The Birth Of Time
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Author | : John Gribbin |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780300089141 |
Recent breakthroughs in measuring the age of the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope are the subject of this book, written by a science writer who was a research astronomer involved in the discoveries. Illustrations.
Author | : John Gribbin |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780300083460 |
"Gribbin takes us through the history of cosmological discoveries, focusing in particular on the seventy years since the Big Bang model of the origin of the universe. He explains how conflicting views of the age of the universe and stars converged in the 1990s because scientists (including Gribbin) were able to use data from the Hubble Space Telescope that measured distances across the universe."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : John R. Gribbin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Cosmochronology |
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Author | : George Smoot |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2007-09-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0061344443 |
Astrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, "the holy grail of science," a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. In his search he struggled against time, the elements, and the forces of ignorance and bureaucratic insanity. Finally, after years of research, Smoot and his dedicated team of Berkeley researchers succeeded in proving the unprovable—uncovering, inarguably and for all time, the secrets of the creation of the universe. Wrinkles in Time describes this startling discovery that would usher in a new scientific age—and win Smoot the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Publisher | : Jewish Publication Society |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Childbirth |
ISBN | : 9780827610644 |
Author | : Robert Claiborne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780809412822 |
Author | : Melvyn Stokes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 741 |
Release | : 2008-01-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0199887519 |
In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith's film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in "live" theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith's own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith's film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film's racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema.
Author | : Zachary S. Schiffman |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2011-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421402785 |
Today we automatically distinguish between past and present, labelling things taken out of context as "anachronisms." The author shows how this tendency did not always exist, and how the past as such was born of the perceived difference between past and present. He takes readers on a grand tour of historical thinking from antiquity to modernity.
Author | : John Bally |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2006-08-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521801058 |
Author | : Brenda Nixon |
Publisher | : Revell |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
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Whether raising an infant, toddler, or preschooler, young parents will love this collection of commonsense advice.