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Author : Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547248042
The highly anticipated follow-up to Life As We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone
Author : Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780152061548
I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's still would be open. High school sophomore Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic. How can her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the coasts, earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the sun? As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Told in a year's worth of journal entries, this heart-pounding story chronicles Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. An extraordinary series debut Susan Beth Pfeffer has written several companion novels to Life As We Knew It, including The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.
Author : Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780547422268
Best-selling author, Susan Beth Pfeffer, delivers a riveting companion to Life As We Knew It in this enthralling tale that follows seventeen-year-old Alex Morales as he fights to survive in the aftermath of apocalyptic events in New York City. Alex Morales is an average high schooler focused on his after-school job, helping his dad out with building superintendent responsibilities, and getting good grades so he can make it into an Ivy League college. But when the moon alters its gravitational pull and catastrophic events ensue, everything changes. Now, he has to care for his younger sisters, decide whether it’s ethical to rob the dead, and keep the hope alive that their lost parents will return. Bone-chilling and harrowing, Susan Beth Pfeffer investigates what it takes to survive when the odds are stacked against you in this captivating story about sacrifice and humanity.
Author : Louis Bromfield
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667628837
Nine short stories, set in various locales (the U.S., Monte Carlo, Switzerland...) and with various sets of characters, but all showing Louis Bromfield's creative powers and unobtrusively excellent style of writing.
Author : Helen Keller
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781775562283
In her earlier works, Helen Keller described the details of the early illness that left her deaf and blind, and in the prevailing opinion of the day, unable to be educated, as well as the methods that were eventually used to teach her how to communicate. In the remarkable memoir The World I Live In, Keller offers a much more personal take on her situation, inviting readers inside her own personal experience.
Author : Vine Deloria Jr.,Philip J. Deloria
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781555918477
In his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used To Live In, a fascinating collection of anecdotes from tribes across the country, explores everything from healing miracles and scared rituals to Navajos who could move the sun. In this compelling work, which draws upon a lifetime of scholarship, Deloria shows us how ancient powers fit into our modern understanding of science and the cosmos, and how future generations may draw strength from the old ways.
Author : Bridget Grenville-Cleave,Dóra Guðmundsdóttir,Felicia Huppert,Vanessa King,David Roffey,Sue Roffey,Marten de Vries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000360868
This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in. Our hope is to provoke conversation, and gently challenge possibly long-held views, beliefs, and ideologies about the way the world works and the people in that world. Written by eminent researchers and experienced practitioners, the book explores the principles that underpin living well, and gives examples of how this can be achieved not just in our own lives, but across communities and the planet we share. Chapters cover the stages of life from childhood to ageing, the foundations of everyday flourishing, including health and relationships, and finally wellbeing in the wider world, addressing issues such as economics, politics and the environment. Based in the scientific evidence of what works and supported by illustrations of good practice, this book is both ambitious and aspirational. The book is designed for a wide audience – anyone seeking to create positive change in the world, their institutions or communities. www.creatingtheworldwewanttolivein.org
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1143849081
Author : Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547813370
In this eagerly awaited addition to the dystopian series begun with New York Times best-seller Life As We Knew It, Jon Evans is one of the lucky ones—until he realizes that escaping his safe haven may be the only way to truly survive.
Author : Josef Čapek,Karel Čapek
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0573618062
Author : G. M. Woodwell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780262034074
A scientist makes a powerful case that preservation of the integrity of the biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right. A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the biosphere is now a global human protectorate and that its integrity of structure and function are tied closely to the human future. The earth is a living system, Woodwell explains, and its stability is threatened by human disruption. Industry dumps its waste globally and makes a profit from it, invading the global commons; corporate interests overpower weak or nonexistent governmental protection to plunder the planet. The fossil fuels industry offers the most dramatic example of environmental destruction, disseminating the heat-trapping gases that are now warming the earth and changing the climate forever. The assumption that we can continue to use fossil fuels and “adapt” to climate disruption, Woodwell argues, is a ticket to catastrophe. But Woodwell points the way toward a solution. We must respect the full range of life on earth—not species alone, but their natural communities of plant and animal life that have built, and still maintain, the biosphere. We must recognize that the earth's living systems are our heritage and that the preservation of the integrity of a finite biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right.
Author : Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780544774803
When a meteor hits the moon, teenage Miranda and her friends and family struggle to survive the unimaginable. Four gripping books that follow their ordeal are collected in this single-volume edition, including Life As We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.
Author : Shannon Johnson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1453533249
A revealing account on the various occurrences in the world that greatly affect humanity This World We Live In is an absolute expression of Shannon R. Johnson feelings on Holidays, Marriage , Mistreatment of Michael Jackson and Drugs, Money,World Religion and the Goverment,Splashed with enlightening Scriptures from the Bible this eye-opening read is a call for everyone to take part and bring the world to where God wants it to be.
Author : David Sirota
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345518804
Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past. In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko (and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of Cliff Huxtable (and Barack Obama). Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues, first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Rambo one-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a new religion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials, videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instruments of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign was launched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age and vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obama cast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esque Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era conservatism. “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even past.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only a child of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turns this multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as a warning for our own troubled present—and possible future.
Author : Helen Keller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486140599
These poetic, inspiring essays offer remarkable insights into the world of a gifted woman who was deaf and blind. Keller relates her impressions, perceived through the senses and imagination, of the world's beauty and promise.