The Golden Telescope

The Golden Telescope
Title The Golden Telescope PDF eBook
Author Doug McLarty
Publisher eBookIt.com
Pages 51
Release 2013-10-06
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1456619977

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What exactly do Gary Toth, a 58 year-old owner of a car dealership, and young radiologist Sandra de Souza have in common? To start with, a schedule so busy they have no time to think clearly about their financial future. In the Golden Telescope, they find common ground and a lot less stress. Looking for a less stressful financial future? You'll find it between the covers of The Golden Telescope - a guide to discovering harmony and financial wellbeing for owner-managers and professionals.

The Golden Telescope

The Golden Telescope
Title The Golden Telescope PDF eBook
Author Tracy Partridge-Johnson
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 332
Release 2020-01-22
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1794888624

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12-year old Jack Mac Paidin's life is miserable. His parents are dead, and he's stuck with his heartless relatives, who make him live in the cold, dank basement. His life takes a crazy turn when he touches a golden telescope that reveals he has magical powers. Jack learns that he comes from a family of magic workers who want to use his powers for their nefarious purposes. A mysterious visitor rescues him using a magic hat, but all is not perfect. There is a Dark Cabal, and Jack learns they killed his parents & separated him from his siblings. Confronting them will bring him into contact with forces more terrifying than he ever imagined. Jack learns that he is the only one who can help his Grandma Lydia trapped in the past and solve the mystery of his parent's death. Full of relatable characters, wildly imaginative situations & countless exciting details, this first book in the series portrays an unforgettable story and sets the stage for many incredible adventures to come.

All about Telescopes

All about Telescopes
Title All about Telescopes PDF eBook
Author Sam Brown
Publisher
Pages 206
Release 1976
Genre Telescopes
ISBN

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Universal

Universal
Title Universal PDF eBook
Author Brian Cox
Publisher Da Capo Press
Pages 361
Release 2017-03-28
Genre Science
ISBN 0306822717

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An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the international bestselling authors of Why Does E=MC2? and The Quantum Universe, with 55 black-&-white and 45 full-color pages featuring photographs, diagrams, maps, tables, and graphs. We dare to imagine a time before the Big Bang, when the entire universe was compressed into a space smaller than an atom. And now, as Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw show, we can do more than imagine: we can understand. Universal takes us on an epic journey of scientific exploration. It reveals how we can all come to grips with some of the most fundamental questions about our Earth, Sun, and solar system--and the star-filled galaxies beyond. How big is our solar system? How quickly is space expanding? How big is the universe? What is it made of? Some of these questions can be answered on the basis of observations you can make in your own backyard. Other answers draw on the astonishing information now being gathered by teams of astronomers operating at the frontiers of the known universe. At the heart of all this lies the scientific method. Science reveals a deeper beauty and connects us to each other, to our world, and to our universe. Science reaches out into the unknown. As Universal demonstrates, if we dare to imagine, we can do the same.

Spacesuit

Spacesuit
Title Spacesuit PDF eBook
Author Nicholas De Monchaux
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 379
Release 2011-03-18
Genre Design
ISBN 026201520X

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How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of that spacesuit. It is a story of the triumph over the military-industrial complex by the International Latex Corporation, best known by its consumer brand of "Playtex"—a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics. Playtex's spacesuit went up against hard armor-like spacesuits designed by military contractors and favored by NASA's engineers. It was only when those attempts failed—when traditional engineering firms could not integrate the body into mission requirements—that Playtex, with its intimate expertise, got the job. In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. He touches, among other things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior's New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK's carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA's Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning. The twenty-one-layer spacesuit, de Monchaux argues, offers an object lesson. It tells us about redundancy and interdependence and about the distinctions between natural and man-made complexity; it teaches us to know the virtues of adaptation and to see the future as a set of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario.

Astronomy for Older Eyes

Astronomy for Older Eyes
Title Astronomy for Older Eyes PDF eBook
Author James L. Chen
Publisher Springer
Pages 236
Release 2017-03-15
Genre Science
ISBN 3319524135

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This book is for the aging amateur astronomy population, including newcomers to astronomy in their retirement and hobbyists who loved peering through a telescope as a child. Whether a novice or an experienced observer, the practice of astronomy differs over the years. This guide will extend the enjoyment of astronomy well into the Golden Years by addressing topics such as eye and overall health issues, recommendations on telescope equipment, and astronomy-related social activities especially suited for seniors. Many Baby-Boomers reaching retirement age are seeking new activities, and amateur astronomy is a perfect fit as a leisure time activity. Established backyard astronomers who began their love of astronomy in their youth, meanwhile, may face many physical and mental challenges in continuing their lifelong hobby as they age beyond their 55th birthdays. That perfect telescope purchased when they were thirty years old now suddenly at sixty years old feels like an immovable object in the living room. The 20/20 eyesight has given way to reading glasses or bifocals. Treasured eyepieces feel all wrong. Growing old is a natural process of life, but astronomy is timeless. With a little knowledge and some lifestyle adjustments, older astronomers can still enjoy backyard observing well into their seventies, eighties and even into their nineties.

The Wrong End of the Telescope

The Wrong End of the Telescope
Title The Wrong End of the Telescope PDF eBook
Author Rabih Alameddine
Publisher Grove Press
Pages 305
Release 2021-09-18
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0802157823

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WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis.