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Book The Invasion from Mars

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  • Author : Hadley Cantril
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-07
  • ISBN : 9780691613970
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Invasion from Mars written by Hadley Cantril and published by . This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hadley Cantril's study was launched immediately after the broadcast to give an account of people's reactions and an answer to the question, Why the panic? Originally published by Princeton University Press in 1940, the book explores the latent anxieties that lead to mass hysteria. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Imagining Mars

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  • Author : Robert Crossley
  • Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
  • Release : 2011-01-03
  • ISBN : 0819571059
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Imagining Mars written by Robert Crossley and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mars in the human imagination from the invention of the telescope to the present For centuries, the planet Mars has captivated astronomers and inspired writers of all genres. Whether imagined as the symbol of the bloody god of war, the cradle of an alien species, or a possible new home for human civilization, our closest planetary neighbor has played a central role in how we think about ourselves in the universe. From Galileo to Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Crossley traces the history of our fascination with the red planet as it has evolved in literature both fictional and scientific. Crossley focuses specifically on the interplay between scientific discovery and literary invention, exploring how writers throughout the ages have tried to assimilate or resist new planetary knowledge. Covering texts from the 1600s to the present, from the obscure to the classic, Crossley shows how writing about Mars has reflected the desires and social controversies of each era. This astute and elegant study is perfect for science fiction fans and readers of popular science.

Book The Muse and Mars

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  • Author : Amitava Banerjee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Muse and Mars written by Amitava Banerjee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Last Day on Mars

Download or read book Last Day on Mars written by Kevin Emerson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Last Day on Mars is thrillingly ambitious and imaginative. Like a lovechild of Gravity and The Martian, it's a rousing space opera for any age, meticulously researched and relentlessly paced, that balances action, science, humor, and most importantly, two compelling main characters in Liam and Phoebe. A fantastic start to an epic new series.” —Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author of the School for Good and Evil series “Emerson's writing explodes off the page in this irresistible space adventure, filled with startling plot twists, diabolical aliens, and (my favorite!) courageous young heroes faced with an impossible task.” —Lisa McMann, New York Times bestselling author of the Unwanteds series It is Earth year 2213—but, of course, there is no Earth anymore. Not since it was burned to a cinder by the sun, which has mysteriously begun the process of going supernova. The human race has fled to Mars, but this was only a temporary solution while we have prepared for a second trip: a one-hundred-fifty-year journey to a distant star, our best guess at where we might find a new home. Liam Saunders-Chang is one of the last humans left on Mars. The son of two scientists who have been racing against time to create technology vital to humanity’s survival, Liam, along with his friend Phoebe, will be on the last starliner to depart before Mars, like Earth before it, is destroyed. Or so he thinks. Because before this day is over, Liam and Phoebe will make a series of profound discoveries about the nature of time and space and find out that the human race is just one of many in our universe locked in a dangerous struggle for survival.

Book News from Mars

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  • Author : Joshua Nall
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2019-08-13
  • ISBN : 0822986612
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book News from Mars written by Joshua Nall and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet, astronomers and the public at large vigorously debated the possibility that it might be inhabited. As rivalling scientific practitioners looked to marshal allies and sway public opinion—through newspapers, periodicals, popular books, exhibitions, and encyclopaedias—they exposed disagreements over how the discipline of astronomy should be organized and how it should establish acceptable conventions of discourse. News from Mars provides a new account of this extraordinary episode in the history of astronomy, revealing how major transformations in astronomical practice across Britain and America were inextricably tied up with popular scientific culture and a transatlantic news economy that enabled knowledge to travel. As Joshua Nall argues, astronomers were journalists, too, eliding practice with communication in consequential ways. As writers and editors, they played a pivotal role in the emergence of a “new astronomy” dedicated to the study of the physical constitution and life history of celestial objects, blurring harsh distinctions between those who produced esoteric knowledge and those who disseminated it.

Book Truevine

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  • Author : Beth Macy
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2016-10-18
  • ISBN : 0316337560
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Truevine written by Beth Macy and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.

Book Mars One

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  • Author : Jonathan Maberry
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-04-04
  • ISBN : 148146163X
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Mars One written by Jonathan Maberry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go on the adventure of a lifetime with a teen and his family after they are selected to colonize Mars in this thrilling new novel from multiple Bram Stoker Award–winning author Jonathan Maberry. Tristan has known that he and his family were going to be on the first mission to colonize Mars since he was twelve years old, and he has been training ever since. However, knowing that he would be leaving for Mars with no plan to return didn’t stop him from falling in love with Izzy. But now, at sixteen, it’s time to leave Earth, and he’s forced to face what he must leave behind in exchange for an uncertain future. When the news hits that another ship is already headed to colonize Mars, and the NeoLuddite terrorist group begins threatening the Mars One project, the mission’s purpose is called into question. Is this all worth it?

Book Muse and the Mars

Download or read book Muse and the Mars written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life on Mars

Download or read book Life on Mars written by Jon Agee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sneaky, silly picture book for fans of Oliver Jeffers and Jon Klassen, an intrepid—but not so clever—space explorer is certain he’s found the only living thing on Mars A young astronaut is absolutely sure there is life to be found on Mars. He sets off on a solitary mission, determined to prove the naysayers wrong. But when he arrives, equipped with a package of cupcakes as a gift, he sees nothing but a nearly barren planet. Finally, he spies a single flower and packs it away to take back to Earth as proof that there is indeed life on Mars. But as he settles in for the journey home, he cracks open his cupcakes—only to discover that someone has eaten them all! Readers will love being in on the secret: Unbeknownst to the explorer, a Martian has been wandering through the illustrations the whole time—and he got himself a delicious snack along the way.

Book Muse and the Mars

Download or read book Muse and the Mars written by Ramanuj Bhattacharjee and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Makupedia

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  • Author : Peter K. Matthews - Akukalia
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2022-07-07
  • ISBN : 1665599391
  • Pages : 1066 pages

Download or read book Makupedia written by Peter K. Matthews - Akukalia and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe is a secret mine of twelve energy assets concealed in planetary dimensions Endless resources in search to discover develop and connect our core innate potentials Big data processed on these mines are derived through science equations and formulas From a multidisciplinary complex of objective algorithms to a simple smart code on Mind The World Encyclopedia on Creative Sciences and Mind Computing can only be Makupedia.

Book Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt

Download or read book Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt written by Robert J. Meyer-Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early fifteenth century, English poets responded to a changed climate of patronage, instituted by Henry IV and successor monarchs, by inventing a new tradition of public and elite poetry. Following Chaucer and others, Hoccleve and Lydgate brought to English verse a style and subject matter writing about their King, nation, and themselves, and their innovations influenced a continuous line of poets running through and beyond Wyatt. A crucial aspect of this tradition is its development of ideas and practices associated with the role of poet laureate. Robert J. Meyer-Lee examines the nature and significance of this tradition as it developed from the fourteenth century to Tudor times, tracing its evolution from one author to the next. This study illuminates the relationships between poets and political power and makes plain the tremendous impact this verse has had on the shape of English literary culture.

Book Life on Mars

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  • Author : Jennifer Brown
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2014-08-05
  • ISBN : 1619632535
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Life on Mars written by Jennifer Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers comes from a family of stargazers and his quest to find life on other planets is unstoppable. But when Arty's family announces they're moving to Las Vegas, the City of Lights threatens to put an end to his stargazing dreams forever-especially when he has to stay with his scary next door neighbor while his parents look for a house. As it turns out, “Mr. Death” isn't terrifying at all-he's actually Cash Maddox, a bonafide astronaut! But when Cash falls ill, will Arty find the courage to complete his mission by himself? And might he actually prove, once and for all, that there is life on Mars? For fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce's Cosmic and Jack Gantos's Dead End in Norvelt comes a heartwarming story of true friendship-earthly or otherwise.

Book The War of the Worlds

Download or read book The War of the Worlds written by Peter J. Beck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1897, H.G. Wells's alien invasion narrative The War of the Worlds was a landmark work of science fiction and one that continues to be adapted and referenced in the 21st century. Chronicling the novel's contexts, its origins and its many multi-media adaptations, this book is a complete biography of the life – and the afterlives – of The War of the Worlds. Exploring the original text's compelling sense of place and vivid recreation of Wells's Woking home and the concerns of fin-de-siécle Britain, the book goes on to chart the novel's immediate international impact. Starting with the initial serialisations in US newspapers, Peter Beck goes on to examine Orson Welles's legendary 1938 radio adaptation, TV and film adaptations from George Pal to Steven Spielberg, Jeff Wayne's rock opera and the numerous other works that have taken their inspiration from Wells's original. Drawing on new archival research, this is a comprehensive account of the continuing impact of The War of the Worlds.

Book Athena

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  • Author : Ariel Dawn
  • Publisher : Naughty Nights Press LLC
  • Release : 2023-06-20
  • ISBN : 1773575260
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Athena written by Ariel Dawn and published by Naughty Nights Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love can be a hoot… even when you’re a Goddess. Athena has seen and conquered all… except perhaps when it comes to matters of the heart. When a chance meeting with a nerdy librarian at a speed dating event results in a night of unmatched passion, Athena finds herself ready to spread her wings and take on a new opponent… love. Brian has lived a quiet life, but he knows something is missing. Or rather, someone. A serendipitous turn of events finds Brian the center of his own myth when he meets a stunning woman who turns his world—and his heart—upside down. Will Brian be the hero of his own legend and live happily ever after? Athena is book twenty-six in the Speed Dating with the Denizens of the Underworld shared world series, featuring kickass, owl shifter Goddesses, shy, sexy librarians, and more.

Book The World s Progress

Download or read book The World s Progress written by George Palmer Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classical Manual

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  • Author : Alexander Pope
  • Publisher : Рипол Классик
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 5877019635
  • Pages : 707 pages

Download or read book Classical Manual written by Alexander Pope and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: