhyming look at how the jungle animals party all night at the Hippo Hop.
