Author: Sara White
Publisher: Snow Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The first book in the Destroyer Chronicles, Second Sun is an Exodus story unlike you've ever heard. Both Pharaoh and his brother are in love with the same priestess and must fight to save her life and their own. It is an epic battle for good and evil as flames of passion and hatred rise higher and the world burns down.
Second Sun
Author: Sara White
Publisher: Snow Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The first book in the Destroyer Chronicles, Second Sun is an Exodus story unlike you've ever heard. Both Pharaoh and his brother are in love with the same priestess and must fight to save her life and their own. It is an epic battle for good and evil as flames of passion and hatred rise higher and the world burns down.
Publisher: Snow Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The first book in the Destroyer Chronicles, Second Sun is an Exodus story unlike you've ever heard. Both Pharaoh and his brother are in love with the same priestess and must fight to save her life and their own. It is an epic battle for good and evil as flames of passion and hatred rise higher and the world burns down.
Exalted
Author: Richard E. Dansky
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
ISBN: 9781588468000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
ISBN: 9781588468000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Beneath the Second Sun
Author: Adam W. Sweeting
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653141
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Indian summer, the succession of warm, fair days gracing New England in autumn, is at once a flourishing period signaling the end of fall, a meteorological event, a vernacular cultural construction, and a literary metaphor. In this appealing and elegant book, Sweeting plumbs Indian summer's use in literature as a symbol of second chance, rebirth, or reprieve before the onset of a harsher season. Well researched and charmingly written, Beneath the Second Sun is the first book to systematically treat the history and uses of Indian summer imagery in American life. The author focuses on the ways in which New Englanders have embraced the season, and he places the celebration of the season's beauty and its melancholy qualities within the context of Anglo-Native American relations. Sweeting does not try to locate the original definition of Indian summer, rather he explores the far more interesting ways in which the season has been imagined and described in American culture. Popular authors including Philip Freneau, Susan Cooper, Lydia Sigourney, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis Parkman Oliver, Wendell Holmes, and, especially, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and William Dean Howells freely employ Indian summer imagery in their works. In the context of modern American Studies, Sweeting's study is part of a "post-modern" scholarly discussion of how tangible realities such as climate are mediated, even forged, by social needs. Sweeting further investigates the imaginative, early-nineteenth-century "invention" of New England regional identity and integrates traditional American Studies literary and historical concerns with a contemporary interest in the environment and sense of place. Sweeting's graceful, lively, and accessible style beckons not only scholars of American literature and the nineteenth century but any traveler seeking the glories of autumn in New England.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653141
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Indian summer, the succession of warm, fair days gracing New England in autumn, is at once a flourishing period signaling the end of fall, a meteorological event, a vernacular cultural construction, and a literary metaphor. In this appealing and elegant book, Sweeting plumbs Indian summer's use in literature as a symbol of second chance, rebirth, or reprieve before the onset of a harsher season. Well researched and charmingly written, Beneath the Second Sun is the first book to systematically treat the history and uses of Indian summer imagery in American life. The author focuses on the ways in which New Englanders have embraced the season, and he places the celebration of the season's beauty and its melancholy qualities within the context of Anglo-Native American relations. Sweeting does not try to locate the original definition of Indian summer, rather he explores the far more interesting ways in which the season has been imagined and described in American culture. Popular authors including Philip Freneau, Susan Cooper, Lydia Sigourney, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis Parkman Oliver, Wendell Holmes, and, especially, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and William Dean Howells freely employ Indian summer imagery in their works. In the context of modern American Studies, Sweeting's study is part of a "post-modern" scholarly discussion of how tangible realities such as climate are mediated, even forged, by social needs. Sweeting further investigates the imaginative, early-nineteenth-century "invention" of New England regional identity and integrates traditional American Studies literary and historical concerns with a contemporary interest in the environment and sense of place. Sweeting's graceful, lively, and accessible style beckons not only scholars of American literature and the nineteenth century but any traveler seeking the glories of autumn in New England.
A Dying Second Sun
Author: Peter A. Dowse
Publisher: Serenade Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A dying second sun has created increasingly desperate winters for the world of Fawe, driving tensions to boiling point between two major kingdoms. Abreeth, a humble spearman on a hunting boat, didn't ask to be thrust into the middle of a war, but circumstance and bad luck would place him at the centre of an epic battle. A power hungry foe with a newly discovered weapon that could help overthrow the throne and destroy everything he cares for is beating the drums of war. Will a desperate adversary determined to overtake lands and enslave his countrymen be vanquished or will this new weapon prove to be the advantage the enemy needs? Epic in scale, fast paced and full of action, A Dying Second Sun hurls a group of individuals together and asks:- How do you know what you’re made of until you’re tested? How do you know what you love until it’s threatened?
Publisher: Serenade Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A dying second sun has created increasingly desperate winters for the world of Fawe, driving tensions to boiling point between two major kingdoms. Abreeth, a humble spearman on a hunting boat, didn't ask to be thrust into the middle of a war, but circumstance and bad luck would place him at the centre of an epic battle. A power hungry foe with a newly discovered weapon that could help overthrow the throne and destroy everything he cares for is beating the drums of war. Will a desperate adversary determined to overtake lands and enslave his countrymen be vanquished or will this new weapon prove to be the advantage the enemy needs? Epic in scale, fast paced and full of action, A Dying Second Sun hurls a group of individuals together and asks:- How do you know what you’re made of until you’re tested? How do you know what you love until it’s threatened?
The Second Sun
Author: Chris Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781606416846
Category : Political fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781606416846
Category : Political fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Second Suns
Author: David Oliver Relin
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679603565
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness. In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world’s most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional. Ruit grew up in a remote Nepalese village, where he became intimately acquainted with the human costs of inadequate access to health care. Together they found their life’s calling: tending to the afflicted people of the Himalayas, a vast mountainous region with an alarmingly high incidence of cataract blindness. Second Suns takes us from improvised plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing to state-of-the-art surgical centers at major American universities where these two driven men are restoring sight—and hope—to patients from around the world. With their revolutionary, inexpensive style of surgery, Tabin and Ruit have been able to cure tens of thousands—all for about twenty dollars per operation. David Oliver Relin brings the doctors’ work to vivid life through poignant portraits of patients helped by the surgery, from old men who cannot walk treacherous mountain trails unaided to cataract-stricken children who have not seen their mothers’ faces for years. With the dexterity of a master storyteller, Relin shows the profound emotional and practical impact that these operations have had on patients’ lives. Second Suns is the moving, unforgettable story of how two men with a shared dream are changing the world, one pair of eyes at a time. Praise for Second Suns “As miracles go, it’s hard to beat making the blind see. Yet that’s exactly what the eye surgeon Dr. Geoffrey Tabin can do. He services poor people in the developing world who have developed cataracts—a clouding of the lens of the eye that is the world’s leading cause of blindness. . . . Second Suns is a hopeful work, a profile of two doctors who have dedicated their lives to bringing light to those in darkness.”—Time “A compelling and inspiring book . . . Second Suns portrays heroic health care delivered under harrowing conditions: Ruit and his teams carry their equipment on multi-day treks up steep mountain trails, sometimes hiking at night with flashlights or head lamps, to reach settlements where they typically spend several days operating on hundreds of villagers in makeshift surgical theaters.”—The Washington Post “Second Suns should be required reading for anybody with an interest in humanitarian philanthropy—or, for that matter, a desire to feel a little better about the world.”—Outside “A detailed, heartfelt account of the work of [two] dedicated pioneers.”—Kirkus Reviews From the Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679603565
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness. In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world’s most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional. Ruit grew up in a remote Nepalese village, where he became intimately acquainted with the human costs of inadequate access to health care. Together they found their life’s calling: tending to the afflicted people of the Himalayas, a vast mountainous region with an alarmingly high incidence of cataract blindness. Second Suns takes us from improvised plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing to state-of-the-art surgical centers at major American universities where these two driven men are restoring sight—and hope—to patients from around the world. With their revolutionary, inexpensive style of surgery, Tabin and Ruit have been able to cure tens of thousands—all for about twenty dollars per operation. David Oliver Relin brings the doctors’ work to vivid life through poignant portraits of patients helped by the surgery, from old men who cannot walk treacherous mountain trails unaided to cataract-stricken children who have not seen their mothers’ faces for years. With the dexterity of a master storyteller, Relin shows the profound emotional and practical impact that these operations have had on patients’ lives. Second Suns is the moving, unforgettable story of how two men with a shared dream are changing the world, one pair of eyes at a time. Praise for Second Suns “As miracles go, it’s hard to beat making the blind see. Yet that’s exactly what the eye surgeon Dr. Geoffrey Tabin can do. He services poor people in the developing world who have developed cataracts—a clouding of the lens of the eye that is the world’s leading cause of blindness. . . . Second Suns is a hopeful work, a profile of two doctors who have dedicated their lives to bringing light to those in darkness.”—Time “A compelling and inspiring book . . . Second Suns portrays heroic health care delivered under harrowing conditions: Ruit and his teams carry their equipment on multi-day treks up steep mountain trails, sometimes hiking at night with flashlights or head lamps, to reach settlements where they typically spend several days operating on hundreds of villagers in makeshift surgical theaters.”—The Washington Post “Second Suns should be required reading for anybody with an interest in humanitarian philanthropy—or, for that matter, a desire to feel a little better about the world.”—Outside “A detailed, heartfelt account of the work of [two] dedicated pioneers.”—Kirkus Reviews From the Hardcover edition.
The Naked Sun
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0307792404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots--unthinkable under the laws of Robotics--or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0307792404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots--unthinkable under the laws of Robotics--or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: United States. Patent and Trademark Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
Book Description
Sword & Citadel
Author: Gene Wolfe
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312890184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A Major work of twentieth-century American Literature.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312890184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A Major work of twentieth-century American Literature.
Our Solar System (Sun, Moons & Planets) : Second Grade Science Series
Author: Baby Professor
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1682808017
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Yes, science can be made fun and easy! This book features the solar system in all its glory. You can see pictures of the planets and the galaxy in full color. The layout is definitely going to amaze and delight a child. As a result, learning becomes highly entertaining. Grab a copy today!
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1682808017
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Yes, science can be made fun and easy! This book features the solar system in all its glory. You can see pictures of the planets and the galaxy in full color. The layout is definitely going to amaze and delight a child. As a result, learning becomes highly entertaining. Grab a copy today!