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Author | : Fred Nadis |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1643134493 |
The story behind the elite scientists, technologists, SF enthusiasts, and billionaires who believe that humanity’s destiny is to populate the stars . . . Does humanity have a destiny “in the stars?” Should a species triggering massive extinctions on its own planet instead stay put? This new book traces the waxing and waning of interest in space settlement through the decades, and offers a journalistic tour through the influential subculture attempting to shape a multiplanetary future. What motivates figures such as billionaires Elon Musk and Yuri Milner? How important have science fiction authors and filmmakers been in stirring enthusiasm for actual space exploration and settlement? Is there a coherent motivating philosophy and ethic behind the spacefaring dream? Star Settlers offers both a historical perspective and a journalistic window into a peculiar subculture packed with members of the scientific, intellectual, and economic elite. This timely work captures the extra-scientific zeal for space travel and settlement, places it in its historical context, and tackles the somewhat surreal conceptions underlying the enterprise and prognoses for its future.
Author | : David Hackett Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 981 |
Release | : 1991-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019974369X |
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Author | : Callan J. Mulligan |
Publisher | : Callan J. Mulligan |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2024-02-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
After the cradle was lost, humankind expanded across the Orion Arm of the Milky Way. Centuries of conflict followed, but peace returned under the rule of the Commonwealth. Now, the enormous world settling starships of the past have been recommissioned, and the Astraeus has set sail to find new worlds at the centre of the galaxy. Not long into the journey, Lizabeth Denning witnesses a horrific murder and sees the wrong man framed. And to make matters worse, the ship begins to experience violent tremors. In a race against time, the passengers must find the killer and repair the ship before they fall victim to the cold, empty, void of space. But things are not as they seem on this World Settler. When secrets are uncovered, Lizabeth and her new friends find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy, and the galaxy will never be the same...
Author | : Sean Martin |
Publisher | : Sean Martin |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2011-12-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466475552 |
Cole Settler is a bounty hunter for the Star Rangers. His job: to bring down and bring back the worst criminal scum the galaxy can provide. It's a job he enjoys. A job he's good at. A job he never would've ended up in if it hadn't been for his uncle. Now, he's faced with an 'impossible' mission: to track down someone from his past, who's escaped from an 'inescapable' prison.
Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 808 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Columbia River |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dan A. Freeman |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2019-12-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1796076600 |
In command of the Star Science Settlement located on Erukugu, Captain Christopher Wolf and his crew continues exploring the planet they were originally stranded on. When things happen regarding a local mythical creature known as the black fire horse, he's intrigued. Upon learning that the intelligent animals have heard of it and that it's caused deaths in the past as well as injuring his daughter, he starts wondering if the myth is real and wants it investigated. Meanwhile, his crew start exploring the discovery of a base within the moon, as well as other ancient settlements on the planet and make astonishing discoveries about the past human life on Erukugu. To make matters worse there are several anomalies that started popping up all over the planet and the moon. Does Erukugu still have human life? And what are the anomalies? Is the black fire horse to blame?
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Duncan L. Du Bois |
Publisher | : UJ Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1920382712 |
Duncan Du Bois provides a detailed and fascinating history of a hitherto much-neglected part of what was the colony of Natal. Based primarily on original archival research, he traces the southward advance of the white settler frontier and its sugar-based economy from Isipingo to the Mzimkulu river and, without the sugar engine, to the Mtamvuna.
Author | : Peter Woodman |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2015-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1782977813 |
Ireland’s First Settlers tells the story of the archaeology and history of the first continuous phase of Ireland’s human settlement. It combines centuries of search and speculation about human antiquity in Ireland with a review of what is known today about the Irish Mesolithic. This is, in part, provided in the context of the author’s 50 years of personal experience searching to make sense of what initially appeared to be little more than a collection of beach rolled and battered flint tools. The story is embedded in how the island of Ireland, its position, distinct landscape and ecology impacted on when and how Ireland was colonized. It also explores how these first settlers evolved their technologies and lifeways to suit the narrow range of abundant resources that were available. The volume concludes with discussions on how the landscape should be searched for the often ephemeral traces of these early settlers and how sites should be excavated. It asks what we really know about the thoughts and life of the people themselves and what happened to them as farming began to be introduced.
Author | : Joseph V. Hickey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Four miles southeast of the village of Matfield Green in Chase County, Kansas—the heart of the Flint Hills—lies the abandoned settlement of Thurman. At the turn of the century Thurman was a prosperous farming and ranching settlement with fifty-one households, a post office, two general stores, a blacksmith shop, five schools, and a church. Today, only the ruins of Thurman remain. Joseph Hickey uses Thurman to explore the settlement form of social organization, which—along with the village, hamlet, and small town—was a dominant feature of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American life. He traces Thurman's birth in 1874, its shallow rises and falls, and its demise in 1944. Akin to what William Least Heat-Moon did for Chase County in PrairyErth, Hicky provides a "deep map" for one post-office community and, consequently, tells us a great deal about America's rural past. Describing the shifting relationships between Thurmanites and their Matfield Green neighbors, Hickey details how social forces set in motion by the American ideal of individualism and the machinations of capitalist entrepreneurs produced a Darwinian struggle between Thurman stock raisers and Flint Hills "cattle barons" that ultimately doomed Thurman. Central to the story are the concept of "ordinary entrepreneurship" and the profoundly capitalist attitudes of the farmers who settled Thurman and thousands of other communities dotting the American landscape. Hickey's account of Thurman's social organization and disintegration provides a new perspective on what happened when the cattle drives from Texas and the Southwest shifted in the 1880s from the Kansas cowtowns to the Flint Hills. Moreover, he punctures numerous myths about the Flint Hills, including those that cattle dominated because the land is too rocky to farm or that Indians refused to farm because of traditional beliefs. Like many other small rural communities, Hickey argues, Thurman during its seventy-year history was actually several different settlements. A product of changing social conditions, each one resulted from shifting memberships and boundaries that reflected the efforts of local entrepreneurs to use country schools, churches, and other forms of "social capital" to gain advantages over their competitors. In the end, Thurman succumbed to the impact of agribusiness, which had the effect of transforming social capital from an asset into a liability. Ultimately, Hickey shows, the settlement's fate echoed the decline of rural community throughout America.