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Bowl of Heaven (Paperback)
Gregory Benford, Larry Niven
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R256
R211
Discovery Miles 2 110
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When the Sunseeker laves Earth, bound for the planet called
"Glory", its crew knows they will never see home again. None of
them can ever have imagined, however, what they will find along the
way. A gargantuan object, with its own star nettled inside. The
bowl shaped structure is following the same path as the Sunseeker
and it has a habitable are the size of millions of Earths, A
landing party is sent to the surface, where they encounter some of
the structures inhabitants - wildly differing species, and not all
of them friendly.
Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessors, High Power
Microwaves, Third Edition continues to provide a wide-angle,
integrated view of the field of high power microwaves (HPMs). This
third edition includes significant updates in every chapter as well
as a new chapter on beamless systems that covers nonlinear
transmission lines. Written by an experimentalist, a theorist, and
an applied theorist, respectively, the book offers complementary
perspectives on different source types. The authors address: How
HPM relates historically and technically to the conventional
microwave field The possible applications for HPM and the key
criteria that HPM devices have to meet in order to be applied How
high power sources work, including their performance capabilities
and limitations The broad fundamental issues to be addressed in the
future for a wide variety of source types The book is accessible to
several audiences. Researchers currently in the field can widen
their understanding of HPM. Present or potential users of
microwaves will discover the advantages of the dramatically higher
power levels that are being made available. Newcomers to the field
can pursue further research. Decision makers in direct energy
acquisition and related fields, such as radar, communications, and
high energy physics, can see how developments in HPM will affect
them.
Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessors, High Power
Microwaves, Third Edition continues to provide a wide-angle,
integrated view of the field of high power microwaves (HPMs). This
third edition includes significant updates in every chapter as well
as a new chapter on beamless systems that covers nonlinear
transmission lines. Written by an experimentalist, a theorist, and
an applied theorist, respectively, the book offers complementary
perspectives on different source types. The authors address: How
HPM relates historically and technically to the conventional
microwave field The possible applications for HPM and the key
criteria that HPM devices have to meet in order to be applied How
high power sources work, including their performance capabilities
and limitations The broad fundamental issues to be addressed in the
future for a wide variety of source types The book is accessible to
several audiences. Researchers currently in the field can widen
their understanding of HPM. Present or potential users of
microwaves will discover the advantages of the dramatically higher
power levels that are being made available. Newcomers to the field
can pursue further research. Decision makers in direct energy
acquisition and related fields, such as radar, communications, and
high energy physics, can see how developments in HPM will affect
them.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing -- of the Asimov estate, the epic saga continues. Fate -- and a cruel Emperor's arbitrary power -- have thrust Hari Seldon into the First Ministership of the Empire against his will. As the story opens, Hari is about to leave his quiet professorship and take on the all but impossible task of administering 25 million inhabited worlds from the all-steel planet of Trantor. With the help of his beautiful bio-engineered "wife" Dors and his alien companion Yugo, Seldon is still developing the science that will transform history, never dreaming that it will ultimately pit him against future history's most awesome threat.
From the award-winning and fried-chicken obsessed duo behind
Wingmans, chef Ben Ford and David Turofsky, comes Wings and Things,
a book that celebrates the glorious bird with some of the most
mouth-watering, saucy, internationally inspired variations on
classic wings. Recipes to savour include moreish favourites such as
their multi-award-winning Buffalo Wings, Korean Seoulja Boi Wings
with gochujang, pineapple, and black sesame, Jamaican Heatwave
Wings made fiery with Scotch bonnet chillies, and Satays'faction
Guaranteed Wings coated in satay sauce and served with cooling
cucumber. Other chapters offer ways to make use of the other parts
of a chicken so as to avoid waste, such as Sticky BBQ Chicken
Thighs with Celeriac and Bourbon-glazed Onions, breast fillets for
the best-ever burgers, chicken livers in little sliders - and even
chicken skin crisped up to make the most incredible salty,
irresistible topping. Alongside all of these, you'll find sides,
sharing plates, lots of sauces and pickles, drinks and unbelievable
desserts to complete your feast! Spread your wings and master the
art of cooking chicken wings to perfection!
Maritime cultural landscapes are collections of submerged
archaeological sites, or combinations of terrestrial and submerged
sites that reflect the relationship between humans and the water.
These landscapes can range in size from a single beach to an entire
coastline and can include areas of terrestrial sites now inundated
as well as underwater sites that are now desiccated.
However, what binds all of these sites together is the premise
that each aspect of the landscape -cultural, political,
environmental, technological, and physical - is interrelated and
can not be understood without reference to the others. In this
maritime cultural landscape approach, individual sites are treated
as features within the larger landscape and the interpretation of
single sites add to a larger analysis of a region or culture. This
approach provides physical and theoretical links between
terrestrial and underwater archaeology as well as prehistoric and
historic archaeology; consequently, providing a framework for
integrating such diverse topics as trade, resource procurement,
habitation, industrial production, and warfare into a holistic
study of the past.
Landscape studies foster broader perspectives and approaches,
extending the study of maritime cultures beyond the shoreline.
Despite this potential, the archaeological study of maritime
landscapes is a relatively untried approach with many questions
regarding the methods and perspectives needed to effectively
analyze these landscapes.
Thechapters in this volume, which include contributions from the
United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Australia, address
many of the theoretical and methodological questions surrounding
maritime cultural landscapes. The authors comprise established
scholars as well as archaeologists at the beginning of their
careers, providing a healthy balance of experience and innovation.
The chapters also demonstrate parity between method and theory,
where the varying interpretations of culture and space are given
equal weight with the challenges of investigating both wet and dry
sites across large areas.
Maritime cultural landscapes are collections of submerged
archaeological sites, or combinations of terrestrial and submerged
sites that reflect the relationship between humans and the water.
These landscapes can range in size from a single beach to an entire
coastline and can include areas of terrestrial sites now inundated
as well as underwater sites that are now desiccated.
However, what binds all of these sites together is the premise
that each aspect of the landscape -cultural, political,
environmental, technological, and physical - is interrelated and
can not be understood without reference to the others. In this
maritime cultural landscape approach, individual sites are treated
as features within the larger landscape and the interpretation of
single sites add to a larger analysis of a region or culture. This
approach provides physical and theoretical links between
terrestrial and underwater archaeology as well as prehistoric and
historic archaeology; consequently, providing a framework for
integrating such diverse topics as trade, resource procurement,
habitation, industrial production, and warfare into a holistic
study of the past.
Landscape studies foster broader perspectives and approaches,
extending the study of maritime cultures beyond the shoreline.
Despite this potential, the archaeological study of maritime
landscapes is a relatively untried approach with many questions
regarding the methods and perspectives needed to effectively
analyze these landscapes.
Thechapters in this volume, which include contributions from the
United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Australia, address
many of the theoretical and methodological questions surrounding
maritime cultural landscapes. The authors comprise established
scholars as well as archaeologists at the beginning of their
careers, providing a healthy balance of experience and innovation.
The chapters also demonstrate parity between method and theory,
where the varying interpretations of culture and space are given
equal weight with the challenges of investigating both wet and dry
sites across large areas.
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Bridging Infinity (Paperback)
Jonathan Strahan; Alastair Reynolds, Pat Cadigan, Stephen Baxter, Charlie Jane Anders, …
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R333
R232
Discovery Miles 2 320
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Building Towards Tomorrow Sense of wonder is the lifeblood of
science fiction. When we encounter something on a truly staggering
scale - metal spheres wrapped around stars, planets rebuilt and
repurposed, landscapes re-engineered, starships bigger than worlds
- the only response we have is reverence, admiration, and possibly
fear at something that is grand, sublime, and extremely powerful.
Bridging Infinity puts humanity at the heart of that experience, as
builder, as engineer, as adventurer, reimagining and rebuilding the
world, the solar system, the galaxy and possibly the entire
universe in some of the best science fiction stories you will
experience. Bridging Infinity continues the award-winning Infinity
Project series of anthologies with new stories from Alastair
Reynolds, Pat Cadigan, Stephen Baxter, Charlie Jane Anders, Tobias
S.Buckell, Karen Lord, Karin Lowachee, Kristine Kathryn Rusch,
Gregory Benford, Larry Liven, Robert Reed, Pamela Sargent, Allen
Steele, Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, An Owomoyela, Thoraiya Dyer and
Ken Liu.
Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the
most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the
lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed
internationally as 'easily the prince of poets'. Here fifteen
scholars, from many countries, analyse his writings, his creative
use of ancient texts for contemporary purposes, and his impact on
the culture of Scotland and of Europe - not least in the spheres of
tragedy and music. Contents: Buchanan's poetic achievement (Philip
Ford); 'Redundant' epithets in Buchanan's Pastorals (Robert
Cummings); Literary metamorphosis in Buchanan's De Sphaera (Emma
Gee); The writing of memory in George Buchanan's Iusta (Nathalie
Catellani-Dufrene); Homo exsul as the lyric persona in Buchanan's
Psalms (Elwira Buszewicz); The Heavens are Telling: a
Psalm-paraphrase-poem analysed (Roger Green); The historical
importance of Jean Servin's settings of Buchanan's Psalm
Paraphrases (James Porter); Buchanan's Psalms and the musical
settings by Statius Olthof (Margaret Duncumb); Buchanan's tragedies
and contemporary dramatic theory (Giacomo Cardinali); Biblical
inspiration in Buchanan's tragedies (Carine Ferradou); Buchanan and
the poetics of borrowing in the Latin translation of Euripides'
Medea (Jean-Frederic Chevalier); 'Translating' Buchanan (Ronnie
Jack); Drama out of the 'closet': Buchanan on stage (Jamie Reid
Baxter); 'Return, Buchanan!' The Letter of Walter Dennistoun to
George Buchanan and Buchanan's Reply (Jack MacQueen); Dry Bones of
Contention? Picking apart Buchanan's Psalms (Roger Green); George
Buchanan's Half Millennium; (Robert Crawford).
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Voices of Verse (Hardcover)
Harry Eugene 1877- Ed Flynn, Ray Butts B 1873 MacLean, Chester Benford Joint Ed Lund
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R872
Discovery Miles 8 720
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Voices of Verse (Paperback)
Harry Eugene 1877- Ed Flynn, Ray Butts B 1873 MacLean, Chester Benford Joint Ed Lund
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R529
Discovery Miles 5 290
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