EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book 3 D Star Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Monkhouse
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book 3 D Star Maps written by Richard Monkhouse and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-dimensional glasses packed inside each copy of this phenomenal new book offer an in-depth view of the universe as never before presented. 20 full-color photos and drawings; 27 3-D maps; 27 black-and-white maps. Includes 2 sets of 3-D glasses.

Book 3 D Atlas of Stars and Galaxies

Download or read book 3 D Atlas of Stars and Galaxies written by Richard Monkhouse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astronomical atlas features not only conventional star and galaxy maps, but also spectacular three-dimensional stereographs (glasses provided). The book contains three sets of comprehensive full-sky maps that cover local space, regional space, and distant space -- with over 20,000 galaxies. All the stereographs have been derived from the most accurate data available, including results from the Hipparcos satellite, and can be used to measure the approximate distances between the objects depicted. The distant space maps represent one of the most complete mappings of the galaxies available to amateur astronomers, and their accompanying three-dimensional views provide tantalising glimpses of structure at the largest scale of the universe.

Book Star Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Kanas
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-06-05
  • ISBN : 1461409179
  • Pages : 558 pages

Download or read book Star Maps written by Nick Kanas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the publication of the first edition of 'Star Maps,' books were either general histories of astronomy using examples of antiquarian celestial maps as illustrations, or catalogs of celestial atlases that failed to trace the flow of sky map development over time. The second edition focuses on the development of contemporary views of the heavens and advances in map-making. It captures the beauty and awe of the heavens through images from antiquarian celestial prints and star atlases. This book uniquely combines a number of features: 1) the history of celestial cartography is traced from ancient to modern times; 2) this development is integrated with contemporary cosmological systems; 3) the artistry of sky maps is shown using beautiful color images from actual celestial atlases and prints; 4) each illustration is accompanied by a legend explaining what is being shown; and 5) the text is written for the lay reader based on the author's experience with writing articles for amateur astronomy and map collector magazines. This updated second edition of 'Star Maps' contains over 50 new pages of text and 44 new images (16 in color), including completely new sections on celestial frontispieces, deep-sky objects, playing card maps, additional cartographers, and modern computerized star maps. There is also expanded material about celestial globes, volvelles, telescopes, and planets and asteroids.

Book Star Map

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fabienne Gschwind
  • Publisher : epubli
  • Release : 2021-05-18
  • ISBN : 3754122509
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Star Map written by Fabienne Gschwind and published by epubli. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Captain Jay Shackleton of the cartography starship Abhysal finds himself and his crew thrown across the galaxy, he has no idea how they are going to get back home to earth. Although his five-member crew are gifted space travellers and scientists, the situation seems hopeless. However, their luck seems to change when a seemingly friendly alien trade association, the Squeltrems, picks them up. In exchange for their technical knowledge, they'll be able to hitch a ride back to earth. This seems to be a good deal, and the crew starts full of enthusiasm for the development of new subspace technologies together with their new Alien friends from the research department. Until they realize that the peaceful Squeltrem Association is not so peaceful after all and that they are space pirates who like to plunder whole planets. As if that is not bad enough, another species is in the process of hijacking planets to steal their resources... Set in the 24th century, Fabienne Gschwind's "Star Map" is an epic science fiction adventure novel that will captivate readers and transport them to another world. For anyone who is a fan of classic sci-fi mixed with a cast of intriguing characters, science and comedy, this is the perfect read. Add it to your arsenal today.

Book Star Maps for Beginners

    Book Details:
  • Author : I.M. Levitt
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1992-09
  • ISBN : 0671791877
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book Star Maps for Beginners written by I.M. Levitt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's maps, which divide the sky into quadrants, and explanations of the constellations are designed to simplify study for the amateur astronomer.

Book The Stars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hans Augusto Rey
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 9780395248300
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book The Stars written by Hans Augusto Rey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1980 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with the primary purpose of enabling everyone to gain more pleasure from stargazing.

Book Captured  The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience  60th Anniversary Edition

Download or read book Captured The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience 60th Anniversary Edition written by Stanton T. Friedman and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The famous 1961 Betty and Barney Hill abduction by non-humans is taken apart, meticulously re-examined by Betty’s niece Kathleen Marden and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman, and reinforced by the pressure of facts.” —Linda Moulton Howe, Emmy award-winning TV producer, reporter, and editor, Earthfiles.com Today, 60 years after the UFO abduction of Betty and Barney Hill, more and more people are convinced that UFOs are real and their existence is being covered up by the government. If you have doubts or questions about the Hill case or alien experiences in general, Captured! will give you the answers you’re searching for. The 1961 abduction of the Hills stirred worldwide interest and enthralled the public and media for decades. The case is mentioned in almost all UFO abduction books. It also became a target for debunkers, who still attack it today. But the complete story of what really happened that day, its effect on the participants, and the findings of investigators has never been told—until now. In Captured! you’ll get an insider’s look at the alien abduction, previously unpublished information about the lives of the Hills before and after Barney’s death in 1969, their status as celebrities, Betty’s experiences as a UFO investigator, and other activities before her death in 2004. Kathleen Marden, Betty Hill’s niece, shares details from her discussions with Betty and from the evidence of the UFO abduction. She also looks at the Hills’ riveting hypnosis sessions about their time onboard the spacecraft. The results of a new chemical analysis of the dress Betty was abducted in is shared, which found unusual and rare elements on it Newly discovered letters at the American Philosophical Society by debunker Philip Klass, regarding an orchestrated plot to paint Betty as delusional reveal what early detractors tried to do. In addition, coauthor, physicist, and ufologist Stanton T. Friedman reviews and refutes the arguments of those who have attacked the Hill case, including the star map Betty Hill saw inside the craft and later recreated.

Book The World of Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith A. Tyner
  • Publisher : Guilford Publications
  • Release : 2014-09-15
  • ISBN : 1462519350
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book The World of Maps written by Judith A. Tyner and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps have power--they can instruct, make life easier, mislead, or even lie. This engaging text provides the tools to read, analyze, and use any kind of map and assess its strengths and weaknesses. Requiring no advanced math skills, the book presents basic concepts of symbolization, scale, coordinate systems, and projections. It gives students a deeper understanding of the types of maps they encounter every day, from turn-by-turn driving directions to the TV weather report. Readers also learn how to use multiple maps and imagery to analyze an area or region. The book includes 168 figures, among them 22 color plates; most of the figures can be downloaded as PowerPoint slides from the companion website. Appendices contain a glossary, recommended resources, a table of commonly used projections, and more.

Book Cram s Universal Atlas

Download or read book Cram s Universal Atlas written by George Franklin Cram and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Typeset in the Future

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dave Addey
  • Publisher : Abrams
  • Release : 2018-12-11
  • ISBN : 168335334X
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Typeset in the Future written by Dave Addey and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A designer’s deep dive into seven science fiction films, filled with “gloriously esoteric nerdery [and] observations as witty as they are keen” (Wired). In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design. The book delves deep into 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, Blade Runner, Total Recall, WALL·E, and Moon, studying the design tricks and inspirations that make each film transcend mere celluloid and become a believable reality. These studies are illustrated by film stills, concept art, type specimens, and ephemera, plus original interviews with Mike Okuda (Star Trek), Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall), and Ralph Eggleston and Craig Foster (Pixar). Typeset in the Future is an obsessively geeky study of how classic sci-fi movies draw us in to their imagined worlds.

Book Quasicrystals and Discrete Geometry

Download or read book Quasicrystals and Discrete Geometry written by Jiri Patera and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising the proceedings of the fall 1995 semester program arranged by The Fields Institute at the U. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, this volume contains eleven contributions which address ordered aperiodic systems realized either as point sets with the Delone property or as tilings of a Euclidean space. This collection of articles aims to bring into the mainstream of mathematics and mathematical physics this developing field of study integrating algebra, geometry, Fourier analysis, number theory, crystallography, and theoretical physics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Creating 3D Worlds

Download or read book Creating 3D Worlds written by Simon Danaher and published by Ilex Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists working with computers can learn the secrets behind the techniques for creating convincing, realistic, highly professional 3D landscapes for videos, films, web comics, and websites. This book instructs on how to use modern graphics software and shows how to construct intricate, hyper-realistic worlds with topographical features that include mountains and hills, forests and foliage, oceans and rivers, skies with textured cloud layers, fog, rain, and even lightning. To these worlds, artist and author Simon Danaher shows how to add realistic living creatures and man-made structures. He explains the theory of 3D world modeling in easy-to-understand language, offering essential insights into how virtual worlds are created for movies and television dramas. Students of this medium can use the book in combination with its enclosed CD-ROM, as they follow step-by-step instructions for creating a wide variety of landscapes and environments. Instructive full-color illustrations and diagrams on every page of the book.

Book Star Trek Maps

Download or read book Star Trek Maps written by New Eye Photography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portal 2212

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thadd Evans
  • Publisher : Devine Destinies
  • Release : 2011-08-15
  • ISBN : 1554879493
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Portal 2212 written by Thadd Evans and published by Devine Destinies. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darius and his friends, occupants aboard an alien space ship, one these cloned humans landed on when they were infants, is headed for an unknown destination.

Book Universal Atlas  Geographical  Astronomical and Historical

Download or read book Universal Atlas Geographical Astronomical and Historical written by George Franklin Cram and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monthly Sky Guide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Ridpath
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-12-10
  • ISBN : 1107683157
  • Pages : 73 pages

Download or read book The Monthly Sky Guide written by Ian Ridpath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The classic beginner's guide to the night sky."--Page 4 of cover.