Each chapter deals with a different class of object, covering the whole range of possibilities from the Moon, planets and stars to more specialized observations of comets, novae, and meteors. Paper. DLC: Astronomy - Amateur's manuals.

The Observational Amateur Astronomer (Practical Astronomy)

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

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An Archaeological Evolution

Biographies & Memoirs

Stanley A. South

Professionals & Academics

Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel

Vulpetti, Giovanni

Asperger's Syndrome, often characterized as a form of "high-functioning autism," is a poorly defined and little-understood neurological disorder. The people who suffer from the condition are usually highly intelligent, and as often as not capable of extraordinary feats of memory, calculation, and musicianship. In this wide-ranging report on Asperger's, Lawrence Osborne introduces us to those who suffer from the syndrome and to those who care for them as patients and as family. And, more importantly, he speculates on how, with our need to medicate and categorize every conceivable mental state, we are perhaps adding to their isolation, their sense of alienation from the "normal." -This is a book about the condition, and the culture surrounding Asperger's Syndrome as opposed to a guide about how to care for your child with Aspergers. -Examines American culture and the positive and negative perspectives on the condition. Some parents hope their child will be the next Glenn Gould or Bill Gates, others worry that their child is abnormal and overreact.

American Normal: The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome

Osborne, Lawrence

Parenting & Relationships

In a 1950 conversation at Los Alamos, four world-class scientists generally agreed, given the size of the Universe, that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations must be present. But one of the four, Enrico Fermi, asked, "If these civilizations do exist, where is everybody?" Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 million stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 million galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14 billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. Webb discusses in detail the 50 most cogent and intriguing solutions to Fermi's famous paradox.

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

Webb, Stephen

Reference

Biophages--a technology that hasn't been taken seriously by Western scientists for more than 50 years--may be making a comeback in the fight against fast-evolving microbes.

The Forgotten Cure: The Past And Future Of Phage Therapies

Anna Kuchment

Health, Fitness & Dieting

First Snow White encounters one of the Little People, then one of the Even Smaller People, and finally one of the Truly Infinitesimal People. And no matter how diligently she searches, the only dwarves she can find are collapsed stars! Clearly, she's not at home in her well-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale, but instead in a strange new landscape that features quantum behavior, the wavelike properties of particles, and the Uncertainty Principle. She (and we) must have entered, in short, one of the worlds created by Robert Gilmore, physicist and fabulist.

Once Upon a Universe: Not-so-Grimm tales of cosmology

Gilmore, Robert

Suppose someone claimed that we are not running out of petroleum? Or that life on Earth began below the surface of our planet? Or that oil and gas are not "fossil fuels"? Or that if we find extraterrestrial life it is likely to be within, not on, other planets? You might expect to hear statements like these from an author of science fiction. But what if they came from a renowned physicist, an indisputably brilliant scientist who has been called "one of the world's most original minds"? In the The Deep Hot Biosphere, Thomas Gold sets forth truly controversial and astonishing theories about where oil and gas come from, and how they acquire their organic "signatures." The conclusions he reaches in this book might be at first difficult to believe, but they are supported by a growing body of evidence, and by the indisputabel stature and seriousness Gold brings to any scientific enterprise. In this book we see a brilliant and boldly orginal thinker, increasingly a rarity in modern science, as he developes a revolutionary new view about the fundamental workings of our planet. Thomas Gold is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and an Emertius Professor at Cornell University. Regarded as one of the most creative and wide-ranging scientists of his generation, he has taughtat Cambridge University and Harvard, and for 20 years was the Director of the Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research.

The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels

Thomas Gold

Biological Sciences

In 1965, Vera Rubin was the first woman permitted to observe at Palomar Observatory. In the intervening years, she has become one of the world's finest and most respected astronomers. This particular collection of essays is compiled from work written over the past 15 years and deals with a variety of subjects in astronomy and astrophysics, specifically galaxies and dark matter. The book also contains biographical sketches of astronomers who have been colleagues and friends, providing a stimulating view of a woman in science. About the Author Since 1965 Vera Rubin has been a staff member at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dr. Rubin has authored nearly 200 papers on the structure of our galaxy, motions within other galaxies, and large scale motions in the universe. She has been a distinguished visiting astronomer at the Cerro Tololo Inter American Observatory in Chile; a Chancellor's Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; a President's Distinguished Visitor at Vassar College; and a Beatrice Tinsley visiting professor at the University of Texas, Austin.

Bright Galaxies Dark Matters (MASTERS OF MODERN PHYSICS)

Rubin, Vera C.

The earliest record of skiing is a 2,000-year-old pictograph from Rodoy, Norway. Only in the past 50 years, however, have the greatest advances been made in skiing technology. Now, The Physics of Skiing reveals what really happens when a skier hits the slopes, where the snow is always near the triple point -- the temperature at which the solid, liquid, and vapor phases co-exist.
Dr. Lind explains the surprising phenomena that occur at the triple point. For Instance, why will a downhill racer lose the race if he becomes airborne unnecessarily, while the winning racer pre-jumps drops in the course? And why does the winning slalom racer never skid his skis? These and many more slippery questions are answered in The Physics of Skiing. You will learn why alpine skis are designed differently from cross-country skis, how different types of snow affect one's skiing, and why cross-country skiers who step out of their bindings, then off the track, may fall up to their hips in snow. An historical perspective on the evolution of alpine skiing technique helps the reader grasp the now-universal concept of the carved ski turn and its relation to steered turns. And the book explains, once and for all, why ski instructors are forever telling their students to keep their shoulders perpendicular to the fall line.

The Physics of Skiing: Skiing at the Triple Point

Lind, David

Sanders, Scott P.

Mathematics

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