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  • Audiobook

    Faceless Killers

    by Henning Mankell ...
    Narrated by Dick Hill ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Kurt Wallander Mysteries

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    It was a crime of senseless violence. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. As if this didn’t present enough problems for Ystad police inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word, his only tangible clue, was “foreign.” If publicized, it could be the match that would inflame Sweden’s ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Classifying the Cosmos

    How We Can Make Sense of the Celestial Landscape

    by Steven J. Dick ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Since the invention of the telescope 400 years ago, astronomers have rapidly discovered countless celestial objects. But how does one make sense of it all?Astronomer and former NASA Chief Historian Steven J. Dick brings order to this menagerie by defining 82 classes of astronomical objects, which he places in a beginner-friendly system known as "Astronomy’s Three Kingdoms.” Rather than ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Discovery and Classification in Astronomy

    Controversy and Consensus

    by Steven J. Dick ...
    Astronomical discovery involves more than detecting something previously unseen. The reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006, and the controversy it generated, shows that discovery is a complex and ongoing process – one comprising various stages of research, interpretation and understanding. Ranging from Galileo's observation of Jupiter's satellites, Saturn's rings and star clusters, ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Space, Time, and Aliens

    Collected Works on Cosmos and Culture

    by Steven J. Dick ...
    In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume, former NASA Chief Historian Steven Dick reflects on the exploration of space, astrobiology and its implications, cosmic evolution, astronomical institutions, discovering and classifying the cosmos, and the philosophy of astronomy. The unifying theme of the book is the connection between cosmos and culture, or what Carl Sagan many years ago called ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    Sidetracked

    by Henning Mankell ...
    Narrated by Dick Hill ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - The Kurt Wallander Mysteries

    Unabridged

    14 hours 23 min

    Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former minister of justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is ... Read more

    $24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Astronomy and Philosophy

    Conceptual and Methodological Foundations and Challenges

    Edited by Steven J. Dick ...
    Philosophical problems fundamentally infuse the theory and practice of astronomy. Bringing together fifteen historians, eleven philosophers, and four pioneering scientists, this volume provides a rigorous yet largely accessible examination of the conceptual and methodological challenges that lie at the intersection of philosophy and astronomy – broadly construed to include astrophysics, cosmology, ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact

    by Steven J. Dick ...
    Series Book 9 - Cambridge Astrobiology
    The search for life in the universe, once the stuff of science fiction, is now a robust worldwide research program with a well-defined roadmap probing both scientific and societal issues. This volume examines the humanistic aspects of astrobiology, systematically discussing the approaches, critical issues, and implications of discovering life beyond Earth. What do the concepts of life and ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Fifth Woman

    A Kurt Wallander Mystery

    by Henning Mankell ...
    Narrated by Dick Hill ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - The Kurt Wallander Mysteries

    Unabridged

    17 hours 4 min

    In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, while the body ... Read more

    $27.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Nonprofit Organizations

    Governance, Leadership, and Management

    Edited by Lisa A. Dicke, J. Steven Ott ...
    There are no easy solutions to the complexities faced by nonprofit leaders and managers. This textbook addresses the governance, leadership, and management functions of the thousands of organizations in the nonprofit sector that provide an enormous range of services. This thoroughly revised fourth edition of Understanding Nonprofit Organizations does not simply recount and summarize seminal ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Cosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context

    Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context

    Edited by Ph.D. Steven J. Dick, Dr. Mark L. Lupisella, Ph.D., National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...
    NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list priceDuring the last 50 years, coincident with the Space Age, cosmic evolution has been recognized as the master narrative of the universe, history writ large. Cosmic evolution includes physical, biological, and cultural evolution, and of these the latter is by far the most rapid.In this volume, authors ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • NASA 50th Anniversary Proceedings: NASA's First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives

    NASA's First 50 Years, Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Ph.D. Steven J. Dick, National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...
    PRINT FORMAT ONLY NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT-OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list priceOn 29 July 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which became operational on 1 October of that year. Over the next 50 years, NASA achieved a set of spectacular feats, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Impact of Discovering Life beyond Earth

    Edited by Steven J. Dick ...
    The search for life in the Universe, once the domain of science fiction, is now a robust research program with a well-defined roadmap, from studying the extremes of life on Earth to exploring the possible niches for life in the Solar System and discovering thousands of planets far beyond it. In addition to constituting a major scientific endeavor, astrobiology is one of the most popular topics in ... Read more

    $35.29 USD