Echoes from the Sky
Author | : Richard N. Scarth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Acoustical engineering |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard N. Scarth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Acoustical engineering |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E. C. Krupp |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0486137643 |
Popular, authoritative look at the world of archaeoastronomy, the study of ancient peoples' observation of the skies and its role in their cultural evolution. 208 illustrations.
Author | : James P. Hogan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781416555322 |
"But there is a different, unexpected answer to the riddle. Lorili and Kyal will have to fight for their theory - and their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Ibtisam Barakat |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2007-02-20 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781429998475 |
Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors. "When a war ends it does not go away," my mother says."It hides inside us . . . Just forget!" But I do not want to do what Mother says . . . I want to remember. In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ramallah during the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, Ibtisam Barakat captures what it is like to be a child whose world is shattered by war. With candor and courage, she stitches together memories of her childhood: fear and confusion as bombs explode near her home and she is separated from her family; the harshness of life as a Palestinian refugee; her unexpected joy when she discovers Alef, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet. This is the beginning of her passionate connection to words, and as language becomes her refuge, allowing her to piece together the fragments of her world, it becomes her true home. Transcending the particulars of politics, this illuminating and timely book provides a telling glimpse into a little-known culture that has become an increasingly important part of the puzzle of world peace.
Author | : John B. Buescher |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2005-03-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1559392207 |
The important Buddhist doctrine of the two truths—conventional truths and ultimate truths—is the subject of this book. It examines how the doctrine evolved within early Buddhism from efforts to make sense of contradictions within the collected sayings of the Buddha. The two truths, however, came to refer not primarily to statements or language, but to the realities to which statements or language referred. As such, the doctrine of the two truths became one through which Buddhist philosophers focused their efforts to elaborate an abhidharma, a higher teaching which allowed them to explain how the mind apprehends and misapprehends the world, how it attaches itself to objects that do not exist in and of themselves, thereby creating suffering. In effect, the doctrine then evolved into a distinction between different sorts of objects rather than a distinction between different sorts of statements. The doctrine of the truths understood in this way played a key role in the articulation of the Mahayana by its followers in distinguishing it from what they called Hinayana, especially in defining the central ideas of selflessness and emptiness. Unlike prior books on this topic which concentrate on the doctrine within the context of the Mahayana, Buescher's examines it within the context of the Hinayana. Tibetan Buddhist syntheses of Buddhist doctrine provide a fascinating perspective from which to compare the positions of the major Indian schools. Such works, however, often lack the historical perspective from which to discern the development of these positions.
Author | : Zach Vertin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1643130889 |
The untold story of America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch, from euphoric birth to heart-wrenching collapse. South Sudan's independence was celebrated around the world—a triumph for global justice and an end to one of the world's most devastating wars. But the party would not last long: South Sudan's freedom fighters soon plunged their new nation into chaos, shattering the promise of liberation and exposing the hubris of their foreign backers. Chronicling extraordinary stories of hope, identity, and survival, A Rope from the Sky journeys inside an epic tale of paradise won and then lost. This character-driven narrative is first a story of power, promise, greed, compassion, violence, and redemption from the world's most neglected patch of territory. But it is also a story about the best and worst of America—both its big-hearted ideals and its difficult reckoning with the limits of American power amid a changing global landscape. Zach's Vertin's firsthand acounts, from deadly war zones to the halls of Washington power, brings readers inside this remarkable episode—an unprecedented experiment in state-building and a cautionary tale. It is brilliant and breathtaking, a moder-day Greek tragedy that will challenge our perspectives on global politics.
Author | : Richard Newton Scarth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2017-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781872836171 |
Author | : Margaret Wander Bonanno |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743455622 |
The planets Earth and Vulcan experience a mysterious first contact in this fascinating Star Trek novel featuring the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Years before the formal first contact between Earth and another planet’s inhabitants, a Vulcan space vessel crash landed in the South Pacific, forcing humanity to decide whether to offer the hand of friendship, or the fist of war. Complicating matters is a second visitation: a group of people from two hundred years in the future, who serve on a starship called Enterprise. Discover the astonishing truth about this heretofore unknown first contact and the nightmares that plague Admiral James T. Kirk. Dreams of his dead comrades, of his earliest days aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, and of a forgotten past in which he somehow changed the course of history and destroyed the Federation before it began.
Author | : Hanna Alkaf |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-04-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1534426094 |
Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.
Author | : Jay Caselberg |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004-09-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101212608 |
Two years after the Wyrmhole incident, Jack and Billie, his ever-enigmatic fourteen-year-old ward, have set up a new shop in a new town. Yorkstone, with its clean streets and virtual sunny skies, is a far cry from the hellhole of the Locality. It’s also far more difficult to drum up business—until Bridgett Farrell darkens Jack’s door. The job: Find a metallic tablet inscribed with ornate writings. It’s very valuable—and made of a substance unlike any known to science. It seems an antique-dealing associate of Miss Farrell’s has made off with the valuable artifact, which may have been stolen from an archaeological dig in the ruins of an unknown civilization on the planet of Mandala. The catch? Miss Farrell is far more deceptive than she seems…