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Black holes are neither holes nor black. They're invisible and packed with matter! Future astronomers will find out many more fascinating facts about these space phenomena with this intriguing book. Carefully crafted text encapsulates the most important information about black holes, such as how scientists locate them and their significance in a star's life cycle. Amazing photographs support critical concepts and inspire a true appreciation of the...
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Although Albert Einstein predicted the existence of black holes in 1916, they remained the stuff of science fiction until astronomers definitively proved his theory in 1971. Today, although we know more about black holes, we are far from a perfect understanding of these astronomical objects. This volume utilizes engaging fact boxes and vivid full-color photographs to help young readers better understand what we know about black holes as well as what...
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Katya Sadilov is, a former child prodigy violinist turned farmwife-a woman plonked into the wrong life in rural Saskatchewan. Her new husband, George, must instruct her in the most basic domestic skills-how to cook, work the stove, and milk the cow. Survival in this harsh world depends on know-how.
Long before medical people coined the term Bipolar, Katya's mania followed by melancholia, tortures her and rankles her husband. The tight-minded citizens...
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This is a fascinating collection of short pieces about Canadian firsts, ranging from Canada's first Potter's Field through technical developments and inventions like Sonar and the variable pitch aircraft propeller, to Canada's first female winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The collection is presented in chronological order from 33 to 2014 CE, which contributes a historical context to each innovation while maintaining a sense of the eclectic...
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The beautiful young photojournalist, Aileen O'Shannon, is not who she seems. For centuries, she has been a demon hunter, a sorceress, who has tracked and killed small bands of demons that occasionally crossed into our world. But, that changed when she joined Dr. Jack Oswald's expedition to study one of hundreds of huge holes that mysteriously appeared overnight in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle.
Instead of small sporadic incursions,...
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By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe.
Of all the many scientific marvels occurring in our universe, perhaps none have been more, consistently intriguing and mysterious than black holes. What are they, exactly? How do they form? And, what can they tell us about the nature and future of our universe?
Renowned physicist...
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In A Cemetery for Holes, poetic language bends and breaks, resists and reforms under the stress of family trauma. Consensual reality shifts with nonconsensual harm. It is this history of violence which is ultimately, confronted, fought against, and overcome. While engaged in this struggle, the poems also strive to rebuild, to console and to rediscover the world, its beauty, tenderness, humour, and joy.
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2018
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Una fábula bella y macabra sobre los anhelos de la juventud POR EL AUTOR GANADOR DEL PREMIO NACIONAL DEL CÓMIC 2023 «No solo ha sido uno de los libros más notables de este año: ha sido un faro. Borja González ha demostrado ser maestro de una escritura singular, profundamente marcada por el género fantástico y elaborada a la luz de una poesía extraña repleta de delicadas elipses e incursiones en una cotidianidad encantada. [...] The Black...
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"Written in an informal and engaging style, this volume traces the discoveries that led to our understanding of the size and structure of the Milky Way, and the conclusive evidence for a massive black hole at its center. Robert H. Sanders, an astronomer who witnessed many of these developments, describes how we parted the veil of interstellar dust to probe the strange phenomena within. We now know that the most luminous objects in the Universe - quasars...
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Once dismissed as a mathematical curiosity, black holes are so strange they almost defy belief. Since their existence was confirmed, research into the nature of black holes has opened up new vistas in physics, and in this eBook, we examine some of the most fascinating discoveries about black hole formation and behavior, the new and evolving research in gravitational wave astronomy, theoretical possibilities such as wormholes and much more.
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In Albion's Trial-an MMO game where players plug their brains directly into the server-members of the Rabid Squirrels Guild work together as friends to find the best loot, defeat the toughest monsters, and brave the darkest dungeons. Ormusen and Kalati hunt the Dire White Rabbit. The pesky, rare monster runs... but what awaits down the bunny hole? Adventure, absurd encounters, and sexual innuendo abound as the two friends dive head first into trouble!...
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Are kids born @!*holes, or are they taught to become @!*holes?
After being congratulated by a Hawaiian waitress for having such polite and kind children, Brett McCallum, serial entrepreneur, CEO and Dad, sat down to ponder whether he was just 'lucky' that his children turned out so well, or was it the discipline and respect he and his wife showed to them that turned them into amazing little humans...
This book is the culmination of that pondering...
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By developing a general theory of relativity incorporating gravity, Einstein launched a revolution in our understanding of the universe. Trace how his idea that gravity results from the warping of spacetime led to the discovery of black holes and the big bang.
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"Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel--the only woman he's ever loved--has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it's in the cold case office, when what he really wants is to be investigating cases he suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the serial rapist and murderer who Harry helped put behind bars. And now, Finne is free after a decade-plus in prison-free, and Harry is certain, unreformed...
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