Encyclopedia of Space eBook

Providing current and accurate information, Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy is a useful reference for high school and college students. Comprehensive coverage includes significant breakthroughs in space and astronomy, in addition to definitions of basic related terms, thought-provoking essays, and capsule biographies of notable scientists. Written in an easy-to-understand format, the encyclopedia examines the technical, social, and philosophical influences that space and astronomy have on contemporary life. Featuring more than 3,000 cross-referenced entries, the encyclopedia includes 15 essays, interspersed throughout the text, that discuss a variety of topics, including the hazards of space travel, space technology and national security, and the consequences of interstellar contact. The volume is enhanced by more than 200 black-and-white illustrations, photographs, and charts. The encyclopedia also includes five helpful appendices – a bibliography of print resources, an extensive list of Web sites, a chronology of significant events in space and astronomy, a table of basic planetary data, and a breakdown on how planets and other celestial bodies were named – as well as an extensive index.
9780816076963 Asteroids, Meteorites, and Comets, Revised Edition (The Solar System) eBook 1 Bringing together a wealth of information from many sources, including some material never before published, this atlas is a comprehensive reference on lunar exploration. It tells the story of every spacecraft mission to the Moon since the dawn of the space age, illustrating each account with a unique combination of maps and annotated photographs. Many of the illustrations were created especially for this atlas, including panoramic photographs from every lunar mission. The missions are listed in chronological order, providing readers with an easy to follow history of lunar missions. Special attention has been given to describing the processes involved in choosing landing sites for Apollo and its precursors. The atlas also includes missions that were planned but never flown, before looking ahead to future missions as the world’s space agencies prepare for a new phase of lunar exploration.
9780816624065 Freshwater Marshes: Ecology and Wildlife Management (Wildlife Habitats, Vol 1) eBook 1

Freshwater Marshes was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Prairie potholes, wetland edges of lakes and rivers, and other freshwater marshes play a vital role in maintaining a clean and plentiful water supply for wildlife and human use. These wetland areas provide habitat for spawning fish, feed waterfowl, purify and retain water, and control erosion. In this updated third edition, Milton W. Weller describes the components of the freshwater marsh: its annual and seasonal dynamics as affected by rainfall cycles and the plant and animal population’s response to such changes. Weller discusses how such wetland areas are managed for wildlife populations and diversity, and how such processes can be used in wetland conservation and restoration. He considers the impact society has on wetlands and offers conservation goals for freshwater wetland complexes.

Weller broadens the third edition to include an analysis of how prairie wetlands compare in water dynamics with swamps, tidal marshes, and other wetlands. He also expands the discussion of wetland classification, evaluation, mitigation, and restoration, and introduces a new glossary of current wetland terminology.

Freshwater Marshes is Volume 1 of Wildlife Habitats.

Milton W. Weller is professor emeritus and former Kleberg Chair in Wildlife Ecology, at Texas A&M University.

9780819490179 Field Guide to Adaptive Optics, 2nd Ed eBook 1 This SPIE Field Guide provides a summary of the methods for determining the requirements of an adaptive optics system, the performance of the system, and the requirements for the components of the system. Many of the expressions are in the form of integrals, in which case the authors show the results graphically for a variety of practical values. This second edition has a greatly expanded presentation of adaptive optics control system design and operation. Discussions of control models are accompanied by various recommendations for implementing the algorithms in hardware.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Modeling the Effect of Atmospheric
Turbulence
Beam Propagation
Wavefront Sensors
Deformable Mirrors
Control and Reconstruction
9780850303858 The Twelve Houses: Understanding the Importance of the 12 Houses in Your Astrological Birthchart eBook 1 Your astrological birthchart is a map which can guide you to true self-knowledge. Everyone born on a given day will have the same planets in the same signs, but planetary placements in the houses depend on a more individual factor – the exact place and time of your birth.
9780871692146 Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book. Volume Two: Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy eBook 1 This volume is part of Marshall Clagett’s three-volume study of the various aspects of science of Ancient Egypt. Volume Two covers calendars, clocks, and astonomical monuments. Within each area of treatment there is a fair chronology evident as benefits a historical work covering three millenia of activity. Includes more than 100 illustrations of documents and scientific objects.
9780871699435 Planetary Diagrams for Roman Astronomy in Medieval Europe, ca. 800–1500 eBook 1 This book is a descriptive and critical catalogue of astronomical diagrams in medieval manuscripts. Its subject is specifically the diagrams appended to those Roman works on astronomy which could be found in medieval libraries, and its challenge is to identify and interpret both the textual and the visual elements correctly.
9780877280217 Mars: the war lord eBook 1 1915. A course of public lectures presented before the Astrological Society in the months of January, February and March of 1915. A synopsis of the three lectures follows: Lecture I discusses The Rising Star of the Material World, Science, Youth, the Age of Force and Assertiveness, National Consciousness, The Struggle for Individuality, The First Lesson of Mars; Lecture II is on the Culminating Star of the Material World, Philosophy, Maturity, The Age of Competition, Self-assertiveness, Combat and self-righteousness, National self-consciousness, Ambition, higher and lower, The Struggle between Might and Right, The Critical Stage, The Second Lesson of Mars; and Lecture III presents The Setting of the Star of Materiality, The Changing World, Moral Victory or the Decline and Fall, National Super-Consciousness, The Ideal State, Unity at home and abroad, The Transmutation of Mars.
9780887405174 German Fighter Ace Hans-Joachim Marseille: The Life Story of the Star of Africa (Schiffer Military History) eBook 1 This was an excellent book, with great reference pictures for modeling.

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9780907628941 Stars, Minds and Fate: Essays in Ancient and Medieval Cosmology eBook 1 Book by North, John, North, J. D.
9780926524354 Connections: Solving Our Alien Abduction Mystery eBook 1 This is a gripping tale of two women and their search for the truth. Experience their interwoven tale of missing time, bizarre nightmares, unexplained pregnancies, and flashbacks of large-eyed beings from another world — all pointing to the impossible…alien abductions. Share their battle to end the abductions, their struggle to understand, and finally, their acceptance and empowerment that can only come from a strength inside. Both discovered evidence for alien abductions that may have been going on in each of their families for generations, and is still going on today!

Beth Collings is a professional horse trainer, riding instructor, lecturer/consultant and farm manager for a breeding and training facility in central Virginia. She has taught riding lessons, organized seminars, and handled promotion and advertising for the facility since 1987. She has previously held positions as riding instructor, supervisor for group life insurance for two major American and Canadian insurance companies, recreational counselor for the emotionally and physically challenged, police artist and free-lance writer for national horse magazines. Born in Washington, D. C. in 1946, Beth has lived in Virginia most of her life. She is divorced and has a married son and grandchild.
Anna Jamerson has owned and operated a horse breeding and training facility for over ten years. In conjunction with this activity, she has also developed and presented many seminars, taught riding, and lectured at local horse clubs. Since 1971, Anna has dedicated her career to the conservation of our beautiful and pristine wild lands. That year, she was hired by the National Park Service and worked everywhere from the Grand Canyon to Yosemite to the Virgin Islands! In 1975, she took a job with the U. S. Forest Service, and has been there ever since. Born in 1949, Anna is single and now lives among the beautiful rolling hills of Virginia’s countryside.
9780935702651 Physics of Astrophysics II. Gas dynamics eBook 1 Presented in two volumes, The Physics of Astrophysics is ideally suited for a year-long astrophysics course for university seniors and first-year graduate students. This second volume deals with the interactions of matter and radiation, and electromagnetic fields of macroscopic scale in both the strongly collisional and collisionless regimes. It covers such fields as single-fluid theory, including radiative processes; waves, shocks, and fronts; magnetohydrodynamics and plasma physics; as well as their applications to such topics as self-gravitating spherical masses, accretion disks, spiral density waves, star formation, and dynamo theory. Over two hundred photos, line drawings, and tables amplify the major points of the text.
9780941717182 Hypnosis: Medical, Scientific or Occultic? eBook 1 The Bobgans examine hypnosis from scientific, historical, and biblical perspectives. They explore and answer such questions as: What is hypnosis? Is hypnosis a natural experience? Can the will be violated? How does the induction process work? What is hypnotic memory? Is all hypnosis the same or are there different types or varying degrees? Is there a difference between medical and occult hypnosis? What does the Bible say about hypnosis? Is hypnosis an acceptable medical practice for Christians?
9780962998478 The Wisdom of Ancient Cosmology: Contemporary Science in Light of Tradition eBook 1 Wolfgang Smith, drawing upon a rare combination of expertise in mathematical physics, philosophy and traditional metaphysics, has written extensively on interdisciplinary problems relating to these respective domains. The present book has evolved out of a key ontological recognition consonant with time-honored metaphysical doctrine. In keeping with a realist view of cognitive sense perception, it rejects the Cartesian dichotomy of res extensa and res cogitans, and obviates what Whitehead referred to as the fallacy of bifurcation. In an earlier book (The Quantum Enigma, 1995) the author established two facts: first, that a consistent non-bifurcationist interpretation of physics can be formulated; and second, that this eliminates at one stroke the various forms of quantum paradox” resulting from superposition and the so-called collapse of the state vector. The crucial ingredient of the new approach, mandated by the aforesaid recognition, is an ontological distinction between the physical domain, accessed via measurement, and the corporeal, accessed by way of cognitive sense perception. In the present book the author extends this metaphysically-based interpretation from fundamental physics to contemporary cosmology. With the aid of a few additional conceptions consonant, say, with the Thomistic doctrine-such as the concept of what he terms “the extrapolated universe”, or the notion of “vertical causation” relating to intelligent design-he treats a broad range of issues from a unified metaphysical point of view. Not surprisingly, his conclusions tent to be radically at odds with the prevailing interpretations of scientific data, regardless of whether these are based upon naturalistic or scientistically theistic presuppositions. The author’s approach may thus be characterized as the third alternative: the sole option, it appears, consistent with the Aristotelian and Platonist traditions, and with the wisdom of Christianity, as delineated especially in the Patristic writings.