A Million Skies

Author : Abigail Alleman
Publisher : ACU Press
ISBN 13 : 1684269369
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Million Skies written by Abigail Alleman and published by ACU Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Million Skies, Abigail shares her journey to gain a true vision about the mental illness that radically altered her life: bipolar disorder. After facing several near-death experiences and a tumultuous fallout from her initial diagnosis, she was left with little of the life she had known. In time, Abigail has found victory in her mind, but that has meant that she has had to shift her views of herself, others, life, and God. More than one woman’s story, A Million Skies is an invitation to understand mental illness in new ways. The reader who enters the pages of A Million Skies will find the author’s contagious courage, inspiring journey, and words of challenge compelling them forward.

Author : Bob Mizon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319338552
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding a Million-Star Hotel written by Bob Mizon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Mizon, one of the world’s best known campaigners against the veil of light pollution that has taken away the starry sky from most of the world’s population, takes readers to a hundred places in the UK and the USA where the wonders of the night sky might still be enjoyed in perfect or near-perfect night skies. Visiting small hotels and simple campsites, and savoring vast dark-sky reserves where the night sky is actively protected, The Million-Star Hotel celebrates the black skies of yesteryear – which may become a reality for more and more of us as modern technology reins in lighting and puts it only where needed. How can you prepare for your stay beneath the stars? What astronomy can you do during the daytime? What kind of equipment will you need? Questions such as these are answered, and if town dwellers return inspired – and, Bob hopes, also inspired to look with fresh eyes at their own local lighting – there is enough information here for them to equip themselves for some urban astronomy too.

Author : Peter Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521414081
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Southern Skies written by Peter Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-09 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Southern Skies tells the story of the planning and construction of the Parkes Telescope in rural New South Wales, Australia and surveys its achievements over the past thirty years. Around this central theme Peter Robertson presents a broader history of radio astronomy, describing its rapid rise to become the respected partner of traditional optical astronomy. The opening up of the radio window on the universe has been one of the most exciting developments in modern science. The technical achievements of the telescope outlined in Peter Robertson's very readable book will be accessible to a general audience. Readers will be fascinated by the lively account of the personalities, politics and controversy that lay behind the decision to build the Parkes Telescope. Since its completion in 1961, the telescope has contributed much to our knowledge of quasars, pulsars, masers, supernova remnants and molecular clouds, as well as the other unusual objects discovered in recent years. During the 1990s the telescope will continue to play a part in our quest to understand the origin and nature of the universe, and our place in it.

Author : Philip Plait, Ph.D.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101078782
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death from the Skies! written by Philip Plait, Ph.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively astronomy primer that uses cataclysmic scenarios to explain the universe?s most fascinating events. According to astronomer Philip Plait, the universe is an apocalypse waiting to happen But how much do we really need to fear from things like black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and supernovae? And if we should be scared, is there anything we can do to save ourselves? With humor and wit, Plait details the myriad doomsday events that the cosmos could send our way to destroy our planet and life as we know it. This authoritative yet accessible study is the ultimate astronomy lesson. Combining fascinating?and often alarming?scenarios that seem plucked from science fiction with the latest research and opinions, Plait illustrates why outer space is not as remote as most people think. Each chapter explores a different phenomenon, explaining it in easy-to-understand terms, and considering how life on earth and the planet itself would be affected should the event come to pass. Rather than sensationalizing the information, Plait analyzes the probability of these catastrophes occurring in our lifetimes and what we can do to stop them. With its entertaining tone and enlightening explanation of unfathomable concepts, Death from the Skies! will appeal to science buffs and beginners alike.

Author : Sanchi
Publisher : Writersgram
ISBN 13 : 935485527X
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moonlit skies written by Sanchi and published by Writersgram. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a poetry book includes 25 poems and these 25 poems didn't just take my 25 days. They are my heart and soul. I have never been able to express my feelings directly but writing poems made me express them. Writing is a part of me and with each poem I write, be it for moon or the darkest nights I give a part of me to it which makes me whole. And irony is I hate nights and shadows lurking but they become magical to me when there is moon in it, be it crescent or full I love it in all its phases and darkness. Each poem carries different feel and a different story. It is my story and I want to make it yours. It is a blend of imagination and reality; darkness and light. The skies that are moonlit for me maybe are dull for you or you too look at the sky and get wooed by the beauty of constellations and moon.

Author : Captain Lim Khoy Hing
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814779644
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sky Tales: More Insights from A Life In The Skies written by Captain Lim Khoy Hing and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Lim Khoy Hing is an ex-airline pilot who is passionate about flying, having worked all his life high above the clouds since leaving college. During his career, he was fortunate enough to fly the latest fly-by-wire planes such as the Boeing 777 and the Airbus A320, A330 and A340. He logged a total of 25,500 flying hours, or about 20 trips to the moon and back! Capt. Lim finished his flying career with AirAsia X, retiring from flying in 2011. He is currently a Flight Simulator Instructor with AirAsia X, and columnist for the carrier’s in-flight magazine, Travel 3Sixty. His first book, Life in the Skies, was published in 2013 and is a regional bestseller.

Author : Bill Warren
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786442301
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keep Watching the Skies! written by Bill Warren and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies! was originally published in two volumes, in 1982 and 1986. It was then greatly expanded in what we called the 21st Century Edition, with new entries on several films and revisions and expansions of the commentary on every film. In addition to a detailed plot synopsis, full cast and credit listings, and an overview of the critical reception of each film, Warren delivers richly informative assessments of the films and a wealth of insights and anecdotes about their making. The book contains 273 photographs (many rare, 35 in color), has seven useful appendices, and concludes with an enormous index. This book is also available in softcover format (ISBN 978-1-4766-6618-1).

Author : Peter Mack
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1431701556
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Night Skies of Southern Africa written by Peter Mack and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star-watching enthusiasts as well as more seasoned astronomers will welcome this update of the popular Guide to Night Skies of Southern Africa, which provides an accessible, illustrated introduction to our solar system, the Milky Way galaxy and the expanding universe.

Author : Arthur R. Upgren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813535128
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Many Skies written by Arthur R. Upgren and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fanciful to foreboding, the scenarios in this work will both delight and inspire reflection, reminding readers that their view of the universe is as much a product of accident as it is of intention.

Author : Patrick Parsons
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592137067
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Skies written by Patrick Parsons and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-05 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cable television is arguably the dominant mass media technology in the U.S. today. Blue Skies traces its history in detail, depicting the important events and people that shaped its development, from the precursors of cable TV in the 1920s and '30s to the first community antenna systems in the 1950s, and from the creation of the national satellite-distributed cable networks in the 1970s to the current incarnation of "info-structure" that dominates our lives. Author Patrick Parsons also considers the ways that economics, public perception, public policy, entrepreneurial personalities, the social construction of the possibilities of cable, and simple chance all influenced the development of cable TV. Since the 1960s, one of the pervasive visions of "cable" has been of a ubiquitous, flexible, interactive communications system capable of providing news, information, entertainment, diverse local programming, and even social services. That set of utopian hopes became known as the "Blue Sky" vision of cable television, from which the book takes its title. Thoroughly documented and carefully researched, yet lively, occasionally humorous, and consistently insightful, Blue Skies is the genealogy of our media society.