Author: Tracey Thorn
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 178689257X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express 'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max Porter Before becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living. Returning to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children and the children who wanted none of it. With great wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and yet so many artists have come from.
Another Planet
Author: Tracey Thorn
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 178689257X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express 'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max Porter Before becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living. Returning to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children and the children who wanted none of it. With great wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and yet so many artists have come from.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 178689257X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express 'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max Porter Before becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living. Returning to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children and the children who wanted none of it. With great wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and yet so many artists have come from.
Atlantis & Lemuria
Author: Tom T. Moore
Publisher: Light Technology Publishing
ISBN: 1622337727
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Sixty thousand years ago, Earth had two more continents than it does today, each larger than what we now know as Australia. Why are they no longer there? One of these additional continents, Atlantis, was located in the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Africa. The other, Lemuria, was located in the Pacific Ocean. In this book, you’ll learn all about these huge continents and the great civilizations who called them home. What did they look like? What was daily life like for them? What happened to them? Tom asks these intriguing questions and many more. The answers revealed on the pages within dig into the mysteries surrounding the continents of Atlantis and Lemuria and their eventual destructions.
Publisher: Light Technology Publishing
ISBN: 1622337727
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Sixty thousand years ago, Earth had two more continents than it does today, each larger than what we now know as Australia. Why are they no longer there? One of these additional continents, Atlantis, was located in the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Africa. The other, Lemuria, was located in the Pacific Ocean. In this book, you’ll learn all about these huge continents and the great civilizations who called them home. What did they look like? What was daily life like for them? What happened to them? Tom asks these intriguing questions and many more. The answers revealed on the pages within dig into the mysteries surrounding the continents of Atlantis and Lemuria and their eventual destructions.
Probable Impossibilities
Author: Alan Lightman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593081323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593081323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.
Planet Earth Is Blue
Author: Nicole Panteleakos
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN: 0525646590
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Tender and illuminating. A beautiful debut." --Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me A heartrending and hopeful debut novel about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in the Cosmos, Mockingbird, and The Thing About Jellyfish. Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger--it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program. They planned to watch the launch together. But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home. While foster families and teachers dismiss Nova as severely autistic and nonverbal, Bridget understands how intelligent and special Nova is, and all that she can't express. As the liftoff draws closer, Nova's new foster family and teachers begin to see her potential, and for the first time, she is making friends without Bridget. But every day, she's counting down to the launch, and to the moment when she'll see Bridget again. Because Bridget said, "No matter what, I'll be there. I promise."
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN: 0525646590
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Tender and illuminating. A beautiful debut." --Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me A heartrending and hopeful debut novel about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in the Cosmos, Mockingbird, and The Thing About Jellyfish. Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger--it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program. They planned to watch the launch together. But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home. While foster families and teachers dismiss Nova as severely autistic and nonverbal, Bridget understands how intelligent and special Nova is, and all that she can't express. As the liftoff draws closer, Nova's new foster family and teachers begin to see her potential, and for the first time, she is making friends without Bridget. But every day, she's counting down to the launch, and to the moment when she'll see Bridget again. Because Bridget said, "No matter what, I'll be there. I promise."
Women from Another Planet?
Author: Jean Kearns Miller
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1410734323
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Mention the word autism and the room suddenly turns silent. Its the dreaded A word. Peoples attention turns to late night TV public service ads declaring that autistic children are imprisoned by autism and need curing at all cost. Recent autobiographies have helped dispel this dire description by suggesting that autism is not a prison and that the door is unlocked and youre free to come in. Women from Another Planet? moves beyond these autistic life stories in important ways. Its a collection of stories and conversations, all of them by women on the autism spectrum who speak candidly, insightfully, and often engagingly about both their gender in terms of their autism and their autism in terms of their gender. It is written not just for parents and professionals, like the other works, but also to those women still searching for ways to understand the unnamed difference they live with, as well as the wider audience of discerning readers. If you enter the unlocked door of these Women from Another Planet? you may end up with a question mark or two about your planet. Is normalcy really all its cracked up to be?
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1410734323
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Mention the word autism and the room suddenly turns silent. Its the dreaded A word. Peoples attention turns to late night TV public service ads declaring that autistic children are imprisoned by autism and need curing at all cost. Recent autobiographies have helped dispel this dire description by suggesting that autism is not a prison and that the door is unlocked and youre free to come in. Women from Another Planet? moves beyond these autistic life stories in important ways. Its a collection of stories and conversations, all of them by women on the autism spectrum who speak candidly, insightfully, and often engagingly about both their gender in terms of their autism and their autism in terms of their gender. It is written not just for parents and professionals, like the other works, but also to those women still searching for ways to understand the unnamed difference they live with, as well as the wider audience of discerning readers. If you enter the unlocked door of these Women from Another Planet? you may end up with a question mark or two about your planet. Is normalcy really all its cracked up to be?
The Babysitter from Another Planet
Author: Stephen Savage
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823441474
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The kids are in for a treat when their parents leave them with a babysitter who is truly out of this world--an alien! A Golden Duck Notable Picture Book When their parents go out for the evening, a brother and sister are left with a babysitter unlike any they've ever had before--an alien from another planet! But even though she seems a little strange, the kids quickly see that this babysitter can make anything fun...even brushing their teeth and doing their homework. This story is literally E.T. meets Mary Poppins, and as soon as the Babysitter from Another Planet is gone, the kids can't wait for her to come back again. With references to everything from '50s Science Fiction movies (sure to produce a chuckle from knowing parents) to ET, bestselling author Stephen Savage has produced a visual and verbal tour de force that will have kids begging for more. An ILA-CBC Children's Choice! A CBC Children's Choice Book Awards Finalist
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823441474
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The kids are in for a treat when their parents leave them with a babysitter who is truly out of this world--an alien! A Golden Duck Notable Picture Book When their parents go out for the evening, a brother and sister are left with a babysitter unlike any they've ever had before--an alien from another planet! But even though she seems a little strange, the kids quickly see that this babysitter can make anything fun...even brushing their teeth and doing their homework. This story is literally E.T. meets Mary Poppins, and as soon as the Babysitter from Another Planet is gone, the kids can't wait for her to come back again. With references to everything from '50s Science Fiction movies (sure to produce a chuckle from knowing parents) to ET, bestselling author Stephen Savage has produced a visual and verbal tour de force that will have kids begging for more. An ILA-CBC Children's Choice! A CBC Children's Choice Book Awards Finalist
Humans Are Not From Earth
Author: Ellis Silver (PhD.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780955011696
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Neanderthals had brow ridges to keep the sun out of their eyes, but why don't we? When a leading scientist walked into a wall and broke his nose, he decided to find out. In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Dr. Ellis Silver discusses the evidence that proves we evolved on a world distinctly different from the one we live on today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780955011696
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Neanderthals had brow ridges to keep the sun out of their eyes, but why don't we? When a leading scientist walked into a wall and broke his nose, he decided to find out. In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Dr. Ellis Silver discusses the evidence that proves we evolved on a world distinctly different from the one we live on today.
The Green Book
Author: Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466801573
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Jill Paton Walsh's classic science fiction novel The Green Book is now available from Square Fish with a brand–new cover! Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been a success. But as they begin to settle this shiny new world, they discover that the colony is in serious jeopardy. Nothing on this planet is edible, and they may not be able to grow food. With supplies dwindling, Pattie and her sister decide to take the one chance that might make life possible on Shine.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466801573
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Jill Paton Walsh's classic science fiction novel The Green Book is now available from Square Fish with a brand–new cover! Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been a success. But as they begin to settle this shiny new world, they discover that the colony is in serious jeopardy. Nothing on this planet is edible, and they may not be able to grow food. With supplies dwindling, Pattie and her sister decide to take the one chance that might make life possible on Shine.
The Shadow Rider: Between Two Words
Author:
Publisher: Ken Swatman
ISBN: 1300451718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Publisher: Ken Swatman
ISBN: 1300451718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Wind
Author: Lorene M Pulles
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504368347
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Wind: A Multi-Dimensional Experience is a nonfiction spiritual journey that culminates in an altruistic message for all of humankind. A hopeful story of healing and self-discovery, Lorene Pulless memoir details her spiritual awakening as a medium and healer. Possessing a unique shape-shifting ability, in addition to other supernatural gifts, Lorene introduces the reader to Wind, the spirit guide who mentored Lorene through a spiritual coming-of-age. But Wind is more than just one womans story of spiritual encounters and revelations; it is also a relatable account of overcoming fear and self-doubt. With a strong Christian influence and working in the rigid field of corrections, Lorene endures much criticism and uncertainty. Through learning and acceptance, she is able to realize her purpose and how she can use her spiritual gifts to incur global benefits. Lorenes story is for anyone who has ever struggled with self-acceptance; it is for anyone who has ever wondered, Who am I, and why am I here? CONNECT ONLINE www.wind-books.com
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504368347
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Wind: A Multi-Dimensional Experience is a nonfiction spiritual journey that culminates in an altruistic message for all of humankind. A hopeful story of healing and self-discovery, Lorene Pulless memoir details her spiritual awakening as a medium and healer. Possessing a unique shape-shifting ability, in addition to other supernatural gifts, Lorene introduces the reader to Wind, the spirit guide who mentored Lorene through a spiritual coming-of-age. But Wind is more than just one womans story of spiritual encounters and revelations; it is also a relatable account of overcoming fear and self-doubt. With a strong Christian influence and working in the rigid field of corrections, Lorene endures much criticism and uncertainty. Through learning and acceptance, she is able to realize her purpose and how she can use her spiritual gifts to incur global benefits. Lorenes story is for anyone who has ever struggled with self-acceptance; it is for anyone who has ever wondered, Who am I, and why am I here? CONNECT ONLINE www.wind-books.com