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Author: Carla Killough McClafferty
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2006-03-21
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like for Marie, and the effect her discovery had on the world.
Author: Lawrence M. Krauss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-01-10
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1451624476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?” One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss describes the staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories that demonstrate not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. With a new preface about the significance of the discovery of the Higgs particle, A Universe from Nothing uses Krauss’s characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations to take us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved—and the implications for how it’s going to end. Provocative, challenging, and delightfully readable, this is a game-changing look at the most basic underpinning of existence and a powerful antidote to outmoded philosophical, religious, and scientific thinking.
Author: Phoebe Gilman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-04-25
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1338208497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph's grandfather transforms his blanket many times over the years, but what can be done when the final item is lost? Gilman's version of this Yiddish folk tale won the 1993 Ruth Schwartz Award. When Joseph was a baby, his grandfather made him a wonderful blanket. But as Joseph grows older, the blanket becomes tattered and worn. Throw it out! cries Joseph's mother. Luckily, Grandpa is an extraordinary tailor. He can fix anything! And so with a snip! snip! here, and a few stitches there, Grandpa transforms the treasured blanket into a jacket, a vest, a Sabbath tie, a handkerchief, and finally a beautiful button. But when the button is lost, even Grandpa can't help. After all, how can you make something from nothing?In a rich and loving portrait of shtetl life, Phoebe Gilman presents a traditional Jewish folktale about family love and ingenuity that will warm the hearts of readers young and old.
Author: Ariel Cohen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-06-29
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9004432590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel proposal that an implicit quantifier isn’t simply an empty category, but is generated by well-defined reinterpretation mechanisms. He demonstrates how this theory naturally accounts for puzzling properties of implicit quantification.
Author: Joshua Coombes
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2021-05-18
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1617759473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the simple act of a haircut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into the lives of humans experiencing homelessness in different cities across the world. “In this uplifting book, Coombes deftly illustrates how reaching out and listening can break down barriers in an often indifferent world.” —Booklist Online “Joshua’s stories show the power that empathy and compassion have to turn a common, everyday act into something transformative. They are the revelations of connection.” —Michael Sheen, actor and activist When you're on the fringes of society, being noticed can mean everything. In 2015, while working at a London hair salon, Joshua Coombes took to the streets with his scissors to build relationships with people sleeping rough in the capital. This inspired him to begin posting transformative images on social media to amplify their voices. These stories resonated and thousands of people got involved in their own way. #DoSomethingForNothing was born--a movement that encourages people to connect their skills and time to those who need it. Via the simple act of a haircut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into the lives of humans experiencing homelessness in different cities across the world. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and all-new writing, Do Something for Nothing explores themes of love, acceptance, shame, and perseverance, while inviting us to see ourselves in one another and dissolve the negative stigmas surrounding homelessness. Additionally, a portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to organizations dedicated to assisting unsheltered people.
Author: Linda Allison
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780517534991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeremiah Elijah Baldwin
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Published: 2020-08-15
Total Pages: 78
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSomething Out of Nothing: A Baldwin Miracle details the life of Jeremiah Elijah Baldwin, a young Black man from the coastal city of Corpus Christi, Texas. Baldwin is a history maker, to say the least. He first made history when he became the first student in the history of Flour Bluff Independent School District to receive his associate degree before high school graduation. Baldwin attended summer college courses, night courses, all to receive his college degree. He then made history when he walked the stage at his high school graduation with eighteen honor cords. Baldwin's first book is a testament to the calling God has on his life and the love He has for him. Through countless obstacles, Jeremiah Elijah Baldwin has realized God is his true best friend.
Author: Paul Copan
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0801027330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddresses the biblical, philosophical, and scientific bases for the doctrine of creation out of nothing, while countering contemporary trends that are assailing this doctrine.
Author: Leszek Kolakowski
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2007-11-20
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0465010385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo we have free will? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? These are some of the questions that have intrigued the world's greatest thinkers over the ages. They are questions that make us think about the way we live, work, relate to each other, and see the world. In elegant and accessible prose, the eminent philosopher Leszek Kolakowski explores the essence of these ideas and their ongoing relevance as he introduces us to the great figures of Western thought: from Socrates to St. Augustine, Descartes to Nietzsche, and beyond. Reflecting on the great issues that animate our lives -- good and evil, truth and beauty, faith and the soul, free will and consciousness -- Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? offers a guided tour of Western philosophy by one of the world's greatest living experts.
Author: David Blandy
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2018-02-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1910620289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning millennia, Daniel Locke's ambitious graphic novel explores humanity's inherent 'dreaming mind and its impact on our world. Surreal sequences take us from Gutenberg's printing press to Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web via Picasso, Einstein, Grandmaster Flash and more. Locke shows hour our basic instinct to observe, record and connect has formed the basis for all human invention and progress.
