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The Earth and its Moon

By: Chris Oxlade

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The Earth and its Moon

By: Chris Oxlade

Describes the surface, atmosphere, and characteristics of Earth and the moon.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1404237348

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Wild Nights Out

The Magic of Exploring the Outdoors After Dark

By: Chris Salisbury

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Wild Nights Out

The Magic of Exploring the Outdoors After Dark

By: Chris Salisbury

The book gives adults ideas for activities to get kids outside after the sun goes down, from night hikes to trapping moths. It’s also a fascinating meditation on humans’ relationship with darkness.”—Outside "A fun, inventive adventure guide about helping children explore nature after dark . . . Its activities are a great excuse to turn off the television, set down smartphones, and explore the rich, mysterious world just beyond the back door."—Foreword Reviews The go-to guide for exploring nature at night, whether on summer holidays, weekends away or even back garden adventures! Foreword by Chris Packham, author, naturalist, and BBC presenter Learn how to call for owls, walk like a fox and expand your sensory perceptions. Wild Nights Out is a wonderful new hands-on guide for those who wish to take kids (of all ages) outdoors for fun, thrilling nighttime nature adventures. Parents, grandparents, teachers and nature educators alike will discover a wealth of unique activities to explore the natural world from dusk till dawn. Alongside games, walks and exercises to expand our senses, storyteller and outdoor educator Chris Salisbury will bring this unexplored nocturnal dimension to life with lore about badgers, bats and minibeasts as well as tales of the constellations and planets to share around the campfire. In Wild Nights Out you can expect to find: 25 fun and informative games and activities Practical information on how to conduct night walks safely Animal facts and stargazing stories Beautiful black-and-white illustrations throughout Nature has so much to offer at night, so let Wild Nights Out be your guide to the dark. It will boost the resilience and self-confidence of children and adults, and instill a lifelong love of having fun in the outdoors when the sun goes down.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603589945

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9781603589949

Blood Relations

Menstruation and the Origins of Culture

By: Chris Knight

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Blood Relations

Menstruation and the Origins of Culture

By: Chris Knight

The emergence of symbolic culture is generally linked with the development of the hunger-gatherer adaptation based on a sexual division of labor. This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of how this symbolic domain originated. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biography and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified extension of primate behavior and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and political revolution initiated by women. Culture became established, says Knight, when evolving human females began to assert collective control over their own sexuality, refusing sex to all males except those who came to them with provisions. Women usually timed their ban on sexual relations with their periods of infertility while they were menstruating, and to the extent that their solidarity drew women together, these periods tended to occur in synchrony. The result was that every month with the onset of menstruation, sexual relations were ruptured in a collective, ritualistic way as the prelude to each successful hunting expedition. This ritual act was the means through which women motivated men not only to hunt but also to concentrate energies on bringing back the meat. Knight shows how this hypothesis sheds light on the roots of such cultural traditions as totemic rituals, incest and menstrual taboos, blood-sacrifice, and hunters’ atonement rites. Providing detailed ethnographic documentation, he also explains how Native American, Australian Aboriginal, and other magico-religious myths can be read as derivatives of the same symbolic logic.

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Yale University Press

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030018655X

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9780300186550

The Sky at Night

Answers to Questions from Across the Universe

By: Chris North,Sir Patrick Moore

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The Sky at Night

Answers to Questions from Across the Universe

By: Chris North,Sir Patrick Moore

Celebrating the 55th anniversary of The Sky at Night, this book collects and answers questions sent in by viewers. With sections on the solar system, the bizarre and unexplained, space missions, and more, this is an exciting journey into space for the novice astronomer and the lifelong stargazer alike. Discover how scientists work out the gravity of planets, what the 'Great Attractor' is and the basic principles of space navigation. Learn how to start observing the sky, what event inspired Patrick Moore to take up astronomy, and just how many of his cats are named after celestial bodies. From comets to black holes and Orion to eclipses, The Sky at Night is the ultimate introduction to the wonders and mysteries of the universe.

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Random House

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1446416763

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Xi

By: Chris Landau

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Xi

By: Chris Landau

Xi is part one of the XiFiSy Trilogy. It is action packed from line one and the pace never slows. It is the story of the growth of our heroine Xi, as she gains power and knowledge to travel from her own antimatter universe to ours.The heroines of Earth are brilliant, clairvoyant, empathetic and courageous. This is their story too as these Chinese, South African and Russian Astronauts begin their tumultuous journey to the stars. Two of the Earthy heroines are in quest of people they have lost. The other is searching for a universal force to protect the elephants that are being decimated by mankind's indifference. Battles range from planetary to galactic to universal, and finally to multiversal of multiversal in scale. The reader will love this journey, our heroines take and want them all to succeed against interplanetary and intergalactic sentients of immense power. Humour is there to lessen the tension and give perspective to their epic struggles. The lives of our heroines are rich in diversity of place and in density-time. So get this first book, Xi, now of the XiFiSy Trilogy and get to know their characters and their journey before the XiiFiSy Trilogy is made into a major motion picture success. Be the first to journey with Xi to the stars. This sweeping action adventure never slows in pace or in surprises. It will open your mind to the infinite.The surprises keep building, to the end of book 1 and to the end of the XiFiSy Trilogy. You will be astounded by XiFiSy's originality. Book 2,(XiFiSy) and Book 3, (Xing) of the Trilogy are now available, so the adventure does not end with Xi. Get Xi today. It will change your perspective of the Multiverse we live in. It is exciting and mind warping so you never have to come down to Earth.

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Christian J Landau

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1386031860

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How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe

By: Chris Impey

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How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe

By: Chris Impey

“Impey combines the vision of a practicing scientist with the voice of a gifted storyteller.”—Dava Sobel In this vibrant, eye-opening tour of milestones in the history of our universe, Chris Impey guides us through space and time, leading us from the familiar sights of the night sky to the dazzlingly strange aftermath of the Big Bang. What if we could look into space and see not only our place in the universe but also how we came to be here? As it happens, we can. Because it takes time for light to travel, we see more and more distant regions of the universe as they were in the successively greater past. Impey uses this concept—"look-back time"—to take us on an intergalactic tour that is simultaneously out in space and back in time. Performing a type of cosmic archaeology, Impey brilliantly describes the astronomical clues that scientists have used to solve fascinating mysteries about the origins and development of our universe. The milestones on this journey range from the nearby to the remote: we travel from the Moon, Jupiter, and the black hole at the heart of our galaxy all the way to the first star, the first ray of light, and even the strange, roiling conditions of the infant universe, an intense and volatile environment in which matter was created from pure energy. Impey gives us breathtaking visual descriptions and also explains what each landmark can reveal about the universe and its history. His lucid, wonderfully engaging scientific discussions bring us to the brink of modern cosmology and physics, illuminating such mind-bending concepts as invisible dimensions, timelessness, and multiple universes. A dynamic and unforgettable portrait of the cosmos, How It Began will reward its readers with a deeper understanding of the universe we inhabit as well as a renewed sense of wonder at its beauty and mystery.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393083055

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9780393083057

National Theatre Connections 2018

The Blue Electric Wind; The Changing Room; The Free9; The Ceasefire Babies; These Bridges; When They Go Low; Want; The Sweetness of a Sting; Dungeness

By: Brad Birch,Chinonyerem Odimba,Alice Birch,Chris Bush,In-Sook Chappell,Fiona Doyle,Phoebe Éclair Powell,Natalie Mitchell,Barney Norris

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National Theatre Connections 2018

The Blue Electric Wind; The Changing Room; The Free9; The Ceasefire Babies; These Bridges; When They Go Low; Want; The Sweetness of a Sting; Dungeness

By: Brad Birch,Chinonyerem Odimba,Alice Birch,Chris Bush,In-Sook Chappell,Fiona Doyle,Phoebe Éclair Powell,Natalie Mitchell,Barney Norris

Theatre has a funny way of getting to the heart of who we are now and – particularly in the case of Connections – who we are going to be. Drawing together the work of nine leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2018 features work by some of the most exciting contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays offer young performers an engaging selection of material to perform, read or study. From friends building bridges and siblings breaking down walls; girls making their voice heard and boys searching for home; and not forgetting a band of unlikely action heroes taking control of the weather. The anthology contains nine play scripts along with imaginative production notes and exercises, as well as a short introduction to the writing process for the tenth Connections play [ BLANK ] by Alice Birch. National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production - from costume and set design to stage management and marketing campaigns. NT Connections have published over 150 original plays and regularly works with 500 theatre companies and 10,000 young people each year.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350066265

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9781350066267

The Solar System

By: Giles Sparrow,Judith John,Chris McNab

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The Solar System

By: Giles Sparrow,Judith John,Chris McNab

The Solar System examines topics on earth and its surrounding planets, from the sun all the way out to Pluto. Detailed illustrations and clear charts help explain these complicated topics.

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1502610183

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A-level Physics Challenging Drill Questions (Yellowreef)

By: Thomas Bond,Chris Hughes

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A-level Physics Challenging Drill Questions (Yellowreef)

By: Thomas Bond,Chris Hughes

• according to the latest syllabus • first to collect complete Planning and Data Analysis question-types • new questions from top schools & colleges since 2003 • complete and true encyclopedia of all question-types • exposes “surprise & trick” questions • complete answer keys • most efficient method of learning, hence saves time • arrange from easy-to-hard both by topics and question-types to facilitate easy absorption • full set of step-by-step solution approaches (available separately) • advanced trade book with teachers’ comments • complete and concise eBook editions available • also suitable for • Cambridge GCE AL (H1/H2) • Cambridge International AL • Books available for other subjects including Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Economics, English • Primary level, Secondary level, GCE O-level, GCE A-level, iGCSE, Cambridge A-level, Hong Kong DSE • visit www.yellowreef.com for sample chapters and more

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0797802401

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Worlds Without End

Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity

By: Chris Impey

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Worlds Without End

Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity

By: Chris Impey

The science of finding habitable planets beyond our solar system and the prospects for establishing human civilization away from our ever-less-habitable planetary home. Planet Earth, it turns out, may not be the best of all possible worlds—and lately humanity has been carelessly depleting resources, decimating species, and degrading everything needed for life. Meanwhile, human ingenuity has opened up a vista of habitable worlds well beyond our wildest dreams of outposts on Mars. Worlds without End is an expertly guided tour of this thrilling frontier in astronomy: the search for planets with the potential to host life. With the approachable style that has made him a leading interpreter of astronomy and space science, Chris Impey conducts readers across the vast, fast-developing field of astrobiology, surveying the dizzying advances carrying us ever closer to the discovery of life beyond Earth—and the prospect of humans living on another planet. Since the first exoplanet, or planet beyond our solar system, was discovered in 1995, over 4,000 more have been pinpointed, including hundreds of Earth-like planets, many of them habitable, detected by the Kepler satellite. With a view spanning astronomy, planetary science, geology, chemistry, and biology, Impey provides a state-of-the-art account of what’s behind this accelerating progress, what’s next, and what it might mean for humanity’s future. The existential threats that we face here on Earth lend urgency to this search, raising the question: Could space be our salvation? From the definition of habitability to the changing shape of space exploration—as it expands beyond the interests of government to the pursuits of private industry—Worlds without End shows us the science, on horizons near and far, that may hold the answers.

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MIT Press

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0262047667

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9780262047661

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables

By: Chris McLaughlin

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables

By: Chris McLaughlin

A garden of delight-and healthy, economical eating. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Heirloom Vegetables, readers will learn the rewards of growing heirlooms; find hundreds of descriptions and histories of a variety of available vegetables and find out how to make pollination work. ?Helps readers grow and eat locally, reduce or eliminate pesticides and additives, and save money along the way ?Includes step-by-step instructions for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing heirloom seeds ?For economical reasons-as well as concern for the environment and personal health-the popularity of gardening has grown in recent years

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Penguin

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1101445831

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9781101445839

Liber 420

Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult

By: Chris Bennett

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Liber 420

Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult

By: Chris Bennett

Although little known, cannabis and other psychoactive plants held a prominent and important role in the Occult arts of Alchemy and Magic, as well as being used in ritual initiations of certain secret societies. Find out about the important role cannabis played in helping to develop modern medicines through alchemical works. Cannabis played a pivotal role in spagyric alchemy, and appears in the works of alchemists such as Zosimos, Avicenna, Llull, Paracelsus, Cardano and Rabelais. Cannabis also played a pivotal role in medieval and renaissance magic and recipes with instructions for its use appear in a number of influential and important grimoires such as the Picatrix, Sepher Raxiel: Liber Salomonis, and The Book of Oberon. Could cannabis be the Holy Grail? With detailed historical references, the author explores the allegations the Templars were influenced by the hashish ingesting Assassins of medieval Islam, and that myths of the Grail are derived from the Persian traditions around the sacred beverage known as haoma, which was a preparation of cannabis,opium and other drugs. Many of the works discussed, have never been translated into English, or published in centuries. The unparalleled research in this volume makes it a potential perennial classic on the subjects of both medieval and renaissance history of cannabis, as well as the role of plants in the magical and occult traditions.

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TrineDay

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1634242270

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The Disneyland Encyclopedia

The Unofficial, Unauthorized, and Unprecedented History of Every Land, Attraction, Restaurant, Shop, and Major Event in the Original Magic Kingdom

By: Chris Strodder

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The Disneyland Encyclopedia

The Unofficial, Unauthorized, and Unprecedented History of Every Land, Attraction, Restaurant, Shop, and Major Event in the Original Magic Kingdom

By: Chris Strodder

Spanning the entire history of the park, from its founding more than 50 years ago to the present, this fascinating book explores 500 attractions, restaurants, stores, events, and significant people from Disneyland. Each of the main encyclopedia entries illuminates the history of a Disneyland landmark, revealing the initial planning strategies for the park’s iconic attractions and detailing how they evolved over the decades. Enriching this unique A-to-Z chronicle are profiles of the personalities who imagined and engineered the kingdom known as “The Happiest Place on Earth.” Discover unbuilt concepts, including Liberty Street, Rock Candy Mountain, and Chinatown, and delight in fascinating trivia about long-lost Disneyland features, from the real rifles in the shooting gallery that used to be located on Main Street to the jet-packed Rocket Man who flew above Tomorrowland. Overflowing with meticulously researched details and written in a spirited, accessible style, The Disneyland Encyclopedia is a comprehensive and entertaining exploration of the most-influential, most-renovated, and most-loved theme park in the world!

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Santa Monica Press

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1595808469

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Realizing Tomorrow

The Path to Private Spaceflight

By: Chris Dubbs,Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom

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Realizing Tomorrow

The Path to Private Spaceflight

By: Chris Dubbs,Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom

Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishment of a government-run space program, and the Ansari X PRIZE-winning flights of SpaceShipOne, the greatest achievement of a private space program. Now, as we hover on the threshold of commercial spaceflight, authors Chris Dubbs and Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom look back at how we got to this point. Their book traces the lives of the individuals who shared the dream that private individuals and private enterprise belong in space.Realizing Tomorrowprovides a behind-the-scenes look at the visionaries, the crackpots, the financial schemes, the legal wrangling, the turf battles, and--underpinning the entire drama--the overwhelming desire of ordinary people to visit outer space. A compelling story of the pioneers of commercial spaceflight--both American and Soviet/Russian--and their efforts to open the final frontier to everyone, this book traces the path to private spaceflight even as it offers an instructive, entertaining, and cautionary note about its future.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803235275

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9780803235274

Making a Monstrous Halloween

Themed Parties, Activities and Events

By: Chris Kullstroem

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Making a Monstrous Halloween

Themed Parties, Activities and Events

By: Chris Kullstroem

Halloween is one of the most popular holidays, known for its fun and creativity for all ages. This work offers instructions and tips for Halloween-related activities and events for a variety of settings, from school to work to home to the local graveyard. History, crafts, decorations, games, trips, and other seasonal activities are described in detail.

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McFarland

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0786453826

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9780786453825

Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine

By: Thinley Gyatso,Chris Hakim

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Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine

By: Thinley Gyatso,Chris Hakim

Tibetan medicine is a rarified field with few publications in English; it is also one of the most comprehensive of alternative therapies, addressing body, mind, and spirit. Written for intermediate-level practitioners, Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine brings this important healing tradition to Western practitioners. The book begins by summarizing the basics behind Tibetan medical theory and its methods of diagnosis. The second part of the book presents the core concepts of wind, bile, phlegm, dark phlegm, epidemic fever, heat, and cold, along with their corresponding nosologies, differential diagnoses, and treatments. The third section covers therapeutics, with an emphasis on medicinals—the mainstay of contemporary practice. A chapter on therapeutic strategies discusses unclear diagnosis and other challenging clinical situations. Other chapters explore the crucial components of lifestyle and diet. Each herb and animal product used in Tibetan medicine is profiled on its own page, with its Tibetan, common, and botanical names; its key properties and clinical uses; its known pharmacological properties; and a simple illustration. This useful handbook concludes with a description and indepth analysis of some 60 frequently used formulas.

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North Atlantic Books

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1556438672

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To a Distant Day

The Rocket Pioneers

By: Chris Gainor

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To a Distant Day

The Rocket Pioneers

By: Chris Gainor

Insightful, instructive, and definitely worth the read."--Greg Andres, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada "As someone who has been teaching a course on space exploration for many years and has visited most of NASA's space centers, I have found plenty of new and valuable material in To a Distant Day. . . . I recommend the book to all who wish to know more about the conditions, people, and discoveries between 1890 and 1960 that led to the space age."--Pangratios Papacosta, Physics Today Although the dream of flying is as old as the human imagination, the notion of rocketing into space may have originated with Chinese gunpowder experiments during the Middle Ages. Rockets as both weapons and entertainment are examined in this engaging history of how human beings acquired the ability to catapult themselves into space. Chris Gainor's irresistible narrative introduces us to pioneers such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberth, who pointed the way to the cosmos by generating the earliest wave of international enthusiasm for space exploration. It shows us German engineer Wernher von Braun creating the V-2, the first large rocket, which, though opening the door to space, failed utterly as the "wonder weapon" it was meant to be. From there Gainor follows the space race to the Soviet Union and the United States, giving us a close look at the competitive hysteria that led to Sputnik, satellites, space probes, and--finally--human flight into space in 1961. As much a story of cultural ambition and personal destiny as of scientific progress and technological history, To a Distant Day offers a complete and thoroughly compelling account of humanity's determined efforts--sometimes poignant, sometimes amazing, sometimes mad--to leave the earth behind.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496211588

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2012 - the Great Shift

By: Chris Kasparis

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2012 - the Great Shift

By: Chris Kasparis

Are the London 2012 Olympic Games an Ascension event? We are at the tipping-point Earth is in crisis - can our positive, human energies help us transcend into a new enlightened Humanity? What have the Indigo Kids got to do with 2012? Ancient prophesies sacred number calendar systems time-change codes secrets of personal and global awakening are all revealed in this extraordinary book and useful 2012 diary. Chris sets out a positive vision of hope, world good-will and salvation for Humanity and planet Earth. His investigations provide conclusive proof of immense changes which the Ancient Mayan time-keepers prophesied over 2,400 years ago. Pain-staking research into ancient tribal teachings, astronomy, astrology, controversial cutting-edge science and esoteric wisdom teachings are presented in a practical, highly informative way. The 2012 diary sections give details of spiritual festivals solstices equinoxes and important moon phases. It will inspire you to focus your energies on positive initiatives to help bring about planetary transformation. Align with his uplifting message and help Humanity ascend into a new Golden Age of enlightenment.

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1481799959

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Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith

A Philosophical Account

By: Nathaniel Goldberg,Chris Gavaler

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Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith

A Philosophical Account

By: Nathaniel Goldberg,Chris Gavaler

This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read. It offers an overarching philosophy of revision concerning works of fiction, fact, and faith, revealing unexpected insights about the philosophy of language, the metaphysics of fact and fiction, and the history and philosophy of science and religion. Using the novels of J.R.R. Tolkien as exemplars, the authors introduce a fundamental distinction between the purely physical and the linguistic aspects of texts. They then demonstrate how two competing theories of reference—descriptivism and referentialism—are instead constitutive of a single semantic account needed to explain all kinds of revision. The authors also propose their own metaphysical foundations of fiction and fact. The next part of the book brings the authors’ philosophy of revision into dialogue with Thomas Kuhn’s famous analysis of factual, and specifically scientific, change. It also discusses a complex episode in the history of paleontology, demonstrating how scientific and popular texts can diverge over time. Finally, the authors expand their philosophy of revision to religious texts, arguing that, rather than being distinct, such texts are always read as other kinds, that faith tends to be more important as evidence for religious texts than for others, and that the latter explains why religious communities tend to have remarkable historical longevity. Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith offers a unique and comprehensive account of the philosophy of revision. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophy of literature, literary theory and criticism, and history and philosophy of science and religion.

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Routledge

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100016411X

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Shuttles and Space Missions

By: Giles Sparrow,Judith John,Chris McNab

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Shuttles and Space Missions

By: Giles Sparrow,Judith John,Chris McNab

Shuttles and Space Missions examines topics on space exploration, from early orbital missions to the first astronauts on the moon. Detailed illustrations and clear charts help explain these complicated topics.

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1502610167

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Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature

By: Yifeng Sun,Chris Song

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Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature

By: Yifeng Sun,Chris Song

Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature examines issues in cross-cultural dialogue in connection with translation and modern Chinese art and literature from interdisciplinary perspectives. This comprises the text-image dialogue in the context of Chinese modernity, and cross-cultural interaction between modern literature in Chinese and other literatures. This edited collection approaches these issues with discrete foci and approaches, and the ten chapters in this volume are to be divided into two distinct parts. The first part highlights the mutual effects between literary texts and visual images in the media of book, painting, and film, and the second part includes contributions by scholars of literary translation.

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135100123X

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Heaven's Message

How to Read It Nowadays

By: Chris Stubbs

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Heaven's Message

How to Read It Nowadays

By: Chris Stubbs

This is a Teach Yourself, as well as a Self-Help book. Teach Yourself because it presents the astrological background and required for understanding the simple, stepwise production and interpretation of natal charts using a computer. Self Help because it describes an impartial method of generating Heavens Message for each of us from the combined interpretations of matched epoch and birth charts as illustrated by those for Diana, Princess of Wales, and for Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty- sixth president of the United States. The book closes by suggesting ways of branching out from the natal studies into, for example, predictive relationship and political astrology.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466906790

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9781466906792

A-level Physics Complete Yearly Solutions 2012 (Yellowreef)

By: Thomas Bond,Chris Hughes

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A-level Physics Complete Yearly Solutions 2012 (Yellowreef)

By: Thomas Bond,Chris Hughes

• completely cover all question-types since 1996 • expose all “trick” questions • make available full set of all possible step-by-step solution approaches • provide examination reports revealing common mistakes & unusual wrong habits • give short side-reading notes • teach easy-to-implement check-back procedure • Complete edition and concise edition eBooks available

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0797802355

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Shakespearean Maternities

Crises of Conception in Early Modern England

By: Chris Laoutaris

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Shakespearean Maternities

Crises of Conception in Early Modern England

By: Chris Laoutaris

This study explores maternity in the 'disciplines' of early modern England. Placing the reproductive female body centre-stage in Shakespeare's theatre, Laoutaris ranges beyond the domestic sphere in order to recuperate the wider intellectual, epistemological, and archaeological significance of maternity to the Renaissance imagination. Focusing on 'anatomy' in Hamlet, 'natural history' in The Tempest, 'demonology' in Macbeth, and 'heraldry' in Antony and Cleopatra, this book reveals the ways in which the maternal body was figured in, and in turn contributed towards the re-conceptualisation of, bodies of knowledge. Laoutaris argues that Shakespeare resists a monolithic concept of motherhood, presenting instead a range of contested 'maternities' which challenge the distinctive 'ways of knowing' these early disciplines worked to impose on the order of created nature.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748630422

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How Do Astronauts Wee in Space?

By: Chris Mitchell

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How Do Astronauts Wee in Space?

By: Chris Mitchell

DID YOU KNOW THAT. . . HUMANS have sent JELLYFISH into SPACE, or that there is a PLANET made of ICE that’s on FIRE?DO YOU WANT TO KNOW . . . Why SPACE smells like RASPBERRIES?AMAZE YOUR FRIENDS . . . With PLANETS made from DIAMONDS, STARS that could destroy our SOLAR SYSTEM and how long HUMANS could SURVIVE in space!This book is packed with the wildest, weirdest, funniest, filthiest, foulest, wisest, grossest, brainiest, biggest and best facts about space and the universe.

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Dino Books

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178418845X

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3D Game Programming for Kids

Create Interactive Worlds with JavaScript

By: Chris Strom

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3D Game Programming for Kids

Create Interactive Worlds with JavaScript

By: Chris Strom

You know what's even better than playing games? Programming your own! Make your own online games, even if you're an absolute beginner. Let your imagination come to 3D life as you learn real-world programming skills with the JavaScript programming language - the language used everywhere on the web. This new edition is completely revised, and takes advantage of new programming features to make game programming even easier to learn. Plus, new effects make your games even cooler. When you're done, you're going to be amazed at what you can create. Jump right in! Start programming cool stuff on page 1. Keep building new and different things until the very last page. This book wants you to play. Not just play games, but play with code. Play with programming. Because the best way to learn something is to have fun with it! This second edition is updated from start to finish to make it even easier to get started programming in JavaScript. Every example has been updated to make it easier, with new example games to explore and new 3D effects that make your games even more fun! Want a red donut? You can make hundreds of them, spinning around like mad. Want to create a star field? Make a hundred or a thousand stars. Make them red, green, or blue. Explosions? Fireworks? Planets? It's up to you. And, using a code editor created especially for this book, you'll program right in your web browser. You'll see the results of your work and imagination right away - right next to the code that you just typed! Along the way, you'll pick up a ton of programming knowledge, and dive in even deeper with some more advanced chapters. Whatever you want to do, this book has your back. Best of all, you get to create awesome games and say, "I made this!" What You Need: You need the latest version of the Google Chrome Web browser, available for free from https://chrome.google.com. You also need an Internet connection to access the ICE Code Editor the first time. ICE Code Editor will be loaded onto your computer, so you won't need Internet access for later projects.

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Pragmatic Bookshelf

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1680506250

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The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films

By: Chris Fellner

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The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films

By: Chris Fellner

Dracula and Frankenstein. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. These are just a few of the icons of Hammer Films. To horror fans, the name “Hammer” conjures visions of hissing vampires and buxom beauties in low-cut negligees. But Britain’s Hammer Film Productions, Ltd., was much more than just a fright factory. For more than thirty years, the company turned out neatly crafted entries in a variety of genres, ranging from comedies to pirate yarns, murder mysteries to war pictures. At the heart of Hammer’s remarkable success was its access to American financing and American theaters. But more than that, the individuals behind the scenes knew how to make good films on tight budgets. These pictures have withstood the test of time and continue to be enjoyed all over the world. The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films details the surprising story of Britain’s most successfulindependent film company and includes Entries on all of Hammer’s feature films, featurettes, and television episodes, including staff, production details, US and UK release data, cast, synopses, reviews, behind-the-scenes quotes, and US financial participation Capsule biographies of directors, producers, technicians, and actors––including the lovely ladies of Hammer glamour Special entries on Hammer-related topics, including “tax shelter” companies, Hammerscope, the British Board of Film Censors, and the recent Hammer reboot An annotated appendix of more than 150 unrealized Hammer projects A chronological, annotated listing of every production and coproduction from the company’s inception in 1934 An invaluable resource, this volume includes snapshots of the men and women who made the studio a success—including Peter Cushing, Terence Fisher, Christopher Lee, Ingrid Pitt, and Jimmy Sangster—as well as such iconic films as The Curse of Frankenstein, The Devil Rides Out, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, and Vampire Circus. With more than six hundred entries, The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films is a must-have for every fan of this unique studio.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538126591

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Fields, Forces and Synthesis

By: Mark Ellse,Chris Honeywill

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Fields, Forces and Synthesis

By: Mark Ellse,Chris Honeywill

Providing thorough coverage of key topics in physics, the revised edition of 'Fields, Forces and Synthesis' meets the latest Edexcel specifications for A and AS levels.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748776664

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Zanzibar

By: Chris McIntyre,Susan McIntyre

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Zanzibar

By: Chris McIntyre,Susan McIntyre

The seventh edition of the most thorough, accurate and frequently updated guidebook to Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia.

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Bradt Travel Guides

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1841622540

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9781841622545

The Astrophotography Manual

A Practical and Scientific Approach to Deep Space Imaging

By: Chris Woodhouse

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The Astrophotography Manual

A Practical and Scientific Approach to Deep Space Imaging

By: Chris Woodhouse

The Astrophotography Manual is for those photographers who aspire to move beyond using standard SLR cameras and editing software, and who are ready to create beautiful images of nebulas, galaxies, clusters, and the solar system. Beginning with a brief astronomy primer, this book takes readers through the full astrophotography process, from choosing and using equipment through image capture, calibration, and processing. This combination of technical background information and the hands-on approach brings the science down to earth with a practical method to plan for success. Features include: Over 400 images, graphs, and tables to illustrate these concepts A wide range of hardware to be used, including smartphones, tablets, and the latest mount technologies How to utilize a variety of leading software such as Maxim DL, Nebulosity, Sequence Generator Pro, Photoshop, and PixInsight Case studies showing how and when to use certain tools and overcoming technical challenges How sensor performance and light pollution relate to image quality and exposure planning

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CRC Press

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1317680154

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Lucky Duck

By: Chris Kurtz

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Lucky Duck

By: Chris Kurtz

From the critically acclaimed author of The Adventures of a South Pole Pig comes a heartwarming middle grade animal adventure story about Frank, the odd one out in a family of ducks, who discovers both his courage and unique identity as he braves the unknown to save his family from an invading fox. Between his unusually giant feet and early hatching, Frank is notably different from his siblings Darryl and Darlene. Determined to make his mom proud, Frank strives to be the best duckling he can be. Despite his efforts, Frank seems drawn to unduckly pursuits and doesn’t understand why certain rules exist, such as not speaking to the friendly turtle who moonlights as a rock. When the pond community is threatened by a fox, Frank is the one to venture into the forest where danger—and discoveries—lurk at every turn on his quest to save his home.

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HarperCollins

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0063311364

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9780063311367

Teaching Number Sense, Kindergarten

By: Chris Confer

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Teaching Number Sense, Kindergarten

By: Chris Confer

The teaching number sense series focuses on the critical role that number sense plays in students' developing mathematical understanding. Number sense encompasses a wide range of abilities, including being able to make reasonable estimates and to think and reason flexibly.

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Math Solutions

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0941355586

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9780941355582

The Chart of Tomorrows

A Gaunt and Bone Novel

By: Chris Willrich

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The Chart of Tomorrows

A Gaunt and Bone Novel

By: Chris Willrich

The poet Persimmon Gaunt and the thief Imago Bone had sought only to retire from adventuring and start a family, but they never reckoned on their baby becoming the chosen vessel of the mystical energies of a distant Eastern land. With their son Innocence hunted by various factions hoping to use him as a tool, they kept him safe at the cost of trapping him in a pocket dimension of accelerated time. Now free, the thirteen-year-old Innocence has rejected his parents and his "destiny" and has made dangerous friends in a barbaric Western land of dragon-prowed ships and rugged fjords. Desperately, Gaunt and Bone seek to track him down, along with their companion Snow Pine and her daughter A-Girl-Is-A-Joy, who was once trapped with Innocence too. But as the nomadic Karvaks and their war-balloons strike west, and a troll-king spins his webs, and Joy is herself chosen by the spirit of the very land Innocence has fled to, Gaunt and Bone find themselves at the heart of a vast struggle -- and their own son is emerging from that conflict as a force of evil. To save him and everything they know, they turn to a dangerous magical book, The Chart of Tomorrows, that reveals pathways through time. Upon the treacherous seas of history, Gaunt and Bone must face the darkness in each other’s pasts, in order to rescue their future.

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Pyr

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1633880583

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The Chronicles of Harris Burdick

Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales / With an Introduction by Lemony Snicket

By: Chris Van Allsburg

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The Chronicles of Harris Burdick

Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales / With an Introduction by Lemony Snicket

By: Chris Van Allsburg

An inspired collection of short stories by an all-star cast of best-selling storytellers based on the thought-provoking illustrations in Chris Van Allsburg’s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. For more than twenty-five years, the illustrations in the extraordinary Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg have intrigued and entertained readers of all ages. Thousands of children have been inspired to weave their own stories to go with these enigmatic pictures. Now we’ve asked some of our very best storytellers to spin the tales. Enter The Chronicles of Harris Burdick to gather this incredible compendium of stories: mysterious, funny, creepy, poignant, these are tales you won’t soon forget. This inspired collection of short stories features many remarkable, best-selling authors in the worlds of both adult and children's literature: Sherman Alexie, M.T. Anderson, Kate DiCamillo, Cory Doctorow, Jules Feiffer, Tabitha King, Lois Lowry, Gregory Maguire, Walter Dean Myers, Linda Sue Park, Louis Sachar, Jon Scieszka, Lemony Snicket, and Chris Van Allsburg himself. NOTE: "The House on Maple Street" by Stephen King is not included in this ebook edition.

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054767760X

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Dark Side of the Moon

Prima's Official Strategy Guide

By: Chris Jensen,Doug Radcliffe

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Dark Side of the Moon

Prima's Official Strategy Guide

By: Chris Jensen,Doug Radcliffe

Comprehensive walkthrough and quick walkthrough All puzzles solved Object index revealing all object locations and uses Dig up behind-the-scenes information on the making ofDark Side of the Moon Complete character descriptions

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Prima Games

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0761517375

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9780761517375

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