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Europa The Ocean Moon tells the story of the Galileo spacecraft
probe to Jupiter's moon, Europa. It provides a detailed description
of the physical processes, including the dominating tidal forces
that operate on Europa, and includes a comprehensive tour of Europa
using images taken by Galileo's camera. The book reviews and
evaluates the interpretative work carried out to date, providing a
philosophical discussion of the scientific process of analyzing
results and the pitfalls that accompany it. It also examines the
astrobiological constraints on this possible biosphere, and
implications for future research, exploration and planetary
biological protection. Europa The Ocean Moon provides a unique
understanding of the Galileo images of Europa, discusses the theory
of tidal processes that govern its icy ridged and disrupted
surface, and examines in detail the physical setting that might
sustain extra-terrestrial life in Europa's ocean and icy crust.
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Jupiter's ice moon Europa is widely regarded as the most likely
place to find extraterrestrial life. This book tells the engaging
story of Europa, the oceanic moon. It features a large number of
stunning images of the ocean moon's surface, clearly displaying the
spectacular crack patterns, extensive rifts and ridges, and
refrozen pools of exposed water filled with rafts of displaced ice.
Coverage also features firsthand accounts of Galileo's mission to
Jupiter and its moons. The book tells the rough and tumble inside
story of a very human enterprise in science that lead to the
discovery of a fantastic new world that might well harbor life.
Tony Award Winner Pulitzer Prize Finalist Winner of the Drama Desk Award Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award
Darren Lemming is the star center fielder for the champion New York Empires. An extraordinary athlete, he fills both his fans and his teammates with awe at his abilities and his presence on and off the field. When he makes the matter-of-fact announcement that he's gay, he throws his team into turmoil and confusion, while also emboldening his repressed business manager to come to terms with his own sexuality—and to fully experience the pure joy of watching great athletes play a sport as well as it can be played. Most of all, however, Darren's announcement brings to the fore the confused and twisted hostilities of the Empires' brilliantly talented but deeply racist and homophobic pitcher, Shane Mungitt—from whose rage tragic consequences arise.
Jupiter's ice moon Europa is widely regarded as the most likely
place to find extraterrestrial life. This book tells the engaging
story of Europa, the oceanic moon. It features a large number of
stunning images of the ocean moon's surface, clearly displaying the
spectacular crack patterns, extensive rifts and ridges, and
refrozen pools of exposed water filled with rafts of displaced ice.
Coverage also features firsthand accounts of Galileo's mission to
Jupiter and its moons. The book tells the rough and tumble inside
story of a very human enterprise in science that lead to the
discovery of a fantastic new world that might well harbor life.
Twins Seth and Abby fly into New York to care for their ailing
mother Anna. Determined that her children should remember her as
something more than an unremarkable Long Island housewife, Anna
reveals to them that she once had an affair. Initially shocked,
Seth and Abby begin to question just how much of the story can be
blamed on Anna's increasingly senile mind, and how much is true.
In this new play by the Tony Award-winning playwright of "Take Me
Out," a fledgling (and upper-class) World War I-era publisher is
trying to decide which work to choose as his imprint's first title.
He has two manuscripts but lacks the funds to publish both. His
difficult decision--whether to publish his lover's memoir or the
novel written by his best friend--is further complicated by the
arrival of a mysterious machine that produces pages predicting the
future of the play's protagonists, affecting their lives and
relationships in haunting and unexpected ways. "The Violet Hour"
opened on Broadway on November 6, 2003, starring Robert Sean
Leonard.
An electrifying new play by Tony Award winning playwright Richard
Greenberg, The Babylon Line opens at Lincoln Center Theater on
December 5, 2016. A thirty-eight-year-old writer from Greenwich
Village, Aaron is painfully aware of his failures as an artist when
his desperate need for a job forces him to commute along the
Babylon Line to Levittown to teach. What awaits him is a classroom
of varyingly unwilling students, some who attend because their
preferred course was full, others who are attentive enough but sit
silently at their desks and all of whom have yet to set pen to
paper. Over the course of the semester, Aaron s adult pupils write
increasingly more honest life accounts and stories, and cracks
begin to appear in their small-town community. A particularly bold
and troubled student, Joan, strikes up a rapport with Aaron that
threatens to become something more, as the pair bond over their
failing marriages and creative frustrations. In the end, we observe
the life-changing effects of artistic expression as Greenberg maps
out the rest of each of the characters lives, full of triumphs and
newfound joy that can be traced back directly to those few weeks in
a classroom in 1967. Richard Greenberg's intelligent, nuanced, and
perceptive dialogue has been described by the New York Times as
"exquisite . . . sparkling gems that [he] delivers with gratifying
frequency." One of America's most loved and frequently produced
playwrights, Greenberg has wisdom that runs deep, and his humor and
charm make his work destined to be read and performed for
generations to come."
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