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Author : Neil Munro
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752444045
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Jaunty Jock written by Neil Munro and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Jaunty Jock by Neil Munro
Author : Neil Munro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Hurricane Jack of the Vital Spark written by Neil Munro and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Munro
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Para Handy Tales — The Vital Spark written by Neil Munro and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Para Handy Tales" is a collection of sea adventure tales written by author Neil Munro. Para Handy is the crafty Gaelic skipper of the Vital Spark, a steamboat of the sort that delivered goods from Glasgow to Loch Fyne, the Hebrides, and the west coast highlands of Scotland in the early 20th century. The stories partly focus on his pride in his ship, "the smertest boat in the tred" which he considers to be of a class with the Clyde steamers, but mainly tell of the "high jinks" the crew get up to on their travels.
Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804270
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Sophie's World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author : Dan McDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899863129
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (631 download)
Download or read book The Clyde Puffer written by Dan McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lack of a pier was no obstacle to the Clyde Puffer Her crew would beach her, unload in the shallows and watch the customers wade in and pick up the cargo. Dan McDonald was one of few landsmen to sail with the puffermen, and here his knowledge is illustrated with a collection of photographs.
Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547527543
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Author : Hali Felt
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466847468
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Soundings written by Hali Felt and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating account of a woman working without much recognition . . . to map the ocean floor and change the course of ocean science.” —San Francisco Chronicle Soundings is the story of the enigmatic woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. Before Marie Tharp, geologist and gifted draftsperson, the whole world, including most of the scientific community, thought the ocean floor was a vast expanse of nothingness. In 1948, at age 28, Marie walked into the geophysical lab at Columbia University and practically demanded a job. The scientists at the lab were all male. Through sheer willpower and obstinacy, Marie was given the job of interpreting the soundings (records of sonar pings measuring the ocean’s depths) brought back from the ocean-going expeditions of her male colleagues. The marriage of artistry and science behind her analysis of this dry data gave birth to a major work: the first comprehensive map of the ocean floor, which laid the groundwork for proving the then-controversial theory of continental drift. Marie’s scientific knowledge, her eye for detail and her skill as an artist revealed not a vast empty plane, but an entire world of mountains and volcanoes, ridges and rifts, and a gateway to the past that allowed scientists the means to imagine how the continents and the oceans had been created over time. Hali Felt brings to vivid life the story of the pioneering scientist whose work became the basis for the work of others scientists for generations to come. “Felt’s enthusiasm for Tharp reaches the page, revealing Tharp, who died in 2006, to be a strong-willed woman living according to her own rules.” —The Washington Post
Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429955198
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Neil Munro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Para Handy and Other Tales written by Neil Munro and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429913541
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Foxmask written by Juliet Marillier and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foxmask is the second book of a fantasy duet from Juliet Marillier, weaving history and folklore into a saga of adventure, romance, and magic. The Norseman Eyvind, a fierce and loyal Wolfskin, came to a new land on top of the world to find his destiny. With his priestess bride Nessa he saved the land and weathered the treachery that was caused by Eyvind's blood-sworn friend Somerled. After much pain and sorrow the two lovers have managed to create a society where the Norse warriors and the gentle folks of the Orkney Isles live and thrive in contentment at last. A decade and more has passed since the devastating events of the creation of the settlement and Eyvind and Nessa have watched their children grow and thrive in peace. But not all on the islands are content or at peace. Thorvald, the young son of Margaret, widow of the slain king and Eyvind's war leader, has always felt apart and at odds with all he knows. He learns upon his coming to manhood that he is not his father's son but that of the love that Margaret bore for the hated Somerled and that Somerled was not killed for his treachery but sent on a boat, adrift with little more than a knife and skein of water, doomed to the god's will. Thorvald is determined to find a boat and cast off to the West in a desperate bid to find a father he never knew...and to find out if he is made of the same stuff as the heinous traitor. The tragedy of this scheme would be horrific enough...if it were not for the fact that Creidhe, the winsome daughter of Eyvind and Nessa has loved Thorvald since birth and unbeknownst to him conspires to go along on this most perilous of quests. What happens to them on their journey of discovery will ultimately change the lives of all they know and love...and will doom (or redeem) an entire people. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Maddalena Bearzi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226040186
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Dolphin Confidential written by Maddalena Bearzi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “compelling” up-close memoir of a career spent among marine mammals and a portrait of the daily lives of dolphins (Publishers Weekly). Working among charismatic and clever dolphins in the wild is a unique thrill—and this book invites us shore-bound dreamers to join Maddalena Bearzi as she travels alongside them. In a fascinating account, she takes us inside the world of a marine scientist and offers a firsthand understanding of marine mammal behavior, as well as the frustrations and delights that make up dolphin research. Bearzi recounts her experiences at sea, tracing her own evolution as a woman and a scientist from her earliest travails to her transformation into an advocate for conservation and dolphin protection. These compelling, in-depth descriptions of her fieldwork also present a captivating look into dolphin social behavior and intelligence. Drawing on her extensive experience with the metropolitan bottlenose dolphins of California in particular, she offers insights into the daily lives of these creatures—as well as the difficulties involved in collecting the data that transforms hunches into hypotheses and eventually scientific facts. The book closes by addressing the critical environmental and conservation problems facing these magnificent, socially complex, highly intelligent, and emotional beings. “Pairing vivid images of bottlenose dolphins swimming together and caring for one another with descriptions of the meticulous scientific work required to record their behavior, Maddalena Bearzi sheds light on the life of a field biologist…A beautifully written account.”—Library Journal
Author : Stuart Donald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780717946044
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)
Download or read book In the Wake of the Vital Spark written by Stuart Donald and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Munro
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857907115
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Para Handy written by Neil Munro and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News in 1905. The master mariner and his crew - Dougie the mate, Macphail the engineer, Sunny Jim and the Tar - all play their part in evoking the irresistible atmosphere of a bygone age when puffers sailed between West Highland ports and the great city of Glasgow. This definitive edition contains all three collections published in the author's lifetime, as well as those that were unpublished and a new story which was discovered in 2001. Extensive notes accompany each story, providing fascinating insights into colloquialisms, place-names and historical events. This volume also includes a wealth of contemporary photographs, depicting the harbours, steamers and puffers from the age of the Vital Spark.
Author : Neil Munro
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn written by Neil Munro and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro is a humble yet affectionate novel about a young man back from college on the verge of returning to his small, country hometown. This intimate tale is a tour of Scotland and a love letter to small hometowns.
Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645721X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Literary Afterlife written by Bernard A. Drew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an encyclopedic work, arranged by broad categories and then by original authors, of literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name, posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer, unauthorized pastiches, and "biographies" of literary characters. The authors and works are entered under the following categories: Action and Adventure, Classics (18th Century and Earlier), Classics (19th Century), Classics (20th Century), Crime and Mystery, Espionage, Fantasy and Horror, Humor, Juveniles (19th Century), Juveniles (20th Century), Poets, Pulps, Romances, Science Fiction and Westerns. Each original author entry includes a short biography, a list of original works, and information on the pastiches based on the author's characters.
Author : Neil Munro
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Lost Pibroch, and other Sheiling Stories written by Neil Munro and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get transported to the rugged landscape of Scotland with Neil Munro's 'The Lost Pibroch and Other Shieling Stories'. This collection of short stories takes you on a journey through love, war, poverty, and the supernatural, all with a delightful Gaelic lilt. Munro's writing is beautifully crafted, with surprise endings that leave you wanting more. Here's a couple of the titles included in the book 'Red Hand', 'A Fine Pair of Shoes', and 'Castle Dark'. Must-read for anyone who loves Scottish literature or wants to explore the rich cultural heritage of the country.
Author : Neil Munro
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Shoes of Fortune written by Neil Munro and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Shoes of Fortune" by Neil Munro. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
