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Author | : Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
Publisher | : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 192799022X |
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From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a novella about the price of dreams in a ravaged near-future. “A subtle and powerful tale of Mars, movies, and Mexico City which stands amongst the best novellas of the past few years.” —Jonathan Strahan, Locus Amelia dreams of Mars. The Mars of the movies and the imagination, an endless bastion of opportunities for a colonist with some guts. But she’s trapped in Mexico City, enduring the drudgery of an unkind metropolis, working as a rent-a-friend, selling her blood to old folks with money who hope to rejuvenate themselves with it, enacting a fractured love story. And yet there’s Mars, at the edge of the silver screen, of life.
Author | : Charles W. J. Withers |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2017-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674088816 |
Download Zero Degrees Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0° longitude solved problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers, astronomers, and mariners since ancient times. This history is a testament to the power of maps, the challenges of global measurement, and the role of scientific authority in creating the modern world.
Author | : Chet Raymo |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0802718272 |
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In Walking Zero, Chet Raymo uses the Prime Meridian-the line of zero longitude and the standard for all the world's maps and clocks-to tell the story of humandkind's intellectual journey from a cosmos not much larger than ourselves to the universe of the galaxies and geologic eons. As in his highly praised The Path and Climbing Brandon, Raymo connects personally with the story by walking England's Prime Meridian from Brighton through Greenwich to the North Sea. The Prime Meridian passes near a surprising number of landmarks that loom large in science: Isaac Newton's chambers at Trinity College, Cambridge; Charles Darwin's home at Down, in Kent; the site where the first dinosaur fossils were discovered; and John Harrison's clocks in a museum room of the Royal Observatory, among many others. Visiting them in turn, Raymo brings to life the human dramas of courageous individuals who bucked reigning orthodoxies to expand our horizons, including one brave rebel who paid the ultimate price for surmising the multitude of worlds we now take for granted. A splendid short history of astronomy and geology, Walking Zero illuminates the startling interplay of science, psychology, faith, and the arts in our understanding of space and time.
Author | : Connie Post |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2020-01-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781941783665 |
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These poems are of a seer - unwrapping time, being, the Change we are igniting. The considerations are hard-won -- who we are, what is coming upon us in this age, the passage we are entering and the exit - the seer knows it. There are no exhortations, no longings or forecasts, only the seeing, and the forthcoming Being that envelopes us more and more, "until all that is left of us." We need this wisdom book, clear elixirs from the Source. True mind-beauty, carved with Humanity - beam, everyone must touch this volume in order to traverse the present age. Bravissimo! --Juan Herrera, 21st Poet Laureate of the United States
Author | : Graham Dolan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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An invaluable resource for those interested in the history of the celebrated Prime Meridian, this book is packed with information on the different ways in which 0° longitude has been marked across the world. It explains the origins of longitude and what the ability to determine it has meant for navigation.
Author | : Cormac McCarthy |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2010-08-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307762521 |
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25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Author | : Linda Emma |
Publisher | : Alexandra Michael Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780982051863 |
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The explosion of a hidden land mine 6,000 miles away should have had no effect on Jenna. She neither knew anyone fighting in the Iraq War nor felt any strong political connection to the quagmire that was daily splashed across the newspapers' front pages. But the running loop segment on CNN, and the photojournalist peering out from every frame, brought Jenna back to another life and the boy who challenged her to be more. Danny was gone and the what ifs that she had years ago suppressed, came flooding back. Married with a young daughter, Jenna lives in tiny Meridian and works part time at the local newspaper penning to a readership which worries more about landscapes than landmines. Until Danny's death, Jenna had considered her life full. But now, she wonders if within the cocoon of suburbia, she hasn't allowed herself to become the very person against whom Danny once railed. And when another man challenges her to try more, to be more, Jenna is reminded of the potential she once saw in herself and for her life-all the paths she did not take. As Jenna sets off in a in a directionless quest for answers to questions she's only just beginning to formulate, she wonders if it isn't too late to take that other road.
Author | : International Meridian Conference |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2023-08-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download International Conference Held at Washington - Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"International Conference Held at Washington - Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day" by D.C.) International Meridian Conference (1884 : Washington. 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.
Author | : Lamar School Foundation |
Publisher | : Lamar Fndtn |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9780971205604 |
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A culinary tour of Meridian, Mississippi's, "Queen City," this cookbook for all occasions includes delicious gourmet fare as well as easy, everyday dishes even children will love. Illustrated by nationally renowned artist Greg Cartmell, this book also contains a collection of regional game recipes and a children's party-planning section.
Author | : Dava Sobel |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2010-07-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802779433 |
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The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.