The World Is Round

Author : Nikky Finney
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780810167186

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The World Is Round, Nikky Finney’s third volume of poetry, collects the wisps of memory we carry with us throughout our earthly lives and weaves them into deft and nuanced poems that emphasize understanding the cycles of life. The settings offer a view into the kaleidoscope of human experience: the sweetness and shock of family life, the omnipresent wash of memory, and the ebullience of warm Southern air. The World Is Round carries with it an implicit challenge—to the author as a poet, and to the reader as a fellow human—to see the characters and details and events of our lives with clarity, fearlessness, and love. The result is poems that range the gamut of human reach and resilience, fury and frailty. The poet’s vision of community requires understanding and tolerance from every breathing soul. Finney illuminates the cruelties of the sometimes gawking, narrow-minded world and makes a plea for compassion inspired by our common humanity.

Author : Tony Rothman
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345272137

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The World is Round by Tony Rothman Pdf

Author : Patricia Lauber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0060001747

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How We Learned the Earth Is Round by Patricia Lauber Pdf

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062311061

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The World Is Round by Gertrude Stein Pdf

This classic children’s book is “a treasure trove for admirers of [Stein’s] singular vision and Hurd’s always charming artwork” (Publishers Weekly). Written in her unique prose style, Gertrude Stein’s The World Is Round chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Rose—a whimsical tale that delights in wordplay and sound while exploring the ideas of personal identity and individuality. This volume replicates the original 1939 edition, including all of Clement Hurd’s original blue-and-white art printed on the rose-pink paper that Stein insisted upon. Also featured here are two essays that provide an inside view to the making of the book. The first, a foreword by Clement Hurd’s son, author and illustrator Thacher Hurd, includes previously unpublished photographs and sheds light on a creative family life in Vermont, where his father and mother, author Edith Thacher Hurd, often collaborated on children’s books. The second essay, an afterword by Edith Thacher Hurd, takes readers behind the scenes of the making of The World Is Round, including the numerous letters exchanged between Hurd and Stein as well as images of Stein with the real-life Rose and her white poodle, Love. “The perfect mix of Gertrude Stein’s painterly words and Clement Hurd’s elegant illustrations make The World Is Round an unforgettable treasure.” —Todd Oldham “a book. a beautiful book. arrived. it is pink and it is smart and it is beautiful. bring that book over here so i can look at it. would you like some tea?” —Maira Kalman

Author : Joyce E. Chaplin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416596202

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Round About the Earth by Joyce E. Chaplin Pdf

Originally published in hardcover in 2012.

Author : Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0374292787

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The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0] by Thomas L. Friedman Pdf

Explores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 1573929883

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Flat Earth? Round Earth? by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Louise Creed (formerly Mack.),Louise Mack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213324424

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The World is Round by Louise Creed (formerly Mack.),Louise Mack Pdf

Author : Ellie Peterson
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635921748

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It's a Round, Round World! by Ellie Peterson Pdf

We all know the earth is round. But HOW do we know? Join intrepid young scientist-adventurer Joulia Copernicus as she takes readers on a historical journey through time and space. From jumping on board Columbus's ship to planet-hopping in the outer reaches of our solar system, Joulia explains with humor and wit the ins and outs of how we learned that the earth is round.

Author : Carolyn Mackler
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763619582

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The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler Pdf

Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her. 10,000 first printing.

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780698189904

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Where the Water Goes by David Owen Pdf

“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.

Author : Michael Böcher,Max Krott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319340791

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Science Makes the World Go Round by Michael Böcher,Max Krott Pdf

Researchers in the environmental sciences are often frustrated because actors involved with practice do not follow their advice. This is the starting point of this book, which describes a new model for scientific knowledge transfer called RIU, for Research, Integration and Utilization. This model sees the factors needed for knowledge transfer as being state-of-the-art research and the effective, practical utilization to which it leads, and it highlights the importance of “integration”, which in this context means the active bi‐directional selection of those research results that are relevant for practice. In addition, the model underscores the importance of special allies who are powerful actors that support the application of scientific research results in society. An important product of this approach is a checklist of factors for successful knowledge transfer that will be useful for scientists. By using this checklist, research projects and research programs can be optimised with regard to their potential for reaching successful knowledge transfer effects.

Author : Ewan McGregor,Charley Boorman
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781405529099

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Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor,Charley Boorman Pdf

'A highly readable and spiritually uplifting book about a dream come true' Wanderlust 'Touching and memorable ... one for armchair travellers and bike freaks' Daily Mail From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started. Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their stamina. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls' testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads. And yet despite all these obstacles they managed to ride more than twenty thousand miles in four months, changing their lives forever in the process. As they travelled they documented their trip, taking photographs, and writing diaries by the campfire. Long Way Round is the result of their adventures - a fascinating, frank and highly entertaining travel book about two friends riding round the world together and, against all the odds, realising their dream.

Author : Rebecca J. H. Woods
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781469634678

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The Herds Shot Round the World by Rebecca J. H. Woods Pdf

As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire. Attending to the relationship between type and place and what it means to call a particular breed of livestock "native," Woods highlights the inherent tension between consumer expectations in the metropole and the ecological reality at the periphery. Based on extensive archival work in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, this study illuminates the connections between the biological consequences and the politics of imperialism. In tracing both the national origins and imperial expansion of British breeds, Woods uncovers the processes that laid the foundation for our livestock industry today.

Author : Barbara Savage
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781680510379

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Miles from Nowhere by Barbara Savage Pdf

This is the same amazing story as the current version, but with an updated cover and foreword. If you'd like to read Barbara Savage's two-year around the world bicycle trip now, you can order the current version here. Miles from Nowhere is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage’s sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Along the way, these near-neophyte cyclists on their ten-speeds encountered warm-hearted strangers eager to share food and shelter, bicycle-hating drivers who ran them off the road, various wild animals (including an attack camel), rock-throwing Egyptians, overprotective Thai policeman, motherly New Zealanders, meteorological disasters, bodily indignities, and great personal joys. The stress of traveling together constantly tested yet strengthened the young couple's relationship and as their trip ends, you'll find yourself yearning for Barbara and Larry to jump back on their bikes and keep pedaling. Originally published in 1983, Miles from Nowhere has provided inspiration for legions of modern travel-adventurers and writers.