The New Complete Guide to Wildlife Photography: How to Get Close and Capture Animals on Film

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Comprehensive and Practical.......2007-01-12

Joe McDonald's book covers a very wide range of wildlife photography. There are a lot of tips for the amateur but also a lot of info for serious photographers using professional equipment. The examples used to illustrate Joe's message are well chosen and also beautiful and inspiring to look at. It is difficult to imagine how you could get more or better material into a book of this size. Strongly recommended.

A "must have" for the serious amatuer!.......2002-07-13

Mr McDonald puts passion into every word of this book,its simply explained lessons are written in a provocative style that leaves you yearning for the next page.....

Its a "must have" book for anybody wanting to explore wildlife photography as a hobby or professionally, and just a great, easy reading book.Ive owned my copy 6 months and have already read it 3 times! Its well explained so even people with a basic knowledge of photography can put many of his "lessons" into practical use.I cant wait for his next book!

Great for the serious amateur.......2001-02-28

After reading several photo books, this was the one that finally let me take control of my camera and get away from all of the auto modes. The chapters on flash, for the first time, gave me an understanding of how flash works and how to manipulate it in both TTL and manual. Contains info on design and composition as well as approaching wildlife, but it was the exposure and flash info that made it an invaluable reference for me.

Thumbs Up !!!.......1999-03-05

Joe has done a very good job in writing this book explaining the basics of exposure control in the field including some flash techniques. I find this book to be indispensable in my library. I am now reading through it the second time. The pictures in this book are all very inspirational and well taken. I certainly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in wildlife and nature photography.

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Great resource!.......2007-09-30

I am a video production teacher and this book is an outstanding resource to teach kids what a career as an art director can entail. The chapters are clear and have great graphics and pictures to reinforce the information. My students who have used the book so far have enjoyed it.

práctico y útil.......1998-11-22

Es un libro que explica bien el trabajo de los directores artísticos norteamericanos, su utilidad en otros países es más dudosa. Buenas ilustraciones, bien escrito.

An excellent explaination of that "mystery" credit.......1996-07-28

For the art or architecture student who is into films and is still uncertain of a career direction, this book lays out the procedure and the challenges in becoming a motion picture art director or a production designer. While covering the "nuts and bolts" of the work, the messages are often driven home by war stories from the author's own experiences in the business. Easy Reading.

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Around the middle of the eighteenth century the leading figures of the French Enlightenment engaged in a philosophical debate about the nature of music. The principal participants - Rousseau, Diderot, and d'Alembert - were responding to the views of the composer-theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau, who was both a participant and increasingly a subject of controversy. This book traces the development of the ideas discussed and reveals the vigour with which they were debated. The discussion centred upon three different events occurring roughly simultaneously. The first was Rameau's formulation of the principle of the fundamental bass - a principle which explained the structure of chords and their progression. The second was the writing of the Encyclopedie, edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, with articles on music by Rousseau. The third was the `Querelle des Bouffons', over Italian comic opera and French tragic opera. The philosophes moved freely from the broad issues of philosophy and criticism to the more technical questions of music theory. Their dialogue was one of extraordinary depth and richness and dealt with some of the most fundamental issues of the French Enlightenment. Cynthia Verba reconstructs the link between music theory and criticism that has been lost over time, and presents intensive passages from the debate in English translation for the first time.

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From Puzzlemaster Will Shortz comes the hottest craze in puzzles: the new wordless crossword puzzles. These addictive puzzles are easy to explainjust fill the grid with numbers according to the few simple rulesbut incredibly fun and engaging. Rules: 1. Each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes in the grid must contain one of the numbers 1 through 9. 2. Each row and column must contain each of the numbers 1 through 9.

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Great for Beginners!!.......2007-08-08

This book helped me figure out Sudoku, I'm a beginner. Looking forward to finishing more puzzles and getting to the next level. I'm addicted!

Not your average "easy" Sudoku!.......2006-07-24

This book offers more challenging puzzles than your average "easy" books. It was great for the addicted!

Well done.......2006-05-07

I bought (and eventually burned) another Sudoku book which had very inaccurately grouped puzzles. It's very first puzzle, supposedly "gentle", was in fact pretty difficult. I got very annoyed with the book.

By contrast, this Will Shortz book seems to have done a good job of ranking the puzzles. It's a very simple book. Well done. I've gotten hours of enjoyment from solving theses puzzles.

It is what it says it is, Easy........2006-05-03

This is a nice little book of puzzles. It is as it says it is, easy. Most of the entries have 30+ squares of the 81 with given numbers, so that filling out the remaining squares is a matter of simple logic. Although nothing but the elements of the game are provided as instructions, the ease with which the puzzles are completed helps the beginner learn some of the beginning logic behind doing them. I find I enjoy discovering the "tricks" of finishing these puzzles more satisfying than I would being told before hand what they are. Certainly I learn them more thoroughly by this method, because I have to intuit them; I actually have to understand the "why" behind the manuver. In my opinion this type of learning is inherently helpful in other tasks as well; that it is to say, transferable to ones life settings in other ways--although I have to admit I couldn't tell you specifically how or why. I think getting school age children involved in doing these types of puzzles would be a good idea, since it would help them learn the principles of logical thinking without the pain of word problems.

Hello .......can you say addicting........................2006-04-29

Not the best Sudoku book I own, but very addicting.

Customer Reviews:

pretty cool.......1998-08-28

this book is not quite what i expected it to be but it's like a complete script of the very first simpsons episode called "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire." Even though it's wasn't what i expected it to be, i liked it.

Looks great under the artificial tree.......1997-11-25

The classic TV debut of the quintiessential TV family in convenient book form. I plan to hand it down from generation to geneeration. And if you can find a copy, you should too.

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The Simpsons Xmas Book
Matt Groening
Manufacturer: New York: HarperPerennial, 1990
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The Simpsons Xmas Book
Matt Groening
Manufacturer: Carnival
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Twins, Triplets, And More - From Pre-birth Through High School - What Every Parent Needs To Know When Raising Two Or More
Elizabeth M., M.D. Bryan
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press/Griffin
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ASIN: B000JZKRRC

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Looking for help in all the wrong places

Twins, Triplets, and More: From Pre-Birth Through High School - What Every Parent Needs To Know When Raising Two Or More
Elizabeth M.D. Bryan
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Twins and higher multiple births bring parents unique joys-and unique challenges. Dr. Elizabeth Bryan, founder of the Multiple Births Foundation, addresses everything the parents of multiple births need to know, from conception to adulthood. For example:

-The real difference among fraternal, identical, and "half-identical" siblings
-Naming-resisting the "John and Jane" urge
-Twin languages and their effect on speech development
-Treating multiples "equally" without homogenizing them
-How to ask for and manage help-all parents of multiples need it!
-Separation and independence: getting the right mix

The increased use of fertility drugs combined with the trend toward later motherhood has made multiple births more common than ever. In frank but reassuring language, Dr. Bryan guides parents through the inimitable journey of parenting twins, triplets, and more.

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Looking for help in all the wrong places.......2000-05-30

This book contains very little useful information for those of us expecting multiples or who have given birth to multiples. It focuses primarily on twins and the background of the frequency of twins, how twins are formed and the difference between fraternal and identical twins. The book gives no practical advice on maintaining a multiple pregnancy or how to overcome the difficulties of raising multiples.

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Navy Seals - History Part Ii - Vietnam Years
Kevin Dockery
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Interesting

Reads like a thriller novel

Many Thanks, Nick Cook!

This book does have a scientific basis

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The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology
Nick Cook
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Imagine the power, economic and military, that would fall into the hands of the person who figured out how to bypass the ordinary laws of physics, defy gravity, and travel near the speed of light.

Though it sometimes seems to fall in the realm of science fiction more than pure science, aviation-technology journalist Nick Cook's intriguing tale involves the long quest to develop antigravity vehicles and the sometimes eccentric characters who have played a part in it: Nazi rocket engineers, backyard inventors, NASA scientists, conspiracy theorists, and UFO watchers among them. The last group figures, Cook explains, because the ideal craft for "electrogravitic reaction" would take the form of a disc, a design consideration seen in the shape of current stealth aircraft. It could just be, the author suggests, that what witnesses have taken to be flying saucers might instead be antigravity-aircraft prototypes, though he cautions that "the subject is too complex ... to conform to a single explanation."

And therein hangs a good part of this always interesting, if admittedly speculative, story, which, regardless of the truth of the matter (or, perhaps, antimatter), will appeal to techies and Trekkies alike. --Gregory McNamee

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This riveting work of investigative reporting and history exposes classified government projects to build gravity-defying aircraft--which have an uncanny resemblance to flying saucers.

The atomic bomb was not the only project to occupy government scientists in the 1940s. Antigravity technology, originally spearheaded by scientists in Nazi Germany, was another high priority, one that still may be in effect today. Now for the first time, a reporter with an unprecedented access to key sources in the intelligence and military communities reveals suppressed evidence that tells the story of a quest for a discovery that could prove as powerful as the A-bomb.

The Hunt for Zero Point explores the scientific speculation that a "zero point" of gravity exists in the universe and can be replicated here on Earth. The pressure to be the first nation to harness gravity is immense, as it means having the ability to build military planes of unlimited speed and range, along with the most deadly weaponry the world has ever seen. The ideal shape for a gravity-defying vehicle happens to be a perfect disk, making antigravity tests a possible explanation for the numerous UFO sightings of the past 50 years.

Chronicling the origins of antigravity research in the world's most advanced research facility, which was operated by the Third Reich during World War II, The Hunt for Zero Point traces U.S. involvement in the project, beginning with the recruitment of former Nazi scientists after the war. Drawn from interviews with those involved with the research and who visited labs in Europe and the United States, The Hunt for Zero Point journeys to the heart of the twentieth century's most puzzling unexplained phenomena.

From the Hardcover edition.

Customer Reviews:

Interesting.......2007-10-13

This is a very interesting book because the author is an editor for Jane's Defense Weekly which is a main stream defense industry publication.

He has a lot of contacts in the defense industry which gives him access to people and places which are not available to most people.

He postulates that perhaps entire industries exist in the world which are trying to solve technical problems that were in reality solved decades ago. These "white" industries serve as the utlimate smoke screen to hide the secrets that only the elite know.

As he delves deeper and deeper in his quest to discover the truth about the "black" projects he begins to feel that the bad guys are beginning to watch him. That's when the nightmares start.

It appears that around the time of World War 2 a race began to discover secrets which, although they seem new to us, were known in very ancient times on Atlantis and in Egypt.

Nuclear energy was one of these rediscovered "technologies" but there are others which (if this can even be imagined) are infinitely more powerful and potentially more dangerous than nuclear.

According to the Edgar Cayce material it was the abuse of some sort of crystal based technology that led to the various destructions of Atlantis which now rests in its watery grave.

One of the main ideas is that there is an infinite source of clean, free, energy available to the world in what Plato and the ancients called the "aether".

As people continue to delve into the sub atomic world they are perhaps seeing God's infinite creative powers. A force which can become anything and which can do anything.

It is only recently that people have begun to fathom to true nature of the mysterious Great Pyramid in Egypt. The pyramid was a machine and it used an aether based physics similar to what Nick talks about in this book.

Towards the end of the book Nick talks about a very mysterious Canadian guy named John Hutchison. Hutchison was at one time able to repeatedly create strange anti gravity and alchemical effects in his laboratory. The problem was even he didn't know how it worked or what the "Hutchison Effect" was going to do. During one test the concrete floor started to catch on fire.

For whatever reasons the information in this book has not made it into the main stream yet. Perhaps this is just as well for now.

Nick did a lot of travelling and research for this book. He includes a lot of background information about Nazi Germany which is where quantum mechanics started.

There's a typo on page 271:

"A thousand kilowatts are a megawatt and a thousand megawatts are a gigawatt. A thousand terawatts, Markus told me, were a terawatt."

The mysterious "Dr. Dan Marckus" is one of the people in the book who was not identified by their real names.

I feel like I can sort of relate to or identify with the Dan Marckus character for some reason. Perhaps subconsiously I would like to become one of these mad scientist types like Nikola Tesla.

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Reads like a thriller novel.......2007-09-27

Great read. Well detailed with references included. Faded a bit in the last chapter (like he needs to release a sequel) but detailed enought to satisfy all but the most techno0savvy. Hard to put this one down.

Many Thanks, Nick Cook!.......2007-09-16

Nick Cook starts his Hunt for Zero Point as an adventure story : which is as it should be, for all research into the unknown - especially the well-guarded unknown! - IS an adventure!
By the time one gets to mid-point, one is dismayed by Cook's lack of time for consequentially-lengthened investigation, very impressed by the intense effort he manages to squeeze into his limited available time, and appalled at the apparent lack of progress - on the surface, at least, of scientific research into truly new, viable technologies. One is also aware, however, of a secret world guarding its secrets well, with state-sanctioned, Gestapo-like tactics where and when necessary.
There is a noticeable transition between the first and second parts of his book, the point where Nick finally gets his teeth into real empirical research done decades before under appalling wartime conditions and horrendous cost in human sacrifice, and which shows up in crass comparison today's multi-billion-dollar, corporately-funded, sheeplike sinecures of thought-catechised academia timidly testing the water without really getting its toes wet, and what concerted human effort is capable of when conditions necessitate experiment, rather than theory, and when ivory-towers have to go by the board.
Most of all, one is appalled by the implicit idiocy of Western, sanitised-for-our-protection, pseudo-scientific consensus-psychosis orthodox "science", and the between-the-lines awareness that Mankind has never left the pattern of a socially-imposed, mandatory infallibility of its leading alpha males, as in any monkey or baboon tribe, so that any truly new research results are met with the exorcism of their discoverer.
The sharpish transition between the first and second halves of the book might appear to be an attempt to justify the meaty part, the second half, by the dry bread Cook has of necessity exhausted in the first half, in order to justify going out on a limb in research otherwise unacceptable to the orthodox, and the fact that Cook has introduced, as his scientific backup, an unnameable mentor in the form of a shadowy father-figure ostensibly related to unspecified research and/or defence establishments, a deus-ex-macchina to lend credence to his own true investigative bent under the Damocles sword of professional catechism by those of lesser intellect but greater position in the hierarchy of things, might seem to confirm this view.
Under obvious professional duress, Nick Cook has done us a real favour : he has gone out on a limb, and whereas his potential critics, mainly the professional nitpickers, button-sorters and bottle-washers of science, who produce little or nothing original themselves and so love to tear others apart, might nibble away at his strict scientific terminologies, he has shown us a real world, in which its hero, Viktor Schauberger, a simple forester but in the strictest sense a true scientific observer, has held out the promise of a better, cleaner world of free energy, understood and utilised only by a desperate Heinrich Himmler's SS, while, even today, almost seventy years after these events, the status-holding alpha males of our human baboon tribe never fail to fail us.
I give Nick Cook four stars for his - in my opinion all-too-short! - book, and a very big, hearty, fat and meaty one final star for having the immense guts to try!
George Paxinos

This book does have a scientific basis.......2007-08-20

NASA and European scientists got the superconducting spinning disk method to WORK around 2006-2007. They wrote a paper entitled:
"Current Research in Gravito-Electromagnetic Space Propulsion" by Walter Droscher and Jochem Hauser. The research was performed in Austria at the "Institut fur Grenzgebiete der Wissenschaft, 6010 Innsbruck, Austria."

You can find the paper by doing a google search for the title.

NASA PROVED that it is possible to generate a gravitational field without the accumulation of mass.

Anti-gravity propulsion based on the methods employed in the television show "Star Trek" also have theoretical bases, and, since NASA got the "spinning super-conducting disk method" to generate gravitational fields without the accumulation of mass, other forms of "Faster-than-light travel" would also be possible. The method used in "Star Trek" is called the Alcubierrie Drive. You can find MANY scientific papers by performing a google search on the Alcubierre Drive and "Faster-than-light travel." Some of the papers might not be free, though, since they come from physics journals.

The Alcubierre drive works theoretically by creating positive and negative "pressure" fields in front of and behind the space craft which generates these fields. I can't remember the title of the paper, but this method has been shown to work theoretically according to General and Special Relativity. The method is believed to work by having the ship in "free-fall," which is similar to how an object is pulled towards the Earth via the Earth's gravitational field. Faster-than-light travel is possible theoretically since the ship is in "free-fall" with respect to itself within a small "bubble" that it creates using the previously mentioned pressure fields. Within the ships own "bubble," the ship moves at a slow speed, but an "outside observer" would "see" the ship travel faster than the speed of light, and the "outside observer" would see the light experience the "Doppler effect."
The Alcubierre Drive doesn't not violate the conservation of energy or the weak energy principles because the ship uses energy to create these pressure fields.

Research is on-going on both of these methods.

So, this book is NOT SCIENCE FICTION.

inconclusive.......2007-07-22

I've not finished this yet - so maybe I should wait, but so far I find this quite interesting, but lacking in any solid evidence - I hope he's going to hit me with some soon. A few dodgy bits I noticed

- page 19 : referring a report about secret technologies: "Counterbary is defined as 'the action of levitation, where gravity's force is more than overcome by electrostatic or other propulsion'. Antigravity then." Considering the whole book is about antigravity, this seems a bit of an odd statement - ever since hot air baloons, we have had systems that could overcome gravity by countering it with some other force. Antigravity, if it existed, would be a way of neutralising or reversing gravity itself.

- p.45 he refers to a weapon the Nazis supposedly invented able to fire shells 170km, which he believes is "more than enough to hit most British cities from deep within France". Hmm, in fact this is merely enough to hit London (south-east England) from a site a few kilometres inland from Calais (the other side of the English Channel) - he must have a very odd (London-centric) idea of "most British cities"!

- p.45 Perhaps when he wrote this book a few years ago it sounded more impressive to do your research using "an unusual combination of word commands fed through a high-powered search engine" (i.e. he googled for it)

p.58 he turns down the invitation to visit a "biological-technical institute" in Austria run by a man whose father supposedly invented antigravity systems during the second world war (according to research the writer has just been getting all excited about)because he finds out the man was not a professional scientist and had no impressive letters after his name. Einstein was originally a patent clerk, and why shouldn't out-of-the-box thinking come from an unusual source??

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The aim of State of the Universe 2007 (and subsequent volumes issued annually) is to provide an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be published every year in September in a format that will be suitable for an appeal to the Christmas market. The book will cover all major astronomical news on topics beyond the Solar System and place them in the context of the longer term goals that astronomers and astrophysicists around the world are aiming for. The target is to capture the excitement and vibrancy of modern astronomical research. The book will present a complete list of the major announcements, discoveries and news items from each year, with the major ones being explained in detail through selected chapters being written by invited contributors who are at the forefront in those fields. The January meeting of the American Astronomical Society each year will be the major source of astronomical news for the following yearâ€™s volume, giving access to potential authors and contacts with public information officers of major observatories, space centers, etc.

The regular set features, which will appear every year, will include an annual chronological list of the latest discoveries announced during the previous twelve months; a review of the major news stories of the year with the main characters; a list of launches of major astronomical observatories/satellites during the past year; a list of planned future astronomical satellites; basic data on all astronomical observatories currently in operation with web links for the reader to dig deeper; list of anniversaries and landmarks; the latest from the BadAstronomy website by Dr Phil Plait, and the cartoon feature.

Customer Reviews:

A must have!.......2007-04-16

When I read about the book I was quite excited and when I received the book, a few days ago, I was not disappointed. The book has a part dedicated to brief news and other with in-depth articles about very interesting topics (gravitational waves and LIGO, supernova 1987A remnants, gamma ray bursts...) and appendixes with data about current and future telescopes and extrasolar planets. I have still not finished it, but it won't take me long to.

Only slight cons is that I expected it to cover 2006 news and, because editorial schedule, it covers march 2005 - march 2006. Then maybe State of the Universe 2007 was not the most proper or accurate title. Other con was that I expected glossy paper, and it's not, Mate astronomical pictures are not so spectacular, but I guess this way it's cheaper (and more ecologic?).

I hope next year will bring a new State of The Universe, and I sure will buy it,

Excelent Information.......2007-03-19

I read the Martin Radcliffe's book "State of the Universe 2007" and I think it was a good idea to write a book like this. It is informative, well documented, comprehensive and provides you a good vision of what is going on in the different areas of the Universe whicha are under investigation. I think he should publish it every year, to keep un up-to-date with the latest discoveries. We could collect them and follow up different researches and their results and novelties. Superb.

QUASARS, PULSARS, AND BLACK HOLES (Library of the Universe)

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QUASARS, PULSARS, AND BLACK HOLES (Library of the Universe)
Isaac Asimov
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Black Holes, Pulsars, And Quasars (Isaac Asimov's 21st Century Library of the Universe)

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Black Holes, Pulsars, And Quasars (Isaac Asimov's 21st Century Library of the Universe)
Isaac Asimov , and Richard Hantula
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21st Century Complete Guide to the Chandra X-Ray Observatory ¿ Images and X-ray Astronomy Scientific Observations of Supernovae, Pulsars, Neutron Stars, Quasars, Galaxies, Clusters, Black Holes, and the Milky Way ¿ Images and Movies (Two CD-ROM Set)

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21st Century Complete Guide to the Chandra X-Ray Observatory ¿ Images and X-ray Astronomy Scientific Observations of Supernovae, Pulsars, Neutron Stars, Quasars, Galaxies, Clusters, Black Holes, and the Milky Way ¿ Images and Movies (Two CD-ROM Set)
World Spaceflight News
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This up-to-date and comprehensive set of two CD-ROMs provides a superb guide to the images and observations of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, launched by NASA and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Thousands of genuinely stunning photographs taken by the observatory are presented. Over 450 image files in JPG and GIF format are provided for use in any computer graphics program, and twenty computer video movie clips are also included.

Images and observations of many types of astronomical targets are included:

Supernovae Pulsars Neutron Stars Quasars Galaxies Clusters Black Holes Milky Way Galaxy

The Chandra X-ray Observatory, launched by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is NASA's newest Great Observatory. Chandra detects and images X- ray sources that are billions of light years away. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. If the surface of Earth was as smooth as the Chandra mirrors, the highest mountain would be less than six feet tall! The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope. This focusing power is equivalent to the ability to read a newspaper at a distance of half a mile. Chandra's improved sensitivity is making possible more detailed studies of black holes, supernovae, and dark matter. Chandra will increase our understanding of the origin, evolution, and destiny of the universe.

In all, the disc has nearly 6000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.

Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. federal government files and documents. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust.

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Mysteries of Deep Space: Black Holes, Pulsars, and Quasars (Isaac Asimov's New Library of the Universe)
Isaac Asimov , and Francis Reddy
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The new astronomy: Black holes, white dwarfs, pulsars quasars, and supernovae, how the new astronomy is changing our concepts of the universe
Paul Murdin
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THE NEW ASTRONOMY: BLACK HOLES, WHITE DWARFS, PULSARS, QUASARS AND SUPERNOVAE - HOW THE NEW ASTRONOMY IS CHANGING OUR CONCEPTS.
Paul & Lesley Murdin
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Quasars Pulsars and Black Holes In Space
Melvin Berger
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Quasars, Pulsars and Black Holes

Quasars, Pulsars, and Black Holes
Frederic Golden
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ASIN: 0684181436

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Quasars, Pulsars and Black Holes.......2001-02-27

It is hard for me to find a book that walks the fine line between being too academic, and too 'dumbed down'. Golden walks this line beautifully. He gets right to the point without being losing the reader, or losing the readers interest. This book is an excellent history of astronomy. It is also great look at the mysteries that still puzzle stargazers everywhere.

Quasars, Pulsars, and Black Holes A Scientific Detective Story

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Quasars, Pulsars, and Black Holes A Scientific Detective Story
Frederic Golden
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0KSHG

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