Things That Float and Things That Don't

Things That Float and Things That Don't
Author: David A. Adler
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2013-07-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0823429679

It can be surprising which objects float and which don't. An apple floats, but a ball of aluminum foil does not. If that same ball of foil is shaped into a boat, it floats! Why? And how is it possible that a huge ship made of steel can float? Answering these questions about density and flotation is David A. Adler's clear, concise text, paired with Anna Raff's delightful illustrations. Activities that demonstrate the properties of flotation are included.

The Floating Rock

The Floating Rock
Author: Robert Matthew Conway
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2021-08-08
Genre:
ISBN:

Down below the flowers, deep in the dirt where few people look, something unusual is about to happen. Will the ants believe what they can see and touch, or will they believe what the queen tells them to believe?

Olivononics Two

Olivononics Two
Author: Francis A. Olivo
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2000-07-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0595098266

Author bio: Francis A Olivo is an auxiliary member of the APPA, American Philosophical Practitioners Association. Book Description: Olivononics (Oh-Lee-Vo-Non-Eks) Two is a short but effective way to get into a philosopher’s way of thinking. I’ve been a philosopher for years and I’m here to tell you it makes a difference in my life. In How to Think Like a Philosopher, I’m going to look at the questions that philosophy tries to examine. In doing so I hope to help people who are thinking about taking philosophy in college get a better idea of what philosophical or critical thinking is. By the same token, it is my hope that if you a person who is unsure of what they want or how to get it, Olivononics Two: How to Think Like a Philosopher will help. Philosophy is like a breath of fresh air that blows away the haze that sometimes blurs our vision. Studying philosophy opens a new door and new possibilities for people to examine. After all, it’s been said, “Success is getting what you want, but happiness is wanting what you get.”

Floating City

Floating City
Author: Eric Van Lustbader
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476778698

Seeking to destroy the Torch, an evil tool used for wanton destruction by the bloodthirsty leader of Vietnam's Floating City, Nicholas Linnear must confront his own personal demons in order to reach his target.

Floating Islands

Floating Islands
Author: Richard J. Heggen
Publisher: Richard Heggen
Total Pages: 1227
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Floating Islands in science, history, the arts and any number of sightings elsewhere

Rise and Float

Rise and Float
Author: Brian Tierney
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1571317724

Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably, miraculously—to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page. With the “corpse of Frost” under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father’s death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after / month” and “dream / after dream” of struck-through lines. Still, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips,” a “laugh as good as a scream,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome, but to release. The course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying, these days, to believe again / in people,” another concedes that “defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices, we see something alluringly, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams, something intimate—hope, however difficult it may be.

Floating Rock City

Floating Rock City
Author: Ulric Clear
Publisher: Publifye AS
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2024-10-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8233934917

In Floating Rock City, humanity's last refuge hovers above the clouds, sustained by ancient anti-gravity technology that keeps ten thousand survivors alive in a marvel of crystalline structures and flourishing biodomes. At the heart of this precarious sanctuary, seventeen-year-old Shahl and his friends Maya and Kenzo navigate a society bound by strict rules and technological preservation. As skilled tech scavengers, they delve into the mysterious caverns beneath their floating home, driven by an insatiable curiosity about the forbidden surface world below. Their discovery of a hidden hangar containing a preserved flying vehicle coincides with alarming signs of failure in the city's ancient levitation systems. Against the wishes of the conservative City Council and Administrator Vale, the young explorers secretly work to repair the vehicle, knowing their floating sanctuary's survival may depend on reaching the surface. Their clandestine mission becomes increasingly complex as they balance political tensions, revolutionary factions, and the desperate need to find resources before their city plummets from the sky. This gripping tale of survival and discovery blends the wonder of ancient technology with the urgency of impending disaster. As Shahl and his companions uncover shocking truths about humanity's past and venture to the mysterious surface below, they must convince their society to overcome generations of fear and tradition. Their journey challenges everything they've known about their floating world, while racing against time to save the only home they've ever known.