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Enjoy The Ride

Lessons For The Quest To Live A Joyful, Profitable Life In Dentistry

de Alan Stern ...

Are you one of the many dentists that have become bored or burned out after a number of years doing the same thing? Or maybe you are a new dentist feeling overwhelmed with this new path. Dr. Alan Stern's mission is to help dentists keep the passion that drove them to pursue a career in this great and important profession alive. Enjoy The Ride is full of stories and practical advice for creating a ... Leer más

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Are you one of the many dentists that have become bored or burned out after a number of years doing the same thing? Or maybe you are a new dentist feeling overwhelmed with this new path. Dr. Alan Stern's mission is to help dentists keep the passion that drove them to pursue a career in this great and important profession alive. Enjoy The Ride is full of stories and practical advice for creating a
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Pluto and Lowell Observatory

A History of Discovery at Flagstaff

de Kevin Schindler, Will Grundy, Annette and Alden Tombaugh and W. Lowell Putnam and S. Alan Stern ...

Series series Landmarks
Pluto looms large in Flagstaff, where residents and businesses alike take pride in their community's most enduring claim to fame: Clyde Tombaugh's 1930 discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory. Percival Lowell began searching for his theoretical "Planet X" in 1905, and Tombaugh's "eureka!" experience brought worldwide attention to the city and observatory. Ever since, area scientists have played ... Leer más

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Pluto looms large in Flagstaff, where residents and businesses alike take pride in their community's most enduring claim to fame: Clyde Tombaugh's 1930 discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory. Percival Lowell began searching for his theoretical "Planet X" in 1905, and Tombaugh's "eureka!" experience brought worldwide attention to the city and observatory. Ever since, area scientists have played
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The Pluto System After New Horizons

de S. Alan Stern ...

Series series The University of Arizona Space Science Series
Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. After Voyager accomplished its final planetary reconnaissance at Neptune in 1989, Pluto and its cohort in the Kuiper Belt beckoned as the missing puzzle piece for completing the first reconnaissance of our solar system. In the ... Leer más

$48.99 USD

Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. After Voyager accomplished its final planetary reconnaissance at Neptune in 1989, Pluto and its cohort in the Kuiper Belt beckoned as the missing puzzle piece for completing the first reconnaissance of our solar system. In the
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Chasing New Horizons

Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

de Alan Stern, David Grinspoon ...

This insider account is "thoroughly captivating . . . Suffused with . . . scientific wonder. . . . a top-notch documentation of intrepid planetary exploration" ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review).On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than three billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its ... Leer más

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This insider account is "thoroughly captivating . . . Suffused with . . . scientific wonder. . . . a top-notch documentation of intrepid planetary exploration" ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review).On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than three billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its
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冥王星任務：NASA新視野號與太陽系盡頭之旅

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

Traducido por 鄭煥昇 ...

de 艾倫‧史登 Alan Stern、大衛‧葛林史 David Grinspoon ...

◎20億人次關注的太空計畫◎曾登上七大洲報紙頭條◎2018年英國大學生推薦讀物◎出版人週刊最佳夏日讀物◎BBC精選十本五月必讀的書◎電影「十月的天空」作者強力好評◎隨書附最新版「探索冥王星系統的十大科學發現」人類登陸過月球、開發過火星，還探索過天王星、海王星……等等，那冥王星呢？二○一五年美國國慶日，航太總署（NASA）負責冥王星計畫的任務主持人艾倫・史登，手機響了起來：「我們跟太空船失聯了！」整整九年未曾斷過聯繫的太空船新視野號，卻在終於要飛掠冥王星的前十天與NASA失聯，這代表長達十四年的計畫可能付諸流水，而超過兩千五百位同仁的心血也將白費……熟悉太空天文計畫的人，可能對於火星探測車的進展最為了解；但冥王星任務卻是NASA有史以來最完美又最省錢的計畫，在預算僅四億元的要求下，數學家與物理學家突破瓶頸：在地球跟冥王星對齊的那一年，NASA先將飛行器拋向木星，再用木星把飛行器加速拋向冥王星 ... Leer más

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◎20億人次關注的太空計畫◎曾登上七大洲報紙頭條◎2018年英國大學生推薦讀物◎出版人週刊最佳夏日讀物◎BBC精選十本五月必讀的書◎電影「十月的天空」作者強力好評◎隨書附最新版「探索冥王星系統的十大科學發現」人類登陸過月球、開發過火星，還探索過天王星、海王星……等等，那冥王星呢？二○一五年美國國慶日，航太總署（NASA）負責冥王星計畫的任務主持人艾倫・史登，手機響了起來：「我們跟太空船失聯了！」整整九年未曾斷過聯繫的太空船新視野號，卻在終於要飛掠冥王星的前十天與NASA失聯，這代表長達十四年的計畫可能付諸流水，而超過兩千五百位同仁的心血也將白費……熟悉太空天文計畫的人，可能對於火星探測車的進展最為了解；但冥王星任務卻是NASA有史以來最完美又最省錢的計畫，在預算僅四億元的要求下，數學家與物理學家突破瓶頸：在地球跟冥王星對齊的那一年，NASA先將飛行器拋向木星，再用木星把飛行器加速拋向冥王星
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Chasing New Horizons

Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

de Alan Stern, David Grinspoon ...

Narrado por Alan Stern, David Grinspoon ...

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9 hora 16 minutos

This audiobook is the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, ... Leer más

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This audiobook is the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour,
... Leer más

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The Mission

A True Story

de David W. Brown ...

Narrado por JD Jackson ...

Completo

15 hora 17 minutos

A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA’s deep-space mission to Europa—the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system—powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics.When scientists discovered the first ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: “Is it habitable?” and “How do we get there?” To ... Leer más

$32.99 USD

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A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA’s deep-space mission to Europa—the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system—powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics.When scientists discovered the first ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: “Is it habitable?” and “How do we get there?” To
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A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

de Michael S. Schneider ...

Narrado por Al Kessel ...

Completo

12 hora 48 minutos

Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a ... Leer más

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Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a
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Mastering Logical Fallacies

The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic

de Michael Withey ...

Narrado por Steven Crossley ...

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4 hora 22 minutos

Your argument is valid and you know it; yet once again you find yourself leaving a debate feeling defeated and embarrassed. The matter is only made worse when you realize that your defeat came at the hands of someone's abuse of logic—and that with the right skills you could have won the argument.The ability to recognize logical fallacies when they occur is an essential life skill. Mastering ... Leer más

$10.99 USD

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Your argument is valid and you know it; yet once again you find yourself leaving a debate feeling defeated and embarrassed. The matter is only made worse when you realize that your defeat came at the hands of someone's abuse of logic—and that with the right skills you could have won the argument.The ability to recognize logical fallacies when they occur is an essential life skill. Mastering
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Lusitania

Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age

de Greg King, Penny Wilson ...

Narrado por Johnny Heller ...

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8 hora 48 minutos

Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the twentieth century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old. Yet an encounter with a primitive German U-Boat sent her and her gilded passengers to their tragic deaths.A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the twentieth century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old. Yet an encounter with a primitive German U-Boat sent her and her gilded passengers to their tragic deaths.A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an
... Leer más

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The Copernicus Complex

Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities

de Caleb Scharf ...

Narrado por Caleb Scharf ...

Completo

9 hora 2 minutos

The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff PickIn the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth rotates around the Sun. Having demoted Earth from its unique position in the cosmos to one of mediocrity, Cope... ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

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The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff PickIn the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth rotates around the Sun. Having demoted Earth from its unique position in the cosmos to one of mediocrity, Cope...
... Leer más

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The Assassination of the Archduke

Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World

de Greg King, Sue Woolmans ...

Narrado por Malcolm Hillgartner ...

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11 hora 28 minutos

Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I.In the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished in the chaos of World War I. One event precipitated the conflict, and at its heart was a tragic ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

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Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I.In the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished in the chaos of World War I. One event precipitated the conflict, and at its heart was a tragic
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