The Stars Like Sand

Author : Samuel R. Delany
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480461717
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( 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 Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this far-future classic, sexual attraction is a science, gender is a whole new construct, and information is both precious and perilous . . . With a burst of radiation to the brain, an angry young man is transformed into a dim-witted slave—suitable only for the most brutal work. But the tragedy of Rat Korga is the prologue to the story of Marq Dyeth, an “industrial diplomat,” who travels from world to world in this exciting, sprawling future, solving problems that come with the spread of “General Information.” The greatest fear in this future is Cultural Fugue, a critical mass of shared knowledge that can destroy life over the surface of an entire world in hours. In this dizzyingly original novel, information is perilous, but without it a human is only a rat in a cage. Campbell Award winner Jo Walton described this science fiction landmark as being “like pop rocks for the brain. . . . Things sparkle and explode all over, and it’s not entirely comfortable but it is quite wonderful.” This classic read predicted the Internet and is packed with themes that still resonate today. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.

Author : Tim Jones
Publisher : Interactive Publications
ISBN 13 : 1922120782
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stars Like Sand written by Tim Jones and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following up on our award-winning Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, IP has released an anthology of even wider scope showcasing the best in Australian speculative poetry from early times to the present. Co-edited by renowned editors Tim Jones and P.S. Cottier, it features a virtual Who's Who of Australian poets including Judith Beveridge, Les Murray, Paul Hetherington, John Tranter, Diane Fahey, joanne burns, Caroline Caddy, David P Reiter, Peter Boyle, Alan Gould, Luke Davies, S.K. Kelen, Peter Minter, Jan Owen, Dorothy Porter, Philip Salom, Samuel Wagan Watson, Rod Usher, Jo Mills ... and many more! Travel to the stars and beyond in this anthology by Australia's leading poets. Witness the end of the world, time travel to the future near or far, or teleport with a fairy or witch. Ghosts, dreams and strange creatures breed and mingle in these pages. Poetry has never been so mind-bending, or so entertaining.

Author : Samuel Roth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.AQ/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Songs of Zion written by Samuel Roth and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ferol Egan
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174562
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sand In A Whirlwind, 30Th Anniversary Edition written by Ferol Egan and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sand in a Whirlwind is a dramatic account of the events surrounding hostilities between settlers and Pyramid Paiutes in the spring of 1860. Thirty years after its publication Ferol Egan’s now classic tale continues to enlighten and engage readers.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maccabæan written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Fairfax Somerville
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465591656
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences written by Mary Fairfax Somerville and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science, regarded as the pursuit of truth, must ever afford occupation of consummate interest, and subject of elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works of creation elevates the mind to the admiration of whatever is great and noble; accomplishing the object of all study, which, in the eloquent language of Sir James Mackintosh, “is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty—especially of goodness, the highest beauty—and of that supreme and eternal Mind, which contains all truth and wisdom, all beauty and goodness. By the love or delightful contemplation and pursuit of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable objects, and prepared for those high destinies which are appointed for all those who are capable of them.” Astronomy affords the most extensive example of the connection of the physical sciences. In it are combined the sciences of number and quantity, of rest and motion. In it we perceive the operation of a force which is mixed up with everything that exists in the heavens or on earth; which pervades every atom, rules the motions of animate and inanimate beings, and is as sensible in the descent of a rain-drop as in the falls of Niagara; in the weight of the air, as in the periods of the moon. Gravitation not only binds satellites to their planet, and planets to the sun, but it connects sun with sun throughout the wide extent of creation, and is the cause of the disturbances, as well as of the order of nature; since every tremor it excites in any one planet is immediately transmitted to the farthest limits of the system, in oscillations which correspond in their periods with the cause producing them, like sympathetic notes in music, or vibrations from the deep tones of an organ. The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science. The magnitude and splendour of the objects, the inconceivable rapidity with which they move, and the enormous distances between them, impress the mind with some notion of the energy that maintains them in their motions, with a durability to which we can see no limit. Equally conspicuous is the goodness of the great First Cause, in having endowed man with faculties, by which he can not only appreciate the magnificence of His works, but trace, with precision, the operation of His laws, use the globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter (Note 1) of the earth’s orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such pursuits, while they ennoble the mind, at the same time inculcate humility, by showing that there is a barrier which no energy, mental or physical, can ever enable us to pass: that, however profoundly we may penetrate the depths of space, there still remain innumerable systems, compared with which, those apparently so vast must dwindle into insignificance, or even become invisible; and that not only man, but the globe he inhabits—nay, the whole system of which it forms so small a part—might be annihilated, and its extinction be unperceived in the immensity of creation.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maccabaean written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book The Maccab©Œan written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean-Marie Kauth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666901857
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe written by Jean-Marie Kauth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe, Jean-Marie Kauth shows how counter-ecological metaphors sprung from the cosmology of the Copernican Revolution influence us still in unexpected, maladaptive ways, nurturing conceptions of the world that are not only incorrect but enabling of ecocide. She argues that grasping these underlying paradigms may help us to alter our thinking and make the radical transformations needed to counter the forward motion of our capitalist, post-industrial society.

Author : Raymond O'Shea
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136179801
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sand Kings Of Oman written by Raymond O'Shea and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. The Sand Kings of Oman A travel book by a reflective and observant resident of Oman at the end of World War II giving a very interesting account of the topography, races, customs and industries of the then Persian Gulf inevitably throwing much light on the British influences and interest in the region.