Author : Angeli Perrow
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Lighthouses
ISBN : 9780892725458
Sirius, a Newfoundland dog, shows how courageous he is when the ship he is on runs into trouble and it is up to him to save his young owner, Nathan, and the crew.
Author : Jay B. Holberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 038748941X
This book tells two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been regarded as an important fixture of the night sky by many civilizations and cultures since the beginnings of history. A second, but related, narrative is the prominent part that Sirius has played in how we came to achieve our current scientific understanding of the nature and fate of the stars. This is the first book to integrate the cultural history of Sirius with modern astrophysics in a way which provides a realistic view of how science progresses over time.
Author : Robert Temple
Publisher : Random House
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 0099257440
The most academically credible case for alien visitation. Is the existance of civilisation on earth the result of contact from inhabitants of a planet in the system of the star Sirius prior to 3000BC? There are tribal cultures in present-day Africa whose most sacred and secret and traditions are based on this theory. Central to their cosmology is a body of knowledge concerning the system of the star Sirius that is astounding it in its accuracy of detail, including specific information only recently accessible to modern science. Robert Temple traces the traditions of the Dogon and three related tribes back 5, 000 years to the ancient Mediterranean cultures of Sumer and Egypt. He shows a knowledge dependent on physics and astrophysics, which they claimed was imported to them by visitors from Sirius.
Author : Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101566981
A funny, heartbreaking, stunning book by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried - and found guilty - by his heavenly peers for a murder he did not commit. His sentence: to live on the planet Earth until he can carry out a seemingly impossible mission - the recovery of a deadly weapon known as the Zoi. The first lesson Sirius learns in his lowly earthly form is that humans have all the power. The second is that even though his young mistress loves him, she can't protect either of them. The third - and worst - is that someone out there will do anything to keep Sirius from finding the Zoi. Even if it means destroying Earth itself. This funny, heartbreaking, stunning book features an introduction by Neil Gaiman, an avid fan of Diana Wynne Jones.
Author : Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher : D A W Books, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 9780756401863
These 16 original fantasy and science fiction tales, set in the future realms of time and space, showcase the heroics of man's best friend, who ultimately saves the day. Includes works by such noted sci fi authors as Tanya Huff, Fiona Patton. and Mickey Zucker Reichert. Original.
Author : Jonathan Crown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501144995
A fox terrier who escapes Nazi Germany with his Jewish owners finds himself at Hitler's side during World War II. Can he help the resistance and reunite with his family?--
Author : Joan Hiatt Harlow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442444185
All non-sheepherding dogs have been outlawed from the rocky coastal village where Maggie lives. Unwilling to give up her beloved Newfoundland, Sirius, Maggie defies the law and hides Sirius away. But when a steamer crashes into the rocks during a violent storm and starts to sink with a hundred passengers on board, Maggie faces a difficult choice. She knows Sirius can help rescue the people trapped on the ship, but bringing him out of hiding would put his own life in jeopardy. Is Maggie’s brave dog a big enough hero to save the desperate passengers—and himself? This heartwarming story of a lovable dog and his feisty mistress is based on true stories about Newfoundland dogs and filled with drama, tension, and exciting rescues.
Author : Peter Heller
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307950476
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The River: In this "end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning" (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. His gripping story is "an ode to friendship between two men...the strong bond between a human and a dog, and a reminder of what is worth living for" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). Hig's wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.
Author : Diana Spyropulos
Publisher : Illumination Arts Pub. Co.
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780935699081
Grouchy, miserly, old Cornelius Basset-Hound is stunned when Saint Bernard turns him away from the Gates of Dog Heaven. He always did the right thing--but did he? This magical story encourages children to see themselves and their attitudes about prejudice, charity, work, and the importance of kindness and love. Full color. (All Ages)
Author : William Stanley Merwin
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2009
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781852248543
US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Bloodaxe published his Selected Poems in 2007. At 82, Merwin produced 'his best book in a decade - and one of the best outright' (Publishers Weekly), and a collection which has won him his second Pulitzer Prize in the US and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in the UK. The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, presence, and memory are central themes in his latest collection. 'I have only what I remember,' Merwin admits, and his memories are focused and profound-the distinct qualities of autumn light, a conversation with a boyhood teacher, well-cultivated loves, and 'our long evenings and astonishment'. In 'Photographer', Merwin presents the scene where armloads of antique glass negatives are saved from a dumpcart by 'someone who understood'. In 'Empty Lot', Merwin evokes a child lying in bed at night, listening to the muffled dynamite blasts of coal mining near his home, and we can't help but ask: How shall we mine our lives?
