Author: Torben Kuhlmann Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0735844445 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 126
Book Description
"When an inventive mouse misses the biggest cheese festival the world has ever seen, he's determined to turn back the clock. But what is time, and can it be influenced? With the help of a mouse clockmaker, a lot of inventiveness, and the notes of a certain famous Swiss physicist he succeeds in traveling back in time. But when he misses his goal by eighty years, the only one who can help is an employee of the Swiss Patent Office, who turned our concept of space and time upside down."--Amazon.com
Author: Isaac Asimov Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0553275720 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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A fabulous adventure into the last frontier of man! Attention! This is the last message you will receive until your mission is completed. You have sixty minutes once miniaturization is complete. You must be out of Benes’ body before then. If not, you will return to normal size and kill Benes regardless of the success of the surgery. Four men and one woman reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, boarding a miniaturized atomic sub and being injected into a dying man's carotid artery. Passing through the heart, entering the inner ear where even the slightest sound would destroy them, battling relentlessly into the cranium. Their objective . . . to reach a blood clot and destroy it with the piercing rays of a laser. At stake . . . the fate of the entire world.
Author: Paul Murray Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 1873410239 Category : Americans Languages : en Pages : 410
Book Description
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) has long been marginalised as a failed Victorian Romantic whose writings on Japan were poetic but inconsequential; as a person, he emerges as a one-dimensional neurotic. In this new study, based on a wealth of hitherto unpublished sources, as well as a fresh reading of Hearn's writings, Paul Murray reveals a multi-faceted character of considerable depth, intelligence and literary skill. This is a book, therefore, that will appeal on many levels. The story of Hearn's life makes fascinating reading; his fantastic journey took him from conception outside marriage on a Greek island to a protected upbringing in Dublin; from a Gothic education in England to Cincinnati in the United States where, as Paddy Hearn, he established himself as a journalist of the macabre par excellence. In New Orleans, in the 1860s, he transformed himself into Lafcadio Hearn, litterateur and a man of the South. Finally after two years in the West Indies, he spent the last fourteen years of his life in Japan - arriving in 'the land of the gods' in the spring of 1890. Although it was always to be an ambiguous relationship with his adopted country, Hearn gave to the world some of the most valuable and enduring insights into Japanese society and culture that continue to stand the test of time. For students of the Anglo-Irish tradition, a little explored strand of Hearn's heritage, this book is also essential reading, providing substantial insights into Hearn's mastery of the literary horror genre. Equally, students of Japan will want to understand, for the first time, the make-up and motivation of one of its greatest ever Western interpreters.
Author: Martin Handford Publisher: ISBN: 9780744594423 Category : Picture puzzles Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
This is a pocket-sized edition of Where's Wally?. Look out for Wally, Woof, Wenda, Wizard Whitebeard, Odlaw, loads of Wally-watchers and more on every double-page spread. There is a free magnifying lens with the book.
Author: Azalea Dabill Publisher: ISBN: 9781943034130 Category : Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
The soul of fantasy adventure benefits us on three levels - the spiritual arena, the wide world of ideas, and the sphere we breathe in. 1. What difference does it make? 2. Why does the quest and the hero's journey draw us all? 3. How do we find the best books in the ocean of fantasy?To discover these answers and more, we bring up select jewels from the deep and explore mountain troves to whet our appetite for the riches of imaginative fiction. Our aim is to clear away the creeping muck, the destructive ideas, and the flawed gems that beset every treasure seeker.This is a joint venture. The seventy authors and their inspiring adventures we explore are beacons of extraordinary story. Most of them are lights by contrast, guiding us to enchanting lands of danger in the ocean of fantasy and speculative fiction. With them, we learn how to identify true gems and sell them not. How to know enemies, friends, and endless possibilities with our inner eye - to touch and to taste the truths of life in realms near and far.Our journey, though fantastic, is full of danger. Before we embark upon the perilous realm, read what the wise who have gone before us have written in bold ink of glimmering hue, in opalescent green, pink, and blue ... Will we discover that which is the wealth of souls?
Author: Ray Kurzweil Publisher: Rodale ISBN: 0452286670 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 466
Book Description
A leading scientist and an expert on human longevity explain how new discoveries in the fields of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology could radically extend the human life expectancy and enhance physical and mental abilities, and introduce a cutting-edge program designed to enhance the immune system and slow the aging process on a cellular level. Reprint.
Author: Andreas Feininger Publisher: ISBN: Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
96 brilliant photographs -- 11 in full color -- by outstanding contemporary master: an eroding claybank, sand-scrubbed driftwood, the spine of a skate, a barnacle colony, a pebble polished by the sea, the jaw of an anglerfish, and much more. "The author works at his art with zest and a poet's perception". -- Publishers Weekly.
Author: Daniel J. Hochstatter Publisher: Oliver-Nelson Books ISBN: 9780840791610 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
A shepherd boy relates well-known Bible stories, including himself and his sheep Sammy in each one. The reader may search for the shepherd boy and Sammy in the illustrations.
Author: Torben Kuhlmann
Author: Isaac Asimov
Author: Paul Murray
Author: Martin Handford
Author: Azalea Dabill
Author: Martin Handford
Author: Ray Kurzweil
Author: Andreas Feininger
Author: Martin Handford
Author: Daniel J. Hochstatter