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Book Blue Images in Sunshine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Kent
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2017-08-18
  • ISBN : 1532025297
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Blue Images in Sunshine written by Joseph Kent and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High in the blue sky, their wings transparent, the color of sky, they fly near the sun, sleep on the wind... —Joseph Kent In an expressive collection of contemporary poems, Joseph Kent allows others an enlightening glimpse into his mind as he lyrically reflects on the ever-changing world around him. Kent, a seasoned poet, shares verse that explores a variety of themes that include the cloudscapes above a city seemingly out of step with the rest of the world, the friendship between a young couple on a beautiful spring day, a changed environment after a long drought ends, a wild snow goose who yearns for a mate, and a scenic walk on a magical day that inspires deep reflection about what guides the future. Blue Images in Sunshine shares a compilation of poems that intertwine the beauty of Earth with the soul of man as he re_ ects on all there is and all there can be within a spectacular world. The poems swirl in and out of things, always bearing a spiritual presence. [Kent’s] poems are hinges around which humans swing to close and open the doors of perception ...We come to life in these poems of greater being. —The Book Reader

Book Pale Blue Dot

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Sagan
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2011-07-06
  • ISBN : 0307801012
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Pale Blue Dot written by Carl Sagan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time. Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race. “Takes readers far beyond Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity’s future in the stars.”—Chicago Tribune

Book American Sunshine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Freund
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-04-16
  • ISBN : 0226262839
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book American Sunshine written by Daniel Freund and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedies for America’s new dark age. Architects, city planners, and politicians made access to sunlight central to public housing and public health. and entrepreneurs, dairymen, and tourism boosters transformed the pursuit of sunlight and its effects into a commodity. Within this historical context, Freund sheds light on important questions about the commodification of health and nature and makes an original contribution to the histories of cities, consumerism, the environment, and medicine.

Book Psychological Bulletin

Download or read book Psychological Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 49, no. 4, pt. 2 (July 1952) is the association's Publication manual.

Book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Year book of Facts in Science and Art

Download or read book The Year book of Facts in Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Photo beacon

Download or read book The Photo beacon written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Text Book of the Principles of Physics

Download or read book A Text Book of the Principles of Physics written by Alfred Daniell and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Digital Wildlife Photography

Download or read book Digital Wildlife Photography written by John Gerlach and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From how many frames you need to shoot per second to capture that WOW moment to where to focus on a bird with a big beak to get the best depth of field, this book has it all for the wildlife photographer. It is an impressive mix of technology with just plain good advice for image-taking, and they discuss each point specifically for shooting wildlife, because it is a totally unique type of photography. The lighting and shutter speed for a macro flower shot is not the same that you'd need for a bird in flight or a kangaroo jumping across a field. Mix together this fantastic info with the many years of experience that the Gerlachs have shooting and teaching and the absolutely jaw-dropping images and you really do have a perfect storm for a book"--

Book This Atom Bomb in Me

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lindsey A. Freeman
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2019-02-12
  • ISBN : 1503607798
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book This Atom Bomb in Me written by Lindsey A. Freeman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a secret city during the Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge enriched the uranium that powered Little Boy, the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The city was a major nuclear production site throughout the Cold War, adding something to each and every bomb in the United States arsenal. Even today, Oak Ridge contains the world's largest supply of fissionable uranium. The granddaughter of an atomic courier, Lindsey A. Freeman turns a critical yet nostalgic eye to the place where her family was sent as part of a covert government plan. Theirs was a city devoted to nuclear science within a larger America obsessed with its nuclear prowess. Through memories, mysterious photographs, and uncanny childhood toys, she shows how Reagan-era politics and nuclear culture irradiated the late twentieth century. Alternately tender and alarming, her book takes a Geiger counter to recent history, reading the half-life of the atomic past as it resonates in our tense nuclear present.

Book Year book of Facts in Science and the Arts

Download or read book Year book of Facts in Science and the Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Journal of Photography

Download or read book The British Journal of Photography written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 100 Cult Films

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ernest Mathijs
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-10-23
  • ISBN : 1844575713
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book 100 Cult Films written by Ernest Mathijs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences. Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spinal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings. Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Café Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music). 100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch. Drawing on exclusive interviews with some of the world's most iconic cult creators and performers, including Dario Argento, Pupi Avati, Alex Cox, Ruggero Deodato, Jesús Franco, Lloyd Kaufman, Harry Kümel, H. G. Lewis, Christina Lindberg, Takashi Miike, Franco Nero, George A. Romero and Brian Yuzna, and featuring a foreword by cult director Joe Dante, 100 Cult Films is your ultimate ticket to the midnight movie show.

Book Better Photos

Download or read book Better Photos written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: