Author : J. Marvin Herndon
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 1425141323
Maverick's Earth and Universe is about the true nature of Earth and Universe, and the way science should work, including a methodology more fundamental than the so-called scientific method.
Author : Cathy Cobb
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1615924965
Science popularizer Cathy Cobb takes a unique approach to explaining the concepts of physical chemistry by telling the story of the geniuses and eccentrics who made groundbreaking discoveries in this fascinating field that bridges chemistry, physics, and mathematics. The result is entertaining and illuminating. Her tale is about the colorful varieties of human character as well as the struggles to understand the workings of the material world. Through true stories of rebels, recluses, heroes, and rogues, she helps the reader to discover how one idea built upon another and how an elegant discipline arose out of centuries of difficult trial and error. Starting with the ancient Greeks, Cobb takes the reader on a sweeping tour of history. She shows how an understanding of basic chemical properties gradually arose out of ancient Greeks mathematics, Muslim science, medieval "magick," and the healing arts. Her tour continues through the scientific revolution, the emergence of physical chemistry as an independent discipline, and up to the present. Today, physical chemists contribute to the fields of chemical physiology, chemical oscillations and waves, quantum mechanics, and the curious and promising field of nanotechnology. This absorbing, eloquently written history of science is loaded with intuitive imagery, everyday analogies, and a colorful cast of characters who are guaranteed to entertain as well as edify.
Author : Patrick Moore
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402752087
A half-century ago, mankind's journey to the stars began with the launch of Sputnik 1. Sir Patrick Moore, the world's most famous amateur astronomer, and space photographer HJP Arnold have combined their talents to chronicle this entire exciting period. Featuring the finest images beautifully reproduced, it relives all the amazing advances and discoveries, from the first manned spaceflight to the first moon landing, from the first Space Shuttle to the first probes that went to the outer planets...and beyond. The engaging text showcases Moore's trademark clarity, simplicity, passion, and authority, and Arnold's photographs capture the drama, scale, majesty, and minutiae of the Universe. Also included: a countdown of the 50 Greatest Ever Space Images as chosen by Arnold.
Author : John Brunton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1398104418
Fascinating accounts of the outrageous criminals, murderous fanatics, unrepentant heretics and audacious pioneers of the medieval era.
Author : Peter D. Ward
Publisher : Springer
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387218483
What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life on Earth and to what could possibly happen elsewhere in the universe. Everyone who has been thrilled by the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets and the indications of life on Mars and the Jovian moon Europa will be fascinated by Rare Earth, and its implications for those who look to the heavens for companionship.
Author : Stephanie Wellen Levine
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2004-08-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0814751970
A look at young Jewish women who are typecast as pious and reserved but have as much imagination and similar desires as other young women.
Author : Sean O’Brien
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770531025
Collier South is one of the last independent beltrunners mining the frontier between Mars and the Jovian colonies. The mining rush is over, Ceres colony is long established, and humanity has been mining asteroids for fifty years. What started as a handful of small prospectors seeking fame and fortune has become the heavy-handed operations of mining corporations swallowing the independents as they go.Collier has no interest is selling out, and his debt load is rising. He’ll have to land a strike soon or he’ll end up trading his own biologicals to pay for his next meal. But Collier has faith. If nothing else, he knows his instincts as a rockhound are good. Problem is he’s not the only one who knows that. When he finally sniffs out a promising rock, his ex-lover and her shiny new corporate ship are there to steal it from him. Broke and desperate, Collier has one last chance to pay down his debt. What he finds this time has the power to change his life forever. Worse, it has the power to change the fate of the entire system. And it isn’t long before the corporations are on a hunt to pry it from his stubborn fingers.
Author : Syd Logsdon
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770531416
Colonizing Cyan may be overcrowded Earth’s last hope for survivalIt took Earth’s last, dying effort, led by Keir Delacroix of the originalexplorers, to plant a colony on Cyan. Now the new colonists are uneasyin their seasonless paradise. Will destruction come upon them from arenegade explorer and her DNA modified creatures of the torrid zone, orfrom Saloman Curran, the man whose heartless manipulations broughtthem here? Or will it come from their own inability to adapt to their newhome?
Author : Craig Alanson
Publisher :
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2017-11-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781973292418
United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite Expeditionary Force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-Merry Band of Pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of lightyears from home. The ancient alien AI they nicknamed 'Skippy' is apparently dead, and even if they can by some miracle revive him, he might never be the same.
Author : J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813187575
Twentieth-century authors and filmmakers have created a pantheon of mavericks—some macho, others angst-ridden—who often cross a metaphorical boundary among the literal ones of Anglo, Native American, and Hispanic cultures. Douglas Canfield examines the concept of borders, defining them as the space between states and cultures and ideologies, and focuses on these border crossings as a key feature of novels and films about the region. Canfield begins in the Old Southwest of Faulkner's Mississippi, addressing the problem of slavery; travels west to North Texas and the infamous Gainesville Hanging of Unionists during the Civil War; and then follows scalpers into the Southwest Borderlands. He then turns to the area of the Gadsden Purchase, known for its outlaws and Indian wars, before heading south of the border for the Yaqui persecution and the Mexican Revolution. Alongside such well-known works as Go Down Moses, The Wild Bunch, Broken Arrow, Gringo Viejo, and Blood Meridian, Canfield discusses novels and films that tell equally compelling stories of the region. Protagonists face various identity crises as they attempt border crossings into other cultures or mindsets—some complete successful crossings, some go native, and some fail. He analyzes figures such as Geronimo, Doc Holliday, and Billy the Kid alongside less familiar mavericks as they struggle for identity, purpose, and justice.
