Author: Jennifer M. Besel
Publisher: Capstone Press
Keywords: unusual, books, histories, comic, history, creative, captivating
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2010-08-01
List price: $30.65
ISBN-10: 1429647906
ISBN-13: 9781429647908
Colossal strength, mind-blowing powers, and twisted villains make for amazing block-buster movies. But comic books existed long before they exploded across the big screen. Trace the history of the ever-evolving world of comics, from its meager beginnings to its prized position in pop culture today.
Author: DIMACS WORKSHOP ON UNUSUAL APPLICATIONSMelvyn B.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society,
Keywords: dimacs, unusual, applications, theory, number, theoretical, computer, discrete, science, january, workshop, center, series
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2004-04
List price: $93.00
ISBN-10: 0821827030
ISBN-13: 9780821827031
This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop held at the DIMACS Center of Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ) on Unusual Applications of Number Theory. Standard applications of number theory are to computer science and cryptology. In this volume, well-known number theorist, Melvyn B. Nathanson, gathers articles from the workshop on other, less standard applications in number theory, as well as topics in number theory with potential applications in science and engineering. The material is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in number theory and i
Author: Peter L. Manly
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: telescopes, unusual
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1995-05-26
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 052148393X
ISBN-13: 9780521483933
In this book, Peter Manly surveys more than 150 unusual telescope designs. These are telescopes built by amateur and professional astronomers to suit some special need. There is, for instance, an inflatable telescope and one with a liquid mirror. Every so often a neglected design comes back into fashion: the largest telescopes now under construction use the alt-azimuth design that was ignored for over a century, and liquid mirror telescopes can be used for zenithal astronomy. The author shows why a particular engineering approach makes each telescope unique and explains the rationale behind th
Author: John W. Kingdon
Publisher: Worth Publishers. Inc (Bedford/St. Martins)
Keywords: unusual, america
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 1999
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0312189710
ISBN-13: 9780312189716
Kingdon explores how the American polity is different from that of other countries - particularly other Western democracies - examining just how this uniqueness came about. It invites both introductory and advanced students to appreciate the roots and limits of American exceptionalism, and to recognize the profound importance of current debates over the government’s role in our everyday lives.
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Charle’s Scribner’s Sons/Maxwell Macmillan
Keywords: unusual, cruel
Number of Pages: 605
Published: 1993-06-10
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0684195305
ISBN-13: 9780684195308
When the fingerprints of an executed killer are found at a new crime scene, Dr. Kay Scarpetta takes on her most terrifying case yet. By the author of All That Remains. 250,000 first printing. Lit Guild Main.
Author: Ian Balchin
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: affair, love, unusual
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-04-07
List price: $23.88
ISBN-10: 1411627202
ISBN-13: 9781411627208
Ian Balchin has faced many challenges in his life including having Multiple Sclerosis for fifteen years but to travel 600 kilometers through Thailand’s virgin jungle on the neck of an elephant was his most audacious so far. Ian Balchin is reunited with Maebunta; a she elephant, her name meant ‘Good eye’ to undertake this life changing pilgrimage. Many who knew of Ian Balchin’s planned adventure believed he had lost his mind but then they hadn’t reckoned on his resolve and determination. An Unusual Love Affair is the story of their epic journey across some of Thailand’s most inhosp
Author: Jeff Markell
Publisher: ProStar Publications, Inc.
Keywords: vessels, unusual
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2004-01-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1577852990
ISBN-13: 9781577852995
Unusual Vessels is perfect for anyone interested in the sea and the craft that sail on it. The strange vessels discussed here are just a few of the more curious craft that the author, Jeff Markell, has come across – some he has sailed on, some he has only seen, and some only learned about from others. Ranging in size, color, purpose, and historical significance, the ships described in this book will fascinate sailors and spectators like.
