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Author: Donald E. Scott Publisher: ISBN: 9780977285112 Category : Astronomy Languages : en Pages : 248
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A challenge to the myths of modern astronomy based on stunning and extensive evidence that it is electricity that powers the universe. Science for the expert written for the public.
Author: Donald E. Scott Publisher: ISBN: 9780977285112 Category : Astronomy Languages : en Pages : 248
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A challenge to the myths of modern astronomy based on stunning and extensive evidence that it is electricity that powers the universe. Science for the expert written for the public.
Author: David Bodanis Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307335984 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 322
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The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets. For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything from the structure of the atom to the functioning of our brains. In harnessing its power, we have created a world of wonders—complete with roller coasters and radar, computer networks and psychopharmaceuticals. In Electric Universe, the great discoverers come to life in all their brilliance and idiosyncrasy, including the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system, and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York City on a platform of persecuting Catholics. Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine—what we know as the computer—was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality. From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery.
Author: Donald Scott Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 308
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This new edition of the Electric Sky covers the most important recent developments in modern astronomy. We now know that all stars and galaxies seem to be interconnected by plasma filaments. The notion that stars and galaxies live their lives in bleak isolation in empty space is shown to be wrong. The Inter Galactic Web (IGW) is now an established addition to basic astronomical knowledge. The hunt for Dark Matter has recently been dying off - this book explains why. There was never a real cause to try to find Dark Matter in the first place. The Big Bang hypothesis is wrong and this book presents understandable evidence exactly why that is so. You will read a full explanation of the two different types of solar winds. And you will see how these 'winds' effect the weather patterns at Earth's north and south poles over the course of every year. The process is an electrical one. Astronomers have failed to learn about the crucially important electrical properties of the cosmos and have chosen instead to invent a zoo of imaginary particles and forces. New elements are created on the surface of the Sun, not in far-off novae explosions. This book explains the principles of astronomy and astrophysics in a way that is understandable for any reasonably intelligent and interested reader. You do not need a degree in cosmology or higher mathmatics to be able to distinguish between basic scientific truths and the fictitious tall tales some popular science writers are putting out.
Author: Philip K. Dick Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0547572549 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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A wry look at how different people see the world, told in the caustically fun style of award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.
Author: Elizabeth Kolbert Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0593136292 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 273
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Smithsonian Magazine, Vulture, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment.”—Helen Macdonald, The New York Times That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.
Author: Kimberly Willis Holt Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR) ISBN: 142999102X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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Tiger Ann Parker wants nothing more than to get out of the rural town of Saitter, Louisiana--far away from her mentally disabled mother, her "slow" father who can't read an electric bill, and her classmates who taunt her. So when Aunt Dorie Kay asks Tiger to sp the summer with her in Baton Rouge, Tiger can't wait to go. But before she leaves, the sudden revelation of a dark family secret prompts Tiger to make a decision that will ultimately change her life. Set in the South in the late 1950s, this coming-of-age novel explores a twelve-year-old girl's struggle to accept her grandmother's death, her mentally deficient parents, and the changing world around her. It is a novel filled with beautiful language and unforgettable characters, and the importance of family and home. My Louisiana Sky is a 1998 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction.
Author: Hanna Alkaf Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1534426094 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 304
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Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.
Author: Erin Hoffman Publisher: Pyr ISBN: 9781616146153 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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In the sequel to Sword of Fire and Sea, Vidarian Rulorat faces the consequences of opening the gate between worlds. Called into service by the desperate young emperor of Alorea, Vidarian must lead sky ships in a war against the neighboring southern empire, train the demoralized imperial Sky Knights to ride beasts that now shapeshift, master his own amplified elemental magic, and win back Ariadel—all without losing his mind.
Author: Tessa Fontaine Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374717028 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 385
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A New York Times Editors' Choice; A Southern Living Best Book of 2018; An Amazon Editors' Best Book of 2018; A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018; A New York Post Most Unforgettable Book of 2018 "Fascinating." —Vogue “This is the story of a daughter and her mother. It’s also a memoir, a love story, and a tale of high-flying stunts . . . An adventure toward and through fear.” —Southern Living Tessa Fontaine’s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery—through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother. Turns out, one lesson applies to living through illness, keeping the show on the road, letting go of the person you love most, and eating fire: The trick is there is no trick. You eat fire by eating fire. Two journeys—a daughter’s and a mother’s—bear witness to this lesson in The Electric Woman. For three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals, wheelchairs, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist? Transformed into an escape artist, a snake charmer, and a high-voltage Electra, Fontaine witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and heartbreak, the guilty thrill of hard-earned cash exchanged for a peek into the impossible, and, most marvelous of all, the stories carnival folks tell about themselves. Through these, Fontaine trained her body to ignore fear and learned how to keep her heart open in the face of loss. A story for anyone who has ever imagined running away with the circus, wanted to be someone else, or wanted a loved one to live forever, The Electric Woman is ultimately about death-defying acts of all kinds, especially that ever constant: good old-fashioned unconditional love.
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