Ann Carl: 11 books

Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of them,...

No homeseekers were ever plagued with more bad luck than those who followed the Englishman John Charles Beales to southern Texas late in 1834. On the banks of Las Moras Creek, not far from the Rio Grande, they established the colony of Dolores. Among them were the British-born Sarah Ann Horn and her...

“Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people...

What are these graceful visitors to our skies? We now know that they bring both life and death and teach us about our origins. Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan...

"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It is an amazing story masterfully told." FINANCIAL...

How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption. Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...

Anna… … la femme extraordinaire qui a changé le monde en donnant naissance à une lignée spirituelle qui continue aujourd’hui de profiter à l’humanité. Dans ce deuxième tome, Anna, la mère de Marie et la grand-mère de Jésus, raconte la suite de son histoire remarquable vécue dans...

Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily...

"One of the mserious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independmovemof small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations...

Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine...

Avec cet ouvrage, vous entreprendrez un voyage qui vous mènera à une plus grande compréhension des Âmes jumelles et des Flammes jumelles. La destination de ce voyage est l’Union de Flammes jumelles. Ces écrits sont, en grande partie, une compilation des meilleurs enseignements sur le sujet...