Immortal Medusa
Title | Immortal Medusa PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Ungar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780915380930 |
Poetry. Women's Studies. Jewish Studies. Always original, intelligent, hilarious, Ungar serves us another chapter in the on- going saga of life-on- Earth. Her deft and inventive mixtures of science, family, history, pop-culture, philosophy, and art keep the reader swimming deeper and deeper into the human experience, amazed at the landmarks both familiar and surprising. "This poetry collection is like a bowl of fruit and cream: it's so delicious, and it all goes down so easily, that you forget how much nutrition is there." Kirkus, starred review "A very elegiac mood courses through these lines, enlivening them with wisdom. Like any great seeker, Ungar pursues the truth beneath surfaces available to the naked eye. Reading these poems, we are seized by the worlds she reveals. It is the feeling we call ravishment." Greg Pardlo "Ungar paints unforgettable images water-spider shoes, sepia knickers and a shining white shirt, the near-endangered Waccamaw fatmucket and Ozark hellbender that leave us 'chanting to the sky' then diving to see what we 'can retrieve / from the deep floor where / pearls are formed in secret.'" Meg Kearney"
Medusa
Title | Medusa PDF eBook |
Author | Xavier Niz |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780736826624 |
Tells the story of Medusa, Perseus' quests to kill her, and describes the role of myths in the modern world.
Medusa the Mean
Title | Medusa the Mean PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Holub |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2013-12-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442485957 |
Seeking to become immortal like the other Goddess Girls, Medusa searches for a magical necklace, an effort that is compromised by her mean reputation, her snaky hair, and unexpected consequences.
Immortal’s APP Store
Title | Immortal’s APP Store PDF eBook |
Author | Fu ZiYiFangDeErXing |
Publisher | Funstory |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 2020-10-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1636665306 |
A used phone bought when you were down and out, with a powerful app store inside. Tianting WeChat, merit financial management, beauty camera, future news, a variety of powerful software functions against the sky. The protagonist by virtue of the fairy app store, east into the island, west to destroy junrong, north to strike Dixie, south plain savage, American Sam President shiver, "where is my black box?" "Mr. President, a nuclear bomb will not solve the problem. Life is like rape.
Jellyfish
Title | Jellyfish PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa-ann Gershwin |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2016-06-07 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 022628767X |
Jellyfish are mysterious creatures, luminously beautiful with remarkably varied life cycles. These ancient animals are found in every ocean at every depth, and have lived on Earth for at least 500 million years. Jellyfish looks at their anatomy, life history, taxonomy and ecology, and includes species profiles featuring stunning marine photography.
The Mythology of the Night Sky
Title | The Mythology of the Night Sky PDF eBook |
Author | David E. Falkner |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2011-08-28 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1461401372 |
The Mythology of the Night Sky is intended primarily for amateur astronomers who would like to know the mythology behind the names of constellations and planets. It deals with the 48 constellations identified by the ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy, as well as all the planets of our solar system and their moons, which are named after Roman gods. To assist practical observers the book gives the location and description of each constellation, including named stars and deep-sky objects. Readers are encouraged to observe and image the constellations for themselves, and there is a lot of practical information in this book to help them along the way. In addition to providing a detailed (and mostly Greek) mythology of the constellations and the vast soap opera that was part of the Ancient Greek pantheon, this book also addresses the planets of the Solar System, which are named after the Roman - not Greek - gods.
Second Nature
Title | Second Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Nathaniel Rich |
Publisher | MCD |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-03-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0374716307 |
From the author of Losing Earth, a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing. We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity's clumsy signature. The old distinctions—between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact—have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. In Second Nature, ordinary people make desperate efforts to preserve their humanity in a world that seems increasingly alien. Their stories—obsessive, intimate, and deeply reported—point the way to a new kind of environmental literature, in which dramatic narrative helps us to understand our place in a reality that resembles nothing human beings have known. From Odds Against Tomorrow to Losing Earth to the film Dark Waters (adapted from the first chapter of this book), Nathaniel Rich’s stories have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. In Second Nature, he asks what it means to live in an era of terrible responsibility. The question is no longer, How do we return to the world that we’ve lost?It is, What world do we want to create in its place?