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Solaris
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Solaris is a 1961 Polish science fiction novel by Stanisaw Lem. It is about the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species. In probing and examining the oceanic surface of the planet Solaris from a hovering research station the human scientists are, in turn, being st...
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Moby-Dick
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published on the 18th October 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded b...
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Mars (poem)
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Title: Mars (poem) Authors: Coblentz, C. C. Source
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A Kepler's Dozen
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This anthology is co-edited by David Lee Summers and Dr. Steve Howell (Kepler Project Scientist). Each individual story in this book is prefaced by actual scientific data for a particular planet and its host star, based on Kepler discoveries and follow-up. This gives the reader a feel for the typ...
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Species Plantarum
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Species Plantarum ("The Species of Plants") was first published in 1753, as a two-volume work by Carl Linnaeus. Its prime importance is perhaps that it is the primary starting point of plant nomenclature as it exists today. This means that the first names to be considered validly publis...
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The Shahnameh
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The Shahnameh or Shah-nama ("The Book of Kings") is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 AD and is the national epic of the Iranian cultural continent. Ferdowsi started writing the Shahnameh in 977 A.D and completed it on 8 March 1010. [url=http://...
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AFGL Catalogue
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AFGL (Air Force Geophysics Laboratory) The catalogue (RAFGL) contains the results of extensive verification and photometric studies of AFGL sources performed since the publication of "The AFGL Four Colour Infrared Sky Survey: Catalogue of Observations at 4.2, 11.0, 19.8, and 27.4 micro...
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The Cambridge Star Atlas
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The Cambridge Star Atlas, by Wil Tirion, is ideal for both beginners and more experienced observers. The atlas covers both northern and southern latitudes. The clear, full-colour maps show all naked eye stars, and 900 clusters and galaxies visible with binoculars or a small telescope. The at...
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation resulting from supernatural visits from Jacob Marley and the Gho...
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De motu corporum in gyrum
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De motu corporum in gyrum (Latin)(translated as "On the motion of bodies in an orbit") is the (presumed) title of a manuscript by Isaac Newton sent to Edmond Halley in November 1684. Halley reported the communication from Newton to the Royal Society on 10 December 1684 (Julian cale...
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Samuel Johnson Prize
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Wade Davis' Everest book wins Samuel Johnson Prize A book about explorer George Mallory's attempt to conquer Everest has been named winner of this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Wade Davis' book Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest will receive the £20...
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The Hobbit
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune f...
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New Space
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the launch of New Space, the only international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to space innovation. This groundbreaking publication facilitates the emerging multidisciplinary opportunities for space-based collaborations of industry, ac...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (published on the 12th October 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet-building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway. Throug...
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The Jewel on the Mountaintop
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ESO Releases The Jewel on the Mountaintop ESO's brand-new history book, The Jewel on the Mountaintop - The European Southern Observatory through Fifty Years, is a comprehensive account of the observatory, as well as a truly remarkable success story for European research. [url=http://www.eso....
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