The View From the Center of the Universe
Title | The View From the Center of the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Joel R. Primack |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2007-08-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1101126884 |
In this strikingly original book, a world-renowned cosmologist and an innovative writer of the history and philosophy of science uncover an astonishing truth: Humans actually are central to the universe. What does this mean for our culture and our personal lives? The answer is revolutionary: a science-based cosmology that allows us to understand the universe as a whole and our extraordinary place in it.
The View from the Centre of the Universe
Title | The View from the Centre of the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Joel R. Primack |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0007193521 |
Cosmology explains how the universe operates, what the universe is made of, where it may have come from, how it is evolving and why it makes sense that humans are on Earth at all. This book presents an original synthesis and distinctive perspective on humanity's place in the cosmos.
Center Will Hold
Title | Center Will Hold PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Pemberton |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2003-12-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 087421484X |
In The Center Will Hold, Pemberton and Kinkead have compiled a major volume of essays on the signal issues of scholarship that have established the writing center field and that the field must successfully address in the coming decade. The new century opens with new institutional, demographic, and financial challenges, and writing centers, in order to hold and extend their contribution to research, teaching, and service, must continuously engage those challenges. Appropriately, the editors offer the work of Muriel Harris as a key pivot point in the emergence of writing centers as sites of pedagogy and research. The volume develops themes that Harris first brought to the field, and contributors here offer explicit recognition of the role that Harris has played in the development of writing center theory and practice. But they also use her work as a springboard from which to provide reflective, descriptive, and predictive looks at the field.
The World Book Encyclopedia
Title | The World Book Encyclopedia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Bringing Columbia Home
Title | Bringing Columbia Home PDF eBook |
Author | Michael D. Leinbach |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 2018-01-23 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1628728523 |
Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space Hipsters The dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster. On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation’s eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed an area of rural east Texas the size of Rhode Island for every piece of the shuttle and her crew they could find. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history. This comprehensive account is told in four parts: Parallel Confusion Courage, Compassion, and Commitment Picking Up the Pieces A Bittersweet Victory For the first time, here is the definitive inside story of the Columbia disaster and recovery and the inspiring message it ultimately holds. In the aftermath of tragedy, people and communities came together to help bring home the remains of the crew and nearly 40 percent of shuttle, an effort that was instrumental in piecing together what happened so the shuttle program could return to flight and complete the International Space Station. Bringing Columbia Home shares the deeply personal stories that emerged as NASA employees looked for lost colleagues and searchers overcame immense physical, logistical, and emotional challenges and worked together to accomplish the impossible. Featuring a foreword and epilogue by astronauts Robert Crippen and Eileen Collins, and dedicated to the astronauts and recovery search persons who lost their lives, this is an incredible, compelling narrative about the best of humanity in the darkest of times and about how a failure at the pinnacle of human achievement became a story of cooperation and hope.
The Art of Sanctions
Title | The Art of Sanctions PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Nephew |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2017-12-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0231542550 |
Nations and international organizations are increasingly using sanctions as a means to achieve their foreign policy aims. However, sanctions are ineffective if they are executed without a clear strategy responsive to the nature and changing behavior of the target. In The Art of Sanctions, Richard Nephew offers a much-needed practical framework for planning and applying sanctions that focuses not just on the initial sanctions strategy but also, crucially, on how to calibrate along the way and how to decide when sanctions have achieved maximum effectiveness. Nephew—a leader in the design and implementation of sanctions on Iran—develops guidelines for interpreting targets’ responses to sanctions based on two critical factors: pain and resolve. The efficacy of sanctions lies in the application of pain against a target, but targets may have significant resolve to resist, tolerate, or overcome this pain. Understanding the interplay of pain and resolve is central to using sanctions both successfully and humanely. With attention to these two key variables, and to how they change over the course of a sanctions regime, policy makers can pinpoint when diplomatic intervention is likely to succeed or when escalation is necessary. Focusing on lessons learned from sanctions on both Iran and Iraq, Nephew provides policymakers with practical guidance on how to measure and respond to pain and resolve in the service of strong and successful sanctions regimes.
The Negro Motorist Green Book
Title | The Negro Motorist Green Book PDF eBook |
Author | Victor H. Green |
Publisher | Colchis Books |
Pages | 235 |
Release | |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.