Life Stories

Life Stories PDF Author: David Attenborough
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007338832
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A personal view of 70 years of looking at the natural world. This is Sir David looking at the wildlife that has captured his imagination and enthusiasm over his distinguished career.

Life Stories

Life Stories PDF Author: David Attenborough
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007338832
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A personal view of 70 years of looking at the natural world. This is Sir David looking at the wildlife that has captured his imagination and enthusiasm over his distinguished career.

Song from the Forest

Song from the Forest PDF Author: Louis Sarno
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595347496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some funding from musician Brian Eno, he followed the mysterious sounds all the way to the Central African rain forest and found their source with the Bayaka Pygmies, a tribe of hunters and gatherers. Nothing could have prepared him for life among the Pygmies, a people legendary for their short stature and musical wealth. Sarno never left. Considered outwardly lazy by some, scrounging, and near alcoholic, the Pygmies Sarno met had seemingly lost all desire to hunt or make music. Only after he had lived with them for some time (on a diet of tadpoles) was he allowed to join them in the rain forest where they still in relative harmony with nature. There Sarno experienced the extraordinary beauty and spiritual sophistication of their culture and the supreme importance of music as the principal means by which they communicate with the rain forest and its magical spirits. Over the decades Sarno has recorded more than 1,000 hours of unique Bayaka music. He is a fully accepted member of the Bayaka society and married a Bayaka woman. Permanently changed by his experience and captivated by a Bayaka culture, In Song from the Forest Sarno has chronicled his attempt to protect the fragile existence of the Pygmies in an increasingly destructive world. Once, when his son, Samedi, became seriously ill and Sarno feared for his life, he held his son in his arms through a frightful night and made him a promise: “If you get through this, one day I’ll show you the world I come from.” Now the time has come to fulfill his promise. In a new major documentary film, Sarno tells the story of the Bayaka as he travels with Samedi from the African rain forest to another jungle, one of concrete, glass, and asphalt: New York City. Together, they meet Louis’ family and old friends, including his closest friend from college, Jim Jarmusch. Carried by the contrasts between rainforest and urban America, and a fascinating soundtrack, Louis‘ and Samedi‘s stories are interwoven to form a touching portrait of an extraordinary man and his son. SONG FROM THE FOREST is a modern epic film set between rainforest and skyscrapers.

Super-Villains

Super-Villains PDF Author: Daniel Wallace
Publisher: Bantam Press
ISBN: 9780593075098
Category : Comic strip characters
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Book Description
As any comics fan knows, a Super Hero is nothing without a worthy foe to battle. For every Batman there has to be a villain like the Joker, and for every Superman a Lex Luthor. This deluxe book celebrates nearly eighty years of compellingly corrupt characters from the DC Universe's remarkable gallery of super-villains. From the Penguin to Harley Quinn, and Doomsday to General Zod, DC Comics: Super-Villains will track the creation of each of these beloved baddies and the dynamic way in which they have evolved throughout the years. The book will feature the very best super-villain art from the DC Comics archives. Visually arresting, comprehensive, and insightful, DC Comics: Super-Villains will be the last word on the DC Comics characters that fans love to hate. All related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics.

Silk Roads and Shadows

Silk Roads and Shadows PDF Author: Susan Shwartz
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 9780812554113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Book Description
When a blight threatens Byzantium's silk industry, Alexandra, the sister of the Emperor, journeys across Tibet to the Empire of Ch'in, in hopes of smuggling live silkworms back to Byzantium

The Ring of Ritornel

The Ring of Ritornel PDF Author: Charles L. Harness
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 057512542X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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A science fiction novel of revenge and retribution set against a background of galactic civilisations.

Stranger Suns

Stranger Suns PDF Author: George Zebrowski
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497611598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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The orbiting tachyon detector was designed by physicist Juan Obrion to identify life in other star systems, but even though he expected to find some signs of life, he certainly didn't expect to find any life on Earth. When Obrion discovers that a culture has been concealed for many years far below Antarctica, he ventures out as part of a four-man team to explore the unknown. Juan, Lena, Malachi, and Magnus are awestruck when they discover a myriad of portals to parallel lands, but the maze they fall into makes them wonder if their journey will ever come to an end.

Letters to Star Trek

Letters to Star Trek PDF Author: Susan Sackett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds

Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds PDF Author: Brian Daley
Publisher: Lucia St. Clair Robson
ISBN: 9780345314871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Book Description
Alacrity Fitzhugh, a young space adventurer, is blackmailed into taking Hobart Floyt, a minor Terran bureaucrat, to claim a mysterious inheritance from a wealthy interstellar empire

The Transcendent Man

The Transcendent Man PDF Author: Jerry Sohl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781542754002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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ARE WE THE MASTERS OF OUR OWN MINDS? Or are there other powers on Earth stronger than we, capable of controlling our thoughts and actions by long-distance suggestion? THE TRANSCENDENT MAN is a novel about a very possible future ruled by a dictatorship more effective than any before- BECAUSE THE DICTATORS' ONLY WEAPON IS INVISIBLE-AN ENORMOUS AND IRREVOCABLE POWER OVER MEN'S MINDS! "Jerry Sohl undoubtedly possesses one of the most imaginative minds of our day." -Houston Post Jerry Sohl is the acclaimed writer for Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and scores more scripts and novels. Read THE TRANSCENDENT MAN today and save the future!

The Book of Kells

The Book of Kells PDF Author: R. A. MacAvoy
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497602858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 435

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A contemporary couple journeys back in time to ancient Ireland in this delightful fantasy by the author of Tea with the Black Dragon. John Thornburn is an artist, mild-mannered and nonviolent. To make ends meet, he teaches some courses in Celtic design. And although his background is half Micmac Indian, he lives in Ireland for two reasons: his far more confrontational and warrior-like girlfriend, Derval O’Keane, and his fascination with the beautiful illuminated manuscript known as the Book of Kells. But he’s about to take a journey to a far more distant place, one that he could not have imagined. Along with Derval, John will find himself in an ancient Celtic realm, where a Viking attack begs to be avenged and a fantastic—and sometimes terrifying—adventure awaits . . . From a master of magical fantasy, the author of the Damiano Trilogy and a winner of the John W. Campbell Award, this is a tale of warriors, love, danger, and Irish history that will cast a spell on anyone who dreams of discovering treasures in long-lost worlds.