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Language
English
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"Scientific methods, tools, and discoveries have shaped modern civilization and created the landscape we've built for ourselves on which to live, work, and play. Tyson shows how an infusion of science and rational thinking renders worldviews deeper and more informed than ever before-and exposes unfounded perspectives and unjustified emotions. With crystalline prose and an abundance of evidence, Starry Messenger walks us through the scientific palette...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Here's what it is about: For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. In the glow of today's artificial lighting, when even professional astronomers study the universe by staring at screens rather than through eyepieces, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos. Roberto Trotta is here to remind us: one of our species' most enduring and (literally) universal relationships has been with the night sky itself. In Starborn,...
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Language
English
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"At the core of Einstein's general theory of relativity are a set of equations that explain the relationship among gravity, space, and time--possibly the most perfect intellectual achievement of modern physics. For over a century, physicists have been exploring, debating, and at times neglecting Einstein's theory in their quest to uncover the history of the universe, the origin of time, and the evolution of solar systems, stars, and galaxies. In this...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
7 videodisc (19 hours, 41 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus features videodisc (17 min.)
Language
English
Description
Orbiting the liberated planet of Bajor, a Federation space station guards the opening of a stable wormhole to the far side of the Galaxy.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (1311 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The original adventure that started the enduring sci-fi pop culture phenomenon. Fan favorite episodes from season two include Spock and Kirk facing off in "Amok Time," "Mirror, Mirror," which introduces the evil "mirror universe," "Journey to Babel," featuring the introduction of Spock's parents Sarek and Amanda, and the unforgettable classic "The Trouble With Tribbles."
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (1461 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The spaceship U.S.S. Enterprise, with its 430 crew members captained by James T. Kirk, travels the universe "to boldly go where no man has gone before." Contains all 29 episodes from season one.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
6 videodisc (approximately 15 hours) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Orbiting the liberated planet of Bajor, a Federation space station guards the opening of a stable wormhole to the far side of the Galaxy.
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
7 videodisc (17 hours, 6 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is 2153. The crew of the starship Enterprise are engaging in the third year of their mission under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. An alien probe has attacked the Earth, killing over seven million people. The Enterprise is sent to track down and stop the aliens from attacking again.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (18 hours, 53 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew, as they try to get home after a space probe beams them 75 light years away from Federation space.
Series
Language
English
Description
After a lunar cataclysm brings the Klingon Empire to its knees, the foreign concept of peace with the Federation may be finally within reach. Ironically, it is Admiral James T. Kirk who is the first emissary to broker that peace. Yet all hope is virtually lost when the U.S.S. Enterprise and crew are implicated in the brutal assassination of a Klingon diplomat, bringing both worlds to the brink of full-scale war.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space, destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everthing in its path and Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Admiral Kirk's defeat of Khan and the creation of the Genesis planet are empty victories. Spock is dead and McCoy is unexplainably being driven insane. Then an unexpected visit from Sarek, Spock's father, provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence. With one friend alive and one not, but both in pain, Kirk attempts to help his friends by stealing the Enterprise and defying Starfleet's Genesis planet quarantine.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (18 hours, 31 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain Jonathan Archer leads the crew of the starship Enterprise NX-01 in humanity's first contact with a myriad of alien species.
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