Download or read book The Quest for the Perfect Shape written by Molly Hue and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Quest for the Perfect Shape" is a charming and heartwarming children's book that takes young readers on a journey of discovery and acceptance. Join Orange the Circle, Yellow the Triangle, Green the Square, Blue the Rectangle, and Purple the Star on a quest to find the perfect shape, only to discover that every shape is unique and perfect in its own way. Along the way, they encounter different shapes and learn about their distinct qualities, and they realize that the true beauty of life comes from embracing and appreciating our differences. Filled with colorful illustrations and lovable characters, this book teaches children the importance of patience, teamwork, and the power of diversity. "The Quest for the Perfect Shape" is a must-read for parents and children who want to celebrate individuality and promote a world where differences are cherished and respected.
Download or read book Pitch Perfect written by Mickey Rapkin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the competition between three contending groups for the Collegiate A Cappella championship, evaluating how their achievements reflect a rising surge in the music form's popularity, as well as the diversity that has shaped its expression.
Download or read book The Quest for Queen Mary written by James Pope-Hennessy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A delightful insight into an eclectic life' The Daily Telegraph 'Very funny and astute . . . a loathly feast for royal-watchers' Hilary Mantel, New Statesman Books of the Year 2018 'A complete delight, conjuring up, with a few sharp strokes of the pen, a mad, exotic species from a world gone by' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'Gloriously indiscreet . . . the best royal book ever' Harry Mount, Financial Times * * * When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened the door to meetings with royalty, court members and retainers around Europe. The series of candid observations, secrets and indiscretions contained in his notes were to be kept private for 50 years. Now published in full for the first time and edited by the highly admired royal biographer Hugo Vickers, this is a riveting, often hilarious portrait of the eccentric aristocracy of a bygone age. Giving much greater insight into Queen Mary than the official version, and including sharply observed encounters with, among others, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Duke of Gloucester, and a young Queen Elizabeth, The Quest for Queen Mary is set to be a classic of royal publishing.
Download or read book The Perfect Fit written by Naomi Jones and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how hard she tries, Triangle doesn't roll like the circles, or stack like the squares. She sets off to find friends that look exactly like her. But when she finds other triangles, playtime isn't as fun. She misses shapes that roll and stack; she misses being different. So she starts a new quest.
Download or read book Promethean Ambitions written by William R. Newman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. Focusing primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700, Newman examines the labors of pioneering alchemists and the impassioned—and often negative—responses to their efforts. By the thirteenth century, Newman argues, alchemy had become a benchmark for determining the abilities of both men and demons, representing the epitome of creative power in the natural world. Newman frames the art-nature debate by contrasting the supposed transmutational power of alchemy with the merely representational abilities of the pictorial and plastic arts—a dispute which found artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Bernard Palissy attacking alchemy as an irreligious fraud. The later assertion by the Paracelsian school that one could make an artificial human being—the homunculus—led to further disparagement of alchemy, but as Newman shows, the immense power over nature promised by the field contributed directly to the technological apologetics of Francis Bacon and his followers. By the mid-seventeenth century, the famous "father of modern chemistry," Robert Boyle, was employing the arguments of medieval alchemists to support the identity of naturally occurring substances with those manufactured by "chymical" means. In using history to highlight the art-nature debate, Newman here shows that alchemy was not an unformed and capricious precursor to chemistry; it was an art founded on coherent philosophical and empirical principles, with vocal supporters and even louder critics, that attracted individuals of first-rate intellect. The historical relationship that Newman charts between human creation and nature has innumerable implications today, and he ably links contemporary issues to alchemical debates on the natural versus the artificial.
Download or read book The Quest written by William Gardner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of a long day, high powered Wall Street lawyer John Spencer Harrison is looking forward to a quiet evening at home with his wife Alice. But Alice is gone! The servants saw nothing. The dog was undisturbed. Her purse is right where she left it. Where is Alice? Through a series of adventures involving, intrigue, espionage and geopolitical players, John searches far and wide for his wife and her abductors.
Download or read book The Quest for the Key written by Nathan Abeln and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaedrian Barker finds himself thrown into an unexpected situation by the destruction of the space station Demetrius when he and a young man named Trog are the only two survivors of the disaster, in a galaxy where the Cosmic Regime is gaining control by force, fear, and terror. Its counterpart, the Galactic Guard, is trying to maintain peace and order. Kaedrian and the boy Trog's future will lead them all on a quest for a secret key, revealing a prophecy and unraveling a truth that could alter history and the origins of mankind. Kaedrian must enlist his friend Lowden in the Galactic Guard for help while Janos and the Cosmic Regime try to thwart the prophecy and snuff out the boy Trog, the mysterious key, and the Galactic Guard under the orders of Lord Enid. What is Trog's connection to the prophecy and to the mysterious key? Why do Lord Enid and the Cosmic Regime want to stop this quest and the boy? Where will the quest lead them all? Only time will reveal all secrets. The quest awaits!
Download or read book The Quest for Community written by Robert Nisbet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society. Nearly a half century before Robert Putnam documented the atomization of society in Bowling Alone, Nisbet argued that the rise of the powerful modern state had eroded the sources of community—the family, the neighborhood, the church, the guild. Alienation and loneliness inevitably resulted. But as the traditional ties that bind fell away, the human impulse toward community led people to turn even more to the government itself, allowing statism—even totalitarianism—to flourish. This edition of Nisbet’s magnum opus features a brilliant introduction by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and three critical essays. Published at a time when our communal life has only grown weaker and when many Americans display cultish enthusiasm for a charismatic president, this new edition of The Quest for Community shows that Nisbet’s insights are as relevant today as ever.
Download or read book The Happiness Riddle and the Quest for a Good Life written by Mark Cieslik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the meaning of happiness in Britain today, and observes that although we face challenges such as austerity, climate change and disenchantment with politics, we continue to be interested in happiness and living well. The author illustrates how happiness is a far more contested, social process than is often portrayed by economists and psychologists, and takes issue with sociologists who often regard wellbeing and the happiness industry with suspicion, whilst neglecting one of the key features of being human – the quest for a good life. Exploring themes that question what it means to be happy and live a good life in Britain today, such as the challenges young people face making their way through education and into their first jobs; work life-balance; mid-life crises; and old age, the book presents nineteen life stories that call for a far more critical and ambitious approach to happiness research that marries the radicalism of sociology, with recent advances in psychology and economics. This book will appeal to students and academics interested in wellbeing, happiness and quality of life and also those researching areas such as the life course, work-life balance, biographies, aging and youth studies.
Download or read book The Elementals the Quest written by Sharada M Subrahmanyam and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is your riddle: I am greater than god. I am more evil than the devil. The poor have me, The rich need me, And death comes to those who eat me. Who am I? *** I am ever hungry, And live if you feed me. I am never thirsty, And die if you quench me. What am I? *** I see much, but change little. I am firm, irresolute, Powerful, but gentle; I have enough strength to rip apart mountains, Yet be moved by gentle stirrings, I am life itself, And I give life to others. Who am I? Im a five letter word that has no end, One through three can amend, One, four and five are something alive, Two and three occur near thee. What am I? *** I am light as a feather, Yet no man can hold me for long. My presence causes life, My absence death. *** I welcome the day with a show of light, I steathily came here in the night. I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn, But by the noon, alas! Im gone. *** The last, but not the least, little one: Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden than is seen, I am the bane of the mariner, A tooth within the sea. Speak my name.
Download or read book The Quest for the Chalice of Power written by Hugh Richard Williams and published by Rogue Phoenix Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The item people are in pursuit of is The Chalice of Power. The back story of the chalice is based on both historical fiction and non-fiction. Miller stumbles onto a massive conspiracy that is being planned by North Korea, The Mafia, and a sinister criminal group. Should the chalice fall into the wrong hands, it will have dire effects on the world.
Download or read book The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times written by Chris Gregory and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the quest for the good life and the morality and value it presupposes is not new. To the contrary, this is an ancient issue; its intellectual history can be traced back to Aristotle. In anthropology, the study of morality and value has always been a central concern, despite the claim of some scholars that the recent upsurge of interest in these issues is new. What is novel is how scholars in many disciplines are posing the value question in new ways. The global economic alignments of the present pose many political, moral and theoretical questions, but the central issue the essays in this collection address is: how do relatively poor people of the Australia-Pacific region survive in current precarious times? In looking to answer this question, contributors directly engage the values and concepts of their interlocutors. At a time when understanding local implications of global processes is taking on new urgency, these essays bring finely honed anthropological perspectives to matters of universal human concern-they offer radical empirical critique based on intensive fieldwork that will be of great interest to those seeking to comprehend the bigger picture.
Download or read book The Quest for the Hidden Medallion written by Michael Smits and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Blish family decided to move from California to Grandpa and Grandmas farm in northeast Wisconsin, the children thought it was the most boring place in the entire world. Emily, Anthony, and Margaret wanted a real adventure. No adventure could be found until they met Mr. Pippin. He sent them on many wonderful make-believe adventures. When tragedy struck Mr. Pippin, he left them with the greatest adventure of all. What was the mystery he was hiding? What was this medallion all about? Why did they have to find it? Would they ever be able to reach it with all the dangers lurking around every corner? The Blish children begin to learn the lessons of faith and trust in God as they travel through this new adventure. They wanted to have the kind of faith that their parents and grandparents had, but it was hard for them because they were just kids. Now, on their own and relying on the examples set by their family, they put to practice what they had learned. When the time came for the children to confront the enemy, they were ready to trust God for help.
Download or read book In the Heart of the Garden written by Leah Fleming and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Bagshott strolls down the paths of her ancient garden, close to Lichfield in the heart of England, wondering if it is time to sell her house and land for development. She is unaware that around every corner myriad family secrets from the past unfold. From a Saxon clearing to a monastery, Tudor dwelling to the present day, this sacred plot has nurtured her ancestors. Generations of Bagshott women have found refuge and solace tending it through years of plague, civil war and beyond. This is their story.
Download or read book Motel of the Mysteries written by David Macaulay and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1979-10-11 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.
Download or read book The Quest for Truth written by F. Leroy Forlines and published by Randall House Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable tool seriously discusses profound truths that apply to every facet of life. Biblical truth should be made applicable to the total personality. The "inescapable questions of life" are answered from the standard of God's authoritative Word.
Download or read book On Wave and Wing written by Barrett Tillman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What defended the U.S. after the attack on Pearl Harbor, defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and is an essential tool in the fight against terror? Aircraft Carriers. For seventy years, these ships remained a little understood cornerstone of American power. In his latest book, On Wave and Wing , Barrett Tillman sheds light on the history of these floating leviathans and offers a nuanced analysis of the largest man-made vessel in the history of the world.
