Author: Alan Stern
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 125009898X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), 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, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.
Chasing New Horizons
Author: Alan Stern
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 125009898X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), 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, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 125009898X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), 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, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.
Animal Crossing New Horizons Official Activity Book (Nintendo®)
Author: Steve Foxe
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593373642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Animal CrossingTM: New Horizons fans will love this all-new full-color Official Activity Book filled with puzzles, mazes, and over 500 stickers starring their favorite characters! Young gamers who love Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons can create the island of their dreams, design their own home, and meet lots of different animal residents with this super-interactive activity book. With awesome puzzles and mazes to complete and over 500 stickers, boys and girls ages 5 to 8 will find fun new ways to experience Animal Crossing: New Horizons with this Official Activity Book! For the past 15 years, Animal Crossing has gained a strong following among devoted fans with continued appeal for kids of all ages. The product line for Animal Crossing includes toys, accessories, and apparel. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has sold over 10 million copies since its debut in March 2020.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593373642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Animal CrossingTM: New Horizons fans will love this all-new full-color Official Activity Book filled with puzzles, mazes, and over 500 stickers starring their favorite characters! Young gamers who love Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons can create the island of their dreams, design their own home, and meet lots of different animal residents with this super-interactive activity book. With awesome puzzles and mazes to complete and over 500 stickers, boys and girls ages 5 to 8 will find fun new ways to experience Animal Crossing: New Horizons with this Official Activity Book! For the past 15 years, Animal Crossing has gained a strong following among devoted fans with continued appeal for kids of all ages. The product line for Animal Crossing includes toys, accessories, and apparel. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has sold over 10 million copies since its debut in March 2020.
New Horizons in Natural Compound Research
Author: Surya Nandan Meena
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0443152330
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
New Horizons in Natural Compound Research provides the latest updates in natural compound research (plant, microbes, algae, fungi) and their novel applications in health, agriculture and environment. The book gives recent advances in the extraction of natural compounds, cutting-edge approaches for natural compound purifications, and emerging trends in natural compound screening and identification. In addition, it provides a detailed explanation of the databases and libraries of natural compounds, as well as their significance. Sections focus on research and multidisciplinary practical techniques of natural product research, encouraging young scientists to pursue unique research while also generating strong research ideas. From a future perspective, this book acts as a guide to identify potential areas and new research opportunities in the field of natural products and their service towards human beings, animals and the environment. - Provides a one–stop solution for concepts, cutting-edge techniques, methods, and novel applications of natural products in health and the environment - Focuses on current gaps in natural product research, as well as methodologies and techniques to assist researchers in resolving existing challenges and speeding up the pace of drug discovery from natural sources - Highlights new avenues of natural product research - Contains contributions from well-experienced researchers from academia, research institutes and top-notch young scientists from industry
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0443152330
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
New Horizons in Natural Compound Research provides the latest updates in natural compound research (plant, microbes, algae, fungi) and their novel applications in health, agriculture and environment. The book gives recent advances in the extraction of natural compounds, cutting-edge approaches for natural compound purifications, and emerging trends in natural compound screening and identification. In addition, it provides a detailed explanation of the databases and libraries of natural compounds, as well as their significance. Sections focus on research and multidisciplinary practical techniques of natural product research, encouraging young scientists to pursue unique research while also generating strong research ideas. From a future perspective, this book acts as a guide to identify potential areas and new research opportunities in the field of natural products and their service towards human beings, animals and the environment. - Provides a one–stop solution for concepts, cutting-edge techniques, methods, and novel applications of natural products in health and the environment - Focuses on current gaps in natural product research, as well as methodologies and techniques to assist researchers in resolving existing challenges and speeding up the pace of drug discovery from natural sources - Highlights new avenues of natural product research - Contains contributions from well-experienced researchers from academia, research institutes and top-notch young scientists from industry
New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309186854
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the course of the last few decades. The fields of astronomy and astrophysics are making new connections to physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science. Based on a broad and comprehensive survey of scientific opportunities, infrastructure, and organization in a national and international context, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics outlines a plan for ground- and space- based astronomy and astrophysics for the decade of the 2010's. Realizing these scientific opportunities is contingent upon maintaining and strengthening the foundations of the research enterprise including technological development, theory, computation and data handling, laboratory experiments, and human resources. New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics proposes enhancing innovative but moderate-cost programs in space and on the ground that will enable the community to respond rapidly and flexibly to new scientific discoveries. The book recommends beginning construction on survey telescopes in space and on the ground to investigate the nature of dark energy, as well as the next generation of large ground-based giant optical telescopes and a new class of space-based gravitational observatory to observe the merging of distant black holes and precisely test theories of gravity. New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics recommends a balanced and executable program that will support research surrounding the most profound questions about the cosmos. The discoveries ahead will facilitate the search for habitable planets, shed light on dark energy and dark matter, and aid our understanding of the history of the universe and how the earliest stars and galaxies formed. The book is a useful resource for agencies supporting the field of astronomy and astrophysics, the Congressional committees with jurisdiction over those agencies, the scientific community, and the public.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309186854
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the course of the last few decades. The fields of astronomy and astrophysics are making new connections to physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science. Based on a broad and comprehensive survey of scientific opportunities, infrastructure, and organization in a national and international context, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics outlines a plan for ground- and space- based astronomy and astrophysics for the decade of the 2010's. Realizing these scientific opportunities is contingent upon maintaining and strengthening the foundations of the research enterprise including technological development, theory, computation and data handling, laboratory experiments, and human resources. New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics proposes enhancing innovative but moderate-cost programs in space and on the ground that will enable the community to respond rapidly and flexibly to new scientific discoveries. The book recommends beginning construction on survey telescopes in space and on the ground to investigate the nature of dark energy, as well as the next generation of large ground-based giant optical telescopes and a new class of space-based gravitational observatory to observe the merging of distant black holes and precisely test theories of gravity. New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics recommends a balanced and executable program that will support research surrounding the most profound questions about the cosmos. The discoveries ahead will facilitate the search for habitable planets, shed light on dark energy and dark matter, and aid our understanding of the history of the universe and how the earliest stars and galaxies formed. The book is a useful resource for agencies supporting the field of astronomy and astrophysics, the Congressional committees with jurisdiction over those agencies, the scientific community, and the public.
Horizon Zero Dawn
Author: Bruce Byrne
Publisher: Bright Sparks
ISBN: 9783869930817
Category : Computer adventure games
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
Publisher: Bright Sparks
ISBN: 9783869930817
Category : Computer adventure games
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
Discovering Your Spirit Animal
Author: Lucy Harmer
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1623171229
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
In Discovering Your Spirit Animal, shamanic healer Lucy Harmer presents a practical approach to understanding spirit animals and applying their power to specific situations in daily life. Written in clear, simple language and featuring compelling stories and anecdotes, the book explains what a spirit animal is, describes its purpose, and shows that understanding the “medicine” of one’s spirit animal—assimilating its qualities and characteristics—allows one to apply the lessons and messages they convey and use them for personal transformation. Lucy Harmer notes that particular animals that cross one’s path or appear repeatedly nearby probably want us to share in their medicine, their teaching, their energy, and their spirit. Discovering Your Spirit Animal provides guidance for meeting and getting to know one’s spirit animal through easy exercises and shamanic techniques. Lucy Harmer explains how to discover the strengths, qualities, and skills one shares with one’s personal spirit animal, enabling one to learn how to reinforce this connection and access innate wisdom and inner power, overcome fears, increase natural healing capacity, and improve relationships.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1623171229
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
In Discovering Your Spirit Animal, shamanic healer Lucy Harmer presents a practical approach to understanding spirit animals and applying their power to specific situations in daily life. Written in clear, simple language and featuring compelling stories and anecdotes, the book explains what a spirit animal is, describes its purpose, and shows that understanding the “medicine” of one’s spirit animal—assimilating its qualities and characteristics—allows one to apply the lessons and messages they convey and use them for personal transformation. Lucy Harmer notes that particular animals that cross one’s path or appear repeatedly nearby probably want us to share in their medicine, their teaching, their energy, and their spirit. Discovering Your Spirit Animal provides guidance for meeting and getting to know one’s spirit animal through easy exercises and shamanic techniques. Lucy Harmer explains how to discover the strengths, qualities, and skills one shares with one’s personal spirit animal, enabling one to learn how to reinforce this connection and access innate wisdom and inner power, overcome fears, increase natural healing capacity, and improve relationships.
Leadership Soup
Author: Kamran Akbarzadeh
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462829929
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Leadership Soup provides you a healthy yet tasty recipe for living on purpose and leading on purpose. It helps you become a profound and authentic leader who leads with the heart and empowers others to soar to greatness no matter who they are and what they do. Containing insights, concepts, tools, and solutions, this rich book will show you and your team how to attain productivity, profit, and prosperity by linking purpose, passion, and people. Whether you are a business owner, employee, entrepreneur, coach, corporate executive, consultant, student, parent, experienced leader, or apprentice, Leadership Soup can act as a catalyst for the positive changes you need to make in yourself and others.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462829929
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Leadership Soup provides you a healthy yet tasty recipe for living on purpose and leading on purpose. It helps you become a profound and authentic leader who leads with the heart and empowers others to soar to greatness no matter who they are and what they do. Containing insights, concepts, tools, and solutions, this rich book will show you and your team how to attain productivity, profit, and prosperity by linking purpose, passion, and people. Whether you are a business owner, employee, entrepreneur, coach, corporate executive, consultant, student, parent, experienced leader, or apprentice, Leadership Soup can act as a catalyst for the positive changes you need to make in yourself and others.
Just for Today
Author: Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous
Publisher: NA World Services Inc
ISBN: 1633803678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
JFT offers a short reflection on a quote from NA literature followed by a closing intention or affirmation for each day of the year.
Publisher: NA World Services Inc
ISBN: 1633803678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
JFT offers a short reflection on a quote from NA literature followed by a closing intention or affirmation for each day of the year.
Summit Life Today
Author: Dave McAuley
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490863257
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Summit Life Today is designed to give you fresh insights each day. The principles, quotes, and Scripture passages that make up each Summit Life Today lesson are also designed for you to apply that very day. Reading and sharing these principles with your team will help you: improve your daily practices find encouragement be inspired engage in meaningful dialogue These practical leadership lessons will lift you as a leader and help you gain insight from a summit perspective as you chart your path for the day. Two things are true of all leaders: leaders are learners, and leaders want to help other people. Summit Life Today is a learning tool that not only grows you as a leader but also gives you lessons you can use to help others on your team. When you grow yourself and grow your team, you are expanding your leadership capacity and increasing the reach of your influence. The right connections are necessary for effective leadership. As a Christian leader, in whatever platform of influence God has placed you, your responsibility is to align the individual talent on your team toward a collective and unified purpose. Well-connected teams working together toward a common goal are powerful.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490863257
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Summit Life Today is designed to give you fresh insights each day. The principles, quotes, and Scripture passages that make up each Summit Life Today lesson are also designed for you to apply that very day. Reading and sharing these principles with your team will help you: improve your daily practices find encouragement be inspired engage in meaningful dialogue These practical leadership lessons will lift you as a leader and help you gain insight from a summit perspective as you chart your path for the day. Two things are true of all leaders: leaders are learners, and leaders want to help other people. Summit Life Today is a learning tool that not only grows you as a leader but also gives you lessons you can use to help others on your team. When you grow yourself and grow your team, you are expanding your leadership capacity and increasing the reach of your influence. The right connections are necessary for effective leadership. As a Christian leader, in whatever platform of influence God has placed you, your responsibility is to align the individual talent on your team toward a collective and unified purpose. Well-connected teams working together toward a common goal are powerful.
Catalytic Conversations
Author: Ann C. Baker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317475305
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In today's increasingly globalized world, it is essential that people of diverse ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds learn to work together and communicate effectively. This book offers a breakthrough approach to recognizing that differences among people are resources for organizations to tap as they strive to anticipate change and adapt rapidly in an unpredictable world. "Catalytic Conversations" provides a conceptual framework for understanding how complex communication patterns of social networks influence, and are influenced by, organizational structures. It discusses how to enhance the quality and viability of groups and organizational life by paying attention to how people talk - and do not talk - to each other. The book distinguishes between conversations that support organizational enhancement and others that inhibit innovation, and explores the complexity of organizational communication in detail.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317475305
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In today's increasingly globalized world, it is essential that people of diverse ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds learn to work together and communicate effectively. This book offers a breakthrough approach to recognizing that differences among people are resources for organizations to tap as they strive to anticipate change and adapt rapidly in an unpredictable world. "Catalytic Conversations" provides a conceptual framework for understanding how complex communication patterns of social networks influence, and are influenced by, organizational structures. It discusses how to enhance the quality and viability of groups and organizational life by paying attention to how people talk - and do not talk - to each other. The book distinguishes between conversations that support organizational enhancement and others that inhibit innovation, and explores the complexity of organizational communication in detail.