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Book The Dilemmas of an Upright Man

Download or read book The Dilemmas of an Upright Man written by J. L. Heilbron and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving and eloquent portrait, John Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. With great understanding, he shows how Max Planck suffered morally and intellectually as his lifelong habit of service to his country and to physics was confronted by the realities of World War I and the brutalities of the Third Reich. In an afterword written for this edition, Heilbron weighs the recurring questions among historians and scientists about the costs to others, and to Planck himself, of the painful choices he faced in attempting to build an “ark” to carry science and scientists through the storms of Nazism.

Book The Character of an Upright Man

Download or read book The Character of an Upright Man written by Richard Steele and published by Soli Deo Gloria Ministries. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honor, nobility, dignity and integrity seem more and more to be things from a bygone era. We find it harder and harder to trust a man's word anymore. It would not be difficult to paraphrase Solomon's proverb into this: "An upright man, who can find?"The Puritan Richard Steele deals with this problem in this never-before reprinted book. He addresses believers and unbelievers alike. The faithful Christian will find encouragement, strength and a road map to godliness; the backsliding believer will be able to see where to set his or her mark and the danger of delaying repentance; and finally, the unbeliever will notice the goodness, mercy and compassion of the Christian life, and may, by divine grace, be stirred to jealousy, to seek those things which are above."The consideration hereof, and also of the scarcity of sincere Christians compared to the plenty of hypocrites in the world, may make some tolerable apology for this small tract, which I most earnestly recommend, first to the blessing of the Lord and then to your diligent perusal. Read and think, and read and pray, and then through His grace it shall be useful to you." ~ Richard Steele

Book The Straw Men

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  • Author : Michael Marshall Smith
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 0006499988
  • Pages : 37 pages

Download or read book The Straw Men written by Michael Marshall Smith and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by a homicidal maniac. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live.

Book The upright man

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  • Author : John Whitlock
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1658
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book The upright man written by John Whitlock and published by . This book was released on 1658 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jimmy the Hand

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  • Author : Raymond E. Feist
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-10-13
  • ISBN : 0061842664
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Jimmy the Hand written by Raymond E. Feist and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author comes the third volume in the exceptional Legends of the Riftwar series that began with Honored Enemy and continued with Murder in LaMut. SELLING POINTS • All of Feist’s books regularly appear on local lists as well as the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and various chain bestseller lists. More than 15 million copies of Feist’s books have been sold worldwide. • The three Legends of the Riftwar titles return to Feist’s bestselling kingdom of Midkemia. Set during the infamous Riftwar, each title, co-written with another well-respected fantasy author, tells a story tangential to the action of the Riftwar Saga, with cameo appearances from Feist’s most beloved characters. • Jimmy the Hand was a Featured Alternate Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. • The magic, youthful heroes, and epic battles make Feist’s work a natural for crossover to a young adult audience.

Book The Upright Man

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  • Author : Michael Marshall
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780515136388
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book The Upright Man written by Michael Marshall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running from a horrifying evil that he encountered in the high plains of the Columbia River, Wade Hopkins leaves a trail of death and destruction in his wake as he fights to survive. Original.

Book Magician  Master

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  • Author : Raymond E. Feist
  • Publisher : Spectra
  • Release : 2017-08-22
  • ISBN : 0525480056
  • Pages : 543 pages

Download or read book Magician Master written by Raymond E. Feist and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He held the fate of two worlds in his hands... Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world. There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he took his place in an ancient struggle against an evil Enemy older than time itself.

Book The Upright Man

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  • Author : Corbett Cooke
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1868
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Upright Man written by Corbett Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Upright Man

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  • Author : Deon Kay
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 89 pages

Download or read book Upright Man written by Deon Kay and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First Steps

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  • Author : Jeremy DeSilva
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 0062938517
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book First Steps written by Jeremy DeSilva and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the W.W. Howells Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association and named one of the best science books of 2021 by Science News “DeSilva takes us on a brilliant, fun, and scientifically deep stroll through history, anatomy, and evolution, in order to illustrate the powerful story of how a particular mode of movement helped make us one of the most wonderful, dangerous and fascinating species on Earth.”—Agustín Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University and author of Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being “Breezy popular science at its best. . . . Makes a compelling case overall.”—Science News Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species. Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four legs—a locomotion known as bipedalism. We strive to be upstanding citizens, honor those who stand tall and proud, and take a stand against injustices. We follow in each other’s footsteps and celebrate a child’s beginning to walk. But why, and how, exactly, did we take our first steps? And at what cost? Bipedalism has its drawbacks: giving birth is more difficult and dangerous; our running speed is much slower than other animals; and we suffer a variety of ailments, from hernias to sinus problems. In First Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seemingly ordinary ability is. A seven-million-year journey to the very origins of the human lineage, First Steps shows how upright walking was a gateway to many of the other attributes that make us human—from our technological abilities, our thirst for exploration, our use of language–and may have laid the foundation for our species’ traits of compassion, empathy, and altruism. Moving from developmental psychology labs to ancient fossil sites throughout Africa and Eurasia, DeSilva brings to life our adventure walking on two legs. Delving deeply into the story of our past and the new discoveries rewriting our understanding of human evolution, First Steps examines how walking upright helped us rise above all over species on this planet. First Steps includes an eight-page color photo insert.

Book Dead Man Upright

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  • Author : Derek Raymond
  • Publisher : Melville House
  • Release : 2012-04-03
  • ISBN : 1612190634
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book Dead Man Upright written by Derek Raymond and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before available in the U.S., the final episode in the Factory Series is another unrelenting investigation with the nameless detective into the black soul of Thatcher’s England. The fifth and final book in the author’s acclaimed Factory Series was published just after Derek Raymond’s death, and so didn’t get the kind of adulatory attention the previous four titles in the series got. The book has been unavailable for so long that many of Derek Raymond’s rabid fans aren’t even aware there is a fifth book. But Dead Man Upright may be the most psychologically probing book in the series. Unlike the others, it’s not so much an investigation into the identity of a killer, but a chase to catch him before he kills again. Meanwhile, the series’ hero—the nameless Sargent from the “Unexplained Deaths” department—is facing more obstacles in the department, due to severe budget cutbacks, than he’s ever faced before. However, this time, the Sargent knows the identity of the next victim of the serial killer in question. But even the Sargent’s brutally blunt way of speaking can’t convince the besotted victim, and he’s got to convince a colleague to go against orders and join him in the attempt to catch the killer... before it’s too late.

Book The Upright Revolution

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  • Author : Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
  • Publisher : Africa List
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780857426475
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Upright Revolution written by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and published by Africa List. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o offers in The Upright Revolution. Blending myth and folklore with an acute insight into the human psyche and politics, Wa Thiong'o conjures up a fantastic fable about how and why humans began to walk upright. It is a story that will appeal to children and adults alike, containing a clear and important message: "Life is connected." Originally written in Gikuyu, this short story has been translated into sixty-three languages--forty-seven of them African--making it the most translated story in the history of African literature. This new collector's edition of The Upright Revolution is richly illustrated in full color with Sunandini Banerjee's marvellous digital collages, which open up new vistas of imagination and add unique dimensions to the story.

Book Women s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

Download or read book Women s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle written by Thomas Sankara and published by Pathfinder Press (NY). This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to combat the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination.

Book The Upright Thinkers

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  • Author : Leonard Mlodinow
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2016-04-19
  • ISBN : 0345804430
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The Upright Thinkers written by Leonard Mlodinow and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a near-extinct species, eking out a meager existence with stone axes, become the dominant power on earth, able to harness a knowledge of nature ranging from tiny atoms to the vast structures of the universe? Leonard Mlodinow takes us on an enthralling tour of the history of human progress, from our time on the African savannah through the invention of written language, all the way to modern quantum physics. Along the way, he explores the colorful personalities of the great philosophers, scientists, and thinkers, and traces the cultural conditions—and the elements of chance—that influenced scientific discovery. Deeply informed, accessible, and infused with the author’s trademark humor and insight, The Upright Thinkers is a stunning tribute to humanity’s intellectual curiosity and an important book for any reader with an interest in the scientific issues of our day.

Book The Upright Heart

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  • Author : Julia Ain-Krupa
  • Publisher : New Europe Books
  • Release : 2016-09-13
  • ISBN : 0990004392
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book The Upright Heart written by Julia Ain-Krupa and published by New Europe Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stylistic virtuosity, penetrating emotional power, and a post-apocalyptic vision . . . a brilliant literary achievement. . . . Julia Ain-Krupa gives us something luminous." — Philip K. Jason, Jewish Book Council The Upright Heart chronicles the return from Brooklyn of a Jewish man, Wolf, to his native Poland soon after World War II. He is haunted by the memory of his Catholic lover, Olga, whom he abandoned to marry a woman of his own faith and start a new life in America, and who perished sheltering the parents and younger sister he left behind. Harassed on the streets of postwar Poland, Wolf is watched over by the spirits of those who died during and after the war but have yet to let go. His story is woven together with those of others, living and dead, Catholic and Jew, including the deceased students of a school for girls, a battalion of fallen German soldiers, and an orphan boy who wanders the streets of Krakow, believing in a magic pill he has conjured up as a way to survive. Set amid the ruins of the Holocaust and the Nazis' total war, this haunting novel is at once a page-turning drama and a meditation on what it means to be human, part of a community, alive. The Upright Heart's dreamlike qualities and fluent lyricism draw the reader toward a consecrated realm, while its narrative force guides the story into the present, where survivors and their children, beset by the devastations of the past, struggle alongside the dead to perceive and appreciate the beauty of that which remains and that which might yet be. From the Trade Paperback edition.