Mercury And Prometheans

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765387240

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Two complete books for one price from six-time Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova Mercury The planet closest to our Sun is a barren, heat-scorched world. But there are those who hope to find wealth in its desolation. Saito Yamagata seeks to generate power to propel starships into deep space. Astrobiologist Victor Molina is searching for evidence of life. Bishop Elliot Danvers has been sent to keep close tabs on Molina. But all three of these men are blissfully unaware of their shared history, of their connection to the collapse of a geosynchronous space elevator a generation ago, and of the man who now seeks his revenge. Prometheans Discover the pioneers whose technologic genius fuels our dreams--and our future. The man who tamed hurricanes and the man whose vision of orbital immortality lost him all he loved on Earth. The day politics, media, and bioengineering met, and the day an assassin took aim on the stars.... Tomorrow belongs to Prometheans. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250856833

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Mercury and Prometheans by Ben Bova Pdf

"Mercury -- The planet closest to our Sun is a barren, heat-scorch ed world. But there are those who hope to find wealth in its desolation. Saito Yamagata seeks to generate power to propel starships into deep space. Astrobiologist Victor Molina is searching for evidence of life. Bishop Elliot Danvers has been sent to keep close tabs on Molina. But all three of these men are blissfully unaware of their shared history, of their connection to the collapse of a geosynchronous space elevator a generation ago, and of the man who now seeks his revenge."--Provided by publisher. "Prometheans" includes short stories and essays about technological genius and how it affects the future.

Author : William R. Newman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226577135

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Promethean Ambitions by William R. Newman Pdf

In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. Focusing primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700, Newman examines the labors of pioneering alchemists and the impassioned—and often negative—responses to their efforts. By the thirteenth century, Newman argues, alchemy had become a benchmark for determining the abilities of both men and demons, representing the epitome of creative power in the natural world. Newman frames the art-nature debate by contrasting the supposed transmutational power of alchemy with the merely representational abilities of the pictorial and plastic arts—a dispute which found artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Bernard Palissy attacking alchemy as an irreligious fraud. The later assertion by the Paracelsian school that one could make an artificial human being—the homunculus—led to further disparagement of alchemy, but as Newman shows, the immense power over nature promised by the field contributed directly to the technological apologetics of Francis Bacon and his followers. By the mid-seventeenth century, the famous "father of modern chemistry," Robert Boyle, was employing the arguments of medieval alchemists to support the identity of naturally occurring substances with those manufactured by "chymical" means. In using history to highlight the art-nature debate, Newman here shows that alchemy was not an unformed and capricious precursor to chemistry; it was an art founded on coherent philosophical and empirical principles, with vocal supporters and even louder critics, that attracted individuals of first-rate intellect. The historical relationship that Newman charts between human creation and nature has innumerable implications today, and he ably links contemporary issues to alchemical debates on the natural versus the artificial.

Author : Elizabeth Hazel
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1578633028

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Tarot Decoded by Elizabeth Hazel Pdf

Most readers interested in tarot own a couple of different decks as well as some tarot "cookbooks" that explain the meaning of the cards and their symbolism--like Cliff Notes for tarot. These tarot tools result in fairly standard, mundane readings. But there is another level to tarot--a level that can turn an ordinary tarot reader into a true adept. Tarot Decoded transforms ordinary tarot readings into readings that are profound and even surprising by explaining the use and significance of tarot dignitaries. Tarot dignitaries are the interaction of the cards with each other in a spread and within a range of correspondences. Tarot author Elizabeth Hazel presents a concise, useable system for working with tarot dignities to add incredible depth to readings. One card placed next to another might not have a readily apparent connection--but interpreting tarot dignities could make it very clear that one card enhances, or hinders, the meaning of another. The same is true for tarot neighborhoods within a spread as well as the entire reading. Using the Tarot Decoded system for working with tarot dignities can take anyone to the next level of tarot reading. The book offers a progressive look at the cards, their dignities, and their correspondences. With Hazel's advice and clear examples--and a little practice--readings take on a new depth, integration, and power.

Author : William B. Meyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319292632

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The Progressive Environmental Prometheans by William B. Meyer Pdf

This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this “progressive Prometheanism” and the reasons it has vanished from the intellectual scene today. The Progressive Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader’s understanding of the history of the ideas behind Prometheanism. This book appeals to anyone with an interest in environmental politics, environmental history, global history, geography and Anthropocene studies.

Author : Erin Sullivan
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781609253974

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Retrograde Planets by Erin Sullivan Pdf

"Geocentricity might well be egocentricity" the phenomenon of retrograde motion is based on our Earth-centered view of the solar system, but the movement and cycles of retrograde planets are based entirely on the apparent motion of the Sun through the zodiac. Sullivan organizes and explains retrograde motion from a systems-view-point the system of the Sun and planets and interprets retrograde planets natally, by progression, and in transit.

Author : Robert W. Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557272648

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The Promethean Divide by Robert W. Reid Pdf

Three adventurers; a wealthy publisher, a soldier-of-fortune private eye, and an eccentric techie investigate the suspicious death of a friend. The case puts them on the trail of a strange serial killer who seems to have extraordinary powers. Their search leads to a secret society and astounding truths about mankind's past and future. As the human race rapidly approaches its technological singularity, these three comrades become enmeshed in the unfolding future of mankind. They are privileged to glimpse man's destiny on the other side of The Promethean Divide.

Author : Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Publisher : Schaum's Outline Series
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050167678

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Prometheans in the Lab by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne Pdf

Table of contents includes: Soap and Nicholas Leblanc, Color and William Henry Perkin, Sugar and Norbert Rillieux, Clean water and Edward Frankland, Fertilizer, poison gas, and Fritz Haber, Leaded gasoline, safe refrigeration and Thomas Midgley, Jr., Nylon and Wallace Hume Carothers, DDT and Paul Hermann Muller, Lead-free gasoline and Clair C. Patterson.

Author : Michael R. Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0385057296

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A Handbook for the Humanistic Astrologer by Michael R. Meyer Pdf

Author : Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
Publisher : The Wessex Astrologer Ltd
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781902405179

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Temperament by Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum Pdf

The author gives a full history of the origins of temperament in astrology, then shows clearly and succinctly how readers can work to assess temperaments themselves. Copious case histories support her technique.

Author : Ron Edwards
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412056427

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The Promethean File by Ron Edwards Pdf

While investigating the mysterious deaths of defense employees, Alex Scott seeks to unravel a bizarre military-industrial conspiracy before he becomes the victim of another strange death.

Author : Hilary Rose,Steven Rose
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781844678815

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Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology by Hilary Rose,Steven Rose Pdf

Dissecting the hype from the frontiers of bioethics, genomics and neuroscience.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007224996

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Spring by Anonim Pdf

Contributions to Jungian thought.

Author : Arthur K. Barnes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633550124

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Interplanetary Hunter by Arthur K. Barnes Pdf

Hunting the nightmare creatures of the solar system...

Author : George Jean Nathan,Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UVA:X004508141

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The American Mercury by George Jean Nathan,Henry Louis Mencken Pdf