The Long Cosmos - Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett

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Opis - 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valiente, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth receives a signal from the stars. A signal that is picked up by radio astronomers but also in more abstract ways - by the trolls and by the Great Traversers. Its message is simple but ts implications are enormous: JOIN US. The super-smart Next realise that the Message contains instructions on how to develop an immense artificial intelligence but to build it they have to seek help from throughout the industrious worlds of mankind. Bit by bit, byte by byte, they assemble a computer the size of a continent - a device that will alter the Long Earth&s place within the cosmos and reveal the ultimate, life-affirming goal of those who sent the Message. Its impact will be felt by and resonate with all - mankind and other species, young and old, communities and individuals - who inhabit the Long Earths...The Long Cosmos serves as a fabulous, powerful and affecting drawing down of the curtain on this remarkable science fiction sequence. Nazwa - The Long Cosmos Autor - Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Corgi Kod ISBN - 9780552173902 Kod EAN - 9780552173902 Rok wydania - 2017 Język - angielski Ilość stron - 480 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2017-02-20

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Rivers in Time Columbia University Press

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Several times in the distant past, catastrophic extinctions have swept the Earth, causing more than half of all species -- from single-celled organisms to awe-inspiring behemoths -- to suddenly vanish and be replaced by new life forms. Today the rich diversity of life on the Earth is again in grave danger -- and the cause is not a sudden cataclysmic event but rather humankind's devastation of the environment. Is life on our planet teetering on the brink of another mass extinction? In this absorbing new book, acclaimed paleontologist Peter D. Ward answers this daunting question with a resounding yes. Elaborating on and updating Ward's previous work, The End of Evolution, Rivers in Time delves into his newest discoveries. The book presents the gripping tale of the author's investigations into the history of life and death on Earth through a series of expeditions that have brought him ever closer to the truth about mass extinctions, past and future.First describing the three previous mass extinctions -- those marking the transition from the Permian to the Triassic periods 245 million years ago, the Triassic to the Jurassic 200 million years ago, and the Cretaceous to the Tertiary 65 million years ago -- Ward assesses the present devastation in which countless species are coming to the end of their evolution at the hand of that wandering, potentially destructive force called Homo sapiens. The book takes readers to the Philippine Sea, now eerily empty of life, where only a few decades of catching fish by using dynamite have resulted in eviscerated coral reefs -- and a dramatic reduction in the marine life the region can support. Ward travels to Canada's Queen Charlotte Islands to investigate the extinctions that mark the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods. He ventures also into the Karoo desert of southern Africa, where some of Earth's earliest land life emerged from the water and stood poised to develop into mammal form, only to be obliterated during the Permian/Triassic extinction.Rivers of Time provides reason to marvel and mourn, to fear and hope, as it bears stark witness to the urgency of the Earth's present predicament: Ward offers powerful proof that if radical measures are not taken to protect the biodiversity of this planet, much of life as we know it may not survive.

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Na poligonie - dla malucha

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Nazwa - Na poligonie - dla malucha Wydawca - Pasja Kod ISBN - 9788364773921 Kod EAN - 9788364773921 Ilość stron - 16 Podatek VAT - 5%

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Deathworlds to Lifeworlds De Gruyter

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Deathworlds are places on planet earth that can no longer sustain life. These are increasing rapidly. We experience remnants of Deathworlds within our Lifeworlds (for example traumatic echoes of war, genocide, oppression). Many practices and policies, directly or indirectly, are "Deathworld-Making." They undermine Lifeworlds contributing to community decline, illnesses, climate change, and species extinction. This book highlights the ways in which writing about and sharing meaningful experiences may lead to social and environmental justice practices, decreasing Deathworld-Making. Phenomenology is a method which reveals the connection between personal suffering and the suffering of the planet earth and all its creatures. Sharing can lead to collaborative relationships among strangers for social and environmental justice across barriers of culture, politics, and language. "Deathworlds into Lifeworlds wakes people up to how current economic and social forces are destroying life and communities on our planet, as I have mapped in my work. The chapters by scholars around the world in this powerful book testify to the pervasive consequences of the proliferation of Deathworld-making and ways that collaboration across cultures can help move us forward." -Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought. "Recognizing the inseparability of experience, consciousness, environment and problematics in rebalancing life systems, this book offers solutions from around the world." -Four Arrows, aka Don Trent Jacobs, author of Sitting Bull's Words for A World in Crises, et al. "This unique book brings together 78 participants from 11 countries to reveal the ways in which phenomenology - the study of consciousness and phenomena - can lead to profound personal and social transformation. Such transformation is especially powerful when "Deathworlds" - physical or cultural places that no longer sustain life - are transformed into "lifeworlds" through collaborative sharing, even when (or, perhaps, especially when) the sharing is among strangers across different cultures. The contributors share a truly wide range of human experiences, from the death of a child to ecological destruction, in offering ways to affirm life in the face of what may seem to be hopeless death-affirming challenges." -Richard P. Appelbaum, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and former MacArthur Foundation Chair in Global and International Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a founding Professor at Fielding Graduate University, where he heads the doctoral concentration in Sustainability Leadership. "Deathworlds is a love letter for the planet-our home. By documenting places that no longer sustain life, the authors collectively pull back the curtain on these places, rendering them meaningful by connecting what ails us with what ails the world." -Katrina S. Rogers, Ph.D., conservation activist and author "Deathworlds to Lifeworlds represents collaboration among Fielding Graduate University, the University of Lodz (Poland), and the University of the Virgin Islands. Students and faculty from these universities participated in seminars on transformative phenomenology and developed rich phenomenologically based narratives of their experiences or others'. These phenomenological protocol narratives creatively modify and integrate with everyday experience the conceptual frameworks of Husserl, Schutz, Heidegger, Habermas, and others. The diverse protocol authors demonstrate how phenomenological reflection is transformative first by revealing how Deathworlds, which lead to physical, mental, social, or ecological decline, imperil invaluable lifeworlds. Deathworlds appear on lifeworld fringes, such as ext

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Faust part one Penguin

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Wenus planeta partnerstwa - Elżbieta Kłobus

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Opis - Wenus jest bardzo często przedstawiana jako kobieta próżna, a zarazem pełna wdzięku. Warto poznać jednak jej prawdziwe oblicze, które jest bardzo dalekie od utartego schematu. Tym bardziej, że planeta nosząca jej imię bardzo silnie wpływa na życie każdego człowieka. Wenus z tej książki nie jest już łagodna i zajęta głównie romansami, a okazuje się być istotą żądną władzy i potrafiącą ją uzyskać. Jest to absolutny kontrast z jej stereotypowym wizerunkiem. Każdy, kto chciałby w pełni odczytywać horoskop, powinien sięgnąć po tę książkę, która skupia się na oddziaływaniu tej tak bardzo ważnej z astrologicznego punktu widzenia, planety. Autorka opisuje najważniejsze cechy Wenus i jej znaczenie w horoskopie. W sposób w pełni obiektywny analizuje zarówno pozytywne, jak i negatywne aspekty tej planety. Znajdziesz tu tranzyty i progresje Wenus oraz jej opis w poszczególnych domach horoskopu. Dowiesz się, jak ją interpretować w horoskopach mudialnych i partnerskich. Jako, że Wenus odpowiada za relacje międzyludzkie, dzięki tej nowatorskiej publikacji każdy może odpowiedzieć na pytanie, czy znajdzie partnera i kiedy ma na to szanse. Uzyskasz także większą świadomość dotyczącą twoich związków z innymi ludźmi i nauczysz się je świadomie kształtować. Dowiesz się również, w jaki sposób możesz wzmocnić w sobie korzystne aspekty Wenus i zminimalizować szkodliwe działanie tych, które mogą utrudniać życie. Poznaj prawdę o Wenus i popraw swoje relacje. Nazwa - Wenus planeta partnerstwa Autor - Elżbieta Kłobus Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Studio Astropsychologii Kod ISBN - 9788373777071 Kod EAN - 9788373777071 Wydanie - I Rok wydania - 2015 Język - polski Format - 14.5x20.5cm Ilość stron - 136 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2015-02-09

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At Heaven's Door Simon & Schuster

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A groundbreaking, authoritative exploration-rich with powerful personal stories and convincing research-of the many ways the living can and do accompany the dying on their journey into the afterlife.In 2000, end-of-life therapist William Peters was volunteering at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco when he had an extraordinary experience as he was reading aloud to a patient: he suddenly felt himself floating in midair, completely out of his body. The patient, who was also aloft, looked at him and smiled. The next moment, Peters felt himself return to his body...but the patient never regained consciousness and died. Perplexed and stunned by what had happened, Peters began searching for other people who'd shared similar experiences. He would spend the next twenty years gathering and meticulously categorizing their stories to identify key patterns and features of what is now known as the "shared crossing" experience. The similarities, which cut across continents and cultures and include awe-inspiring visual and sensory effects, and powerful emotional after-effects, were impossible to ignore. Long whispered about in the hospice and medical communities, these extraordinary moments of final passage are openly discussed and explained in At Heaven's Door. The book is filled with powerful tales of spouses on departing this earth after decades together and bereaved parents who share their children's entry into the afterlife. Applying rigorous research, Peters digs into the effect these shared crossing experiences impart-liberation at the sight of a loved one finding joy, a sense of reconciliation if the relationship was fraught-and explores questions like: What can explain these shared death experiences? How can we increase our likelihood of having one? What do these experiences tell us about what lies beyond? And, most importantly, how can they help take away the sting of death and better prepare us for our own final moments? How can we have both a better life and a better death?

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Shackleton Penguin Books

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Pre-order the enthralling new biography of Ernest Shackleton by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes.'THE definitive book on Shackleton . . . such an authentic account by one of the few men who truly knows what it's like to challenge Antarctica.' LORRAINE KELLYTo write about Hell, it helps if you have been there.In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. What followed became legend.Throughout the long, dark Antarctic winter, Shackleton fights for his life and the lives of his men - enduring freezing temperatures, a perilous lifeboat journey through the ice-strewn sea, and a punishing march across the South Georgia glaciers to seek the one slim chance they have of rescue. Their situation is disastrous.Their survival would become history's most enthralling adventure. Yet Shackleton's critics have argued that the expedition was always doomed to fail. And that had Endurance not been destroyed by ice, his men would have suffered a slow and horrible death before completing their journey.No previous biographer has experienced even a tiny taste of the polar hell on earth endured by Shackleton and his men. That cannot be said of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who has been described as 'our greatest living explorer'. From Shackleton's pursuit of adventure as a young merchant seamen, through his rivalry with Captain Scott, culminating in the two remarkable expeditions to Antarctica that revealed his unrivalled leadership and personal courage under the most extreme of circumstances, Fiennes brings the story vividly and viscerally to life, his own near-death on the ice, fifty years after his subject's death, providing the necessary proof to silence Shackleton's critics once and for all in a book that is part celebration, part vindication and all adventure.Praise for Sir Ranulph Fiennes:'The World's Greatest Living Explorer' - Guinness Book of Records'Full of awe-inspiring details of hardship, resolve and weather that defies belief, told by someone of unique authority. No one is more tailor-made to tell [this] story than Sir Ranulph Fiennes' - Newsday'Fiennes' own experiences certainly allow him to write vividly and with empathy of the hell that the men went through' - The Sunday Times

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The Many Deaths of Laila Starr Boom! Studios

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Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality, which means the avatar of Death is out of a job

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Enemy of Rome - Douglas Jackson

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Opis - Summer, AD 69. Rome and its empire are in turmoil, caught in the coils of a desperate and destructive civil war. The emperor Otho is dead by his own hand and his rival, Aulus Vitellius, occupies the imperial throne. However, a new challenge has arisen in the East " the legions of Titus Flavius Vespasian have declared him their Emperor. In the dry heat of an August morning, Gaius Valerius Verrens prepares for his last day on earth. Wrongly accused of deserting his legion on the field of Bedriacum, it seems he is destined to die a coward"s death. Then the executioner"s hand is stayed. Vitellius' enemies will spare the life of the man who was once Hero of Rome if he pledges allegiance to Vespasian and his cause. Valerius " tired of the endless slaughter and hoping that he might be reunited with his lost love " agrees. And so he must battle his way south to Rome in order to persuade his friend Vitellius to stand down for the greater good of the city, its people and the Empire. But this is civil war and this is Rome, and Valerius " his loyalties divided and branded an enemy of the people ? is trapped in a maze of distrust, corruption, betrayal and blood-letting. Nazwa - Enemy of Rome Autor - Douglas Jackson Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Corgi Kod ISBN - 9780552167949 Kod EAN - 9780552167949 Rok wydania - 2015 Język - angielski Format - 12.5x19.5cm Ilość stron - 496 Podatek VAT - 5%

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The Raqqa Diaries - Mohammed Samer

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Opis - "A clarion call to all of us that we should not give up. Somewhere there is a voice in the wreckage." (Michael Palin). Since ISIS occupied Raqqa in eastern Syria, it has become one of the most isolated and fear-ridden cities on earth. The sale of televisions has been banned, wearing trousers the wrong length is a punishable offence, and using a mobile phone is considered an unforgivable crime. No journalists are allowed in and the penalty for speaking yo the western media is death by beheading. Despite this, after several months of nervy and often interrupted conversations, the BBC was able to make contact with a small activist group, Al-Sharqiya 24. Finally, courageously, one of their members agreed to write a personal diary about his experiences. Having seen friends and relatives butchered, his community's life shattered and the local economy ruined by these hate-fuelled extremists, Samer is fighting back in the only way he can: by telling the world what is happening to his beloved city. This is Samer's story. Nazwa - The Raqqa Diaries Autor - Mohammed Samer Oprawa - Twarda Wydawca - Hutchinson Kod ISBN - 9781786330536 Kod EAN - 9781786330536 Rok wydania - 2017 Język - angielski Format - 13.9x20.6cm Ilość stron - 108 Podatek VAT - 5%

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OH MARTHA! - The AccÜsed (Płyta CD)

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Lista utworów - Płyta CD 1 1. Martha Will 2. Fueled by Hate 3. Crapassreality 4. Fast Zombie Rule 5. Dying on the Vine 6. Hooker Fortified Pork Products 7. Life Kills on 8. Nes 9. Filth Hound of Hades 10. Stay Dead 11. Scream & Die 12. Of the Body 13. 13 Letters 14. Have You Never Been Mellow? 15. Distractions 16. Martha Splatterhead 17. Slow Death 18. Take My Time 19. Fucking for Bux 20. Halo of Flies a Deadly Blessing) 21. Lifeless Zone 22. Scotty 23. W.C.a.L.T. 24. Septi-child (Outtake) 25. Brutality & Corruption 26. Splatter Rock 27. Grinning Like an Undertaker 28. Tapping the Vein 29. Rape (Not a Love Song) 30. Bethany Home 31. Grinning Like an Undertaker (Live) 32. Inherit the Earth (Live) Nazwa - OH MARTHA! Autor - The AccÜsed Wydawca - Nuclear Blast Kod EAN - 0727361166120 Rok wydania - 2006 Nośnik - Płyta CD Ilość elementów - 1 Podatek VAT - 23% Premiera - 2006-05-12

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Erebus: The Story of a Ship Cornerstone

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HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found.This is its story.____________________________________'Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end.' - Bill Bryson____________________________________Michael Palin - Monty Python star and television globetrotter - brings the remarkable Erebus back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic.The ship was filled with fascinating people: the dashing and popular James Clark Ross, who charted much of the 'Great Southern Barrier'; the troubled John Franklin, whose chequered career culminated in the Erebus's final, disastrous expedition; and the eager Joseph Dalton Hooker, a brilliant naturalist - when he wasn't shooting the local wildlife dead.Vividly recounting the experiences of the men who first set foot on Antarctica's Victoria Land, and those who, just a few years later, froze to death one by one in the Arctic ice, beyond the reach of desperate rescue missions, Erebus is a wonderfully evocative account of a truly extraordinary adventure, brought to life by a master explorer and storyteller.____________________________________'This is an incredible book. I couldn't put it down. The Erebus story is the Arctic epic we've all been waiting for.' - Nicholas Crane'One robust little tub of a boat, two death-defying voyages to the ends of the earth. Palin has given us a fascinating account of extraordinary courage' - Charlotte Gray, author of The Promise of Canada: People and Ideas that Shaped Our Country'What more could a reader ask for? Fascinating mystery, chilling adventure, compelling characters ... simply terrific writing by Michael Palin.' - Roy MacGregor, author of Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada'Michael Palin is a cracking good companion on this journey of ambition, longing, triumph and tragedy... the age of adventure lives on' - Alanna Mitchell, author of The Spinning Magnet: The Force that Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It

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Molten Lager - The Damned (Płyta CD)

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Lista utworów - Płyta 1 1. Testify 2. Shut It 3. Shadow To Fall 4. I Need A Life 5. Running Man 6. Not Of This Earth 7. Heaven Can Take Your Lies 8. My Desire 9. Never Could Believe 10. Love Song 11. Disco Man 12. Neat Neat Neat 13. Ignite 14. Gun Fury 15. I Must Be Mad 16. Nasty Nazwa - Molten Lager Autor - The Damned Wydawca - Sudden Death Records Kod EAN - 0652975000525 Rok wydania - 2000 Nośnik - Płyta CD Ilość elementów - 1 Podatek VAT - 23%

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Next 500 Years MIT Press Ltd

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An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems--because human life on Earth has an expiration date.Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life-forms--not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds.As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space--with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come.

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