Download or read book Visitor 2 Goonhilly Enigma written by Tony Harmsworth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume in a trilogy dealing with the discovery of an alien artefact which has been found in low earth orbit by Dr. Evelyn Slater and Yuri Bulgakov using the scaffy wagon. Secrecy had immediately descended upon the project. Only a few select individuals knew the true nature of what had been found. Evelyn and Yuri's mission changed from debris collection to building the Cluster laboratory to study the alien device. Now back on Earth, Evelyn, who is also an astronomer and psychologist, becomes director of the Goonhilly Earth Station with responsibility for unravelling the artefact's secrets. Evelyn's team of hackers and linquists throw themselves into a study of the mass of data being downloaded from the alien artefact's memory banks, finding first images then language. She briefs the British Cabinet but secrecy is maintained until it becomes impossible to hide the discovery from the population of the world any longer. Wonderful story telling - you will not put this book down.

Download or read book Visitor 1 Scaffy Wagon written by Tony Harmsworth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From where had it come? The first ever space junk elimination mission encounters a badly damaged object not manufactured on planet earth. Who could have made it? What was its purpose? The mission changes. Secrecy is suddenly imposed. Is this the first alien object found or are the rumours about previous encounters true after all? The chance of our civilisation making contact with another is unimaginably tiny. If we sent a message to a neighbour today it could take years to arrive. Would the neighbour be home to receive it? Their civilisation may not begin for millions of years or might have died a billion years previously. For us to make contact, not only does the neighbour have to be intelligent and technologically advanced, already a remote possibility, but they also need to have a civilisation at the same time as us. The window of opportunity is tiny. This story tells of just one such attempted communication.

Download or read book Visitor 3 Enmity Eternity written by Tony Harmsworth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the final volume of a trilogy of novellas about the discovery of a badly damaged alien artefact in low Earth orbit. Dr Evelyn Slater, its discoverer, managed the construction of a Cluster laboratory near the ISS to hold the device while it was examined by scientists. She returns to Earth and takes charge of the investigation of the data downloaded from the device. Images are found. Secrecy was in danger when an image of an actual alien was downloaded and Evelyn is given the task of preparing the world for the news that we are no longer alone in the universe. A second device is found in orbit around Mars. It is being returned to Earth while irrational hatred of the aliens was growing. A message comes from MARS ONE to say that the alien device has come to life in the hold of the ship and Evelyn is to head a team to meet the alien when it arrives at the Cluster. What will it have to say? What was the purpose of its mission? Can it be kept safe from the xenophobes?

Download or read book Introduction to Satellite Communication written by Bruce R. Elbert and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a technical or management professional, you can turn to this highly understandable and comprehensive overview of satellite technology, applications, and management. Thoroughly updated and expanded, this third edition boasts a wealth of new material, including added coverage of systems engineering as applied to satellite communications, clear explanations of all aspects of building and using a satellite systems, and discussions on digital communications and processing in modern satellite networks. The new edition also examines critical success factors and how to avoid the pitfalls in selecting satellite and ground resources. The book covers all the fundamentals of satellites, ground control systems, and earth stations, considering the design and operation of each major segment. You gain a practical understanding of the basic construction and usage of commercial satellite networks-how parts of a satellite system function, how various components interact, which role each component plays, and which factors are the most critical to success. Moreover, the book explores the economic, legal, and management issues involved in running the business of satellite communications.

Download or read book Media Technology and Society written by Brian Winston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited.

Download or read book The Shadow Factory written by James Bamford and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since his reporting revealed the agency’s existence in the 1980s. Now Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as the agency increasingly turns its high-tech ears on the American public. The Shadow Factory reconstructs how the NSA missed a chance to thwart the 9/11 hijackers and details how this mistake has led to a heightening of domestic surveillance. In disturbing detail, Bamford describes exactly how every American’s data is being mined and what is being done with it. Any reader who thinks America’s liberties are being protected by Congress will be shocked and appalled at what is revealed here.

Download or read book Theatre archaeology written by Mike Pearson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.

Download or read book Hidden Federation written by Tony Harmsworth and published by Harmsworth.net. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning: It is essential to read the trilogy in the correct order – FEDERATION; FEDERATION & EARTH; and finally HIDDEN FEDERATION. Alien university professor and author, Yol Rummy Blin Breganin, continues his research on the planet Earth. He introduces, into this final volume, some stories from the distant past of the Federation, which provide a greater insight into the vast alien empire. In the only free and independent part of the planet Earth – the United States of America – the populace is becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the growing authoritarianism. With California in revolt, can the USA retain its own independence in this rebellious climate? Elsewhere on Earth, in the Federation territories, is life becoming too comfortable for the ordinary humans? Will the world be allowed to settle down to its life of luxury or will it turn the new utopia into hell as it has always done in the past? The final part of the Federation Trilogy contains the answers.

Download or read book The Worldwide History of Telecommunications written by Anton A. Huurdeman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of the Information Age... how we got there and where we are going The exchange of information is essential for both the organization of nature and the social life of mankind. Until recently, communication between people was more or less limited by geographic proximity. Today, thanks to ongoing innovations in telecommunications, we live in an Information Age where distance has ceased to be an obstacle to the sharing of ideas. The Worldwide History of Telecommunications is the first comprehensive history ever written on the subject, covering every aspect of telecommunications from a global perspective. In clear, easy-to-understand language, the author presents telecommunications as a uniquely human achievement, dependent on the contributions of many ingenious inventors, discoverers, physicists, and engineers over a period spanning more than two centuries. From the crude signaling methods employed in antiquity all the way to today’s digital era, The Worldwide History of Telecommunications features complete and fascinating coverage of the groundbreaking innovations that have served to make telecommunications the largest industry on earth, including: Optical telegraphy Electrical telegraphy via wires and cables Telephony and telephone switching Radio transmission technologies Cryptography Coaxial and optical fiber networks Telex and telefax Multimedia applications Broad in scope, yet clear and logical in its presentation, this groundbreaking book will serve as an invaluable resource for anyone involved or merely curious about the ever evolving field of telecommunications. AAP-PSP 2003 Award Winner for excellence in the discipline of the "History of Science"

Download or read book The Visitor written by Tony Harmsworth and published by Harmsworth.net. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE VISITOR - hard, near-future science fiction for the reader who likes realism. Author's note: A minority of reviewers keep attacking me as an author owing to this book having some political correctness, some socialist arguments and an atheist character. All of these attributes are necessary to the story. Science fiction readers are supposed to embrace 'different' points of view and scenarios. I don't always support the views of my characters any more than Orwell did when he wrote 1984. Please bear that in mind or read the reviews before buying. Specialist astronaut Evelyn Slater encounters a small, badly damaged, ancient, alien artefact (British spelling) on the first ever space-junk elimination mission. Where was it from? Who sent it? International governments impose a security clampdown. Evelyn leads a team of hand-picked scientists who make amazing discoveries within the alien device. Secrecy becomes impossible to maintain. When the news is finally released, she becomes embroiled in international politics, worldwide xenophobic hatred and violence. This is book one of Tony Harmsworth’s First Contact series of novels. If you like realistic near-future stories which compel you to imagine yourself as the protagonist, The Visitor is the book for you. The Visitor – science fiction written for the 'thinking' reader, and with a wicked twist. Buy it now and be transported into orbit. Recent review "This is unquestionably the finest first contact novel I have ever read. "All of the activity that takes place in outer space is realistic, well-informed yet easygoing. It is a completely plausible milieu and this adds considerably to the gravitas and integrity of the plot and its theme. "The whole first contact scenario is depicted in a fresh, innovative way. By this I mean the technological side of the process of discovery and analysis of the object; and also the nature, integrity and motivations of several pivotal characters. The behaviour of other characters, of course, is sadly predictable, because this cannot be changed in any story one expects people to actually believe. "The way that conflict plays out is enormously satisfying to me. "I recommend this book very highly."

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Download or read book Loch Ness Nessie Me 6x9 Edition written by Tony Harmsworth and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with authority and a deep understanding of the mystery, the expeditions and the individual researchers, this is the first book to have been penned by a loch-side resident intimately involved in presenting the subject to the public for three decades. For anyone who wants to get to the truth about Loch Ness, this book is essential reading. However, It has more to offer than just the monster. Within its pages we discover how the Loch Ness Centre was conceived and created, and how this changed the lives of the author and his wife. The author's relationship with the researchers, the local businesses and even the black Benedictine monks is explained with great humour and pathos. This is a GEOGRAPHY of the world's most famous body of freshwater, the BIOGRAPHY of the most endearing monster of our time and the AUTOBIOGRAPHY of the best known commentator. All of this makes the book a most delightful and exciting read whether or not there be a Nessie in the great depths of Loch Ness.

Download or read book GCHQ written by Richard Aldrich and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we become ever-more aware of how our governments “eavesdrop” on our conversations, here is a gripping exploration of this unknown realm of the British secret service: Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ).

Download or read book Trees in Anglo Saxon England written by Della Hooke and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting gaining a growing cultural role. But they are also powerful icons in many pre-Christian religions, with a degree of tree symbolism found in Christian scripture too. This wide-ranging book explores both the "real", historical and archaeological evidence of trees and woodland, and as they are depicted in Anglo-Saxon literature and legend. Place-name and charter references cast light upon the distribution of particular tree species (mapped here in detail for the first time) and also reflect upon regional character in a period that was fundamental for the evolution of the present landscape. Della Hooke is Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham.

Download or read book Black in the British Frame written by Stephen Bourne and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated edition of Stephen Bourne's acclaimed and award-winning study, the author takes a personal look at the history of black people in popular British film and television. He documents, from original research and interviews, experiences and representations which have been ignored in previous media books about people of African descent. There are chapters about Paul Robeson, silent films, soap operas and much more--as well as several useful appendices including award winners and suggestions for further reading.

Download or read book The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe written by Marija Gimbutas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under the title: God and goddesses of Old Europe, 7000-3500 B.C.

Download or read book The Satellite Communication Applications Handbook written by Bruce R. Elbert and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of the best-selling first edition of The Satellite Communication Applications Handbook, the satellite communications industry has experienced explosive growth. Satellite radio, direct-to-home satellite television, satellite telephones, and satellite guidance for automobiles are now common and popular consumer products. Similarly, business, government, and defense organizations now rely on satellite communications for day-to-day operations. This second edition covers all the latest advances in satellite technology and applications including direct-to-home broadcasting, digital audio and video, and VSAT networks. Engineers get the latest technical insights into operations, architectures, and systems components.