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Author | : Alfred Balk |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781412837880 |
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In this title, the respected public affairs journalist Alfred Balk refreshingly and authoritatively challenges the new orthodoxy. Drawing on economic analyses and the perspective of thoughtful social researchers and government leaders abroad, Balk presents a challengingly different thesis, and one calculated to enliven current foreign and domestic policy debate.
Author | : Richard T. Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252050800 |
Download Myths America Lives By Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of white supremacy, the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others.
Author | : Janet Cameron Hoult |
Publisher | : Outskirts Press |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781432770815 |
Download Where Did the Sun Go? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
WHY IS THERE NIGHT DURING THE DAY? For thousands of years, our ancestors created myths and legends to explain the puzzle of solar eclipses. The poems in this book bring the ancient beliefs of many different cultures to life. Designed for children, parents, and educators, this delightful book includes a puppet show script, with instructions for easy to create puppets, stage directions and other helpful hints for creating a fabulously fun show, while answering the question, "Where Did the Sun Go?"
Author | : Mark Littmann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0198795696 |
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A complete guide to solar eclipses for the general public with detailed coverage of the 2017 and 2024 total eclipses over the U.S. Well timed for the August 2017 eclipse over North America, it shows how, when, and where to see the coming total solar eclipses, how to photograph and video record them, and how to do so safely.
Author | : Mark Littmann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2023-10-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0198879091 |
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Praise for the previous edition 'A relaxed, well-written and information-packed expedition discovering the history of eclipses' - The Sky at Night A complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, a total eclipse of the Sun Totality: The Great North American Eclipse of 2024 is the most comprehensive source of information, photographs, and illustrations to help readers understand and safely enjoy all aspects of solar eclipses. It includes information on how best to photograph and video record an eclipse, as well as abundant maps, diagrams, and charts, as well as covering the science, history, mythology, and folklore of eclipses. This new edition focuses especially on the eclipse of April 8, 2024 that passes across Mexico, the United States, and Canada, including detailed maps, precise locations, and weather prospects.
Author | : Pierre Guillermier |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999-07-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781852331603 |
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Lively and easy to understand, Total Eclipses presents the myths and legends associated with solar and lunar eclipses through the ages, the mechanisms governing these events, their beauty, and the wealth of information gleaned from them by astronomers and astrophysicists. "Gives a wide variety of information on observing eclipses for the novice as well as on the value of eclipses to professionals...any reader can find information at an interesting and appropriate level and can be sure that he is being guided knowledgeably." -NATURE
Author | : Steve Ruskin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2017-07-22 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 9780999140901 |
Download America's First Great Eclipse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
America's First Great Eclipse takes readers on a thrilling historical journey, revealing that nineteenth-century Americans were just as excited about a total solar eclipse as we are today ... and, like us, were willing to travel thousands of miles to see it.
Author | : Enrique D. Dussel |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Baron |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-06-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1631490176 |
Download American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Winner of the AIP Science Communication Award An Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science) A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year Finalist for the Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction) Booklist Editors’ Choice (Science & Technology) Featuring a new afterword priming readers for the total solar eclipse of 2024, this “essential” (BBC) account brilliantly captures the celestial and human drama of eclipses. With this “suspenseful narrative history” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air), award-winning science writer David Baron tells the story of the enterprising scientists—among them, planet hunter James Craig Watson, pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell, and ambitious young inventor Thomas Edison—who raced to Wyoming and Colorado in the summer of 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, to observe the first great American eclipse. Thrillingly recreating the fierce jockeying of these nineteenth-century astronomers, Baron draws on years of “exhaustive research to reconstruct a remarkable chapter of U.S. history” (Lee Billings, Scientific American), when the fate of American science still hung precariously in the balance. Now updated with an afterword that unites eclipses and eclipse-chasers past and present—revisiting the total solar eclipse of 2017 and looking forward to that of 2024—American Eclipse reveals the enduring power of these ethereal events to bring people together across space and time.
Author | : Daniel Kennefick |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2021-03-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691217157 |
Download No Shadow of a Doubt Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein's theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to weigh light by measuring the gravitational deflection of starlight during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has become clouded by myth and skepticism. Could Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson have gotten the results they claimed? Did the pacifist Eddington falsify evidence to foster peace after a horrific war by validating the theory of a German antiwar campaigner? In No Shadow of a Doubt, Daniel Kennefick provides definitive answers by offering the most comprehensive and authoritative account of how expedition scientists overcame war, bad weather, and equipment problems to make the experiment a triumphant success. The reader follows Eddington on his voyage to Africa through his letters home, and delves with Dyson into how the complex experiment was accomplished, through his notes. Other characters include Howard Grubb, the brilliant Irishman who made the instruments; William Campbell, the American astronomer who confirmed the result; and Erwin Findlay-Freundlich, the German whose attempts to perform the test in Crimea were foiled by clouds and his arrest. By chronicling the expeditions and their enormous impact in greater detail than ever before, No Shadow of a Doubt reveals a story that is even richer and more exciting than previously known.