Download or read book The Life and Death of Stars written by Kenneth R. Lang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how stars are born, how they evolve and their ultimate fates, for a broad general audience.
Download or read book 100 Billion Suns written by Rudolf Kippenhahn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are the nuclear power plants we call "stars" formed? Where do they get their energy and how do they die--and what does this suggest about the future of the universe? One of the most popular books written on astrophysics, 100 Billion Suns provides an exhilarating and authoritative life history of the stars.
Download or read book The Life Death of Stars written by Donald A. Cooke and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life cycle of stars is explained in simple language with stunning photographs.
Download or read book The Life and Death of Stars written by Isaac Asimov and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2005 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-the-minute examination of the exciting circumstances that mark the beginning and end of the lives of stars. Topics include the fate of our Solar System, red giants, supernovas, neutron stars, white dwarfs, and the birth and eventual death of our special star, the Sun. Book jacket.
Download or read book Defy the Stars written by Jocelyn Hurndall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2003, 21-year-old Tom Hurndall, an English photojournalism student, was shot in the head as he carried a Palestinian child out of the range of an Israeli army sniper in the town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. This book presents the story of this man who went to the Middle East as an observer and lost his life through a selfless human act.
Download or read book The Evolution of Stars written by Graham Hill and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why write a book about the stars? Of what use is their study? This book covers this ground with a number of anecdotes arising from the author’s almost 60 years’ experience as a research scientist who has worked with some of the largest telescopes in the world. The text exposes much of what is glossed over in the canned information that the public get and holds nothing back with respect to uncertainties within the subject. People want answers, want somehow to be reassured that someone out there has a handle on things. This book details the basis for our knowledge of the universe, warts and all, and offers important insights as to where the science is going.
Download or read book The Life and Death of Democracy written by John Keane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling that a bad moon is rising over all the world's democracies? Do they indeed have a future? Or is perhaps democracy fated to melt away, along with our polar ice caps? The work of one of Britain's leading political writers, this is no mere antiquarian history. Stylishly written, this superb book confronts its readers with an entirely fresh and irreverent look at the past, present and future of democracy. It unearths the beginnings of such precious institutions and ideals as government by public assembly, votes for women, the secret ballot, trial by jury and press freedom. It tracks the changing, hotly disputed meanings of democracy and describes quite a few of the extraordinary characters, many of them long forgotten, who dedicated their lives to building or defending democracy. And it explains why democracy is still potentially the best form of government on earth -- and why democracies everywhere are sleepwalking their way into deep trouble.
Download or read book Five Days at Memorial written by Sheri Fink and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award
Download or read book The Birth and Death of Stars written by Isaac Asimov and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers how stars come into being, change and grow older, and eventually come to an end.
Download or read book Stars written by Raman Prinja and published by New Holland Australia(AU). This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Stars' presents a vivid account of the fascinating life-stories of stars. The informative and accessible text is combined with breathtaking imagery from the most powerful telescopes to capture the beauty of star birth, the extreme activity of stars and their violent demise.
Download or read book Night Sleep Death The Stars written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society
Download or read book Life for death written by Michael Mewshaw and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Death written by Lucy Booth and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1590, I sold my soul to the Devil. I was 23. Elizabeth Murray has been condemned to burn at the stake. As she awaits her fate, a strange, handsome man visits her cell. He offers her a deal: her soul in return for immortality, but what he offers is not a normal life. To survive Elizabeth must become Death itself. Elizabeth must ease the passing of all those who die, appearing at the point of death and using her compassion to guide them over the threshold. She accepts and, for 500 years, whirls from one death to the next, never stopping to think of the life she never lived. Until one day, everything changes. She - Death - falls in love. Desperate to escape the terms of her deal, she summons the man who saved her. He agrees to release her on one condition: that she gives him five lives. These five lives she must take herself, each one more difficult and painful than the last.
Download or read book The Life and Death of Stars written by Kenneth R. Lang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this well-illustrated text, Kenneth R. Lang explains the life cycle of stars, from the dense molecular clouds that are stellar nurseries to the enigmatic nebulae some stars leave behind in their violent ends. Free of mathematical equations and technical jargon, Lang's lively and accessible text provides physical insights into how stars such as our Sun are born, what fuels them and keeps them bright, how they evolve and the processes by which they eventually die. The book demonstrates the sheer scope and variety of stellar phenomena in the context of the universe as a whole. Boxed focus elements enhance and amplify the discussion for readers looking for more depth. Featuring more than 150 figures, including color plates, The Life and Death of Stars is a modern and up-to-date account of stars written for a broad audience, from armchair astronomers and popular science readers to students and teachers of science"--
Download or read book The Life and Death of Planet Earth written by Peter D. Ward and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planet Earth is middle-aged. Science has worked hard to piece together the story of the evolution of our world up to this point, but only recently have we developed the understanding and the tools to describe the entire life cycle of a planet. Ward and Brownlee, a geologist and an astronomer respectively, combine their knowledge of how the critical sustaining systems of our planet evolve through time with their understanding of the life cycles of stars and solar systems, to tell the story of the second half of Earth's life. The process of evolution will essentially reverse itself: life as we know it will subside until only the simplest forms remain. Eventually, they too will disappear. The oceans will evaporate, the atmosphere will degrade, and, as the sun slowly expands, Earth itself will eventually meet a fiery end. --From publisher description.
Download or read book The Life and Death of Stars written by Ray Spangenburg and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at stars and their "life cycle," from human's earliest observations of the constellations to recent discoveries about black holes and future space missions to study our sun and other stars.
Download or read book The Life and Death of King John written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
