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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Languages : en
Pages : 3265

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Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0307567060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and World War I Europe, Zoya, young cousin to the Tsar, flees St. Petersburg to Paris to find safety. Her entire world forever changed, she faces hard times and joins the Ballet Russe in Paris. And then, when life is kind to her, Zoya moves on to a new and glittering life in New York. The days of ease are all too brief as the Depression strikes, and she loses everything yet again. It is her career, and the man she meets in the course of it, which ultimately save her, as she rebuilds her life through the war years and beyond. And it is her family that comes to mean everything to her. From the roaring twenties to the 1980's, Zoya remains a rare and spirited woman whose legacy will live on.

Author: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
ISBN: 1615355162
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2982

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The Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna covers all fields of knowledge, including arts, geography, philosophy, science, sports, and much more. Users will enjoy a quick reference of 24,000 entries and 2.5 million words. More then 4,800 images, graphs, and tables further enlighten students and clarify subject matter. The simple A-Z organization and clear descriptions will appeal to both Spanish speakers and students of Spanish.

Author: Tj Lubavitch
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426909098
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Muchos están ocupados en los misterios del espacio, especialmente en detectar seres extraterrestres, llegó el momento de una revelación que nadie podrá negar su veracidad, si piensa que puede inténtelo

Author: Sergio Torres Arzayús
Publisher: Siglo del Hombre Editores
ISBN: 9586652955
Category : Science
Languages : es
Pages : 508

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La fascinación por los astros es una característica común de los seres humanos. Desde la antigüedad, todas las culturas han manifestado interés por explicar el universo y el lugar que ocupamos en él. Todos queremos enterarnos de los últimos descubrimientos sobre el cosmos; sin embargo, el torrente de información científica y la jerga que la acompaña nos intimida. En estas páginas el lector encontrará una presentación clara y pedagógica sobre lo que sabemos hoy acerca del universo y lo que ese conocimiento significa en la sociedad contemporánea. Al examinar la manera como el Big Bang emerge y es aceptado, podemos ver un ejemplo clave del proceso científico.

Author: Laura Mersini-Houghton
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1328557146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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"A riveting tour of the cosmos from one of the brightest minds in astrophysics." —The Washington Post A revolutionary new account of our universe’s creation—and a breathtaking exploration of the landscape from which we sprang—from one of the world’s most celebrated cosmologists What came before the Big Bang, and what exists outside of the universe it created? Until recently, scientists could only guess at what lay past the edge of space-time. However, as pioneering theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton explains, new scientific tools are now giving us the ability to peer beyond the limits of our universe and to test our theories about what is there. And what we are finding is upending everything we thought we knew about the cosmos and our place in it. Mersini-Houghton is no stranger to boundaries—or to pushing through them. As a child growing up in Communist Albania, she discovered a universe beyond her walled-off world through the study of math and science, and through music. As a female cosmologist in a male-dominated field, she transcended the limits that society and her profession tried to place on her. And as a trailblazing researcher, she helped to revolutionize the study of our universe by revealing that, far from living in a cosmic Albania, with a world that ends at its borders, we are part of a larger family of universes—a multiverse—that holds wonders we are only beginning to unlock. Mersini-Houghton’s groundbreaking research suggests that we sit in a quantum landscape whose peaks and valleys hide a multitude of other universes, and even hold the secret to the origins of existence itself. Recent evidence has revealed the signatures of such sibling universes in our own night sky, confirming Mersini-Houghton’s theoretical work and offering humbling evidence that our universe is just one member of an unending cosmic family. The incredible scientific saga of one woman’s mind-expanding journey through the multiverse, Before the Big Bang will reshape our understanding of humanity’s place in the unfathomable vastness of the cosmos.

Author: Irene J. Dumas
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412071305
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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A Salute To Our Veterans is a book about individual stories that veterans have told the writer during interviews, what they did as youngsters, about when they were old enough to go to war, where they signed up, went to basic training, what unit they served with, and where they fought during the wars. In the book are stories never told before by 29 veterans of World War II, 10 Korean War veterans, and six veterans from the Vietnam War and others. In the book are sailors, solders, marines and Air Force men. The stories mention the ships they were apart of and the ships that carried them to battles. The World War II veterans have told me stories of battles that they fought 60 years ago, and they are still fresh in their minds. It was amazing that when I put it down on paper, they wanted to check to see if I was as precise as they were. They never forget. Some people that read the stories will be able to relate to them, for they may have been at the same battle. Readers may find in my book someone they use to know, a lost comrade. The veterans remembered the units they fought with also. There is also a whole history of events that took you back to places during the wars. One of the veterans gives a full detailed story about his experiences in Vietnam, when he was fighting during Vietnam's worst fighting, the Tet Offensive and Khe Shan Operations. It also features a US Marine stationed in China after the end of WWII. After reading this book, you will be more aware that there are veterans like the ones in the book in your neighborhood. You might even want to give them one of these books for a gift.

Author: Carlos Altamirano-Morales
Publisher: Carlos Altamirano-Morales
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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This book is a collection of essays and reflections on the relationship between faith and reason by a family man aware that he and his wife are the first educators of their children. The first essay is the longest and the one that gives the title to this work as a whole. Some of the questions it raises and tries to answer are: What does heaven mean to believers today? Is it the same as the heaven where the sun, the other stars, the moon, and the planets are? And if we distinguish one heaven from the other today, was it ever considered the same? Why? And what about the writings that speak of "the heavens" in the plural? What relationship does the heavenly have with the eternal and with the perfect? Is perfect merely the absence of errors? What do we understand by eternal? Is eternal life the same as living forever or for all the years the universe has ahead of it?

Author: Brian May
Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS)
ISBN: 9788484329190
Category : Science
Languages : es
Pages : 198

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¿Por qué BANG!? ¿Por qué tres hombres de trayectorias tan distintas se ponen a trabajar durante dos años para escribir un libro sobre el big bang? Porque creen que toda persona inteligente y curiosa debe tener la posibilidad de saber más sobre esta asombrosa historia. BANG! Espacio, tiempo, materia... el Universo nació hace casi catorce mil millones de años. Al principio era infinitamente pequeño, pero se expandió mucho más deprisa de lo que nadie puede imaginar. Brian May, Patrick Moore y Chris Lintott nos cuentan en este libro fascinante cómo ocurrió todo, desde que se originaron el tiempo y el espacio a la formación de las primeras estrellas, galaxias y planetas, y a la evolución de seres humanos capaces de reflexionar sobre sus propios orígenes y su último final. Los tres son, además, capaces de contarnos esta fascinante historia con asombrosa sencillez, sin usar términos matemáticos para hacerla accesible a toda clase de lectores. A hombros de gigantes como Albert Einstein o Stephen Hawking, los autores de BANG! nos invitan a disfrutar de su lectura y a dejar volar nuestra imaginación.

Author: José Francisco Martinez Garcia
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463327080
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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"El hombre ¿azar o diseño?" En esta obra se hace una exposición sucinta de fenómenos y elementos materiales que conforman el universo y, por tanto, también al ser humano, como un ser que tiene cuerpo y vida, y por ello sometido a leyes físicas y biológicas, pero que se desempeña trascendiendo esta clase de leyes. El hombre no puede tener su origen sólo en la materia bruta. Los acontecimientos del cosmos que le preceden, tampoco justifican suficientemente su existencia y su naturaleza, que desborda y trasciende la materia. Siendo el hombre un ser inteligente, su existencia demanda una causa inteligente, superior a él, causa que no se encuentra ni en el azar ni en la materia. En este entramado se conjugan la filosofía, la ciencia, el arte, la historia y la religión.