The Edge Of Time

Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780449000946

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Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy Pdf

Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity—and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time “This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Piercy’s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.”—Gloria Steinem “An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly “Connie Ramos’s world is cuttingly real.”—Newsweek “Absorbing and exciting.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Brian Greene
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Icarus (Greek mythology)
ISBN : 9780307268884

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Icarus at the Edge of Time by Brian Greene Pdf

A futuristic reimaging of the classic Greek myth, as a boy ventures through deep space and challenges the awesome power of black holes. The beauty of the book lies in the images, provided by NASA and the Hubble Space telescope, and printed on board rather than paper.

Author : Dan Hooper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691197005

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At the Edge of Time by Dan Hooper Pdf

A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang—and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universe Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a critical gap in our knowledge: we still know very little about what happened in the first seconds after the Big Bang. At the Edge of Time focuses on what we have recently learned and are still striving to understand about this most essential and mysterious period of time at the beginning of cosmic history. Delving into the remarkable science of cosmology, Dan Hooper describes many of the extraordinary and perplexing questions that scientists are asking about the origin and nature of our world. Hooper examines how we are using the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments to re-create the conditions of the Big Bang and test promising theories for how and why our universe came to contain so much matter and so little antimatter. We may be poised to finally discover how dark matter was formed during our universe’s first moments, and, with new telescopes, we are also lifting the veil on the era of cosmic inflation, which led to the creation of our world as we know it. Wrestling with the mysteries surrounding the initial moments that followed the Big Bang, At the Edge of Time presents an accessible investigation of our universe and its origin.

Author : Susan MacDonald
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1550813579

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Edge of Time by Susan MacDonald Pdf

Someone wants Alec and Riley dead. That someone can bend the will of others, forcing them to murder. That someone can travel through multiple dimensions, has powers beyond Earthly experience, and knows everything Alec knows. The Tyons have come to Earth, looking for Riley and Alec, who aren't even aware of their special genetic traits. Do Alec and Riley have the edge needed to save themselves, and more importantly, the world?

Author : John Kretschmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781472951632

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Sailing to the Edge of Time by John Kretschmer Pdf

John Kretschmer is sailing's practical philosopher – as much a doer as a thinker. And that is the overarching theme of this chronicle of a sailing life. Often amusing, sometimes poignant, occasionally terrifying but always inspiring, his deeply personal account is a welcome reminder of the good life waiting at sea. With hundreds of thousands of nautical miles under his keel, John's adventures have taken him several times around the world, with challenging crossings of the Atlantic and the Pacific, a narrow escape from a coup in Yemen, an unlikely deliverance from a coral reef off Belize as well as more serene, introspective passages where trade winds are blowing and stories are flowing. His crew has included CEOs, actors, writers, teachers, kids – in essence, everyone. John's narrative is interwoven with practical tips and advice in seamanship, but also, and just as importantly, his hard-won insights about making the most of our lives. He truly believes we find out who we really are, and what we are capable of, far from the shackles of land, when we find a place where time changes shape – days may merge into one another, but minutes are memorable. To live adventurously is to live more fully, and that is the life John Kretschmer continues to live. In this book he shares his simple profundities that will inspire those who live to sail, and those seeking something more rewarding from life.

Author : David Grinnell,Donald A. Wollheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : LCCN:58012513

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Edge of Time by David Grinnell,Donald A. Wollheim Pdf

Author : Harrison Publishing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0976827913

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The Edge of Time by Harrison Publishing Pdf

Biography of India-born NASA astronaut Kalpana Chawla. Covers her life from birth in India to graduate studies in the US, followed by an aerospace career culminating in her 1994 selction into the NASA astronaut corps. Details her astronaut training and two spoace shuttle flights, STS-87 in 1997, and the ill-fated STS-107 in 2003.Wrireen by her husband, Jean-Pierre Harrison.

Author : Em Vīrappa Moyili,Si. En Rāmacandran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015073599808

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The Edge of Time by Em Vīrappa Moyili,Si. En Rāmacandran Pdf

Examines a complex cultural practice of coastal Karnataka called Bhautaradhane, or the worship of hero-spirits.

Author : Shaun David Hutchinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781481449687

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At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson Pdf

From the author of We Are the Ants comes “another winner” (Booklist, starred review) about a boy who believes the universe is slowly shrinking as the things he remembers are being erased from others’ memories. Tommy and Ozzie have been best friends since the second grade, and boyfriends since eighth. They spent countless days dreaming of escaping their small town—and then Tommy vanished. More accurately, he ceased to exist, erased from the minds and memories of everyone who knew him. Everyone except Ozzie. Ozzie doesn’t know how to navigate life without Tommy, and soon he suspects that something else is going on: that the universe is shrinking. When Ozzie is paired up with the reclusive and secretive Calvin for a physics project, it’s hard for him to deny the feelings developing between them, even if he still loves Tommy. But Ozzie knows there isn’t much time left to find Tommy—that once the door closes, it can’t be opened again. And he’s determined to keep it open as long as possible.

Author : John R. Gribbin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Black holes (Astronomy)
ISBN : OCLC:1149401502

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In Search of the Edge of Time by John R. Gribbin Pdf

Author : Gunnar Hansen
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1559632526

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Islands at the Edge of Time by Gunnar Hansen Pdf

Islands at the Edge of Time is the story of one man's captivating journey along America's barrier islands from Boca Chica, Texas, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Weaving in and out along the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, poet and naturalist Gunnar Hansen perceives barrier islands not as sand but as expressions in time of the processes that make them. Along the way he treats the reader to absorbing accounts of those who call these islands home -- their lives often lived in isolation and at the extreme edges of existence -- and examines how the culture and history of these people are shaped by the physical character of their surroundings.

Author : Janet Morris,Chris Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 099775849X

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City at the Edge of Time by Janet Morris,Chris Morris Pdf

Join Tempus and Niko where a young girl trembles between love and sorcerous obsession, a prince's flaws betray him, and a city of immortals learns that Death has not forgotten it. Beneath a warlock's citadel, swords and courage face the jaws of demons -- with a girl's life and a god's vengeance resting on the outcome.

Author : Corinne Duyvis
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781613129012

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On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis Pdf

A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from one of young-adult literature’s boldest new talents. January 29, 2035. That’s the day the comet is scheduled to hit—the big one. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter outside their hometown of Amsterdam to wait out the blast, but Iris is nowhere to be found, and at the rate Denise’s drug-addicted mother is going, they’ll never reach the shelter in time. A last-minute meeting leads them to something better than a temporary shelter—a generation ship, scheduled to leave Earth behind to colonize new worlds after the comet hits. But everyone on the ship has been chosen because of their usefulness. Denise is autistic and fears that she’ll never be allowed to stay. Can she obtain a spot before the ship takes flight? What about her mother and sister? When the future of the human race is at stake, whose lives matter most?

Author : Julie A. Richman
Publisher : Julie A. Richman
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 194221569X

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Love on the Edge of Time by Julie A. Richman Pdf

He likes whiskey and wild women She likes Ben & Jerry's He's about to get kicked out of his own band She ate her way off the Miss America pageant circuit What could these two possibly have in common? A psychiatrist A lot of unresolved issues A whole bunch of shared lifetimes And a love that is never-ending As bad boy rocker, Jesse Winslow, and former pageant queen, Kylie Martin, each fight the demons screwing up their lives, the one person who holds the key to healing their ills and reuniting two souls that have searched for one another, lifetime after lifetime, is the only one who knows the whole truth. And keeping that truth from them may just be in preeminent psychiatrist Dr. Claire Stoddard's best interests. Claire has committed the ultimate sin in the medical world. She's fallen for the one man she's forbidden to love. Her patient, Jesse Winslow. And she's not about to lose him to Kylie Martin... Again.

Author : Michael Pye
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241963845

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The Edge of the World by Michael Pye Pdf

Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015 Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's transformation by sea. 'An utterly beguiling journey into the dark ages of the north sea. A complete revelation . . . Pye writes like a dream. Magnificent' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps This is a story of saints and spies, of fishermen and pirates, traders and marauders - and of how their wild and daring journeys across the North Sea built the world we know. When the Roman Empire retreated, northern Europe was a barbarian outpost at the very edge of everything. A thousand years later, it was the heart of global empires and the home of science, art, enlightenment and money. We owe this transformation to the tides and storms of the North Sea. The water was dangerous, but it was far easier than struggling over land; so it was the sea that brought people together. Boats carried food and raw materials, but also new ideas and information. The seafarers raided, ruined and killed, but they also settled and coupled. With them they brought new tastes and technologies - books, clothes, manners, paintings and machines. In this dazzling historical adventure, we return to a time that is largely forgotten and watch as the modern world is born. We see the spread of money and how it paved the way for science. We see how plague terrorised even the rich and transformed daily life for the poor. We watch as the climate changed and coastlines shifted, people adapted and towns flourished. We see the arrival of the first politicians, artists, lawyers: citizens. From Viking raiders to Mongol hordes, Frisian fishermen to Hanseatic hustlers, travelling as far west as America and as far east as Byzantium, we see how the life and traffic of the seas changed everything. Drawing on an astonishing breadth of learning and packed with human stories and revelations, this is the epic drama of how we came to be who we are. 'A closely-researched and fascinating characterisation of the richness of life and the underestimated interconnections of the peoples all around the medieval and early modern North Sea. A real page-turner' Chris Wickham, author of The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 'Elegant writing and extraordinary scholarship . . . Miraculous' Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of Periodic Tales and Anatomies 'Splendid. A heady mix of social, economic, and intellectual history, written in an engaging style. It offers a counterpoint to the many studies of the Mediterranean, arguing for the importance of the North Sea. Exciting, fun, and informative' Michael Prestwich, Professor of History, Durham University Michael Pye has written eleven previous books, translated into eleven languages, including two British bestsellers and two New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He took a First and various prizes in Modern History at Oxford, and was then for many years a highly successful journalist, columnist and broadcaster in London and New York. He now lives between London and rural Portugal.