Erik: 1534 books
The Outer Solar System
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and the Dwarf Planets
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Beyond Earth’s small, red neighbor Mars lie the gaseous, giant planets of the Outer Solar System. This book investigates these behemoths and dwarf planet Pluto, as well as other curiosities within the solar system’s farthest reaches, such as asteroid fields and the Kuiper belt.
The Inner Solar System
The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The planets closest to the Sun—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars—include the world we know and its closest neighbors. However, despite our proximity, these rocky, silicate-based planets still represent so many mysteries yet to discover. Through a trove of images and a narrative bursting with detail,...
by Erik Gregersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Audio and visual cues facilitate some of our most powerful sensory experiences and embed themselves deeply into our memories and subconscious. Sound and light waves interact with our ears and eyes—our biological interpreters—creating a textural experience and relationship with the world around...
by Erik Gregersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The Sun is merely one of some 200 billion stars that make up the Milky Way--and the Milky Way is only one of a billion galaxies in the known universe. Packed with fascinating facts and stunning photography, this book examines the Galaxy humans call home and travels light years away, to the domain of phenomena such as the Oort cloud.
by Erik Gregersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Space travel is a familiar concept. Such was not the case in the early 20th century, when the United States and the former Soviet Union were locked in a race to send humans into orbit. This book details the history of manned spaceflight, from the development of rockets to the advent of space tourism....
by Erik Gregersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The oft-referenced “E = mc2” may perhaps be one of the world’s most famous equations, but it actually represents only one aspect of the complex branch of physics known as relativity. Together, relativity and quantum mechanics explain both the most cosmic and most elementary relationships and...
by Erik Gregersen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The dynamism of the natural world means that it is constantly changing, sometimes rapidly, sometimes gradually. By mathematically interpreting the continuous change that characterizes so many natural processes, analysis and calculus have become indispensable to bridging the divide between mathematics...
"Ah ! si j'avais su...!" 2è volet
ou Comprendre le 6è sens de mon chien
Language: French
Release Date: November 18, 2018
"En acquérant mon premier chien, Ti'Must je ne savais pas qu'il me conduirait vers vous aujourd'hui encore moins sous cette forme.
Comme tous les propriétaires, les questions n'en finissaient pas, vais-je y arriver? Comment je vais faire si...? Et s'il tire en laisse? S'il aboie? etc..."
Voici...
by Erik Gregersen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
The inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, are important for study because they are so similar. All are terrestrial, meaning they have a solid surface. Mercury, being closest to the Sun, experiences the most intense solar radiation. Venus is an example of an extreme greenhouse environment,...
The Complete History of Wheeled Transportation
From Cars and Trucks to Buses and Bikes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
While the wheel itself has changed little over time, it has immeasurably altered the nature of transportation. This insightful volume examines the various wheeled conveyances that have been instrumental in agriculture and commerce—carts and wagons, for instance—as well as those that have facilitated...
by Erik Emery
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Arthur Freeman, a computer hacker turned detective, is hunting a serial killer targeting modern day saints. Every two months, a new body turns up—and the world is left with one less good person.
Against him is an unscrupulous reality TV show, whose sole premise is that the police are corrupt...
Exchange Server 2010 Administration
Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond (Exams 70-662 and 70-663)
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
A soup-to-nuts guide for messaging administrators
Exchange Server is the world’s leading e-mail server software. Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 have made changes that messaging administrators need to know and understand in their daily work with Exchange Server. This Sybex guide focuses on the...
The Mental Floss History of the United States
The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Smarter than your old history teacher, funnier than the founding fathers, and more American than apple pie, The Mental Floss History of the United States is an almost (but not entirely) comprehensive primer on American history (or at least, the good stuff). From the editors of MentalFloss.com and...
Isaac's Storm
A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where...