Ventus

Author : Karl Schroeder
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466800076

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Ventus by Karl Schroeder Pdf

Ventus is a large-scale Hard SF adventure novel in the tradition of Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, and Arthur C. Clarke. Karl Schroeder, a physicist and writer, is a winner of Canada's Aurora Award. His first novel was called the best first fantasy of the year by Science Fiction Chronicle, and now his first SF novel launches a major career in SF. Young Jordan Mason, on the terraformed planet Ventus, has visions. Kidnapped by Calandria May--a human from offworld sent to investigate the AIs (the Winds) of Ventus--Jordan is desperate to find the meaning of his visions, desperate enough to risk calling down the Winds that destroy technology to protect the created environment, who descend and wreak havoc. As a result Jordan escapes from Calandria and sets out to discover his destiny on his own. Calandria and others, both human and AI, search for Jordan, who holds the key to catastrophe or salvation. Ventus is an epic journey across a fascinating planet with a big mystery--why have the Winds fallen silent? It is one of the major, ambitious SF novels of the year and the international launch of an important new hard SF writer. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency,Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783658024628

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Ecological Research at the Offshore Windfarm alpha ventus by Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency,Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Pdf

At present and over the next few years, large-scale windfarms are being installed far off the coast of Germany in the North and Baltic Sea, making a major contribution to electricity generation from renewable energy sources. One of the German government’s aims is to ensure the environmentally sound and sustainable development of offshore wind energy. Germany’s first offshore test site, alpha ventus, was therefore accompanied from the construction phase to the first years of operation by an intensive environmental research programme, the StUKplus project, financed by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and coordinated by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency. Marine and ecological aspects have been researched there for more than five years to improve the level of knowledge about the ecological impacts of offshore windfarms. This book provides a broad, richly illustrated overview of applied and new research methods and monitoring techniques. It summarises the key research findings on the impacts on benthic communities, fish, marine mammals and birds, also taking into account underwater sound and sediment measurements. Interpreting the results in the sense of lessons learned, new challenges and perspectives are discussed for future sustainable offshore development in German waters.

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCAL:$B8948

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Apocalypsis Explicata Secundum Sensum Spiritualem by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Gliders (Aeronautics)
ISBN : UOM:39015049115325

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Soaring by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Drugs
ISBN : UOM:39015080402574

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The Pharmaceutical Era by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCBK:C038432484

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Philosophical works by Francis Bacon Pdf

Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6E7W

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Works by Francis Bacon Pdf

Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104256872

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The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon Pdf

Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : English literature
ISBN : UVA:X002243645

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The Works of Francis Bacon: Life, by Wm. Rawley. Philosophical works. 1889-1887.-v.4-5. Translations of the philosophical works. 1883-1889.-v.6-7. Literary and professional works. 1890-1892 by Francis Bacon Pdf

Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B3618250

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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Philosophical works by Francis Bacon Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Asia
ISBN : NYPL:33433081667721

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The Chrysanthemum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karl Schroeder
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466807587

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Lady of Mazes by Karl Schroeder Pdf

Author and professional futurist Karl Schroeder, whose novels Ventus and Permanence have established him as a groundbreaking visionary in hard science fiction, extends his imagination into Larry Niven territory, returning to the same distant future in which Ventus was set, but employing a broader canvas, to tell the story of Teven Coronal, a ringworld with a huge multiplicity of human civilizations. Brilliant but troubled Livia Kodaly is Teven's only hope against invaders both human and superhuman who would destroy its fragile ecologies and human diversity. Filled with action, ideas, and intellectual energy, Lady of Mazes is the hard SF novel of the year. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Karl Schroeder
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429938051

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Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder Pdf

In Karl Schroeder's sci-fi thriller, Hayden Griffin has come to the city of Rush with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for his parents' deaths. It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Eutropius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Latin prose literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049270130

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Eutropius by Eutropius Pdf

Author : David Richard Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : St. Asaph, Wales (Diocese)
ISBN : MINN:319510017086553

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Esgobaeth Llanelwy by David Richard Thomas Pdf