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Book Synopsis Little Glass Planet by : Dobby Gibson
Download or read book Little Glass Planet written by Dobby Gibson and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Dobby Gibson’s new book transform the everyday into the revelatory Little Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa, Texas, Dobby Gibson maps disparate landscapes, both terrestrial and subliminal, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Aphoristic, allusive, and collaged, these poems mine our various human languages to help us understand what we might mean when we speak to each other—as lovers, as family, as strangers. Little Glass Planet uses lyric broadcasts to foreshorten the perceived distances between us, opening borders and pointing toward a sense of collectivity. “This is my love letter to the world,” Gibson writes, “someone call us a sitter. / We’re going to be here a while.” Elegiac, funny, and candid, Little Glass Planet is a kind of manual for paying attention to a world that is increasingly engineered to distract us from our own humanity. It’s a book that points toward hope, offering the possibilities of a “we” that only the open frequency of poetry can create, possibilities that are indistinguishable from love.
Book Synopsis The Glass Planet by : Christopher Zyck
Download or read book The Glass Planet written by Christopher Zyck and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2352 AD, humankind has irresponsibly short-changed themselves as the destructive forces of greed-fascism exploit our home for its perceived riches at the sacrifice of the 'wellbeing' of the human condition. The battle to preserve THE GLASS PLANET from Minister Riverstrike and the human forces seeking dominance and wealth over the masses is on the shoulders of the two time-travelers from the 20th century who gain celebrity as the first time-travelers in history. They inspire the Zealot Sentinels, lead by the Commander Janalake, who is a trusted advisor to Minister Riverstrike, but she harbors a mysterious past with an affection for the proletariat. The future of the existence of the human race will forever change, if it is able to survive at all, by preserving THE GLASS PLANET!
Download or read book The Glass Planet written by Morgan Reed and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indiginous people on a young planet find themselves thrust into a new world of thought and culture when accidently invaded by a deep-space research team from an alien world. Loosely retold stories of the Bible starting with the experience of Ezekiel and then the first book of Moses, this is an interesting history retold in novel form, that our world of belief might have started with the visitation of extra-terrestrial visitors. What if the miracles in the bible and even God himself were close encounters with extra-terrestrials? This premise is explored here in fiction, in the first book of the series, "The Glass Planet: The Clear Beings."
Download or read book The Glass Planet written by Reed and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-03-10 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young autistic Gwydion and his archeologist grandfather are reading ancient stories together and they take us through time in earth's history to thousands of years ago with the book of Moses, the Exodus, and more. But some one or some THING is trying to kill them and stop them from translating the oldest stories. Stories of ancient Gods arriving here, touching off beautiful new civilizations only to be thwarted by the arrival of others from far off worlds. Twisted remains of an unknown king are found in an impossible silver Sarcophagus, and more Scrolls are discovered, stunning young Gwydion into becoming a speaker for the long dead by destroying an ancient demon and gaining his own guardian angel. The old God's have gone home vacating this planet mysteriously leaving empty husks of civilization and confused aboriginal populations all over the world searching to regain the knowledge of their ancient Gods. Gwydion tries to help and pays the highest price.
Book Synopsis The Green Book by : Jill Paton Walsh
Download or read book The Green Book written by Jill Paton Walsh and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Paton Walsh's classic science fiction novel The Green Book is now available from Square Fish with a brand–new cover! Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been a success. But as they begin to settle this shiny new world, they discover that the colony is in serious jeopardy. Nothing on this planet is edible, and they may not be able to grow food. With supplies dwindling, Pattie and her sister decide to take the one chance that might make life possible on Shine.
Book Synopsis The Glass Planet 1, 2 & 3 by : N. Morgan Reed
Download or read book The Glass Planet 1, 2 & 3 written by N. Morgan Reed and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume includes all first 3 stories of the Glass Planet Series, The Clear Beings, Gabriel's Objective, and the Silver Sarcophagus (new 2013). An indiginous people on a young planet are accidently invaded by a deep space research team of aliens. And their lives are forever changed. The ancient god-father is displaced, then returns and effects great changes for the now nomadic peoples of his descent. He attempts to aid, but almost destroys them with his love, and then he dies despondantly deep in space. The mystery of his death is solved in the discovery of the Silver Sarcophagus five thousand years later. The ancient beacon is triggered. And these ancient children of the Clear Being await his return."Science-fiction Horror w/Biblical elements.This book seems to be the Atheist test: everyone that starts it gets angry for some reason, even when they claim that they are open-minded atheists. This book is a story of a possibility of the origins of the bible stories, where divine intervention is really ancient extraterrestrial intervention. This simple story carries the reader so convincingly for such a long time, then when you realize you are being re-told the bible stories of exodus, then I think people feel tricked. But if its so real and convincing, then maybe its time for this story. I think most people have been so deeply indoctrinated with God-created origins of life and the sacredness of the bible, that even seriously espoused atheists have trouble being open-minded about it. The Bible is a beautiful ancient work of poetry and story telling. I'm open to it being true history, then how are the miracles explained? By other than beings more experienced and more powerful than us, and we think them Gods; then we believe it's one God. How is God any different than an Alien? God's less real! People say they don't believe in aliens because they've never seen one; but I've never seen this God guy or Jesus, anymore than just in my mind's eye, and 3 billion people on this planet believe in Him. Which is what this book is: a new journey thru possibilities in your mind's eye. See if you can keep your mind open enough to read it all. You can skip the gory parts about aliens eating other aliens if you want; that's in there just for fun. So that is it: it's too similar the comparison: God and Extraterrestrials. Atheists want to try to believe that we are alone in this universe. Utterly alone. Except that science has told us the with the proliferation of planets in the millions of galaxies in this universe, the chances of other life forms is almost certain. Which is probably why some people are so adamant. Aliens might be scarier than God because see now that they might actually be real, flesh and blood kind of real. it is as good an argument as the god-created life explanation. Its almost the same argument in fact: superior beings intervened.. And that's why Christians and non-Christians become so upset when they read this book. They feel they're being tricked into a goofy fiction, just like the other one, and they feel they are being made fun of. And that's why its called fiction; because it probably all is. Aliens and God. The universe that we perceive is what I call "the amazing complexity of life we will never fully understand, and half of it is illusion anyway," just to keep it short, at least not until that last 'ah-hah' moment right before we burn up in the black hole that will then explode and become the new universe-reality starting with all new information. Maybe this time we can do without the gossipers? We have lived with this myth of god for so long without him actually showing up, that we have become inured from the fear of it, uh, Him. But then science has told us of the probability of other life, intelligent life, and then modern entertainment has brought aliens to life. And the fear of them actually showing up may be becoming more real for people than a vengeful god. NMR 2014
Book Synopsis The Glass Planet 5 by : N. Morgan Reed
Download or read book The Glass Planet 5 written by N. Morgan Reed and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autistic boy reads with his grandfather ancient stories from the bible. His family are in Egypt when ancient bits of scripture are found in the Antiqua dealers in a market. The Jacob family has moved there and is now part of the exciting discoveries of ancient biblical texts. Antony Jacobs, an archeologist, is part of the team unraveling the secrets of these ancient stories. And he reads them to his grandson at night for bedtime. Antony finds them fascinating if a bit disturbing. And the autistic 9 year old Gwydion lives these stories in his imagination.
Book Synopsis Girl in the Glass Planet by : S. T. Cartledge
Download or read book Girl in the Glass Planet written by S. T. Cartledge and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Glass Planet written by N. M. Reed and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are our religious histories founded in experiences with extra-terrestrials? Gwydion Jacobs finds the connection by investigating the ancient scrolls that are now being translated. He is carried on a journey from childhood into young adulthood, across the globe, bearing these secrets of his origins and the origins of mankind. The Glass Planet: Series #5-9. The entire story of the Jacobs family, from the beginning of Professor Antony Jacobs career change. ArchaeoAntropology grips the family and takes them on a journey around the globe. From the forested ancient ruins of Costa Rica to the desert sands of Egypt. The discovery of ancient texts in the desert bring about shocking conflicts and social upheaval and sends this family around the globe. When Gwydion is born, the professor and his autistic grandson become close and the professor shares these ancient stories with him, Gwydion. The next discovery of biblical texts in an ancient jar buried on the banks of the Nile river, sets loose a demon that plagues Gwydion as he is growing up. Or is this an angel sent to take care of and protect the young boy? The secrets are not revealed until the very end, when a being from unknown origins visits and divulges some of these secrets to Gwydion and his strange little sister. Which threatens the entire globe and all of its inhabitants.`
Book Synopsis Earth Made of Glass by : John Barnes
Download or read book Earth Made of Glass written by John Barnes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel on the Thousand Cultures, as Earth's colonies are known. Comprising more than a thousand planets, each has a unique civilization. The protagonists are two Earth agents--a married couple--sent to negotiate peace between warring Tamils and neo-Mayan Indians.
Download or read book The Glass Universe written by Dava Sobel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian, Nature, and NPR's Science Friday Nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A joy to read.” —The Wall Street Journal In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or “human computers,” to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and daughters of the resident astronomers, but soon the female corps included graduates of the new women's colleges—Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the ladies turned from computation to studying the stars captured nightly on glass photographic plates. The “glass universe” of half a million plates that Harvard amassed over the ensuing decades—through the generous support of Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, the widow of a pioneer in stellar photography—enabled the women to make extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what stars were made of, divided the stars into meaningful categories for further research, and found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Their ranks included Williamina Fleming, a Scottish woman originally hired as a maid who went on to identify ten novae and more than three hundred variable stars; Annie Jump Cannon, who designed a stellar classification system that was adopted by astronomers the world over and is still in use; and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, who in 1956 became the first ever woman professor of astronomy at Harvard—and Harvard’s first female department chair. Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of the women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe.
Book Synopsis Planet Earth Is Blue by : Nicole Panteleakos
Download or read book Planet Earth Is Blue written by Nicole Panteleakos and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tender and illuminating. A beautiful debut." --Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me A heartrending and hopeful story about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in the Cosmos, Mockingbird, and The Thing About Jellyfish. Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger--it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program. They planned to watch the launch together. But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home. While foster families and teachers dismiss Nova as severely autistic and nonverbal, Bridget understands how intelligent and special Nova is, and all that she can't express. As the liftoff draws closer, Nova's new foster family and teachers begin to see her potential, and for the first time, she is making friends without Bridget. But every day, she's counting down to the launch, and to the moment when she'll see Bridget again. Because as Bridget said, "No matter what, I'll be there. I promise."
Book Synopsis Hospitable Planet by : Stephen A. Jurovics
Download or read book Hospitable Planet written by Stephen A. Jurovics and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United Methodist Women’s Reading Group Selection “What can I do about the environment? What has God said about the environment?” Most books about climate change only address one of these questions. Those from a religious perspective do not address what individuals can do to help society transition from fossil fuels, other than changing personal behavior. Readers know instinctively that will not suffice, and so are left feeling the situation is hopeless. In contrast, books that primarily address environmental issues fail to reach people motivated more by faith than science, leaving out many who could constitute the tipping point for full American engagement on the issue. Borrowing an approach from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership, which brought together both secular and religious arguments for ending segregation, this book addresses physical evidence of climate change while demonstrating through biblical teachings the religious imperative for preserving our inherited world. The compelling biblical case for creation care is grounded in environmental teachings Jesus knew, primarily in the Hebrew Scriptures. Topics addressed include air pollution, treatment of the land, preserving biological diversity, and treatment of animals, and each is connected to contemporary issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, care of the needy, the extinction of species, and factory farming.
Download or read book Planet City written by Liam Young and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planet City is a speculation of what might happen if the world collapsed into a new home for 10 billion people, allowing the rest of the world to return to a global wilderness. It is both an extraordinary image of tomorrow and an urgent examination of the environmental questions that face us today.
Book Synopsis Cathedrals of Glass by : A.J. Hartley
Download or read book Cathedrals of Glass written by A.J. Hartley and published by To the Stars. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Steeplejack and co-author of Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows with Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge, comes a "smart, gripping and atmospheric" science fiction thriller—the Cathedrals of Glass saga… “Deviance is unattractive and jeopardizes all we hold dear…” Ten teenagers broke behavioral law. Sentenced to be reeducated on the moon of Jerem, they were placed in stasis on the automated ship Phetteron for their six day journey. They never reached their destination. “Home looks after its own…” Thrown off course by a computer malfunction, the Phetteron is damaged in an asteroid belt and crash lands on the uninhabited ice planet of Valkrys. Having spent their lives in temperature controlled environments, consuming nutrient supplements, and interacting with people mostly through the infonet, the teens are unprepared to depend on each other to face the harsh, hostile, and hellish landscape. Home will send a rescue party long before their meager supplies run out. “No contrary positions are viable…” Sola was a roamer. She wandered the city after curfew, reveling in the freedom of being disconnected from the techgrid and embracing the joy of physical activity. For those actions, Home declared her deviant. But on Valkrys, her deviance is an asset that may be the teens’ only hope for survival. As Sola explores their strange new world, she discovers that she and her shipmates are linked by something more frightening than their subversive behaviors—and uncovers a truth about the planet the authorities at Home wanted buried. Valkrys is not uninhabited. And what lives there is predatory…
Book Synopsis Design for a Living Planet by : Michael Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros
Download or read book Design for a Living Planet written by Michael Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros and published by Sustasis Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief, accessible volume, the authors — an urban philosopher and a mathematician-physicist — explain the surprising new findings from the sciences that are beginning to transform environmental design in the modern era. Authors Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros explore fractals, networks, self-organization, dynamical systems and other revolutionary ideas, describing them to non-science readers in a direct and engaging way. The book also examines fascinating new topics of design, including Agile, Wiki, Design Patterns and other “open-source” approaches from the software world. The authors conclude that a profound transformation is under way in modern design — and today’s students and practitioners will need to be aware of its implications for our future. “Lucidly describes what’s coming in the world of design — and what needs to come.” — Ward Cunningham, Inventor of wiki, and pioneer of Pattern Languages of Programming, Agile, and Scrum “Essential reading for all urban designers.” — Jeff Speck, Author of Walkable City “Brilliant.” — Charles Montgomery, Author of Happy City “Inspired, compelling and fascinating… Recognizes that a true architecture can be dug from the facts, insights, and theories, that occur with a broadening of science to include the human being.” — Christopher Alexander, Author of A Pattern Language and Notes on the Synthesis of Form Some comments on the individual chapters: “Packed with detail and beautiful in presentation.” — Gil Friend “Human society must find a path of retreat. Salingaros and Mehaffy point the way.” — David Brussat, Providence Journal “Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros have written some brilliant articles on how we can co-create cities which are truly resilient, rather than being ‘engineered resilient’.” — Smallworld Urbanism “For me, this essay was like a flash of insight, and I suddenly saw the world in a new light.” — Oeyvind Holmstad, Permaliv “We’ve just come across a very thoughtful article by Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros… [who] draw a number of lessons from biological systems and use them to draw conclusions about how resilient human systems must be designed.” — Resilient Design Institute “Salingaros and Mehaffy take us from the configuration of city spaces to the order of cells in living beings.” — Jaap Dawson, Delft Institute of Technology “If you wanted to know where the cutting edge was in urban design, it is here.” — Patrick J. Kennedy, CarFreeInBigD “This is the single most intelligent and illuminating article I’ve seen on Archdaily in 3 years.” — Nìming Pínglùn Zhě, China Michael Mehaffy is an urbanist and design theorist, and a periodic visiting professor or adjunct in five graduate universities in four countries and three disciplines (architecture, urban planning and philosophy) including the University of Oregon (US) and the University of Strathclyde (UK). He has been a close associate of the architect and software pioneer Christopher Alexander, and a Research Associate with the Center for Environmental Structure, Alexander’s research center founded in 1967. He is currently executive director of Portland, Oregon based Sustasis Foundation, and editor of Sustasis Press. Nikos A. Salingaros is a mathematician and polymath known for his work on urban theory, architectural theory, complexity theory, and design philosophy. He has been a close collaborator of the architect and computer software pioneer Christopher Alexander. Salingaros published substantive research on Algebras, Mathematical Physics, Electromagnetic Fields, and Thermonuclear Fusion before turning his attention to Architecture and Urbanism. He is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio and has been on the Architecture faculties of universities in Italy, Mexico, and The Netherlands.
Book Synopsis Into the Looking Glass by : John Ringo
Download or read book Into the Looking Glass written by John Ringo and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WORST TWO OUT OF THREE When a 60 kiloton nuclear explosion destroys the University of Central Florida, terrorism is the first suspect. But terrorists don't generally leave doorways to another world in their wake. Or, rather, a generator of doorways to multiple other worlds. With time of the essence, the Secretary of Defense scrounges up the nearest physicist with a high level security clearance. With doctorates in everything from nuclear physics to electrical engineering, William Weaver, PhD, is the egghead's egghead. On the other hand, with skills in everything from mountain biking to screaming electric guitar, he's also fast enough and tough enough to survive when the alien gates start disgorging "demons." As a snap decision, he appears to be the perfect choice, smart, tough and capable. Now if he could only patch things up with his girlfriend, get his boss off his back and get his cellphone bill paid. Oh, yeah, and figure out why the heck these gates keep opening. Okay, so sometimes he's got priority issues. As the gates spread and evil aliens spread with them, it is up to Weaver and SEAL Command Master Chief Miller to find a way to stop the proliferation and close the hostile gates. The problem being that the only way they can see to save the earth is destroy it. Then there's not going to be any more girlfriends or cellphones or bosses . . . Hmmm... Okay, two out of three of those are bad. They're really, really bad. Bad on toast. Bad like the Pacific is watery. Every day a Monday, bad. One and a half at the very least. Worst two out of three. Gotta prioritize. Guess Weaver and Miller are just gonna have to save the world. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
