Book Description
Describes remarkable tunnels from around the world from ancient times to the present.
Author : Debora Pearson
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781550377446
Describes remarkable tunnels from around the world from ancient times to the present.
Author : Seymour Simon
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1936503891
From deep within the human body to distant nebulae in outer space, there are worlds all around us that are smaller, faster, and farther than the unaided eye can see. In these thirty-six amazing images, you can see the invisible: from a white blood cell attacking E. coli bacteria, to the delicate splash from a falling drop of water captured by a high-speed strobe. With pictures that astound and fascinating explanations of how each image was captured, award-winning author Seymour Simon takes readers on a fantastic voyage that's truly out of sight.
Author : Stephen P. Kramer
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2008-08-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781439527337
Introduces a world invisible to the naked eye and discusses the different types of microscopes available, the steps for the preparation and study of specimens, and related topics.
Author : Gerard Gouesbet
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486499669
With its emphasis on the history and philosophical foundations of physics, this book will interest lay readers as well as students and professionals. The distinguished author discusses pioneers in the field, including Pauli, Einstein, Bohr, and de Broglie. Topics include hidden-variable and causal theories, pilot wave, and Schrödinger's equation. 2013 edition.
Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0887550584
In the 1870s, approximately 18,000 Mennonites migrated from the southern steppes of Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine) to the North American grasslands. They brought with them an array of cultural and institutional features that indicated they were a "transplanted" people. What is less frequently noted, however, is that they created in their everyday lives a world that ensured their cultural longevity and social cohesiveness in a new land.Their adaptation to the New World required new concepts of social boundary and community, new strategies of land ownership and legacy, new associations, and new ways of interacting with markets. In Hidden Worlds, historian Royden Loewen illuminates some of these adaptations, which have been largely overshadowed by an emphasis on institutional history, or whose sources have only recently been revealed. Through an analysis of diaries, wills, newspaper articles, census and tax records, and other literature, an examination of inheritance practices, household dynamics, and gender relations, and a comparison of several Mennonite communities in the United States and Canada, Loewen uncovers the multi-dimensional and highly resourceful character of the 1870s migrants.
Author : Timothy Paul Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 069118724X
No one has ever seen a quark. Yet physicists seem to know quite a lot about the properties and behavior of these ubiquitous elementary particles. Here a top researcher introduces us to a fascinating but invisible realm that is part of our everyday life. Timothy Smith tells us what we know about quarks--and how we know it. Though the quarks that make science headlines are typically laboratory creations generated under extreme conditions, most quarks occur naturally. They reside in the protons and neutrons that make up almost all of the universe's known matter, from human DNA to distant nebulae, from books and tables to neutron stars. Smith explains what these quarks are, how they act, and why physicists believe in them sight unseen. How do quarks arrange themselves? What other combinations can nature make? How do quarks hold nuclei together? What else is happening in their hidden worlds? It turns out that these questions can be answered using a few simple principles, such as the old standby: opposites attract. With these few principles, Smith shows how quarks dance around each other and explains what physicists mean when they refer to "up" and "down" quarks and talk about a quark's color, flavor, and spin. Smith also explains how we know what we know about these oddly aloof particles, which are eternally confined inside larger particles. He explains how quark experiments are mounted and how massive accelerators, targets, and detectors work together to collect the data that scientists use to infer what quarks are up to. A nonmathematical tour of the quark world, this book is written for students, educators, and all who enjoy scientific exploration--whether they seek a taste of subnuclear physics or just wonder about nature on the smallest of scales.
Author : Kristin Landon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780441015115
Determined to save her family from ruin and secure a future for her loved ones, nineteen-year-old Linnea Kiaho, who is from one of the poorest planets, accepts an indenture on the decadent home world of the Pilot Masters and finds an unlikely ally in pilot Iain sen Paolo. Original.
Author : Kaushik Ram
Publisher : Brolga Pub.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 2017-06
Category : Paradox
ISBN : 9781925367867
Magic appears in moments we never thought we'd imagine. No amount of planning can recreate moments we experience so deeply - all thoughts are momentarily suspended. This is the great paradox - when we constantly plan to arrive at a fleeting moment, we never do. The conditioning of the human mind has hijacked the evolution of humankind. However, many are waking up from the epidemic of chronic thinking. We are realising the human soul is not simply an evolutionary experiment in survival. We see that we are here to share our gifts. Written in a way that speaks to the subconscious, Dr. Kaushik Ram's mix of observations and fictional stories brings poetry and magic into our modern reality. Learn what lies beyond the conventional approaches to mind and body and discover the dreams only you can imagine. It is then we realise... we have just begun.
Author : Sandra Ingerman
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1785358219
Were those people in Isaiah's dream the same people from school? Popular soccer star Magda? George, who he'd never heard speak because he always left classes for special services help? Angry Rose, the Chinese girl who was always in trouble for fighting? And why were there dead birds and fish everywhere? When the four encounter one another the next day by the same pond from the dream, they realize they've shared a dream and there really are dead birds and fish covering the ground! This leads to real-life adventures and more dreams as they discover a toxic waste plant disposing of poisons illegally. Not friends in the beginning, romance blossoms as they work together with their Power Animals to close down the plant.
Author : National Geographic Society (U.S.). Special Publications Division
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780870447914
Shows and describes wildlife in Africa, Costa Rica, Guyana, Antarctica, the Yukon, and Papua New Guinea