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| Author | : James P. Hogan |
| Publisher | : Baen Books |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0743499026 |
The discovery of a space suit containing an ancient human skeleton prompts the discovery of the existence of the culture of Thuria, a giant race of humanoids, as well as other multiple universes.
| Author | : James P. Hogan |
| Publisher | : Baen Publishing Enterprises |
| Total Pages | : 562 |
| Release | : 2005-05-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1618244817 |
TRANSPORTED ACROSS THE MUILTIVERSE. Over light-years of space and 50,000 years back in time, to create a new history.... Only to find there was no way back. Earth is adapting to a future of amicable coexistence with the advanced aliens from Thurien, descended from ancestors who once inhabited Minerva, a vanished planet of the Solar System. The plans of the distantly related humans on the rogue world Jevlen to eliminate their ancient Terran rivals and take over the Thurien system of worlds have been thwarted, but the mystery remains of how it was possible for the fleeing Jevlenese leaders to have been flung back across space and time to reappear at Minerva before the time of its destruction. Victor Hunt and a group of his colleagues travel to Thurien to conduct a joint investigation with the alien scientists into the strange physics of interconnectedness between the countless alternate universes that constitute ultimate reality. When their discoveries lead first to bizarre communication with bewildered counterparts in other universes, and thence to the possibility of physical travel, the notion is conceived of sending a mission back to the former world of Minerva with the startling objective of creating a new family of realities in which its destruction is avoided. But Imares Broghuilio, the deposed Jevlenese leader, along with several thousand dedicated followers with five heavily armed starships, are already there. And they have a score to settle. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management)..
| Author | : National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2018-11-18 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781731394767 |
Project Minerva is a low-cost manned Mars mission designed to deliver a crew of four to the Martian surface using only two sets of two launches from the Kennedy Space Center. Key concepts which make this mission realizable are the use of near-term technologies and in-situ propellant production, following the scenario originally proposed by R. Zubrin. The first set of launches delivers two unmanned payloads into low Earth orbit (LEO): the first payload consists of an Earth Return Vehicle (ERV), a propellant production plant, and a set of robotic vehicles; the second payload consists of the trans-Mars injection (TMI) upper stage. In LEO, the two payloads are docked and the configuration is injected into a Mars transfer orbit. The landing on Mars is performed with the aid of multiple aerobraking maneuvers. On the Martian surface, the propellant production plant uses a Sabatier/electrolysis type process to combine nine tons of hydrogen with carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere to produce over a hundred tons of liquid oxygen and liquid methane, which are later used as the propellants for the rover expeditions and the manned return journey of the ERV. The systems necessary for the flights to and from Mars, as well as those needed for the stay on Mars, are discussed. These systems include the transfer vehicle design, life support, guidance and communications, rovers and telepresence, power generation, and propellant manufacturing. Also included are the orbital mechanics, the scientific goals, and the estimated mission costs. Beder, David and Bryan, Richard and Bui, Tuyen and Caviezel, Kelly and Cinnamon, Mark and Daggert, Todd and Folkers, Mike and Fornia, Mark and Hanks, Natasha and Hamilton, Steve LIQUID ROCKET PROPELLANTS; MANNED MARS MISSIONS; MARS LANDING; ORBITAL MECHANICS; RETURN TO EARTH SPACE FLIGHT; TRANSFER ORBITS; UNIVERSITY PROGRAM; AEROBRAKING; EARTH ORBITS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LOW EARTH ORBITS; MARS SURFACE...
| Author | : Stephen M. Kosslyn |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 2018-08-28 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0262536196 |
How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.
| Author | : Frances Boyd Calhoun |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 1913 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Miss Minerva and William Green Hill by Frances Calhoun Boyd, first published in 1909, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
| Author | : Mary Sharratt |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2006-01-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0547346883 |
A “memorable [and] entertaining” novel of three strong women in 1920s small-town Minnesota by the author of Revelations (The Washington Post Book World). Winner of the Willa Literary Award Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award In a Midwestern farming community in 1923, as book-loving Penny enters adolescence, her mother, Barbara, pulls her out of school to send her to work. Destined to become a cleaning woman like her mother, Penny sees no escape from her bleak existence—until a scandalous figure arrives in the town of Minerva, Minnesota: Cora, very pregnant, very headstrong, and very alone, has come to make a home on her grandfather’s farm. Intrigued by this curious new resident, Penny sets out to work for Cora, setting into motion events that will change multiple lives. Drawing on her mother’s and grandmother’s stories of Minnesota farm life in the early twentieth century, acclaimed author Mary Sharratt has created a suspenseful and moving novel about the strength of women and the unexpected friendships that form between them. “A paean to the bond between mothers and daughters . . . engrossing.” —Booklist “Wonderful.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times-bestselling author of With or Without You
| Author | : Kimberly Jensen |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Local author |
| ISBN | : 0252074963 |
American women did more than pursue roles as soldiers, doctors, and nurses during World War I. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War reveals women's motivations for fighting for full citizenship rights both on and off the battlefield. The war provided chances for women to participate in the military, but also in other male-dominated career paths. Intense discussions of rape, methods of protecting women, and proper gender roles abound as Kimberly Jensen draws from rich case studies to show how female thinkers and activists wove wartime choices into long-standing debates about woman suffrage and economic parity. The war created new urgency in these debates, and Jensen forcefully presents the case of women participants and activists: women's involvement in the obligation of citizens to defend the state validated their right of full female citizenship.
| Author | : A.N. Parasuram |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : African fiction (French) |
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| Total Pages | : 16 |
| Release | : 19?? |
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