?This insidiously charming book teaches readers about the place of lepidoptery in the life sciences and the kinds of questions that natural scientists seek to answer....Like Nabokov himself, this volume exemplifies some of the virtues shared by art

Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius

Biographies & Memoirs

Johnson, Kurt

Arts & Literature

McGraw-Hill Professional

Eighteen hundred years ago, before the Galactic War, Nem' was a Human world. While pockets of Humanity remain scattered through the Convergence, Raystar is the only Human left on Nem'. And as she's learning, she's unique in other ways, too. In a blink, the pan-Galactic conflict that everyone thought was long over shows up at her doorstep. In a blink, she discovers that she has immense powers, and that her very survival is threatened. To live, and to protect those she loves, she must learn to control the tremendous powers at her disposal. To save Humanity, she needs to unlock the secrets of her legacy. To save herself, she needs to figure out what it means to be Human.

Raystar of Terra: Peace. Love. Family. War. (1)

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

K8 Solutions, LLC

Vladimir Nabokov had no formal training in biology, but during the 1940s he was an acknowledged expert on "Blues," a family of butterflies that inhabit some of the remotest parts of Latin and South America. In 1945 he published a radical new classification of Blues, a paper that initially caused a stir in the rarified field of lepidoptery. However, it was fifty years before scientists followed up on his pioneering work. Part biography and part detective story, Nabokov's Blues explores the rich and varied place butterflies hold in Nabokov's fiction, as well as far-reaching questions of biogeography and evolution, and the worldwide crisis of ecology and biodiversity. "A view of Nabokov's science and art that is both eerily evocative and stunningly new, that makes delectable reading without patronizing the reader."-Dmitri Nabokov "Vivid and varied, surprising and thoughtful, wry and poignant, Nabokov's Blues will appeal to anyone with a taste for adventure and contrast."-Brian Boyd Chapter: The Most Famous Lepidopterist in the World "Frankly, I never thought of letters as a career. Writing has always been for me a blend of dejection and high spirits, a torture and a pastime-but I never expected it to be a source of income. On the other hand, I have often dreamt of a long and exciting career as an obscure curator of lepidoptera in a great museum..."-Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions Lepidoptery, the branch of science dedicated to the study of butterflies and moths, has its own legendary figures, and its history is both long and glorious. But for lepidopterists, as in fact for most entomologists, the light of celebrity seldom shines outside a narrow but passionate circle of scientists and collectors. During the Age of Exploration, when the influx of exotic new plants and animals from the four corners of a seemingly boundless globe astounded Europe, the study of biology, often a preserve of the well-born, offered a path to wealth and fame. Sir Joseph Banks, the 18th century English biologist who accompanied Captain James Cook on his three-year circumnavigation aboard the British ship Endeavor, was a friend of King George III and one of the most fam

Coates, Steven L.

Zoland Books

This book details the vision of interspirituality within a comprehensive and powerful synthesis of world religions and spirituality, the discoveries of modern science, and the developmental and evolutionary view of history. It is the first book to review and predict the ongoing history of world religions and spirituality in the context of developmental history, the evolutionary consciousness movement, and current scientific understandings of anthropology, human cognitive development, brain/mind and scientific consciousness studies. This book addresses Brother WayneTeasdale’s vision of The Interspiritual Age,” a vision that parallels the equally well-known and publicized visions of the world’s developmental and evolutionary consciousness movements (known therein as coming Integral Age” or Age of Evolutionary Consciousness”) and the international humanist movement (known therein as the emerging international Ethical Manifold”). As such The Coming Interspiritual Age is the first synthesis of interfaith and interspirituality with the popular writings of integral leaders Ken Wilber and Don Beck. The book includes provocative sections regarding the inherent unity within the world’s religious and spiritual understanding (especially their shared mystical understandings), the relationship of these and modern scientific studies of consciousness and brain/mind, the developmental and evolutionary views of history, the inevitable ongoing processes of world globalization and multiculturalism, the emergent understanding of the Divine Feminine, the nature of spiritual experience and the reputed spirit realms, and the various predictions around and surrounding the year 2012. The book concludes with extensive how-to” sections regarding the development and practice of interspirituality as it can happen both within the world’s current religious traditions as well as in new, creative and entrepreneurial settings worldwide.

The Coming Interspiritual Age

Ord, David Robert

Religion & Spirituality

Namaste Publishing

A 2022 Great Reads Selection, this riveting debut is at once a white-water adventure, coming-of-age novel, and tale of tragic love. 
"The Barrens grabbed me from the opening pages and never let go."—Michael Punke, author of The Revenant\nTwo young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled paddlers she trained with at camp, and she wants to share that experience with her friend and lover, Lee, believing it will draw them closer. But a week in, Holly, the risk-taker, falls while taking a selfie near the edge of a cliff. She is left injured and comatose, and soon dies. Their locator beacon for summoning rescue was smashed in Holly’s fall. It remains to Lee, the inexperienced paddler, to continue the grueling and dangerous trip alone, to save herself and return her lover’s body to civilization and Holly’s family.\nIn their relationship, Holly and Lee had always told each other stories; Lee had called Holly a “storyist.” Storytelling helps Lee endure the rigors of her journey and engage her grief as she explores her relationship with Holly while chronicling her own coming-of-age off the grid in Nebraska with her estranged eco-anarchist father, who is now serving time in prison.

The Barrens: A Novel of Love and Death in the Canadian Arctic

Johnson, Ellie

Genre Fiction

Arcade

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