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Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps is a 1957 book by Dutch educator Kees Boeke that combines writing and graphics to explore many levels of size and structure, from the astronomically vast to the atomically tiny. The book begins with a photograph of a Dutch girl sitting outside a school and holding a cat.
Cornelis "Kees" Boeke (25 September 1884 – 3 July 1966) [1] was a Dutch reformist educator, Quaker missionary and pacifist.He is best known for his popular essay/book Cosmic View (1957) which presents a seminal view of the universe, from the galactic to the microscopic scale, and which inspired several films.
Jo Harker: One of the only two girls on Joey's team. She comes from a magic world that is eventually taken over by HEX. She has two Angel-like wings but can only fly when there is enough magic in the air. Josef Hokun: A Walker from an Earth that is much denser, therefore he possess a greater gravitational field and is built like a tank with feet.
InterWorld is a fantasy and science fiction novel by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves.The book was published in 2007 by EOS, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.It follows the story of Joey Harker who, together with a group of other Joeys from different Earths in other parallel universes, try to stop the two forces of magic and science from taking over all of the Earths in different universes.
George's Secret Key to the Universe is a 2007 children's book written by Lucy and Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard.Upon its release, the book received mixed reviews, and was followed by five sequels, George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt in 2009, George and the Big Bang in 2011, George and the Unbreakable Code in 2014 and George and the Blue Moon in 2016 and George and the Ship of Time [] in 2018.
Artists throughout history—from Vermeer and Klimt to Miro and Mondrian—have used the color extensively. In fact, 20th-century French artist Yves Klein loved the shade so much that he patented ...
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective is a book by the astronomer Carl Sagan, produced by Jerome Agel. It was originally published in 1973; an expanded edition with contributions from Freeman Dyson , David Morrison , and Ann Druyan was published in 2000 under the title Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection . [ 1 ]
"The Space Traders" is a science fiction short story by Derrick Bell.As a short story, was published in 1992. However it originated in a different form under the title "The Chronicles of the Space Traders" as part of his 1989 speeches republished twice in law journals in 1989 and 1990.