Mercury Stories
Title | Mercury Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Henrik Selin |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0262359111 |
An interdisciplinary analysis of human interactions with mercury through history that sheds light on efforts to promote and achieve sustainability. In Mercury Stories, Henrik Selin and Noelle Eckley Selin examine sustainability through analyzing human interactions with mercury over thousands of years. They explore how people have made beneficial use of this volatile element, how they have been harmed by its toxic properties, and how they have tried to protect themselves and the environment from its damaging effects. Taking a systems approach, they develop and apply an analytical framework that can inform other efforts to evaluate and promote sustainability.
Swallowing Mercury
Title | Swallowing Mercury PDF eBook |
Author | Wioletta Greg |
Publisher | Portobello Books |
Pages | |
Release | 2017-01-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 184627608X |
Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist. Wiola's mother tells her that killing spiders brings on storms. Wiola must never enter the seamstress's 'secret' room. Wiola collects matchbox labels. Wiola is a good Catholic girl brought up with fables and nurtured on superstition. Wiola lives in a Poland that is both very recent and lost in time. Swallowing Mercury is about the ordinary passing of years filled with extraordinary days. In vivid prose filled with texture, colour and sound, it describes the adult world encroaching on the child's. From childhood to adolescence, Wiola dances to the strange music of her own imagination.
Project Mercury
Title | Project Mercury PDF eBook |
Author | John Catchpole |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2001-07-26 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9781852334062 |
Catchpole tells the fascinating story behind the development of the first American manned space program and its associated infrastructure. He provides accounts of the space launch vehicles, astronauts and their training, tracking systems and individual flights.
Planet Mercury
Title | Planet Mercury PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Squire |
Publisher | Children's Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Mercury (Planet) |
ISBN | 9780531211533 |
Humans have long been fascinated by space exploration, from the earliest NASA probes to the latest journeys toward the distant edges of the solar system. Readers will learn about the discovery of new stars and planets, the ways celestial bodies are formed, and much more. Features: Engaging sidebars highlight important space discoveries Timelines illustrate the ways our knowledge of space has changed over time Glossaries explain difficult scientific terms in a way that makes them easy to understand Eye-catching images give readers an up-close look at the far reaches of space www.factsfornow.scholastic.com
Mercury
Title | Mercury PDF eBook |
Author | A. Balogh |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2008-02-23 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0387775390 |
This fascinating book reviews the progress made in Mercury studies since the flybys by Mariner 10 in 1974-75. Thus far, it is the only book on Mercury which balances a wide range of Earth-based observations, made under difficult conditions, with the only available space-based data. The text is based on continued research using the Mariner 10 archive, on observations from Earth, and on increasingly realistic models of this mysterious planet’s interior evolution.
Mercury
Title | Mercury PDF eBook |
Author | Ariana Reines |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 9781934200476 |
Poems.
Mercury
Title | Mercury PDF eBook |
Author | Seymour Simon |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780613105187 |
Describes what is known about Mercury from the photographs taken by Project Mariner.