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Microscopic Giants

Author : Paul Ernst
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 1612103871
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Microscopic Giants written by Paul Ernst and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men Go Forty Thousand Feet Below the Surface to Find Copper-and Battle with the Scurrying, Lilliputian Denizens of a Strange Land of Atomic Compression!excerpt"It happened toward the end of the Great War of 1941, which was an indirect cause. You'll find mention of it in the official records filed at Washington. Curious reading, some of those records! Among them are accounts of incidents so bizarre-freak accidents and odd discoveries fringing war activities-that the filing clerks must have raised their eyebrows skeptically before they buried them in steel cabinets, to remain unread for the rest of time. But this particular one will never be buried in oblivion for me. Because I was on the spot when it happened, and I was the one who sent in the report. Copper! A war-torn world was famished for it. The thunder of guns, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and from the Pacific to the Atlantic and back again, drummed for it. Equipment behind the lines demanded it. Statesmen lied for it and national bankers ran up bills that would never be paid to get it. Copper, copper, copper! Every obscure mine in the world was worked to capacity. Men risked their lives to salvage fragments from battlefields a thousand miles long. And still not enough copper was available for the maws of the electric furnaces. Up in the Lake Superior region we had gone down thirty-one thousand feet for it. Then, in answer to the enormous prices being paid for copper, we sank a shaft to forty thousand five hundred feet, where we struck a vein of almost pure ore. And it was shortly after this that my assistant, a young mining engineer named Belmont, came into my office, his eyes afire with the light of discovery. "We've uncovered the greatest archeological find since the days of the Rosetta Stone!" she announced bluntly. "Down in the new low level. I want to phone the Smithsonian Institute at once. There may be a war on, but the professors will forget all about war when they see this!"

The Hidden Beauty of the Microscopic World

Author : James Weiss
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786784637
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Beauty of the Microscopic World written by James Weiss and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The videographer behind the Journey to the Microcosmos YouTube channel (386K subscribers) James Weiss presents a beginner's guide to the extremely small and utterly strange life that surrounds us. James Weiss was feeling lost in life when he first discovered his interest in the microscopic world. With his own microscope and a little homespun ingenuity, he began to capture thousands of hours of stunning footage of the creatures that he found around him: the local pond, at the beach, in a puddle. What he found astounded him, and it became his mission to reveal the beauty of the microcosmos to everyone. In his fun and accessible style, interspersed with otherworldly photographs, James presents this beginner's guide to the invisible life that surrounds us. From the most simple single-celled life, to complex micro-animals, James reveals the secrets of a world that we rarely consider. Navigating the births, feasts, tragedies, idiosyncracies and deaths of a cast of tiny characters, learn how these lifeforms work and what lessons they can teach us about our own existence. Mixing scientific detail with thoughtful musings that betray the fascination at the heart of his topic, James has created a way of looking at microorganisms in an empathetic and engaging style. You'll discover fascinating absurdities: that a cell can be both its own daughter and its own mother. That immortality really does exist, and it comes in the form of a teeny, tentacled medusa. And that seeing the wonder of nature from a new perspective can literally save your life.

The Big Book of Science Fiction

Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101910100
Total Pages : 1218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Science Fiction written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quite possibly the GREATEST science-fiction collection of ALL TIME—past, present, and FUTURE! • "Nearly 1,200 pages of stories by the genre’s luminaries, like H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as lesser-known authors." —The New York Times Book Review What if life was never-ending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the Pope was a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, find beloved worlds of space opera, hard SF, cyberpunk, the new wave, and more. Learn the secret history of science fiction, from literary icons who wrote SF to authors from over 25 countries, some never before translated into English. In THE BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION, literary power couple Ann and Jeff VanderMeer transport readers from Mars to Mechanopolis, planet Earth to parts unknown. Read the genre that predicted electric cars, travel to the moon, and the modern smart phone. We’ve got the worlds if you’ve got the time. Including: · Legendary tales from Isaac Asimov and Ursula LeGuin! · An unearthed sci-fi story from W.E.B. DuBois! · The first publication of the work of cybernetic visionary David R. Bunch in 20 years! · A rare and brilliant novella by Chinese international sensation Liu Cixin! Plus: · Aliens! · Space battles! · Robots! · Technology gone wrong! · Technology gone right!

Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction

Author : George R. McGhee Jr.
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543387
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction written by George R. McGhee Jr. and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than Antarctica. That world was not imaginary; it was the earth more than 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era. In Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction, George R. McGhee Jr. explores that ancient world, explaining its origins; its downfall in the end-Permian mass extinction, the greatest biodiversity crisis to occur since the evolution of animal life on Earth; and how its legacies still affect us today. McGhee investigates the consequences of the Late Paleozoic ice age in this comprehensive portrait of the effects of ancient climate change on global ecology. Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction examines the climatic conditions that allowed for the evolution of gigantic animals and the formation of the largest tropical rainforests ever to exist, which in time turned into the coal that made the industrial revolution possible—and fuels the engine of contemporary anthropogenic climate change. Exploring the strange and fascinating flora and fauna of the Late Paleozoic ice age world, McGhee focuses his analysis on the forces that brought this world to an abrupt and violent end. Synthesizing decades of research and new discoveries, this comprehensive book provides a wealth of insights into past and present extinction events and climate change.

41 Above the Rest

Author : Bud Webster
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809510804
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book 41 Above the Rest written by Bud Webster and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groff Conklin was the most important science fiction anthologist through the years of the genre's true second generation, that point at which its previously magazine-bound masterpieces were being systemtically located, aligned and placed into permanent format. His contribution over the period of two decades was irreplaceable and all of our postwar history exists in the penumbra of his work. Bud Webster has in this index granted an act of scholarship and homage of equal irreplaceability. - Barry Malzberg, author and editor

Transactions

Author : National Eclectic Medical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Transactions written by National Eclectic Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Giants of Mogo

Author : Don Wilcox
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 161210164X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Giants of Mogo written by Don Wilcox and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between men of tremendous stature and ordinary men is peculiar at best --and on the planet Mogo, events dwarfed even the imagination --and brought death!

The World Behind the Moon

Author : Paul Ernst
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 1612100511
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The World Behind the Moon written by Paul Ernst and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two intrepid Earth-men fight it out with the horrific monsters of Zeud's frightful jungles.

A Giant Step: From Milli- to Micro- Arcsecond Astrometry (IAU S248)

Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521874700
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book A Giant Step: From Milli- to Micro- Arcsecond Astrometry (IAU S248) written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-21 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State-of-the-art review of the growing field of astrometry, for researchers and graduate students.

Death Ray

Author : Paul Ernst
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 1612103863
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Death Ray written by Paul Ernst and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Bill Oliver as He Tracks down a Cowardly Killer and Solves a "Clueless" murder!Excerpt Kib Nasten had worked this out pretty cleverly, he thought. Doctor Robert Wasey paid blackmail. A smooth con man named Ringo had hooked Wasey. Twice a year he called around and the doctor gritted his teeth and handed over two thousand in cash. Now the price was to be doubled, with Rib Nasten as Ringo's partner in the "clip." Disguised as a decrepit old man, Nasten had pushed past the protesting office girl and gained the doctor's inner office. Doctor Wasey, who was leaning over a black slab of a table and working at a black, boxlike thing wheeled up beside it, stared impatiently at him. "My dear sir," he said. "There is a patient ahead of you. If you will please wait your turn-" Nasten stepped closer to Doctor Wasey, and in his right hand was a gun with the bulky cylinder of a silencer on it. "This is a stick-up, you sap. Put your hands up and keep 'em there," he said, in a low tone that was none the less deadly for being low. Wasey's hands rose. Not a very large man, he seemed to shrivel a little under the menace of the gun. "I haven't anything of value-" he faltered. "Keep your voice down! One peep out of you, and you get it." Nasten jabbed the gun toward him. "This gat's silenced, so I could plug you easy and nobody'd know." Doctor Wasey moistened his lips nervously. "But I haven't any money here. I haven't a thing-" "Bunk," said Nasten. "A guy named Ringo is supposed to come in here in about an hour and get two grand from you. Two thousand bucks. You'll have that around the place, now. I want it." Doctor Wasey's face got, if possible, a little whiter.

The Reality Bubble

Author : Ziya Tong
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735235570
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Reality Bubble written by Ziya Tong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2020 LANE ANDERSON AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE From one of the world's most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways. Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence. And we are blind compared to the animals that can see in infrared, or ultraviolet, or in 360-degree vision. These animals live in the same world we do, but they see something quite different when they look around. With all of the curiosity and flair that drives her broadcasting, Ziya Tong illuminates this hidden world, and takes us on a journey to examine ten of humanity's biggest blind spots. First, we are introduced to the blind spots we are all born with, to see how technology reveals an astonishing world that exists beyond our human senses. It is with these new ways of seeing that today's scientists can image everything from an atom to a black hole. In Section Two, our collective blind spots are exposed. It's not that we can't see, Tong reminds us. It's that we don't. In the 21st century, there are cameras everywhere, except where our food comes from, where our energy comes from, and where our waste goes. Being in the dark when it comes to how we survive makes it impossible to navigate our future. Lastly, the scope widens to our civilizational blind spots. Here, the blurred lens of history reveals how we inherit ways of thinking about the world that seem natural or inevitable but are in fact little more than traditions, ways of seeing the world that have come to harm it. This vitally important new book shows how science, and the curiosity that drives it, can help civilization flourish by opening our eyes to the landscape laid out before us. Fast-paced, utterly fascinating, and deeply humane, The Reality Bubble gives voice to the sense we've all had -- that there is more to the world than meets the eye.

The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories

Author : Leon L. Gammell
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 093026150X
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories written by Leon L. Gammell and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing fast-action science fiction novels, Startling Stories was established beginning in January 1939 as a sister publication to Thrilling Wonder Stories. Publishing 99 issues in all, and combining Fantastic Story Magazine and Thrilling Wonder Stories with its ninety-seventh issue, it finally suspended publication in Fall 1955, one of the last of the pulps to fold. Leon L. Gammell, an avid reader and collector of that period, views that era's stories with both nostalgia and objectivity; his incisive critiques will provide interested readers with numerous guideposts to a wealth of exciting fantasy and SF reading.

Science-fiction

Author : Everett Franklin Bleiler
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873386043
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Science-fiction written by Everett Franklin Bleiler and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementing Science-Fiction: The Early Years, which surveys science-fiction published in book form from its beginnings through 1930, the present volume covers all the science-fiction printed in the genre magazines--Amazing, Astounding, and Wonder, along with offshoots and minor magazines--from 1926 through 1936. This is the first time this historically important literary phenomenon, which stands behind the enormous modern development of science-fiction, has been studied thoroughly and accurately. The heart of the book is a series of descriptions of all 1,835 stories published during this period, plus bibliographic information. Supplementing this are many useful features: detailed histories of each of the magazines, an issue by issue roster of contents, a technical analysis of the art work, brief authors' biographies, poetry and letter indexes, a theme and motif index of approximately 30,0000 entries, and general indexes. Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years is not only indispensable for reference librarians, collectors, readers, and scholars interested in science-fiction, it is also of importance to the study of popular culture during the Great Depression in the United States. Most of its data, which are largely based on rare and almost unobtainable sources, are not available elsewhere.

The Chair Cheater

Author : Paul Ernst
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 161210388X
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Chair Cheater written by Paul Ernst and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Round by Round, Check Gavey Outpointed the Law, but Fate Was a Different Kind of Opponent...excerpt"The C Deck steward from the S.S. Moravia was a scrawny little man. His front teeth were too large and too prominent for his thin face. His mouse-colored hair stuck up in a cowlick behind and hung down wispily over his left eye in front. He was very much afraid of Check Gavey, but his fear was overcome to some extent by the knowledge that he was indispensable to the sinister-looking gangster. Gavey, dressed in blue serge much different from the loud checks he usually affected, stared at the steward with eyes like black basalt. He moved slowly in his easy-chair, like a snake shifting its coils. Beside Gavey, his underworld pal, Slim Pujo, stood with slouched shoulders and smoked a butt. The gangster said coldly: "You're getting three grand now, and three more when we land at Guatemala. Six grand. That's a grand more than the reward out for me, so you'd be nuts to try and cross me." The steward from the steamer Moravia moistened his lips. "I wouldn't double-cross you anyway." "If you tried it," Check Gavey said evenly, "you'd be very sorry. Okay, pal. Run along now and get things ready on the boat." The steward nodded, looked into Gavey's deadly eyes, gulped, and left the apartment. Gavey lit a cigarette and got to his feet. "Ten o'clock. Time to get down to the mortuary. The boat pulls out at one or two in the morning, and they're due to pick up the stiff about eleven." "You're a smart guy, Check," said Pujo. "I'm smart," nodded Gavey. "That's why I've lasted this long. Sidewalks clear?" Pujo stepped to the window. He pulled the drawn shade back a crack and looked out. "Nobody in sight." Gavey slid the automatic from his shoulder holster and checked it. He snapped it deftly back in place and put on his dark, inconspicuous topcoat. This was followed by a soft hat with the brim turned down. "They haven't got wise to this hideout yet," he said. "But they would, pretty soon." "Yeah," said Pujo, putting on his own coat and hat. "The cops are tryin' hard, this time." They turned out the lights of the cheap tenement apartment and went down dark stairs to the street door. Gavey hesitated. "Wish we had a tommy-gun. But it's too bulky."

Nomadic Subjects

Author : Rosi Braidotti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231153899
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Nomadic Subjects written by Rosi Braidotti and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti's original essays, including her investigations into epistemology's relation to the 'woman question', feminism and biomedical ethics; European feminism; and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the 'becoming-minoritarian' more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti's methods while engaging with her critics.

Marooned Under the Sea

Author : Paul Ernst
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 1612100120
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Marooned Under the Sea written by Paul Ernst and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yacht Rosa was due to leave the San Francisco harbor in two hours.We were going on some mysterious cruise to the South Seas, the details of which I did not know.""Professor George Berry, the famous zoologist, and myself are going to do some exploring that is hazardous in the extreme,"" Stanley had said. ""For purely mechanical reasons we need a third. You are young and have no family ties, so I thought I'd ask you to go with us. I'd rather not tell you what it's all about until we are on our way.""

Convergent Evolution on Earth

Author : George R. McGhee, Jr.
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262354187
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Convergent Evolution on Earth written by George R. McGhee, Jr. and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of patterns of convergent evolution on Earth that suggests where we might look for similar convergent forms on other planets. Why does a sea lily look like a palm tree? And why is a sea lily called a “lily” when it is a marine animal and not a plant? Many marine animals bear a noticeable similarity in form to land-dwelling plants. And yet these marine animal forms evolved in the oceans first; land plants independently and convergently evolved similar forms much later in geologic time. In this book, George McGhee analyzes patterns of convergent evolution on Earth and argues that these patterns offer lessons for the search for life elsewhere in the universe. Our Earth is a water world; 71 percent of the earth's surface is covered by water. The fossil record shows that multicellular life on dry land is a new phenomenon; for the vast majority of the earth's history—3,500 million years of its 4,560 million years of existence—complex life existed only in the oceans. Explaining that convergent biological evolution occurs because of limited evolutionary pathways, McGhee examines examples of convergent evolution in forms of feeding, immobility and mobility, defense, and organ systems. McGhee suggests that the patterns of convergent evolution that we see in our own water world indicate the potential for similar convergent forms in other water worlds. We should search for extraterrestrial life on water worlds, and for technological life on water worlds with continental landmasses.