Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection, sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers to the alluring Western Ocean. Christopher Sinclair is an alchemist who cares only about one thing: quintessence, a substance he believes will grant magical powers and immortality. And he has a ship.

A 2021 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book A Bank Street Best Book of 2021 Quintessence is an extraordinary story from Jess Redman about friendship, self-discovery, interconnectedness, and the inexplicable elements that make you you. Three months ago, twelve-year-old Alma moved to the town of Four Points. Her panic attacks started a week later, and they haven’t stopped—even though she’s told her parents that they have. She’s homesick and friendless and every day she feels less and less like herself. But one day she finds a telescope in the town’s junk shop, and through its lens, she watches a star—a star that looks like a child—fall from the sky and into her backyard. Alma knows what it’s like to be lost and afraid, to long for home, and she knows that it’s up to her to save the star. And so, with the help of some unlikely new friends from Astronomy Club, she sets out on a quest that will take a little bit of science, a little bit of magic, and her whole self. This title has Common Core connections.

Through the first half of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy was dominated by Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap. Influenced by Russell and especially by Carnap, another towering figure, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908Ð2000) emerged as the most important proponent of analytic philosophy during the second half of the century. Yet with twenty-three books and countless articles to his creditÑincluding, most famously, Word and Object and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"ÑQuine remained a philosopher's philosopher, largely unknown to the general public. Quintessence for the first time collects Quine's classic essays (such as "Two Dogmas" and "On What There Is") in one volumeÑand thus offers readers a much-needed introduction to his general philosophy. Divided into six parts, the thirty-five selections take up analyticity and reductionism; the indeterminacy of translation of theoretical sentences and the inscrutability of reference; ontology; naturalized epistemology; philosophy of mind; and extensionalism. Representative of Quine at his best, these readings are fundamental not only to an appreciation of the philosopher and his work, but also to an understanding of the philosophical tradition that he so materially advanced.

Will the universe continue to expand forever, reverse its expansion and begin to contract, or reach a delicately poised state where it simply persists forever? The answer depends on the amount and properties of matter in the universe, and that has given rise to one of the great paradoxes of modern cosmology; there is too little visible matter to account for the behaviour we can see. Over 90 percent of the universe consists of 'missing mass' or 'dark matter' - what Lawrence Krauss, in his classic book, termed "the fifth essence". In this new edition of The Fifth Essence, retitled Quintessence after the now widely accepted term for dark matter, Krauss shows how the dark matter problem is now connected with two of the hottest areas in recent cosmology: the fate of the universe and the "cosmological constant." With a new introduction, epilogue and chapter updates, Krauss updates his classic and shares one of the most stunning discoveries of recent years: an antigravity force that explains recent observations of a permanently expanding universe.

This beautifully photographed volume displays an homage to ordinary, everyday household items, such as the martini, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a Mont Blanc pen, and more. Over 75 photos.

Terror strikes the peaceful future Earth when humanitys linked consciousness abruptly goes silent. Young professor Eddy Afford had planned a self-indulgent time-traveling excursion, but when the disconnected world plunges into anarchy, Eddy finds himself transported to an earlier hostile Earth populated by mutated Punx and militaristic Tagents. Stranded for a year in this dangerous era with his lovable telepathic quadrapet Rover, they befriend the mighty horse Quixote. Together they take up the quest to save Eddys ex-girlfriend Aphrodite from malefic imprisonment in the Singing Dome where women are compelled to sing music so eloquent it bends the laws of nature. During his personal quest, Eddy obtains the Journal of The Muse that reveals the humanity-saving quest he must assume in locating, protecting, and guiding The Five Musicianers to their destinies in composing a musical perfection that will revive the Quintessence, defeat a malicious overlord, and set Eddys future world right again.

Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection, sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers to the alluring Western Ocean. Christopher Sinclair is an alchemist who cares only about one thing: quintessence, a substance he believes will grant magical powers and immortality. And he has a ship. Fleeing an inquisition, physician Stephen Parris follows Sinclair to an island that perches upon the farthest horizon, bringing his daughter Catherine with him. The island teems with fantastical animals and alluring mysteries...and may even harbor the most coveted secret of all ... in this novel by David Walton. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Coco Bijou lives life fully and with an insatiable curiosity. Through sheer will and determination, inspiration and magic, grace and experience, pain and joy, mistake and triumph, she has experienced an epiphany: when we live life with an open mind and heart, we become ourselves and shape our destiny. Here, she shares her journey with others, in the hopes of inspiring them to life-changing epiphanies of their own. As a young person, she started to keep journals and filled them with her poetry, stories and dreams. Once a sporadic writer, she has now amassed a huge library of these journals. Through wild detours, interruptions, trauma and joy, she kept writing. In her life, she has met some incredible people who inspired many of the memories and lessons she shares here. Through the people we meet, she says, we have the opportunity to create an incredible array of experiences and to craft an inspired life. In this candid confessional, she ruminates on aspects of her personality, important relationships, powerful stances shes taken and falls she has survived. Within each story is a lesson, a laugh or a thought-provoking moment. These are her memoirs, told in story and verse. She shares some tales that may inspire a giggle, a gleeful laugh or even a moment of personal discovery. For Coco Bijou, life is a magnificent journey, and she is inspired by every wonderful moment.

The utopian between the realism of language and metaphysics of love- the quintessence The book is a delicate collection of writers, spread over the country, who talk their hearts out. They use words of the days bygone and speak of the love their heart instills. Quintessence, brings to its readers, the avid personality of lovers and their masterpieces, woven with the delicate words of a forgotten era. While some portray how the language describes love, others, show how love is the immortal language that binds all. It is a must-read, for every author brilliantly vents the burning desire of heart in words

How can we tell if our judgment is sound? Will the abandoned choices, the lost options, the lives we never led, haunt us like spectral reproaches? Are we living in a perfect world? Why not? What went so badly wrong? What makes us choose disastrously en masse? Whatever happened to the so-called Wisdom of Crowds? If they're so smart, why is the world so dumb? Is it true, as the Illuminati assert, that the West lost an entire millennium because of Christianity? Was it this strange religion that sabotaged our progress to our own Eden? What might the world have looked like if instead of the rule of the Catholic Church, paganism had prevailed? This is the story of an alternative history of the West, one where Christianity never happened. The tale of this bright world that never was begins with the pre-Socratic philosophers of ancient Greece, some of the greatest, boldest and most imaginative thinkers of all time. This is the tale of the infinitely mysterious Quintessence.