Author: John Calvin BatchelorPublisher:
ISBN: 9780865530065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The Further Adventures of Halley's Comet
Author: John Calvin BatchelorPublisher:
ISBN: 9780865530065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth
Author: Donald W. OlsonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331970320X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
From the author of "Celestial Sleuth" (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings. In addition to helping to crack difficult cases, these studies spark our imagination and provide a better understanding of the skies. Weather archives, vintage maps, tides, historical letters and diaries, military records and the assistance of experts in related fields help with this work. For each historical event influenced by astronomy, there is a different kind of mystery to be solved. How did the changing tides affect an army's battle plans? How did the phases of the moon affect how an artist painted a landscape? Follow these exciting investigations with a master “celestial sleuth” as he tracks down the truth and helps unravel mysteries as far back as the Middle Ages and as recent as the iconic 1945 photograph of a kiss in Times Square on VJ Day. Topics or "cases" pursued were chosen for their wide public recognition and intrigue and involve artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet; historical events such as the campaigns of Braveheart in Scotland and battles in World War II and the Korean War; and literary authors such as Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Byron, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Halley's Comet
Author: Hannes BarnardPublisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1776354818
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Pete de Lange must survive as a teenager in a small Natal town during the 1980s, together with his new-found friends, Sarita and Petrus. In a country marked by turmoil and racial conflict, this is not as easy as it seems. Pete and his friends witnessed a horrendous crime, and the perpetrator is on their case. Will justice prevail? In between all of this, Pete must try to make the first rugby team and win the heart of his high-school crush, Renate. This is an excellent Bildungsroman, full of emotion and nostalgia, set in a troubled country where doing the right thing was not always easy.
Halley's Comet
Author: Introduction to Comets
Author: John C. BrandtPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521004664
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
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The New York Times Guide to the Return of Halley's Comet
Author: Richard FlastePublisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780812911480
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Traces the history of Halley's comet, summarizes what is known about the characteristics and behavior of comets, and suggests the best way to observe them.
The Further Adventures of Halley's Comet
Author: John Calvin BatchelorPublisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312922313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Halley's Comet, scheduled for 1986, has already subtly affected such Earth people of the '80s as Effert Broadsword, corporate rebel, Wavy Rufus, senile visionary cometologist, and three mysterious pilgrims traveling through time
Chained to the Alien
Author: Damien BroderickPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434457583
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This selection of the best critical articles from the well-known literary magazine, Australian SF Review, includes essays by John Bangsund, John Baxter, Martin Bridgstock, Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, Damien Broderick, John Foyster, Bruce Gillespie, Yvonne Rousseau, Norman Talbot, Michael J. Tolley, George Turner, and Janeen Webb, discussing the fiction of Robert A. Heinlein, Samuel R. Delany, George Turner, Wynne Whiteford, Keith Taylor, John Calvin Batchelor, J. R. R. Tolkien, Joanna Russ, and Josephine Saxton, among others. Complete with Introduction, Selected Bibliography, and Index.
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Author: Brian M. StablefordPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415974607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
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Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater
Author: Fran MasonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442276207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.