Milky Way's Dream
Milky Way's Dream

Author: Kevin W. Lynn

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2022-11-30

Total Pages: 765

ISBN-13:

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Due to accidental reasons, a farm boy, Billy, rescued a computer scientist and beautiful girl Susan, so he started his adventure and changed his life path, and with the help from the loyal friends Jason and George, Billy gradually learned a lot of knowledge and skills and eventually became a successful astronaut. This story takes place in Paliland, one hundred light-years away from the Earth. This is a very advanced planet that surrounds Billy, from an ordinary farm boy to a professional astronaut. A series of vivid and touching stories created a true hero. He finally joined the team of Mike and Sam, the representative of the supercivilization, and began to create a peaceful galaxy. Mike and Sam's team conducted and organized a series of operations to help these advanced planets stop wars and provide opportunities to restore peace and establish cooperative organizations. The romantic story between John and Mia has greatly deepened people's imagination. Human happiness is not limited to the Earth. This book is the second book in the series Beyond the Horizon by Kevin W. Lynn. Also, Sam's visiting team after first visiting the advanced civilization, a brilliant picture appeared. It has never been a dream for mankind to reach a truly heavenly world.

Into the World: The Movement of Patočka's Phenomenology
Into the World: The Movement of Patočka's Phenomenology

Author: Martin Ritter

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 3030236579

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Critically evaluating and synthesizing all the previous research on the phenomenology of Czech philosopher Jan Patočka, the book brings a new voice into contemporary philosophical discussions. It elucidates the development of Patočka’s phenomenology and offers a critical appropriation of his work by connecting it with non-phenomenological approaches. The first half of the book offers a succinct, and systematizing, overview of Patočka’s phenomenology throughout its development to help readers appreciate the motives behind and grounds for its transformations. The second half systematically explicates, critically examines and creatively develops Patočka’s concept of the movement of existence as the most promising part of his asubjective phenomenology. The book appeals to new readers of Patočka as well as his scholars, and to students and researchers of contemporary philosophy concerned with topics such as embodiment, personal identity, intersubjectivity, sociality, or historicity. By re-assessing Patočka’s philosophy of history and his civilizational analysis, it also helps to better articulate the question of the place of Europe in the post-European world.

Lord of the Milky Way
Lord of the Milky Way

Author: Ke NiJiangXing

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 1029

ISBN-13: 1647674484

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From the beginning of human birth, after millions of years of development, mankind finally strutted into the universe. In order to steal resources and continue civilization, he had no choice but to compete with the other races and delve into the mysteries of the universe! Furthermore, an unprecedented honorary system was established to stimulate everyone's greatest dedication to society. The honorary point was the only standard to judge a citizen's status! The protagonist's rise to fame in the city, due to the unexpected change in the fate of life, in the gap between the rise, gradually towards the peak of honor. What kind of changes would his appearance bring to this universe where fish and dragons were mixed together? In the vast universe, what kind of powerful race existed, and what kind of shocking secret did it contain? All the wonderful things are in this book.

Dawn After the Storm
Dawn After the Storm

Author: Kevin W. Lynn

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-09-11

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13:

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The story starts at Bulia, a small town north of Mitelia, which is a planet that just finished its industrial revolution and is distant to Earth about one hundred light-years away. An excellent engineer, Chris meets Kerman, a captain of a spaceship, who invites Chris to help investigate an event for his colleague's daughter. During the travel to Ponlenia, they meet the extremely dangerous black hole incident. They struggle with the event and eventually arrive at Ponlenia. From an industrial revolution planet to a five-thousand-year-old advanced civilization, Chris gets a great shock, but he and his friends Frank and Christopher, eventually with their hard work and studying, they gradually become important members in the space center. Meanwhile, the real important event happens when Mike and Sam's first Earth expedition team entered this sphere to build the Earth's first colony, Milirina. As the human beings' first ideal immigrating target planet, Milirina showed the people from Earth an amazing scene. Also they help the L-P star system get rid of the threat of the black hole. The whole story is thrilling and romantic, especially in the final part when Mike's team at last eliminates the heaviest natural disaster. Everyone will get a clear image that the future of human beings will be like the story--bright, winding, and happy.

Caring for the Soul in a Postmodern Age
Caring for the Soul in a Postmodern Age

Author: Edward F. Findlay

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0791488063

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In 1977 the sixty-nine-year-old Czech philosopher Jan Patočka died from a brain hemorrhage following a series of interrogations by the Czechoslovak secret police. A student of Husserl and Heidegger, he had been arrested, along with young playwright Václav Havel, for publicly opposing the hypocrisy of the Czechoslovak Communist regime. Patočka had dedicated himself as a philosopher to laying the groundwork of what he termed a "life in truth." This book analyzes Patočka's philosophy and political thought and illuminates the synthesis in his work of Socratic philosophy and its injunction to "care for the soul." In bridging the gap, not only between Husserl and Heidegger, but also between postmodern and ancient philosophy, Patočka presents a model of democratic politics that is ethical without being metaphysical, and transcendental without being foundational.

Definitely Maybe
Definitely Maybe

Author: Arkady Strugatsky

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1612192815

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In its first-ever unexpurgated edition, a sci-fi landmark that's a comic and suspenseful tour-de-force, and puts distraction in a whole new light: It's not you, it's the universe! Boris and Arkady Strugatsky were the greatest science fiction writers of the Soviet era: their books were intellectually provocative and riotously funny, full of boldly imagined scenarios and veiled—but clear—social criticism. Which may be why Definitely Maybe has never before been available in an uncensored edition, let alone in English. It tells the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov, who has sent his wife and son off to her mother’s house in Odessa so that he can work, free from distractions, on the project he’s sure will win him the Nobel Prize. But he’d have an easier time making progress if he wasn’t being interrupted all the time: First, it’s the unexpected delivery of a crate of vodka and caviar. Then a beautiful young woman in an unnervingly short skirt shows up at his door. Then several of his friends—also scientists—drop by, saying they all felt they were on the verge of a major discovery when they got . . . distracted . . . Is there an ominous force that doesn’t want knowledge to progress? Or could it be something more . . . natural? In this nail-bitingly suspenseful book, the Strugatsky brothers bravely and brilliantly question authority: an authority that starts with crates of vodka, but has lightning bolts in store for humans who refuse to be cowed.

Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Author: John Billingham

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1483156141

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Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence is devoted to the concepts and studies related to the science, technology, and observational techniques of communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI). Topics covered range from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) to the theory of interstellar communication; the problem of the origin of life; radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations; and interstellar communication by neutrino beams. An infinitely expandable space radiotelescope is also described. This book is comprised of 21 chapters and opens with a discussion on the CETI activities of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) from 1965 to 1976 and describes the outlook for the IAA CETI Standing Committee. The following chapters sketch the background and rationale for a SETI program; the significance of the detection of signals and of information that may be contained in signals from extraterrestrial civilizations; an extended Drake's equation, the longevity-separation relation, equilibrium, inhomogeneities, and chain formation; and the physical and psychological basis for the belief that a band of frequencies called the water hole is a prime band for SETI. This monograph will appeal to practitioners in the fields of astrophysics, astronomy, planetary formation, exobiology, and biological evolution.

Meeting the Alien
Meeting the Alien

Author: Andreas Anton

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-06-22

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 3658413174

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Is mankind alone in the universe? Will we ever encounter intelligent life beyond Earth? These questions have been asked for centuries. Recent advances in the fields of astrophysics, astronomy and astrobiology make it more likely than ever before, that Earth may not be the only inhabited planet, and that humanity may not the only intelligent species in the universe. What would be the consequences of contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence? This question is at the heart of the emerging discipline of exosociology. According to the authors, first contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence poses enormous risks for humanity. These risks come not only from extraterrestrials, but above all from ourselves. We should be prepared. Michael Schetsche and Andreas Anton's comprehensive introduction to exosociology was first published in German in 2019. The book has been widely acclaimed in Germany and internationally. It is now available in English for the first time.

Worlds Enough and Time
Worlds Enough and Time

Author: Gary Westfahl

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-06-30

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 031307741X

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With our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors have responded with narratives about traveling far into the past or future, reversing the flow of time, or creating alternate universes where Napoleon was triumphant at Waterloo or the South won the Civil War. Writers ranging from Dante and Lewis Carroll to Philip K. Dick and Martin Amis have probed into the workings of time, and an overwhelming desire to master time reverberates throughout popular culture. This book considers how imaginative works involving time and time travel reflect ongoing scientific concerns and examine the human condition. The scope of the volume is unusually wide, covering such topics as Dante, the major novels of the 19th century, and stories and films of the 1990s. The book concludes with a lengthy bibliography of short stories and novels, films and television programs, and nonfiction works that feature time travel or speculations about time. With a roster of contributors that includes several of the field's major scholars, this book offers many new insights into this fascinating subject.

Thinking After Europe
Thinking After Europe

Author: Francesco Tava

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1783486864

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Jan Patočka, perhaps more so than any other philosopher in the twentieth century, managed to combine intense philosophical insight with a farsighted analysis of the idea and challenges facing Europe as a historical, cultural and political signifier. As a political dissident in communist Czechoslovakia he also became a moral and political inspiration to a generation of Czechs, including Václav Havel. He accomplished this in a time of intense political repression when not even the hint of a unified Europe seemed visible by showing in exemplary fashion how concrete thought can be without renouncing in any way its depth. Europe as an idea and a political project is a central issue in contemporary political theory. Patočka’s political thought offers many original insights into questions surrounding the European project. Here, for the first time, a group of leading scholars from different disciplines gathers together to discuss the specific political impact of Patočka’s philosophy and its lasting significance.