Children of Ruin

• Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 14 May 2019

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between

• Author : Brandon New
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 01 June 2011

This book describes how orthodontic braces cause brain damage, nerve damage, and damage sports coordination in children and teenagers, as well as cause severe pain in their mouth, teeth, and gums. The author explains how braces ruin mathematical and scientific ability, by interfering with, and damaging the analytical sections in the frontal and parietal lobes of the human brain. This book explains how orthodontists commit fraud by lying to parents of potential patients, trying to instill fear, claiming that their

• Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Publisher : Tor
• Release : 22 November 2022

From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Children of Time comes an unparalleled narrative of alien contact and human discovery in this follow-up to Children of Ruin. Earth is failing. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carry its precious human cargo to a potential new Eden. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost.Then Liff,

• Author : Sharon Betsworth,Julie Faith Parker
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 18 April 2019

This ground-breaking volume examines the presentation and role of children in the ancient world, and specifically in ancient Jewish and Christian texts. With carefully commissioned chapters that follow chronological and canonical progression, a sequential reading of this book enables deeper appreciation of how understandings of children change over time. Divided into four sections, this handbook first offers an overview of key methodological approaches employed in the study of children in the biblical world, and the texts at hand. Three further

• Author : Dr. Indrajit Patra
• Publisher : Pen2Print
• Release : 14 June 2021

The book intends to present a critique of some select, 21st Century, hard science fiction novels in order to explicate the various ways in which the elements of posthumanism, transhumanism, techno-singularity intersect and interact with other such ideas as monstrosity, animality, machinicity, post-anthropocentrism, and Anthropocene. The study divides its analysis into seven different chapters and attempts to present an elaborate study on various aspects of posthumanism, transhumanism, and singularity. The book despite being a collection of miscellaneous essays actually intends

• Author : E. W. Hengstenberg
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 05 September 2021

• Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 May 2022

• Author : Islington Parochial Schools (LONDON)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 May 2022

• Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release : 27 May 2022

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home. Following their ancestors' star maps, they discovered the greatest treasure of a past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course and must fight

• Author : Margarita Georgieva
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 17 October 2013

Fascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young readers. These go back to the early gothic genre in which child characters were extensively used by authors. The aim of this book is to rediscover the children in their work.

• Author : Boston Children's Aid Society
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 May 1890

• Author : Regulations
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 May 2022

• Author : Jeannie Duckworth
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 01 November 2002

Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, with Fagin, Sykes, the Artful Dodger, and children trained as pickpockets and sent out as burglar's accomplices, provides an unforgettable fictional image of the Victorian underworld. Fagin's Children is an account of the reality of child crime in 19th-century Britain and the reaction of the authorities to it. It reveals both the poverty and misery of many children's lives in the growing industrial cities of Britain and of changing attitudes toward the problem. Inevitably most is

• Author : Baptists (England). Kent and Sussex Association of Particular Baptist Churches
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 May 2022

• Author : Catharine Esther BEECHER
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 May 1864