Author: Naomi Janowitz
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Keywords: ascent, series, judaica, text, language, theories, poetics, rabbinic
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1989-04-01
List price: $64.50
ISBN-10: 0887066364
ISBN-13: 9780887066368

Author: Jed Mercurio
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: novel, ascent
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-06-09
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0743298233
ISBN-13: 9780743298230

The Sun swings behind the world. Night engulfs him. The dull metal craft plunges through space, its portholes pale beacons containing the silhouette of a man, and the only other lights are the stars themselves.Can one act define a man? Or his country? Ascent is the spellbinding thriller by critically acclaimed British novelist Jed Mercurio. Inspired by the secrets still surrounding the USSR’s race against the United States to put a man on the moon, Mercurio asks the chilling question, What if the Americans weren’t first?Ascent takes us on the perilous journey of its singular hero,

Author: Jed Mercurio
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: novel, ascent
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-03-13
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0743298225
ISBN-13: 9780743298223

Yefgenil Yeremin is a flyer and he is a phantom.In the Korean War he shoots down more American jets than any other pilot in history. He becomes the legendary ace dubbed “Ivan the Terrible.” But the Soviet Union’s involvement in Korea must be kept secret, so his name remains unknown, his victories uncelebrated.Exiled to a remote Arctic base, he becomes a spectator to the new battlefield of Cold War rivalry: space. Yefgenil longs to do battle once more with America’s finest aviators, but he remains invisible, forgotten...until the day in 1964, when a man arrives from Moscow, from the Sp

Author: Jacob Bronowski
Publisher: Little Brown & Co (P)
Keywords: man, ascent
Published: 1976-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0316109339
ISBN-13: 9780316109338

Lauded by critics and devoured by countless readers as a companion to the acclaimed PBS series, this work traces the development of science as an expression of the special gifts that characterize man and make him preeminent among animals. Bronowski’s exciting, splendidly illustrated investigation offers a new perspective not just on science, but on civilization itself. Photographs.

Author: Henry Drummond
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: man, ascent
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2003-07-14
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0766174654
ISBN-13: 9780766174658

1894. In these pages an attempt is made to tell in a plain way a few of the things which science is now seeing with regard to the ascent of man. What science has to say about himself is of transcendent interest to man, and the practical bearings of this theme are coming to be more vital than any on the field of knowledge. The thread which binds the facts is, it is true, but a hypothesis. As the theory, nevertheless, with which at present all scientific work is being done, it is assumed in every page found in this book.

Author: Henry Drummond
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: man, ascent
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1602061947
ISBN-13: 9781602061941

Originally published in 1904, The Ascent of Man sought to correct what Drummond felt was an oversight in the evolutionary biology research being done in his day. Most scientists, he says, accept without question that the struggle for life is the force of evolution. What they overlook is what he calls the struggle for the life of others, or the struggle for reproduction. Drummond combines his own theories with a heavy dose of Christian doctrine to arrive at what may best be called "theological biology," which assumes man to be the greatest, highest purpose of the universe. Anyone interested

Author: Mathilde Blind
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: man, ascent
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1419152742
ISBN-13: 9781419152740

Curses came mingled with wails and reproofs, With doors banging to and the crashing of glass, With the baying of dogs and the clatter of hoofs.