books about: space (outrageous astronomer nightwatch)

books about: space

books:

First Strike (Halo #3)
Eric Nylund

Del Rey, 2003

The Human-Covenant war rages on as the alien juggernaut sweeps inexorably toward its final goal: destruction of all human life! Halo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemy’s clutches. Now, everything depends on the Spartan known as the ...

Stick and rudder, an explanation of the art of flying
Wolfgang Langewiesche

Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company, inc, 1944

WHAT'S IN STICK AND RUDDER: The invisible secret of all heavier-than-air flight: the Angle of Attack. What it is, and why it can't be seen. How lift is made, and what the pilot has to do with it. Why airplanes stall How do you know you're about to stall? The landing approach. How the pilot's eye functions in judging the approach. The visual clues by which an experienced pilot unconsciously judges: how you can quickly learn to use ...

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, ...

Oxford University Press, 1977

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in ...

The Backyard Astronomer's Guide
Terence Dickinson, Alan Dyer

Firefly Books, 2002

What type of telescope is best for beginners? Can I use my camera to take photographs through a telescope? How good are the new computerized telescope mounts? What charts, books, software and other references do I need? These questions are asked time and again by enthusiastic new amateurs as they take up recreational astronomy. But accurate, objective and up-to-date information can be hard to find. Throughout the 1990s, the first edition of ...

Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
Mike Mullane, 2008

In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world -- twenty-nine men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. Among them was USAF Colonel Mike Mullane, who, in his memoir Riding Rockets, strips the heroic veneer from the astronaut corps and paints them as they are -- human. Mullane's tales of arrested development among military flyboys working with ...

A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin

Penguin Books, 1998

On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon. Now the greatest event of the twentieth century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were there. Based on the interviews with twentythree moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, journalist Andrew Chaikin conveys every aspect of the missions with ...

Nightwatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
Terence Dickinson

A & C Black Publishers Ltd, 2006

The Rookie (Galactic Football League)

Dark Øverlord Media, 2010

Set in a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, THE ROOKIE is a story that combines the intense gridiron action of "The Blindside" with the space opera style of "Star Wars" and the criminal underworld of "The Godfather." Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you. Organized crime ...

Dancing Barefoot: Five Short but True Stories About Life in the So-Called Space Age
Wil Wheaton, Ben Claassen III

Monolith Pr, 2003

In this wonderful Freshman effort, actor and author Wil Wheaton shares five short-but-true stories about life in the so-called Space Age: Houses in Motion - Memories fill the emptiness left within a childhood home, and saying goodbye brings them to life. Ready Or Not Here I Come - A game of hide-n-seek with the kids works as a time machine, taking Wil on a tour of the hiding and seeking of years gone by. Inferno - Two 15-year-olds pass in the ...

Mom's Family Wall Calendar 2013
Sandra Boynton

Workman Publishing Company, 2012

Mom’s Family is the calendar that you can’t live without. This 17-month planner-meets-calendar is abetted by an inimitable cast of quirky Boynton characters—those frantic chickens, noble elephants, confused ducks, and spiffy piggies. Every page features an ingenious vertical grid with five columns across the top (one for each family member) and the days of the month running down the left-hand side. There is plenty of room to write in each ...

Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease
Bharat B. Aggarwal PhD, Debora Yost

Sterling, 2011

Breakthrough scientific research is finding that spices-even more than herbs, fruits, and vegetables-are loaded with antioxidants and other unique health-enhancing compounds. Studies of dietary patterns around the world confirm that spice-consuming populations have the lowest incidence of such life-threatening illnesses as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. Bharat B. Aggarwal, the world's foremost expert on the therapeutic use of ...

To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

Harmony, 2008

From the author of the bestselling Anam Cara comes a beautiful collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their lives. John O’Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, has been widely praised for his gift of drawing on Celtic spiritual traditions to create words of inspiration and wisdom for today. In To Bless the Space Between Us, his compelling blend of elegant, poetic language and spiritual ...

Anne Frank and Me
Cherie Bennett, Jeff Gottesfeld

Putnam Juvenile, 2001

The successful play is now a gripping novel. Knocked unconscious after explosions ring out during a field trip to an Anne Frank exhibit, boy-crazy Nicole Burns wakes to find herself living a parallel life as a Jew in 1942 Paris. This Nicole is dating the boy of her present-day dreams, but living under the Nazis gradually becomes a nightmare. Her family survives the Nazi occupation with the help of friends, but when her father is exposed as a ...

From Chaos Born (In Her Name: The First Empress, Book 1)

Imperial Guard Publishing, LLC, 2012

For millennia before the bloody first encounter with humanity as told in FIRST CONTACT (In Her Name: The Last War, Book 1), the Kreelan race has been ruled by war. Countless civilizations have risen and fallen back into savagery, with total annihilation averted only by the warrior priests and priestesses of the ancient martial orders. Near the end of the Fourth Age, a powerful warrior from a brooding fortress deep in the Great Wastelands began ...

The Stars: A New Way to See Them
H. A. Rey

HMH Books, 1973

This is a clear, vivid text with charts and maps showing the positions of the constellations the year round.

Against All Odds
Thomas DePrima

Vinnia Publishing, 2013

War has kept Admiral Jenetta Carver far from home for twelve years. With the advent of peace, she takes a well-deserved vacation and returns to Earth for a visit before her duties as Military Governor and Supreme Military Commandeer of Region Two prevent such a trip for more years. She picks up her two sisters on the way home and the three women surprise their mom with the unannounced visit. Just a week after arriving home, Jenetta receives word ...

Chasing the Prophecy (Beyonders)

Aladdin, 2013

The #1 New York Times bestselling Beyonders fantasy trilogy comes to a stunning and epic conclusion. Jason and Rachel were not born in Lyrian. They did not grow up in Lyrian. But after all of the battles and losses, the triumphs and adventures, and most of all, the friendships forged in this fantastical world, Lyrian has become home to them in a way they never could have imagined. And so, armed now with the prophecy of a dying oracle, they ...

The Art of the Mass Effect Universe
Various

Dark Horse, 2012

The Mass Effect series is a groundbreaking epic that has immersed gamers in one of science fiction''s richest universes. Now BioWare and Dark Horse are proud to invite fans deeper than ever into the Mass Effect saga with The Art of the Mass Effect Universe! Featuring concept art and commentary by BioWare on the games'' characters, locations, vehicles, weapons, and more - Mass ...

Forged In Flame (In Her Name: The First Empress, Book 2)
Michael R Hicks

Imperial Guard Publishing, 2013

This is the second book of the First Empress saga, following From Chaos Born. Keel-Tath, the child who would unite her people as foretold by an ancient prophecy, has grown to be a young warrior in the confines of the Desh-Ka temple, where she has been sheltered by her old friend and mentor Ayan-Dar from the clutches of Syr-Nagath, the Dark Queen. But when Keel-Tath is forced to choose between sanctuary and her honor, she goes into exile, leaving ...

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
Michael Collins

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974

NASA astronaut Michael Collins trained as an experimental test pilot before venturing into space as a vital member of the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 missions. In Carrying the Fire , his account of his voyages into space and the years of training that led up to them, Collins reveals the human tensions, the physical realities, and the personal emotions surrounding the early years of the space race. Collins provides readers with an insider's view of ...