The Falling Sky Collection

Author : Davi Kopenawa,Bruce Albert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674293571

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The Falling Sky by Davi Kopenawa,Bruce Albert Pdf

The 10th anniversary edition A Guardian Best Book about Deforestation A New Scientist Best Book of the Year A Taipei Times Best Book of the Year “A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one’s personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.” —Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review “The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded existence. They have a lot to teach us.” —Amitav Ghosh, The Guardian “A literary treasure...a must for anyone who wants to understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence.” —New Scientist A now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the global mining industry. In richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers, government officials, and gold prospectors seeking to extract the riches of the Amazon. A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned plea to respect indigenous peoples’ rights is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and other natural treasures threatened by climate change and development.

Author : L. A. Witt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1626490406

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Falling Sky by L. A. Witt Pdf

A Chip in His Shoulder "Contract killer" is a fitting job for a vampire. Cast down from the wealth and status of the Sky for taking a human lover, Liam lurks in the poor and pollution-choked Gutter, killing to survive. Between his natural strengths and his Cybernetix mods, no mark has ever escaped him. Daniel is the heir to Cybernetix-and its greatest threat. Horrified by people less man than machine and the exploitation of Gutter factory workers, he'd rather destroy Cybernetix than inherit it. When Liam is hired to slaughter a man in his glass Sky tower, he walks right into a Daniel-shaped trap. Daniel's father has betrayed them both, and only by working together can Daniel and Liam survive the coming day. Can they find each other again, or will the Cybernetix assassins find them first? Something New Under the Sun Daniel and Liam plan to rip open the hidden corruption that runs the Sky-for vengeance, for justice, and for hope. But when everything goes wrong, Daniel must betray his core beliefs to save the man he loves and protect his dangerous secret. Only through courage in the face of death-or worse-might he and Liam change the world they live in and create something new under the sun.

Author : Michelle Priscilla Cuen
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1456067249

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Above the Falling Sky by Michelle Priscilla Cuen Pdf

Author : Kelsey Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 155380659X

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Big Sky Falling by Kelsey Andrews Pdf

For Kelsey Andrews, the metal-scarred Vancouver skyline is an emblem of distance from her family home in Grande Prairie, Alberta, where nothing breaks the sky but the curve of the Earth. As she adjusts from a thirsty countryside filled with little wonders to a lush cityscape with fewer miracles, depression nests within her, weighted by loneliness and past secrets that remain unsayable. These poems lessen the weight of those burdens. She befriends, rather than beats, depression with the help of a natural world populated by winged things, animals, trees, water and sky. Her poems play with earthy whimsy, though they are not without gristle and little violences -- the moon's ancient bruises, gargoyles that shriek and moan, the thunk when you split a chicken. From snails to suicide and picking blackberries to killing flies, through it all, Kelsey finds beauty and the light that persists. Poetry.

Author : Rajan Khanna
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781616149833

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Falling Sky by Rajan Khanna Pdf

Ben Gold lives in dangerous times. Two generations ago, a virulent disease turned the population of most of North America into little more than beasts called Ferals. Some of those who survived took to the air, scratching out a living on airships and dirigibles soaring over the dangerous ground. Ben, a lone wolf, has reluctantly agreed to use his skills and his airship to help an idealist scientist, Miranda, on her search for a cure. Protecting her from Ferals is dangerous enough but when power-mad raiders run rampant, Ben finds himself in the most dangerous place of all—the ground. Ben’s journey leads him to Gastown, a city in the air recently conquered by belligerent and expansionist pirates. Old friends and new enemies are drawn into a struggle that quickly becomes a fight for the fate of the world. Ben must decide to focus on his own survival or risk it all on a desperate chance for a better future. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Davi Kopenawa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674727076

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The Falling Sky by Davi Kopenawa Pdf

Anthropologist Bruce Albert captures the poetic voice of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon, in this unique reading experience--a coming-of-age story, historical account, and shamanic philosophy, but most of all an impassioned plea to respect native rights and preserve the Amazon rainforest.

Author : Ted Nield,Granta Books
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780762775897

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Falling Sky by Ted Nield,Granta Books Pdf

Did an enormous collision in the Asteroid Belt, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, bombard Earth with meteorites 470 million years ago? Astonishing new research suggests it did, and a revolutionary theory is emerging that this bombardment resulted in the single greatest increase in biological diversity on the planet since the origin of life. Introducing these discoveries to the general public for the first time, Ted Nield challenges the view that meteorites are bad news. Tracing the history of meteorites from the first recorded strike to the videos made routinely today, he reveals the fascinating ways in which meteorites have transformed from omens of doom to a stepping stone to Mars in twenty-first-century space exploration. The Falling Sky will shatter everything you thought you knew about one of the most terrifying forces in the universe.

Author : Joseph Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Revenge
ISBN : 0957291205

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City of the Falling Sky (the Seckry Sequence Book 1) by Joseph Evans Pdf

When Seckry Sevenstars is forced out of his village by the greedy Endrin Corporation and relocated to the daunting metropolis of Skyfall City, he harbours resentment for the company and vows to get them back one day for taking away his home, his school and his friends. Fortunately, the marvels of the city do a good job in distracting Seckry from his anger and homesickness, and it isn't long before he's competing at Friction (the city's most popular multiplayer video game), slurping awe-inspiring multicoloured milkshakes, and getting butterflies on his first date. Then, when a mysterious email asks Seckry to break into the headquarters of the Endrin Corporation and steal a container full of worms for a hefty sum of money, his anger resurfaces, and he can't resist the revenge he promised himself. Alone at night, Seckry creeps through the sewers whilst wondering what experiments Endrin might be doing on the worms, and emerges into the silent complex. But the worms aren't the only thing that he finds. Staring at him through the darkness, with wide, innocent eyes, is something that makes Seckry's heart almost stop. A girl. She's shaking, petrified, and has no recollection of who she is or what she's doing there. Floodlights bleach the area and Seckry has no choice but to grab a hold of the girl and escape with her. Suddenly the question of what Endrin were doing with a few worms becomes the last thing on Seckry's mind. What were Endrin doing with a human?

Author : Robin Koontz
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781612367408

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Lizzie Little, the Sky is Falling! by Robin Koontz Pdf

Lizzie Little, the Sky is Falling! encourages young learners to build reading comprehension skills with grade-appropriate vocabulary, extension activities, and an engaging story. Featuring reading activities and a Comprehension & Extension section, this 24-page title introduces transitioning readers to teacher-focused concepts that will help them gain important reading comprehension and learning skills. The vibrant illustrations and engaging leveled text in the Little Birdie Books’ Leveled Readers work together to tell fun stories while supporting early readers. Featuring grade-appropriate vocabulary and activities, these books help children develop essential skills for reading proficiency.

Author : Caroline Adderson
Publisher : Dundurn.com
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780887628214

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The Sky Is Falling by Caroline Adderson Pdf

From the winner of the 2006 Marian Engel Award comes a funny, absorbing and timely novel about fear in our time. On a spring day in 2004, Jane Z. a physician’s wife and mother of a teenage son, opens her morning newspaper and is shocked to see a familiar face on the front page. Sonia, a lost friend accused of terrorism, has just been released after twenty years in prison. It all comes flooding back to Jane, how twenty years before her life took a very different course. At nineteen, Jane rents a room in a shared student house with a mismatched trio of idealists: Sonia, who yearns to save the world’s children from nuclear war; the Marxist-leaning Dieter; and the anarcho-feminist-pacifist Pete. A bookish misfit, her radical housemates quickly draw Jane into NAG!, a non-violent, anti-nuclear direct action group. To Jane, who is studying Russian and Russian literature, her compatriots, with their utopian dreams and youthful pathos, soon seem Chekhovian to her. Meanwhile, NAG! plans its most ambitious action, crossing the border into the United States to chain themselves to the Boeing factory fence. Tension increases as the group mounts each successive protest, until a bomb explodes and changes everything. The Sky Is Falling deftly intertwines themes of first love, sexual confusion, and the dread of nuclear disaster with the comical infighting of a cast of well-meaning political activists, and the timelessness of the great Russian classics. A story for our own age of paranoia and terror, Caroline Adderson’s witty, accomplished novel returns the reader to another fearful era, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear annihilation and the end of world seemed inevitable.

Author : Jack A. Baret
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805944737

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The Falling Sky by Jack A. Baret Pdf

Author : Pippa Goldschmidt
Publisher : Cargo Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908754158

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The Falling Sky by Pippa Goldschmidt Pdf

A blackly comic campus satire combined with a heart-breaking family mystery, The Falling Sky brilliantly mixes fiction and astronomy into a fascinating, compelling and moving narrative. Jeanette is a young, solitary post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy. Struggling to compete in a prestigious university department dominated by egos and incompetents, and caught in a cycle of brief and unsatisfying affairs, she travels to a mountain-top observatory in Chile to focus on her research. There Jeanette stumbles upon evidence that will challenge the fundamentals of the universe, drawing her into conflict with her colleagues and the scientific establishment, but also casting her back to the tragic loss that defined her childhood. As the implications of her discovery gather momentum, and her relationships spiral out of control, Jeanette's own grip on reality is threatened, finally forcing her to confront the hidden past. Pippa Goldschmidt's bittersweet debut novel blends black comedy, heart-breaking tragedy and fascinatingly accessible science, in this intricate and beautiful examination of one woman's disintegration and journey to redemption.

Author : K.A. Grant
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493187966

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The Falling Sky by K.A. Grant Pdf

It is the future, when teleportation is not only feasible but now being blended with societys imaginings of physical beauty. What would you do if you could teleport your memories, longings, experiences and personality into your personal version of physical perfection? Lucy catches sight of an improved version of herself - the 3DMe - during a commercial. The Tele-P-eLastics company is advertising for candidates to trial plastic surgery during teleportation. The display takes her breath away and ignites a longing inside to become the perfect on-screen version of her physical self. She believes she is in love with a man who truly doesnt feel the same for her and this causes her to think that a re-made Lucy will catch his eye and his heart. Along comes Daniel tall, interesting, attractive and ostensibly interested in Lucy. Can he help her to see her inner beauty or will Lucy succumb to pop-cultures pressure and become the someone she believes she was meant to be?

Author : Kit Pearson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143186328

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The Sky Is Falling by Kit Pearson Pdf

It is the summer of 1940, and all of England fears an invasion by Hitler’s army. Norah lies in bed listening to the anxious voices of her parents downstairs. Then Norah is told that she and her brother, Gavin, are being sent to Canada. The voyage across the ocean is exciting, but at the end of it Norah is miserable. The rich woman who takes them in prefers Gavin to her, the children at school taunt her, and as the news from England becomes worse, she longs for home. As Norah begins to make friends, she discovers a surprising responsibility that helps her to accept her new country.

Author : Lester del Rey
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066052706

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The Sky Is Falling (SF Classic) by Lester del Rey Pdf

Computer engineer Dave Hansen is transported from Earth to a world where the rules of science and physics are replaced by the rules of magic. Hanson was summoned to help save the world's sky from collapsing. The sky is a literal dome that arches above the world, with the sun and stars not massive celestial bodies trillions of miles away, but smaller lights that move about within the dome of the sky. Hansen must find a way to reconcile his scientific knowledge with the magic of his new world and thus prevent the sky from falling.