Uranus

Author : Jay T. Bergstralh
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816512089
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uranus written by Jay T. Bergstralh and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uranus occupies a unique niche in the history of western thought; for while the planets from Mercury to Saturn had been known since pre-antiquity, Uranus was the first to be discovered, in 1781, through scientific investigation. Contemporary investigation of Uranus culminated in the Voyager 2 encounter in 1986. The results of that achievement, as well of concurrent research on the planet, are reviewed by 84 international authorities in this massive volume. Because Uranus' remoteness has prevented its being studied as intensively by earth-based observation as have other members of the solar system, most of what is known about the planet—its magnetic field and magnetosphere and satellites—were learned from the Voyager data, which is viewed here from a variety of perspectives. While the book is intended to serve as a comprehensive review, it also reports a substantial amount of original research results not previously published.

Author : Paul B. Preciado
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1635901138
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Apartment on Uranus written by Paul B. Preciado and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism. Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the “third sex” and the rights of those who “love differently.” Following Ulrich, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he might live beyond existing power, gender and racial strictures invented by modernity. “My trans condition is a new form of uranism,” he writes. “I am not a man. I am not a woman. I am not heterosexual. I am not homosexual. I am not bisexual. I am a dissident of the gender-sex binary system. I am the multiplicity of the cosmos trapped in a binary political and epistemological system, shouting in front of you. I am a uranist confined inside the limits of technoscientific capitalism.” This book recounts Preciado's transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., but it is not only an account of gender transitioning. Preciado also considers political, cultural, and sexual transition, reflecting on issues that range from the rise of neo-fascism in Europe to the technological appropriation of the uterus, from the harassment of trans children to the role museums might play in the cultural revolution to come. An Apartment on Uranus is a bold, transgressive, and necessary book.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250296552
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uranus written by Ben Bova and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus, the first of his Outer Planets trilogy. On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet Uranus, political idealism conflicts with pragmatic, and illegal, methods of financing. Add a scientist who has funding to launch a probe deep into Uranus‘s ocean depths to search for signs of life, and you have a three-way struggle for control. Humans can’t live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a sanctuary above the distant planet Uranus. He invites ”the tired, the sick, the poor“ of Earth to his orbital retreat where men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from the world. The billionaire who financed Haven, however, has his own designs: beyond the reach of the laws of the inner planets Haven could become the center for an interplanetary web of narcotics, prostitution, even hunting human prey. Meanwhile a scientist has gotten funding from the Inner Planets to drop remote probes into the “oceans” of Uranus, in search of life. He brings money and prestige, but he also brings journalists and government oversight to Haven. And they can’t have that. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Seymour Simon
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 162334333X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uranus written by Seymour Simon and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly updated (2012) photo essay examines the planet that "lies on its side" in space, from its watery atmosphere to its strange magnetic "tail." "Photographs show amazing detail." —The Horn Book.

Author : Chaya Glaser
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781627245678
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uranus written by Chaya Glaser and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, readers are introduced to the planet Uranus"--

Author : Salvatore Tocci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780531122501
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Look at Uranus written by Salvatore Tocci and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history and discovery of the planet Uranus.

Author : Garry E. Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521343237
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Uranus written by Garry E. Hunt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-03-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first atlas of Uranus and its satellites; based largely on NASA images obtained by the Voyager 2 mission in 1986.

Author : Colleen Sexton
Publisher : Bellwether Media
ISBN 13 : 1612112129
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uranus written by Colleen Sexton and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planet Uranus has a bright blue-green color because of methane gas in its atmosphere. Young children will learn about the discovery of Uranus, how it has been explored, and why it is tilted on its side!

Author : Andy Griffiths
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338163388
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zombie Butts from Uranus! written by Andy Griffiths and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting sequel to The Day My Butt Went Psycho, a boy and his butt must protect the planet from ruthless rumps from outer space. Zack Freeman is on his way to becoming a first-rate butt-fighter. He has gone butt-to-butt with all kinds of stinky scoundrels and butts-gone-bad. But even our doody-full hero is a-gassed by these latest stench invaders. Their odor is unstoppable. Their mission is downright foul. And they won’t rest until Earth is wiped away by their nasty fumes! They’re Zombie Butts from Uranus! And the galaxy is but one boy (and his butt) away from total reek-dom . . . Praise for Zombie Butts from Uranus “Delivers innumerable gag-worthy gags.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : J.P. Bloom
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1629708232
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uranus written by J.P. Bloom and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the seventh planet from the sun with simple, easy-to-read text alongside striking images and diagrams that will assist young readers in learning. Complete with a table of contents, glossary, index, and More Facts section. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.