Author: Elsie Olson
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 154155597X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"What is the International Space Station, and how is it used? Conversational but enthusiastic text brings the wonders of the ISS to life in this high-interest, visually dynamic look at how astronauts live in space."--
Spectacular Space Stations
Author: Elsie Olson
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 154155597X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"What is the International Space Station, and how is it used? Conversational but enthusiastic text brings the wonders of the ISS to life in this high-interest, visually dynamic look at how astronauts live in space."--
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 154155597X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"What is the International Space Station, and how is it used? Conversational but enthusiastic text brings the wonders of the ISS to life in this high-interest, visually dynamic look at how astronauts live in space."--
Spectacular Space
Author: James Olstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781454937616
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Aspiring astronauts will love discovering wonderful trivia about outer space, from the first flower grown out there to the fact that Saturn could float in water! There are fun tidbits about tortoises orbiting the Moon, Martian rocks, and lightning bolts longer than our galaxy! Also, you'll laugh out loud when you see the funny illustrations of Einstein surfing a gravitational wave and pizza floating through space!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781454937616
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Aspiring astronauts will love discovering wonderful trivia about outer space, from the first flower grown out there to the fact that Saturn could float in water! There are fun tidbits about tortoises orbiting the Moon, Martian rocks, and lightning bolts longer than our galaxy! Also, you'll laugh out loud when you see the funny illustrations of Einstein surfing a gravitational wave and pizza floating through space!
Coloring the Universe
Author: Travis Rector
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602232733
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture; we find them on billboards, in commercials, and on our computers. But they also invite questions: Is this what outer space really looks like? Are the colors real? How are these images made? "Coloring the Universe" uses accessible language to describe how these giant telescopes work, what scientists learn with them, and how they are used to make color images. Both informative and beautiful, this book is filled with brilliant images of deep space as well as an insider s perspective by the people who make them."
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602232733
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture; we find them on billboards, in commercials, and on our computers. But they also invite questions: Is this what outer space really looks like? Are the colors real? How are these images made? "Coloring the Universe" uses accessible language to describe how these giant telescopes work, what scientists learn with them, and how they are used to make color images. Both informative and beautiful, this book is filled with brilliant images of deep space as well as an insider s perspective by the people who make them."
Spectacular Modernity
Author: Lisa Blackmore
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822982366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies—from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumerculture—reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822982366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies—from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumerculture—reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.
Mission Jupiter
Author: Daniel Fischer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475741413
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
In this exciting story of the Galileo mission to investigate Jupiter, noted astronomer Daniel Fischer weaves together the many disparate facts learned about this most fascinating planet and its satellites. Fischer tells the entire story of Galileo: a behind-the-scenes look at its difficult course from idea to reality; its launch; the problems it encountered early on and how these were resolved; and finally, what will become of the probe. Along the way, the author describes what we have learned about Jupiter, including what the Jovian atmosphere is really like, and the peculiar reality of the planets magnetic field. The story of the journey to Jupiter is combined with interesting details about Galileos capacities and a graphic description of the solar system, with an episode on how Galileo would judge the chances of finding life on Earth. The book concludes with a look at the future, closing on the Cassini probe to Saturn. Beautifully illustrated and well written, Mission Jupiter shows us space exploration at its best and clearly and vividly conveys the essential science.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475741413
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
In this exciting story of the Galileo mission to investigate Jupiter, noted astronomer Daniel Fischer weaves together the many disparate facts learned about this most fascinating planet and its satellites. Fischer tells the entire story of Galileo: a behind-the-scenes look at its difficult course from idea to reality; its launch; the problems it encountered early on and how these were resolved; and finally, what will become of the probe. Along the way, the author describes what we have learned about Jupiter, including what the Jovian atmosphere is really like, and the peculiar reality of the planets magnetic field. The story of the journey to Jupiter is combined with interesting details about Galileos capacities and a graphic description of the solar system, with an episode on how Galileo would judge the chances of finding life on Earth. The book concludes with a look at the future, closing on the Cassini probe to Saturn. Beautifully illustrated and well written, Mission Jupiter shows us space exploration at its best and clearly and vividly conveys the essential science.
Odd Science – Spectacular Space
Author: James Olstein
Publisher: Pavilion Children's
ISBN: 9781843654032
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Due to the lack of gravity it’s impossible for someone to cry in space. The largest photo ever taken was by NASA at 1.5 billion pixels. Odd Science: Spectacular Space is filled with weird and wacky facts that you’ve never heard before. Read about the first flower grown in space, wonder at the tallest mountain in the solar system and tell your friends that Saturn could float in water! There are facts about tortoises orbiting the moon, facts about Martian rocks here on Earth and facts about lightening bolts one and a half times as long as our galaxy! James Olstein beautifully illustrates these odd facts in a retro-inspired, quirky style. His designs aren’t meant to be taken literally, but you’ll laugh-out-load when you see Einstein surfing on a gravitational wave and pizza floating through space! Prepare to laugh, marvel and learn. Being a geek has never been so cool.
Publisher: Pavilion Children's
ISBN: 9781843654032
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Due to the lack of gravity it’s impossible for someone to cry in space. The largest photo ever taken was by NASA at 1.5 billion pixels. Odd Science: Spectacular Space is filled with weird and wacky facts that you’ve never heard before. Read about the first flower grown in space, wonder at the tallest mountain in the solar system and tell your friends that Saturn could float in water! There are facts about tortoises orbiting the moon, facts about Martian rocks here on Earth and facts about lightening bolts one and a half times as long as our galaxy! James Olstein beautifully illustrates these odd facts in a retro-inspired, quirky style. His designs aren’t meant to be taken literally, but you’ll laugh-out-load when you see Einstein surfing on a gravitational wave and pizza floating through space! Prepare to laugh, marvel and learn. Being a geek has never been so cool.
The Pop-up, Pull-out Space Book
Author: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405351782
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Take an amazing journey through our universe with this incredible pop-up and pull-out space book. Go with your child on an interactive journey through space with the help of a 3D pop-up solar system scene, pictures, pull-out pages, fun quizzes and masses of fascinating facts.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405351782
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Take an amazing journey through our universe with this incredible pop-up and pull-out space book. Go with your child on an interactive journey through space with the help of a 3D pop-up solar system scene, pictures, pull-out pages, fun quizzes and masses of fascinating facts.
space.time.narrative
Author: Frank den Oudsten
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351898817
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Making exhibitions is a collaborative art, producing is a multi-layered unity of ideas and objects, of invention and manifestation, of content and form. However, there is an antagonistic dimension to it, because content and form are traditionally represented by the entirely different realms of curator and designer. Future successful developments in exhibition-making are dependent on whether this gap of antagonism can be bridged. space.time.narrative calls for a paradigmatic shift of focus. It puts forward a unique approach, breaking down traditional barriers and offering a wide-ranging theoretical context, redefining and expanding the parameters and the dynamics of the exhibition-format in terms of an open, narrative environment, which at its roots displays deep similarities with performance on stage, or installation in urban and rural space. The book breaks new ground by looking at the exhibition as a cultural format firstly within a great sweep of the arts in general, weaving a web of philosophical, museological, linguistic and media-theoretical references, which expands the contextual field of the profession. It then offers unique and important insights from within, in extreme close-up, by bringing together interviews with six of the leading exhibition designers who discuss the dynamics of the medium, its interactive dimensions, the soft parameters of the exhibition, and how to get to grips with the format as a complex narrative space, in which the public takes part. Curator and designer should reposition themselves professionally at the heart of the axis, which divides (or connects) content and form.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351898817
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Making exhibitions is a collaborative art, producing is a multi-layered unity of ideas and objects, of invention and manifestation, of content and form. However, there is an antagonistic dimension to it, because content and form are traditionally represented by the entirely different realms of curator and designer. Future successful developments in exhibition-making are dependent on whether this gap of antagonism can be bridged. space.time.narrative calls for a paradigmatic shift of focus. It puts forward a unique approach, breaking down traditional barriers and offering a wide-ranging theoretical context, redefining and expanding the parameters and the dynamics of the exhibition-format in terms of an open, narrative environment, which at its roots displays deep similarities with performance on stage, or installation in urban and rural space. The book breaks new ground by looking at the exhibition as a cultural format firstly within a great sweep of the arts in general, weaving a web of philosophical, museological, linguistic and media-theoretical references, which expands the contextual field of the profession. It then offers unique and important insights from within, in extreme close-up, by bringing together interviews with six of the leading exhibition designers who discuss the dynamics of the medium, its interactive dimensions, the soft parameters of the exhibition, and how to get to grips with the format as a complex narrative space, in which the public takes part. Curator and designer should reposition themselves professionally at the heart of the axis, which divides (or connects) content and form.
NASA EP.
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Games and Rules
Author: Beat Suter
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839443040
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of »Games and Rules« take a closer look at the core of each game and the motivational system that is the game mechanics. Games are control circuits that organize the game world with their (joint) players and establish motivations in a dedicated space, a »Magic Circle«, whereas game mechanics are constructs of rules designed for interactions that provide gameplay. Those rules form the base for all the excitement and frustration we experience in games. This anthology contains individual essays by experts and authors with backgrounds in Game Design and Game Studies, who lead the discourse to get to the bottom of game mechanics in video games and the real world - among them Miguel Sicart and Carlo Fabricatore.
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839443040
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of »Games and Rules« take a closer look at the core of each game and the motivational system that is the game mechanics. Games are control circuits that organize the game world with their (joint) players and establish motivations in a dedicated space, a »Magic Circle«, whereas game mechanics are constructs of rules designed for interactions that provide gameplay. Those rules form the base for all the excitement and frustration we experience in games. This anthology contains individual essays by experts and authors with backgrounds in Game Design and Game Studies, who lead the discourse to get to the bottom of game mechanics in video games and the real world - among them Miguel Sicart and Carlo Fabricatore.