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Guests | December 7, 2009

The Cornucopia of Home Science

1 comment By Theodore Gray

Reading old books of science experiments for children, it's easy to become nostalgic for the days when you could buy jugs of sulfur and mercury at... Continue »

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   $20.96 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

   The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

   Theodore Gray

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shays, July 6, 2007

America does not easily grow gods. Gods have come to America, though, carried in the baggage of believers from all parts of the world. However, the amount of concentrated faith needed for them to flourish has been watered down by the very diversity that makes America so unique because gods are created by their believers rather than the other way around (see Terry Pratchett?s ?Small Gods? for a humbler take on the same topic). As a result, those gods surviving the relocation have done so by taking menial and humdrum jobs in the everyday workplace. A war is brewing, though. Americans have been united by belief in the power of new gods ? electricity, technology, the media, and the dark forces of secret police, to name a few ? and the new gods want power. Enter Shadow, a quiet and soft-spoken ex-felon who finds himself at the center of this rising tide of conflict. Through his eyes, we come to a new understanding of our country, and life just under its surface as directed by America?s gods.

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