This Ordinary Stardust

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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538741202
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Book Synopsis This Ordinary Stardust by : Alan Townsend

Download or read book This Ordinary Stardust written by Alan Townsend and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] remarkable account of a shifting consciousness” - Publisher’s Weekly, starred review “An extraordinary, powerful book” - David Quammen, author of The Heartbeat of the Wild and Breathless A compassionate exploration of scientific wonder that offers “a fresh perspective on life, death, and the bittersweet consequences of impermanence,” (Jon Krakauer) as illuminated through the tragic dual cancer diagnoses of author Dr. Alan Townsend’s wife and daughter. A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend’s family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant scientist wife developed unrelated, life-threatening forms of brain cancer. As he witnessed his young daughter fight during the courageous final months of her mother’s life, Townsend – a lifelong scientist – was indelibly altered. He began to see scientific inquiry as more than a source of answers to a given problem, but also as a lifeboat: a lens on the world that could help him find peace with the painful realities he could not change. Through scientific wonder, he found ways to bring meaning to his darkest period. At a time when society’s relationship with science is increasingly polarized while threats to human life on earth continue to rise, Townsend offers a balanced, moving perspective on the common ground between science and religion through the spiritual fulfillment he found in his work. Awash in Townsend's electrifying and breathtaking prose, THIS ORDINARY STARDUST offers hope that life can carry on even in the face of near-certain annihilation.

True Raiders

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250273617
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis True Raiders by : Brad Ricca

Download or read book True Raiders written by Brad Ricca and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca. This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called “most beautiful woman in the world,” headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. Like a real-life version of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this incredible story of adventure and mystery has almost been completely forgotten today. In 1908, Monty is approached by a strange Finnish scholar named Valter Juvelius who claims to have discovered a secret code in the Bible that reveals the location of the Ark. Monty assembles a ragtag group of blueblood adventurers, a renowned psychic, and a Franciscan father, to engage in a secret excavation just outside the city walls of Jerusalem. Using recently uncovered records from the original expedition and several newly translated sources, True Raiders is the first retelling of this group’s adventures– in the space between fact and faith, science and romance.

From Sawdust to Stardust

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416500049
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis From Sawdust to Stardust by : Terry Lee Rioux

Download or read book From Sawdust to Stardust written by Terry Lee Rioux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-02-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the forty-year history of Star Trek®, none of the television show's actors are more beloved than DeForest Kelley. His portrayal of Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the southern physician aboard the Starship Enterprise™, brought an unaffected humanity to the groundbreaking space frontier series. Jackson DeForest Kelley came of age in Depression-era Georgia. He was raised on the sawdust trail, a preacher's kid steeped in his father's literal faith and judgment. But De's natural artistic gifts called him to a different way, and a visit to California at seventeen showed a bright new world. Theater and radio defined his early career -- but it was a World War II training film he made while serving in the Army Air Corps that led to his first Paramount Studios contract. After years of struggle, his lean, weathered look became well known in notable westerns and television programs such as You Are There and Bonanza. But his work on several pilots for writer-producer Gene Roddenberry changed his destiny and the course of cultural history. This thoroughly researched actor's life is about hard work and luck, loyalty and love. It is a journey that takes us all...from sawdust to stardust.

Stardust

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061793078
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Book Synopsis Stardust by : Neil Gaiman

Download or read book Stardust written by Neil Gaiman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Author Give the gift of STARDUST! Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing not even a fallen star, is what he imagined. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman comes a remarkable quest into the dark and miraculous—in pursuit of love and the utterly impossible.

They Never Came Home

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ISBN 13 : 9781903582633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book They Never Came Home written by Neil Fetherstonhaugh and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nature's Chaos

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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759521182
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Book Synopsis Nature's Chaos by : James Gleick

Download or read book Nature's Chaos written by James Gleick and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 102 spectacular full-color photos, this fascinating "field guide" explores the world's natural disorder.

Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story

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Publisher : Metro Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786068192
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story by : Rachel Clarke

Download or read book Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story written by Rachel Clarke and published by Metro Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, held the hand of a young woman dying of cancer, scuttled down miles of dim corridors wanting to sob with sheer exhaustion, forgotten to eat, forgotten to drink, drawn on every fibre of strength that I possess to keep my patients safe from harm.' How does it feel to be spat out of medical school into a world of pain, loss and trauma that you feel wholly ill-equipped to handle? To be a medical novice who makes decisions which - if you get them wrong - might forever alter, or end, a person's life? To toughen up the hard way, through repeated exposure to life-and-death situations, until you are finally a match for them? In this heartfelt, deeply personal account of life as a junior doctor in today's health service, former television journalist turned doctor, Rachel Clarke, captures the extraordinary realities of ordinary life on the NHS front line. From the historic junior doctor strikes of 2016 to the 'humanitarian crisis' declared by the Red Cross, the overstretched health service is on the precipice, calling for junior doctors to draw on extraordinary reserves of what compelled them into medicine in the first place - and the value the NHS can least afford to lose - kindness. Your Life in My Hands is at once a powerful polemic on the systematic degradation of Britain's most vital public institution, and a love letter of optimism and hope to that same health service and those who support it. This extraordinary memoir offers a glimpse into a life spent between the operating room and the bedside, the mortuary and the doctors' mess, telling powerful truths about today's NHS frontline, and capturing with tenderness and humanity the highs and lows of a new doctor's first steps onto the wards in the context of a health service at breaking point - and what it means to be entrusted with carrying another's life in your hands. 'Eloquent and moving' - Henry Marsh 'There have been many books written by young doctors... but none comes close to Clarke's' - Sunday Times 'From the very heart of the NHS comes this brilliant insight into the continuing crisis in the health service. Rachel Clarke writes as the accomplished journalist she once was and as the leading junior doctor she now is - writing with humanity and compassion that at times reduced me to tears.' - Jon Snow, Channel 4 News 'Dr Clarke has written a blockbuster, a page-turner, a tear-jerker. This is a "from-the-heart" front-line account of the human cost of the wanton erosion of a magnificent ideal - healthcare free at the point of need, funded through public taxation, available to all - made real in the UK for near 70 years. It is a love-song for the wonderful National Health Service that has embodied - to an extent equalled nowhere in the world - the principle that healthcare is not a commodity but a great duty of state.' - Prof. Neena Modi, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 'A powerful account of life on the NHS frontline. If only Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt could see the passion behind the people in the NHS, they might stop treating them as the enemy, and understand that without them we don't have an NHS worth the name.' - Alastair Campbell

Just Six Numbers

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Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786723580
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Just Six Numbers by : Martin Rees

Download or read book Just Six Numbers written by Martin Rees and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a single "genesis event" create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble -- here on earth, and perhaps on other worlds -- into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? What fundamental laws govern our universe?This book describes new discoveries and offers remarkable insights into these fundamental questions. There are deep connections between stars and atoms, between the cosmos and the microworld. Just six numbers, imprinted in the "big bang," determine the essential features of our entire physical world. Moreover, cosmic evolution is astonishingly sensitive to the values of these numbers. If any one of them were "untuned," there could be no stars and no life. This realization offers a radically new perspective on our universe, our place in it, and the nature of physical laws.

A Touch of Stardust

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 080417198X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis A Touch of Stardust by : Kate Alcott

Download or read book A Touch of Stardust written by Kate Alcott and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie Crawford left Fort Wayne, Indiana with dreams of being a Hollywood screenwriter. Unfortunately, her new life is off to a rocky start. Fired by the notoriously demanding director of Gone With the Wind, she’s lucky to be rescued by Carole Lombard, whose scandalous affair with the still-married Clark Gable is just heating up. As Carole’s assistant, Julie suddenly has a front-row seat to two of the world’s greatest love affairs. And while Rhett and Scarlett—and Lombard and Gable—make movie history, Julie is caught up in a whirlwind of outsized personalities and overheated behind-the-scenes drama … not to mention a budding romance of her own.

The Solace of Open Spaces

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504042883
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis The Solace of Open Spaces by : Gretel Ehrlich

Download or read book The Solace of Open Spaces written by Gretel Ehrlich and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard). Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life. Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves. Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (Newsday).

Enterprise Stardust

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Enterprise Stardust by : Karl-H. Scheer

Download or read book Enterprise Stardust written by Karl-H. Scheer and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wildest Place on Earth

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Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611687209
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wildest Place on Earth by : John Hanson Mitchell

Download or read book The Wildest Place on Earth written by John Hanson Mitchell and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ironic story of how Italian Renaissance and Baroque gardens encouraged the preservation of the American wilderness and ultimately fostered the creation of the world's first national park system. Told via Mitchell's sometimes disastrous and humorous travels - from the gardens of southern Italy up through Tuscany and the lake island gardens - the book is filled with history, folklore, myths, and legends of Western Europe, including a detailed history of the labyrinth, a common element in Renaissance gardens. In his attempt to understand the Italian garden in detail, Mitchell set out to create one on his own property - with a labyrinth.

The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1324051035
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) by : Adam Rutherford

Download or read book The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) written by Adam Rutherford and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts). Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what’s happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) tells the story of how we came to suppress our monkey minds and perceive the true nature of reality. Written with wit and humor, this brief book tells the story of science—tales of fumbles and missteps, errors and egos, hard work, accidents, and some really bad decisions—all of which have created the sum total of human knowledge. Geneticist Adam Rutherford and mathematician Hannah Fry guide readers through time and space, through our bodies and brains, showing how emotions shape our view of reality, how our minds tell us lies, and why a mostly bald and curious ape decided to begin poking at the fabric of the universe. Rutherford and Fry shine as science sleuths, wrestling with some truly head-scratching questions: Where did time come from? Do we have free will? Does my dog love me? Hilarious sidebars present memorable scientific oddities: for example, hypnotized snails, human-sized ants, and the average time it takes most animals to evacuate their bladders. (A surprisingly consistent twenty-one seconds, if you must know.) Both rigorous and playful, The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) is a celebration of the weirdness of the cosmos, the strangeness of humans, and the joys and follies of scientific discovery.

The Stardust Collection

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Publisher : Morning Sky Studios
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stardust Collection written by Dawn Blair and published by Morning Sky Studios. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One dragon egg. Three adventures. Thomis leaves it. Moonhunter pursues it. And Reila frees it. One short story and two novellas following the life of an unhatched dragon egg as it changes hands and gets chased through the universe until finally the unique dragon breaks free from its shell. This boxed set contains: Alexander's Den Mystery of the Stardust Monk Stardust

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

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Publisher : Laurentiu-Marian Ene
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
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Book Synopsis Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by : Violet R. Nunez

Download or read book Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe written by Violet R. Nunez and published by Laurentiu-Marian Ene. This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the fascinating world of dark matter and its profound interconnectedness with the universe in this comprehensive book. From the historical discoveries and theoretical frameworks to the galactic implications and cosmological theories, readers will delve into the mysteries and conundrums surrounding dark matter. With a focus on observational techniques, particle physics perspectives, and future research prospects, this book offers a captivating journey into the unknown realms of space and science. Discover the latest advancements in technology and international collaborations that could lead to potential discoveries and breakthroughs in the field of dark matter research. Engaging and insightful, this book is a must-read for anyone curious about the invisible forces shaping our universe.

Edmund the Dazzling Dancer

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Publisher : Five Mile Press
ISBN 13 : 9781925970692
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Edmund the Dazzling Dancer by : Zanni Louise

Download or read book Edmund the Dazzling Dancer written by Zanni Louise and published by Five Mile Press. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Madam Martine asks Edmund to choose the dance for Stardust to perform at the Gala, it's never going to be an ordinary performance. Edmund is excited to make it something original, something incredible. A true extravaganza! On top of Edmund's Gala planning, he is helping Dad out at the family restaurant. Edmund wants to impress his dad with his amazing Gala performance. But with everything happening at the restaurant, will Dad even make it to the Gala? And will Edmund be able to pull off his grand plans?

A Sliver of Stardust

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062291572
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book A Sliver of Stardust written by Marissa Burt and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Marissa Burt, author of Storybound, comes a richly imagined middle grade fantasy. Full of magic and mystery, A Sliver of Stardust is the perfect adventure for fans of A Wrinkle in Time or The Emerald Atlas. Wren Matthews thought she’d outgrown nursery rhymes a long time ago. But that was before she knew that songs of twinkling little stars and four-and-twenty blackbirds were the key to an ancient, hidden magic. Wren’s discovery catapults her into a world of buried secrets, strange dreams, and a mountain fortress under an aurora-filled sky. But just as she starts to master her unique abilities, her new world begins to crumble around her . . . and only she can save it.