Exploring the Frontier

Exploring the Frontier
Author: Carter Smith
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780761301523

Describes and illustrates the exploration of the American frontier from 1776 to the late nineteenth century, through a variety of images created during that period.

Exploring Space

Exploring Space
Author:
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2010
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0763789615

On the Frontier of Science

On the Frontier of Science
Author: Leah Ceccarelli
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 087013034X

“The frontier of science” is a metaphor that has become ubiquitous in American rhetoric, from its first appearance in the public address of early twentieth-century American intellectuals and politicians who aligned a mythic national identity with scientific research, to its more recent use in scientists’ arguments in favor of increased research funding. Here, Leah Ceccarelli explores what is selected and what is deflected when this metaphor is deployed, its effects on those who use it, and what rhetorical moves are made by those who try to counter its appeal. In her research, Ceccarelli discovers that “the frontier of science” evokes a scientist who is typically male, a risk taker, an adventurous loner—someone separated from a public that both envies and distrusts him, with a manifest destiny to penetrate the unknown. It conjures a competitive desire to claim the riches of a new territory before others can do the same. Closely reading the public address of scientists and politicians and the reception of their audiences, this book shows how the frontier of science metaphor constrains American speakers, helping to guide the ends of scientific research in particular ways and sometimes blocking scientists from attaining the very goals they set out to achieve.

Exploring the Next Frontier

Exploring the Next Frontier
Author: Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2016-02-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317281446

The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War exemplified that rejection using his experiences during the Vietnam War to illustrate the problematic consequences of simple mythic idealism. Simultaneously, Americans were playing with expanded and revised versions of familiar Frontier Myths, though in a contemporary context, through NASA’s lunar missions, Star Trek, and Gerard K. O’Neill’s High Frontier. This book examines the reasons behind the exclusion of Frontier Myths to the periphery of scholarly discourse, and endeavors to build a new model for understanding their enduring significance. This model connects NASA’s failed attempts to recycle earlier myths, wholesale, to Star Trek’s revision of those myths and rejection of the idea of a frontier paradise, to O’Neill’s desire to realize such a paradise in Earth’s orbit. This new synthesis defies the negative connotations of Frontier Myths during the 1960s and 70s and attempts to resuscitate them for relevance in the modern academic context.

The Fourth Frontier

The Fourth Frontier
Author: Stephen R. Graves
Publisher: W Publishing Group
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780849916687

Encouraging readers to consider the economy as the "fourth frontier," the author focuses on the role of Christian teachings in the workplace.

The Deep Range

The Deep Range
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2012-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0795325096

A man discovers the planet’s destiny in the ocean’s depths in this near-future novel by one of the twentieth century’s greatest science fiction authors. In the very near future, humanity has fully harnessed the sea’s immense potential, employing advanced sonar technology to control and harvest untold resources for human consumption. It is a world where gigantic whale herds are tended by submariners and vast plankton farms stave off the threat of hunger. Former space engineer Walter Franklin has been assigned to a submarine patrol. Initially indifferent to his new station, if not bored by his daily routines, Walter soon becomes fascinated by the sea’s mysteries. The more his explorations deepen, the more he comes to understand man’s true place in nature—and the unique role he will soon play in humanity’s future. A lasting testament to Arthur C. Clarke’s prescient and powerful imagination, The Deep Range is a classic work of science fiction that remains deeply relevant to our times.

Invisible Frontier

Invisible Frontier
Author: L.B. Deyo
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0307421104

In the shadows of the city waits an invisible frontier—a wilderness thriving in the deep places, woven through dead storm drains and live subway tunnels, coursing over third rails. This frontier waits in the walls of abandoned tenements, hides on the rooftops, infiltrates the bridges’ steel. It’s a no-man’s-land, fenced off with razor wire, marked by warning signs, persisting in shadow, hidden everywhere as a parallel dimension. Crowds hurry through the bright streets, insulated by pavement, never reflecting that beneath their feet or above their heads lurks a universe. Led by its two founding agents, L. B. Deyo and David “Lefty” Leibowitz, Jinx is a stylish urban adventure out?t known for its daring—if sometimes ridiculous—forays into the hidden wonders that lurk above and beneath America’s greatest city, New York. In Invisible Frontier L. B. and Lefty chronicle Jinx’s dramatic—if sometimes absurd—exploration of a Dante-esque New York, from the depths of the city’s underground Hell (abandoned aqueducts and subway tunnels) to the pinnacles of its Paradise (rooftops and bridges) and everything in between, capturing the genius of the city’s engineering, the vibrancy of its found art, and the elegiac beauty of its ruins. Here is a true series of wittily narrated adventures into the hidden world beneath a great civilization.

Exploring the Final Frontier

Exploring the Final Frontier
Author: Dillon S. Maguire
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Astronautics
ISBN: 9781608760800

An analysis of NASA's plans for continuing human spaceflight after retiring the space shuttle / Congressional Budget Office -- The budgetary implications of NASA's current plans for space exploration / Congressional Budget Office -- NASA : assessments of selected large-scale projects / U.S. Government Accountability Office -- NASA cost management hearing : Scolese testimony / Christopher Scolese -- National Aeronautics and Space Administrations : overview, FY2009 budget, and issues for Congress / Daniel Morgan and Carl E. Behrens -- U.S. civilian space policy priorities : reflections 50 years after Sputnik / Deborah D. Stine.

The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier
Author: Julia Assante
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2012
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1608681602

"An exploration of the afterlife and communication with the dead. Author's career has included being both a professional psychic and a professional scholar. Addresses questions about God, heaven, and hell and gives evidence for existence beyond death. Explores historical accounts, religious scholarship, near-death experiences, and after-death communication"--Provided by publisher.

Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier

Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier
Author: James N. Rosenau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1997-06-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521587648

James Rosenau explores the enormous changes in both national and international political systems which are currently transforming world affairs.