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Earth Odyssey

Author : Mark Hertsgaard
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307484084
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Earth Odyssey written by Mark Hertsgaard and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many of us, Mark Hertsgaard has long worried about the declining health of our environment. But in 1991, he decided to act on his concern and investigate the escalating crisis for himself. Traveling on his own dime, he embarked on an odyssey lasting most of the decade and spanning nineteen countries. Now, in Earth Odyssey, he reports on our environmental predicament through the eyes of the people who live it. From the gilded boardrooms of Paris to the traffic-clogged streets of Bangkok, we travel from the deep human past to our still unfolding future. Much of the story revolves around people like Zhenbing, Hertsgaard's charismatic interpreter in China, whose desire to escape poverty leaves him indifferent to his country's horrific air and water pollution. We also meet Garang, a proud Dinka tribesman whose response to Sudan's famine shows the difficulty of building an environmentally sustainable future without bridging the gap between rich and poor. Drawing on interviews with Václav Havel, Al Gore, Jacques Cousteau, and numerous other prominent figures, Hertsgaard offers fresh insight into such complex issues as humanity's growing addiction to the automobile, the insidious spread of nuclear technology, and the inevitable tension between unfettered capitalism and the health of the biosphere. Earth Odyssey is a vivid, passionate narrative about one man's journey around the world in search of the answer to the most important question of our time: Is the future of the human species at risk? Combining first-rate reportage with irresistible storytelling, Mark Hertsgaard has written an essential--and ultimately hopeful--book about the uncertain fate of humankind.

Age Of The Earth, The: A Physicist's Odyssey

Author : Archibald W Hendry
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813279710
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Age Of The Earth, The: A Physicist's Odyssey written by Archibald W Hendry and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book spells out in detail how the age of the Earth has been determined over the centuries. First — the 'biblical' age: how was the date of Creation 4004 BC figured out? A date which is so important even today ... it is the basis of claims made by millions that the Earth is only about 6000 years old. Next — the response of geologists (and Darwin) for a very old Earth. Then, Kelvin's calculation of how long it would take for a hot Earth to cool down to its present state. And finally, today's answer ('billions'), based on the properties of radioactive materials. So, how old is Planet Earth?Related Link(s)

Atom

Author : Lawrence M. Krauss
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0759523215
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Atom written by Lawrence M. Krauss and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2001-04-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of matter and the history of the cosmos from the perspective of a single oxygen atom, told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today. Through this astonishing work, he manages to stoke wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our ecosystem, and us.

Earth Emotions

Author : Glenn A. Albrecht
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501715240
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Earth Emotions written by Glenn A. Albrecht and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century. Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia—love of life—for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene. With the current and coming generations, "Generation Symbiocene," Albrecht sees reason for optimism. The battle between the forces of destruction and the forces of creation will be won by Generation Symbiocene, and Earth Emotions presents an ethical and emotional odyssey for that victory.

Imperial Earth

Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Earth written by Arthur Charles Clarke and published by Pan. This book was released on 1977 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Light of Earth

Author : Al Worden
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496229630
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Light of Earth written by Al Worden and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden was one of the highest-profile personalities among the Apollo astronauts, renowned for his outspokenness and potent views but also recognized as a warm and well-liked person who devoted much of his life after retiring from NASA to sharing his spaceflight experiences. Worden had nearly finished writing this book before his passing in 2020 at the age of eighty-eight. Coauthored with spaceflight historian Francis French, The Light of Earth is Worden's wide-ranging look at the greatest-ever scientific undertaking, in which he was privileged to be a leading participant. Here Worden gives readers his refreshingly candid opinions on the space program, flying to the moon, and the people involved in the Apollo and later shuttle programs, as well as sharing hard-hitting reflections on the space shuttle program, the agonies and extraordinary sights and delights of being a NASA Apollo astronaut, and the space program's triumphs and failures. Worden delves into areas of personal grief that reveal the noble and truly human side of the space program's earliest years. He does not hold back when discussing the shocking deaths of his fellow astronauts in the three major tragedies that struck the space agency, nor does he shy away from sharing his personal feelings about fellow Apollo astronauts including Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Worden was known as a charismatic speaker and one of the most thoughtful Apollo astronauts. His candid, entertaining, and unique perspective in The Light of Earth will captivate and surprise.

Flat Earth Clues

Author : Mark Sargent
Publisher : Booglez Limited
ISBN 13 : 1916611028
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Flat Earth Clues written by Mark Sargent and published by Booglez Limited. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flat Earth Clues book gives you 14 compelling reasons why you should rethink the globe model that you have been taught. Before you were born, before your parents, your grandparents, before you even had a family line… there was the illusion, the trick, the lie... That you lived on a small spinning rock, flying through space. What if, after centuries of preaching the globe as a religious icon, "the powers that be" found out that it was actually not a sphere, but instead something much different? Would they risk unravelling 500 years of science doctrine by informing the public? Could a government still retain it's authority if there were actually proof of a higher power? It's about proving the Flat Earth, but more importantly, it's about disproving the globe, and that shouldn't be possible, but there are several big questions which science has a difficult time with. Why was there only one blue marble image used for 43 years? Where are the videos of the earth rotating from space? Astronauts can't turn around in space with the camera running? Not even by accident? Are the Van Allen radiation belts dangerous? Why does the Orion Trial by Fire video exist? Why was the space shuttle program cancelled? Why does the Mars mission keep getting postponed? Why are they closing down the ISS? Why is Psalm 19:1 on Werner Von Braun's headstone? Why is the moon generating a light that is sometimes 12 degrees colder than the moon shade? How is that possible if it's reflecting the suns rays? And if the moon is generating it's own light source, then what was that dark grey thing we landed on? We can beam back crystal clear photos of Pluto, but the Global Positioning System doesn't track planes in the Southern oceans? And why does this topic, compared to ANY other, conspiracy or not, make people excited, angry, or scared? Some of you are getting anxious just listening! Why? Because it's the greatest trick of all, and we all fell for it. You should be excited, because it's going to change the world. You should be angry, because you were fooled your entire life, and you should be a little scared, because this is uncharted territory. This is the Flat Earth theory, that the world is easy to understand, more intimate, and very deliberate. It didn't just happen, it was built, and more importantly built for you. Open your eyes and smile. You have never been alone. Published by Booglez Limited, UK - Flat Earth Clues is digestible nuggets of information broken down in a very reader-friendly way. Author Mark Sargent is located in the USA. He features in the Netflix documentary Behind The Curve (2018). Mark runs a regular radio show on Truth Frequency Radio where you can phone in and discuss the topic.

Earth Tilt, Book II

Author : James D. Dailey
Publisher : Wheatmark
ISBN 13 : 9781604945034
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Earth Tilt, Book II written by James D. Dailey and published by Wheatmark. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years have passed since the events of "Earth Tilt" shook our planet to its core, leaving modern civilization in ruins. Though many of the survivors have started to rebuild, most of the small communities scattered around the continent remain isolated from one another. With no way to communicate over long distances, JJ Darby, his wife, and others from Goldston set out on a long journey to find out what happened to their families back east. Their trek will bring them into contact with new friends ... and old enemies. About the Author James D. Dailey was born in Louisiana and raised on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. He enlisted in the Marine Corps at the age of seventeen, serving first as a radio operator and eventually as communications chief. Upon retiring from the military, he worked for the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. James lives in Kingman, Arizona, with his wife, Marilyn. "Earth Tilt, Book II" is his third book.

Dinosaur Odyssey

Author : Scott D. Sampson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520269896
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Dinosaur Odyssey written by Scott D. Sampson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best general-audience dinosaur book since the Dinosaur Renaissance began in the 1970s."—Philip J. Currie, coeditor of Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, from the foreword “Dinosaur Odyssey is not only a personable and highly accessible tour of the up-to-date discoveries about the gigantic and famous. It also builds on dinosaur paleontology to far-ranging topics like extinction, climate change, and the possibility of life on Mars. The gift to the reader is both fascination and enlightenment.”—Michael Novacek, author of Terra and Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs "An odyssey indeed! One of the world's leading dinosaur paleontologists, Sampson draws on a wide variety of sciences, from astronomy and cosmology to microbiology and ecology, in order to portray dinosaurs as living animals. The reader is in for a treat and will emerge with fresh and valuable insights."—Peter Dodson, author of The Horned Dinosaurs

Lance of Earth and Sky

Author : Erin Hoffman
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 1616146168
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Lance of Earth and Sky written by Erin Hoffman and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sequel to Sword of Fire and Sea, Vidarian Rulorat faces the consequences of opening the gate between worlds. Called into service by the desperate young emperor of Alorea, Vidarian must lead sky ships in a war against the neighboring southern empire, train the demoralized imperial Sky Knights to ride beasts that now shapeshift, master his own amplified elemental magic, and win back Ariadel—all without losing his mind. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Time's Eye

Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345452496
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Time's Eye written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wonderfully entertaining . . . a story that engrosses you with its dramatized ideas about the nature of existence . . . You won’t set the book down either to eat or sleep or work if you can help it.”—Chicago Tribune In an instant, Earth is carved up in time and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. The explanation for this cataclysmic event may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037—three cosmonauts and three U.N. peacekeepers—have detected strange radio signals. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenthcentury British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The cosmonauts join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. Both sides set out for Babylon, vowing to win the race for knowledge—as a powerful and mysterious entity watches, waiting. Praise for Time’s Eye “A rousing adventure.”—The New York Times Book Review “By the end, when two of history’s most ambitious conquerors meet, we are so thoroughly invested in the characters, we can’t wait for the sequel.”—Entertainment Weekly (Editor’s Choice) “A fast and engaging read.”—Rocky Mountain News

Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth

Author : Peter W. Rose
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501742582
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth written by Peter W. Rose and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory from Homer to Plato where the ideology of inherited excellence—beliefs about descent from gods or heroes—is elaborated and challenged. Rose offers subtle and penetrating new readings of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Pindar's Tenth Pythian Ode, Aeschylus's Oresteia, Sophokles' Philoktetes, and Plato's Republic. Rose rejects the view of art as a mere reflection of social and political reality—a view that is characteristic not only of most Marxist but of most historically oriented treatments of classical literature. He applies instead a Marxian hermeneutic derived from the work of the Frankfurt School and Fredric Jameson. His readings focus on illuminating a politics of form within the text, while responding to historically specific social, political, and economic realities. Each work, he asserts, both reflects contemporary conflicts over wealth, power, and gender roles and constitutes an attempt to transcend the status quo by projecting an ideal community. Following Marx, Rose maintains that critical engagement with the limitations of the utopian dreams of the past is the only means to the realization of freedom in the present. Classicists and their students, literary theorists, philosophers, comparatists, and Marxist critics will find Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth challenging reading.

Galactic Odyssey

Author : Keith Laumer
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 147321579X
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Galactic Odyssey written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Danger had gone past hitting the skids - now he was freezing to death in a blizzard. So he took shelter in a corn silo that turned out to be a disguised alien starship, and woke up light years from Earth.

Planet Earth Is Blue

Author : Nicole Panteleakos
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0525646604
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Planet Earth Is Blue written by Nicole Panteleakos and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tender and illuminating. A beautiful debut." --Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me A heartrending and hopeful story about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in the Cosmos, Mockingbird, and The Thing About Jellyfish. Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger--it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program. They planned to watch the launch together. But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home. While foster families and teachers dismiss Nova as severely autistic and nonverbal, Bridget understands how intelligent and special Nova is, and all that she can't express. As the liftoff draws closer, Nova's new foster family and teachers begin to see her potential, and for the first time, she is making friends without Bridget. But every day, she's counting down to the launch, and to the moment when she'll see Bridget again. Because as Bridget said, "No matter what, I'll be there. I promise."

1947: the Greys’ Odyssey to Earth

Author : Gus V.
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480884170
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book 1947: the Greys’ Odyssey to Earth written by Gus V. and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 2065, and a year has passed since the people of Earth formally established relations with several extraterrestrial races. Appearances suggest that a new age of peace, economic prosperity, and enlightenment has begun. One group of aliens in particular, the Greys, are an advanced and peaceful race. Human journalist C. A. Wyatt is in the process of writing a book about the Greys’ odyssey from their home world, planet Zeta, to Earth and their crash landing near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Their journey begins with the invasion of Zeta in 1944 by an aggressive alien species called Reptoids, just as the Greys’ spaceship, Zeta’s Hope, is about to be launched on an expedition to the uninhabited planet of Avalonia with fifty colonists—made up of both Greys and their human-like allies from planet Amigo. As crew of the ship voyages to various planets, they face a variety of problems, both internal and external, but eventually they set out to meet the humans of Earth, hoping for form a new alliance. But when those plans go awry, the fates of the Greys and of humanity will change forever. In this science fiction novel, set in 2065, aliens known as Greys recall their journey to Earth in the 1940s through interviews with a human journalist.

Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: