The Highest Frontier
The Highest Frontier

Author: Joan Slonczewski

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2012-08-28

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780765367723

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The first SF novel in more than ten years from the scientist and author of A Door into Ocean. A girl goes to college in orbit, in a future transformed by technology, global warming, and invasive species.

The High Frontier: An Easier Way
The High Frontier: An Easier Way

Author: Tom Marotta

Publisher: Blurb

Published: 2019-01-09

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780464706304

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Have you ever wanted to live in space? To see the majesty of Earth from orbit, to play in a zero-gravity wonderland, and be on the cutting edge of civilization? Such a place may be built sooner than you think. New scientific research, new technological developments, and new social trends are all combining to make settlements in space easier than ever to build. Not long ago Al Globus, a space settlement expert and software engineering contractor at NASA Ames Research Center, made two key scientific discoveries: - that equatorial low earth orbit (ELEO) has vastly lower radiation than most other places in space, - and that humans can adapt to rotating space structures faster than many people thought possible. These discoveries, combined with a fast-developing rocket industry and burgeoning financial and political support for space development, mean that humanity may be on the brink of a building boom in orbit. In a few decades space settlements could vastly improve life on Earth by developing new technologies, unlocking trillions of dollars of raw materials and energy in space, and opening up a new frontier for all humankind. In this fast-paced book learn how your future in space is closer than you think!

To Reach the High Frontier
To Reach the High Frontier

Author: Roger D. Launius

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9780813127217

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Most towns did not have hospitals of their own before the mid-twentieth century, and Kentucky towns were no exception. KentuckyÕs first real hospital opened in 1823, but it was in LouisvilleÑtoo far away to serve many Kentucky communities, especially in cases of emergency. For this and other reasons, the lifespan of the average Kentuckian in the 1800s was only 40 years. Today it has grown to 75, and trained medical professionals are available to most communities throughout the state. Healing Kentucky tells how medical care changed in Kentucky over 200 years and became the much safer and better system we know today. It also describes early healing practices and methods used to care for the sick in the days before safe hospitals, even on Civil War battlefields. From cholera epidemics to polio and plastic surgery, readers will learn much about the people who shaped medicine in Kentucky.

Opening the High Frontier
Opening the High Frontier

Author: Eagle Sarmont

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780692760024

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"Opening the High Frontier" is about how to make spaceflight affordable to everyone.

The High Lonesome Frontier
The High Lonesome Frontier

Author: Rebecca Campbell

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2016-09-07

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 0765391805

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A meditation about the evolution and influence of a song written in 1902 over the next 150 plus years. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

High Noon on the Electronic Frontier
High Noon on the Electronic Frontier

Author: Peter Ludlow

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780262621038

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This collection of articles on cyberspace policy issues, has been collated from print and electronic sources, together with extracts from on-line discussions of these issues. The topics covered include privacy, property rights, hacking, encryption, censors

Fermilab
Fermilab

Author: Lillian Hoddeson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 0226346250

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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years. Fermilab is the first history of this laboratory and of its powerful accelerators told from the point of view of the people who built and used them for scientific discovery. Focusing on the first two decades of research at Fermilab, during the tenure of the laboratory’s charismatic first two directors, Robert R. Wilson and Leon M. Lederman, the book traces the rise of what they call “megascience,” the collaborative struggle to conduct large-scale international experiments in a climate of limited federal funding. In the midst of this new climate, Fermilab illuminates the growth of the modern research laboratory during the Cold War and captures the drama of human exploration at the cutting edge of science.