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Author: Brandon Cullum
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-09-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781517403133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlfred the dinosaur sets off on a crazy time traveling adventure to find someone who will play with him. Will Alfred find the friend he is looking for? Will he find the person that can see past his bully tendencies and teach him what it is like to be a real friend?
Author: Michael Novacek
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2003-03-15
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0374528764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this captivating account, a renowned paleontologist relates how his boyhood enthusiasm for dinosaurs became a lifelong commitment to vanguard science. 25 illustrations. 5 maps.
Author: Brandon Cullum
Publisher:
Published: 2016-10-05
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781539457893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVinny loves to play soccer with his brothers, even though he is the smallest of the pack. His playing time soon ends when he finds himself kicked off the team after not being able to measure up.Join Vinny as he sets off on an adventure to discover his true potential, encountering an old sabertooth tiger, a T-Rex and his own self-doubt along the way.Will Vinny rejoin the pack? Will Vinny find his footing and discover his true potential? Find out in this colorful, rhyming, bed-time adventure
Author: Fraser A. Sherman
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-02-06
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 147662643X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time travel--stories of rewriting history, lovers separated by centuries, journeys to the past or the (often dystopian) future. This book examines some of the roles time travel plays on screen in science fiction and fantasy. Plot synopses and credits are listed for films and TV series from England, Canada, the UK and Japan, as well as for TV and films from elsewhere in the world. Tropes and plot elements are highlighted. The author discusses philosophical questions about time travel, such as the logic of timelines, causality (what's to keep time-travelers from jumping back and correcting every mistake?) and morality (if you correct a mistake, are you still guilty of it?).
Author: Allen A. Debus
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0786426721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This literary survey examines how paleoliterature originated, developed and matured from its inception to the present day. It follows trends on the crafting of classic dinosaurs, investigating the figurative and metaphoric meaning of fictional dinosaursand related prehistoria. An appendix provides brief summaries of deserving dinosaur texts, organized alphabetically by author. "--Provided by publisher.
Author: Vezio Melegari
Publisher: Derrydale
Published: 1997-03-04
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780517184530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"From the swamps where gigantic but gentle Apatosaurus lived, to the woods that were home to the ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex, Benny and his friends visit all their favorite dinosaurs and learn amazing facts about their lives millions of years ago."--Cover
Author: Paul J. Nahin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-12-24
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 3319488643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author's earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no Tech Notes filled with algebra, integrals, and differential equations, as there are in the first and second editions of TIME MACHINES. Writing about time travel is, today, a respectable business. It hasn’t always been so. After all, time travel, prima facie, appears to violate a fundamental law of nature; every effect has a cause, with the cause occurring before the effect. Time travel to the past, however, seems to allow, indeed to demand, backwards causation, with an effect (the time traveler emerging into the past as he exits from his time machine) occurring before its cause (the time traveler pushing the start button on his machine’s control panel to start his trip backward through time). Time Machine Tales includes new discussions of the advances by physicists and philosophers that have appeared since the publication of TIME MACHINES in 1999, examples of which are the chapters on time travel paradoxes. Those chapters have been brought up-to-date with the latest philosophical thinking on the paradoxes.
Author: Peter Haining
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780760709146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sandra Knapp
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace set out for the Amazon in 1848 to collect natural history specimens. During his time there, he spent almost two years travelling up the Rio Negro, a region few Europeans had explored. A fire on the return journey to England destroyed all of his collections but among the possessions rescued was a collection of sketches of fish, later presented to The Natural History Museum. This book is an account of Wallace's expedition describing the naturalist in the making, the tragic loss of his collections and how this affected his future. Throughout the book the role of chance in the making of naturalists and the course of science in general is explored. The work is illustrated with the fish sketches, palm drawings and scenes of life in the Amazon.
Author: Luis W. Alvarez
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Published: 2019-08-08
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring World War II, Luis W. Alvarez participated in the Allies’ development of radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, and of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. He then worked as an experimental physicist on cyclotrons, particle accelerators and bubble chambers at UC-Berkeley with Ernest Lawrence. Later in life, he used cosmic rays to “X ray” an Egyptian pyramid, developed a new theory about the extinction of the dinosaurs, and won the 1968 Nobel prize in physics for his work on elementary particles. In this autobiography, Alvarez shares insights on the process of scientific discovery, risk-taking in science and how theoretical and experimental physics interact. “[A] delightful autobiography... [A] fascinating book... It should be read by everyone who is interested in science and adventure, or who just wants to meet one of our most fascinating contemporaries.” — James Trefil, New York Times Book Review “Beyond its self-portrait, Alvarez provides an exceptionally clear view of the world of science.” — Alan Lightman, Washington Post Book World “This is a richly absorbing autobiography... Personally as well as scientifically forthright and plainspoken, [Alvarez] holds the reader with the story of his life as a scientist, much of the time at Berkeley, Calif., working with such men as Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Enrico Fermi.” — Publishers Weekly “A gripping book. It succeeds well in making the scientific experience and the excitement of discovery accessible to the general reader.” — Richard L. Garwin,Physics Today “A fascinating life.” — Elena Brunet, Los Angeles Times “One of the best popular books on science to emerge from the laboratory in years.” — Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times “Luis W. Alvarez has an unsurpassed reputation among scientists for a lifelong record of crucial participation in important discoveries in pure and applied science. In this book he performs an additional service by revealing his thought processes.” — Philip Abelson, Science Advisor, American Association for the Advancement of Science
