Seeds
Seeds

Author: Rob Kesseler

Publisher:

Published: 2014-05-07

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781906506520

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Art and science collaborate on a fascinating story with extraordinary images in a highly-acclaimed book. Seeds, the most complex organs produced by plants, ensure the biodiversity of our planet. They vary from the impressive Seychelles nut that weighs twenty kilos to the dust-like seeds of the orchids. Some wait for hundreds of years to find the right place and time for germination after travelling thousands of kilometres or just a few centimetres. The evolution of their highly sophisticated structures from prehistoric times to today makes fascinating reading as do the wiles plants use to attract and deceive their chosen pollinators. The extraordinary images that accompany this story provide an unprecedented presentation of the magnificent diversity of seeds in all their exquisite beauty and sophistication. Fruits are the keepers of the precious seeds that ensure our future; some are edible, others inedible and many, quite simply, incredible.

Boom Town
Boom Town

Author: Sam Anderson

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 0804137323

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A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical management style that dictated the trade as the team’s best hope for long-term greatness—kicked off a pivotal year in the city’s history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed. Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, former book critic for New York magazine and now a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics.

Cartboy and the Time Capsule
Cartboy and the Time Capsule

Author: L. A. Campbell

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0765333171

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Sixth-grader Hal gets a year-long journal-keeping assignment in his least favorite class, history, much to the delight of his history buff father.

Remembrance of Things Present
Remembrance of Things Present

Author: Nick Yablon

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-06-12

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 022657413X

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Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of this device to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be remembered—or if it would be remembered at all. Yablon details how diverse Americans – from presidents and mayors to advocates for the rights of women, blacks, and workers – constructed prospective memories of their present. They did so by contributing not just written testimony to time capsules but also sources that historians and archivists considered illegitimate, such as photographs, phonograph records, films, and everyday artifacts. By offering a direct line to posterity, time capsules stimulated various hopes for the future. Remembrance of Things Present delves into these treasure chests to unearth those forgotten futures.

Time Capsules
Time Capsules

Author: William E. Jarvis

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0786480955

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Time capsules have been used for thousands of years to store for posterity a selection of objects thought to be representative of life at a particular time. Such vessels have the dual purpose of causing participants to ponder their own cultural era and think about those to come. This work is a cultural history of five thousand years of time capsules and other related time-information transfer experiences. It examines both the formal and the popular culture aspects of the time capsule, from its roots in ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian building foundation deposits to the present utilization of spacecraft probes and other extreme locations. The deposits of 3000 BCE deliberately had no definite date and time to be opened; in 1876 CE came the idea of target-dated deposits. Also discussed are how "real" time capsules work, notional and archaeological time capsules, the height of the time capsule's popularity from 1935 to 1982, the preservation of writings in time capsules, keeping time in a perpetual futurescape, and turn of the century hype surrounding millennium time capsules.

Time Capsule
Time Capsule

Author: Virginia Loh-Hagan

Publisher: Cherry Lake

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1634722124

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Time Capsule guides students as they conceive and execute their own time capsule for their friends and community. The considerate text includes easy-to-follow lists and will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension. Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience, these books maintain a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. A table of contents, glossary with simplified pronunciations, and index all enhance achievement and comprehension.

Textual Time Capsules
Textual Time Capsules

Author: Karina Guardiola-Lopez

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11-11

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578256986

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In Textual Time Capsules, each poem captures a moment in time. It reflects stories, scars, sacrifices, and lessons learned from sages, strangers, family, friends, lovers, and liars. These vulnerable experiences are necessary for growth. Crossing paths with one another is no coincidence."Karina Guardiola-López's poems are redirected rhythms for the righteous. Requiems offering relief from the grief and greed of a globe gone astray. When chaos is at a premium we need poets to create slivers of solitude where words win and truth can once again stand for something..."- reg e gaines, Tony award-winning playwright, poet, and director"Karina Guardiola-López's poetry in Textual Time Capsules attests to how ancestors through their teachings, lead the way. She the poet listens and pays it forward."-Vanessa Chica, Founder of The Word Box, poet, and playwright"Karina Guardiola-López's poetry blurs the lines between time and space. Each poem transports readers into the bittersweet, intimate moments between family, friends, lovers, and liars and asks us to focus on the fine details of a life worth living."-Peggy Robles-Alvarado, BRIO award winner, poet, and director

The Time Capsule Book for Kids
The Time Capsule Book for Kids

Author: Nicole Cappelleri

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-04-24

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781532702433

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The Time Capsule Book for Kids is a message in a bottle intended to be completed now and read when kids grow-up. Kids complete the colorful workbook and parents keep safe for when it's time to open. Designed to be treasured, your child will have endless insights waiting to be uncovered. Each book contains color pages and easy-to-follow questions. A fun activity for parents and children! 5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm) 10 pages Color Workbook

The Present is the Form of All Life
The Present is the Form of All Life

Author: Liz Flyntz

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781945711015

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Perhaps best known for the iconic desert monolith "Cadillac Ranch" and stunts like "Media Burn," the radical architecture and media art group Ant Farm created an abundance of works across disciplines--including video, publications, built environments and performances. Throughout their career (1968-79), Ant Farm conceived a series of time capsules that focused not on the eternal but rather on the fleeting aspects of postwar American culture: consumer goods, media archives and tchotchkes. For various reasons, all of Ant Farm's time capsules failed to function, that is, to be opened at the allotted future time and the intact contents examined. Ant Farm's successor group, LST, has taken up the project with their contemporary work "Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule]" (2008). This work not only functions but updates the original's line of questioning, exploring notions of the time capsule in the digital age. The Present Is the Form of All Life represents the first comprehensive documentation of these overlooked ephemeral works. Including many previously unpublished images, this publication also boasts essays by Constance M. Lewallen, Steve Seid and Gabriella Giannachi, and a discussion between curator Rudolf Frieling and LST.