The Integral Trees
Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
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ISBN : 9780708881545
Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780708881545
Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345302571
The Citizens Tree people rescue a family of loggers and learn for the first time of a society known as the Admiralty, which may have maintained intact the original computer library of the ship Discipline
Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345336965
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the Society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the Universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised final escape from his captors. Then he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he'd left...a planet that had had 3,000,000 years to develop perils he had never dreamed of -- perils that became nightmares that he had to escape...somehow!
Author : Jerry Pournelle
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1618243527
IT ALL HAPPENED SO FAST One minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they'd been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government. That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice Age Stranded in the anti-technological heartland of America, paralyzed by Earth's gravity, the "Angels" had no way back to the Space Habs, the last bastions of high technology and intellectual freedom on or over the Earth. But help was on its way, help from the most unlikely sources .... Join # 1 national bestsellers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn in a world where civilization is on the ropes, and the environmentalists have created their own worst nightmare: A world of Fallen Angels At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author : Michael Whelan
Publisher : Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780553074475
Award-winning artist Whelan has illustrated the work of almost every major author in speculative fiction. Here are featured all the artist's major recent paintings, as well as a series of 25 never-before-seen works produced especially for this book. Over 100 full-color reproductions.
Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2000-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812566789
Science fiction-roman.
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Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1595341722
Intimate in size yet quietly breathtaking in scope, this graceful gift book will forever change how you think, and how you feel, about trees. In poetically sparse scientific observations, renowned conservation biologist Gretchen Daily narrates the evolution, impact, and natural wonder of trees. Alongside photographs by Chuck Katz, the text and images form a quiet and moving meditation on The Power of Trees. Twenty-six duotone black and white photographs illustrate the development of trees: how trunks were formed, what tree rings tell us about human societies, and how trees define the future of humanity. Pictures of trees threading through the landscape - dotting mountainsides, braiding along the sides of glassine rivers - bear witness to the lyrical force and clarity of Daily's observations. Recreating the authors’ hike together through the landscape of the Skagit River in Washington State, the balletic movement between Daily’s commentary and Katz’s vision reaches out to readers, inviting them to enjoy the landscape through a scientific understanding of trees. At once emotional and intellectual, The Power of Trees is the first collection of nature photographs that invites the reader to not only delight in the gorgeous play between light and shadow, but also the fascinating natural mechanisms that create such striking natural beauty. An ecologist by training, Gretchen Daily is an internationally acclaimed conservancy advocate and scholar. Her role as a National Trustee for The Nature Conservancy will feature prominently in the national marketing campaign to bridge the gap between scientific educators and the general nature reader.
Author : Gregory McNamee
Publisher : Earth Aware Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781683830825
Art Wolfe’s immersive photos capture the wonder humans have felt about trees for millennia. From the biblical Tree of Life to the Native American Tree of Peace, trees have played an archetypal role in human culture and spirituality since time immemorial. An integral part of a variety of faiths—from Buddhism and Hinduism to Native American and aboriginal religions—trees were venerated long before any written historical records existed. Through the vivid images of legendary photographer Art Wolfe, Trees focuses on both individual specimens and entire forests, and offers a sweeping yet intimate look at an arboreal world that spans six continents. Author Gregory McNamee weaves a diverse and global account of the myths, cultures, and traditions that convey the long-standing symbiosis between trees and humans, and renowned ethnobotanist Wade Davis anchors the text with a penetrating introduction. Humans have always shared this planet with trees, and Trees by Art Wolfe is a breathtaking journey through and homage to that relationship and its past, present, and future.
Author : Karl Schroeder
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429938056
A young man seeks vengeance against the man who killed his parents in this action-packed science fiction thriller series opener. It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and “towns” that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He’s come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden’s nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden’s spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn’t bode well for Fanning’s chances . . .
Author : Dennis Sherwood
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey International
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1857884973
How to use Systems Thinking to improve your business.