400 Billion Stars

400 Billion Stars
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Publisher : Gateway
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9780575088368
ISBN-13 : 0575088362
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis 400 Billion Stars by : Paul McAuley

Dorothy Yoshida is a telepath, and a really rather good one at that. She's also a scientist, and when a small planet begins to manifest some unusual signs she is sent to investigate. The planet is more than it seems, and on further investigation the scientists begin to suspect it has been artificially altered. But despite their suspicions the only life they can detect is on the surface, none of which has advanced far above the level of animals. And despite the hopes of mankind to find something which will help them in a burgeoning war against other species, there seems to be nothing there to aid them. With Dorothy's arrival, however, they are in for some surprising discoveries.

Four Hundred Billion Stars

Four Hundred Billion Stars
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Publisher : Orion
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 0575042605
ISBN-13 : 9780575042605
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Four Hundred Billion Stars by : Paul J. McAuley

Origin and All

Origin and All
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Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency
Total Pages : 135
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ISBN-10 : 9781612045849
ISBN-13 : 1612045847
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Origin and All by : Ancient Benjamin

The novel Origin and All tells how the universe began, explores the rebellion of Lucifer and his angelic host, and explains that Christianity is not a religion, but a revealed life. The book contains a seemingly endless streak of high-level supernatural information, presented in a deliberate manner that will preserve the purity and originality of divine truth, with the aim of offering a comprehensive understanding of life and reality in God's universe. The author shows how life, reality, and the totality of universal existence originated from the conscious existence of a living entity known as Elohim, the Origin of all. Further, prominent matters such as the original plan of God, the rise of fallen angels, the three-fold Gospel, the bridal union, and more are extensively covered. To cap it off, belief systems and forms of worship are considered. Christianity is contrasted with religion to offer discernment to readers. Ancient Benjamin was born in and lives in Kumasi, Ghana, a West African country. He wrote this book to bring a finality of understanding to all men on the subject matter of God and Christianity. Ancient Benjamin, named after his Father, the Ancient of days, is a young man, picked and trained by the Holy Spirit in the arena of revelation knowledge, and discernment. He is specially anointed by the Spirit to relate with a rare kind of supernatural messaging, which produces in him the ability to understand pre-creation conditions and realities. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/AncientBenjamin

The Book of Broken Promises

The Book of Broken Promises
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1505211964
ISBN-13 : 9781505211962
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book of Broken Promises by : Bruce Kushnick

Broken Promises is the third book in a trilogy spanning 18 years. Bruce Kushnick, author, senior telecom analyst and industry insider, lays out, in all of the gory details, how America paid over $400 billion to be the first fully fiber optic-based nation yet ended up 27th in the world for high-speed Internet (40th in upload speeds). But this is only a part of this story. With over four million people filing with the FCC to 'Free the Net', one thing is abundantly clear -- customers know something is terribly wrong. Every time you pay your bills you notice that the price of your services keeps going up, you don't have a serious choice for Internet (ISP), broadband or cable service, much less competitors fighting for your business, or maybe you can't even get very fast broadband service. Worse, over the last few years, America's ISPs and cable companies have been rated "the most hated companies in America". While Net Neutrality concerns (detailed in Broken Promises) are important, the actions are only a first step and will most likely be tied up in court for the next few years. More importantly, it does not resolve most of the customer issues and there is nothing else on the horizon that will fix what's broken. Broken Promises documents the massive overcharging and failure to properly upgrade the networks, the deceptive billing practices, the harms caused from a lack of competition, the gaming and manipulating of the regulatory system, from the states to the FCC, and exposes the companies' primary strategy: How much can we get away with? There has been little, if any, regard for the customers they serve.--From http://newnetworks.com/bookbrokenpromises/ --(viewed on June 12, 2015).

The Evolving Universe

The Evolving Universe
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Publisher : Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Total Pages : 562
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0805333312
ISBN-13 : 9780805333312
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Evolving Universe by : Donald Goldsmith

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 294
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780387955018
ISBN-13 : 0387955011
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? by : Stephen Webb

In a 1950 conversation at Los Alamos, four world-class scientists generally agreed, given the size of the Universe, that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations must be present. But one of the four, Enrico Fermi, asked, "If these civilizations do exist, where is everybody?" Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 million stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 million galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14 billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. Webb discusses in detail the 50 most cogent and intriguing solutions to Fermi's famous paradox.

The Biggest Hoax, Ever

The Biggest Hoax, Ever
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Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Total Pages : 388
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1897113633
ISBN-13 : 9781897113639
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Biggest Hoax, Ever by : Everett Boyle

Unraveling Mysteries of Life

Unraveling Mysteries of Life
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Publisher : Publio Kiadó Kft
Total Pages : 927
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ISBN-10 : 9789630850490
ISBN-13 : 9630850494
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Unraveling Mysteries of Life by : Gauri Shankar Gupta

Neither scientific, nor philosophical qualification is needed to read this book. Simple yet refined wording makes its content easily understandable for all kinds of readers. The author takes into account the discoveries of modern science about our world, our environment and our bodies, looking for and finding answers to all the unanswered questions in ancient Indian and Greek wisdom. „This book will not be kept on my bookshelf but will remain on my table and I’m going to read it for the rest of my life. I’m going to learn from it and will meditate on issues covered in it. The wisdom, Gupta relies on and carries in his heart and soul is not a religion, nor a philosophy, nor a belief, nor a science; but is a metaphysical knowledge. It is the only and absolute ancient knowledge, which deals with questions that govern the world and human existence.” Péter Müller „Gupta is a true man of the world. He has wide knowledge of modern scientific and intellectual developments. But he is also acquainted with the wisdom of the past. He is well equipped to speak to an international audience of intellectuals, religionists, and political leaders about the nature of our modern problems and the way forward to practical solutions. The solutions Gupta presents are based on the best that modern science and ancient wisdom have to offer us. By offering new ways of understanding who we are and where we are, based on his deep acquaintance with source of traditional wisdom, both Eastern and Western, Gupta gives us hope of a better future. “ Michael A. Cremo

Worlds Without End

Worlds Without End
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9780262373081
ISBN-13 : 0262373084
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Worlds Without End by : Chris Impey

The science of finding habitable planets beyond our solar system and the prospects for establishing human civilization away from our ever-less-habitable planetary home. Planet Earth, it turns out, may not be the best of all possible worlds—and lately humanity has been carelessly depleting resources, decimating species, and degrading everything needed for life. Meanwhile, human ingenuity has opened up a vista of habitable worlds well beyond our wildest dreams of outposts on Mars. Worlds without End is an expertly guided tour of this thrilling frontier in astronomy: the search for planets with the potential to host life. With the approachable style that has made him a leading interpreter of astronomy and space science, Chris Impey conducts readers across the vast, fast-developing field of astrobiology, surveying the dizzying advances carrying us ever closer to the discovery of life beyond Earth—and the prospect of humans living on another planet. Since the first exoplanet, or planet beyond our solar system, was discovered in 1995, over 4,000 more have been pinpointed, including hundreds of Earth-like planets, many of them habitable, detected by the Kepler satellite. With a view spanning astronomy, planetary science, geology, chemistry, and biology, Impey provides a state-of-the-art account of what’s behind this accelerating progress, what’s next, and what it might mean for humanity’s future. The existential threats that we face here on Earth lend urgency to this search, raising the question: Could space be our salvation? From the definition of habitability to the changing shape of space exploration—as it expands beyond the interests of government to the pursuits of private industry—Worlds without End shows us the science, on horizons near and far, that may hold the answers.

Insignificant but Special

Insignificant but Special
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Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages : 483
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ISBN-10 : 9798886541755
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Insignificant but Special by : Bruce Sanford

Life is a rarity. We know of no other planet where life exists other than on Earth. Life started out in a most simple form, then proceeded along a labyrinth of evolutionary pathways that resulted in extraordinary and unfathomable designs. This is a journey, from the beginning of time to this very day, guided by circumstances, contingencies, and chaos that has governed Earth's living assemblage. But life's presence was not destined to just happen. If it wasn't for our moon, which gave Earth orbital and rotational stability, life would not be as we know it today. If it wasn't for volcanic eruptions, Earth would be an ice-clad, frozen globe. If it wasn't for one of the tiniest of living organisms that produced a toxic gas, complex life would not have arisen. If it wasn't for one particular extinction event, Homo sapiens would not be walking this planet, and you would not be reading this now. If it wasn't for a million other things, life would be much different, or not at all. Earth made life, from the meek to the monstrous, from the banal to the bizarre, from the humblest to the haughtiest. Strap yourself in alongside a window seat and witness the passing of time, to view the episodes of change, and how the making of life became the greatest story on Earth.