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Lighting the World

Author : Jim Rogers
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 146687936X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Lighting the World written by Jim Rogers and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.2 billion people on Earth still don't have electricity. Even where cell phones are now common, like sub-Saharan Africa and parts of India, villagers still walk miles to charge them. But new large-scale, sustainable solutions will not only usher in a new era of light, but be an important first step in lifting people from poverty and putting them on a road of sustainable economic development. Also, a unique, transforming opportunity for Western thinkers and practitioners will be created. These areas have largely skipped the analog stage of power development, and have moved straight from the middle ages to the digital age. They are not encumbered by existing infrastructure, dependence on fossil fuels, or too many outdated laws and regulations. An ideal innovation incubator, the developing world might just be the best way to make progress on our own energy issues at home. Jim Rogers is leading a grand collaborative effort to bring sustainable, clean electrical power to everyone who lacks it. This reverse engineering, he contends, could solve the energy crises of America and Europe, while also making the world a cleaner, smarter place. But it won't be easy. In Lighting the World, Rogers details the bold thinking, international cooperation, and political will required to illuminate the future for everyone.

Lighting Our World

Author : Catherine Rondina
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554535948
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Lighting Our World written by Catherine Rondina and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated introduction to world festivities that are celebrated with candles, bonfires, lanterns, fireworks and other traditional lights

Flash and Gleam

Author : Sue Fliess
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1541595513
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Flash and Gleam written by Sue Fliess and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soft glow of a candle, the blink of a firefly, a burst of fireworks—light is everywhere in our world! Rhyming text and luminous illustrations follow four children as they experience many different forms of light. "[M]ultiple STEAM applications, from poetry and creative writing to introductions to energy and light to how the sun affects human life, and doubles as a great read-aloud or a starry bedtime story."—starred, Booklist

Fire and Light

Author : James MacGregor Burns
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250024900
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Fire and Light written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that embody the best in Western civilization and shows us how understanding them is essential for anyone who would seek to decipher the complex problems and potentialities of the world we will live in tomorrow." --Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author of Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989 "James MacGregor Burns is a national treasure, and Fire and Light is the elegiac capstone to a career devoted to understanding the seminal ideas that made America - for better and for worse - what it is." --Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Revolutionary Summer Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, overturning governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments. Fire and Light brings to vivid life the galaxy of revolutionary leaders of thought and action who, armed with a new sense of human possibility, driven by a hunger for change, created the modern world. Burns discovers the origins of a distinctive American Enlightenment in men like the Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and their early encounters with incendiary European ideas about liberty and equality. It was these thinker-activists who framed the United States as a grand and continuing experiment in Enlightenment principles. Today the same questions Enlightenment thinkers grappled with have taken on new urgency around the world: in the turmoil of the Arab Spring, in the former Soviet Union, and China, as well as in the United States itself. What should a nation be? What should citizens expect from their government? Who should lead and how can leadership be made both effective and accountable? What is happiness, and what can the state contribute to it? Burns's exploration of the ideals and arguments that formed the bedrock of our modern world shines a new light on these ever-important questions.

The Light at the Bottom of the World

Author : London Shah
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1368044530
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Light at the Bottom of the World written by London Shah and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From debut author London Shah, comes a thrilling futuristic Sci-Fi mystery perfect for fans of Illuminae and These Broken Stars.In the last days of the twenty-first century, sea creatures swim through the ruins of London. Trapped in the abyss, humankind wavers between hope and fear of what lurks in the depths around them, and hope that they might one day find a way back to the surface. When sixteen-year-old submersible racer Leyla McQueen is chosen to participate in the city's prestigious annual marathon, she sees an opportunity to save her father, who has been arrested on false charges. The Prime Minister promises the champion whatever their heart desires. But the race takes an unexpected turn, forcing Leyla to make an impossible choice. Now she must brave unfathomable waters and defy a corrupt government determined to keep its secrets, all the while dealing with a guarded, hotheaded companion she never asked for in the first place. If Leyla fails to discover the truths at the heart of her world, or falls prey to her own fears, she risks capture-or worse. And her father will be lost to her forever.

Light at the Edge of the World

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926706897
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Light at the Edge of the World written by Wade Davis and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo, the mountains of Tibet, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti. In Light at the Edge of the World, Davis explores the idea that these distinct cultures represent unique visions of life itself and have much to teach the rest of the world about different ways of living and thinking. As he investigates the dark undercurrents tearing people from their past and propelling them into an uncertain future, Davis reiterates that the threats faced by indigenous cultures endanger and diminish all cultures.

World Light

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307430316
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book World Light written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet’s life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness. As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this extraordinary novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf’s ambition drives him onward—and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women—World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.

Light Of The World

Author : Peter Seewald
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681493004
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Light Of The World written by Peter Seewald and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never has a Pope, in a book-length interview, dealt so directly with such wide-ranging and controversial issues as Pope Benedict XVI does in Light of the World. Taken from a recent week-long series of interviews with veteran journalist Peter Seewald, this book tackles head-on some of the greatest issues facing the world of our time. Seewald poses such forthright questions to Pope Benedict as: What caused the clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church? Was there a "cover up"? Have you considered resigning? Does affirming the goodness of the human body mean a plea for "better sex"? Can there be a genuine dialogue with Islam? Should the Church rethink Catholic teaching on priestly celibacy, women priests, contraception, and same-sex relationships? Holy Communion for divorced-and-remarried Catholics? Is there a schism in the Catholic Church? Should there be a Third Vatican Council? Is there any hope for Christian unity? Is Christianity the only truth? Can the Pope really speak for Jesus Christ? How can the Pope claim to be "infallible"? Is there a "dictatorship of relativism" today? Twice before these two men held wide-ranging discussions, which became the best-selling books Salt of the Earth and God and the World. Then, Seewald's discussion partner was Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's chief doctrinal office. Now, Joseph Ratzinger is Pope Benedict XVI, the spiritual leader of the world's over one billion Catholics. Though Seewald now interviews the Pope himself, the journalist "pulls no punches", posing some of the thorniest questions any Pope has had to address. Believers and unbelievers will be fascinated to hear Benedict's thoughtful, straightforward and thought-provoking replies. This is no stern preachment or ponderous theological tract, but a lively, fast-paced, challenging, even entertaining exchange.

Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting

Author : Catherine Rich
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597265969
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting written by Catherine Rich and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While certain ecological problems associated with artificial night lighting are widely known-for instance, the disorientation of sea turtle hatchlings by beachfront lighting-the vast range of influences on all types of animals and plants is only beginning to be recognized. From nest choice and breeding success of birds to behavioral and physiological changes in salamanders, many organisms are seriously affected by human alterations in natural patterns of light and dark. Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting is the first book to consider the environmental effects of the intentional illumination of the night. It brings together leading scientists from around the world to review the state of knowledge on the subject and to describe specific effects that have been observed across a full range of taxonomic groups, including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, and plants. Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting provides a scientific basis to begin addressing the challenge of conserving the nighttime environment. It cogently demonstrates the vital importance of this until-now neglected topic and is an essential new work for conservation planners, researchers, and anyone concerned with human impacts on the natural world.

Be the Light that You Are

Author : Debra Landwehr Engle
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612834337
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Be the Light that You Are written by Debra Landwehr Engle and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 Simple Ways to Live with Light and Love—Change the World! Be the Light that You Are: Ten Simple Ways to Transform Your World with Love inspires readers to put their spiritual practice in action—and gives them concrete ways to do it. In a time of highly charged political and emotional issues, this simple guide helps readers move from bitterness and divisiveness to true peace. The book outlines ten steps for extending the light within, including: Claim your unique gifts Foster self-love Meet others without judgment Ask for help Rise above the battlefield Take the path of forgiveness Inspired by A Course in Miracles and other spiritual teachings, Be the Light that You Are provides a simple path to help readers live with kindness, decency, and authenticity in troubled times.

Toward the Light

Author : Johanne Agerskov
Publisher : Vandrer Mod Lysets Forlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward the Light written by Johanne Agerskov and published by Vandrer Mod Lysets Forlag. This book was released on 1979 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sub-title of this deeply moving and compelling work defines it as a message to mankind from the transcendental world thus placing it firmly among the very few books which are held to be of supernatural origin. 'Toward the Light' is about love and forgiveness. It is about peace and the unification of a divided humanity, and about achieving a more complete understanding of ourselves. For some this book will be controversial reading. It explains such things as the true nature of Good and Evil; the mystery of Reincarnation; and the consequences of the Law of Reciprocal Action (The Law of Karma). It answers theological questions such as how can we reconcile belief in God who is all-good and all-powerful with the existence of a world that contains so much that is incontestably evil? It is, quite simply, a work of revealed knowledge that bears on the fundamental problems of life -- and upon the reality of death. The book offers a message to all -- regardless of race, religion or creed. All that is asked is that the reader should keep an open mind and be guided by his or her conscience. That being the case, 'Toward the Light' will illuminate the spirit of all who open themselves to its message, for its message is truly a gift of love to every human being.

Ye are the Light of the World

Author : Harold B. Lee
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Ye are the Light of the World written by Harold B. Lee and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 1974 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ye are the light of the world. A city thatis set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put itunder a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto allthat are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.--Matthew 5:14-16President Harold B. Lee was recognized by church members as a dynamic speaker whose love for and understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ was always evident in his actions and words. Ye Are the Light of the World, a companion volume to Stand Ye in Holy Places, brings together more of the powerful sermons and writings of this prophet of God. He speaks about the power of example and the need for the saints to be united in their faith, to do the right things for the right reasons, to always be a light and example to the world. He talks about love, family and the home, with special messages to youth to guide them in their dating and courtship. He gives commonsense advice for parents with special emphasis on keeping the family together through regular family home evenings. He speaks of all aspects of life for active church members, finally bearing powerful testimony to the divinity of the Savior and continuing revelation in the latter days. May all who read this powerful book listen to the wisdom of this beloved leader to continue to stand in holy places and always be a light unto the world.

The Light at the End of the World

Author : J. A. Cummings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984474752
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Light at the End of the World written by J. A. Cummings and published by . This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is coming to an end. At least, that's what Jessica is told. All she knows is that she's pregnant, and the father is a fallen angel. She finds herself mixed up with an unlikely group of potential Messiahs and Anti-Christs, and the only thing anybody knows is this: the devil is walking on the earth, and they are the only ones who can stop him.

Light for the World to See

Author : Kwame Alexander
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 0358539412
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book Light for the World to See written by Kwame Alexander and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in the tradition of James Baldwin's "A Report from Occupied Territory," Light for the World to See is a rap session on race. A lyrical response to the struggles of Black lives in our world . . . to America's crisis of conscience . . . to the centuries of loss, endless resilience, and unstoppable hope. Includes an introduction by the author and a bold, graphically designed interior. A collection of three powerful poems that take on racism and Black resistance in America by New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander. Includes an introduction by the author.

The Light

Author : Jacqueline Brown
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535457415
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book The Light written by Jacqueline Brown and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bria Ford, a college student with a distant wealthy father and the seemingly perfect boyfriend, is driving to Florida with her three best friends, but they never arrive. In the predawn hours of Thanksgiving, a bright light flashes and everything electronic stops. Stranded on a frozen highway, the group's only hope rests in two strangers, the handsome Jonah Page and his sister. The strangers lead the way as the six of them battle freezing temperatures, dehydration, and hunger to make it to the Page family home in rural North Carolina. Once there, their lives become a battle against both nature and those who try to take their lives. While struggling to survive in a world she has never known, Bria discovers that her life was based on lies, and these strangers know the truth. In this first book of the New Dawn series, Bria must learn who she is, find a way to forgive, and open her heart to those who love her.

Luna Loves Art

Author : Joseph Coelho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783448654
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Luna Loves Art written by Joseph Coelho and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the gallery, Luna is transfixed by the famous art, but her classmate Finn doesn't seem to want to be there at all. Finn's family doesn't look like the one in Henry Moore's 'Family Group' sculpture, but then neither does Luna's. Maybe all Finn needs is a friend. Join Luna and Finn at the Art Gallery and step inside famous works of art by Van Gogh, Picasso, Jackson Pollock and more! Can you spot all the art?

The Illumination

Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446468585
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Illumination written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something strange is going on. All over the world, pain is manifesting itself as light. Cuts and bruises blaze and flash. Arthritic joints glow. Injured troops emit radiant white shards into the desert night. On the news, they're calling it 'The Illumination'. As this breathtaking phenomenon takes holds, a private journal of love notes passes into the keeping of Carol Ann Page, a lonely hospital patient, and from there through the hands of five other people. Each of them will find their lives changed forever over a story which spans decades and continents, a story that shines a spectacular light on the wounds we all bear...