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Discovering Mars

Author : William Sheehan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816544247
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Mars written by William Sheehan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millenia humans have considered Mars the most fascinating planet in our solar system. We’ve watched this Earth-like world first with the naked eye, then using telescopes, and, most recently, through robotic orbiters and landers and rovers on the surface. Historian William Sheehan and astronomer and planetary scientist Jim Bell combine their talents to tell a unique story of what we’ve learned by studying Mars through evolving technologies. What the eye sees as a mysterious red dot wandering through the sky becomes a blurry mirage of apparent seas, continents, and canals as viewed through Earth-based telescopes. Beginning with the Mariner and Viking missions of the 1960s and 1970s, space-based instruments and monitoring systems have flooded scientists with data on Mars’s meteorology and geology, and have even sought evidence of possible existence of life-forms on or beneath the surface. This knowledge has transformed our perception of the Red Planet and has provided clues for better understanding our own blue world. Discovering Mars vividly conveys the way our understanding of this other planet has grown from earliest times to the present. The story is epic in scope—an Iliad or Odyssey for our time, at least so far largely without the folly, greed, lust, and tragedy of those ancient stories. Instead, the narrative of our quest for the Red Planet has showcased some of our species’ most hopeful attributes: curiosity, cooperation, exploration, and the restless drive to understand our place in the larger universe. Sheehan and Bell have written an ambitious first draft of that narrative even as the latest chapters continue to be added both by researchers on Earth and our robotic emissaries on and around Mars, including the latest: the Perseverance rover and its Ingenuity helicopter drone, which set down in Mars’s Jezero Crater in February 2021.

The Mountains Next Door

Author : Janice Emily Bowers
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816546991
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Mountains Next Door written by Janice Emily Bowers and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming natural history (inclined to botany) of the Rincon Mountains of SE Arizona. But the location is not carefully specified.

Discovering Paquimé

Author : Paul E. Minnis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534012
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Paquimé written by Paul E. Minnis and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1560s Spanish explorers marched northward through Mexico to the farthest northern reaches of the Spanish empire in Latin America. They beheld an impressive site known as Casas Grandes in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Row upon row of walls featured houses and plazas of what was once a large population center, now deserted. Called Casas Grandes (Spanish for “large houses”) but also known as Paquimé, the prehistoric archaeological site may have been one of the first that Spanish explorers encountered. The Ibarra expedition, occurring perhaps no more than a hundred years after the site was abandoned, contained a chronicler named Baltasar de Obregón, who gave to posterity the first description of Paquimé: ". . . many houses of great size, strength, and height . . . six and seven stories, with towers and walls like fortresses for protection and defense against the enemies who undoubtedly used to make war on its inhabitants . . . large and magnificent patios paved with enormous and beautiful stones resembling jasper . . ." Casas Grandes, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is under the purview of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, which oversees a world-class museum near the ruins. Paquimé visitors can learn about the site’s history and its excavations, which were conducted under the pioneering research of Charles Di Peso and Eduardo Contreras Sánchez and their colleagues from INAH and the Amerind Foundation. Based on a half century of modern research since the Joint Casas Grandes Project, this book explores the recent discoveries about important site and its neighbors. Drawing the expertise of fourteen scholars from the United States, Mexico, and Canada, who have long worked in the region, the chapters revel new insights about Paquimé and its influence, bringing this fascinating place and its story to light.

Discovery and Rediscovery

Author : University of Arizona. Institute of Government Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Discovery and Rediscovery written by University of Arizona. Institute of Government Research and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Calculating Brilliance

Author : Gerardo Aldana
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816542201
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Calculating Brilliance written by Gerardo Aldana and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contextualizes the discovery of a Venus astronomical pattern by a female Mayan astronomer at Chich'en Itza and the discovery's later adaptation and application at Mayapan. Calculating Brilliance brings different intellectual threads together across time and space, from the Classic to the Postclassic, the colonial period to the twenty-first century to offer a new vision for understanding Mayan astronomy.

Ruins and Rivals

Author : James E. Snead
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816523979
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Ruins and Rivals written by James E. Snead and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University Ruins are as central to the image of the American Southwest as are its mountains and deserts, and antiquity is a key element of modern southwestern heritage. Yet prior to the mid-nineteenth century this rich legacy was largely unknown to the outside world. While military expeditions first brought word of enigmatic relics to the eastern United States, the new intellectual frontier was seized by archaeologists, who used the results of their southwestern explorations to build a foundation for the scientific study of the American past. In Ruins and Rivals, James Snead helps us understand the historical development of archaeology in the Southwest from the 1890s to the 1920s and its relationship with the popular conception of the region. He examines two major research traditions: expeditions dispatched from the major eastern museums and those supported by archaeological societies based in the Southwest itself. By comparing the projects of New York's American Museum of Natural History with those of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and the Santa Fe-based School of American Archaeology, he illustrates the way that competition for status and prestige shaped the way that archaeological remains were explored and interpreted. The decades-long competition between institutions and their advocates ultimately created an agenda for Southwest archaeology that has survived into modern times. Snead takes us back to the days when the field was populated by relic hunters and eastern "museum men" who formed uneasy alliances among themselves and with western boosters who used archaeology to advance their own causes. Richard Wetherill, Frederic Ward Putnam, Charles Lummis, and other colorful characters all promoted their own archaeological endeavors before an audience that included wealthy patrons, museum administrators, and other cultural figures. The resulting competition between scholarly and public interests shifted among museum halls, legislative chambers, and the drawing rooms of Victorian America but always returned to the enigmatic ruins of Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde. Ruins and Rivals contains a wealth of anecdotal material that conveys the flavor of digs and discoveries, scholars and scoundrels, tracing the origins of everything from national monuments to "Santa Fe Style." It rekindles the excitement of discovery, illustrating the role that archaeology played in creating the southwestern "past" and how that image of antiquity continues to exert its influence today.

The Great Ages of Discovery

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816541116
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Great Ages of Discovery written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contexts, the characteristic moral conflicts that underwrote encounters, and the grand gestures that distill an age into its essence. Historian and MacArthur Fellow Stephen J. Pyne identifies three great ages of discovery in his fascinating new book. The first age of discovery ranged from the early 15th to the early 18th century, sketched out the contours of the globe, aligned with the Renaissance, and had for its grandest expression the circumnavigation of the world ocean. The second age launched in the latter half of the 18th century, spanning into the early 20th century, carrying the Enlightenment along with it, pairing especially with settler societies, and had as its prize achievement the crossing of a continent. The third age began after World War II, and, pivoting from Antarctica, pushed into the deep oceans and interplanetary space. Its grand gesture is Voyager’s passage across the solar system. Each age had in common a galvanic rivalry: Spain and Portugal in the first age, Britain and France—followed by others—in the second, and the USSR and USA in the third. With a deep and passionate knowledge of the history of Western exploration, Pyne takes us on a journey across hundreds of years of geographic trekking. The Great Ages of Discovery is an interpretive companion to what became Western civilization’s quest narrative, with the triumphs and tragedies that grand journey brought, the legacies of which are still very much with us.

Discovering Pluto

Author : Dale P. Cruikshank
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534314
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Pluto written by Dale P. Cruikshank and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Pluto and its largest moon, from discovery through the New Horizons flyby--Provided by publisher.

The Sonoran Desert

Author : Eric Magrane
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816531234
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Sonoran Desert written by Eric Magrane and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert cottontail // Sylvilagus audubonii - Simmons B. Buntin

Rethinking Columbus

Author : Bill Bigelow
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
ISBN 13 : 094296120X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Columbus written by Bill Bigelow and published by Rethinking Schools. This book was released on 1998 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides resources for teaching elementary and secondary school students about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.

Ask Arizona: Discovering the World Around Us

Author : Highlights for Children
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684374656
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Ask Arizona: Discovering the World Around Us written by Highlights for Children and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kindness! Arizona realizes that being kind can make huge changes. Instead of gossiping and spreading rumors, she figures out that being kind makes everyone feel good. She invents a way to spread this kindness to her peers using the school newspaper.

The Metal Worker

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Metal Worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Enigma

Author : Wynant D. VanDerpoel
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450091512
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Enigma written by Wynant D. VanDerpoel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you could speak to Christ, what would you say to Him? This new book tells of an encounter with Christ and what one man had to say to Him. Fydor Dostoevsky, the great Russian writer, wrote of such an encounter in 1879 known as The Grand Inquisitor. Vanderpoel's encounter takes place in the twenty-first century. "Wynant Vanderpoel has used Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor as the starting point for a contemporary spiritual exploration of faith and doubt. He has written a fascinating and daring literary fable. Anyone concerned with how to live in the disenchanted world in which we now find ourselves will want to read this book" Lee Patterson, F.W. Hilles Professor of English, Emeritus, Yale University. "The author has taken an old and venerable tale of faith from Dostoevsky and injected it into the modern world of Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. Be warned: he is persuasive" Samuel Sachs, Director Emeritus, The Frick Collection. "This story undertakes the imaginative challenge of interweaving elements of a great Russian novel with a fast paced generational tale to set forth questions about modern faith and morality. You can't help but be moved" John Wilmerding, Professor of American Art, Emeritus, Princeton University. "Very interesting, entertaining, and relevant" Russell Banks, Author.

Europa

Author : Robert T. Pappalardo
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816538514
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Europa written by Robert T. Pappalardo and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few worlds are as tantalizing and enigmatic as Europa, whose complex icy surface intimates the presence of an ocean below. Europa beckons for our understanding and future exploration, enticing us with the possibilities of a water-rich environment and the potential for life beyond Earth. This volume in the Space Science Series, with more than 80 contributing authors, reveals the discovery and current understanding of Europa’s icy shell, subsurface ocean, presumably active interior, and myriad inherent interactions within the Jupiter environment. Europa is the foundation upon which the coming decades of scientific advancement and exploration of this world will be built, making it indispensable for researchers, students, and all who hold a passion for exploration.

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Goodfinding

Author : William G. DeFoore Ph.D.
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book Goodfinding written by William G. DeFoore Ph.D. and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're born with a brilliant mind, but it doesn’t come with a user’s guide or an on-off switch. Left to its own devices, it can feel like your worst enemy when its survival-based default program keeps you focused on what is wrong with you and your world. This book is the user’s guide that puts you in charge of how your mind works. With positive psychology and emotional intelligence working for you, you will become the conscious creator you were born to be. Goodfinding activates your brilliant mind with gratitude, appreciation, and optimism for your past, present, and future, deriving value and opportunity from all of your life experiences. William G. DeFoore, Ph.D., a mental health counselor for more than fifty years, shares this roadmap to help you achieve your desired outcomes. The premise of the book is that you have a good heart, and when you use your brilliant mind effectively, it will be in direct service to that inner goodness. Goodfinding will become your manual, guide, and companion as you expand into the best version of the person you choose to be. What you pay attention to grows, and finding the good helps the good find you. What others are saying about Goodfinding: Goodfinding offers several lifetimes of wisdom on each and every page. There are so many engaging ideas and tools for readers to live their most present life, in mind, body, and spirit. The entire book is a well-informed and life-giving workbook, and a therapy book for a doctorate level course in Awakened Living! Carolyn Craft, PsyD. Unity Minister, Pastoral Counselor, Coach, and media executive First the name “Goodfinding” attracted my attention as a clever and warm-hearted summation of William DeFoore’s core philosophy. Then in page after page of life experience, practical wisdom, and useful tools and perspectives, I found my mood brighten along with my faith in humanity. Thank God we have teachers like William to share essential knowledge so critical to humankind in these troubled times. Bruce Cryer, MA, former CEO, HeartMath, adjunct faculty, Stanford University Dr. William DeFoore’s book, Goodfinding, is inspirational. It manages to describe important, complex systems in easily understandable terms. The basic principles outlined in Goodfinding are laid out in very practical vignettes that make them immediately accessible to the person ready to put them in practice. Most impressive is Dr. DeFoore’s ability to put into practice, through his easy manner of relating to the reader, the very principles he describes in the text designed to promote self-confidence, self-acceptance, compassion, and optimism. Larry J. Benoit, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist In Goodfinding, Dr. William DeFoore has made available to all of us a path, a way of using our mind and heart to make a positive contribution to life, starting with our own. It’s so clear: If we are likely to find what we are looking for, why not look for what is ‘good’? And when we truly appreciate people and things, we live up to the original meaning of that word: we see the positive value and quality of what is there. Dr John. J. Scherer, author, Leadership Development Facilitator William DeFoore’s Goodfinding presents a recipe for discovering joy and happiness in your life. And it does so by inviting the reader to directly participate in highly effective, efficacy-based strategies for positive change, presented in a beautifully flowing, profoundly engaging, grounded but succinct, and to-the-point tour of how to find the good in living. How can anyone join Dr. DeFoore on this virtual romp through the land of positivity, of possibilities, of Goodfinding without becoming overcome with the pure exhilaration of being alive? You will enjoy this ride. Larry C. Stevens, Ph.D., Professor of Psychological Sciences, Northern Arizona University To listen to the audiobook version, please click the link: https://amzn.to/3Y88iaz

The Body Code

Author : Dr. Bradley Nelson
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN 13 : 1250773830
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Body Code written by Dr. Bradley Nelson and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful new approach to natural, intuitive whole-body healing. The Body Code is a truly revolutionary method of holistic healing. Dr. Bradley Nelson, a globally renowned expert in bioenergetic medicine, has spent decades teaching his powerful self-healing method and training practitioners around the globe, but this is the first time his system of healing will be available to the general public in the form of The Body Code. The Body Code is based on the simple premise that the body is self-healing and knows what it needs in order to thrive and flourish. The Body Code method allows readers to tap into this inner knowing, and find imbalances in 6 key areas—Energies, Circuits and Systems, Toxicity, Nutrition and Lifestyle, Misalignments, and Pathogens—that are the root causes of our physical, mental and emotional issues. By identifying and releasing these imbalances, readers become empowered to activate their body's innate healing power. Featuring a foreword from George Noory, host of Coast to Coast AM, and filled with powerful first-hand accounts of healing, hundreds of color illustrations, and concrete, actionable steps, The Body Code is a road map to healing based in deep study of the human body, time-proven ancient practices, and the unlimited power of the subconscious mind.