Ron Miller
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[2023]
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"Deep space holds materials left over from the formation of the solar system. Astronomers have been making exciting discoveries on the outermost fringes and the New Horizons spacecraft brings new insights into the origins of the sun and planets"--
The cold, dark world that lies at the farthest reaches of our solar system holds a vast collection of secrets. For the most of human history, we had no idea anything was out there. Utilizing photographs...
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"As one of the many installments in Jules Verne's Voyage Extraordinaire series, Journey to the Center of the Earth promises high stakes and thrilling adventure. When Professor Otto Lidenbrock bought an ancient runic manuscript, which chronicles the lives of Norwegian Kings, he did not expect to learn of anything but the history of Icelandic leaders. However, upon further inspection, Lidenbrock and his nephew, Axel, find that the manuscript includes...
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1998.
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Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
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[2017]
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Aliens: Past, Present, Future covers the subject of extraterrestrial life from every angle, from the earliest speculations more than 400 years ago to todays ongoing search for Earth 2.0. In between are lessons learned about how life originated on our own planet, as well as the story behind the vast cult that has grown up around "flying saucers" and strange visitors from other planets, including popular culture renditions of them.
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c2008
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Robot Explorers is about the unmanned missions throughout the solar system, from the first lunar and planetary probes of the 60s up to the sophisticated Mars rover missions of the past decade. It describes the missions to Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, several asteroids, and the Sun, as well as some of the missions planned for the future.
10) Satellites
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2008
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Traces the development of artificial satellites from the rise of rocketry, discussing the historical importance of Sputnik and describing what modern satellites are used for.
12) The elements
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c2006
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Discusses the history of the periodic table of the elements, includes biographies of major figures in the field of chemistry, and provides information on each element.
14) The zoomable universe: an epic tour through cosmic scale, from almost everything to nearly nothing
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In The Zoomable Universe, the award-winning astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and the acclaimed artist Ron Miller take us on an epic tour through all known scales of reality, from the largest possible magnitude to the smallest. Drawing on cutting-edge science, they begin at the limits of the observable universe, a scale spanning 10̂27 meters--about 93 billion light-years. And they end in the subatomic realm, at 10̂-35 meters, where the fabric of space-time...