Download or read book The Making of Cosmic Pinball written by Spencer Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cosmic Pinball written by Susan Kern and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cosmic Pinball written by Carolyn Sumners and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the latest scientific research, "Cosmic Pinball" details what is happening in the planetary neighborhood. Going beyond millennial hype, this book provides a unique framework of history and research to provide a sound overview of the science of comets, meteors, and asteroids.
Download or read book Particles And Fields Proceedings Of The Xi Jorge Andre Swieca Summer School written by Gilvan August Alves and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-11-05 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jorge André Swieca Summer School is a traditional school in Latin America well known for the high level of its courses and lecturers. This book contains lectures on forefront areas of high energy physics, such as collider physics, neutrino phenomenology, noncommutative field theory, string theory and branes.
Download or read book The Killing Maze written by David Cole and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-02-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Winslow came to Tucson, hoping her past would never find her. Now working as a high-tech cyber-sleuth for Miguel Zepeda, an aging P.I. who lives on a reservation, she hides within the Internet. But when Miguel disappears, Laura investigates an alleged fraud within a small drug company. With no clue of her boss's whereabouts, she is dragged into a maze of gangs, scams, and murder.
Download or read book Towards a Theory of Transpersonal Decision Making in Human Systems written by Joseph Riggio and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision-Making gets significant coverage in the business press and as an academic topic in business schools. However, there is a dearth of information on the transpersonal consideration on decision-making and how it effects leaders and leadership in human-systems. Maximizing positive results in human-systems, requires the decision-maker to maintain a constant consideration of both local and non-local elements impacting and being impacted by the decision(s) being made. This book introduces the concept of "Scope of Decision" as a way of arriving at higher quality decisions by considering them from a greater distance from the decision-maker in the time-space continuum. The author designed and used a unique exemplar modeling paradigm to conduct the research, using the proven methodologies of phenomenography and neurolinguistic modeling. This study presented in this book attempts to offer some insight on the transpersonal process of "intentionality" in decision-making, specifically as it applies to making high-quality decisions in human-systems. As stated in the title this study was not intended to be exhaustive, but rather to open new pathways of consideration and knowing in regard to the topic of decision-making. The conclusions arrived at read like a compass pointing to the means for dramatically improving your decision-making, and are best described in the sometimes hauntingly poetic language of the participants as they explore and discover their own processes for what goes into making exquisite decisions.
Download or read book The Prophet and the Astronomer written by Marcelo Gleiser and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the shared quest of ancient prophets and today's astronomers to explain the strange phenomena of our skies-from the apocalypse foretold in Revelations to modern science's ongoing identification of multiple cataclysmic threats, including the impact of comets and asteroids on earthly life, the likelihood of future collisions, the meaning of solar eclipses and the death of stars, the implications of black holes for time travel, and the ultimate fate of the universe and time.
Download or read book Rock Star written by David R. Shumway and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature and meaning of rock stardom—celebrities who embody the most important social and cultural conflicts of their era. "All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are stars," states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of rock stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of rock icons. Shumway looks at the careers and cultural legacies of seven rock stars in the context of popular music and culture—Elvis Presley, James Brown, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, and Bruce Springsteen. Granted, there are many more names that fall into the rock icon category and that might rightfully appear on this list. Partly, that is the point: "rock star" is a familiar and desired category but also a contested one. Shumway investigates the rock star as a particular kind of cultural construction, different from mere celebrity. After the golden age of moviemaking, media exposure allowed rock stars more political sway than Hollywood's studio stars, and rock stars gradually replaced movie stars as key cultural heroes. Because of changes in American society and the media industries, rock stars have become much more explicitly political figures than were the stars of Hollywood’s studio era. Rock stars, moreover, are icons of change, though not always progressive, whose public personas read like texts produced collaboratively by the performers themselves, their managers, and record companies. These stars thrive in a variety of media, including recorded music, concert performance, dress, staging, cover art, films, television, video, print, and others. Filled with memorable photographs, Rock Star will appeal to anyone interested in modern American popular culture or music history.
Download or read book The Prophet and the Astronomer Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World written by Marcelo Gleiser and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intellectual accomplishment that illuminates the magic and the wisdom of the heavens above."—Kirkus Reviews "Tracing our contemplation of the cosmos from the big bang to the big crunch" (The New Yorker), Marcelo Gleiser explores the shared quest of ancient prophets and today's astronomers to explain the strange phenomena of our skies—from the apocalypse foretold in Revelations to modern science's ongoing identification of multiple cataclysmic threats, including the impact of comets and asteroids on earthly life, the likelihood of future collisions, the meaning of solar eclipses and the death of stars, the implications of black holes for time travel, and the ultimate fate of the universe and time. Presenting insights to cosmological science and apocalyptic philosophy in an "easily accessible" (Library Journal) style, Gleiser is "a rare astrophysicist as comfortable quoting Scripture as explaining formulas" (Booklist). K. C. Cole praises his ability to "[work] the entwined threads of science and religion into a vision of 'the end' that is strangely comforting and inspiring."
Download or read book Managing Martians written by Donna Shirley and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donna Shirley's 35-year career as an aerospace engineer reached a jubilant pinnacle in July 1997 when Sojourner--the solar-powered, self-guided, microwave-oven-sized rover--was seen exploring the Martian landscape in Pathfinder's spectacular images from the surface of the red planet. The event marked a milestone in space, but for Donna Shirley, the leader of the mostly male team that designed and built Sojourner--and the first woman ever to manage a NASA program--it marked a triumph of another kind. Managing Martians is Shirley's captivating memoir of a life and career spent reaching for the stars. From her seemingly outlandish aspiration at age ten to build aircraft, to abandoning high school Home Ec in favor of mechanical drawing, and, at sixteen, becoming a licensed pilot, Shirley defied expectations from the beginning. In a vivid narrative, rich with anecdotes and thrilling turning points, Shirley recounts the intense battles she waged to defend her vision and the ingenuity and resourcefulness of her committed team. Her moment-by-cliffhanging-moment account of Pathfinder's landing and Sojourner's first tentative foray across the sands of Mars brilliantly captures the fulfillment of a lifelong dream as it heralds a brave new era of space exploration.
Download or read book The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos written by David Levy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines our solar system and galaxy and other parts of the universe and describes our attempts to study and explore space.
Download or read book Maid for the Greek s Ring written by Louise Fuller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek claims his convenient fiancée in this passionate fake relationship romance by Louise Fuller! The perfect Cinderella… For his ruse of a romance! Achileas Kane sees himself as living proof that wedding vows are meaningless. But this illegitimate son can only gain his inheritance if he weds. His proposal to hotel chambermaid Effie Price is simply a contract—a contract sealed with a single sizzling kiss! Stepping in as Achileas’s fiancée may be virgin Effie’s last chance to launch her perfume company. Playing her role is all too easy when Achileas sends her heart racing. But resisting temptation with a man who doesn’t believe love can last? That could prove difficult… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.
Download or read book False Eden written by William Bowden and published by William Bowden. This book was released on 2022-12-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He calls them horsemen—revelation engines that can conjure up dream worlds from vast swathes of encrypted data. But are they really dream worlds, or are they something else altogether? For Cydian fears that he has created his own personal Sandman, one that now stalks him with nightmares. He’s bet everything on a new way to harvest highly sensitive personal data from billions of people, a game changer set to transform the world. But there’s a problem—the data predicts a global calamity to be underway, one that simply just isn’t there. With the company teetering on the edge of a financial abyss, he needs to find the problem by hacking the data, something that should be impossible, given the quantum encryption protecting it. The horsemen, and their dream worlds, are the only way in.
Download or read book The Best Guide to Meditation written by Victor N. Davich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the concept of meditation, offers advice on meditating, and describes various types of meditation and how they can influence one's life.
Download or read book Mortal Jigsaw Puzzle written by Grieving Patriot and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mortal Jigsaw puzzle follows the struggles of a heroic urban vice principal, as he attempts to control a large high school teetering on the verge of chaos. During the course of an infamous day known as Fat Lip Friday, the ghetto principal tries valiantly to keep control of his school in the midst of a full blown gang war. Immersed in an environment replete with urban music, violence, verbiage, and dress, the reader is bombarded with shocking images of life in the modern hood. As the visceral educational conflagration unfolds, the protagonist, Jose Perez, unexpectedly catches glimpses of a diabolical conspiracy of which street gangs are just a small part. Thanks to his keen senses, Mr. Perez slowly collects the pieces to a profoundly disturbing global puzzle comprised of codes, lyrics, art, and symbols of Egyptian, Masonic, and satanic origin. While attempting to place the gratuitous carnage and depravity of the inner city into perspective, Mr. Perez accidentally stumbles upon an interdisciplinary mind control plan which draws upon religion, politics, economics, psychology, marketing, history, and the occult. Alarmed by his findings, Mr. Perez warns his community of their pending doom, only to be hunted down by the very debt cattle whom he tries to save from oblivion. In the end, both his community and his nation are condemned to fall under this nefarious plot, as this educators quixotic mission abruptly ends with an ominous knock on his front door.
Download or read book The Empire of Ice Cream written by Jeffrey Ford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with the Nebula-winning title story, this “outstanding” fantasy collection by the author of Ahab’s Return will have you “entranced and delighted” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Few writers can extract as much enchantment from the mundane as award-winning author Jeffrey Ford. His talent for storytelling is readily evident in The Empire of Ice Cream, his collection of ordinary and extraordinary juxtapositions. The bittersweet Nebula Award–winning title story introduces a composer with synesthesia who finds the sound—and woman—of his dreams through a cup of coffee. Then there are the fairies that inhabit sandcastles in the fleeting moments before the inevitable rise of the tide. Ford populates this charmed collection with stories taken from his own life as well, including “Botch Town,” which finds him as a schoolboy, and “The Trentino Kid,” which recalls his experience digging for clams.
Download or read book 13 8 written by John Gribbin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Scientists presents “alively and accessible look at how astronomers determined the age of our universe” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The twentieth century gave us two great theories of physics. The general theory of relativity describes the behavior of very large things, and quantum theory the behavior of very small things. In this landmark book, John Gribbin—one of the best-known science writers of the past thirty years—presents his own version of the Holy Grail of physics, the search that has been going on for decades to find a unified “Theory of Everything” that combines these ideas into one mathematical package, a single equation that could be printed on a T-shirt, containing the answer to life, the Universe, and everything. With his inimitable mixture of science, history, and biography, Gribbin shows how—despite skepticism among many physicists—these two great theories are very compatible, and point to a deep truth about the nature of our existence. The answer lies, intriguingly, with the age of the universe: 13.8 billion years. “Gribbin is a confident, engaging guide . . . a lovingly rendered history.”—The Wall Street Journal “An exciting chronicle of a monumental scientific accomplishment by a scientist who participated in the measuring of the age of the universe.”—Kirkus Reviews “A book that hits readers with unrelenting detail. And with a story as grand as this one, that’s exactly the way a good science book should have it. Nothing will be lost here, and everything—a clear understanding—will be gained.”—Astronomy “A welcome and relatively quick read for cosmology buffs, students, and amateur astronomers.”—Booklist
