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Author : Samuel Hatch West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Some Watchers of the Skies written by Samuel Hatch West and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samantha Power
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465050891
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book "A Problem from Hell" written by Samantha Power and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world In her prizewinning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Power, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, draws upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, thousands of declassified documents, and her own reporting from modern killing fields to provide the answer. "A Problem from Hell" shows how decent Americans inside and outside government refused to get involved despite chilling warnings, and tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. A modern classic and "an angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book" (New Republic), "A Problem from Hell" has forever reshaped debates about American foreign policy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Award
Author : Edward W. Kolb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192862037
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Blind Watchers of the Sky written by Edward W. Kolb and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we know that the earth travels around the sun, the universe is billions of years old, and stars are trillions of miles away? Rocky Kolb tells the fascinating story of the people and ideas that have brought us such knowledge of our planet and the universe, giving realistic portraits of astronomers like Tycho, Kepler, Galileo, Herschel and Hubble. Beginning in 1572 with Tycho's discovery that the heavens can change and ending with the Big Bang of the 20th Century, this is a hugely entertaining and witty account of the quest to discover the universe.
Author : Rachel Piercey
Publisher : Emma Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781910139431
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Watcher of the Skies written by Rachel Piercey and published by Emma Press Limited. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How big is the universe? Are there dogs in space? What if your friend - or your granddad - was an alien? Join the poets in wondering in Watcher of the Skies, a sparkling collection of poems about the outermost possibilities of space, life and our imaginations. Fully illustrated by Emma Wright and accompanied with helpful facts from space scientist Rachel Cochrane (Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh) and ideas for writing poems from Rachel Piercey, this is the perfect companion for any budding stargazer or astronaut. With poems from Sohini Basak, John Canfield, Mary Anne Clark, Mandy Coe, Rebecca Colby, Dom Conlon, Dharmavadana, Julie Anna Douglas, Sarah Doyle, Inua Ellams, David Harmer, Philip Monks, Cheryl Moskowitz, Dale Neal, Rachael M Nicholas, Richard O'Brien, Suzanne Olivante, Abigail Parry, Rachel Piercey, Gita Ralleigh, Robert Schechter, Lawrence Schimel, Mike Sims, Camellia Stafford, Jon Stone, Kate Wakeling, Rob Walton and Kate Wise.
Author : Alfred Noyes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Watchers of the Sky written by Alfred Noyes and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meg Collett
Publisher : Meg Collett
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Only One written by Meg Collett and published by Meg Collett. This book was released on with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final installment of the popular End of Days series, Heaven belongs to a mad tyrant, and Michaela is losing her battle to save a dying Earth. But the tides are turning. With Gabriel’s fallen army, Michaela finally wages war against the holy angels. But she must take care of the Watchers once and for all. Her best friend, however, has his own vengeful plan for the Watchers. From the moment Lucifer tore her wings from her back, Michaela has sacrificed everything for Heaven. But there is one last sacrifice she must make. And it’s the greatest one of all.
Author : Paul Douglas
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781402752230
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Restless Skies written by Paul Douglas and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improved technology is teaching us more about the weather all the time, and with new knowledge comes new concerns and confusion. Is global warming real? What is a NEXRAD Doppler? Meteorologist Paul Douglas provides the answers to all these questions and more, along with fascinating illustrations, photos, trivia, and graphics. Find out what a difference a degree makes; as well as information about El Ni�o and how to protect yourself against the worst that the weather can bring. From the distinctions between a weather warning, watch, and advisory to the definition of an F-5 tornado, all the essentials are clearly explained.
Author : Jonathan Rosen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374186302
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (863 download)
Download or read book The Life of the Skies written by Jonathan Rosen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As a boy, Teddy Roosevelt learned taxidermy from a man who had sailed up the Missouri River with Audubon, and yet as president presided over America’s entry into the twentieth century, in which our ability to destroy ourselves and the natural world was no longer metaphorical. Roosevelt, an avid birder, was born a hunter and died a conservationist. Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality—historical and literary, spiritual and scientific—to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve. Rosen argues that bird-watching is nothing less than the real national pastime—indeed it is more than that, because the field of play is the earth itself. We are the players and the spectators, and the outcome—since bird and watcher are intimately connected—is literally a matter of life and death.
Author : Ian Morison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107073464
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A Journey through the Universe written by Ian Morison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, up-to-date survey of our knowledge of the Universe beyond Earth, for general readers and astronomy enthusiasts.
Author : Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481437860
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Somewhere Among written by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Emma's life in Tokyo changes for the worse when she and her American mother, who is pregnant, must move in with her Japanese grandmother the summer before 9/11 changes the world.
Author : Craig Crossen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3709106265
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sky Vistas written by Craig Crossen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Craig Crossen and Gerald Rhemann's, Sky Vistas Astronomy "This is a practical and stunningly beautiful guide whose core is a descriptive tour of the best celestial sights: open and globular clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and large areas of sky. The photos in black and white and color, are magnificent. The text goes beyond ordinary descriptions to tell the reader something about each object’s nature." Sky & Telescope "Packed with information that I have encountered nowhere else in amateur-astronomy literature. Sky Vistas also includes 48 full-page color astrophotos by Gerald Rhemann, most of which are magnificent."
Author : Scriptural Research Institute
Publisher : Scriptural Research Institute
ISBN 13 : 1989852165
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (898 download)
Download or read book 1st Enoch: Book of the Watchers written by Scriptural Research Institute and published by Scriptural Research Institute. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five books of Enoch are a collection of books written in Semitic languages, and often grouped together as the 'Book of Enoch,' or '1st Enoch.' The books were likely written at different points in time and different Semitic languages. The first book was the Book of the Watchers, which is generally considered to be the oldest book in the collection, however, the age of the book is debated. The book is now known to have originated long before Christianity since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, however, was lost for well over a thousand years to Europeans, and assumed to be a Christian-era work when the Europeans rediscovered it in Ethiopia. The five books of Enoch only survive in Ge'ez, the classical language of Ethiopia, however, do not survive intact, and some sections of text do not survive. Most of the iconography in the Book of the Watchers points to a Canaanite origin, as does the astronomical references to the seven stars beyond the eastern edge of the world, which was the situation between 2300 and 2000 BC when the Pleiades star cluster was the morning stars. The Pleiades star cluster is a group of stars in the constellation of Taurus. They are easily seen in the northern hemisphere, as well as at equatorial latitudes, and have historically been widely used to navigate by. The Greek name is believed to derive from the word meaning 'sail' (πλέω). The name Pleiades appears in both the Septuagint and Masoretic Texts, which is one of the few times the two documents agree on the names of the stars. This indicates the name may not have been redacted in this case, however, it was likely the original term would have been Aziz, the morning star, as this star or group of stars is listed in contrast to the evening star. Throughout all of ancient history, the merchant season in the Mediterranean began with the helical rising of the Pleiades, which shows the importance of the star cluster to the Canaanites, and their ancient trading partners. The Pleiades were rising in the vernal equinox around 2300 years ago, which means they would have been seen as the 'morning stars' of their time. By 2000 BC the Pleiades would have no longer been the morning stars but did continue to be used for navigation throughout recorded history.
Author : R. Pudsey
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505987997
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (879 download)
Download or read book The Watcher of the Night Sky written by R. Pudsey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Abigail Crumble never really enjoyed talking about love and marriage and other such nonsense - no matter how often her boy obsessed best friend pestered her to do so. Or so she so adamantly proclaimed. Yet, on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, after being tormented and belittled by some ill-mannered boys, Abigail makes the biggest, most contradictory mistake of her life. She wishes upon the stars for love, or even the smallest amount of attention, without knowing the full impact of such a feat. Abigail soon finds her simple life in disarray as princes, men and mysterious creatures come to her door, each adamantly in love with her and refusing to leave her side. Not only does she discover that she is cursed but also revealed is one of the biggest secrets that her parents had long decided to conceal from her. Mixing fantasy, humour, and romance, The Watcher of the Night Sky tells of one girl's journey to rid herself of a curse that was definitely more than she wished for.
Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher : Arkham House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Watchers Out of Time, and Others written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by Arkham House Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Sheehan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Worlds in the Sky written by William Sheehan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheehan weaves together scientific history, anecdotes surrounding planetary discoveries, and his own personal reflections as an amateur astronomer to describe how the current understanding of the moon and the planets emerged and how certain individuals in history shaped the world's knowledge about the solar system. Includes bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jane Brox
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547487150
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Brilliant written by Jane Brox and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light
Author : Rebecca Roanhorse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 153443769X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Black Sun written by Rebecca Roanhorse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the “engrossing and vibrant” (Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Riot Baby) first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic. A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial even proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain. Crafted with unforgettable characters, Rebecca Roanhorse has created a “brilliant world that shows the full panoply of human grace and depravity” (Ken Liu, award-winning author of The Grace of Kings). This epic adventure explores the decadence of power amidst the weight of history and the struggle of individuals swimming against the confines of society and their broken pasts in this “absolutely tremendous” (S.A. Chakraborty, nationally bestselling author of The City of Brass) and most original series debut of the decade.
