彗星》一书讲述罗塞塔太空探测器的精彩故事以及以Tchoury彗星为目的地的星际穿越之旅。它的任务 是找到地球所在太阳系的起源和地球生命初现的线索。本书追随一段时长十年、穿越太阳系横跨数百万公里的航程，罗塞塔进入了彗星运行轨道。它的着陆器，菲莱，一所微型科学实验室 直接降落至彗星Tchoury的表面并拍摄现场照片。 本书呈现了此次科学探索的重大胜利，本书从航行带回来的大量照片中挑选*好的部分。本书结构围绕罗塞塔之旅的多个阶段构建：离开地球，冲破大气层，眺望家园之光逐渐远去；掠过月球，接近火星；投入宇宙璀璨繁星，靠近彗星；*终，降落在Tchoury彗星上。这些照片都配备一段说明文字，反映任务目标和人类从这一项科技壮举中取得的成就。本书详细的图片说明为读者提供通俗易懂的科学信息，让读者能够进入主题核心。

This book examines the theology and ethics of land use,especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, inlight of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essaysexplore the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the care ofarable land against the background of the geography, socialstructures, and religious thought of ancient Israel. This approachconsistently brings out neglected aspects of texts, both poetry andprose, that are central to Jewish and Christian traditions. Ratherthan seeking solutions from the past, Davis creates a conversationbetween ancient texts and contemporary agrarian writers; thus sheprovides a fresh perspective from which to view the destructivepractices and assumptions that now dominate the global foodeconomy. The biblical exegesis is wide-ranging and sophisticated;the language is literate and accessible to a broad audience.

They didn't start out as environmental warriors. ClairPatterson was a geochemist focused on determining the age of theEarth. Herbert Needleman was a pediatrician treating inner-citychildren. But in the chemistry lab and the hospital ward, they meta common enemy: lead. It was literally everywhere-in gasoline andpaint, of course, but also in water pipes and food cans, toothpastetubes and toys, ceramics and cosmetics, jewelry and batteries.Though few people worried about it at the time, lead was alsotoxic. In Toxic Truth, journalist Lydia Denworth tells the little-knownstories of these two men who were among the first to question thewisdom of filling the world with such a harmful metal. Denworthfollows them from the ice and snow of Antarctica to the schoolyardsof Philadelphia and Boston as they uncovered the enormity of theproblem and demonstrated the irreparable harm lead was doing tochildren. In heated conferences and courtrooms, the halls ofCongress and at the Environmental Protection Agency, the

A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpointof a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early1970s as challenges to the american form of government. Index.

A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in "So Help MeGod." Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end ofthe line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knowsentirely too much about her? In "Madison at Guignol" an unhappyfashionista discovers a secret door inside her favorite clothingstore and insists the staff let her enter. But even her feveredimagination cannot anticipate the horror they have been hiding fromher. In these and other gripping and disturbing tales, women areconfronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil theyfind within themselves. With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oatesdemonstrates why the females of the species--be they six-year-oldgirls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers--are by naturemore deadly than the males.

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the BrazosRiver in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meantthat if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful andsometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, aswould the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked outan existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretchof the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoevoyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumnweather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violentskirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courageand cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people andthe land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a centuryafter its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a trueAmerican classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and apowerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changingnatural env

几个世纪以来，人类在令人惊叹的科学和技术进步的协助下，通过天文观测对天空进行了虚拟探索。在自1957年发射Sputnik1号以来的60多年中，已有超过6000颗正在运行的卫星被发射到了地球轨道和更远的地方 有的到了太阳系*远的地方 超过540人进入过太空。 本书在时间和地理范围上史无前亻列，详细记录了太空探索的历史 从刚开始的火耀 火箭到登月，再到太空旅游的未来。大量的侧边栏聚焦于那些让我们更接近宇宙*远处的重要人物和发明。本书是概述这场全人类旅程的第1本深入的、经过充分说明的专著，里面充满了来自史密森学会、NASA档案馆和其它国际收藏品的惊人图像。 For centuries humanity has engaged in a virtual exploration of space through astronomical observation, aided by astounding scientific and technological advances. In more than sixty years since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, more than 6,000 f