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Author | : Annette Kolodny |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2012-05-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822352869 |
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A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first "discoverer" of America.
Author | : Marc Kaufman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-03-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 143910901X |
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Kaufman details the incredible true story of science's search for the beginnings of life on Earth and the probability that it exists elsewhere in the universe.
Author | : Carl Sagan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2016-12-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 150117231X |
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space. In December of 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who—or what—is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future—and our own.
Author | : Billy J. Stratton |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816530289 |
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"Billy J. Stratton's critical examination of Mary Rowlandson's 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narrative in American literary history and national identity. With pivotal new research into Puritan minister Increase Mather's influence on the narrative, Stratton calls for a reconsideration of past scholarly work on the genre"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Keith Cooper |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019-10-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1472960440 |
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What will happen if (perhaps when) humanity makes contact with another civilisation on a different planet? In 1974 a message was beamed towards the stars by the giant Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a brief blast of radio waves designed to alert extraterrestrial civilisations to our existence. Of course, we don't know if such civilisations really exist. For the past six decades a small cadre of researchers have been on a quest to find out, as part of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So far, SETI has found no evidence of extraterrestrial life, but with more than a hundred billion stars in our Galaxy alone to search, the odds of quick success are stacked against us. The silence from the stars is prompting some researchers to transmit more messages into space, in an effort to provoke a response from any civilisations out there that might otherwise be staying quiet. However, the act of transmitting raises troubling questions about the process of contact. In The Contact Paradox, author Keith Cooper looks at how far SETI has come since its modest beginnings, and where it is going, by speaking to the leading names in the field and beyond. SETI forces us to confront our nature in a way that we seldom have before – where did we come from, where are we going, and who are we in the cosmic context of things? This book considers the assumptions that we make in our search for extraterrestrial life, and explores how those assumptions can teach us about ourselves.
Author | : Joshua A. Bell |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2013-11-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1935623249 |
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Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology. During this period, new transport and recording technologies, particularly the airplane and automobile and small, portable, still and motion-picture cameras, were utilized by a variety of expeditions to document the last untouched places of the globe and bring them home to eager audiences. These expeditions were frequently presented as first contact encounters and enchanted popular imagination. The various narratives encoded in the articles, books, films, exhibitions and lecture tours that these expeditions generated fed into pre-existing stereotypes about racial and technological difference, and helped to create them anew in popular culture. Through an unpacking of expeditions and their popular wakes, the essays (12 chapters, a preface, introduction and afterward) trace the complex but obscured relationships between anthropology, adventure travel and the cinematic imagination that the 1920s and 1930s engendered and how their myths have endured. The book further explores the effects - both positive and negative - of such expeditions on the discipline of anthropology itself. However, in doing so, this volume examines these impacts from a variety of national perspectives and thus through these different vantage points creates a more nuanced perspective on how expeditions were at once a global phenomenon but also culturally ordered.
Author | : Joe Fordham |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1789098556 |
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An in-depth look at the making of Star Trek: First Contact, featuring rare and previously unseen production art and new and exclusive cast and crew interviews. Twenty-five years ago, Star Trek: First Contact saw Picard, Data, and the Enterprise crew go back in time to stop the Borg before they could prevent Earth’s first contact with an alien species and assimilate the entire planet. Celebrate this landmark anniversary by taking a deep dive into the stories behind this beloved film. This beautiful coffee-table book is full to the brim of archival material, behind-the-scenes photography, concept art, production designs, and much more, and includes new and exclusive interviews with cast and crew, including Jonathan Frakes, Alice Krige, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, Marina Sirtis, Herman Zimmerman, and Michael Westmore.
Author | : Rodney P. Carlisle |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Amusements |
ISBN | : 1438126972 |
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Examines the history of people, places, and events that defined the American colonial and revolutionary era.
Author | : Peter Ronald Cawdron |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2014-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781502539243 |
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The crew of the Copernicus are sent to investigate Bestla, one of the remote moons of Saturn. Bestla has always been an oddball, orbiting Saturn in the wrong direction and at a distance of thirty million kilometers, so far away Saturn appears smaller than Earth's moon in the night sky. Bestla hides a secret. When mapped by an unmanned probe, Bestla awoke and began transmitting a message, only it's a message no one wants to hear: “I want to live and die for you, Satan.”
Author | : Sheldon Nidle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780966579123 |
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