#220 - Alessandro Roncaglia - The Wealth of Ideas

Author or Editor: Alessandro Roncaglia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
ISBN: 978-0-511-11348-2
Pages: 582
Size: 5.91MB

The idea underlying this work is that the history of economic thought is essential for understanding the economy, which constitutes a central aspect of human societies. Confronted with complex, ever-changing realities, the different lines of research developed in the past are rich in suggestions for anyone trying to interpret economic phenomena, even for those tackling questions of immediate relevance.

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#219 - Philippe Blondel and John W. Mason - Solar System Update

Author or Editor: Philippe Blondel and John W. Mason
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006
ISBN: 3-540-26056-0
Pages: 329
Size: 8.69MB

This first volume of Solar System Update comprises a collection of twelve topical reviews, each presented as a separate chapter, covering important areas of Solar System science. The contributions have been written by scientists at the forefront of research in the selected areas, in a style which, we hope, will be accessible not only to advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, but also to professional astronomers, planetary scientists and physicists, helping them to keep abreast of the latest developments in related fields.

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#218 - Geoffrey Nowell-Smith - The Oxford History of World Cinema

Author or Editor: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
ISBN: 0198112572
Pages: 856
Size: 57MB

Most histories of the international cinema focus on the careers of prominent directors. But the authors of The Oxford History of World Cinema set cinematic genres, trends, and national themes at the fore, composing a history of the cinema that is equally a history of our multifarious world culture. Still, in deference to the older historical style, the text of this hefty book is dotted with hundreds of minibiographies on individual filmmakers. The result of this hybrid approach is one of the most comprehensive film histories ever, allowing insight into its complex subject from a number of different perspectives.

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#217 - Andrew M. Riggsby - Caesar in Gaul and Rome

Author or Editor: Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2006
ISBN: 0-292-71303-7
Pages: 271
Size: 2,66MB

This book is a study of what is—in many senses—an already well-known historical event: Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, or Gallic War.1 To think of texts as events is certainly in line with various historicist tendencies in the field of Classics in general, but it is also an approach that has come to be seen as particularly appropriate to this work.2 For one thing, the direct evidence for De Bello Gallico is incomparably better than that for the Gallic War fought in the 50’s b.c.3 We have the former actually before us (though not its prior composition nor its subsequent circulation). Slightly less obviously, however, we have much better controls for the War than for the War.

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#216 - David Christian - Maps of Time

Author or Editor: David Christian
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
ISBN: 0-520-90163-0
Pages: 642
Size: 31,3MB

Maps of Time unites natural history and human history in a single, grand, and intelligible narrative. This is a great achievement, analogous to the way in which Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century united the heavens and the earth under uniform laws of motion; it is even more closely comparable to Darwin's nineteenth-century achievement of uniting the human species and other forms of life within a single evolutionary process.

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#215 - Steven Weinberg - The First Three Minutes

Author or Editor: Steven Weinberg
Publisher: Fontana Paperbacks
Published: 2006
ISBN: 1 904048 62 5
Pages: 174
Size: 1,81MB

It is a remarkable thing to be able to say just what the universe was like at the end of the first second or the first minute or the first year. To a physicist, the exhilarating thing is to be able to work things out numerically, to be able to say that at such and such a time the temperature and density and chemical composition of the universe had such 10 The First Three Minutes and such values. True, we are not absolutely certain about all this, but it is exciting that we are now able to speak of such things with any confidence at all. It was this excitement that I wanted to convey to the reader.

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#214 - Sean Martin - Alchemy and Alchemists

Author or Editor: Sean Martin
Publisher: Pocket Essentials
Published: 2006
ISBN: 1 904048 62 5
Pages: 592
Size: 3,25MB

Alchemy has been with us since the beginning of recorded history. It has been present in almost every culture, from Old Kingdom Egypt and the China of Lao Tzu; from the Greece of Alexander the Great to the era of Islamic conquest; from the islands of the Indonesian archipelago to the twilight world of Victorian occultism. It has been called ‘the mightiest secret that a man [or woman] can possess’, yet it has also been derided as ‘the history of an error’. It has often been portrayed as a fraudulent, delusional quest for wealth and worldly power through the attempt to transmute base metals into gold, but has also been regarded as a Divine art, the highest gift of God, one that should only be practiced by the sincere seeker and the pure of heart.

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#213 - R.R. Hassin - The New Unconscious

Author or Editor: R.R. Hassin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Published: 2005
ISBN: 0-19-514995-5
Pages: 592
Size: 3,25MB

Over the past decade or two, a new picture of unconscious processes has emerged from a variety of disciplines that are broadly part of cognitive science. Unconscious processes seem to be capable of doing many things that were, not so long ago, thought of as requiring mental resources and conscious processes. These range from complex information processing through behavior to goal pursuit and self-regulation. Much has changed since Kihlstrom’s (1987) description of the “cognitive unconscious.” This collection of chapters provides a sampling of some of the most important developments at the heart of this new picture.

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#212 - M. Heifetz and W. Tirion - A Walk through the Southern Sky

Author or Editor: M. Heifetz and W. Tirion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9780521689458
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From the time of early humans, people have looked at the stars to help them navigate across seas and deserts, know when to plant and to harvest, establish their legends, mark the change of seasons and even align their temples of worship.

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#211 - Thomas L.Friedman - The World Is Flat

Author or Editor: Thomas L.Friedman
Publisher: Farrar
Published: 2005
ISBN: 0 374 29288 4
Pages: 332
Size: 1,64MB

Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians, and princes who love and promote the holy Christian faith, and are enemies of the doctrine of Mahomet, and of all idolatry and heresy, determined to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the above-mentioned countries of India, to see the said princes, people, and territories, and to learn their disposition and the proper method of converting them to our holy faith; and furthermore directed that I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that anyone has gone.

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#210 - Wendy Wheeler - The Whole Creature

Author or Editor: Wendy Wheeler
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Published: 2006
ISBN: 1 905007 30 2
Pages: 173
Size: 1,69MB

In this book, and following in an honourable tradition which I have found best expressed in the work of Raymond Williams, I have wanted to present a good materialist argument about the nature of human sociality. My argument, briefly stated, is simple: while each and every one of us is manifestly an individual, whose life and wellbeing matters, humans and their wellbeing are not most fully understood unless the fundamentally social nature of human existence is properly taken into account. This – our fundamental sociality – is lived in our inner, as well as outer, world; and it is emotional as well as physical; and all this – our essential social being – is written on our bodies in terms of flourishing or (its opposite) illness.

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#209 - William Desmond - Is There a Sabbath for Thought?

Author or Editor: William Desmond
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2005
ISBN: 0-8232-2372-8
Pages: 364
Size: 3,37MB

I remember a time when to mention God or religion in the company of advanced intellectuals was like mentioning sex in a prudish Victorian drawing room. An icy silence would descend, and the silence communicated more than overt argument possibly could: we do not now talk of these things. I have an acute memory of this—for it is within my living memory. And now? There are those I remember who danced in Dionysian sandals but who now wear the penitential rags of ethics. I know dancers who have become sandwich-board ad men for capitalist greed—handsomely waged for their conversion to what the times require.

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#208 - Chris Impey - The Living Cosmos

Author or Editor: Chris Impey
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007
ISBN: 1400065062
Pages: 393
Size: 4,97MB

It’s quite peculiar to be human. Our lives are filled with event and episode, with work and recreation, with the ebb and flow of friends and family. Seen from above, our actions would seem as purposeful as the activity of bees in a hive or squirrels in a forest. Yet we each house the awareness that we’re living, conscious entities. We reflect on our existence. We know that we will die. Perhaps we share self-awareness with a few other species on Earth, but no other creature has gained knowledge of its place in the largest landscapes of time and space.

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#207 - David Harvey - A Brief History of Neoliberalism

Author or Editor: David Harvey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Pages: 247
Size: 3,26MB

Future historians may well look upon the years 1978–80 as a revolutionary turning-point in the world’s social and economic history. In 1978, Deng Xiaoping took the first momentous steps towards the liberalization of a communist-ruled economy in a country that accounted for a fifth of the world’s population. The path that Deng defined was to transform China in two decades from a closed backwater to an open centre of capitalist dynamism with sustained growth rates unparalleled in human history.

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#206 - Eric Chaisson - Epic of Evolution : Seven Ages of the Cosmos

Author or Editor: Eric Chaisson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Pages: 478
Size: 6,51MB

Now, at the beginning of a new millennium, modern science is helping us construct a truly big picture. We are coming to appreciate how all objects—from quark to quasar, from microbe to mind—are interrelated. We are attempting to decipher the scenario of cosmic evolution: a grand synthesis of many varied changes in the assembly and composition of radiation, matter, and life throughout the history of the Universe. These are the changes, operating across almost incomprehensible domains of space and nearly inconceivable durations of time, that have given rise to our galaxy, our star, our planet, and ourselves.

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#205 - Dan O’Sullivan - In Search of Captain Cook

Author or Editor: Dan O’Sullivan
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2008
Pages: 264
Size: 3,8MB

Captain James Cook was certainly the most renowned explorer of his day, and, it might be claimed, one of the greatest of all time. He was a leader of men, a master voyager who journeyed to unknown places, a seeker of knowledge who commanded three intensely scientific expeditions. He and his crews had encounters with Pacific peoples which were intense and fleeting, violent and peaceful, sexual and commercial. Even before he died his exploits were widely admired, but his death at the hands of Hawaiians turned him into a legendary figure, a hero of the Enlightenment, who was said to have brought civilization to the Pacific, while yielding up his own life in the process.

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#204 - Robert Niemi - History in the Media: Film and Television

Author or Editor: Robert Niemi
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2006
Pages: 501
Size: 4,3MB

From 1981 to 2005, thirteen of the twenty-five Oscar winners for Best Picture have been movies based in history. Over the same period, 32 of the 100 films nominated for Best Picture have had their basis in historical events. Both statistics testify to the continuing power and prestige of history as source material in the film business. Likewise, when members of a viewing audience see the familiar phrase, “based on a true story,” flash on the screen during the opening credit sequence, they tend to assume, rightly or wrongly, that the movie they are about to watch will deliver more significance than a pure fiction and will therefore require a heightened level of attentive engagement and respect. The irony is rich: in a constantly accelerating culture of consumption that fosters short attention spans and shorter memories, historical subject matter somehow continues to hold strong sway over filmmakers and moviegoers.

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#203 - Ursula Solom - The Low-Carb Baking and Dessert Cookbook

Author or Editor: Ursula Solom
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2004
Pages: 740
Size: 1,4MB

Today an ever-growing number of low-carb versions of everything, from chips to pasta, jockeys for space on grocers’ shelves, although admittedly many of them are not exquisitely tasty. Back then there were no commercially available low-carb snacks or treats, no protein shakes or bars, nothing convenient to make life easier for the struggling low-carb dieter. In fact, as recently as 2002, when along with Ursula Solom we first proposed The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook to our publisher, there was but a scant handful of low-carb cookbooks available on the Internet to help dieters cook low-carb meals at home, and none were available in mainstream bookstores. Back then, making low-carb eating work was pretty much a solo project for the committed cook.

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#202 - Joseph A. Angelo, Jr. - Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy

Author or Editor: Joseph A. Angelo, Jr.
Publisher: Facts On File, Inc.
Published: 2006
Pages: 740
Size: 10,6MB

The Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy introduces the exciting relationship between modern astronomy and space technology. The book also examines the technical, social, and philosophical influences this important combination of science and technology exerts on our global civilization. With the start of the space age in 1957, scientists gained the ability to place sophisticated observatories in outer space. Since such orbiting astronomical facilities operate above the masking limitations imposed by our planet’s atmosphere, they can collect scientific data in regions of the electromagnetic spectrum previously unavailable to astronomers who could only look at the heavens from the surface of Earth.

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#201 - Diana Lea - Oxford Collocations Dictionary

Author or Editor: Dianna Lea
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Pages: 277
Size: 5,2MB

In recent years, teachers and students have become increasingly aware of the importance of collocation in English language learning. However, no matter how convinced learners are in principle of the importance of collocation, it is difficult for them to put these principles into practice without the benefit of an up-to-date, corpusbased dictionary of collocations. Weat Oxford University Press were determined to provide such a dictionary but it has taken us many years to produce the dictionary that we feel best meets the needs of students and teachers.

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#200 - Alfred S. Posamentier - Math Wonders to Inspire Teachers and Students

Author or Editor: Alfred S. Posamentier
Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Published: 2003
Pages: 277
Size: 4,2MB

Bertrand Russell once wrote, “Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, sublimely pure and capable of a stern perfection, such as only the greatest art can show.”
Can this be the same Russell who, together with Alfred Whitehead, authored the monumental Principia Mathematica, which can by no means be regarded as a work of art, much less as sublimely beautiful? So what are we to believe?

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#199 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto

Author or Editor: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Publisher: Signet Books
Published: 1888
Pages: 27
Size: 0,19MB

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

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#198 - National Research Council - Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium

Author or Editor: National Research Council
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2001
Pages: 246
Size: 5,28MB

The National Research Council established the survey under the auspices of the BPA, which oversaw the study in close consultation with the Space Studies Board. After consultations with members of the National Academy of Sciences Astronomy Section, members of astronomy departments in U.S. universities, and other leading astronomers, the BPA presented a slate of nominees for membership on the survey committee to the chair of the National Research Council. The NRC chair subsequently appointed the 15-member Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee (AASC), with Joseph H. Taylor, Jr., and Christopher F. McKee as co-chairs, to carry out the study.

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#197 - Richard Crouse - The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen

Author or Editor: Richard Crouse
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2003
Pages: 254
Size: 16,4MB

It is almost impossible to gauge how people are going to react to things you say. An innocent little remark can trigger a whole cascade of events. Such was the case a few years ago when I introduced a segment on Reel to Real's favorite martial arts movies with, "I have to admit, martial arts films are a guilty pleasure of mine."

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#196 - Douglas Pierce, Sean Kinsell - Cracking the TOEFL iBT

Author or Editor: Douglas Pierce, Sean Kinsell
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007
Pages: 508
Size: 114MB

The TOEFL has undergone major changes in recent years. It is now completely computer-based; it’s longer; and it has mandatory Speaking, Listening, and Writing sections. Cracking the TOEFL iBT provides the most comprehensive information available about how to succeed on the exam, complete with an audio CD and full transcript, full-length practice test, and scores of drill questions.

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#195 - Sir Patrick Moore - Atlas of the Universe

Author or Editor: Sir Patrick Moore
Publisher: Philip's™
Published: 2006
Pages: 288
Size: 50MB

Astronomy is certainly the oldest of all the sciences. Our remote cave-dwelling ancestors must have looked up into the sky and marvelled at what they saw there, but they can have had no idea what the universe is really like, or how vast it is. It was natural for them to believe that the Earth is flat, with the sky revolving round it once a day carrying the Sun, the Moon and the stars.

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#194 - Lanny Ebenstein - Milton Friedman: A Biography

Author or Editor: Lanny Ebenstein
Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™
Published: 2007
Pages: 310
Size: 1.13MB

Friedman has a clear view of the world, a view that he communicates forcefully and effectively. His ethical view of the world is enlightening, whether one agrees with it or not. It is the libertarian view that adults should be able to do as they wish so long as they are not harming anyone else. This viewpoint typically leads to advocacy of less government—virtually everywhere, at all times, and in every way.

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#193 - Franz Kafka - The Trial

Author or Editor: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Verlag die Schmiede
Published: 1925
Pages: 139
Size: 0.9MB

Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested. Every day at eight in the morning he was brought his breakfast by Mrs. Grubach's cook - Mrs. Grubach was his landlady - but today she didn't come. That had never happened before.

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#192 - Dan Brown - Digital Fortress

Author or Editor: Dan Brown
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Published: 1998
Pages: 312
Size: 1.24MB

They were in the smoky mountains at their favoritebed-and-breakfast. David was smiling down at her. “What do yousay, gorgeous? Marry me?” Looking up from their canopy bed, she knew he was the one.Forever. As she stared into his deepgreen eyes, somewhere in thedistance a deafening bell began to ring. It was pulling him away. She reached for him, but her arms clutched empty air.

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#191 - Lisa Yount - MODERN ASTRONOMY: Expanding the Universe

Author or Editor: Lisa Yount
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2006
Pages: 204
Size: 4.2MB

More than a million years ago, the ancestors of modern humans began to shape stones into tools that helped them compete with the specialized predators around them. Starting about 35,000 years ago, the modern type of human, Homo sapiens, also created elaborate cave paintings and finely crafted art objects, showing that technology had been joined with imagination and language to compose a new and vibrant world of culture. Humans were not only shaping their world but also representing it in art and thinking about its nature and meaning.

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#190 - V. A. Shahane - Leaves of Grass

Author or Editor: V. A. Shahane
Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc.
Published: 1972
Pages: 72
Size: 0.4MB

Walt Whitman is both a major poet and an outstanding personality in the history of American literature. He rose from obscurity to monumental fame, coming to be recognized as a national figure. His achievement is great, although it has been sometimes obscured by unfair, hostile criticism—or, conversely, by extravagant praise. He is essentially a poet, though other aspects of his achievement—as philosopher, mystic, or critic—have also been stressed.

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#189 - Trevor R.Griffiths - The Theatre Guide

Author or Editor: Trevor R.Griffiths
Publisher: A & C Black
Published: 2003
Pages: 424
Size: 10.1MB

The Theatre Guide is a theatre reference book with a difference because it concentrates on the writers and the plays you are actually likely to be able to see in the theatre now, rather than the writers who stay in theatre reference books because they have always been there, even though no one has staged their plays for generations. Its other unique feature is a cross-referencing system that allows you to find other plays or authors that have tackled similar topics, share similar interests or offer marked contrasts to the ones you started from; and when you look at those further entries you will find more cross-references that can lead you on a sometimes surprising journey of discovery that could give added enjoyment to your appreciation and understanding of theatre.

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#188 - John Redmond - How to Write a Poem

Author or Editor: John Redmond
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 2006
Pages: 154
Size: 0.9MB

What is poetry? This seems like a good place to start. There is a word, ‘poetry’, so there must be – must there not? – something to which that word refers. When we sit down to write a poem we may think, now, before I go any further I need to have a clear picture of what poetry is. And once we have formed that picture, we may think, naturally enough, that any poem we construct should conform to it. While this line of thinking may seem clear and good, I think that it is misguided. I suggest that the question What is poetry? is an unhelpful one, especially for writers, and that there are two reasons for this. First, the question tempts us to think it has a definitive answer – it hasn’t. Second, and more dangerously, it tempts us to think that it is but a step from knowing what poetry really is to writing real poetry.

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#187 - Martin Gardner - Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments

Author or Editor: Martin Gardner
Publisher: W.H.Freeman and Company
Published: 1988
Pages: 295
Size: 15.1MB

When Wells wrote his story, he regarded the Time Traveller’s theories as little more than metaphysical hanky-panky designed to make his fantasy more plausible. A few decades later physicists were taking such hanky-panky with the utmost seriousness. The notion of an absolute cosmic time, with absolute simultaneity between distant events, was swept out of physics by Einstein’s equations.

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#186 - Norman k. Glendenning - Our Place in the Universe

Author or Editor: Norman k. Glendenning
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Published: 2007
Pages: 223
Size: 7.04MB

Our small place in space | this planet Earth | together with Sun and other planets of our solar system and their many moons is located about two-thirds from the center of the disk-shaped galaxy that we know as the Milky Way. When we look toward its center on a clear night what we see is the faint luminosity of billions of stars that make up this galaxy.
There are other galaxies too, far away, that look to our naked eyes just like any other star. But they too contain billions of stars. From our vantage point on Earth, orbiting a rather insignicant star that we call Sun, located in the Milky Way Galaxy in one of its many solar systems | we gaze in wonder.

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#185 - Gian J. Quasar - Into the Bermuda Triangle

Author or Editor: Gian J. Quasar
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2005
Pages: 294
Size: 3.79MB

WITHIN THE WESTERN North Atlantic Ocean there exists what might be called a triangle of sea extending southwest from the island of Bermuda to Miami and through southern Florida to Key West; then, encompassing the Bahamas, it extends southeast through Puerto Rico to as far as 15° North latitude, and then from there northward back to Bermuda. This is the area commonly called the Bermuda Triangle.

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#184 - Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

Author or Editor: Ayn Rand
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Published: 1971
Pages: 615
Size: 2.26MB

He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in flight to the sky over motionless water. The water seemed immovable, the stone--flowing. The stone had the stillness of one brief moment in battle when thrust meets thrust and the currents are held in a pause more dynamic than motion. The stone glowed, wet with sunrays.

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#183 - Chris Gardner - The Pursuit of Happyness

Author or Editor: Chris Gardner
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2006
Pages: 306
Size: 1.66MB

This is a work of nonfiction. I have rendered the events faithfully and truthfully just as I have recalled them. Some names and descriptions of individuals have been changed in order to respect their privacy.To anyone whose name I did not recall or omitted, I offer sincere apologies.While circumstances and conversations depicted herein come from my keen recollection of them, they are not meant to represent precise time lines of events or exact word for word reenactments of my life.

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#182 - Neil J. Salkind - Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics

Author or Editor: Neil J. Salkind
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Published: 2007
Pages: 1219
Size: 9.82MB

It’s an interesting paradox when an important subject, which can help us make sense of our busy, everyday world, is considered very difficult to approach. Such is the case with measurement and statistics. However, this does not necessarily have to be the case, and we believe that the Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics will show you why.

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#181 - Peter C. Rollins - The Columbia companion to American history on film

Author or Editor: Peter C. Rollins
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Pages: 671
Size: 6.26MB

Film and television define our perceptions of our time and of historical experience. In 1973, John Harrington warned about the power of visual media to shape the contemporary sensibility, estimating that “by the time a person is fourteen, he will witness 18,000 murders on the screen. He will also see 350,000 commercials. By the time he is eighteen, he will stockpile nearly 17,000 hours of viewing experience and will watch at least twenty movies for every book he reads.

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#180 - Lin Lougheed - Barron's How to Prepare for the Computer-Based Toefl Essay

Author or Editor: Lin Lougheed
Publisher: Barron's
Published: 2004
Pages: 288
Size: 9.87MB

This book is a gold mine. Each chapter has examples and structured activities showing how a particular part of an essay is developed. In addition, the model essays in the Appendix provide further examples of essay development. Use these essays to expand the activities in the book.

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#179 - Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

Author or Editor: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1997
Pages: 480
Size: 3.51MB

THIS BOOK ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE A SHORT HISTORY OF everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? In case this question immediately makes you shudder at the thought that you are about to read a racist treatise, you aren't; as you will see, the answers to the question don't involve human racial differences at all. The book's emphasis is on the search for ultimate explanations, and on pushing back the chain of historical causation as far as possible.

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#178 - Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Louis N. Irwin - Life in the Universe

Author or Editor: Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Louis N. Irwin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004
Pages: 172
Size: 3.77MB

Astrobiology studies the origin, evolution, distribution, and fate of life throughout the universe, with no direct evidence that life exists anywhere in the universe other than on Earth. But there are compelling reasons to assume that life exists pervasively throughout the cosmos. That assumption is derived from empirical observations on the nature of the universe and the natural laws that govern it, from analysis of the history and properties of the one case of life that we do know, and on a logical integration of fact and theory.

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#177 - Yannis Tzioumakis - American Independent Cinema

Author or Editor: Yannis Tzioumakis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2006
Pages: 302
Size: 1.78MB

American independent cinema has always been a notoriously difficult concept to define. This is primarily because the label ‘independent’ has been widely used since the early years of American cinema by filmmakers, film critics, industry practitioners, trade publications, academics and cinema fans, to the extent that any attempt towards a definition is almost certainly destined to raise objections.

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#176 - Stephen Hawking - Universe in a Nutshell

Author or Editor: Stephen Hawking
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Published: 2001
Pages: 210
Size: 26.5MB

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, scientists believed they were close to a complete description of the universe. They imagined that space was filled by a continuous medium called the "ether." Light rays and radio signals were waves in this ether, just as sound is pressure waves in air. All that was needed for a complete theory were careful measurements of the elastic properties of the ether.

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#175 - Ayn Rand - For the New Intellectual

Author or Editor: Ayn Rand
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1968
Pages: 110
Size: 1.83MB

This book is intended for those who wish to assume the responsibility of becoming the new intellectuals. It contains the main philosophical passages from my novels and presents the outline of a new philosophical system.

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#174 - Richard Walton - English Focus on Advanced English Grammar Practice

Author or Editor: Richard Walton
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Published: 1999
Pages: 110
Size: 1.83MB

The best feature of this book is the way grammatical rules are sorted, ie. by situation (such as "severe weather", "mind and body", etc), which helps in the understanding on when using a given construct is mandatory, appropriate or unheard of.

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#173 - Mitchell Beazley - PHILIP’S ASTRONOMY ENCYCLOPEDIA

Author or Editor: Mitchell Beazley
Publisher: Philip’s
Published: 2002
Pages: 455
Size: 31.5MB

Astronomy has involved extensive international collaborations for well over a century. The cross-disciplinary nature of contemporary research makes such collaborations even more compelling in the future. Furthermore, efforts to build the next generation of instruments on the ground and especially in space are so expensive that their funding will demand international participation.

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#172 - Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao - Encyclopedia of Chinese Film

Author or Editor: Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Pages: 475
Size: 4.58MB

This reference work is designed to provide, first of all, a comprehensive coverage of Chinese film in its historical, cultural, geopolitical, generic, thematic and textual aspects; and, secondly, a critical guide to assist the reader to navigate through these multiple aspects and to locate the exact information needed.

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#171 - David Raub Snyder - Sex Crimes under the Wehrmacht

Author or Editor: David Raub Snyder
Publisher: University of Nebraska
Published: 2007
Pages: 288
Size: 0.95MB

With few exceptions, scholars have portrayed National Socialist Germany’s military judiciary (Wehrmachtjustiz) as a monolithic entity, an organization that must be wholly condemned or wholly praised. The apologists, led by former Wehrmacht jurist Erich Schwinge, depict Nazi Germany’s military judiciary as a haven for non-Nazi jurists and even as a center of resistance to Adolf Hitler

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