Otherlands
DOWNLOAD
Download Otherlands PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Otherlands book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Otherlands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas Halliday
language : en
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release Date : 2023-02-14
Otherlands written by Thomas Halliday and has been published by Random House Trade Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-14 with Science categories.
“Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The Economist LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page. This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not. It takes us from the savannahs of Pliocene Kenya to watch a python chase a group of australopithecines into an acacia tree; to a cliff overlooking the salt pans of the empty basin of what will be the Mediterranean Sea just as water from the Miocene Atlantic Ocean spills in; into the tropical forests of Eocene Antarctica; and under the shallow pools of Ediacaran Australia, where we glimpse the first microbial life. Otherlands also offers us a vast perspective on the current state of the planet. The thought that something as vast as the Great Barrier Reef, for example, with all its vibrant diversity, might one day soon be gone sounds improbable. But the fossil record shows us that this sort of wholesale change is not only possible but has repeatedly happened throughout Earth history. Even as he operates on this broad canvas, Halliday brings us up close to the intricate relationships that defined these lost worlds. In novelistic prose that belies the breadth of his research, he illustrates how ecosystems are formed; how species die out and are replaced; and how species migrate, adapt, and collaborate. It is a breathtaking achievement: a surprisingly emotional narrative about the persistence of life, the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, and the scope of deep time, all of which have something to tell us about our current crisis.
Otherlands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas Halliday
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-02-01
Otherlands written by Thomas Halliday and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with Science categories.
FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland 'Epically cinematic... A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday Times This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant. Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. These lost worlds seem fantastical and yet every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in the fossil record. Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fabulous and familiar.
Otherland
DOWNLOAD
Author : Louie Stowell
language : en
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Release Date : 2021-05-06
Otherland written by Louie Stowell and has been published by Nosy Crow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Otherland is a dangerous magical underworld - a place where appearances can be deceiving and anything can happen. A world of gods, vampires, and fairies. It's also... horrible. When life-long friends Myra and Rohan discover that Rohan's baby sister Shilpa has been stolen and taken to Otherland, the only way to rescue her is by taking part in a deadly game - three impossible challenges set by the Fairy Queen of Otherland. Win the game, and Rohan and Myra can go home with Shilpa - but lose, and they'll be trapped in Otherland forever... A darkly funny, action-packed fantasy adventure, perfect for fans of Malamander, Stranger Things, Coraline and Pan's Labyrinth, from the author of the highly-acclaimed Dragon in the Library series.
In Other Lands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sarah Rees Brennan
language : en
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Release Date : 2017-07-17
In Other Lands written by Sarah Rees Brennan and has been published by Small Beer Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-17 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Georgia Peach Award Nominee • Florida Teens Read Award Nominee • ABC Best Books for Young Readers • Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year • A Junior Library Guild Selection • Hugo & Locus award finalist In Other Lands is an exhilarating novel from bestselling author Sarah Rees Brennan about surviving four years in the most unusual of schools - friendship, falling in love, diplomacy, and finding your own place in the world — even if it means giving up your phone. Excerpt: The Borderlands aren’t like anywhere else. Don’t try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border — unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves, harpies, and — best of all as far as Elliot is concerned — mermaids. "What’s your name?" "Serene." "Serena?" Elliot asked. "Serene," said Serene. "My full name is Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle." Elliot’s mouth fell open. "That is badass." Elliot? Who’s Elliot? Elliot is thirteen years old. He’s smart and just a tiny bit obnoxious. Sometimes more than a tiny bit. When his class goes on a field trip and he can see a wall that no one else can see, he is given the chance to go to school in the Borderlands. It turns out that on the other side of the wall, classes involve a lot more weaponry and fitness training and fewer mermaids than he expected. On the other hand, there’s Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle, an elven warrior who is more beautiful than anyone Elliot has ever seen, and then there’s her human friend Luke: sunny, blond, and annoyingly likeable. There are lots of interesting books. There’s even the chance Elliot might be able to change the world. Chapter illustrations by Casey Nowak.
Emily Wilde S Map Of The Otherlands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Heather Fawcett
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-09-03
Emily Wilde S Map Of The Otherlands written by Heather Fawcett and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-03 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it’s too late, in this heartwarming, enchanting second installment of the Emily Wilde series. Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore who just wrote the world’s first comprehensive encyclopaedia of faeries. She’s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Ones on her adventures . . . and also from her fellow scholar and former rival Wendell Bambleby. Because Bambleby is more than infuriatingly charming. He’s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother and in search of a door back to his realm. And despite Emily’s feelings for Bambleby, she’s not ready to accept his proposal of marriage: Loving one of the Fair Folk comes with secrets and dangers. She also has a new project to focus on: a map of the realms of faerie. While she is preparing her research, Bambleby lands her in trouble yet again, when assassins sent by his mother invade Cambridge. Now Bambleby and Emily are on another adventure, this time to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambleby’s realm and the key to freeing him from his family’s dark plans. But with new relationships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors and of her own heart. Book Two of the Emily Wilde Series
Ukrainian Otherlands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2015-07-27
Ukrainian Otherlands written by Natalia Khanenko-Friesen and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-27 with History categories.
Exploring a rich array of folk traditions that developed in the Ukrainian diaspora and in Ukraine during the twentieth century, Ukrainian Otherlands is an innovative exploration of modern ethnic identity and the deeply felt (but sometimes deeply different) understandings of ethnicity in homeland and diaspora.
The Complete Tales From The Otherlands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Tim Corey
language : fr
Publisher: Otherlands
Release Date : 2022-04-11
The Complete Tales From The Otherlands written by Tim Corey and has been published by Otherlands this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-11 with Fiction categories.
Que feriez-vous si une publicité, parue dans le journal, semblait s'adresser à vous, et uniquement à vous ? Ou bien si vous constatiez qu'il manque quelque chose d'essentiel dans votre appartement, sans que vous ne sachiez exactement quoi ? Comment réagiriez-vous si vous vous trouviez nez à nez avec une copie de vous-même, qui vit dans votre appartement ? Ou que vous deviez rassembler tout votre courage pour descendre à la cave nourrir belle-maman ? Trouveriez-vous normal que les jours rallongent, rallongent et paraissent désormais sans fin ? Oseriez-vous suivre ce mystérieux personnage qui prétend avoir vos bonbons préférés dans sa voiture ? Et si, enfin, on vous disait qu'on avait enfin retrouvé Dieu, qui se cachait bien loin des hommes, le croiriez-vous ? Voici quelques uns des thèmes abordés dans ces quarante histoires totalement inédites, qui vous promèneront de votre cuisine aux fin fond de l'espace. Un ultime voyage qui vous fera peut-être repenser votre petit monde différemment, car les choses ne sont pas toujours ce qu'elles semblent être... Tim Corey clôt la série des Tales from the Otherlands avec ce troisième recueil, terminant ainsi un cycle de 140 histoires surnaturelles entamées avec les deux premiers tomes.
Mountain Of Black Glass
DOWNLOAD
Author : Tad Williams
language : en
Publisher: Orbit Books
Release Date : 2000
Mountain Of Black Glass written by Tad Williams and has been published by Orbit Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Adventure stories categories.
Epic storytelling at its very best, the Otherland series gets better and better with each new volume.
The Complete Tales From The Otherlands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Tim Corey
language : fr
Publisher: Otherlands
Release Date : 2021-05-13
The Complete Tales From The Otherlands written by Tim Corey and has been published by Otherlands this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-13 with Fiction categories.
Ce recueil vous présente pas moins de cinquante deux histoires tirées de notre quotidien, ou presque. Des situations banales qui prennent un tournant irréel, surnaturel, angoissant et dérangeant. Des faits étonnants qui vous pousseront à vous interroger sur des questions on ne peut plus simples : Que feriez-vous, par exemple, si votre tatouage devenait un tantinet envahissant ? Ouvririez-vous la porte, sachant que cet inconnu qui se présente est venu attendre chez vous un certain Georges, que vous ne connaissez absolument pas ? Tenteriez-vous de finir ces travaux dans votre salle de bain, travaux engagés juste après la découverte d'un trou mystérieux dans le mur ? Tomberiez-vous amoureux de ce petit stagiaire, au point de ne plus être capable de vivre sans lui ? Que feriez-vous à la place de ce couple, si votre enfant de six ans disposait de pouvoirs psychiques et qu'il vous martyrise pour son simple amusement ? Comment réagiriez-vous si la mort vous envoyait par erreur la liste de ses prochaines victimes par mail ? Feriez-vous confiance à la science et à ce tout nouveau robot de chirurgie personnel, censé faire des miracles ? Et comment explique-riez-vous la présence de cet encombrant entassement d'objets héréro-clites chez votre voisin du dessus ? Ce ne sont que quelques questions, quelques sujets, que Tim Corey se propose de développer au travers de ces histoires fantastiques, pour votre plus grand plaisir..
Collection One
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lark O'Neal
language : en
Publisher: Barbara Samuel
Release Date : 2014-07-20
Collection One written by Lark O'Neal and has been published by Barbara Samuel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-20 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The Otherland Chronicles Collection: Book One A collection of the first three episodes of The OtherLand Chronicles: Mirror, Echo, and Blaze. Mirror 17-year-old Alia, a street-smart recent Brooklynite, is disdainful of the warnings to stay in after dark in her new suburban neighborhood. What could possibly be lurking in the tidy greenways between the upscale houses? And yet, it's hard to ignore that something odd is going on here. Strangers keep mistaking her for a girl named Mikhaila, a girl who has mysteriously disappeared. The bodies of four other girls have been found, untouched, but undeniably dead. And at twilight, she meets the enigmatic and disconcerting Bartholomew, a boy who has secrets and burdens he cannot share. The animals are acting oddly, the suburbs are crawling with danger, and everything seems to come back to Bartholomew and a group of recent immigrants with unusual customs, including being forbidden to mix romantically with the locals. When Bartholomew asks Alia to stand in for the missing Mikhaila, she's drawn against her will into a hidden and compelling world where her heart --and her very life --are at extreme risk. Echo Forbidden and Irresistible 17-year-old Alia, a street-smart recent Brooklynite, was disdainful of the warnings to stay in after dark in her new suburban neighborhood. What could possibly be lurking in the tidy greenways between the upscale houses? But girls are showing up dead of mysterious causes, and she finds herself being drawn into a hidden and compelling world, with the mysterious Bartholomew at the heart. There is an undeniable, powerful --and forbidden --attraction between Alia and Bartholomew, prompted by music, woven into a kiss. The pair find themselves becoming more and more entwined, and the situation among the Others is growing more unstable. Although she knows she's being drawn too far into the world of the Others, she cannot resist the lure of the GodSong, or Bartholomew, even when she might lose everything, including her life. Blaze The Queen Returns --.. As the Others struggle to find balance among themselves and the people of their new home, Alia struggles to return to the life as she knew it before her masquerade as the mysterious and missing Mikhaila. When Alia's masquerade was uncovered, she and Bartholomew were forced apart, and he endured a brutal punishment. There is one saving grace --Alia's gift for the GodSong might provide a clue for the Others to settle more fully into their new life, and an Elder will continue to teach her the sacred weapon. As school begins, however, Alia discovers that Mikhaila has returned --her lover dead --and she is to be Bound in a horrifying and barbaric way. Alia again provides an answer, this time for the Rogues, who kidnap her with intent to save their Queen. As war breaks out, Alia is forced to take a role she never dreamed of, even as Bartholomew is thrust into even greater responsibility. How can they ever hope to find happiness together?