Author: Alan W. Hirshfeld
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: faraday, michael, life, electric
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-03-07
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0802714706
ISBN-13: 9780802714701

Michael Faraday was one of the most gifted and intuitive experimentalists the world has ever seen. Born into poverty in 1791 and trained as a bookbinder, Faraday rose through the ranks of the scientific elite even though, at the time, science was restricted to the wealthy or well-connected. During a career that spanned more than four decades, Faraday laid the groundwork of our technological society-notably, inventing the electric generator and electric motor. He also developed theories about space, force, and light that Einstein called the "greatest alteration . . . in our conception of the st

Author: Alan W. Hirshfeld
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: cosmos, measure, race, parallax
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0805071334
ISBN-13: 9780805071337

How can we measure the distance to a star? Beginning in ancient Greece, historys greatest scientific minds applied themselves to the problem in vain. Not until the nineteenth century would three men, armed with the best telescopes of their age, race to conquer this astronomical Everest. Parallax tells the fast-moving story of their contest, which ended in a dead heat. Against a sweeping backdrop filled with kidnappings, dramatic rescue, swordplay, madness, and bitter rivalry, Alan W. Hirshfeld brings to life the heroesand heroinesof this remarkable chapter in history. Characters include the de

Authors:Alan Hirshfeld, Roger W. Sinnott, Frangois Ochsenbei
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: sky, catalogue, volume
Number of Pages: 702
Published: 1991-11-29
List price: $91.00
ISBN-10: 0521427363
ISBN-13: 9780521427364

This compendium summarizes the astronomical data for all stars brighter than 8.0. For every object listed, it includes designations from the HD (Henry Draper) and SAO (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) star catalogs; the star name and constellation; the common name; the position for the equinox and epoch 2000.0; the star’s proper motion; its visual magnitude and color index; the absolute magnitude; the spectral type; the radial velocity; the inferred distance; and, where appropriate, additional information on multiplicity, variablity and cluster membership. There is an index of Fl

Authors:George Khoury, Alan Moore, John Totleben, Alan Davis,
Publisher: TwoMorrows Publishing
Keywords: companion, miracleman, kimota
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 189390511X
ISBN-13: 9781893905115

Alan Moore’s Miracleman predated Watchmen and Dark Knight as the first of the grim, ultra-realistic strips that changed super-hero comics forever. But whatever happened to Miracleman? For the first time, this trade paperback tells all the behind-the-scenes secrets, from the character’s start as the British strip Marvelman, to the legal and creative hurdles during its 24-issue run at Eclipse Comics, and why you never saw the final Neil Gaiman-scripted issue! Sporting a Mark Buckingham cover and an introduction and back cover by Alex Ross, this book features in-depth interviews with Alan Moo

Authors:Alan Noble, Robert Johnson, Alan Thomas, Paul Bass,
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Keywords: series, systems, system, cardiovascular
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-06-22
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0443073082
ISBN-13: 9780443073083

A textbook on the cardiovascular system for medical students, offering an integrated coverage of the basic science and major diseases of the system. * Integrated coverage of the structure, function and major diseases of the cardiovascular system - highly suitable for systems courses as taught in the new medical curriculum. * Coverage of the basic science is clinically driven - a common clinical presentation introduces each major topic. * Clinical cases are used and explained in the chapter rather than merely being present to provide additional interest. * Coverage of major diseases of the card

Authors:Alan R. H. Baker, Robin Alan Butlin, Isin S. Black, I
Publisher: Pr De L’universite Laval
Keywords: alan, baker, geographie, historique, honour, geography, culture, identity, essays, historical, place
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2001-08
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 2763778070
ISBN-13: 9782763778075

Alan R.H. Baker, of the Geography Department of the University of Cambridge, has played a leading role in the development of historical geography. This book, which features 12 specially commissioned essays, recognizes his influential and innovative contributions. The contributors address the following topics: methodology and ideology in historical geography; historical geographies of state regulation and political discourse; the social and cultural use of public and private space; and the interpretation of images of place in relation to cultural and national identity.

Authors:Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Alan Williams, Alan William
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, verses, spiritual
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2007-08-28
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140447911
ISBN-13: 9780140447910

The spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition-in a brilliant new translation The longest single -authored "mystical" poem ever written, the Masnavi-ye Ma’navi, or "spiritual couplets," is the masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition. Its author, Jalaloddin Rumi, was a poet and mystic of the highest attainment, but he was first and foremost a spiritual teacher, and his Masnavi is a ladder to the spiritual world, leading the reader to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path-union with God. Alan Williams’s translation into blank verse beautifully conveys the poetry of the origi