Direct Descent

Direct Descent
Author: Frank Herbert
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2011-06-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1614750041

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Dune, a sci-fi fantasy about government control of media and information. Earth has become a library planet for thousands of years, a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge—esoterica of all types, history, science, politics—gathered by teams of “pack rats” who scour the galaxy for any scrap of information. Knowledge is power, knowledge is wealth, and knowledge can be a weapon. As powerful dictators come and go over the course of history, the cadre of dedicated librarians is sworn to obey the lawful government . . . and use their wits to protect the treasure trove of knowledge they have collected over the millennia. Herbert, author of Dune.

Site Accessibility and Characteristic Velocity Requirements for Direct-descent Lunar Landings

Site Accessibility and Characteristic Velocity Requirements for Direct-descent Lunar Landings
Author: Vernon J. Weyers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1961
Genre: Low temperature engineering
ISBN:

A direct descent is one in which the main descent propulsion system burns continuously from lunar approach to touchdown. The characteristic velocity requirement for direct lunar descents is presented as a function of the landing site location relative to the normal impact point. Results are included for translunar trip times of 60, 75, and 90 hours, for specific impulses representative of both Earth storable and cryogenic propulsion systems, for landing sites located anywhere on the lunar surface, and for ignition thrust-to-Earth weight ratios between 0.12 and 10.0. The data presented are useful in determining approximate performance capability and in evaluating tradeoffs during preliminary mission planning studies.

Descent

Descent
Author: Raven Storm
Publisher: Raven Storm Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

I didn't want to move to this dumpy, cold rural town. Then again, I didn't want to lose my entire family either. We never get want we want. My aunt told me to stay away from those 'Academy Boys', that something was different about them; something wrong. I know she means well, but I'm not a baby. When Justin gets me accepted into that fancy school of his, I figured it could be a fresh start. I just have to ignore how everyone stares at me, almost as if they're waiting for something to happen. There's an order to things here; a hierarchy. I'm struggling to find where I fit in to all of this. And this old man keeps appearing in my dreams, calling out for help. He babbles about archangels and demons. None of that is real, though. It can't be. That would be utterly ridiculous. ***************** "So, I couldn't put it down. I finished it yesterday evening. I should've been painting yesterday but I blew that off. It was the perfect book, perfect genre to get lost in right now. Is the sequel in the works?" -Kelly L., Missouri I've just finished this book and absolutely loved it. I was engrossed in the story from start to finish. Would definitely recommend, even if you're not usually a fan of the genre like me. I'm looking forward to book 2! :) -Elizabeth H.

Descent

Descent
Author: Brad Matsen
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2006-06-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1400075017

In Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, Brad Matsen brings to vivid life the famous deep-sea expeditions of Otis Barton and William Beebe. Beebe was a very well-connected and internationally acclaimed naturalist, with the power to generate media attention. Barton was an engineer and heir to a considerable fortune, who had long dreamed of making his mark on the world as an adventurer. Together, Beebe and Barton would achieve what no one had done before--direct observation of life in the blackness of the abyss. Here, against the back drop of the depression, is their riveting tale.

Lineage of Loss

Lineage of Loss
Author: Max Katz
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 081957760X

In the middle of the nineteenth century a new family of hereditary musicians emerged in the royal court of Lucknow and subsequently rose to the heights of renown throughout North India. Today this musical lineage, or ghar n, lives on in the music and memories of only a small handful of descendants and players of the family instrument, the sarod. Drawing on six years of ethnographic and archival research, and fifteen years of musical apprenticeship, Max Katz explores the oral history and written record of the Lucknow ghar n ,tracing its displacement, loss of prestige, and erasure from the collective memory. In doing so he illuminates a hidden history of ideological and social struggle in North Indian music culture, intervenes in ongoing debates over the anti-Muslim agenda of Hindustani music's reform movement, and reanimates a lost vision in which Muslim scholar-artists defined the music of the nation. An interdisciplinary, postmodern counter-history, Lineage of Loss offers a new and unsettling narrative of Hindustani music's encounter with modernity.