Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: strain, andromeda
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0060541814
ISBN-13: 9780060541811
The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outerfringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona.Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont,a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town’s inhabitants, as if t
Author: Richard Le Gallienne
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: andromeda, perseus
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1417963824
ISBN-13: 9781417963829
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Author: William Duff Telfer
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: andromeda
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $16.75
ISBN-10: 111040395X
ISBN-13: 9781110403950
Author: Frank Portman
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Keywords: klein, andromeda
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-08-25
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0385735251
ISBN-13: 9780385735254
Andromeda Klein has a few problems.Her hair is kind of horrible.Her partner-in-occultism, Daisy, is dead.Her secret, estranged, much older and forbidden boyfriend-in-theory, has gone AWOL.And her mother has learned how to text.In short, things couldn’t get much worse. Until they do. Daisy seems to be attempting to make contact from beyond, books are starting to disappear from the library, and then, strangely and suddenly, Andromeda’s tarot readings are beginning to predict events with bizarrely literal accuracy. Omens are everywhere. Dreams; swords; fires; hidden cards; lost, broke
Author: Stephanie True Peters
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Keywords: constellations, library, andromeda
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2003-07
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0823961656
ISBN-13: 9780823961658
Author: Paul W. Hodge
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Keywords: library, vollume, science, space, galaxy, astrophysics, andromeda
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 1992-10-17
List price: $221.00
ISBN-10: 0792316541
ISBN-13: 9780792316541
The Andromeda Galaxy, or M31, is an attractive galaxy for astronomers. It is close to us, it is of about the size of our galaxy, it provides some intriguing observational puzzles because the galaxy is nearly edge-on, and many objects can be studied in detail, because they are still sufficiently bright. With the current developments in instrumentation with which increasingly detailed studies of the Andromeda Galaxy can be made, this book provides a solid foundation for the start of new observations. This book is a mine of information about M31. It can be used as a reference by insiders, and at
Authors:Bill Sherwonit, Andromeda Romano-Lax, Ellen Bielawsk
Publisher: Travelers’ Tales
Keywords: travelers, tales, guides, stories, alaska, true
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2003-09-26
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1885211961
ISBN-13: 9781885211965
Explore America’s last frontier with a cabal of experienced guides to witness the Inupiat taking of a bowhead whale, follow the seasons of commercial fisherfolk, sail the Inside Passage, and flight-see with bush pilots around Denali. The Land of the Midnight Sun has its share of surprises as well, including an entire town that lives in a single World War II vintage highrise, a hairy man who roams the bush, and backcountry gourmands who communicate with edible plants. Contributors include Tim Cahill, Jon Krakauer, Pam Houston, Joe McGinnis, Ian Frazier, David Roberts and others.
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