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The Diamond Lens

Author : Fitz-James O'Brien
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens written by Fitz-James O'Brien and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-10-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey into the realms of science and imagination with Fitz-James O'Brien’s intriguing tale, "The Diamond Lens." This captivating story explores the boundaries of perception and reality, inviting readers to witness the wonders that lie just beyond our sight. As O'Brien unfolds his narrative, a provocative question arises: What if the microscopic world, often invisible to the naked eye, holds secrets that could change everything we know? Follow the story of a passionate scientist whose groundbreaking discovery leads him into a mesmerizing and perilous journey through the microscopic universe. O'Brien’s vivid descriptions and imaginative plot challenge our understanding of life and the extraordinary possibilities that lie within the tiniest of creatures. This edition revitalizes O'Brien’s classic tale, making it accessible for contemporary readers while preserving the brilliance of his prose. Each chapter invites you to ponder the intersection of science and fantasy, urging you to consider what wonders might be lurking in the unseen world around you. Are you prepared to peer through the lens of imagination in "The Diamond Lens"? Engage with thought-provoking passages that will stretch your understanding of reality and ignite your curiosity about the natural world. O'Brien's storytelling invites you to explore the delicate balance between discovery and obsession. This is your chance to experience a classic that blurs the lines between science fiction and adventure. Will you dare to uncover the hidden marvels that await within the pages? Don’t miss the opportunity to own this fascinating tale. Purchase "The Diamond Lens" now, and embark on an extraordinary journey through the unseen!

The Diamond Lens and Other Stories

Author : Fitz-James O'Brien
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 1780940920
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens and Other Stories written by Fitz-James O'Brien and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing and haunting collection of early science fiction tales by an Irish-American author Fitz-James O'Brien capitalized on the success of his predecessors Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley in writing disturbing stories with demented protagonists, and this collection of three tales shows his mastery of the macabre. "The Diamond Lens" tells of a lone scientist's discovery of a microcosmic world within a drop of water, and his growing obsession with the beautiful Animula, a fair maiden within this world which he can see but never enter. His uncompromising pursuit of knowledge at any cost foreshadows the mad scientist familiar to readers in a multitude of works. In "What Was It?" an invisible man is discovered by residents of a boarding house. The residents' capture and investigation of the creature blends the fantastic with the scientific as they seek rational explanations for this extraordinary phenomenon. "The Wondersmith" is a macabre tale of an embittered toymaker who seeks revenge upon the society that has persecuted him by creating demonic mannequins and imbuing them with life in order to slaughter the masses— a fantastic melodrama in which the cunning Wondersmith is offset by the unassuming and unlikely hero Solon the hunchback, in love with the villain's daughter.

The Diamond Lens

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 1612107893
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens written by Fitz James O'Brien and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientist creates a very special Diamond Lens to study water… but what he discovers is so much greater than a mere drop of water!

The Diamond Lens

Author : Fitz-James O'Brien
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens written by Fitz-James O'Brien and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien: An enthralling and imaginative science fiction short story by Fitz-James O'Brien. The tale follows a young microscopist who discovers a fascinating miniature world within a diamond lens. As he becomes obsessed with his discovery, the story takes readers on a journey through the wonders and perils of this hidden world, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Key Aspects of the Book "The Diamond Lens": Science Fiction and Fantasy: O'Brien's story combines elements of science fiction and fantasy, creating a captivating and otherworldly narrative. Themes of Obsession: The tale delves into the protagonist's intense fascination with the microscopic world, leading to dramatic consequences. Exploration of the Unseen: "The Diamond Lens" explores the hidden mysteries of the microscopic realm and the wonders that lie beyond human perception. Fitz-James O'Brien was an Irish-American author and poet born in 1828. He is best known for his contributions to science fiction and fantasy literature, with stories that often incorporated elements of the macabre and the supernatural. His short story The Diamond Lens exemplifies his talent for crafting imaginative and thought-provoking narratives that continue to captivate readers with their originality and creativity.

Upheaval

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316409154
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Upheaval written by Jared Diamond and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel. In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals -- ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. Because Diamond has lived and spoken the language in five of these six countries, he can present gut-wrenching histories experienced firsthand. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and learning from models of other nations. Looking to the future, Diamond examines whether the United States, Japan, and the whole world are successfully coping with the grave crises they currently face. Can we learn from lessons of the past? Adding a psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology, and anthropology that mark all of Diamond's books, Upheaval reveals factors influencing how both whole nations and individual people can respond to big challenges. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal yet.

The Diamond Lane

Author : Karen Karbo
Publisher : Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
ISBN 13 : 9780989360449
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lane written by Karen Karbo and published by Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts. This book was released on 2014 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmmaker Mouse FitzHenry reluctantly returns to Los Angeles with her fiancâe after sixteen years in Africa, as they each pursue secret projects; he is writing a screenplay set in the city, while she is making a documentary about her bethrothal.

Stateless Commerce

Author : Barak Richman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674972171
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Stateless Commerce written by Barak Richman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stateless Commerce, Barak Richman uses the colorful case study of the diamond industry to explore how ethnic trading networks operate and why they persist in the twenty-first century. How, for example, does the 47th Street diamond district in midtown Manhattan—surrounded by skyscrapers and sophisticated financial institutions—continue to thrive as an ethnic marketplace that operates like a traditional bazaar? Conventional models of economic and technological progress suggest that such primitive commercial networks would be displaced by new trading paradigms, yet in the heart of New York City the old world persists. Richman’s explanation is deceptively simple. Far from being an anachronism, 47th Street’s ethnic enclave is an adaptive response to the unique pressures of the diamond industry. Ethnic trading networks survive because they better fulfill many functions usually performed by state institutions. While the modern world rests heavily on lawyers, courts, and state coercion, ethnic merchants regularly sell goods and services by relying solely on familiarity, trust, and community enforcement—what economists call “relational exchange.” These commercial networks insulate themselves from the outside world because the outside world cannot provide those assurances. Extending the framework of transactional cost and organizational economics, Stateless Commerce draws on rare insider interviews to explain why personal exchange succeeds, even as most global trade succumbs to the forces of modernization, and what it reveals about the limitations of the modern state in governing the economy.

The Sprawl

Author : Jason Diamond
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895901
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Sprawl written by Jason Diamond and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.

The Night the War Was Lost

Author : Charles L. Dufour
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803265998
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book The Night the War Was Lost written by Charles L. Dufour and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long before the Confederacy was crushed militarily, it was defeated economically," writes Charles L. Dufour. He contends that with the fall of the critical city of New Orleans in spring 1862 the South lost the Civil War, although fighting would continueøfor three more years. On the Mississippi River, below New Orleans, in the predawn of April 24, 1862, David Farragut with fourteen gunboats ran past two forts to capture the South's principal seaport. Vividly descriptive, The Night the War Was Lost is also very human in its portrayal of terrified citizens and leaders occasionally rising to heroism. In a swift-moving narrative, Dufour explains the reasons for the seizure of New Orleans and describes its results.

The House on Diamond Hill

Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807834181
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The House on Diamond Hill written by Tiya Miles and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story

The Crack in the Lens

Author : Darlene A. Cypser
Publisher : Foolscap & Quill LLC
ISBN 13 : 0971855250
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book The Crack in the Lens written by Darlene A. Cypser and published by Foolscap & Quill LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If someone had asked Sherlock Holmes later in the year, there is little doubt that he would have said his life began that spring day in 1871 when he met Violet Rushdale upon the moors and ended in the winter some months distant. His mother would have disputed the former claim, and many, both friend and foe, would come to deny the latter. Yet what happened that year nearly cost him his life and his sanity, and strongly influenced the man he was to become."--Publisher's description.

The Diamond Lens

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens written by Fitz James O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626868190
Total Pages : 1483 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy written by Jules Verne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 1483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blast off into the unknown with this collection of ten classical works of science fiction and fantasy. Long before we ventured into outer space or explored the most remote regions of the planet, writers have spun stories of what might lie in those unknown worlds, or what awaits humanity in the future. Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy is a collection of ten novels and short stories that blazed the trail for the popular genre. Works by acclaimed authors such as Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, and H. P. Lovecraft will transport the reader to distant places and times—and set the imagination ablaze!

Optical Design Fundamentals for Infrared Systems

Author : Max J. Riedl
Publisher : SPIE Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819440518
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Optical Design Fundamentals for Infrared Systems written by Max J. Riedl and published by SPIE Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practical, popular 1995 tutorial has been thoroughly revised and updated, reflecting developments in technology and applications during the past decade. New chapters address wave aberrations, thermal effects, design examples, and diamond turning.

Mounting Optics in Optical Instruments

Author : Paul R. Yoder
Publisher : SPIE Press
ISBN 13 : 0819471291
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Mounting Optics in Optical Instruments written by Paul R. Yoder and published by SPIE Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entirely updated to cover the latest technology, this Second Edition gives optical designers and optomechanical engineers a thorough understanding of the principal ways in which optical components - lenses, windows, filters, shells, domes, prisms, and mirrors of all sizes - are mounted in optical instruments.Along with new information on tolerancing, sealing considerations, elastomeric mountings, alignment, stress estimation, and temperature control, two new chapters address the mounting of metallic mirrors and the alignment of reflective and catadioptric systems.The updated accompanying CD-ROM offers a convenient spreadsheet of the many equations that are helpful in solving problems encountered when mounting optics in instruments.

The Wondersmith

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722171766
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book The Wondersmith written by Fitz James O'Brien and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wondersmith Fitz James O'Brien Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. O'Brien's earliest writings in the United States were contributed to the Lantern, which was then edited by John Brougham. Subsequently he wrote for the Home Journal, the New York Times, and the American Whig Review. His first important literary connection was with Harper's Magazine, and beginning in February, 1853, with The Two Skulls, he contributed more than sixty articles in prose and verse to that periodical. He likewise wrote for the New York Saturday Press, Putnam's Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the Atlantic Monthly. To the latter he sent The Diamond Lens(1858) and The Wonder Smith (1859), which are unsurpassed as creations of the imagination, and are unique among short magazine stories. The Diamond Lens is probably his most famous short story, and tells the story of a scientist who invents a powerful microscope discovers a beautiful female in a microscopic world inside a drop of water. The Wonder Smith is an early predecessor of robot rebellion, where toys possessed by evil spirits are transformed into living automatons who turns against their creators. His 1858 short story From Hand to Mouth has been referred to as"the single most striking example of surrealistic fiction to pre-date Alice in Wonderland (Sam Moskowitz, 1971). What Was It? A Mystery (1859) is one of the earliest known examples of invisibility in fiction. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

A Death on Diamond Mountain

Author : Scott Carney
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 069818629X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book A Death on Diamond Mountain written by Scott Carney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under the headline: "Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death." Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, was struck by how Thorson’s death echoed other incidents that reflected the little-talked-about connection between intensive meditation and mental instability. Using these tragedies as a springboard, Carney explores how those who go to extremes to achieve divine revelations—and undertake it in illusory ways—can tangle with madness. He also delves into the unorthodox interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism that attracted Thorson and the bizarre teachings of its chief evangelists: Thorson’s wife, Lama Christie McNally, and her previous husband, Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University, where Thorson died. Carney unravels how the cultlike practices of McNally and Roach and the questionable circumstances surrounding Thorson’s death illuminate a uniquely American tendency to mix and match eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces in a quest to reach an enlightened, perfected state, no matter the cost. Aided by Thorson’s private papers, along with cutting-edge neurological research that reveals the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain and stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals, and tantric rites from former Diamond Mountain acolytes, A Death on Diamond Mountain is a gripping work of investigative journalism that reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger.