The Cosmic Detective

Author : Mani Bhaumik,Mani
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 0143330691

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The Cosmic Detective by Mani Bhaumik,Mani Pdf

Are You Feeling A Little Lonely In This Vast Universe? Find Out Who Your Neighbours Are In This Spectacular And Thrilling Guide To The Deepest Mysteries Of The Cosmos. International Best-Selling Author And World-Renowned Scientist Dr Mani Bhaumik Takes Young Readers On A Whirlwind Tour Into Space With The Cosmic Detective. Addressing His Readers As Cosmic Detectives, The Author Actively Enlists His Young Sleuths In Finding Solutions To Questions That Have Puzzled Space Scientists For Ages. How And When Did The Universe Begin? What Are Stars Made Of? How Far Away Are The Most Distant Galaxies? What Is A Quasar? Explore These Fundamental Cosmic Riddles And More In This Fascinating Journey Of Discovery And Wonder. Find Out About Nebulae And Black Holes, Navigate The Galaxies And The Enormous Expanses Beyond, Dive Into The Heart Of Neutron Stars And Walk On Distant Planets As You Join The Author In Investigating The Most Bizarre Aspects Of The Cosmos. And In The Broader Context Of Our Own Existence In The Universe, Dr Bhaumik Reveals That When We Explore The Cosmos, We Also Explore Ourselves. Packed With Interesting Facts And Dazzling Colour Photographs, This Beautifully Written Primer Is Ideal For Students And Cosmic Detectives Of All Ages. Age Group Of Target Audience (Puffin): 11 + See The Wonders Of The Cosmos Here

Author : Francis Graham-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198734277

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Eyes on the Sky by Francis Graham-Smith Pdf

Four centuries ago, Galileo first turned a telescope to look up at the night sky. His discoveries opened the cosmos, revealing the geometry and dynamics of the solar system. Today's telescopic equipment, stretching over the whole spectrum from visible light to radio and millimetre astronomy, through infrared to ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays, has again transformed our understanding of the whole Universe. In this book Francis Graham-Smith explains how this technology can be engaged to give us a more in-depth picture of the nature of the universe. Looking at both ground-based telescopes and telescopes on spacecraft, he analyses their major discoveries, from planets and pulsars to cosmology. Large research teams and massive data handling are necessary, but the excitement of discovery is increasingly shared by a growing public, who can even join in some of the analysis by remote computer techniques. Observational astronomy has become international. All major projects are now partnerships; most notably the Square Kilometre Array, which will involve astronomers from over 100 countries and will physically exist in several of them. Covering the history and development of telescopes from Galileo to the present day, Eyes on the Sky traces what happens when humankind looks up.

Author : Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780330509329

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Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce Pdf

It's one giant leap for all boy-kind in Frank Cottrell Boyce's out-of-this-world story: Cosmic. Liam is too big for his boots. And his football strip. And his school blazer. But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he's the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force-defying Cosmic rollercoaster – or to be offered the chance to drive a Porsche. Long-legged Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space. Is Liam the best boy for the job? Sometimes being big isn't all about being a grown-up. This edition of Cosmic includes bonus material and discussion questions from Frank Cottrell Boyce and features fantastic cover artwork from Steven Lenton.

Author : Mani Bhaumik
Publisher : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 3527409653

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The Cosmic Detective by Mani Bhaumik Pdf

In 2009, the International Year of Astronomy, Observatories, museums, universities and other institutions open their doors for interested people and convey to them what they are doing. Wiley already publishes the flagship publication of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). This handy, accessible astronomy primer is the perfect complement to that.

Author : Douglas Adams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476782997

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams Pdf

"Now a BBC America TV series event"--Cover.

Author : Kathryn Walker
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778741486

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Mysteries of the Cosmic Joker by Kathryn Walker Pdf

Presents examples of unexplained events and strange coincidences and discusses possible explanations.

Author : Trina Robbins
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512456554

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The Bark in Space by Trina Robbins Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Chicagoland can't get much weirder than this: Raf, Megan, and Bradley have been abducted by aliens from the planet Fnarf III! And not just your ordinary, everyday aliens, either. These extraterrestrials are intelligent canines, as smart as Bradley, who come from a world where dogs rule and humans drool. And they have a case Bradley can really sink his teeth into: the Fnarfian princess has gone missing, and the space-dogs need help from planet Earth's home team—the Chicagoland Detective Agency—to track her down. After uncovering zombies, mummies, were-mutts, and ghosts, is the Chicagoland Detective Agency up to the job of investigating their first interstellar caper?

Author : C. M. Shelton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1941720250

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Cosmic Chaos by C. M. Shelton Pdf

Author : Jeff Lemire,Matt Kindt
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781534393448

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Cosmic Detective by Jeff Lemire,Matt Kindt Pdf

**New York Times**\-bestselling writers **JEFF LEMIRE** (**GIDEON FALLS, DESCENDER**) and **MATT KINDT** (**BANG!, MIND MGMT**) unite with internationally acclaimed artist **DAVID RUBÍN** (**BEOWULF**, **Ether**) for original graphic novel **COSMIC DETECTIVE,** an epic science fiction mystery that asks: When a God is murdered, who solves the crime? Enter our detective. The murder of a god threatens to tear apart the very fabric of our reality, and only he stands in the way of utter destruction. Will the mystery he uncovers be worse than the disaster he’s trying to avert? And will his mind crack under the revelations he’s about to uncover before he can do anything about it?

Author : Michael Logan
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683311737

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Hell's Detective by Michael Logan Pdf

Kat Murphy is a private detective tortured by demons. Real ones. She is serving a death sentence in Lost Angeles, the dark and depraved city in Hell where a beast known as a Torment forces her to relive, night after night, the moment she killed her lover and put a bullet in her own skull. Kat longs to make amends for her sins. So when the city's Chief Administrator hires her to retrieve a stolen box with a mysterious power, offering to call off her Torment in return, she gets the chance to do just that. But if Kat has learned one thing, it's that every case has a wrinkle. As she trawls drug dens, casinos, and fighting pits in search of the thief, she discovers that both box and city contain secrets darker than she could ever have imagined. And with time running out, Kat must choose between her own desire for peace and the fate of the world above in Hell's Detective, the electrifying new mystery from award-winning author Michael Logan.

Author : Mark Powers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781526636300

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Space Detectives by Mark Powers Pdf

'Immensely, cheerily silly' Guardian Dog lost in space? Grown an extra head and don't know why? Pocket money stolen by a green blob? You need the Space Detectives! Connor and Ethan are spending their summer holidays aboard the world's first orbiting city, Starville (basically Beverley Hills in space!). The amazing space station is bursting with celebrities and the mega-rich. But Connor and Ethan are too busy selling ice cream to see the sights. However, neither of our heroes can resist a mystery and when they discover the space station is hurtling on a collision course with the moon (eep!) they know they need to step in. This is a case for the SPACE DETECTIVES! Can Connor and Ethan find the culprit and save Starville from its impending doom? LOOK OUT FOR SPACE DETECTIVES: EXTRA WEIRD CREATURES

Author : Jim Holt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780871403278

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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt Pdf

The Washington Post Notable Non-Fiction of 2013 “I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book.”—Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page review Tackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway bestseller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the public alike, traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. Holt adopts the role of cosmological detective, traveling the globe to interview a host of celebrated scientists, philosophers, and writers, “testing the contentions of one against the theories of the other” (Jeremy Bernstein, Wall Street Journal). As he interrogates his list of ontological culprits, the brilliant yet slyly humorous Holt contends that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God versus the Big Bang. This “deft and consuming” (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) narrative humanizes the profound questions of meaning and existence it confronts.

Author : Thomas Levenson
Publisher : HMH
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547416618

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Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson Pdf

A “thoroughly surprising” chapter in the life of Isaac Newton, with a “vivid re-creation of 17th-century London and its fascinating criminal haunts” (Providence Journal). When renowned scientist Isaac Newton takes up the post of Warden of His Majesty’s Mint in London, another kind of genius—a preternaturally gifted counterfeiter named William Chaloner—has already taken up residence in the city, rising quickly in an unruly, competitive underworld. In the courts and streets of London, and amid the tremors of a world being transformed by ideas Newton himself set in motion, Chaloner crosses paths with the formidable new warden. An epic game of cat and mouse ensues in Newton and the Counterfeiter, revealing for the first time the “remarkable and true tale of the only criminal investigator who was far, far brainier than even Sherlock Holmes: Sir Isaac Newton during his tenure as Warden of the Royal Mint . . . A fascinating saga” (Walter Isaacson). “I absolutely loved Newton and the Counterfeiter. Deft, witty and exhaustively researched.” —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao “A delicious read, featuring brilliant detective work and a captivating story . . . A virtuoso performance.” —Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind “Through a page-turning narrative, we witness Isaac Newton’s genius grappling with the darker sides of human nature, an all too human journey reflecting his deepest beliefs about the cosmic order.” —Brian Greene, author of The Fabric of the Cosmos “Levenson transforms inflation and metallurgy into a suspenseful detective story bolstered by an eloquent summary of Newtonian physics and stomach-turning descriptions of prison life in the Tower of London. . . . [The book] humanizes a legend, transforming him into a Sherlock Holmes in pursuit of his own private Moriarty.” —The Washington Post

Author : Grant Morrison
Publisher : DC
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T0065300025001

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The Invisibles #2 by Grant Morrison Pdf

In part 1 of "Down and Out in Heaven and Hell," crazed beggar Tom O'Bedlam takes Dane far beneath the streets of London for the next phase of Dane's initiation into the Invisibles. But other members of the secret society are dogging their every step--with different agendas in mind.

Author : Mark Powers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781526652904

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Space Detectives: Cosmic Pet Puzzle by Mark Powers Pdf

'Immensely, cheerily silly' Guardian 'A thunderously good read, so funny and action packed. Children are going to love it!' Serena Patel, author of ANISHA, ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVE Grown an extra head and don't know why? Pocket money stolen by a green blob? Lost your peculiar pet? You need the Space Detectives! What seems like a simple case of a missing pet soon has the Space Detectives completely bamboozled! This is no ordinary pet – it's a synthpet, where owners mix in different animals to make a totally unique one-of-a-kind pet. The missing pet has the body and legs of a cat, a duck's bill, long rabbit-like ears and the scaly tail of a crocodile. A creature like that should be easy to spot, right? Not on Starville, the universe's biggest space station where every inhabitant looks different – it's like looking for a star in a galaxy. Where should our heroes Connor and Ethan even begin? Another out-of-this-world adventure awaits!