Download or read book 2001 Mars Odyssey written by C.T. Russell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mars, the most habitable of our sister planets, holds a special place in our imaginations and in our space exploration program. Fully half of NASA's planetary exploration effort is now devoted to Mars. Key questions include: Has Mars ever harbored life? Is there life on Mars now? Will humans be able to survive on the Martian surface? Answers to these questions lie in determining the present location of water on Mars and its likely inventory in the past, and in determining the present radiation environment of Mars. The 2001 Mars Odyssey Mission contributes greatly these answers by detecting near-surface water through measurements of neutron flux, from the detection of carbonates, and the quantification of its radiation environment. This book captures the objectives, the design of the mission and the details of the instruments carried to Mars. It should be of interest to every scientist interested in participating in the on-going exploration of Mars from graduate students to senior scientists as it provides the background information essential to interpret the many exciting results now appearing from the mission.
Download or read book Prime Recreations written by Bruce Pyne and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce has created a work totally unique among books of this type. He chose to number his chapters with prime numbers and cover material not seen anywhere else. Particularly interesting are his chapters on digit patterns and primes forming triangles. Nearly half of the length of the book is devoted to eleven (a prime number) chapters of lists of primes. Here, the reader will find a delightful and motley mélange of unlikely subjects, many with clever titles, and all alphabetically arranged. Incl
Download or read book Odyssey Prime written by Steven Trustrum and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside Odyssey Prime you will find: Lots of details on Project Odyssey, including its history, goals, personnel and methods of operation. Insight into the end of the world and what humanity is doing to save itself. Guidelines on running Odyssey Team and Damage Control Team campaigns side-by-side. 12 new advanced classes and 2 that have been revised for d20 Modern and 4 new archetypes for the Unisystem. 8 new skill uses, 6 new skills and over 30 new feats for d20 Modern, along with 4 new skills, 4 new Qualities and 3 new Drawbacks for the Unisystem. Enough new weapons, electronics, explosives and vehicles in both d20 Modern and Unisystem rules to outfit your players and keep them happy for a long time. Plenty of adventure seeds, rules and guidelines for adventure and world building, and suggestions on adapting third-party products to your needs. Rules on making your game more dramatic. Gear-up, strap in and get ready to go on the wildest ride humanity has ever known because the fate of the world rests on your shoulders. This file is fully bookmarked and has a hyperlinked table of contents. 'd20 System' and the d20 System logo are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. in the United States and other countries and are used with permission.
Download or read book Odyssey Prime written by and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2006-06-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some drunken South Carolina teenagers claim to have seen the Loch Ness Monster while out boating in the Charleston Harbor near Fort Sumter. Normally Project Odyssey ignores such crazy assertions, but a Coast Guard informant confirmed something big and "odd" is indeed swimming about the harbor. Since a gate mishap caused the last known dinosaur, Nessie, in fact, to appear, the Project's leaders want this claim investigated. If the creature does exist, Dam Con is to capture and contain it, leaving no evidence for the curious to question. Southern Discomfort is a beginning-level Odyssey Prime Modern d20/Unisystem (TM) adventure written by Christina Stiles for both Dam Con and Odyssey Teams. The adventure includes possible tie-ins with Goodman Games' Broncosaurus Rex, proving that most games/game worlds are compatible with Odyssey Prime. Southern Discomfort is a joint Misfit Studios and Eden Studios production.
Download or read book A Mathematical Odyssey written by Steven G. Krantz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics is a poem. It is a lucid, sensual, precise exposition of beautiful ideas directed to specific goals. It is worthwhile to have as broad a cross-section of mankind as possible be conversant with what goes on in mathematics. Just as everyone knows that the Internet is a powerful and important tool for communication, so everyone should know that the Poincaré conjecture gives us important information about the shape of our universe. Just as every responsible citizen realizes that the mass-production automobile was pioneered by Henry Ford, so everyone should know that the P/NP problem has implications for security and data manipulation that will affect everyone. This book endeavors to tell the story of the modern impact of mathematics, of its trials and triumphs and insights, in language that can be appreciated by a broad audience. It endeavors to show what mathematics means for our lives, how it impacts all of us, and what new thoughts it should cause us to entertain. It introduces new vistas of mathematical ideas and shares the excitement of new ideas freshly minted. It discusses the significance and impact of these ideas, and gives them meaning that will travel well and cause people to reconsider their place in the universe. Mathematics is one of mankind's oldest disciplines. Along with philosophy, it has shaped the very modus of human thought. And it continues to do so. To be unaware of modern mathematics is to miss out on a large slice of life. It is to be left out of essential modern developments. We want to address this point, and do something about it. This is a book to make mathematics exciting for people of all interests and all walks of life. Mathematics is exhilarating, it is ennobling, it is uplifting, and it is fascinating. We want to show people this part of our world, and to get them to travel new paths.
Download or read book Homer Odyssey Books XVII XVIII written by Homer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first self-contained edition and commentary on Books XVII and XVIII, ideal for use with upper-level undergraduate students.
Download or read book Hedgehogging written by Barton Biggs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary financial figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world.
Download or read book The Art of the Odyssey written by Howard W. Clarke and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a literary explication aimed at helping the first-time reader more fully to appreciate and understand the Odyssey. The book includes a chronology, extensive notes, and suggestions for further reading.
Download or read book The Odyssey written by Homer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to claim Odysseus' wife Penelope, and his young son Telemachus is powerless to stop them. Meanwhile, Odysseus is driven beyond the limits of the known world, encountering countless divine and earthly challenges. But Odysseus is 'of many wiles' and his cunning and bravery eventually lead him home, to reclaim both his family and his kingdom. The Odyssey rivals the Iliad as the greatest poem of Western culture and is perhaps the most influential text of classical literature. This elegant and compelling new translation is accompanied by a full introduction and notes that guide the reader in understanding the poem and the many different contexts in which it was performed and read.
Download or read book Homer s Odyssey written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Major League Rebels written by Robert Elias and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating history of the baseball reformers and revolutionaries who challenged their sport and society—and in turn helped change America. Athletes have often used their platform to respond to and protest injustices, from Muhammad Ali and Colin Kaepernick to Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe. Compared to their counterparts, baseball players have often been more cautious about speaking out on controversial issues; but throughout the sport’s history, there have been many players who were willing to stand up and fight for what was right. In Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers' Rights and American Empire, Robert Elias and Peter Dreier reveal a little-known yet important history of rebellion among professional ballplayers. These reformers took inspiration from the country’s dissenters and progressive movements, speaking and acting against abuses within their profession and their country. Elias and Dreier profile the courageous players who demanded better working conditions, battled against corporate power, and challenged America’s unjust wars, imperialism, and foreign policies, resisting the brash patriotism that many link with the “national pastime.” American history can be seen as an ongoing battle over wealth and income inequality, corporate power versus workers’ rights, what it means to be a “patriotic” American, and the role of the United States outside its borders. For over 100 years, baseball activists have challenged the status quo, contributing to the kind of dissent that creates a more humane society. Major League Rebels tells their inspiring stories.
Download or read book Blair s Wars written by John Kampfner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Prime Minister in modern times has led Britain into as many wars as Tony Blair. In six years in office he committed soldiers to action in Kosovo, Iraq, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan. This analysis shows how Blair's government sought to be at the forefront of a turbulent world order.
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Download or read book Odyssey Prime Corebook written by Various and published by Eden Studios. This book was released on 2003-08-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enormous asteroid is on a collision course with Earth. Its impact will obliterate every one and everything on the planet, leaving the world a spinning, desolate husk. Some have known about the Doomsday Asteroid for sometime now. In fact, as a member of Odyssey Prime - a clandestine project created to prolong human life - it's your job to save humanity from extinction. Fortunately, Odyssey Prime has constructed mysterious portal devices. With them, your Odyssey teams can search for a final evacuation of the world and its inhabitants. At the same time, your Dam Con teams have to keep a lid on things at home. Odyssey Prime is strictly need-to-know. Panic in the streets only makes a nearly impossible job that much tougher! Odyssey Prime is a d20 Modern campaign setting of interdimensional/planetary adventures with the survival of the human race in the balance. It is a meta-game allowing seamless integration of any published setting, or any world of your own creation. The Odyssey Prime Corebook includes: a detailed background and history for the Odyssey Prime world; two campaign style choices: modern-day conspiracy and intrigue or high-tech dimensional exploration; detailed character information and new advanced classes; new skills and feats; new weapons, equipment, and vehicles; new rules to be used in any d20 Modern game, including a dramatic roll and alternate award systems; numerous adventure seeds, suggested worlds to explore, and a ready-to-run mission to get players started; and conversion notes to play Odyssey Prime using the Unisystem.
Download or read book Arete and the Odyssey s Poetics of Interrogation written by Justin Arft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale "poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. Arete's interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora show that the "stranger's interrogation" is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen's question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus' status in epic and memory. Arete's role as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but it also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between she and her husband, Alkinoos, that influences the structure, genre, and narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book reinterprets the Odyssey's central episode and challenges several assumptions about Nausikaa and Alkinoos' famed hospitality, even demonstrating how the Apologue is organized as a response to competing inquiries into Odysseus' fundamental status in tradition. The Odyssey ultimately navigates away from Odysseus' public reputation and roots his status in private memories, and Arete's carefully arranged interventions signal the larger process by which the Odyssey immortalizes Odysseus in poetry as a nostos hero. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.
Download or read book What the Greeks Did for Us written by Antony Spawforth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like "pandemic," a Freudian state of mind like the "Oedipus complex," or a replica of the Parthenon in a Chinese theme park, ancient Greek culture shapes the contours of our lives. Ever since the first Roman imitators, we have been continually falling under the Greeks' spell. But how did ancient Greece spread its influence so far and wide? And how has this influence changed us? Tony Spawforth explores our classical heritage, wherever it's to be found. He reveals its legacy in everything from religion to popular culture, and unearths the darker side of Greek influence--from the Nazis' obsession with Spartan "racial purity" to the elitism of classical education. Paying attention to the huge breadth and variety of Hellenic influence, this book paints an essential portrait of the ancient world's living legacy--considering to whom it matters, and why.
Download or read book Grendel Devil s Crucible Defiance 2 written by Matt Wagner and published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues). This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a treacherous future Earth that has turned against all followers of Grendel, Grendel Prime finds two rare allies. He gets a short history lesson on his now-hostile home world before encountering a group working for the Necro-Lords, who want him captured. Featuring a standard cover by Matt Wagner and Brennan Wagner and a variant cover by Antonio Fuso and Brennan Wagner! Grendel Prime returns to Earth, as Matt Wagner’s epic Grendel series continues!
