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Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection
of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing
science and building human knowledge-from micro to macro levels and
everything in between. Photography and science have long been
intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world.
Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore,
and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to
promote scientific advances and has long served as an interface
between the sciences and the public. Our understanding of outer
space depends on images sent to Earth from the Hubble Space
Telescope, just as our understanding of our own bodies depends on
X-rays. Images make visible what lies beyond human perception.
Science is less an edifice of facts than a process of discovery and
inquiry. In this way, it is not dissimilar to art; artists have
engaged with some of the same scientific principles, using
photography to imagine the world differently and present us with
new experiences and ways of seeing. This volume presents both
perspectives exploring how science is made perceptible, featuring
over three hundred images and sixty short texts. Together they
engage readers in a timely exploration of the extent to which our
knowledge is formed and transformed through our interactions with
photographic imagery.
Mastodonhas taken hold of the leadership of the New Wave of
Progressive Heavy Metal. The band's 2006 major-label debut Blood
Mountainspun off a Grammy nomination and earned Top 5 Best Album Of
The Year nods from Kerrang!, Revolver, and Metal Hammer, and a Top
10 at Rolling Stone. Now Crack The Skye, its fourth original studio
album, mines subject matter from czarist Russia and astral travel
to out-of-body experiences and Stephen Hawking's theories on
wormholes for an unrepentantly heavy aural assault that will shake
the heavens.
This open access book traces the development of landscapes along
the 414-kilometer China-Laos Railway, one of the first
infrastructure projects implemented under China's Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of
2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and
intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the
development and conservation of these landscapes, this book
provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing
for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and
implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It
complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization
frequently reproduced in the Laos-China frontier region. Many of
the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent
"firsts" in Laos: Laos's first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked
endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first
planting plan for a community forest. Most often the agents and
accomplices of neoliberal development, the planning and design
professions, including landscape architecture, have little dialogue
with either the mainstream natural sciences or critical social
sciences that form the discourse of projects in Laos and comparable
contexts. Covering diverse conceptions and issues of development,
including cultural and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos
and China, nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this
book also features nine planning proposals for Laos generated
through this research initiative since the railway's groundbreaking
in 2016. Each proposal promotes a wider "landscape approach" to
development and deploys landscape architecture's spatial and
ecological acumen to synthesize critical development studies with
the planner's capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on
the ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious engagement
of the professionally oriented built-environment disciplines, such
as regional planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture,
with the landscapes of development institutions and environmental
NGOs.
This open access book traces the development of landscapes along
the 414-kilometer China-Laos Railway, one of the first
infrastructure projects implemented under China's Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of
2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and
intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the
development and conservation of these landscapes, this book
provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing
for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and
implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It
complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization
frequently reproduced in the Laos-China frontier region. Many of
the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent
"firsts" in Laos: Laos's first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked
endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first
planting plan for a community forest. Most often the agents and
accomplices of neoliberal development, the planning and design
professions, including landscape architecture, have little dialogue
with either the mainstream natural sciences or critical social
sciences that form the discourse of projects in Laos and comparable
contexts. Covering diverse conceptions and issues of development,
including cultural and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos
and China, nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this
book also features nine planning proposals for Laos generated
through this research initiative since the railway's groundbreaking
in 2016. Each proposal promotes a wider "landscape approach" to
development and deploys landscape architecture's spatial and
ecological acumen to synthesize critical development studies with
the planner's capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on
the ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious engagement
of the professionally oriented built-environment disciplines, such
as regional planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture,
with the landscapes of development institutions and environmental
NGOs.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly makes his Step into Reading debut in
this engaging and easy-to-read autobiography that takes readers on
his awe-inspiring journey from childhood to his record-breaking
year among the stars. A Step 3 Biography Reader of American hero,
Astronaut Scott Kelly! Scott wasn't sure what he wanted to be when
he grew up. He struggled in school and often got in trouble with
his twin brother, Mark. Then one day Scott discovered a book about
test pilots and astronauts that set him on a new path. His new
focus led him to fly higher and higher, becoming first a pilot and
then an astronaut, along with his brother--the first twin
astronauts in history. But his greatest accomplishment of all was
commanding the International Space Station and spending nearly a
year in space, which set the record for the longest spaceflight by
an American.This story of an ordinary boy who grew up to do
extraordinary things will amaze and inspire young readers. Step 3
Readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about
popular topics--for children who are ready to read on their own.
*As featured on BBC Breakfast, Radio 5Live and Steve Wright in the
Afternoon on BBC Radio 2* From the Nasa astronaut who spent a
record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station - what
it's like out there and what it's like now, back here. Enter Scott
Kelly's fascinating world and dare to think of your own a little
differently. As soon as you realize you aren't going to die, space
is the most fun you'll ever have... The veteran of four space
flights and the American record holder for most consecutive days
spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few of us
ever have and very few of us ever will. Kelly's humanity,
compassion, humour, and passion shine as he describes navigating
the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both existential
and banal. He touches on what's happened to his body, the sadness
of being isolated from everyone he loves; the pressures of constant
close cohabitation; the catastrophic risks of colliding with space
junk, and the still more haunting threat of being absent should
tragedy strike at home. From a natural storyteller Endurance is one
of the finest examples the triumph of the human imagination, the
strength of the human will, and the boundless wonder of the galaxy.
* What readers are saying... 'Takes you up into space and lets you
be a part of astronaut life' 'Tough to put down! Tells a side you
don't often hear or read about for that matter' 'Mind blowing . . .
up there with Ernest Shackleton for me' 'My husband said it is the
next best thing to going into space yourself' 'Six stars!'
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Top Fear (Paperback)
Scott Kelly
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The Platypus Party (Paperback)
Jake Marotta; Illustrated by Adam Quagliano; Introduction by Scott Kelly
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Discovery Miles 4 600
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Retired minor league hockey player Michael Verita was content. He
was back in the small Wisconsin town where he grew up getting paid
to write about the sport he loved. Days were spent on the lake and
nights in the rink surrounded by loyal friends. Life was
comfortable until a letter from his late beloved grandmother
changed everything. A shocking inheritance and a special woman's
wish thrust Michael into a presidential campaign where his honesty,
pragmatism, intelligence, and irreverence capture the attention of
the nation's voters. Now a common man with uncommon sense is
challenging the political establishment. As the sitting President
and his top contender scramble to discredit their new rival, the
American people will decide if Michael Verita is a one-hit wonder
or the leader our country truly needs.
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The Blue (Paperback)
Scott Kelly
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R312
Discovery Miles 3 120
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[sic] (Paperback)
Scott Kelly
bundle available
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Discovery Miles 3 240
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How can parents keep their kids safe and healthy when it comes to
drug and alcohol abuse? The Miles To Go Parenting Handbook Series
is designed to aid parents as they deal with this challenge. This
book, Not All Kids Do Drugs, is a hands-on, systematic guide that
tells parents how to handle issues faced by students of middle and
high school age: curfews, non-use policies, goal setting, and what
to do if drug and alcohol use occurs are just a few of the topics
covered. It details how to make healthy, informed choices that will
help keep kids sober and safe.
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