Apes and Angels

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466868759
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Apes and Angels by : Ben Bova

Download or read book Apes and Angels written by Ben Bova and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the second book of the Star Quest Trilogy which began with Death Wave. Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it’s possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Earth is safe. Now, guided by the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbor intelligent species, determined to save them from the doom that is hurtling toward them. The crew of the Odysseus has arrived at Mithra Gamma, the third planet of the star Mithra, to protect the stone-age inhabitants from the Death Wave. But they’ll also have to protect themselves. The Star Quest Trilogy #1 Death Wave #2 Apes and Angels At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Apes and Angels

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387095570
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Apes and Angels by : Richard Edward Connell

Download or read book Apes and Angels written by Richard Edward Connell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Apes and Angels

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ISBN 13 : 9780715352397
Total Pages : 126 pages
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Book Synopsis Apes and Angels by : Lewis Perry Curtis

Download or read book Apes and Angels written by Lewis Perry Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Apes Or Angels?

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1425955215
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (259 download)

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Book Synopsis Apes Or Angels? by : Cornelius J. Troost

Download or read book Apes Or Angels? written by Cornelius J. Troost and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District civil lawsuit settled in favor of Kitzmiller.

Angels and Ages

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307271218
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Angels and Ages by : Adam Gopnik

Download or read book Angels and Ages written by Adam Gopnik and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family men and social climbers, ambitious manipulators and courageous adventurers, grieving parents and brilliant scholars. Above all we see them as thinkers and writers, making and witnessing the great changes in thought that mark truly modern times.

Angels, Apes, and Men

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ISBN 13 : 9780977482634
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (826 download)

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Book Synopsis Angels, Apes, and Men by : Stanley L. Jaki

Download or read book Angels, Apes, and Men written by Stanley L. Jaki and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Apes, Angels, and Victorians

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Death Wave

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765379503
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Book Synopsis Death Wave by : Ben Bova

Download or read book Death Wave written by Ben Bova and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan Kell and his team return to a vastly changed Earth, where greenhouse flooding and climate shifts have transformed society and nobody wants to hear their warning about a radiation wave that is threatening all life on the planet.

Earth

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0765397218
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Book Synopsis Earth by : Ben Bova

Download or read book Earth written by Ben Bova and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth is the latest science fiction novel from multiple Hugo Award winner Ben Bova, author of Apes and Angels and Survival A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything in its path. The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the rest of the solar system is at two thousand years. Humans were helped by the Predecessors, who provided shielding generators that can protect the solar system. In return, the Predecessors asked humankind's help to save other intelligent species that are in danger of being annihilated. But what of Earth? With the Death Wave no longer a threat to humanity, humans have spread out and colonized all the worlds of the solar system. The technology of the Predecessors has made Earth a paradise, at least on the surface. But a policy of exiling discontented young people to the outer planets and asteroid mines has led to a deep divide between the new worlds and the homeworld, and those tensions are about to explode into open war. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Apes, Language, and the Human Mind

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198026978
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Apes, Language, and the Human Mind by : Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Download or read book Apes, Language, and the Human Mind written by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human. At the forefront of this research, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh recently has achieved a scientific breakthrough of impressive proportions. Her work with Kanzi, a laboratory-reared bonobo, has led to Kanzi's acquisition of linguistic and cognitive skills similar to those of a two and a half year-old human child. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind skillfully combines a fascinating narrative of the Kanzi research with incisive critical analysis of the research's broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological implications. The first part of the book provides a detailed, personal account of Kanzi's infancy, youth, and upbringing, while the second part addresses the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues raised by the Kanzi research. The authors discuss the challenge to the foundations of modern cognitive science presented by the Kanzi research; the methods by which we represent and evaluate the abilities of both primates and humans; and the implications which ape language research has for the study of the evolution of human language. Sure to be controversial, this exciting new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind, and will be important reading for all those working in the fields of primatology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive and developmental psychology.

Survival

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466868767
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Survival written by Ben Bova and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for December—io9 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read This December—The Verge Best SFF of December—Unbound Worlds In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier “death waves,” gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in helping to save other civilizations, organic or machine. But now that the humans have discovered them, they refuse to allow them to leave their planet, reasoning that other humans will inevitably follow if they learn of their existence. The Star Quest Trilogy #1 Death Wave #2 Apes and Angels #3 Survival At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

New Earth

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429948140
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book New Earth written by Ben Bova and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fans of hard sf will enjoy this space adventure” that follows Farside in the Grand Tour series from the six-time Hugo Award winner (Library Journal). The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth. All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years each way, so even if they are able to get back to Earth, nearly 200 years will have elapsed. They will have aged only a dozen years thanks to cryonic suspension, but their friends and family will be gone and the very society that they once knew will have changed beyond recognition. The explorers are going into exile, and they know it. They are on this mission not because they were the best available, but because they were expendable. Upon landing on the planet they discover something unexpected: New Earth is inhabited by a small group of intelligent creatures who look very much like human beings. Who are these people? Are they native to this world, or invaders from elsewhere? While they may seem inordinately friendly to the human explorers, what are their real motivations? What do they want? Moreover, the scientists begin to realize that this planet cannot possibly be natural. They face a startling and nearly unthinkable question: Could New Earth be an artifact?

Evolving God

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022636092X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Evolving God by : Barbara J. King

Download or read book Evolving God written by Barbara J. King and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of How Animals Grieve “contends that religion . . . is a consequence of primate evolution” in this “brilliant book” (Booklist, starred review). Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains—a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal, finite selves. But where did that desire come from? Can we explain its emergence through evolution? Yes, says biological anthropologist Barbara J. King—and doing so not only helps us to understand the religious imagination, but also reveals fascinating links to the lives and minds of our primate cousins. Evolving God draws on King’s own fieldwork among primates in Africa and paleoanthropology of our extinct ancestors to offer a new way of thinking about the origins of religion, one that situates it in a deep need for emotional connection with others, a need we share with apes and monkeys. Though her thesis is provocative, and she’s not above thoughtful speculation, King’s argument is strongly rooted in close observation and analysis. She traces an evolutionary path that connects us to other primates, who, like us, display empathy, make meanings through interaction, create social rules, and display imagination—the basic building blocks of the religious imagination. With fresh insights, she responds to recent suggestions that chimpanzees are spiritual—or even religious—beings, and that our ancient humanlike cousins carefully disposed of their dead well before the time of Neandertals. “Her interpretations result in a provocative hypothesis about the evolution of spirituality.” —The Dallas Morning News

Ape House

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0385530250
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Ape House written by Sara Gruen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly) novel “full of heart, hope, and compelling questions about who we really are” (Redbook) from the acclaimed author of At the Water’s Edge and Water for Elephants “Terrific: an incisive piece of social commentary.”—The New York Times Book Review Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn’t understand people, but apes she gets—especially the bonobos Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena, who are capable of reason and communication through American Sign Language. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she’s ever felt among humans—until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter writing a human interest feature. But when an explosion rocks the lab, John’s piece turns into the story of a lifetime—and Isabel must connect with her own kind to save her family of apes from a new form of human exploitation.

Planet Ape

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ISBN 13 : 9781845334413
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Planet Ape by : Desmond Morris

Download or read book Planet Ape written by Desmond Morris and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planet Ape brings you face to face with your closest living relatives, the Great Apes.Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang-utans are only a hair's breadth away from us in evolutionary terms; our DNA differs by just a few per cent. These fascinating creatures hold up a mirror to humanity, giving us insights into our past, our present, and perhaps even our future - the environmental pressures they face today could be those we face tomorrow. Planet Ape reveals the Great Apes in unprecedented detail: where they live, how they live and the challenges they face. Throughout, the approach is to compare them with each other and with us, their cousins. Using innovative artworks, photographs and text, the book makes key comparisons with human beings including anatomy, social life, physical and mental development, diet and communication. From peace-loving bonobos to warring chimpanzee communities, from highly sociable gorillas to solitary orang-utans, from their amazing communication skills to their breathtaking physical agility, Planet Ape is the first book to do justice to the diversity and complexity of the ape world and what it tells us about our own.

Neptune

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Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250296641
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Neptune written by Ben Bova and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo Award winner Ben Bova continues his grand tour of the human settled solar system with a fan-pleasing look at life in the Outer Planets, among the moons of Neptune. In the future, humanity has spread throughout the solar system, on planets and moons once visited only by robots or explored at a distance by far-voyaging spacecraft. No matter how hostile or welcoming the environment, mankind has forged a path and found a home. In the far reaches of the solar system, the outer planets—billions of miles from Earth, unknown for millennia—are being settled. Neptune, the ice giant, is swathed in clouds of hydrogen, helium, and methane and circled by rings of rock and dust. Three years ago, Ilona Magyr’s father, Miklos, disappeared while exploring the seas of Neptune. Everyone believes he is dead—crushed, frozen, or boiled alive in Neptune’s turbulent seas. With legendary space explorer Derek Humbolt piloting her ship and planetary scientist Jan Meitner guiding the search, Ilona Magyr knows she will find her father—alive—on Neptune. Her plans are irrevocably altered when she and her team discover the wreckage of an alien ship deep in Neptune’s ocean, a discovery which changes humanity’s understanding of its future...and its past. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Orphaned (Ape Quartet #4)

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545655064
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Orphaned (Ape Quartet #4) written by Eliot Schrefer and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In National Book Award finalist Endangered, Eliot Schrefer showed a human's first encounter with an ape. Now comes this astonishing story of a family of gorillas' first encounter with a human. Before humans, and before human history, there were the apes.Snub is a young gorilla, living in the heart of what will eventually be known as Africa. She is jealous of her mother's new baby . . . and restless in her need to explore. When a natural disaster shakes up her family, Snub finds herself as the guardian of her young sibling . . . and lost in a reshaped world.Snub may feel orphaned, but she is not alone. There are other creatures stalking through the woods -- a new form of predator, walking on two legs. One of their kind is also orphaned, and is taken in by Snub. But the intersection of the human world and the gorilla world will bring both new connections and new battles.In his boldest work yet, two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer shows us a riveting, heartbreaking early encounter between ape and man -- told from the ape's point of view. It is a journey unlike any other in recent literature.