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Frommer's Spain 2010 (Frommer's Complete)
Frommer's Spain 2010 (Frommer's Complete)

As a team of veteran travel writers, Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince have produced various titles for Frommer’s, including guides to Italy, France, England, and Germany. A film critic, columnist, and broadcaster, Porter is also a Hollywood biographer. His recent releases include Brando Unzipped, documenting the private life of Marlon...

Astrology For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies)
Astrology For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies)
Learn how to get your precise horoscope, decipher astrological symbols, and benefit from the phases of the moon with Astrology for Dummies, Second Edition. You’ll learn how to construct your birth chart, interpret its component parts, and use that information to gain insight into yourself and others. With easy-to-follow, hands-on...
How to Ace the Brainteaser Interview
How to Ace the Brainteaser Interview
Learn to solve the world's most puzzling interview questions

Company recruiters are asking tough, new brain teasers during interviews that test your skills, creativity, and ability to think on your feet. How would you respond to puzzlers such as "What weighs more on the moon than on the...

The Earth and the Moon (The Solar System)
The Earth and the Moon (The Solar System)

The planets Mercury,Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—all visible to the naked eye—were known to ancient peoples. In fact, the Romans gave these planets their names as they are known today. Mercury was named after their god Mercury, the fleet-footed messenger of the gods, because the planet seems especially fast moving when viewed...

Choosing and Using a New CAT: Getting the Most from Your Schmidt Cassegrain or Any Catadioptric Telescope
Choosing and Using a New CAT: Getting the Most from Your Schmidt Cassegrain or Any Catadioptric Telescope
Since you’re reading this, I’m guessing you have made an exciting decision: You want a telescope. Specifically, you want a telescope for looking at the sky, a telescope that will open the depths of space to your gaze and allow you to visit the Moon, the planets, and all the strange and distant wonders of our magnificent universe. And...
On the Moon: The Apollo Journals (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
On the Moon: The Apollo Journals (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
It has been customary over the centuries during voyages of exploration for the Captain of the ship to record daily events of significance in the "Captain's Log." The above entry was made by Captain James Cook in the log of His Majesty's Bark, Endeavour, during February 1770. It reflects his amazement at seeing "mountains of strange,...
How We See the Sky: A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night
How We See the Sky: A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night

Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars—if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today’s casual observer knows far less about the sky than did our ancestors, who depended on the sun and the moon to tell them the...

Spacecraft Power Systems
Spacecraft Power Systems
The first man-made satellite was Sputnik I, launched and operated by Russia in the low Earth orbit in 1957. In the decade that followed, the American space exploration programs launched many Earth orbiting satellites. The first commercial geosynchronous satellite, Intelsat-1, was placed in orbit in 1965, and, in 1969, NASA’s Apollo-11 became...
A Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa (Compass Series)
A Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa (Compass Series)
Terrestrial studies of life in extreme environments now show that Earth is teeming with microorganisms. Nearly every locale that contains two ingredients, liquid water and some form of energy, appears to host a variety of microbes living happily under conditions that just a few years ago would have seemed impossibly inhospitable. There is also...
Sketching the Moon: An Astronomical Artist's Guide (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)
Sketching the Moon: An Astronomical Artist's Guide (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)

For anyone artistically inclined, observing the Moon and attempting to sketch or paint it can easily become a passion. The Moon presents a broad array of tone, texture, and form. Capturing this in a painting or sketch at the eyepiece of a telescope or even with binoculars develops observational skills, leaves a record of the observation, and...

Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which 'soft landed' in order to investigate the nature of the surface, and the Lunar Orbiters which mapped prospective Apollo landing sites. He then outlines the historic landing by Apollo 11 in terms...

Moon Machu Picchu: With Lima, Cusco & the Inca Trail (Travel Guide)
Moon Machu Picchu: With Lima, Cusco & the Inca Trail (Travel Guide)
Mystical, timeless, and full of adventure: embark on the trip of a lifetime to the jewel of Peru with Moon Machu Picchu. Inside you'll find:
  • Strategic trekking guides, including two to four days on the Inca Trail, five days on the Salcantay, and an Inca Jungle Trail...
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