There Are as Many Stars

There Are as Many Stars
Author: Chanda Aloysius Yates
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2024-07-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

There Are As Many Stars In The Sky was inspired to be a children’s bedtime story picture book that took on a life of its own. It brings the reader on a thought provoking, magical journey incorporating the personal wellness, love, and care for our planet. While it is written for children, all ages that need to hear or be reminded about the goodness in the world is invited to meditate on each illustration and journal about what thoughts come to mind. The illustrations depict the children of the world. We are all one. Readers can enjoy, in this well illustrated book, messages that will remind you of what you already know. Or it will share messages that may be new to you and your family. Chanda would say these words to her daughter at bedtime as they both looked out the window at the star covered sky. The intention of this book is to gently remind people what they already know to be true inside of them. It is a reminder that consistent application of these simple messages will bring a brighter outlook on life. It may reinforce what you and your family are already practicing. May this book nurture anyone who reads it.

How Many Stars in the Sky?

How Many Stars in the Sky?
Author: Lenny Hort
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1997-01-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 068815218X

Mama's away one night, and her son can't sleep. He tries to relax by counting stars, but the more of them he sees, the more determined he is to count every single one. Then the boy finds that Daddy can't sleep either. Together, the two of them set off on an unforgettable all-night journey of discovery.

As Many as the Stars

As Many as the Stars
Author: Robert Glover
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1529317193

'There are a few rare occasions in life, when events seem to conspire in a profound and extraordinary way. In those moments God pulls back the curtain on his plans and you get to see a glimpse of what he has in store in you. In the end you are clearer on your life's purpose and destiny. This was one of those moments.' AS MANY AS THE STARS tells the story of how one man moved with his wife and six young children from the UK to China to follow God's call. Robert Glover was a social worker in the East of England who went on to radically transform Chinese government's policy on care welfare. In conversations with the Chinese government Robert fought to show that family-based fostering and adoption was a better alternative to the system of state-sponsored orphanages. In 1998, Robert pioneered the first small pilot project in Shanghai. In the same year Care for Children was founded as a charity as the first joint venture social welfare project between the British and Chinese governments. The goal was to provide skills and knowledge to local staff that could eventually impact many thousands of orphans in China. Robert had a big vision but continued to trust God in his plans. Now Robert's charity Care for Children has reached their goal of getting ONE MILLION children fostered or adopted, which is 85% of the children in the state-run institutions and they have since expanded into Thailand and Vietnam. Told with humour & simplicity AS MANY AS THE STARS gives a deeper understanding of the importance of families in God's plan; God's deep concern for the plight of the orphan and the poor; how to live with greater compassion, generosity and courage to share the love of Christ with a needy world.

A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars

A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars
Author: Seth Fishman
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780062981783

"This picture book is one in a gazillion."--Jane O'Connor, the New York Times-bestselling author of the Fancy Nancy series Did you know that the earth is covered in three trillion trees? And that seven billion people weigh about the same as ten quadrillion ants? Our world is full of constantly changing numbers, from a hundred billion trillion stars in space to thirty-seven billion rabbits on Earth. Can you imagine that many of anything? The playful illustrations from New York Times-bestselling artist Isabel Greenberg and the friendly, straightforward voice of author Seth Fishman illuminate some of the biggest numbers in the universe--a hundred billion trillion stars--and the smallest--one unique and special YOU. Here is a book for story time, for science time, for math time, for bedtime, and all the times in between. Perfect for curious children, classrooms eager for STEM content, and readers who have devoured Ada Twist, Scientist and How Much Is a Million?

A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy

A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy
Author: Pierre-Yves Bely
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 131661526X

Contains 250 questions and answers about astronomy, particular for the amateur astronomer.

The Five Ages of the Universe

The Five Ages of the Universe
Author: Fred C. Adams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000-06-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0684865769

This book takes readers on a fantastic voyage to the physics of eternity, with a long-term projection of the evolution of the universe.

Probable Impossibilities

Probable Impossibilities
Author: Alan Lightman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0593081323

The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.

Many Skies

Many Skies
Author: Arthur Upgren
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2005-01-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813553563

What if Earth had several moons or massive rings like Saturn? What if the Sun were but one star in a double-star or triple-star system? What if Earth were the only planet circling the Sun? These and other imaginative scenarios are the subject of Arthur Upgren's inventive book Many Skies: Alternative Histories of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Stars. Although the night sky as we know it seems eternal and inevitable, Upgren reminds us that, just as easily, it could have been very different. Had the solar sytem happened to be in the midst of a star cluster, we might have many more bright stars in the sky. Yet had it been located beyond the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, we might have no stars at all. If Venus or Mars had a moon as large as ours, we would be able to view it easily with the unaided eye. Given these or other alternative skies, what might Ptolemy or Copernicus have concluded about the center of the solar sytem and the Sun? This book not only examines the changes in science that these alternative solar, stellar, and galactic arrangements would have brought, it also explores the different theologies, astrologies, and methods of tracking time that would have developed to reflect them. Our perception of our surroundings, the number of gods we worship, the symbols we use in art and literature, even the way we form nations and empires are all closely tied to our particular (and accidental) placement in the universe. Many Skies, however, is not merely a fanciful play on what might have been. Upgren also explores the actual ways that human interferences such as light pollution are changing the night sky. Our atmosphere, he warns, will appear very different if we have belt of debris circling the globe and blotting out the stars, as will happen if advertisers one day pollute space with brilliant satellites displaying their products. From fanciful to foreboding, the scenarios in Many Skies will both delight and inspire reflection, reminding us that ours is but one of many worldviews based on our experience of a universe that is as much a product of accident as it is of intention.