Light From Many Lamps

Author : Lillian Watson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671652508
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Light From Many Lamps written by Lillian Watson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1988-01-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic treasury of inspiration featuring hundreds of passages and quotations—selected from the wisdom of the ages—offering invaluable insight and guidance on the challenges of daily life. Here are not only the best of the world’s most inspiring thoughts and ideas, but the stories behind them: how they came to be written and what their impact has been on others. A storehouse of inspired and inspiring reading, it is a collection of brief, stimulating biographies as well. There are selections from John Burroughs, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, Hippocrates, Confucius, and many others. A distillation of the greatest thoughts, ideas, and philosophies that have been handed down to us through the ages, this is a book to turn to over and over again—a book of moral, spiritual, and ethical guidance—an unfailing source of comfort and inspiration for all.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402200090
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Story of Light written by Ben Bova and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the origins of the earth to the exploration of the heavens, Ben Bova, a multiple winner of science fiction's Hugo Award, unveils the beauty and science of light. In accessible prose, he explains new discoveries in areas ranging from relativity and quantum physics to perspective and the Renaissance painters' use of light.

Author : Fiona Bate
Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783899553734
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Lux written by Fiona Bate and published by Die Gestalten Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effect of light cannot be overestimated. The most splendid interior will not shine without adequate lighting. In the last few years, a new school of lamp designers and light manufacturers have taken the lead in creating and developing a new frontier of domestic lighting. These innovative solutions reflect the cutting-edge of contemporary furniture design, interior design, and architecture as much as a recent quantum leap in illumination technology. Lux offers an inspiring range of these current approaches to lamps and lighting that represent a fundamental change in the aesthetic and technical possibilities available.

Author : Nicole Jarvis
Publisher : Titan Books
ISBN 13 : 1789093961
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Lights of Prague written by Nicole Jarvis and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of VE Schwab and The Witcher, science and magic clash in atmospheric gaslight-era Prague. In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against the tide of predators are the dauntless lamplighters - a secret elite of monster hunters whose light staves off the darkness each night. Domek Myska leads a life teeming with fraught encounters with the worst kind of evil: pijavica, bloodthirsty and soulless vampiric creatures. Despite this, Domek find solace in his moments spent in the company of his friend, the clever and beautiful Lady Ora Fischer - a widow with secrets of her own. When Domek finds himself stalked by the spirit of the White Lady - a ghost who haunts the baroque halls of Prague castle – he stumbles across the sentient essence of a will-o'-the-wisp captured in a mysterious container. Now, as it's bearer, Domek wields its power, but the wisp, known for leading travellers to their deaths, will not be so easily controlled. After discovering a conspiracy amongst the pijavice that could see them unleash terror on the daylight world, Domek finds himself in a race against those who aim to twist alchemical science for their own dangerous gain.

Author : Jane Brox
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547487150
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Brilliant written by Jane Brox and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light

Author : Connie Roop
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0822589028
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie written by Connie Roop and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the real-life saga of Abbie Burgess, who single-handedly kept the lighthouse lamps lit during a four-week winter storm that lashed the coast of Maine in 1856.

Author : Elizabeth Spires
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823443485
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Kate's Light written by Elizabeth Spires and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroic true story of one of the Eastern seaboard's first woman lighthouse keepers, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist. Living in the isolated Robbins Reef Lighthouse, overlooking turn-of-the-century New York Harbor, Kate Walker spent her life minding the light, keeping passing ships from running aground on the dangerous shoals. Originally the assistant to her lighthouse keeper husband John Walker, after his death Kate convinced the Lighthouse Board that she was able to manage the hard work on her own. For more than three decades, Kate lived a solitary life, often totally isolated from the mainland by rough seas and dangerous storms. Tending to the lamps and ringing the heavy warning bell, she helped ships avert disaster-- and saved many sailors from the cold, choppy waters when disaster struck. Elizabeth Spires describes the joys and hardships of a life at sea, detailing pivotal moments in Walker's life to show her indomitable spirit, and celebrates the determination that drove Kate to keep her home and her livelihood. Paired with Emily Arnold McCully's atmospheric, vivid watercolor-and-ink illustrations of lonely lighthouses, sun-dappled afternoons, and wrathful storms, this gripping picture book brings turn of the century New York to life. Additional material in the back of the book includes a biographical note about Kate Walker, historical photographs of Kate and her home at Robbins Reef Lighthouse, reproductions of an historical map of New York Harbor, and a list of sources for more information. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year A CCBC Choice

Author : Frank R. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Miniature Lamps written by Frank R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia Simmelink Becker
Publisher : Filter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865412446
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Lights On! written by Cynthia Simmelink Becker and published by Filter Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Ike Hoover was sent to the White House in 1891 by the Edison Electric Company to assist in the wiring for electric lights. Like many Americans at the time, President Benjamin Harrison and his wife were afraid of electricity. After completing the wiring job, Ike was asked to stick around to make the transition to electric lights easier. He stayed on as a White House employee for 42 years.

Author : Donald-Brian Johnson
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764310027
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Moss Lamps written by Donald-Brian Johnson and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999-08-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1950s, Moss lamps radiantly combined plexiglas bodies, spun glass shades, and spinning figurines transforming humdrum home decor into something extraordinary. Learn of the Moss success story through exclusive interviews with family members and employees, 750 current and vintage product photos, and never-before-seen materials from the Moss archives. Also included are a product index, price guide, and detailed information on the many collectible figurines that graced Moss lamps.