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The World in a Grain

Author : Vince Beiser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399576444
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The World in a Grain written by Vince Beiser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres' stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and inspires us. It's the ingredient that makes possible our cities, our science, our lives--and our future. And, incredibly, we're running out of it. The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it--and sometimes, even kill for it. It's also a provocative examination of the serious human and environmental costs incurred by our dependence on sand, which has received little public attention. Not all sand is created equal: Some of the easiest sand to get to is the least useful. Award-winning journalist Vince Beiser delves deep into this world, taking readers on a journey across the globe, from the United States to remote corners of India, China, and Dubai to explain why sand is so crucial to modern life. Along the way, readers encounter world-changing innovators, island-building entrepreneurs, desert fighters, and murderous sand pirates. The result is an entertaining and eye-opening work, one that is both unexpected and involving, rippling with fascinating detail and filled with surprising characters.

The World in a Grain of Sand

Author : Nivedita Majumdar
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788737466
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book The World in a Grain of Sand written by Nivedita Majumdar and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural theories typically accompanied by a rejection of universal categories - viewed as Eurocentric projections. But the privileging of the local usually amounts to an exercise in exoticization of the South. The book argues that the rejection of Eurocentric theories can be complemented by embracing another, richer and non-parochial form of universalism. Through readings of texts from India, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Egypt, the book shows that the fine grained engagement with culture, the mapping of ordinary lives not just as objects but subjects of their history, is embedded in much of postcolonial literature in a radical universalism - one that is rooted in local realities, but is able to unearth in them the needs, conflicts and desires that stretch across cultures and time. It is a universalism recognized by Marx and steeped in the spirit of anti-colonialism, but hostile to any whiff of exoticism.

A World in a Grain of Sand

Author : Mary Rose Barrington,
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621330
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book A World in a Grain of Sand written by Mary Rose Barrington, and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people around the world accept the possibility of telepathy or clairvoyance. Very rarely, however, has anyone been able to demonstrate these psychic faculties with enough accuracy and reliability to produce significant results in repeated experimentation. An exception to this was the Polish engineer and industrialist Stefan Ossowiecki. Ossowiecki (1877–1944) is perhaps the most gifted psychic ever to come under the scrutiny of researchers. He demonstrated a range and quality of clairvoyance that no one has exceeded, at least under experimental controls. Equally important, he was eager to learn more about his talent and allowed a variety of researchers to use him in experiments. Anecdotal accounts of his talent abounded, but it was the controlled observations of investigators in experiments conducted in Paris and Warsaw that confirmed his gift. For the first time, this book brings to English-speaking researchers and the public detailed accounts of the crucial experiments carried out with Ossowiecki, which produced compelling evidence of paranormal cognition.

Built on Sand

Author : Etienne Guyon
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262545306
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Built on Sand written by Etienne Guyon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining the science contained in a simple assembly of grains—the most abundant form of matter present on Earth. Granular media—composed of vast amounts of grains, consolidated or not—constitute the most abundant form of solid matter on Earth. Granular materials assemble in disordered configurations scientists often liken to a bag of marbles. Made of macroscopic particles rather than molecules, they defy the standard scheme of classification in terms of solid, liquid, and gas. Granular materials provide a model relevant to various domains of research, including engineering, physics, and biology. William Blake famously wished “To See a World in a Grain of Sand”; in this book, pioneering researchers in granular matter explain the science hidden behind simple grains, shedding light on collective behavior in disordered settings in general. The authors begin by describing the single grain with its different origins, shapes, and sizes, then examine grains in piled or stacked form. They explain the packing fraction of granular media, a crucial issue that bears on the properties displayed in practical applications; explore small-scale deformations in piles of disordered grains, with particular attention to friction; and present theories of various modes of disorder. Along the way, they discuss such concepts as force chains, arching effects, wet grains, sticky contacts, and inertial effects. Drawing on recent numerical simulations as well as classical concepts developed in physics and mechanics, the book offers an accessible introduction to a rapidly developing field.

A Grain of Sand

Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
ISBN 13 : 9781550418019
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A Grain of Sand written by Patricia Kathleen Page and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through poetry and art, the author and illustrator enter the magical mystical world of a child's imagination. Originally written for oratorio by composer Derek Holman and first performed in Toronto in celebration of the millennium.

View with a Grain of Sand

Author : Wisława Szymborska
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156002165
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book View with a Grain of Sand written by Wisława Szymborska and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of Europe's most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder of existence. Preface by Mark Strand. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, winners of the PEN Translation Prize.

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

Author : Samuel R. Delany
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819567140
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues—technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism—have only become more pressing with the passage of time. The novel's topic is information itself: What are the repercussions, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other's perfect erotic object out to "point nine-nine-nine and several nines percent more"? What will it do to the individuals involved, to the city they inhabit, to their geosector, to their entire world society, especially when one is an illiterate worker, the sole survivor of a world destroyed by "cultural fugue," and the other is—you!

A Grain of Sand

Author : Gary Greenberg
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 1616739541
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book A Grain of Sand written by Gary Greenberg and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower. To hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"1805 Here is the world viewed within a grain of sand, thanks to the stunning three-dimensional microphotography of Dr. Gary Greenberg. To some, all sand looks alike--countless grains in a vast expanse of beach. Look closer--much closer--and your view of sand will never be the same. Employing the fantastic microphotographic techniques that he developed, Greenberg invites readers to discover the strange and wonderful world that each grain of sand contains. Here are the sands of Hawaii and Tahiti, the Sahara and the Poles, a volcano, each exquisitely different, and each telling a fascinating geological story. Red sand and yellow, white sand and black, singing sand and quicksand: Greenbergs pictures reveal the subtle differences in their colors, textures, sizes, and shapes. And as this infinitesimal world unfolds so does an intriguing explanation of how each grain of sand begins and forms and finds itself in a particular place, one of a billion and one of a kind.

Sand and Foam

Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sand and Foam written by Kahlil Gibran and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of aphorisms, poems, and parables by the author of "The Prophet" - a philosopher at his window commenting on the scene passing below.

In Every Tiny Grain of Sand

Author : Reeve Lindbergh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780744582321
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book In Every Tiny Grain of Sand written by Reeve Lindbergh and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world and throughout time, people have spoken treasured words to make them feel better when they are sad, brave when they are afraid, befriended when they are alone - or simply to express their joy at being alive on this earth. Here are seventy-seven poems and prayers from many cultures, faiths and traditions. The book is arranged in four sections, each illustrated by a major contemporary artist from a different country.

Sand

Author : Michael Welland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520942000
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Sand written by Michael Welland and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials. Told by a geologist with a novelist's sense of language and narrative, Sand examines the science—sand forensics, the physics of granular materials, sedimentology, paleontology and archaeology, planetary exploration—and at the same time explores the rich human context of sand. Interwoven with tales of artists, mathematicians, explorers, and even a vampire, the story of sand is an epic of environmental construction and destruction, an adventure in staggering scales of time and distance, yet a tale that encompasses the ordinary and everyday. Sand, in fact, is all around us—it has made possible our computers, buildings and windows, toothpaste, cosmetics, and paper, and it has played dramatic roles in human history, commerce, and imagination. In this luminous, kinetic, revelatory account, we do indeed find the world in a grain of sand.

A Grain of Sand

Author : Brendon Grimshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874041337
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book A Grain of Sand written by Brendon Grimshaw and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Author : William Blake
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell written by William Blake and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" is a collection of sketches touching on the subject of Good versus Evil and examining the biblical idea of "Hell" the place of eternal suffering for those who reject God. Author and poet William Blake seems to repudiate the idea of such a place and seeks to show that in fact Hell is a place of freedom for as he puts it, "The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell. For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at [the] tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and holy, whereas it now appears finite and corrupt. This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment."

In a Jar

Author : Deborah Marcero
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525514600
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book In a Jar written by Deborah Marcero and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a marvelous picture book, charmingly written and beautifully illustrated, about the power of memory and the magic of friendship. Llewellyn, a little rabbit, is a collector. He gathers things in jars--ordinary things like buttercups, feathers, and heart-shaped stones. Then he meets another rabbit, Evelyn, and together they begin to collect extraordinary things--like rainbows, the sound of the ocean, and the wind just before snow falls. And, best of all, when they hold the jars and peer inside, they remember all the wonderful things they've seen and done. But one day, Evelyn has sad news: Her family is moving away. How can the two friends continue their magical collection--and their special friendship--from afar?

Every Grain of Sand

Author : Justin Scribner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578777801
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book Every Grain of Sand written by Justin Scribner and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning decades of writing, Justin Scribner's every grain of sand feels more expansive than a debut collection. A beautifully woven hybrid work, every grain of sand offers a mix of narrative poems, poetic stories, and modern haiku in which profound moments interlace with poignant humor. Scribner's writing is deeply rooted in contemporary experience, forward-thinking in its understanding of human nature, and unpredictable in its form. The collection builds momentum through small truths which reveal a poet wrestling with deep emotions around the trivial and sometimes perilous wrong turns we make. Through many voices, Scribner maintains an uncanny ability to weave genuine light through each new speaker, allowing us to traverse many lives by the close of the collection. The poems and short stories in every grain of sand remind us to be present to little moments of stillness while lifting our eyes to the awareness of how those moments knit together into the greater picture.

To See a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand and Eternity in an Hour.

Author : Health Spirit and Happiness Journals
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781088500484
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book To See a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand and Eternity in an Hour. written by Health Spirit and Happiness Journals and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal to nurture your mindfulness, self-motivation and gratitude Perfect to write notes, thoughts, lists, ideas or reflections Perfect size to carry easily in a purse or a bag for work, home, school or any place on the go Can also be the perfect gift for a mom, sister, daughter, coworker, aunt, wife or teacher

To See a World in a Grain of Sand

Author : Caesar Johnson
Publisher : C.R. Gibson Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book To See a World in a Grain of Sand written by Caesar Johnson and published by C.R. Gibson Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treasury celebrates the human experience and the capacity to dream and achieve. A gift book, in its own matching gift box.