The Far Side of the World
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780393037104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe.
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The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon
Author: Bea Uusma Schyffert
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2003-07
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9780811840071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the astronaut, Michael Collins, who circled the moon in the Apollo 12 space capsule while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module and walked on the moon.
Far Side of the Earth
Author: Tom Sleigh
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780618492381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWidely considered one of the finest poets of his generation, Tom Sleigh brings to his fifth collection his trademark intensity and craftsmanship, mixing the streetwise edginess of popular culture with Greek and Latin references, myth, and dramatic lyrics. Passionately comprehensive in its understanding of contemporary reality, Far Side of the Earth is unique in its moral gravitas, consolatory power, and strangeness of vision.
The Far Side Gallery
Author: Gary Larson
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcursions to the Far Side of the Mind
Author: Howard Rheingold
Publisher: Stillpoint Digital Press
Published: 2012-04-21
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1938808010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenowned for exploring the social implications of modern technology, Howard Rheingold has been dubbed by MIT "the first citizen of the Internet." In this collection of funny, prescient, thought-provoking essays, originally published during the 1970s and 1980s, he offers a glimpse into the changes wrought during that explosive period. From the effects of the graphic user interface (GUI) not only on how we work but how we think, to "technarchist" movements that presaged both the hacker mentality and the anarchist idealism of Burning Man today, to a ground-floor view of the very earliest of what Rheingold was the first to dub virtual communities, his Excursions run the gamut from the silly to the profound. These essays remain fascinating, amusing, and relevant. "Most of my work in recent decades," Rheingold says, "has focused on the consequences of digital media and networked publics. Before the digital wave came along, I wrote about a more diverse range of subjects: What causes anger? What’s it like to be in a car crash? What’s insect sex like? Do invisible airborne chemicals affect behavior? Can we control our dreams? How will people get high in the future? Will money evolve into new forms? In the second decade of the twenty-first century, these short pieces re-present my explorations during my think about anything years to a wider public who may be familiar with my work on digital culture."
Farside
Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-02-12
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0765323877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix-time Hugo Award-winner Bova presents a book about the side of the Moon that never faces Earth. It is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory and also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder.
The Far Side of Evil
Author: Sylvia Engdahl
Publisher: Sylvia Engdahl
Published: 2003-03-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn completion of her training as an agent of the interstellar federation's Anthropological Service, Elana is sent to a world whose people may soon destroy their civilization. Since not enough is understood about the situation to justify any interference with their evolution, the Service has no power to act; its agents must go as helpless observers, posing as natives, in the hope of gaining knowledge that may help to save other worlds. This passive role proves intolerable to the young, inexperienced agent assigned to the same city as Elana, a city under totalitarian rule. After falling in love with a local girl who has become Elana's closest friend, he identifies too completely with the natives and unwittingly endangers the entire world by a well-meant but ill-advised attempt to intervene. Forced to assume responsibility for undoing the damage, Elana finds that only she—at great cost—can prevent an immediate war of annihilation. Although this novel has the same heroine as the author's Newbery Honor book Enchantress from the Stars, it is not a sequel but a completely separate—and very different—story not intended for readers below high school age, which is also enjoyed by adults. The two books are in no way dependent on each other and can be read in either order.
Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11's Third Man
Author: Alex Irvine
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Published: 2017-03-28
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 0884485374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK*Junior Library Guild Selection 2017* A unanimous selection to the 2018 Maverick Graphic Novel List! This graphic retelling of the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission follows astronaut Michael Collins, commander of the lunar orbiter, to the far side of the moon. When the Earth disappears behind the moon, Collins loses contact with his fellow astronauts on the moon’s surface, with mission control at NASA, and with the entire human race, becoming more alone than any human being has ever been before. In total isolation for 21 hours, Collins awaits word that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have managed to launch their moon lander successfully to return to the orbiter—a feat never accomplished before and rendered more problematic by the fuel burn of their difficult landing. In this singularly lonely and dramatic setting, Collins reviews the politics, science, and engineering that propelled the Apollo 11 mission across 239,000 miles of space to the moon. Fountas & Pinnell Level U
The Far Side of the Moon
Author: Charles Byrne
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-10-23
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0387732063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe far side of the Moon, also called the "dark side of the Moon" was unknown to humanity until the Luna and Lunar Orbiter pictures were returned to Earth. This wonderful book contains beautiful photographs and newly-assembled mosaic images of the far side of the Moon, cleaned of transmission, imaging stripes and processing artifacts by today’s computer technology. Byrne’s superb analysis documents the appearance of the features of the far side with beautiful pictures from Lunar Orbiter. Until now, the far side Lunar Orbiter photos have only been available with strong reconstruction lines, but appear here for the first time as complete photographs, unmarred by imaging and processing artifacts.
Farside
Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2013-02-12
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1429949414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix-time Hugo-Award winner Ben Bova presents Farside. Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder. Telescopes on Earth have detected an Earth-sized planet circling a star some thirty light-years away. Now the race is on to get pictures of that distant world, photographs and spectra that will show whether or not the planet is truly like Earth, and if it bears life. Farside will include the largest optical telescope in the solar system as well as a vast array of radio antennas, the most sensitive radio telescope possible, insulated from the interference of Earth's radio chatter by a thousand kilometers of the Moon's solid body. Building the Farside observatory is a complex, often dangerous task. On the airless surface of the Moon, under constant bombardment of hard radiation and infalling micrometeoroids, builders must work in cumbersome spacesuits and use robotic machines as much as possible. Breakdowns—mechanical and emotional—are commonplace. Accidents happen, some of them fatal. What they find stuns everyone, and the human race will never be the same. "Bova's latest novel is one of his best, and a classic use of the old sf theme of humanity reaching out for immortality among the stars."—Booklist (starred review) on Farside At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
