Download or read book The Wonderous Science written by Brian Parker and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is The Wonderous Science?Imagine the ability to invent incredible wonders, imbued with the power to bend the very laws of nature. Now, imagine that power in the hands of a 12-year-old girl.Zora Sparks is a genius by all accounts. Having grown up in the foster care system, she has learned through experience to rely on herself and her own abilities, specifically her amazing skill in the Wonderous Science - a fabled knowledge that has raised kingdoms with unimaginable artifacts, and toppled societies with terrible weapons. The Laurel Society has made it their mission to guide and protect those with this amazing ability, and "contain" those that have used it for evil. Now it falls to Ms. Daisy Kidd, a member of The Wardens Division of the society, to watch after Zora and her precocious little brother, Nate. But, unknown forces are plotting in the shadows, and they have plans for the young prodigy. Can Daisy, Zora, and Nate discover what lies in the secret history of The Laurel Society before it's to late?
Download or read book The Trouble with Science written by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Dunbar asks whether science really is unique to Western culture, even to humankind. He suggests that our "trouble with science" may lie in the fact that evolution has left our minds better able to cope with day-to-day social interaction than with the complexities of the external world.
Download or read book Wondrous Truths written by J.D. Trout and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science. Good explanations are what provide accurate causal accounts of the things we wonder at, but explanation's earthly origins haven't grounded it: we have used it to account for the grandest and most wondrous mysteries in the natural world. Explanations give us a sense of understanding, but an explanation that feels right doesn't mean it is true. For every true explanation, there is a false one that feels just as good. A good theory's explanations, though, have a much easier path to truth. This push for good explanations elevated science from medieval alchemy to electro-chemistry, or a pre-inertial physics to the forces underlying nanoparticles. And though the attempt to explain has existed as long as we have been able to wonder, a science timeline from pre-history to the present will reveal a steep curve of theoretical discovery that explodes around 1600, primarily in the West. Ranging over neuroscience, psychology, history, and policy, Wondrous Truths answers two fundamental questions-Why did science progress in the West? And why so quickly? J.D. Trout's answers are surprising. His central idea is that Western science rose above all others because it hit upon successive theories that were approximately true through an awkward assortment of accident and luck, geography and personal idiosyncrasy. Of course, intellectual ingenuity partially accounts for this persistent drive forward. But so too does the persistence of the objects of wonder. Wondrous Truths recovers the majesty of science, and provides a startling new look at the grand sweep of its biggest ideas.
Download or read book Higher and Higher written by Steven M. Brown and published by U'd Syn Conservative Judaism. This book was released on 1980 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive examination of Jewish prayer and the structure of the Siddur, including analyses of individual prayers.
Download or read book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Pulitzer Prize Winner written by Junot Díaz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.
Download or read book Let s Talk About Varsity written by and published by Gabbema Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences Philosophical Philological Mathematical and Mechanical written by and published by . This book was released on 1759 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes: The young gentlemen's and lady's philosophy ... The natural history of the world ... A compleat system of philological sciences ... A body of mathematical institutions ... Miscellaneous correspondence ... Biographia philosophica ... The general magazine.
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Download or read book The Wondrous Workings of Science and Nature Coloring Book written by Rachel Ignotofsky and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegant and absorbing coloring book that offers 40 intricate line drawings created by the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of Women in Science. Rachel Ignotofsky's beloved books Women in Science and The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth bring science and nature to brilliant life through gorgeous and illuminating illustrations. Now, with The Wondrous Workings of Science and Nature Coloring Book, she offers fans a chance to participate in her intricate and informative artwork, and learn fascinating facts while coloring. You'll discover and explore ecosystems large and small, from reefs and rainforests to ponds and backyard gardens, the inner workings of a single cell, and even a collection of lab tools. Perfect for nature lovers of all ages, this is an utterly charming educational guide to the world we live in.
Download or read book The Fredoniad written by Richard Emmons and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sermons on Passing Seasons and Events written by Robert Lamb (M.A., Incumbent of St. Mary's, Preston.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children and Biography written by Kate Douglas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of life narratives produced for, about, and written by children, this book examines the recent popularity of children's biographies and how they engage with the biggest issues of our time: environmental change, health crises, education, and children's personal and political development. Beginning with a literary-historical overview, Children and Biography proceeds to examine 21st-century examples and trends such as illustrated texts including Women in Science, the Fantastically Great Women Who... books, Rebel Dogs, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, Kids Who Did, My Beautiful Birds and The Journey. The book also considers archives of children's writings and drawings, in particular the testimonies of child asylum seekers, children's biographical art, and 'Lockdown diaries' produced during the Covid-19 pandemic. By analyzing these works alongside empirical studies into how such material is received by child readers, and how texts generated by children are perceived both by them and their parents, this book provides new knowledge on how biographies for children are produced and read. Comprehensive and original, Children and Biography, presents an ethical methodological framework for scholarly practice when reading, witnessing and interpreting children's life narratives. The book offers a mandate for future researchers: to place children's voices and writing at the centre of inquiries in ways that facilitate genuine agency for child authors.
Download or read book The Middle East and North Africa written by Florian Zemmin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects reflections on secularity from the Middle East and North Africa. To highlight proximate connections as well as resonances with debates elsewhere, it includes premodern contributions from the region as well as Jewish thought from Europe that have provided significant references for modern appropriations of secularity. The texts, for the most part previously untranslated, reflect commonalities within the region as well as its great diversity. Thus, while Islam is a common reference for most of our authors, the selections point to its varied invocations in the interest of differing political ends. Others write from a Christian or Jewish perspective, or subscribe to non-religious intellectual traditions. They range from premodern Muslim jurisprudents and philosophers to Ottoman statesmen, Arab socialist and nationalist intellectuals of the interwar period, Iranian revolutionaries, Israeli novelists, and finally, post-secular intellectuals, lay and religious, predominantly from the former Islamic heartland: modern Arab states and Iran. Several introductions weave together the swathe of topics raised in the discussions, beginning with a schematic presentation of the concerns that undergird the volume's organization.
Download or read book The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth written by Rachel Ignotofsky and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated tour of the planet exploring ecosystems large and small, from reefs, deserts, and rainforests to a single drop of water—from the New York Times bestselling author of Women in Science. Making earth science accessible and entertaining through art, maps, and infographics, The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth explains how our planet works—and how we can protect it—from its diverse ecosystems and their inhabitants, to the levels of ecology, the importance of biodiversity, the cycles of nature, and more. Science- and nature-loving readers of all ages will delight in this utterly charming guide to our amazing home.
Download or read book Reading Writing and Gender written by Gail Lynn Goldberg and published by Eye On Education. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
