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  • The Benefit of Steel

    by Michael Hoskin ...
    For more than 40 years, Dr. Steve Foster has served as a missionary surgeon in Angola, through times of war and peace. Steve believes in The Benefit of Steel, the way in which steel surgical tools can save lives. This is the story of Steve's remarkable life, from his childhood in Zambia; medical school and marriage in Ontario; the outbreak of the Angolan Civil War; Steve's service in Kalukembe and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy

    Edited by Michael Hoskin ...
    Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world. This book covers the history of our study of the cosmos from prehistory through to a survey of modern astronomy and astrophysics (sure to be of interest to future historians of twentieth-century astronomy). It does not attempt to cover everything, but deliberately concentrates ... Read more

    $80.39 USD

  • Progressions of Power

    by David Michael Hoskins ...
    The Far Traveler's Log is a collection of poems presented in three books: The Epistles of Kurata, The Touch of Love, and Progressions of Power. The Epistles tell the story of a seeker as he awakens from Sleep. The Touch of Love explores the verdant landscape of the variations of love. Progressions of Power is a fictional story of the challenges our hero Kurata overcomes in the quest for Power. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blog of Ogmathus - Og's Blog

    by David Michael Hoskins ...
    What happens when you let a modern day mystic use your computer? The Blog of Ogmathus! This is a no-holds-barred account of the daily life of a healer and mystic. Ghost-busting, answers to spiritual questions, and accounts of healing mix with tales of interactions with people, places, and the kaleidoscope of spirits which mingle and mesh with the material world.Catch a glimpse of the wonders most ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Epistles of Kurata

    by David Michael Hoskins ...
    The Far Traveler's LogThe series of books called the Far Traveler's Log is a collection of poems presented in three books: The Epistles of Kurata, The Touch of Love, and Progressions of Power. The Epistles tell the story of a seeker as he awakens from Sleep. The Touch of Love explores the verdant landscape of the variations of love. Progressions of Power is a fictional story of the challenges our ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Touch of Love

    by David Michael Hoskins ...
    The Far Traveler's LogThe series of books called the Far Traveler's Log is a collection of poems presented in three books: The Epistles of Kurata, The Touch of Love, and Progressions of Power. The Epistles tell the story of a seeker as he awakens from Sleep. The Touch of Love explores the verdant landscape of the variations of love. Progressions of Power is a fictional story of the challenges our ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Astronomy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Hoskin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Astronomy, perhaps the first of the sciences, was already well developed by the time of Christ. Seventeen centuries later, after Newton showed that the movements of the planets could be explained in terms of gravitation, it became the paradigm for the mathematical sciences. In the nineteenth century the analysis of star-light allowed astrophysicists to determine both the chemical composition and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Construction of the Heavens

    William Herschel's Cosmology

    by Michael Hoskin ...
    The astronomical observations of William Herschel (1738–1822) made him question the accepted model of the clockwork universe. This volume explains the development of Herschel's thoughts on what he called 'the construction of the heavens' and reprints his principal papers on this subject. The preliminary chapters provide an introduction to Herschel, including his unusual path to astronomy, the ... Read more

    $146.79 USD

  • Discoverers of the Universe

    William and Caroline Herschel

    by Michael Hoskin ...
    A biography of the brother and sister who helped found modern astronomyDiscoverers of the Universe tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's King George III, and of William's sister, Caroline, who assisted him in his observations of the night sky and became an accomplished ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • William and Caroline Herschel

    Pioneers in Late 18th-Century Astronomy

    by Michael Hoskin ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This beautifully structured book presents the essentials of William and Caroline Herschel’s pioneering achievements in late 18th-century astronomy. Michael Hoskin shows that William Herschel was the first observational cosmologist and one of the first observers to attack the sidereal universe beyond the solar system:Herschel built instruments far better than any being used at the royal observatory ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    The History of Astronomy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Hoskin ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 47 min

    This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century. Historical records are first found in Babylon and Egypt, and after two millennia the arithmetical astronomy of the Babylonians merged with the Greek geometrical approach to culminate in the Almagest of Ptolemy. This legacy was transmitted to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The History of Time

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leofranc Holford-Strevens ...
    Narrated by Ben Esner ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 56 min

    Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar?The organization of time into hours, days, months, and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realize. For example, the French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook