Account of history and the future. Topics on physics, chemistry, nutrition, biology are treated in a simplified form using analogies and easy-to-understand language. Humans destroy nature and re-invent it. They replace their bodies by robots and achieve immortality by storing their brains in a centralized safe haven called Heaven Inc.and by controlling their replaceable robot bodies remotely. They find a new world and use a collection of best genes from animals and plants to create a new life form called new-man. They teach new-man all they know, and in turn new man leads them to god.This book is written to guide new-man much like our bible was written to guide us. Written in a poetic and simplified style full with analogies, it outlines the history of the universe and of mankind and of the physical and social sciences and philosophy. It offers rational explanations of physical laws of gravity, inertia and light as well as a rational answer to the circular question of how a creator god came to be without being created.Lives of famous people real and imaginary like the one who tamed fire, the builder of the pyramids, Buddha, Attila, Khan, Gutenberg, Luther, Galileo, Adam Smith, Marx, Hitler, and the developers of new technologies in our future as well as the creator of new-man are described.
Analogies understood by children are used to explain difficult concepts. Models and mechanisms are proposed for concepts in sciences and philosophy so that they can be easily visualized and understood. Atoms with their characteristics and their bonds are compared to people. Rocks are compared to baked breads and pastry. Cells are compared to cities. Dreams are compared to de-fragmenting computer memories. Technology is compared to evolution and machines are compared to animals. Physical and social sciences like geology, weather, biology, economics, politics, history psychology, philosophy and religion are simplified in informative and humorous short stories and essays. An audio picture book version is available on www.youtube.com/improvemyenglish. This makes the book a useful tool for improving English vocabulary, even for native English speakers. Over 800 words are indexed for easy finding in English, French, German and Spanish.
An account of history and the future. Topics on physics, chemistry, nutrition, biology are treated in a simplified form using analogies and easy-to-understand language. Humans destroy nature and re-invent it. They replace their bodies by robots and achieve immortality by storing their brains in a centralized safe haven called Heaven Inc. and by controlling their replaceable robot bodies remotely. The founders of Heaven Inc. find a new world and use a collection of best genes from animals and plants to create a new life form called new-man. They teach new-man all they know, and in turn new man leads them to god. This book is written to guide new-man much like our bible was written to guide us. Written in a poetic and simplified style full with analogies, it outlines the history of the universe and of mankind and of the physical and social sciences and philosophy. It offers rational explanations of physical laws of gravity, inertia and light as well as a rational answer to the circular question of how a creator god came to be without being created. Lives of famous people real and imaginary like the one who tamed fire, the builder of the pyramids, Buddha, Attila, Khan, Gutenberg, Luther, Galileo, Adam Smith, Marx, Hitler, and the developers of new technologies in our future as well as the creator of new-man are described. Topics on physics, chemistry, nutrition, biology are treated in a simplified form using analogies and easy-to-understand language. This short science fiction fantasy is very useful for improving your English. A wide range of topics are dealt with in an easy to read way. The reader is introduced to specialized vocabulary in a context that is educational and entertaining. A wide range of topics are cover from the sciences, economics, and history to religion and philosophy. Synonyms and antonyms are used and sentences are written in a way to help the reader be able to discover the meaning of words himself. Specialized words, not used in every day speech, are printed in bold and are listed in the back of the book in a table with the translations. There are about 3,000 words listed with each page averaging 20 words. The listed words are ordered in same order as you read them for ease and convenience.
Analogies describing laws of physics and chemistry. Faces on atoms with shapes for remembering them and their characteristics better. Descriptions for a game of chemistry for learning compounds, bonds and reactions are included. Short stories are presented to explain concepts in physics, chemistry, biology, geology, economics, politics, history, psychology, philosophy, religion and technology. They can be read to children as the concepts are illustrated in stories based on a context that is understood by young children. Gravity for instance is depicted as a wind, electricity as a flow of water, and electric charge as an emotion. Atoms are depicted as people and molecules as families, cells as houses, our bodies as cities, and our machines as gods. Rocks baked under the earth are treated like pastry. Economics is treated like a game of monopoly. Cells are treated like cities, and machines are treated like they were alive. This book helps learning about specialized topics by using characters with faces to portray concepts. The characters have correct scientific names and appropriate personalities and are set in entertaining short stories. An audio picture book version is available on www.youtube.com/improvemyenglish. This book can be useful for improving English vocabulary from the fields of physical and social sciences. Short stories and essays explain complex concepts in a simplified and funny way that promotes thinking and self learning.
I was born in Hungary. When I was 7 years old, my parents fled Hungary and went to Montreal, Canada where I was brought up and raised. I worked in Ontario and Calgary for 6 years as an electrical Engineer. I traveled overland to Central and South America and ended up in Chile where I started a family. My wife died and I was forced to go back to Canada with my new born son. In search of a family, I found one in Switzerland. The marriage lasted 9 years and after that I found myself with a job that involved traveling to exotic places for 9 more years. After a forced retirement, I am now hopefully settled down and I am writing. This book is a story of my life, its cycles of places and people and stories of adventures along the way that I want to share.
This short "coffee table" picture book in English, German and French presents Famous People with pictures and facts. The interesting, basic and informative facts are short, simply written, easy to understand, entertaining and thought provoking. This book is ideal for teaching, learning and awakening interest for further study. It is also ideal for using as a language teaching aid to learn specialized vocabulary in the various languages. Dieses kurze “Wohnzimmertisch” Bilderbuch auf Englisch, Deutsch und Französisch präsentiert Berühmte Personen mit Bildern und Fakten. Die interessanten, grundlegenden und informativen Fakten sind kurz, einfach geschrieben, leicht zu verstehen, unterhaltsam und Gedanken anregend. Dieses Buch ist ideal zum Lehren, Lernen und Interessenwecken für weitere Studien. Es ist auch ideal als Hilfe beim Lernen einer neuen Sprache, um ein spezialisiertes Vokabular in den verschiedenen Sprachen zu lernen. Ce court « beau livre » d'images en Anglais, Allemand et Français présente Personnages célèbres accompagnés de photos et de faits. Les faits sont intéressants, basiques, informatifs, courts, écrits avec simplicité et faciles à comprendre, amusants et stimulants. Ce livre est l'idéal pour enseigner, apprendre et faire naitre un intérêt pour en savoir plus. Il est aussi l'idéal comme aide à l'apprentissage d'une langue, pour apprendre le vocabulaire spécifique dans les diverses langues.
This short "coffee table" picture book in English, German and French presents Famous People with pictures and facts. The interesting, basic and informative facts are short, simply written, easy to understand, entertaining and thought provoking. This book is ideal for teaching, learning and awakening interest for further study. It is also ideal for using as a language teaching aid to learn specialized vocabulary in the various languages. Dieses kurze “Wohnzimmertisch” Bilderbuch auf Englisch, Deutsch und Französisch präsentiert Berühmte Personen mit Bildern und Fakten. Die interessanten, grundlegenden und informativen Fakten sind kurz, einfach geschrieben, leicht zu verstehen, unterhaltsam und Gedanken anregend. Dieses Buch ist ideal zum Lehren, Lernen und Interessenwecken für weitere Studien. Es ist auch ideal als Hilfe beim Lernen einer neuen Sprache, um ein spezialisiertes Vokabular in den verschiedenen Sprachen zu lernen. Ce court « beau livre » d'images en Anglais, Allemand et Français présente Personnages célèbres accompagnés de photos et de faits. Les faits sont intéressants, basiques, informatifs, courts, écrits avec simplicité et faciles à comprendre, amusants et stimulants. Ce livre est l'idéal pour enseigner, apprendre et faire naitre un intérêt pour en savoir plus. Il est aussi l'idéal comme aide à l'apprentissage d'une langue, pour apprendre le vocabulaire spécifique dans les diverses langues.
This short "coffee table" picture book in English, German and French presents Famous People with pictures and facts. The interesting, basic and informative facts are short, simply written, easy to understand, entertaining and thought provoking. This book is ideal for teaching, learning and awakening interest for further study. It is also ideal for using as a language teaching aid to learn specialized vocabulary in the various languages. Dieses kurze “Wohnzimmertisch” Bilderbuch auf Englisch, Deutsch und Französisch präsentiert Berühmte Personen mit Bildern und Fakten. Die interessanten, grundlegenden und informativen Fakten sind kurz, einfach geschrieben, leicht zu verstehen, unterhaltsam und Gedanken anregend. Dieses Buch ist ideal zum Lehren, Lernen und Interessenwecken für weitere Studien. Es ist auch ideal als Hilfe beim Lernen einer neuen Sprache, um ein spezialisiertes Vokabular in den verschiedenen Sprachen zu lernen. Ce court « beau livre » d'images en Anglais, Allemand et Français présente Personnages célèbres accompagnés de photos et de faits. Les faits sont intéressants, basiques, informatifs, courts, écrits avec simplicité et faciles à comprendre, amusants et stimulants. Ce livre est l'idéal pour enseigner, apprendre et faire naitre un intérêt pour en savoir plus. Il est aussi l'idéal comme aide à l'apprentissage d'une langue, pour apprendre le vocabulaire spécifique dans les diverses langues.
This publication in English, German, French and Spanish serves as an introduction to “Think Parks”. Think Parks are facilities that promote thinking about space, time, and the very large and extremely small numbers used to describe them. The facts presented are simplified and the values describing the facts are rounded off so that an overall picture can be clearly presented and so that the details can be left hidden for further exploration. All the facts and values as well as the pictures are freely taken from Wikipedia, without which I could not have written this book. Without the freely available resources of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, this book could not have been written. As an acknowledgement, gratitude and support to Wikipedia, 50% of all profits from the sale of this book will be turned over to them.
I was born in Hungary. When I was 7 years old, my parents fled Hungary and went to Montreal, Canada where I was brought up and raised. I worked in Ontario and Calgary for 6 years as an electrical Engineer. I traveled overland to Central and South America and ended up in Chile where I started a family. My wife died and I was forced to go back to Canada with my new born son. In search of a family, I found one in Switzerland. The marriage lasted 9 years and after that I found myself with a job that involved traveling to exotic places for 9 more years. After a forced retirement, I am now hopefully settled down and I am writing. This book is a story of my life, its cycles of places and people and stories of adventures along the way that I want to share.
Analogies understood by children are used to explain difficult concepts. Models and mechanisms are proposed for concepts in sciences and philosophy so that they can be easily visualized and understood. Atoms with their characteristics and their bonds are compared to people. Rocks are compared to baked breads and pastry. Cells are compared to cities. Dreams are compared to de-fragmenting computer memories. Technology is compared to evolution and machines are compared to animals. Physical and social sciences like geology, weather, biology, economics, politics, history psychology, philosophy and religion are simplified in informative and humorous short stories and essays. An audio picture book version is available on www.youtube.com/improvemyenglish. This makes the book a useful tool for improving English vocabulary, even for native English speakers. Over 800 words are indexed for easy finding in English, French, German and Spanish.
This short "coffee table" picture book in English, German and French presents Woods with pictures. This book is ideal for teaching, learning and awakening interest for further study. It is also ideal for using as a language teaching aid to learn specialized vocabulary in the various languages. Dieses kurze “Wohnzimmertisch” Bilderbuch auf Englisch, Deutsch und Französisch präsentiert Wald mit Bildern. Dieses Buch ist ideal zum Lehren, Lernen und Interessenwecken für weitere Studien. Es ist auch ideal als Hilfe beim Lernen einer neuen Sprache, um ein spezialisiertes Vokabular in den verschiedenen Sprachen zu lernen. Ce court « beau livre » d'images en Anglais, Allemand et Français présente Les bois accompagnés de photos. Ce livre est l'idéal pour enseigner, apprendre et faire naitre un intérêt pour en savoir plus. Il est aussi l'idéal comme aide à l'apprentissage d'une langue, pour apprendre le vocabulaire spécifique dans les diverses langues.
This short "coffee table" picture book in English, German and French presents Food with pictures. This book is ideal for teaching, learning and awakening interest for further study. It is also ideal for using as a language teaching aid to learn specialized vocabulary in the various languages. Dieses kurze “Wohnzimmertisch” Bilderbuch auf Englisch, Deutsch und Französisch präsentiert Essen mit Bildern. Dieses Buch ist ideal zum Lehren, Lernen und Interessenwecken für weitere Studien. Es ist auch ideal als Hilfe beim Lernen einer neuen Sprache, um ein spezialisiertes Vokabular in den verschiedenen Sprachen zu lernen. Ce court « beau livre » d'images en Anglais, Allemand et Français présente Nourriture accompagnés de photos. Ce livre est l'idéal pour enseigner, apprendre et faire naitre un intérêt pour en savoir plus. Il est aussi l'idéal comme aide à l'apprentissage d'une langue, pour apprendre le vocabulaire spécifique dans les diverses langues.
This short "coffee table" picture book in English, German and French presents Trees with pictures. This book is ideal for teaching, learning and awakening interest for further study. It is also ideal for using as a language teaching aid to learn specialized vocabulary in the various languages. Dieses kurze “Wohnzimmertisch” Bilderbuch auf Englisch, Deutsch und Französisch präsentiert Bäume mit Bildern. Dieses Buch ist ideal zum Lehren, Lernen und Interessenwecken für weitere Studien. Es ist auch ideal als Hilfe beim Lernen einer neuen Sprache, um ein spezialisiertes Vokabular in den verschiedenen Sprachen zu lernen. Ce court « beau livre » d'images en Anglais, Allemand et Français présente Arbres accompagnés de photos. Ce livre est l'idéal pour enseigner, apprendre et faire naitre un intérêt pour en savoir plus. Il est aussi l'idéal comme aide à l'apprentissage d'une langue, pour apprendre le vocabulaire spécifique dans les diverses langues.
This short "coffee table" picture book in English, German and French presents Plants with pictures and facts. The interesting, basic and informative facts are short, simply written, easy to understand, entertaining and thought provoking. This book is ideal for teaching, learning and awakening interest for further study. It is also ideal for using as a language teaching aid to learn specialized vocabulary in the various languages. Dieses kurze “Wohnzimmertisch” Bilderbuch auf Englisch, Deutsch und Französisch präsentiert Pflanzen mit Bildern und Fakten. Die interessanten, grundlegenden und informativen Fakten sind kurz, einfach geschrieben, leicht zu verstehen, unterhaltsam und Gedanken anregend. Dieses Buch ist ideal zum Lehren, Lernen und Interessenwecken für weitere Studien. Es ist auch ideal als Hilfe beim Lernen einer neuen Sprache, um ein spezialisiertes Vokabular in den verschiedenen Sprachen zu lernen. Ce court « beau livre » d'images en Anglais, Allemand et Français présente Plantes accompagnés de photos et de faits. Les faits sont intéressants, basiques, informatifs, courts, écrits avec simplicité et faciles à comprendre, amusants et stimulants. Ce livre est l'idéal pour enseigner, apprendre et faire naitre un intérêt pour en savoir plus. Il est aussi l'idéal comme aide à l'apprentissage d'une langue, pour apprendre le vocabulaire spécifique dans les diverses langues.
Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing myself fully to the social revolution." —Larry Downes, author of The Killer App In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of "social" companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom. By exposing the shallow core of social networks, Andrew Keen shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be.
The work and ministries of the Roman Catholic friars who gave their lives, both as martyrs for the cause of their church and in years of hard and often thankless labor, are the inspiration and basis for Missionary Practices and Spanish Steel, a theological and practical narrative that seeks to remember and understand their accomplishments in Christian mission. Missionary and theologian Andrew L. Toth investigates the roots of Christian mission as it developed into the field of Christian missiology in the chaotic, terrible, and incredibly diverse three-hundred-year Spanish conquest of North America indigenous nations. Through his research Toth shows that, in the great majority of the cases studied, the friars accomplished their goals to transform these native cultures into their own Spanish culture to account them as Roman Catholic Christians. This study us more than just a history of the friars missionary movement. Toth not only explores how Spanish Catholic missionaries approached their work, but also asks to what extent their approach conformed to a particular theological perspective. Toth rounds out his argument by speculating on what the friars can teach us about the role of missionaries today. Comprehensive and thought-provoking, Missionary Practices and Spanish Steel offers a new perspective on the current missionary movement by looking through the lens of the past.
Informed by a wealth of information that has come to light in recent years, this engaging biography tells the complete story of the life and musical work of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Drawing on Sibelius’s own correspondence and diaries, contemporary reviews, and the remarks of family and friends, the book presents a rich account of the events of the musician’s life. In addition, this volume is the first to set every work and performable fragment by Sibelius in its historical and musical context. Filling a significant gap, the biography also provides the first accurate information about much of the composer’s early music. Writing for the general music-lover, Andrew Barnett combines his own extensive knowledge of Sibelius’s music with the insights of other scholars and musicians. He lays to rest a number of myths and untruths—that Sibelius wrote no chamber music of value, for example, and that he stopped composing in 1926 and didn’t need to compose to earn a living. Barnett completes the volume with the most thorough worklist available and an authoritative chronology of Sibelius’s entire output.
Contains essays in which Andrew Zimbalist examines the challenges facing the sports industry in the second decade of the twenty-first century, discussing the financial crisis in college sports, labor relations in professional leagues, the economic impact of the Olympics, and other topics.
Twenty-five celebrated writers share the inspiring words and timeless wisdom of the athletic coaches who changed and influenced their lives and pass on the sage advice they received.
Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, even corrupted, American foreign policy during a time when Cold War imperatives still applied, and tells why in the 1970s the U.S. switched its Middle East allegiance from the Shah of Iran to the Saudi royal family. Amid the oil shocks of the early 1970s, there was one man the U.S. could rely on: the Shah of Iran. The Shah sold us oil; we sold him weapons. But the U.S. and other industrialized economies could not tolerate repeated annual double digit increases in oil prices. During the 1976 election campaign, President Gerald Ford decided that he had to find a country that would break the OPEC monopoly and sell the U.S. oil more cheaply. On the advice of Treasury Secretary William Simon -- and against the advice of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger -- Ford made a deal to sell advanced weaponry to the Saudis in exchange for a more moderate price hike in oil. The Shah's economy was destabilized, and disaffected elements mobilized to overthrow him. The U.S. had embarked on a long relationship with the autocratic Saudi kingdom that continues to this day.
In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game’s social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball was expected to "civilize" and modernize Taiwan’s Han Chinese and Austronesian Aborigine populations. After World War II, the game was tolerated as a remnant of Japanese culture and then strategically employed by the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Even as it was also enthroned by Taiwanese politicians, cultural producers, and citizens as their national game. In considering baseball’s cultural and historical implications, Morris deftly addresses a number of societal themes crucial to understanding modern Taiwan, the question of Chinese "reunification," and East Asia as a whole.
This updated edition in the best-selling “Tales from the Sidelines” series captures the memorable moments, colorful characters, outstanding players, and championship seasons that are part of the Broncos’ storied history. Beginning with the franchise’s origins as a charter member of the American Football League in 1960, Andrew Mason takes the reader on a journey that includes a decade of Bronco futility, the AFL-NFL merger, and the team’s first-ever playoff appearance in 1977, when they went all the way to the Super Bowl. Since then, the Denver Broncos have become one of the NFL’s most consistent and successful franchises, with just six losing seasons in the last thirty-seven years. Mason mines the team’s rich history for stories that are revealing, moving, and often hilarious. Examples from the first ten years are “the worst uniforms ever,” the arrival of Lou Saban and Floyd Little, and the story of “Marlin the Magician.” The 70s brought John Ralston, the 3-4 Orange Crush defense, the Miracle of ’77, and wild man Lyle Alzado. John Elway took the Broncos through the 80s and 90s, “The Drive,” five Super Bowls, two championships, and “the greatest walk off ever.” Fans are treated to the “ups, downs, and frowns” of Jay Cutler, the second coming of Peyton Manning, two more Super Bowls, one more championship, and the dominance of Von Miller. “Mile High Football” is alive and well in Denver, but it wasn’t always that way. In this newly revised edition of Tales from the Denver Broncos Sideline, Andrew Mason gives readers the stories of the low points that tested Broncos fans’ allegiance, the incredible highs that followed, and everything in between.
The global demand for tourism continues to increase as economic growth creates opportunities for its consumption as a lifestyle option across cultures. The spatial reach of recreational tourism into remoter environments reflects a desire to reconnect to nature that is partially created by the global trend toward urbanisation. At the same time, anthropogenic created environmental problems have led us to re-evaluate our relationship to nature and the values that are held by the environment. This third edition of Environment and Tourism incorporates additional material on environmental philosophies and ontologies of nature and how these influence our understanding of tourism’s relationship with the natural environment. In an epoch representing a critical juncture for the future well-being of the planet based on our relationship to nature, the text has been updated to reflect the growth in significance of the interaction between tourism and the natural environment as a part of this discourse. It communicates a range of key conceptual debates on the ethics and economics of the consuming nature for tourism and relates these to real world examples whilst evaluating environmental planning, and management responses. The book seeks to highlight the relevance of the significance of tourism for nature within the framework of society, as a system of inter-connected places across space and time, exploring the relationship of the environments of where tourists come from with the ones that they travel to. The updated features include: new chapters on philosophies and constructs of the environment, environmental ethics, and tourist consumption an extensive range of international case studies used to illustrate the theoretical ideas presented boxes offering bite sized insights, and think points designed to encourage students to further engage with the topics discussed Environment and Tourism emphasises a holistic view of the tourism system and how it interacts with nature, illustrating the positive and negative effects of this relationship. It emphasises how ontologies of the environment influence the planning and management of tourism for natural resource conservation and human development. It is an invaluable tool for anyone studying Human Geography, Tourism and Environmental Studies, as well as for policy makers and consultants working in the field of tourism development.
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