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Author: Maxine McArthur
Publisher: Aspect
Published: 2008-12-14
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0446554316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the universe of enigmatic aliens & complex politics, one woman must entangle interlocking mysteries in a race against time. Halley must solve the mystery of a locked room in closed space, before Jocasta erupts in an explosion of terror & death.
Author: Michael J. Fox
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1250265622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other movie roles and guest appearances on shows such as The Good Wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Diagnosed at age 29, Michael is equally engaged in Parkinson’s advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the world’s leading non-profit funder of PD science. His two previous bestselling memoirs, Lucky Man and Always Looking Up, dealt with how he came to terms with the illness, all the while exhibiting his iconic optimism. His new memoir reassesses this outlook, as events in the past decade presented additional challenges. In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality. Thoughtful and moving, but with Fox’s trademark sense of humor, his book provides a vehicle for reflection about our lives, our loves, and our losses. Running through the narrative is the drama of the medical madness Fox recently experienced, that included his daily negotiations with the Parkinson’s disease he’s had since 1991, and a spinal cord issue that necessitated immediate surgery. His challenge to learn how to walk again, only to suffer a devastating fall, nearly caused him to ditch his trademark optimism and “get out of the lemonade business altogether.” Does he make it all of the way back? Read the book.
Author: Vincent Ialenti
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0262539268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth. We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we struggle to grasp the scale of the crisis, barely able to imagine the effects of climate change just ten years from now, let alone the multi-millennial timescales of Earth's past and future life span. In this book, Vincent Ialenti offers a guide for envisioning the planet's far future—to become, as he terms it, more skilled deep time reckoners. The challenge, he says, is to learn to inhabit a longer now. Ialenti takes on two overlapping crises: the Anthropocene, our current moment of human-caused environmental transformation; and the deflation of expertise—today's popular mockery and institutional erosion of expert authority. The second crisis, he argues, is worsening the effects of the first. Hearing out scientific experts who study a wider time span than a Facebook timeline is key to tackling our planet's emergency. Astrophysicists, geologists, historians, evolutionary biologists, climatologists, archaeologists, and others can teach us the art of long-termism. For a case study in long-term thinking, Ialenti turns to Finland's nuclear waste repository “Safety Case” experts. These scientists forecast far future glaciations, climate changes, earthquakes, and more, over the coming tens of thousands—or even hundreds of thousands or millions—of years. They are not pop culture “futurists” but data-driven, disciplined technical experts, using the power of patterns to construct detailed scenarios and quantitative models of the far future. This is the kind of time literacy we need if we are to survive the Anthropocene.
Author: Insight
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 1683839412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn to tell time with Marty McFly! Turn the wheel to find the correct clock that matches the time on each page following a typical day with Marty, Doc Brown, and Einstein.
Author: John Delaney
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0786966475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReturning to the popular world of Dominaria for the first time in years, the Time Spiral Cycle centers on Teferi Planeswalker, a well-loved character with a rich history in Magic: The Gathering. This title also features appearances of many other beloved characters who will be easily recognized by readers and fans alike. As with previous Magic titles, Future Sight previews the latest Magic card set release by giving readers the first look at what will be coming out in the set.
Author: John A. Gallagher
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2003-11-25
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1592444121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Glicksohn
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2006-06-12
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9814479381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, leading researchers bring together current work on time perception and time-based prospective memory in order to understand how people time their intentions. This is the first account of many important topics concerning the timing of behavior, offered by scientists of diverse fields who in the past have exhibited an attitude of mutual 'benign neglect'. An explication of the rules which govern timing the future are of fundamental interest to anyone who wishes to explore the potential of human experience.Prospective memory — especially time-based — is a relatively unexplored way to study memory and few studies have been devoted to its neurobiological foundations. This volume aims to fill this void and will boost further interest in the field, while stimulating interdisciplinary research.
Author: Wendy Mass
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2019-02-26
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 1338217445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Time Jumpers are heading to the future in the third book in this action-packed series from New York Times bestselling author Wendy Mass! Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Chase and Ava are ready for their next adventure! When they touch a glowing cube in their magic suitcase, they jump forward in time! In the future, they find awesome flying cars and tons of robots. But they don't have much time to explore . . . bad guy Randall is after them! Chase and Ava need to act fast to put the cube back where it belongs. Will they complete their mission . . . or will Randall steal the cube? Oriol Vidal's engaging illustrations appear on every page. Newly independent readers will eat up this time-travel series from New York Times bestselling author Wendy Mass.
Author: Alexandra Lianeri
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-03-07
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 3110430789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the early modern period, Greek historiography has been studied in the context of Cicero's notion historia magistra vitae and considered to exclude conceptions of the future as different from the present and past. Comparisons with the Roman, Judeo-Christian and modern historiography have sought to justify this perspective by drawing on a category of the future as a temporal mode that breaks with the present. In this volume, distinguished classicists and historians challenge this contention by raising the question of what the future was and meant in antiquity by offering fresh considerations of prognostic and anticipatory voices in Greek historiography from Herodotus to Appian and by tracing the roots of established views on historical time in the opposition between antiquity and modernity. They look both at contemporary scholarly argument and the writings of Greek historians in order to explore the relation of time, especially the future, to an idea of the historical that is formulated in the plural and is always in motion. By reflecting on the prognostic of historical time the volume will be of interest not only to classical scholars, but to all who are interested in the history and theory of historical time.
Author: Kristen Sheley
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2006-09-21
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 059585401X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA homework assignment to write an essay about what his life might be like a few decades into his future should be an easy task for Sam Foster. After all, Sam is the inventor of a time machine. With his friend from the past, Meg Clayton, Sam journeys to the year 2040 to investigate his fate firsthand. It doesn't take long for Sam to find information about his future self. Not only does he become a wealthy businessman, he makes a name for himself in the world of computer technology. It appears Sam is destined for fame and fortune. But the pair also discovers something about "Older Sam" that stuns them: Sam's future self died just five years earlier, at the age of 45. Will Sam and Meg be able to stop this "future shock" from happening? Or is Sam's destiny sealed for all time?
