Cosmo Zooms

Cosmo Zooms
Title Cosmo Zooms PDF eBook
Author Arthur Howard
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 36
Release 2003
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9780152047658

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A humorous story about a dog and his day.

Lost in the Cosmos

Lost in the Cosmos
Title Lost in the Cosmos PDF eBook
Author Walker Percy
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 201
Release 2011-03-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1453216340

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“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is National Book Award–winning author Walker Percy’s humorous take on a familiar genre—as well as an invitation to serious contemplation of life’s biggest questions. One part parody and two parts philosophy, Lost in the Cosmos is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human existence, and an unrivaled spin on self-help manuals by one of modern America’s greatest literary masters.

Cosmos

Cosmos
Title Cosmos PDF eBook
Author Carl Sagan
Publisher Ballantine Books
Pages 450
Release 2013-12-10
Genre Science
ISBN 0345539435

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RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan’s collaborator, Ann Druyan, full color illustrations, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science. Praise for Cosmos “Magnificent . . . With a lyrical literary style, and a range that touches almost all aspects of human knowledge, Cosmos often seems too good to be true.”—The Plain Dealer “Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third—his mind’s—on the human condition.”—Newsday “Brilliant in its scope and provocative in its suggestions . . . shimmers with a sense of wonder.”—The Miami Herald “Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by the stately galaxies of space.”—Cosmopolitan “Enticing . . . iridescent . . . imaginatively illustrated.”—The New York Times Book Review

Activities for Building Character and Social-Emotional Learning

Activities for Building Character and Social-Emotional Learning
Title Activities for Building Character and Social-Emotional Learning PDF eBook
Author Katia Petersen
Publisher Free Spirit Publishing
Pages 161
Release 2012
Genre Education
ISBN 157542391X

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Ready-to-use activities integrate into the daily curriculum to help teachers create a safe and caring classroom

Mind and Cosmos

Mind and Cosmos
Title Mind and Cosmos PDF eBook
Author Thomas Nagel
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 141
Release 2012-11-22
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0199919755

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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.

Cosmo and the Magic Sneeze

Cosmo and the Magic Sneeze
Title Cosmo and the Magic Sneeze PDF eBook
Author Gwyneth Rees
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Pages 260
Release 2008-09-04
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0330470736

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Cosmo is delighted when he passes the special test and becomes a witch-cat, just like his father Mephisto. Now he will be able to ride on broomsticks and help Sybil the witch with her spells - and it's all because of his magic sneeze, the all-important ingredient for Sybil's cauldron. But Cosmo is one clever and curious kitty - and when scary Sybil starts cooking up a secret spell that produces golden statues his hackles are raised. Especially because the statues are in the shape of kittens . . . and look frighteningly ALIVE!

Easy Activities for Building Social Skills

Easy Activities for Building Social Skills
Title Easy Activities for Building Social Skills PDF eBook
Author Nancy Leber
Publisher Scholastic Inc.
Pages 84
Release 2002
Genre Education
ISBN 9780439163538

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"Dozens of effective classroom strategies and activities to teach cooperation and communication, manners and respect, positive behavior and more!"-- cover.