Domes for Tomorrow
Author: Frederick L. Crandall
Publisher:
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780967917115
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The House of Tomorrow
Author: Peter Bognanni
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2018-07-03
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1984835793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK* "Funny and unique . . . An honest, noisy, and raucous look at friendship and how loud music can make almost everything better." --Publishers Weekly, starred review Sebastian Prendergast lives with his eccentric grandmother in a geodesic dome. His homeschooling has taught him much-but he's learned little about girls, junk food, or loud, angry music. Then fate casts Sebastian out of the dome, and he finds a different kind of tutor in Jared Whitcomb: a chain-smoking sixteen-year-old heart transplant recipient who teaches him the ways of rebellion. Together they form a punk band and plan to take the local church talent show by storm. But when his grandmother calls him back to the futurist life she has planned for him, he must decide whether to answer the call-or start a future of his own.
Simple Shelters
Author: Jonathan Horning
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-11-03
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 080271773X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brief introduction to the construction and history of basic shelters. Shelter is one of our most basic needs, and throughout history mankind has been highly inventive in meeting it. Simple Shelters introduces the principal types of wooden and stick-frame structures built around the world, examining how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian needs. Charting the gradual shift from the circular homes of the nomads to the rectangular ones favored by settled people, Jonathan Horning explores materials and construction principles over millennia, including the geodesic experiments of the twentieth century.
Dome Living
Author: David B. South
Publisher: Monolithic Dome Inst
Published: 2000-02-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780967917108
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Author: Karl R. Zimmermann
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780890242926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe luxurious dome cars delivered fabulous views to rail travelers in the 1950s. Hundreds of photos trace the history of dome cars from their earliest construction to the end of their era.
Tomorrow's Kin
Author: Nancy Kress
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2017-07-11
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0765390310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Nancy Kress at her very best!” First in the hard science fiction trilogy based on the Nebula Award-winning novella Yesterday’s Kin (Greg Bear, New York Times–bestselling author). Locus 2017 Recommended Reading List The aliens have arrived . . . they’ve landed their Embassy ship on a platform in New York Harbor, and will only speak with the United Nations. They say that their world is so different from Earth, in terms of gravity and atmosphere, that they cannot leave their ship. The population of Earth has erupted in fear and speculation. One day Dr. Marianne Jenner, an obscure scientist working with the human genome, receives an invitation that she cannot refuse. The Secret Service arrives at her college to escort her to New York, for she has been invited, along with the Secretary General of the UN and a few other ambassadors, to visit the alien Embassy. The truth is about to be revealed. Earth’s most elite scientists have ten months to prevent a disaster—and not everyone is willing to wait. At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. “Sparely constructed and cleverly resolved, [it] provides everything readers need for an immersive plunge into a frightening, fascinating, and inescapable predicament.” —The Seattle Times “Kress mixes contemporary issues of isolationism and refugee status with classic SF first-contact tropes, threaded neatly with solid scientific theory and speculation.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Most inviting introduction to science fiction for new readers.” —Chicago Tribune
Clingmans Dome
Author: Marci Spencer
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClingmans Dome towers over the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains as the highest point in both the national park and the state of Tennessee. The mountain holds an ancient allure--the Cherokee treasured it, as did early settlers, and it captivates throngs of visitors today. Scarred by logging, invasive species and modern pollution, the mountain endures. Through lush narratives and fascinating detail, author Marci Spencer presents the natural and human history of this iconic destination, including Senator Thomas Clingman's 1858 journey to measure the mountain and the 1934 birth of the park.
Terran Tomorrow
Author: Nancy Kress
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0765390353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNancy Kress returns with Terran Tomorrow, the final book in the thrilling hard science fiction trilogy based on the Nebula Award–winning novella Yesterday's Kin. io9—New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Put on Your Radar for Fall The diplomatic mission from Earth to World ended in disaster, as the Earth scientists discovered that the Worlders were not the scientifically advanced culture they believed. Though they brought a limited quantity of the vaccine against the deadly spore cloud, there was no way to make enough to vaccinate more than a few dozen. The Earth scientists, and surviving diplomats, fled back to Earth. But once home, after the twenty-eight-year gap caused by the space ship transit, they find an Earth changed almost beyond recognition. In the aftermath of the spore cloud plague, the human race has been reduced to only a few million isolated survivors. The knowledge brought back by Marianne Jenner and her staff may not be enough to turn the tide of ongoing biological warfare. The Yesterday's Kin Trilogy #1 Tomorrow's Kin #2 If Tomorrow Comes #3 Terran Tomorrow
The Train of Tomorrow
Author: Ric Morgan
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13:
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Classic American Streamliners
Author: Mike Schafer
Publisher: MBI Publishing Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 0760303770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichly illustrated with over 200 photos, this book tells the story of railroad streamliners, from their early days as short little articulated speedsters to their halcyon years as 20-car "cities on wheels"--Places that were going somewhere. And it also tells a story of a time of individuality, when streamliners reflected the personality of the regions they served.
