Download or read book The World Above written by Cameron Dokey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Russian Revolution, Empress Marie, the czar’s mother, who escaped to Paris, offers a reward for the return of her missing granddaughter, the princess Anastasia. Eager to collect the large sum, two friends hatch a plan to fool Empress Marie and convince Nadya, a mischievous and quick-witted kitchen girl at a Russian tavern, to accompany them to France. Nadya resembles the famous Anastasia, but can’t remember her life before the revolution. Eager for the future, Nadya and her new friends venture across Europe, discovering new terrain of friendship, family, and love.
Download or read book The World Above written by Abraham Polonsky and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the legacy of the 1930s for the war years and the McCarthy era, this book explores the personal impact of hard political reality with which the author himself has been so well acquainted. It follows Carl Myers, who progresses from an objective interest in scientific problems to a concern with the human implications of those problems.
Download or read book Above World written by Jenn Reese and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful sci-fi escapade plucks two children out of the ocean for a thrilling adventure. Thirteen-year-old Aluna has lived her entire life under the ocean with the Coral Kampii in the City of Shifting Tides. But after centuries spent hidden from the Above World, her colony’s survival is at risk. The Kampii’s breathing necklaces are failing, but the elders are unwilling to venture above water to seek answers. Only headstrong Aluna and her friend Hoku are stubborn and bold enough to face the terrors of land to search for way to save their people. But can Aluna’s fierce determination and fighting skills and Hoku’s tech-savvy keep them safe? Set in a world where overcrowding has led humans to adapt — growing tails to live under the ocean or wings to live on mountains — here is a ride through a future where greed and cruelty have gone unchecked, but the loyalty of friends remains true.
Download or read book The World Above written by Ben Gorry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is changing and it doesn't show any sign of stopping. If you walk too far across the world, the sky begins to lower, making you get pulled into the end. People are also getting pulled into the sky when they touch certain foods. Survivors are beginning to recognise these changes as these things were once in their favour. When you're pulled to the end, you're actually pulled into the sea creatures' beaches. There are fish everywhere hunting everybody either by humaning or spear hunting, and they're using the same hunting techniques we used on them. The fish own The World Above now, and we have to experience what goes on in The World Below...
Download or read book The World Above A Duologue written by Martha Foote Crow and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book The World Above written by Martha Foote Crow and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The World Above" by Martha Foote Crow. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Worldly and the World Above written by Varindra Kumar Varma and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I didn’t pray but was curious. One evening, while our family was sitting in the courtyard with closed eyes and folded hands, I asked Father, “Who do we pray to? And why?” He said, “Prayer is to God; who else shall we pray to?” I had asked myself this question then: Is it true that He who they address as God is really God? Why is ‘He’ the God, not me, not you? Years afterwards, I discovered that Advaita philosophy had answered these doubts. It said, ‘Aham Brahmasmi (I am the Brahman), tat tvam asi (That thou art).
Download or read book World Above the Clouds written by Ann Whitehead Nagda and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smoke from grass fires and dust from the parched earth swirl in the air as Elephant Calf and his herd cross the drought-stricken savanna in search of food and fresh water. As they forage, they encounter fascinating animals.
Download or read book Above the World written by teNeues and published by TeNeues. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathtaking images of our planet from a drone's eye view / Featuring images by renowned photographers like Michael Poliza, George Steinmetz, Cameron Davidson, accompanied by interviews with the artists.
Download or read book Up and Down written by Viction-Viction and published by Viction:ary. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the misty hilltops of distant lands to the freezing depths of the Arctic Ocean, Up & Down splits various settings into two fun perspectives that will intrigue little explorers. With over 500 contextual words labelled throughout 20 beautifully illustrated scenes, young readers will get to build their vocabulary while developing an eye for detail and a new sense of wonder about our world.
Download or read book View from Above written by Terry Virts and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares photographs and details of the author's experiences in space.
Download or read book Above the Clouds written by Kevin T. McDonald and published by IT Governance Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book acts as a primer and strategic guide to identify Cloud Computing best practices and associated risks, and reduce the latter to acceptable levels. From software as a service (SaaP) to replacing the entire IT infrastructure, the author serves as an educator, guide and strategist, from runway to getting the organization above the clouds.
Download or read book Above written by Roland Smith and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What dangers lurk above? Pat O'Toole and his brother, Coop, are on the run from an enemy that specializes in hiding in plain sight. Along with their new companion, Kate, they've narrowly escaped a cultlike community situated beneath the streets of New York City. Kate has lived underground since birth, and the world above thrills her, but it's treacherous as well. With the cult's leader -- Kate’s grandfather -- hatching a new scheme of global consequence, the three runaways may be the only ones who can stop him. Will they face him head-on, or will they spend the rest of their lives as fugitives? The adventure that started Beneath concludes Above in this action-packed middle-grade thriller by Roland Smith!
Download or read book Beyond the End of the World written by Amie Kaufman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Brandon Sanderson and Laini Taylor, this much-anticipated sequel to New York Times bestselling authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner’s The Other Side of the Sky is a thrilling race against time—with a tantalizing star-crossed love and an electric conclusion. Time to find a way between worlds. Time to find each other again. Time to do the impossible. Above, in the cloudlands, Nimh has no memory of her past, only an aching, undying certainty that she has left something—someone—behind. But while she struggles to recall her identity, an imposter wields her name with deadly purpose. Below, on the surface, North looks to the sky, desperate to join the person he loves and return to his world. But with only a traitor willing to help him, and others clamoring for him to take Nimh’s place, his home seems more unreachable than ever. Tragedy looms as the cloudland engines falter and mist rains terror on the surface, and in their desperation to reunite and save their people, Nimh and North face one ultimate question: can they defy their love and their destiny to save their homes? Or will the spark between them ignite their worlds, and consume them all together? Praise for The Other Side of the Sky: "Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner prove they are two living goddesses of writing, creating two compelling worlds with high stakes and gripping emotions." —Sarah Rees Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of the Demons Lexicon trilogy and the Lynburn Legacy series “A vivid and compulsive thriller set in a beautiful, perilous world of myths and treachery. You won’t want to put it down.” —Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series “I was left breathless by the book’s twists and turns, and was unprepared for the ending—it blew me away. Stop everything and read it!” —C. S. Pacat, bestselling author of Dark Rise “A book that absolutely shimmers with beauty.” —Buzzfeed
Download or read book Factfulness written by Hans Rosling and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.
Download or read book Rising Above the Gathering Storm Revisited written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-10-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are letting the crucial strategic issues of U.S. competitiveness slip below the surface. Five years ago, the National Academies prepared Rising Above the Gathering Storm, a book that cautioned: "Without a renewed effort to bolster the foundations of our competitiveness, we can expect to lose our privileged position." Since that time we find ourselves in a country where much has changed-and a great deal has not changed. So where does America stand relative to its position of five years ago when the Gathering Storm book was prepared? The unanimous view of the authors is that our nation's outlook has worsened. The present volume, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited, explores the tipping point America now faces. Addressing America's competitiveness challenge will require many years if not decades; however, the requisite federal funding of much of that effort is about to terminate. Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited provides a snapshot of the work of the government and the private sector in the past five years, analyzing how the original recommendations have or have not been acted upon, what consequences this may have on future competitiveness, and priorities going forward. In addition, readers will find a series of thought- and discussion-provoking factoids-many of them alarming-about the state of science and innovation in America. Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited is a wake-up call. To reverse the foreboding outlook will require a sustained commitment by both individual citizens and government officials-at all levels. This book, together with the original Gathering Storm volume, provides the roadmap to meet that goal. While this book is essential for policy makers, anyone concerned with the future of innovation, competitiveness, and the standard of living in the United States will find this book an ideal tool for engaging their government representatives, peers, and community about this momentous issue.
Download or read book Up Above the World written by Paul Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
