Uranus

Uranus
Author: Jay T. Bergstralh
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 1104
Release: 1991-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780816512089

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.

Planet Uranus

Planet Uranus
Author: Christine Taylor-Butler
Publisher: Children's Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Uranus (Planet)
ISBN: 9780531253649

Introduces the planet Uranus, discusses its history, its composition, and its role in the solar system.

An Apartment on Uranus

An Apartment on Uranus
Author: Paul B. Preciado
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1635901138

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.

Uranus

Uranus
Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250296552

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.

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
Author: Robin Kerrod
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822539087

Describes the characteristics of the three most distant planets in the solar system--Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

Uranus

Uranus
Author: Steve Foxe
Publisher: Pebble
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2020-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 197712397X

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and has a special feature, it tilts! Discover the mysteries of this ice giant that sits half in darkness for more than 40 years at a time!

The Sideways Planet

The Sideways Planet
Author: Nancy Loewen
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1543595839

Which pole is north? Which pole is south? It's hard to tell on the sideways planet of Uranus. Explore the gas giant's strange position, its rings, moons, and more in this book about Uranus.

The Secrets of Uranus

The Secrets of Uranus
Author: Thomas K. Adamson
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2015-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1491458690

"Discusses the planet Uranus, including observations by ancient cultures, current knowledge of Uranus, and plans for future scientific research and space exploration"--

Uranus

Uranus
Author: Colleen Sexton
Publisher: Bellwether Media
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1612112129

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!

Uranus : The Blue-Green Planet | Solar System Book for Kids Grade 4 | Children's Astronomy & Space Books

Uranus : The Blue-Green Planet | Solar System Book for Kids Grade 4 | Children's Astronomy & Space Books
Author: Baby Professor
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2019-11-22
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541956362

Why is Uranus the “Blue-Green Planet”? Well, this book provides an explanation. It is littered with information that pertains to the composition, size and characteristics of Uranus as a planet. Fill your bookshelves with wonderful reading materials that expertly combine text and visual designs. Grab a copy today.