The hands of humans split the atom and reshaped the world. Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with spontaneous nuclear fission in the protozoic and ends with the omnicide of the human race, The Manhattan Project traces the military, cultural, and scientific history of the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power through searing lyric, procedural, and visual poetry. Ken Hunt's poetry considers contemporary life-life in the nuclear age-broadly and deeply. It dances through the liminal zones between routine and disaster, between life and death, between creation and destruction. From the mundane to the extraordinary, Hunt's poems expose the depth to which the nuclear has impacted every aspect of the everyday, and question humanity's ability to avoid our destruction. Challenging the complicity of the scientists who created devastating weapons, exploring the espionage of the nuclear arms race, and exposing the role of human error in nuclear disaster, The Manhattan Project is a necropastoral exploration of the literal and figurative fallout of the nuclear age. These poems wail like a meltdown siren, condemning anthropocentric thinking for its self-destructive arrogance.
Fraught with fatal mishaps and disastrous near misses, the missions of the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States defined an era and exemplified the global socio-political conflict of the Cold War. The Lost Cosmonauts by Ken Hunt is an elegy to humanity's fledgling efforts to explore outer space, and to those who lost their lives in pursuit of this goal. This wide-ranging collection of poems looks deep into the largely unexplored cosmos for experiences of the sublime, not only in celestial bodies and mythical figures among the stars, but also in those astronauts and cosmonauts who dared to explore them.
Join author Ken M. Blomberg as he recollects nearly half a century of the hunt in his backyard grouse paradise. Marshaling years of experience, he explains how logging roads often lead to grouse and, just as often, to nowhere. He paints an uplifting portrait of an old hunter dragging his creaky body through unforgiving terrain. And with spirit and humor, he tells of boon companions sharing stories around a campfire or nervously slumbering to a wolf country lullaby. The Badger State's thriving upland bird population beckons hunters from across the country. Novice and veteran hunters alike will draw delight and inspiration from a relatable love affair with gun dogs, upland birds and Wisconsin.
Fumetto - graphic novel (0 pagine) - Una storia dal sapore tarantiniano che vede la razza umana alle prese con la colonizzazione della Via Lattea. In un futuro distopico lontano secoli dal nostro tempo, le radiazioni hanno trasformato la Terra in un deserto arido e inospitale, costringendo gli uomini a cercare nuove strategie di sopravvivenza. Il dramma delle colonie, costrette a ritmi inusuali in luoghi sconosciuti, viene sostituito da una preoccupante possibilità: se la Terra fosse ancora abitabile? L’inquietante tomba radioattiva di sabbia vorticosa in cui il nostro pianeta è mutato, si sta sgretolando e con le lei, forse, l’unica vera possibilità di salvezza. Ken Janssens (testi) è uno uno scrittore/regista/produttore/montatore che ha lavorato per Global Television, Bluewater Productions, Pro Se Productions, Red-Handed Studios, Prometheus Comics, Pulp Empire, Airship 27, 99.1 Cool FM e Naylor, LLC. Come autore di fumetti ha scritto due due miniserie pubblicate da Bluewater Productions (Sherlock Holmes: Victorian Knights e Robin the Hood. Paul Moore (disegni) è un disegnatore molto prolifico che ha lavorato a molti progetti internazionali. Tra i suoi titoli più conosciuti al grande pubblico ci sono Dark Matter, Grafix Chronicles, Mansion of Madness, Planet of Daemons.
Accelerate Your Resultz Card Deck is filled with 90 inspiring thoughts and affirmations that will help motivate and inspire you. They were created to be a daily tool that conditions your subconscious mind to a new and empowered way of thinking. Set of 90 2.5" x 4
We understand the process that people need to go through for goal achievement. We encourage you to stop trying to speed up success and results by taking short cuts, doing the minimum or not being willing to put the right things in place. It simply just doesn’t work that way and is actually a waste of precious time. The Accelerate Your Resultz Interactive Journal makes you do the hard work. It takes you through the step by step process of goal and dream achievement. It helps you see the path to your success by identifying all of the areas needed to excel.
StoryPlay (TM) Books -- the best new way to engage with your little one during story time -- continues with four new stories! StoryPlay Books is the smart way to read and play together! StoryPlay Books offer fun ways to engage with little ones during story time and playtime with prompts and activities that everyone will love! Each quality story will delight readers while building early literacy skills for ages 3-5 by helping them develop: problem-solving abilities, reading comprehension, social development, pre-reading skills, memory strength and more! Each book includes story-related games and crafts to extend the reading experience. Teachers agree that StoryPlay Books are perfect for parents looking to stimulate and engage their kids at home while having fun together! Each book also shines a spotlight on important topics for this age. We're Going on a Spooky Ghost Hunt -- an original, new holiday twist on the classic song -- focuses on sequencing.Are you ready to start reading the StoryPlay way? Ready. Set. Smart!
The Accelerate Your Resultz Daily Inspiration book gives you daily motivation, inspiration, and insight on how to achieve the goals you desire. We understand goal achievement is based on what you do every single day. It takes 21 days to make something a habit and 90 Days to make it a Lifestyle... and that’s why this book was written as a 90 Day blueprint.
This is a new edition of the best selling wingshooter's guide with updated information on hunting birds in Idaho, including new hub city information as well as new developments regarding hunting in Idaho.
This is one of a series of guides designed to tell the truth about other nations, using sweeping generalizations and observations as a base, detailing what to expect and how to cope with it. The guides try to explain why things are done the way they are and they try to allay the feelings of trepidation with which the xenophobe approaches new territory. This particular book looks at Australians.
Women have a strong desire for relational connections. Relationships between women can be especially enriching, but when conflict arises, they also can be especially damaging. Too many women approach conflict as if they were unbelievers-with gossip, spiteful actions, bitterness, and even hatred. In Peacemaking Women, Tara Klena Barthel and Judy Dabler offer a meaningful, lasting message to lead women out of conflict to a state of peace where they can live as representatives of Christ to one another and well as unbelievers. With advice that is firmly rooted in Scripture, the authors bring sound, practical help for women who want to know what the Bible says about conflict resolution and how to achieve peace in their relationships with God, self, and others.
Sir Brian Flockart is a reluctant knight who doesn't like wearing armour, fighting battles or hunting dragons. But when the boastful knight Sir Roger Duckbury sets out on a dragon hunt, Sir Brian has to help his friend Meg, the dairymaid, protect their pet dragon, Grund. Suggested level: primary.
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