Author: Fabiola Johnson
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463302878
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
ABOUT THE BOOK Pluto and the Universe is a book that contains a play in English and Spanish and that could be read and/or staged by a minimum of ten and a maximum of seventeen, children, teens and adults alike. Intended for young audiences who not only will see and hear the characters who share outer space with Pluto, but will also reflect upon their place in the world and the importance of belonging, or not, to a particular group. With astronomical data and a story about an element who is expelled from the "system", spectators and readers are witnesses to an anecdote that is not so distant or different from one a human being can have here on Earth. The play takes place in 2006 (year on earth) in and around the solar system. The Sun has called for an alignment in order to inform the nine planets of the three recent requirements for classifying as a planet of the solar system. Firstly, they must orbit the Sun, secondly, have a spheroid shape and also clear their orbital environment. The audience will learn how all of the planets meet these requirements, except for Pluto who is not willing to go. He must meet Charon, Halley's Comet, an asteroid, a star and the Oort Cloud in order to comprehend the importance of being unique and a necessary part of this wonderful place called, the Universe. Plutón y el Universo es un libro que contiene una obra de teatro en inglés y en español ideal para un mínimo de diez actores y un máximo de diecisiete. Podrá ser leída y/o puesta en escena por niños, jóvenes y adultos. Dirigida a un público de niños y jóvenes que no sólo verán y escucharán a los personajes que comparten el espacio exterior con Plutón, también reflexionarán sobre su lugar en el mundo y la importancia de pertenecer o no, a un grupo en particular. Con datos astronómicos y una historia de un integrante que es expulsado de su lugar, podrán ser testigos de una anécdota que no es tan lejana o distinta a la de un humano en la Tierra. La obra se desarrolla en el año 2006 (de los terrícolas) en el sistema solar y sus alrededores. El Sol ha citado a los nueve planetas a una alineación ya que debe informarles acerca de los tres nuevos requerimientos para poder ser un planeta del sistema solar. Deberán orbitar al Sol, ser esféricos y despejar las inmediaciones de su órbita. El público se entera de cómo y porque todos cumplen, menos Plutón, que tendrá que dejar de llamarse el noveno planeta del sistema solar. Este no acepta y deberá de conocer a Caronte, al Cometa Halley, a un asteroide, a una estrella y a la gran Nube de Oort para comprender la importancia de ser único y necesario en este grandioso espacio llamado, Universo.
Pluto and the Universe Plut N y El Universo
Author: Fabiola Johnson
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463302878
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
ABOUT THE BOOK Pluto and the Universe is a book that contains a play in English and Spanish and that could be read and/or staged by a minimum of ten and a maximum of seventeen, children, teens and adults alike. Intended for young audiences who not only will see and hear the characters who share outer space with Pluto, but will also reflect upon their place in the world and the importance of belonging, or not, to a particular group. With astronomical data and a story about an element who is expelled from the "system", spectators and readers are witnesses to an anecdote that is not so distant or different from one a human being can have here on Earth. The play takes place in 2006 (year on earth) in and around the solar system. The Sun has called for an alignment in order to inform the nine planets of the three recent requirements for classifying as a planet of the solar system. Firstly, they must orbit the Sun, secondly, have a spheroid shape and also clear their orbital environment. The audience will learn how all of the planets meet these requirements, except for Pluto who is not willing to go. He must meet Charon, Halley's Comet, an asteroid, a star and the Oort Cloud in order to comprehend the importance of being unique and a necessary part of this wonderful place called, the Universe. Plutón y el Universo es un libro que contiene una obra de teatro en inglés y en español ideal para un mínimo de diez actores y un máximo de diecisiete. Podrá ser leída y/o puesta en escena por niños, jóvenes y adultos. Dirigida a un público de niños y jóvenes que no sólo verán y escucharán a los personajes que comparten el espacio exterior con Plutón, también reflexionarán sobre su lugar en el mundo y la importancia de pertenecer o no, a un grupo en particular. Con datos astronómicos y una historia de un integrante que es expulsado de su lugar, podrán ser testigos de una anécdota que no es tan lejana o distinta a la de un humano en la Tierra. La obra se desarrolla en el año 2006 (de los terrícolas) en el sistema solar y sus alrededores. El Sol ha citado a los nueve planetas a una alineación ya que debe informarles acerca de los tres nuevos requerimientos para poder ser un planeta del sistema solar. Deberán orbitar al Sol, ser esféricos y despejar las inmediaciones de su órbita. El público se entera de cómo y porque todos cumplen, menos Plutón, que tendrá que dejar de llamarse el noveno planeta del sistema solar. Este no acepta y deberá de conocer a Caronte, al Cometa Halley, a un asteroide, a una estrella y a la gran Nube de Oort para comprender la importancia de ser único y necesario en este grandioso espacio llamado, Universo.
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463302878
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
ABOUT THE BOOK Pluto and the Universe is a book that contains a play in English and Spanish and that could be read and/or staged by a minimum of ten and a maximum of seventeen, children, teens and adults alike. Intended for young audiences who not only will see and hear the characters who share outer space with Pluto, but will also reflect upon their place in the world and the importance of belonging, or not, to a particular group. With astronomical data and a story about an element who is expelled from the "system", spectators and readers are witnesses to an anecdote that is not so distant or different from one a human being can have here on Earth. The play takes place in 2006 (year on earth) in and around the solar system. The Sun has called for an alignment in order to inform the nine planets of the three recent requirements for classifying as a planet of the solar system. Firstly, they must orbit the Sun, secondly, have a spheroid shape and also clear their orbital environment. The audience will learn how all of the planets meet these requirements, except for Pluto who is not willing to go. He must meet Charon, Halley's Comet, an asteroid, a star and the Oort Cloud in order to comprehend the importance of being unique and a necessary part of this wonderful place called, the Universe. Plutón y el Universo es un libro que contiene una obra de teatro en inglés y en español ideal para un mínimo de diez actores y un máximo de diecisiete. Podrá ser leída y/o puesta en escena por niños, jóvenes y adultos. Dirigida a un público de niños y jóvenes que no sólo verán y escucharán a los personajes que comparten el espacio exterior con Plutón, también reflexionarán sobre su lugar en el mundo y la importancia de pertenecer o no, a un grupo en particular. Con datos astronómicos y una historia de un integrante que es expulsado de su lugar, podrán ser testigos de una anécdota que no es tan lejana o distinta a la de un humano en la Tierra. La obra se desarrolla en el año 2006 (de los terrícolas) en el sistema solar y sus alrededores. El Sol ha citado a los nueve planetas a una alineación ya que debe informarles acerca de los tres nuevos requerimientos para poder ser un planeta del sistema solar. Deberán orbitar al Sol, ser esféricos y despejar las inmediaciones de su órbita. El público se entera de cómo y porque todos cumplen, menos Plutón, que tendrá que dejar de llamarse el noveno planeta del sistema solar. Este no acepta y deberá de conocer a Caronte, al Cometa Halley, a un asteroide, a una estrella y a la gran Nube de Oort para comprender la importancia de ser único y necesario en este grandioso espacio llamado, Universo.
There's No Place Like Space! All About Our Solar System
Author: Tish Rabe
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593126440
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Laugh and learn with fun facts about the sun, the moon, the planets, constellations, astronauts, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss’s beloved rhyming style and starring The Cat in the Hat! “The universe is a mysterious place. We are only just learning what happens in space.” The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series combines beloved characters, engaging rhymes, and Seussian illustrations to introduce children to non-fiction topics from the real world! On this adventure into outer space, readers will discover: • what makes each planet in our solar system unique • how a million Earths could fit inside the sun • how astronauts have driven a special car all over the moon • and much more! Perfect for story time and for the youngest readers, There’s No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System also includes an index, glossary, and suggestions for further learning. Look for more books in the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series! Cows Can Moo! Can You? All About Farms Hark! A Shark! All About Sharks If I Ran the Dog Show: All About Dogs Oh Say Can You Say Di-no-saur? All About Dinosaurs On Beyond Bugs! All About Insects One Vote Two Votes I Vote You Vote Who Hatches the Egg? All About Eggs Why Oh Why Are Deserts Dry? All About Deserts Wish for a Fish: All About Sea Creatures
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593126440
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Laugh and learn with fun facts about the sun, the moon, the planets, constellations, astronauts, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss’s beloved rhyming style and starring The Cat in the Hat! “The universe is a mysterious place. We are only just learning what happens in space.” The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series combines beloved characters, engaging rhymes, and Seussian illustrations to introduce children to non-fiction topics from the real world! On this adventure into outer space, readers will discover: • what makes each planet in our solar system unique • how a million Earths could fit inside the sun • how astronauts have driven a special car all over the moon • and much more! Perfect for story time and for the youngest readers, There’s No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System also includes an index, glossary, and suggestions for further learning. Look for more books in the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series! Cows Can Moo! Can You? All About Farms Hark! A Shark! All About Sharks If I Ran the Dog Show: All About Dogs Oh Say Can You Say Di-no-saur? All About Dinosaurs On Beyond Bugs! All About Insects One Vote Two Votes I Vote You Vote Who Hatches the Egg? All About Eggs Why Oh Why Are Deserts Dry? All About Deserts Wish for a Fish: All About Sea Creatures
Cosmos
Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345539435
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan’s collaborator, Ann Druyan, full color illustrations, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science. Praise for Cosmos “Magnificent . . . With a lyrical literary style, and a range that touches almost all aspects of human knowledge, Cosmos often seems too good to be true.”—The Plain Dealer “Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third—his mind’s—on the human condition.”—Newsday “Brilliant in its scope and provocative in its suggestions . . . shimmers with a sense of wonder.”—The Miami Herald “Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by the stately galaxies of space.”—Cosmopolitan “Enticing . . . iridescent . . . imaginatively illustrated.”—The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345539435
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan’s collaborator, Ann Druyan, full color illustrations, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science. Praise for Cosmos “Magnificent . . . With a lyrical literary style, and a range that touches almost all aspects of human knowledge, Cosmos often seems too good to be true.”—The Plain Dealer “Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third—his mind’s—on the human condition.”—Newsday “Brilliant in its scope and provocative in its suggestions . . . shimmers with a sense of wonder.”—The Miami Herald “Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by the stately galaxies of space.”—Cosmopolitan “Enticing . . . iridescent . . . imaginatively illustrated.”—The New York Times Book Review
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393082911
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
“A compelling appeal, at just the right time, for continuing to look up.”—Air & Space America’s space program is at a turning point. After decades of global primacy, NASA has ended the space-shuttle program, cutting off its access to space. No astronauts will be launched in an American craft, from American soil, until the 2020s, and NASA may soon find itself eclipsed by other countries’ space programs. With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson—one of our foremost thinkers on all things space—illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration and brilliantly reminds us why NASA matters now as much as ever. As Tyson reveals, exploring the space frontier can profoundly enrich many aspects of our daily lives, from education systems and the economy to national security and morale. For America to maintain its status as a global leader and a technological innovator, he explains, we must regain our enthusiasm and curiosity about what lies beyond our world. Provocative, humorous, and wonderfully readable, Space Chronicles represents the best of Tyson’s recent commentary, including a must-read prologue on NASA and partisan politics. Reflecting on topics that range from scientific literacy to space-travel missteps, Tyson gives us an urgent, clear-eyed, and ultimately inspiring vision for the future.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393082911
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
“A compelling appeal, at just the right time, for continuing to look up.”—Air & Space America’s space program is at a turning point. After decades of global primacy, NASA has ended the space-shuttle program, cutting off its access to space. No astronauts will be launched in an American craft, from American soil, until the 2020s, and NASA may soon find itself eclipsed by other countries’ space programs. With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson—one of our foremost thinkers on all things space—illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration and brilliantly reminds us why NASA matters now as much as ever. As Tyson reveals, exploring the space frontier can profoundly enrich many aspects of our daily lives, from education systems and the economy to national security and morale. For America to maintain its status as a global leader and a technological innovator, he explains, we must regain our enthusiasm and curiosity about what lies beyond our world. Provocative, humorous, and wonderfully readable, Space Chronicles represents the best of Tyson’s recent commentary, including a must-read prologue on NASA and partisan politics. Reflecting on topics that range from scientific literacy to space-travel missteps, Tyson gives us an urgent, clear-eyed, and ultimately inspiring vision for the future.
The Collapsing Universe
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Walker & Company
ISBN: 9780802704863
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In a time of spectacular developments in the new astronomy, the concept of black holes captures top honors. As scientific evidence for them mounts, black holes loom as an ominous development in the life, measured in billions of years, of the universe.
Publisher: Walker & Company
ISBN: 9780802704863
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In a time of spectacular developments in the new astronomy, the concept of black holes captures top honors. As scientific evidence for them mounts, black holes loom as an ominous development in the life, measured in billions of years, of the universe.
The Atrocity Archives
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101208848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101208848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .
Pale Blue Dot
Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307801012
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time. Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race. “Takes readers far beyond Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity’s future in the stars.”—Chicago Tribune
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307801012
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time. Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race. “Takes readers far beyond Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity’s future in the stars.”—Chicago Tribune
Finding Our Place in the Universe
Author: Helene Courtois
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262353393
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
An astrophysicist recounts how her team of researchers surfed the cosmos to map our local universe—and discovered the Laniakea supercluster, home of the Milky Way. You are here: on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea. And how can we pinpoint our location so precisely? For 20 years, astrophysicist Hélène Courtois surfed the cosmos with international teams of researchers, working to map our local universe. In this book, Courtois describes this quest and the discovery of our home supercluster. Courtois explains that Laniakea (which means “immense heaven” in Hawaiian) is the largest galaxy structure known to which we belong; it is huge, almost too large to comprehend—about 500 million light-years in diameter. It contains about 100,000 large galaxies like our own, and a million smaller ones. Writing accessibly for nonspecialists, Courtois describes the visualization and analysis that allowed her team to map such large structures of the universe. She highlights the work of individual researchers, including portraits of several exceptional women astrophysicists—presenting another side of astronomy. Key ideas are highlighted in text insets; illustrations accompany the main text. The French edition of this book was named the Best Astronomy Book of 2017 by the astronomy magazine Ciel et espace. For this MIT Press English-language edition, Courtois has added descriptions of discoveries made after Laniakea: the cosmic velocity web and the Dipole and Cold Spot repellers. An engaging account of one of the most important discoveries in astrophysics in recent years, her story is a tribute to teamwork and international collaboration.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262353393
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
An astrophysicist recounts how her team of researchers surfed the cosmos to map our local universe—and discovered the Laniakea supercluster, home of the Milky Way. You are here: on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea. And how can we pinpoint our location so precisely? For 20 years, astrophysicist Hélène Courtois surfed the cosmos with international teams of researchers, working to map our local universe. In this book, Courtois describes this quest and the discovery of our home supercluster. Courtois explains that Laniakea (which means “immense heaven” in Hawaiian) is the largest galaxy structure known to which we belong; it is huge, almost too large to comprehend—about 500 million light-years in diameter. It contains about 100,000 large galaxies like our own, and a million smaller ones. Writing accessibly for nonspecialists, Courtois describes the visualization and analysis that allowed her team to map such large structures of the universe. She highlights the work of individual researchers, including portraits of several exceptional women astrophysicists—presenting another side of astronomy. Key ideas are highlighted in text insets; illustrations accompany the main text. The French edition of this book was named the Best Astronomy Book of 2017 by the astronomy magazine Ciel et espace. For this MIT Press English-language edition, Courtois has added descriptions of discoveries made after Laniakea: the cosmic velocity web and the Dipole and Cold Spot repellers. An engaging account of one of the most important discoveries in astrophysics in recent years, her story is a tribute to teamwork and international collaboration.
Epistemologies of the South
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317260341
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317260341
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
The Pluto System After New Horizons
Author: S. Alan Stern
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816540942
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. The Pluto System After New Horizons is the benchmark research compendium for synthesizing our understanding of the Pluto system. This volume reviews the work of researchers who have spent the last five years assimilating the data returned from New Horizons and the first full scientific synthesis of this fascinating system.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816540942
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. The Pluto System After New Horizons is the benchmark research compendium for synthesizing our understanding of the Pluto system. This volume reviews the work of researchers who have spent the last five years assimilating the data returned from New Horizons and the first full scientific synthesis of this fascinating system.