Jan-philipp Sendker

Lorie Karnath

Jonathan Sendker

Lisa Liesener

Kevin Wilarty

Tales from Burma

Long Path to Wisdom

This book considers a subject of crucial importance to all, the future of the planet that we live on. As the world's population continues to grow, the ability to sustain and improve the lives of the earths' inhabitants has incurred tremendous costs. Together all must look for ways to sustain the planet going forward while carefully and fairly managing crucial resources and environmental impact of our actions. We asked high school age students from around the world to weigh in on what they see as the planet's opportunities and challenges going forward, offering their solutions on how to best embrace or mitigate what lies ahead. The book considers the next generation's perspective on what science might hold for the planet's future, including examples of how science is already positioned in many instances to enhance and help sustain our world.

Solutions for Future Earth: Students' Ideas for a Better Planet

G. Terry Sharrer

Die Faszination von Maßeinheiten und welchen Einfluss Zahlen auf unser Denken und unseren Alltag nehmen, unterhaltsam vermittelt. Die Vermessung der Welt als Forschungsabenteuer: Die Forscherin Lorie Karnath und der Wissenschaftshistoriker G. Terry Sharrer erzählen die faszinierende Geschichte des Maßnehmens: von den frühesten Versuchen, Zeit, Länge, Volumen, Temperatur zu bestimmen über die modernen Messverfahren von Physik und Chemie bis zu den mathematischen Modellen, mittels derer versucht wird, die Unendlichkeit des Weltraums zu vermessen. Wird die perfekte Messung je gelingen? Sind Intelligenz, Gewissen oder Liebe messbar? Welche Auskunft geben uns Messergebnisse? Dieses Buch gibt spannende Antworten auf Fragen, die unsere tägliche Wahrnehmung von Zeit und Raum bestimmen.

Eine kurze Geschichte des Vermessens

Jan-Philipp Sendker

From the author of the internationally bestselling The Art of Hearing Heartbeats comes this charming collection of folktales that offer a window into Burma’s fascinating history and culture. Since 1995 Jan-Philipp Sendker has visited Myanmar (Burma) dozens of times, and while doing research for his novels The Art of Hearing Heartbeats and A Well-Tempered Heart, he encountered numerous folktales and fables. These moving stories speak to the rich mythology of the diverse peoples of Burma, the spirituality of humankind, and the profound social impact of Buddhist thought. Some are so strange he couldn’t classify them or identify a familiar moral, while others reminded him of the fairy tales of his childhood, except that here monkeys, tigers, elephants, and crocodiles inhabited the fantastic lands instead of hedgehogs, donkeys, or geese. Their morals resemble those of the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen, illustrating how all cultures draw on a universal wisdom to create their myths. The Long Path to Wisdom’s evocative stories run the gamut of human emotions, from the familiar to the shocking, and are sure to delight fans of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats as well as those newly discovering the magic of Sendker’s incandescent writing.

The Long Path to Wisdom

Lorie Karnath

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