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Author : Charles Smith Cheltnam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Field-full of Wonders written by Charles Smith Cheltnam and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David G. Hartwell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765398133
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Age of Wonders written by David G. Hartwell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction gives an insider's view of the strange and wonderful world of science fiction, by one of the most respected editors in the field, David G. Hartwell (1941–2016). David G. Hartwell edited science fiction and fantasy for over twenty years. In that time, he worked with acclaimed and popular writers such as Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, L.E. Modesitt, Terry Bisson, Lisa Goldstein, and Philip Jose Farmer, and discovered hot new talents like Kathleen Ann Goonan and Patrick O'Leary. Now in Age of Wonder, Hartwell describes the field he loved, worked in, and shaped as editor, critic, and anthologist. Like those other American art forms, jazz, comics, and rock 'n' roll, science fiction is the product of a rich and fascinating subculture. Age of Wonder is a fascinating tour of the origins, history, and culture of the science fiction world, written with insight and genuine affection for this wonder-filled literature, and addressed to newcomers and longtime SF readers alike. Age of Wonder remains "the landmark work" Roger Zelazny called the first edition. The book contains sections that offer advice on teaching courses in science fiction, disquisitions on the controversial subgenre of hard SF, and practical explanations of the economics of publishing science fiction and fantasy. Age of Wonder still lives up to Hugo and Nebula Award winner Vonda McIntyre's description: "An entertaining and provocative book that will inspire discussion and argument for years to come."
Author : Heather Durham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578442815
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Going Feral written by Heather Durham and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these deeply personal and intellectually curious essays, Heather Durham explores wild America weaving the unique perspectives of trained ecologist, inquisitive philosopher, and restless nomad, probing intricacies of the natural world as profoundly as she does herself. She wanders from New England vernal pools to Pacific Northwest salmon runs, Rocky Mountain pine forests to Desert Southwest sage flats in search of adventure, solace, authenticity, and belonging in the more-than-human world. Part scientifically-informed nature writing, part soul-searching memoir, Going Feral is the story of a human animal learning to belong to the earth."--Amazon.com.
Author : Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 157131959X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book World of Wonders written by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A poet celebrates the wonders of nature in a collection of essays that could almost serve as a coming-of-age memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted—no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape—she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. “What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy. Praise for World of Wonders Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year An NPR Best Book of 2020 An Esquire Best Book of 2020 A Publishers Weekly “Big Indie Book of Fall 2020” A BuzzFeed Best Book of Fall 2020 “Hands-down one of the most beautiful books of the year.” —NPR “A timely story about love, identity and belonging.” —New York Times Book Review “A truly wonderous essay collection.” —Roxane Gay, The Audacity
Author : Tommy Wonder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780945296171
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (961 download)
Download or read book The Books of Wonder written by Tommy Wonder and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rhonda Rubenstein
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452164673
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Wonders written by Rhonda Rubenstein and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature is full of fleeting wonders. This breathtaking collection of nature photography reveals rare creatures, transports us to distant landscapes, and captures uncommon moments of drama and beauty in the natural world. From a heart-pounding shot of the Wildebeest Migration to a glimpse of the elusive Pampas cat, each image tells a story about the diversity and grandeur of life on earth. Bold, surprising, and jaw-droppingly beautiful, these photographs are all winners of the California Academy of Sciences' BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition. With more than 100 photographs and captions explaining the scientific phenomena and photographic techniques behind each picture, this book will captivate nature lovers, science enthusiasts, photographers, and adventurers.
Author : Jacques Vallee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110144472X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Wonders in the Sky written by Jacques Vallee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most ambitious works of paranormal investigation of our time, here is an unprecedented compendium of pre-twentieth-century UFO accounts, written with rigor and color by two of today's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena. In the past century, individuals, newspapers, and military agencies have recorded thousands of UFO incidents, giving rise to much speculation about flying saucers, visitors from other planets, and alien abductions. Yet the extraterrestrial phenomenon did not begin in the present era. Far from it. The authors of Wonders in the Sky reveal a thread of vividly rendered-and sometimes strikingly similar- reports of mysterious aerial phenomena from antiquity through the modern age. These accounts often share definite physical features- such as the heat felt and described by witnesses-that have not changed much over the centuries. Indeed, such similarities between ancient and modern sightings are the rule rather than the exception. In Wonders in the Sky, respected researchers Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck examine more than 500 selected reports of sightings from biblical-age antiquity through the year 1879-the point at which the Industrial Revolution deeply changed the nature of human society, and the skies began to open to airplanes, dirigibles, rockets, and other opportunities for misinterpretation represented by military prototypes. Using vivid and engaging case studies, and more than seventy-five illustrations, they reveal that unidentified flying objects have had a major impact not only on popular culture but on our history, on our religion, and on the models of the world humanity has formed from deepest antiquity. Sure to become a classic among UFO enthusiasts and other followers of unexplained phenomena, Wonders in the Sky is the most ambitious, broad-reaching, and intelligent analysis ever written on premodern aerial mysteries.
Author : Lynn Curlee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416953604
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Ballpark written by Lynn Curlee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides a tour through baseball history with this tribute to America's favorite ballparks.
Author : Leigh Grossman
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434440354
Total Pages : 7287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Sense of Wonder written by Leigh Grossman and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 7287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
Author : R. B.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Admirable Curiosities, Rarities and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland ... written by R. B. and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bithia Mary Croker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Nine Days' Wonder written by Bithia Mary Croker and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Garland Thayer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477148590
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Moments of Mystery and Wonder written by John Garland Thayer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHN GARLAND THAYER grew up on a farm with seven siblings at Abingdon, Virginia, though he is now a Tennessean. He earned a bachelor's degree from Berea College, a master's degree from East Tennessee ~tate University, a Master of Sacred Theology degree from Boston University School of Theology, and a doctorate from the American Institute of Holistic Theology. He is a retired educator and a United Methodist pastor. Thayer is married with four children and seven grandchildren. The author visits homebound members of his church in Johnson City. He enjoys gardening, writing, dancing, reading, and public speaking.
Author : Jim Crumley
Publisher : Saraband
ISBN 13 : 191339364X
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Seasons of Storm and Wonder written by Jim Crumley and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jim Crumley, the “pre-eminent Scottish nature-writer” (Guardian), this landmark volume documents the extraordinary natural life of the Scottish Highlands and bears witness to the toll climate chaos is taking on its wildlife, habitats, and biodiversity—laying bare what is at stake for future generations. In this landmark volume, Jim Crumley brings together a sweeping five-year quest to document the seasons and how he has seen them change. It explores the damage to the Earth’s natural rhythms, but also relishes the enduring beauty and wonder of nature itself. Drawing on his studies of each season over more than thirty years and reworking the volumes in his best-selling Seasons quartet, Crumley has created this unique account of our natural world today. After a lifetime of immersing himself in the landscapes of Scotland and a handful of other northern countries, Crumley has amassed a body of knowledge and insight and a bank of memorable imagery. Combining lyrical prose and passionate eloquence, he lays bare the impact of an increasingly chaotic climate and urges us all towards a more daring conservation vision that embraces everything from the mountain treeline to a second spring for the wolf.
Author : Clara Linklater Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Celtic Wonder World written by Clara Linklater Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Winder
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408192241
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Little Wonder written by Robert Winder and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wisden, at his peak known as 'The Little Wonder', was a key member of the England cricket team who in 1859 sailed across the Atlantic on the world's first overseas cricket tour. In 1864, after his retirement, Wisden published the first edition of the book that would make his name immortal. He printed 'full and accurate scores' along with indispensable facts about the Derby, the St Leger, the university rowing matches 'and other Interesting Information', including potted histories of the Wars of the Roses. The 1864 edition is now valued at anything up to £25,000, and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published continuously ever since – not for nothing is it known as 'the cricketer's bible'. The Almanack has, despite some close shaves, never missed a year. In 1937 it was just 48 hours from liquidation, and in the Second World War a German bomber set fire to the company's headquarters, destroying its records. And yet somehow, the yellow (since 1938) book has retained its antique, rugged character. It is a labour-of-love collection of records for cricket obsessives, but also a hearty eccentric. It loves to count the number of wides in a season, but also delights in relating tales from far-flung pavilions. Through the telling of Wisden's story, we also glimpse the history of English, and world, cricket. The book is a window onto the game's most charismatic characters, its high points, lows and political storms. In The Little Wonder Robert Winder traces the central role the game has played in national life for so long. The book's 150th anniversary in 2013 is the ideal time to tell the extraordinary story of Wisden's – and cricket's – journey from Victorian times to the modern world. New every year, it feels as though it has been with us for ever.
Author : Loji Roji Saibi
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482832992
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Seeds Wonder of Borneo written by Loji Roji Saibi and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a researcher involved in a research project on seeds that could be processed as food supplement. This product was presumably could prolong human lives. In the midst of a tropical rainforest, there is a plant that produces the incredible seeds. The new discovered seeds to become the panacea for a long life. Attempts were made by several groups to obtain the seeds and process them into the product that became a booming business throughout the globe. However, a conflict broke out when the World Human Life Foundation found the seeds, which became saleable products. Thus began stiff competition between the foundation and other entrepreneurs with similar motives. The researcher who led a team of experts was behind the foundation business success. He had to face challenges after challenges in promoting the product. Even after he no longer worked with the foundation, he continued to stay involved for the businesss sake, sometimes even at the cost of his own life. He was constantly harassed and intimidated; his life was put in danger and he was forced to live the life of a fugitive on the run and hunted across every country.
Author : Micha Archer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593109651
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Wonder Walkers written by Micha Archer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Caldecott Honor winner! Micha Archer's gorgeous, detailed collages give readers a fresh outlook on the splendors of nature. When two curious kids embark on a "wonder walk," they let their imaginations soar as they look at the world in a whole new light. They have thought-provoking questions for everything they see: Is the sun the world's light bulb? Is dirt the world's skin? Are rivers the earth's veins? Is the wind the world breathing? I wonder . . . Young readers will wonder too, as they ponder these gorgeous pages and make all kinds of new connections. What a wonderful world indeed!
