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Why You Can Never Get To The End Of The Rainbow And Other Moments Of Science
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Book Synopsis Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow and Other Moments of Science by : Don Glass
Download or read book Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow and Other Moments of Science written by Don Glass and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short essays explain such scientific questions as why cats' eyes glow at night, why rivers don't flow in a straight line, and how the world looks to a bee.
Book Synopsis How Can You Tell If a Spider Is Dead? And More Moments of Science by : Don Glass
Download or read book How Can You Tell If a Spider Is Dead? And More Moments of Science written by Don Glass and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have a minute? That's long enough to learn about rust, quicksand, tiny bubbles, or creaking snow. Or the shape of lightening bolts, how dogs eat, why it's hard to burn one log, or what our pupils tell us. This is a book to reawaken your childhood sense of curiosity. It's a feast of unusual facts and intriguing information for people with lots of curiosity but only a moment to spare. There is something to discover on every page--from what Jello is made of to why you can't heat an ice cube--presented in a concise and entertaining way. These easy-to-understand science stories are sure to delight the curious child in all of us. A sequel to the popular Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow and Other Moments of Science, also available from Indiana University Press.
Book Synopsis How the World Looks to a Bee by : Don Glass
Download or read book How the World Looks to a Bee written by Don Glass and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get a buzz out of science with a collection of fun facts and explanations of the world around us from the author of How Can You Tell if a Spider Is Dead? What can you learn about your world in just a moment? Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Or whether dogs can read our facial expressions? Don Glass and experts in their fields answer these questions and many more. Written for readers of all ages with no background in science required, How the World Looks to a Bee is the perfect armchair companion for curious people who want to know more about the science of everyday life but have only a moment to spare. With intriguing everyday phenomena as a starting point, this entertaining collectionuses short tutorials and quick and simple experiments to invite readers to test the science for themselves. These fascinating and topical science stories are sure to delight the curious child in all of us.
Book Synopsis Communities of the Air by : Susan Merrill Squier
Download or read book Communities of the Air written by Susan Merrill Squier and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering analysis of radio as both a cultural and material production, Communities of the Air explores radio’s powerful role in shaping Anglo-American culture and society since the early twentieth century. Scholars and radio writers, producers, and critics look at the many ways radio generates multiple communities over the air—from elite to popular, dominant to resistant, canonical to transgressive. The contributors approach radio not only in its own right, but also as a set of practices—both technological and social—illuminating broader issues such as race relations, gender politics, and the construction of regional and national identities. Drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, science studies and feminist theory, radio history, and the new field of radio studies, these essays consider the development of radio as technology: how it was modeled on the telephone, early conflicts between for-profit and public uses of radio, and amateur radio (HAMS), local programming, and low-power radio. Some pieces discuss how radio gives voice to different cultural groups, focusing on the BBC and poetry programming in the West Indies, black radio, the history of alternative radio since the 1970s, and science and contemporary arts programming. Others look at radio’s influence on gender (and gender’s influence on radio) through examinations of Queen Elizabeth’s broadcasts, Gracie Allen’s comedy, and programming geared toward women. Together the contributors demonstrate how attention to the variety of ways radio is used and understood reveals the dynamic emergence and transformation of communities within the larger society. Contributors. Laurence A. Breiner, Bruce B. Campbell, Mary Desjardins, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Nina Hunteman, Leah Lowe, Adrienne Munich, Kathleen Newman, Martin Spinelli, Susan Merrill Squier, Donald Ulin, Mark Williams, Steve Wurzler
Book Synopsis Directions in Sound by : WFIU (Radio station : Bloomington, Ind.)
Download or read book Directions in Sound written by WFIU (Radio station : Bloomington, Ind.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith by :
Download or read book Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky by : Trudy Dittmar
Download or read book Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky written by Trudy Dittmar and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky] is, in fact, the most intelligent, thoughtful, original, challenging, and highly entertaining work of nature writing since Barry Lopez's Artic Dreams. . . . It is her broad scope of contemplation, combined with her fiercely beautiful and detailed renderings of passion, natural and human, that give Trudy Dittmar's first but fully mature book its remarkable originality and considerable power." --Robert Finch,Los Angeles Times Book Review "Honest self-scrutiny is irresistible, especially when told with a knack for diction of place, as this author demonstrates on every page. She is both of the landscape and an informed observer of it, willing to examine her conflicts between the experiences that play in her imagination and the scientific knowledge she's gleaned through training and reading." --The Bloomsbury Review "Trudy Dittmar is an elegant stylist and an acute observer. She's read everything there is to read about the physics of rainbows, the habits of the porcupine, the winter survival skills of the moose and the orbits of the planets, but even her learning is outdistanced by her patient powers of looking, smelling, hearing, touching and tasting. Her originality arises out of this patience. And, magically, she is able to read into and out of the rich, endangered natural world an Emersonian understanding of self. This is at once the most objective and subjective book I have ever read." --Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story "Dittmar writes about life with the precision of a scientist and the introspective lyricism of a poet, illuminating for us those parts of the world we barely remember to notice...from the complex emotional lives of cows and pronghorns to the dazzling leaves of a silver maple to the teeming hidden pools of bright salamanders. Reading this book is like finding a geode in a stream bed--crack it open and it sparkleso--Jo Ann Beard "Dittmar, who won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer' Award in 2000 and whose writings have appeared in numerous publications . . . provides a fascinating look at natural and personal history in these ten essays on animals, plants, and other natural phenomena. . . . An excellent choice for both public and academic libraries." --Library Journal In essays with settings that range from the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, to the mountain town of Leadville, Colorado, to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Trudy Dittmar weaves personal experience with diverse threads of subject matter to create unexpected connections between human nature and nature at large. Life stories, elegantly combined with mindful observations of animals, plants, landscape and the skies, theories in natural science, environmental considerations, and touches of art criticism and popular culture, offer insights into the linked analogies of nature and soul. A glacial pond teeming with salamanders in arrested development is cause for reflection on the limits of a life that knows only bounty. The hot blue lights of celestial phenomena are a metaphor for fast, flashy men--he loves of a life--and a romantic career is interpreted. Watching a pronghorn buck battling for, and ultimately losing, his harem leads to a meditation on a kind of immortality. Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky is testimony to the bearing and consequence of nature in one life, and to the richness of understanding it can bring to all human lives. Trudy Dittmar was born and raised in New Jersey farm country. In addition to holding an MA in English literature from the University of Chicago, she is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA program in writing and the founder and former director of a writing program at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Norton Book of Nature Writing, Pushcart XXI, Georgia Review, and Orion. She divides her time between her family home in New Jersey and her cabin in Wyoming.
Download or read book The Science Teacher written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Implausible Beliefs by : Allan Mazur
Download or read book Implausible Beliefs written by Allan Mazur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people accept ideas that are contradicted by science or logic? In Implausible Beliefs, Allan Mazur offers a comparative look at the nature of irrational belief systems, their social roots, and their cultural and political impact. He begins by providing standards for judging beliefs implausible and assessing the impact of such belief systems onpolitics and social policy in the US. Mazur describes and defends commonsense criteria for establishing that certain views should not be sustained in the face of present-day understanding. He presents a statistical portrait of implausible beliefs rampant in the US, and who tends to accept them.Mazur applies criteria for implausibility to the Bible, astrology, and visitation to Earth of intelligent beings from other worlds. Pointing out that everyone "knows" the Bible but few actually read it, the author scrolls through the first five books of the text, noting points that undermine the scripture's natural history and moral guidance. Working on the assumption that implausible religious views are fundamentally no different from implausible secular views, he critiques secular beliefs in astrology and UFOs. Mazur concludes the volume with an attempt to explain why most people accept implausibility‘some more than others despite evidence and logic that refute them.Looking to mainstream sociology and psychology, Mazur shows how children are socialized into such beliefs, and how adults are influenced by spouses and friends. Personality is also a factor, sometimes abetted by stressful or lonely life situations. Lucidly written, this is a provocative and informative contribution to social psychology, sociology, religion, political science, and American studies.
Book Synopsis Where the Rainbow Touches the Ground by : John Henderson Miller
Download or read book Where the Rainbow Touches the Ground written by John Henderson Miller and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ghosts and Other Mysteries by : Dorothy Burtz Fiedel
Download or read book Ghosts and Other Mysteries written by Dorothy Burtz Fiedel and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of strange but true stories of ghosts, hauntings, strange coincidences, & weird phenomena along the eastern seaboard. Is the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy haunted? Personal interviews with sailors that served aboard the U.S.S. Constitution say "yes." "Old Ironsides" still bobs in Boston Harbor; some of her crew refused to sleep in a haunted berth; a lookout saw a ghostly body fall from her crow's nest; & four sailors all saw the same apparition of a bloodied colonial officer. Included in this book is a never before published photograph of a little girl ghost who mysteriously drifted into a photographer's picture of Saint Joseph's Hospital, Lancaster, PA. Is she indeed a spirit trapped in time? Scientists say one can never get to the end of a rainbow - wrong! A California couple found themselves trapped in the impossible at Mount Shasta, California, for an experience of a lifetime. There are updates about hauntings from the author's HAUNTED LANCASTER COUNTY (ISBN 0-9640254-0-X) & TRUE GHOST STORIES OF LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA (ISBN 0-9640254-1-8). For more information & dealer prices contact: Dorothy B. Fiedel, Publisher, 171 Kinderhook Rd., Columbia, PA 17512. Phone: 717-684-4251, FAX & voice mail: 717-684-4175.
Book Synopsis A Hazardous Inquiry by : Allan Mazur
Download or read book A Hazardous Inquiry written by Allan Mazur and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Canal--a community poisoned by toxic waste. Borrowing the multi-viewpoint technique of the classic Japanese film RASHOMON, sociologist/engineer Allan Mazur reveals that there are many--often conflicting--versions of what occurred at Love Canal. His collection of gripping personal tales tells how politics, journalism, and epidemiology often clash, when confronting a potential community disaster.
Download or read book WTIU. written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Why Socks Disappear in the Wash by : Don Glass
Download or read book Why Socks Disappear in the Wash written by Don Glass and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MORE THAN 250 "MOMENTS" OF SCIENCE.
Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
