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From the Manhattan Project to the future and beyond, Rainhut is a science fiction adventure novel that proves intellectually and spiritually satisfying. When a hand-picked team of brilliant but eccentric scientists are brought together at a secret research facility on the island of Kauai, they are challenged with finding solutions to mankind's most difficult unsolved problems.Gambling everything, the team parts with traditional Euclidean thinking and follows the unconventional dare-to-know philosophy of their leader, James Stevenson. With a mountain of hope resting on their success, they rise to the occasion and leave paradise and earth itself in order to preserve it. ... Read more

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The Goldfinches of Baghdad, Adamson's first book published in North America, teems with cockatoos, kookaburras, lyrebirds, dollarbirds, and a host of waders from his native region. At once real presences and sly emissaries of the poetic imagination, these birds perform aspects of ourselves just as we assume their weird attributes: "The shadow your hand casts / resembles the mudlark, opening / its wings,calling and rocking, / perched in the pages / of my book." Coming from elsewhere,they transgress human boundaries, ignoring sign posts and political borders. As birds and words exchange places, Adamson charts their migration. His poems arrive as epistles from the other side of the world. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1903 edition by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1903 edition by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. ... Read more