Download or read book Cosmos Charlie written by Ed Teja and published by Float Street Press. This book was released on with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a very bad landing. An otherworldly creature in pursuit of an escaped criminal crashes his ship in (where else?) rural New Mexico. Now the chase is on. The self-appointed Earth Defense Force, a local shaman, an ambitious reporter, a private investigator, a former hedge-fund manager, a rancher, and a witch or two all are interested in finding the new arrivals and they each have their own agenda. So do the aliens. In short, it's a normal day in Silver City, New Mexico.

Download or read book The Book of Basketball written by Bill Simmons and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.

Download or read book Charlie s Colorful Outer Space Candy Adventure written by Scott Cornfoot and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Charlie heads to the candy store, her simple trip spirals into a giant galactic adventure! At first, Charlie is overwhelmed by the candy store's many choices. But her candy-choosing problems take on a whole new dimension when Niles, a kid she just met at the store, recruits her help to fix an alien’s spaceship. Will Charlie be able to use her knack for problem-solving to repair the ship using delicious candy? And if she does, what kind of magic will she find when Altair the alien is ready to set back out on a journey through the cosmos? Charlie's Colorful Outer Space Candy Adventure is a wild, bright, funny celebration of imagination. This enchanting tale gently introduces themes of neurodiversity, friendship, and inclusivity. It's a great choice for parents and educators who want to expand on the spirit of creativity and adventure that lives in every child. This standalone book is the first entry in the Charlie-verse, a narrative universe of independent stories designed to be enjoyed on their own.

Download or read book Beliefs Change How They Can Change Your Life written by Charles Neuf, The Time Traveler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let us start with an understanding about this writing; it is all going to be about you and how you can change anything in your life by developing beliefs. Change is something your guide, a Time Traveler of 87 years has experienced many times. The Time Traveler started his Life in a large city, then a small town, and finally ended up on a farm. When he left High School, as a farmer and began his Travels as a Forest Fire Fighter, Railroad worker, Coalminer, Mate on a Riverboat, State Trooper, Detective, and Private Investigator, before becoming a Writer. Looking for answers as to how and why all these changes in his and others life's took place. Written as if we are sitting outside at a coffeeshop having a cup of coffee and the writer is telling you a story about things he experienced as he changed his beliefs as he traveled through years of his life and experienced change & studied why he changed.

Download or read book Peanuts and American Culture written by Peter W.Y. Lee and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz insisted good ol' Charlie Brown and his friends were neither "great art" nor "significant." Yet Schulz's acclaimed daily comic strip--syndicated in thousands of newspapers over five decades--brilliantly mirrored tensions in American society during the second half of the 20th century. Focusing on the strip's Cold War roots, this collection of new essays explores existentialism, the reshaping of the nuclear family, the Civil Rights Movement, 1960s counterculture, feminism, psychiatry and fear of the bomb. Chapters focus on the development of Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, Franklin, Shermy, Snoopy and the other characters that became American icons.

Download or read book Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos written by Taylor G. Petrey and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality, and kinship within the context of Latter-day Saint theology and history, this book contains elements that can be reinterpreted through a queer lens. Taylor Petrey reexamines and resignifies Mormon cosmology in the context of queer theory, offering a fresh perspective on divine relationships, gender fluidity, and the concept of kinship itself. Petrey's work draws together queer studies and the academic study of religion in new ways, providing a nuanced understanding of how religious narratives and doctrines can be reimagined to include more diverse interpretations of identity and community.

Download or read book Fun Science written by Charlie McDonnell and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome, fellow humans (and others), to the the world of FUN SCIENCE! I’m Charlie, also known across the internet as charlieissocoollike. In my book, I take you on an awesome journey through the cosmos, beginning with the Big Bang through to the Solar System and the origins of life on Earth, all the way down to the particles that make up everything around us (including you and me!). Expect frequent digressions, tons of illustrations of not-so-sciencey things (NB a microwave flying through space), and pages packed with my all time favourite mind-bending science facts. So, get ready for a faster-than-the-speed of-light (OK, not quite) tour of all of the best and most interesting things that science has to offer us... and most importantly: WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE! (Written by a science fan NOT a scientist!)

Download or read book The Palace Behind the Sky written by Emery Gallagher and published by Emery Gallagher. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter in Tandora finds the country locked in a stalemate of war, and Charlie of Windsong remains with the Heir's Army to support Prince Justinian's fight for the throne. Loyalties and allegiances prove tenuous during times of conflict, and a sudden betrayal forces Charlie to flee for her life in the dark of night. She escapes her pursuers with the help of friendly strangers and finds refuge in a fantastical place where she is welcomed as an honored guest. But the longer she stays, the more suspicious she becomes that not all is as it seems in this magical place, and she is uncertain of who she can trust. When the truth is revealed, Charlie finds that the outcome of the war rests on a decision she must make. Her choice leads her on a fast-paced adventure through the Eastern Lands where she encounters danger, subterfuge, and someone from her past. Her journey to Shala reunited her with her father, and her father's political scheming brought her back to her home country. Now to save those she cares about, Charlie must depend on her own abilities as she takes on a task that puts her at the center of the battle for the country. On this next adventure, Charlie encounters magic beyond what she has ever seen, steps into her new role as leader of the Order of the Dagger, and takes the future of the Eastern Lands into her own hands.

Download or read book Oliver Loving written by Stefan Merrill Block and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dazzling novel about love, loss, and the mysteries of the mind." — David Ebershoff, Bestselling author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife "A breathtaking tale of tragedy and redemption... A triumph" — People A family in crisis, a town torn apart, and the boy who holds the secret has been cocooned in a coma for ten years. One warm, West Texas November night, a shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss County Day School’s annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic Junior named Rebekkah Sterling. But as the music plays, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school’s back door. The dire choices this man makes that evening —and the unspoken story he carries— will tear the town of Bliss, Texas apart. Nearly ten years later, Oliver Loving still lies wordless and paralyzed at Crockett State Assisted Care Facility, the fate of his mind unclear. Orbiting the stillpoint of Oliver’s hospital bed is a family transformed: Oliver’s mother, Eve, who keeps desperate vigil; Oliver’s brother, Charlie, who has fled for New York City only to discover he cannot escape the gravity of his shattered family; Oliver’s father, Jed, who tries to erase his memories with bourbon. And then there is Rebekkah Sterling, Oliver’s teenage love, who left Texas long ago and still refuses to speak about her own part in that tragic night. When a new medical test promises a key to unlock Oliver’s trapped mind, the town’s unanswered questions resurface with new urgency, as Oliver’s doctors and his family fight for a way for Oliver to finally communicate— and so also to tell the truth of what really happened that fateful night. A moving meditation on the transformative power of grief and love, a slyly affectionate look at the idiosyncrasies of family, and an emotionally-charged page-turner, Stefan Merill Block's Oliver Loving is an extraordinarily original novel that ventures into the unknowable and returns with the most fundamental truths.

Download or read book In the City of Shy Hunters written by Tom Spanbauer and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young gay man comes of age amid the AIDs epidemic of “an expertly drawn, starkly authentic, early-1980s Manhattan” in this novel by the acclaimed author (Publishers Weekly). Shy, afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with his sexuality, Will Parker comes to New York to escape his provincial western hometown. In New York, he finds himself surrounded for the first time by people who understand and celebrate his quirks and flaws. He also begins an unforgettable love affair with a volatile, six-foot-five African American drag queen and performance artist named Rose. But even as he is falling in love with Rose and growing into himself, Will must watch as AIDS escalates from a rumor into a devastating tragedy. When a vicious riot erupts in a local park, Will seizes the chance to repay the city for all it has taught him. Tom Spanbauer is the critically acclaimed author of The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon and founder of the successful workshop Dangerous Writing, where he’s taught students including Chuck Palahniuk. With In the City of Shy Hunters, he offers a “rich and colorful” historical novel told with “raw power” (San Francisco Chronicle). “Spanbauer’s genius resides even in the asides . . . teas[ing] out the genuine complexity of human love.” —The Washington Post Book World “Ambitious and compelling . . . a mixture of the ghastly, the hilarious, and the curiously touching.” —The Seattle Times “In the City of Shy Hunters has the earmarks of a literary landmark . . . Its importance and originality are unmistakable.” —The Baltimore Sun “A big ambitious stylefest of a novel.” —Village Voice

Download or read book The Extravagant Universe written by Robert P. Kirshner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Extravagant Universe tells the story of a remarkable adventure of scientific discovery. One of the world's leading astronomers, Robert Kirshner, takes readers inside a lively research team on the quest that led them to an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe is accelerating under the influence of a dark energy that makes space itself expand. In addition to sharing the story of this exciting discovery, Kirshner also brings the science up-to-date in a new epilogue. He explains how the idea of an accelerating universe--once a daring interpretation of sketchy data--is now the standard assumption in cosmology today. This measurement of dark energy--a quality of space itself that causes cosmic acceleration--points to a gaping hole in our understanding of fundamental physics. In 1917, Einstein proposed the "cosmological constant" to explain a static universe. When observations proved that the universe was expanding, he cast this early form of dark energy aside. But recent observations described first-hand in this book show that the cosmological constant--or something just like it--dominates the universe's mass and energy budget and determines its fate and shape. Warned by Einstein's blunder, and contradicted by the initial results of a competing research team, Kirshner and his colleagues were reluctant to accept their own result. But, convinced by evidence built on their hard-earned understanding of exploding stars, they announced their conclusion that the universe is accelerating in February 1998. Other lines of inquiry and parallel supernova research now support a new synthesis of a cosmos dominated by dark energy but also containing several forms of dark matter. We live in an extravagant universe with a surprising number of essential ingredients: the real universe we measure is not the simplest one we could imagine.

Download or read book Watching Cosmic Time written by Matthew Dwight Moore and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the suspense films of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Carol Reed allow us special insight into the popular mentality of their contemporaries—contemporaries who went to war against the forces of Adolf Hitler? How did midcentury films that fetishized clocks and time-keeping devices as diverse as Peter Pan, High Noon, Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt, The Stranger, and Odd Man Out produce unique experiences that invited audiences to literally watch cosmic time? What role did cinema audiences play in perpetuating the presumption that order exists in the universe—and how have the polyvalent institutions of church and state implicated human agency in such perpetuation? This full-length academic treatment of the topic employs formal film analysis that is situated squarely within historical studies and addresses these cinematic and phenomenological questions—and more.

Download or read book A Game Apart written by Neal Collins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest football tournament on earth will take place in Africa for the first time next year, with the World Cup kicking off in Johannesburg on June 11. A GAME APART tries to explain just how miraculous that simple fact is. Based largely on what I witnessed myself as a student, footballer and sports journalist, this is an honest - but fictional - account of what it was like to play football in South Africa before democracy came rolling in with Nelson Mandela in 1993. There was trouble on the pitch, trouble on the streets, trouble on the beaches. Apartheid and trouble went hand in hand. A lot of the publicity surrounding the upcoming World Cup has been negative, with the focus on crime and corruption. My perception is very different. I believe the country has changed massively for the better in 16 short years. I've waited all that time to let my memories loose, and the World Cup seems an appropriate time to write a novel that, I hope, will help people to remember exactly what the Rainbow Nation has been through. This novel will annoy some, please others. All I ask is that the reader recognizes this is how a young Englishman might have viewed the South Africa I grew up in. A strange but beautiful country riven by cruelty and mistrust and headed for a bloody revolution... until the release of Mandela in 1990. For those who visit the country, for those who view it on a television screen, for those who read about it in the newspapers, I hope to offer some perspective. Apartheid should never be forgotten. Otherwise somebody will repeat the process. And that must never be allowed to happen.

Download or read book The Time Traveler Mysteries of the Universe written by Charles E. Neuf and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very beginning of Time, Mystic Orders & Societies Clouded in Mystery has withheld Knowledge from mankind about Man, Spirit/Soul, & The Laws of the Universe. Secret Organizations, known as Orders or Societies was formed in and out of Religions, to pass the guarded information on to those they deemed worthy of these ""Secrets,"" believed, could be used to harm. This writing will explore the many Mysteries of Mankind. The laws of the Universe and Cosmos and how they affect all mankind. About Mankind, Body, Spirit/Soul, There will be Research and As you read the Secrets of the Cosmos, you too, may be ""Enlightened & Awaken"" and have many of the ""Secrets"" work in your life. Research will be summarized, using a Common Sense approach to keep it simple and to go with the short stories to make the research easier to understand. If You have a question about who you are, come inside and have a cup of coffee with Charlie The Time Traveler and we will talk about it.

Download or read book Cosmic Contemplations written by Charles Clemons and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected science fiction tales of Charles Clemons, includes the novel Intergalactic Eden, and the short stories Suspended Hell, The Genetic Game and Death to the Queen, as well as the poem Intergalactic Dimensions. Paberback 200 pages. If you enjoy weird fiction, from writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard or tales in the Weird Tales format, you will like this book. All my books are available at www.portalpressbooks.com

Download or read book The Time Traveler Power of Thoughts written by Charlie The Time Traveler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know the power you have in a single thought? You are a creator, and everything in your life is created by your thoughts. Think about it. Everything in your life is created by one of your thoughts, If, you know how to finish the thought by activation of the right powers thoughts are connected too you will have your life. This Writing is about Thoughts, Beliefs, & Changing your life. Look at the thought as a Car. You want the car to take you somewhere, you want to go. But, the car needs Gas, Oil, and a Driver to direct the car to where the car goes. Take the wrong route, wrong turn, put in the wrong gas or oil, and the car will not take you where you want to go. This writing is designed like a road map to take your Thoughts where You want to go, avoid the wrong turn, put in the right fuel, and get to where you want go. This road map will direct to the places many have gone with their thoughts,

Download or read book The Disordered Cosmos written by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science. Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of 2021 A Symmetry Magazine Top 10 Physics Book of 2021 An Entropy Magazine Best Nonfiction Book of 2020-2021 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech Book of the Year In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek. One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly nontraditional, and grounded in Black and queer feminist lineages. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, misogyny, and other forms of oppression. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society, beginning with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. The Disordered Cosmos dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.