Are you one of the many dentists that have become bored or burned out after a number of years doing the same thing? Or maybe you are a new dentist feeling overwhelmed with this new path. Dr. Alan Stern's mission is to help dentists keep the passion that drove them to pursue a career in this great and important profession alive. Enjoy The Ride is full of stories and practical advice for creating a successful practice and happy personal life based on Dr. Stern's life and four decade long car...

This insider account is "thoroughly captivating . . . Suffused with . . . scientific wonder. . . . a top-notch documentation of intrepid planetary exploration" ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review).On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than three billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long myster...

This audiobook is the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto...

◎20億人次關注的太空計畫◎曾登上七大洲報紙頭條◎2018年英國大學生推薦讀物◎出版人週刊最佳夏日讀物◎BBC精選十本五月必讀的書◎電影「十月的天空」作者強力好評◎隨書附最新版「探索冥王星系統的十大科學發現」人類登陸過月球、開發過火星，還探索過天王星、海王星……等等，那冥王星呢？二○一五年美國國慶日，航太總署（NASA）負責冥王星計畫的任務主持人艾倫・史登，手機響了起來：「我們跟太空船失聯了！」整整九年未曾斷過聯繫的太空船新視野號，卻在終於要飛掠冥王星的前十天與NASA失聯，這代表長達十四年的計畫可能付諸流水，而超過兩千五百位同仁的心血也將白費……熟悉太空天文計畫的人，可能對於火星探測車的進展最為了解；但冥王星任務卻是NASA有史以來最完美又最省錢的計畫，在預算僅四億元的要求下，數學家與物理學家突破瓶頸：在地球跟冥王星對齊的那一年，NASA先將飛行器拋向木星，再用木星把飛行器加速拋向冥王星，十年內就可抵達目的地。新...

Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. After Voyager accomplished its final planetary reconnaissance at Neptune in 1989, Pluto and its cohort in the Kuiper Belt beckoned as the missing puzzle piece for completing the first reconnaissance of our solar system. In the decades following Voyager, a mission to the Pluto system was not only imagined but also achieved, c...

Pluto looms large in Flagstaff, where residents and businesses alike take pride in their community's most enduring claim to fame: Clyde Tombaugh's 1930 discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory. Percival Lowell began searching for his theoretical "Planet X" in 1905, and Tombaugh's "eureka!" experience brought worldwide attention to the city and observatory. Ever since, area scientists have played leading roles in virtually every major Pluto-related discovery, from unknown moons to the exist...

Napoleon Bonaparte zählt zu den faszinierendsten und zugleich irritierendsten Gestalten der Weltgeschichte. Sein kometenhafter Aufstieg aus dem Nichts zum Herrscher Frankreichs und zum Herrn über Europa und sein ebenso jäher Absturz haben seit je die Phantasie gereizt und die Historiker zu immer neuer Auseinandersetzung herausgefordert.Otto von Bismarck war ein Staatsmann, dessen politische Bedeutung seit jeher höchst kontrovers beurteilt wird. Die Zeit scheint reif für eine unvorei...

The Michigan Model of World Production and Trade, developed in the 1970s by Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern, has become a valuable tool widely used in research on the economic effects of national and multilateral trade policies. Computational Analysis of Global Trading Arrangements presents the recent developments and enhancements of the Michigan Model together with the major results that it has provided in the last seven years. The book provides a detailed exposition of the model, a...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

"An excellent tool in Middle Eastern politics classes [and] an intellectual resource for experts who want to learn more about the complexities of Israel."— Reading ReligionAmericans debate constantly about Israel, its place in the Middle East, and its relations with the United States. Essential Israel examines a wide variety of complex issues and current concerns in historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with an intimate sense of t...

Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming; analyze specific programs and the impact of related social media interactions; and scrutinize the past fan culture to anticipate how social media programming will develop in the future. The con...

Das Raumschiff Dark Star ist seit zwanzig Jahren unterwegs und hat schon bessere Zeiten gesehen. Der Auftrag der ursprünglich fünfköpfigen Besatzung ist die Sprengung instabiler Planeten in nachfolgend zu kolonialisierenden Sonnensystemen. Die Schiffssysteme verfallen zusehends, ein Asteroidensturm zerstörte die Schlafkojen - und Lagerabteil 9 zerstörte sich selbst inklusive der gesamten Klopapiervorräte.Commander Powell wurde durch einen Kurzschluss getötet und befindet s...