Download or read book Distant Worlds written by Peter Bond and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the epic saga of how we as human beings have come to understand the Solar System. The story of our exploration of the heavens, Peter Bond reminds us, began thousands of years ago, with the naked-eye observations of the earliest scientists and philosophers. Over the centuries, as our knowledge and understanding inexorably broadened and deepened, we faltered many times, frequently labored under misconceptions, and faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles to understanding. Yet, despite overwhelming obstacles, a combination of determined observers, brilliant thinkers, courageous explorers, scientists and engineers has brought us, particularly over the last five decades, into a second great age of human discovery. At our present level of understanding, some fifty years into the Space Age, the sheer volume of images and other data being returned to us from space has only increased our appetite for more and more detailed information about the planets, moons, asteroids, and comets of the Solar System. Taking a much-needed overview of how we now understand these "distant worlds" in our cosmic neighborhood, Bond not only celebrates the extraordinary successes of planetary exploration, but reaffirms an important truth: For seekers of knowledge, there will always be more to explore. An astonishing saga of exploration... In this much-needed overview of "where we stand today," Peter Bond describes the achievements of the astronomers, space scientists, and engineers who have made the exploration of our Solar System possible. A clearly written and compelling account of the Space Age, the book includes: • Dramatic accounts of the daring, resourcefulness, and ferocious competitive zeal of renowned as well as almost-forgotten space pioneers. • Clear explanations of the precursors to modern astronomy, including how ancient natural philosophers and observers first took the measure of the heavens. • More than a hundred informative photographs, maps, simulated scenarios, and technical illustrations--many of them in full color. • Information-dense appendices on the physical properties of our Solar System, as well as a comprehensive list of 50 years of Solar System missions. Organized into twelve chapters focused on the objects of our exploration (the individual planets, our Moon, the asteroids and comets), Bond’s text shows how the great human enterprise of space exploration may on occasion have faltered or wandered off the path, but taken as a whole amounts to one of the great triumphs of human civilization.
Download or read book History of Non Dairy Whip Topping Coffee Creamer Cottage Cheese and Icing Frosting With and Without Soy 1900 2013 written by William Shurtleff and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 28 cm. Free of charge in digital format on Google Books.
Download or read book Introduction to the Practice of Statistics written by David S. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling 'Introduction to the Practice of Statistics' set a new standard for introductory statistics courses by focusing on data analysis, statistical reasoning and the way statistics are used in everyday life. This edition features over 400 new exercises.
Download or read book City Primeval written by Louis Armand and published by Anti-Oedipus Press. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of personal documentaries of place and time by key figures in the art world from the 1970s to the present.
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Download or read book Vanishing Animals written by Andy Warhol and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Especially for this book, Andy Warhol has created prints (silkscreen over collage) of some of the most endangered animals in the world. Here they are joined with a stimulating text by Dr Kurt Benirschke affording the reader an opportunity to discover the lives and habits of these animals and what the outlook is for their survival. Extinction, the tragic and permanent loss of entire species of animals, should be a concern for everyone This concern and a strong desire to take action toward preventing the loss of more animals has brought about an unusual collaboration between art and science. The result is this beautiful volume in which artist and scientist have joined efforts to inform and inspire others to take action. It is hoped that these fascinating and striking portrayals will stimulate readers to join their own energies and talents to this important fight against the loss of more species. This book brings some of the less well known endangered animals to the reader's attention. These animals deserve just as much attention as the giant panda or the mountain gorilla about which so much has already been said. Naturally, the animals presented here are very personal choices, having been selected from a virtually endless supply of animals whose last hour is rapidly approaching.
Download or read book The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein written by Mary Lee Corlett and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lichtenstein, who devoted himself seriously to printmaking earlier than any other major artist of his generation (he made his first two prints in 1948 - a lithograph and a woodcut - and by 1950 had added etching and screenprint to his repertoire), is widely acknowledged as one of the most important printmakers of our time. Printmaking often provides him with an arena in which he is at his most experimental, apt to try something new, especially with materials." "The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein catalogues and reproduces each of the artist's prints, as well as original posters, book and magazine illustrations, announcements, etc., 350 in all. Every work that is color in the original is reproduced in color. The volume's reference value is enhanced by a Chronology, Exhibition History, Bibliography, Concordances, and Index."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Mixed Dates written by Robert Gunkle Barnhill and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dream Quartet written by June Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I received four stories over a few months from dreams that came over a period of days and stayed in my mind until I wrote them down, and others via my subconscious. When I was sitting in my car at the beach and events happened that forced me to go home and sit at my computer, the stories came at great speed into my mind, and I typed them out and read them afterwards. The first is about a young girl who has moved to London for her new job working for the government. She meets a young gypsy who wants to tell her something. They have a connection, and events lead her to join him in the summer at the gypsy encampment, where she learns of her true family. Her life changes from there. The second story, again from a dream over a period of days, is a love story. A girl has a past that gets in the way. The third story I love. I was sitting in my car at the beach and words ran across the book I was trying to read. I drove home, and before I arrived at my door, the words were pushing their way into my head. I sat and typed as fast as my fingers could keep me going, and then it ended. I did not know what I wrote, so I read the story: an amusing plan by six young adults to have a mystery holiday, while at the same time creating fun things for each of them to do while waiting for clues at their hotel, each one filled with mischief. It had an amusing twist for the ending. However, that night I had to get up and go to my computer and continue with a second part to the story. I really enjoyed it. The final story was very emotional for me. There was heartache, the mystery of where your soul goes after death, how life continues on a new path, and who is in charge.
Download or read book The Zapping of America written by Paul Brodeur and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the ways in which the entire population of the United States is being exposed to dangerous levels of microwave radiation and points to a conspiracy of silence between the Department of Defense and the electronics industry
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Download or read book Helen Hunt Jackson written by Kate Phillips and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramona, continuously in print for over a century, has become a cultural icon, but Jackson's prolific career left us with much more, notably her achievements as a prose writer and her work as an early activist on behalf of Native Americans. This long-overdue biography of Jackson's remarkable life and times reintroduces a distinguished figure in American letters and restores Helen Hunt Jackson to her rightful place in history.".
Download or read book Catering Management written by Nancy Loman Scanlon and published by LibreDigital. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catering Management, Third Edition gives detailed advice on all the crucial business aspects of on- and off-premise catering. The Third Edition features special new material on non-hotel catering operations—such as small business management and running your own catering operation. It presents fresh information on menu design and pricing, complete with illustrative menu examples and tips for using software tools to create enticing menus.
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