Explorer Probe VI, a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1972, was designed to investigate the outer bodies of Neptune and the lesser dwarf Pluto. The probe was the flagship of the Explorer series. It was programmed with the latest artificial intelligence enabling it to survive on its voyage for many years in distant, cold interstellar space. This artificial intelligence was endowed with a capacity for being almost self-aware.After the completion of its assignment, it was programmed to ...

It's 1971, and 7-year-old Mishel Manoucherian's family has packed up their life in Tehran and moved to Los Angeles, launching him headfirst into a disorienting new world of social and schoolyard expectations. At once a witty and warm exploration of the immigrant journey and coming of age tale, American Playground illuminates the Iranian American experience through a child's unique perspective.Armed with a handful of English words, a fiery mother who uses h...

Atlanta PD's best, Detective Lieutenant Noah McGraw and his partner, Detective Sergeant Holly Roark, are on the hunt once again for a deranged killer. This time, they're up against a real-life Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a scientist of great talent—and great violence when things don't go his way.Dr. Michael Mordecai has spent his whole life searching for a cure to aging—and he's finally found it. There's just one thing standing in the way of him reaping his millions: his by-the-book r...

The Talmud, from the 1903 and 1918 editions of the translation by Michael Rodkinson, all 20 volumes. This edition is intended for modern readers. Rodkinson omitted sections where the debate becomes extremely obscure. He points out wherever he did so. The introduction, by Gustav Karpeles, is from the book "Jewish Literature and Other Essays".

In Paris, a secret meeting between the widowed Kerrie and a British investigative journalist turns into a larger reunion than planned - past lovers, spies and former Special Forces all present.But will this reunion uncover the mystery of her husband's death or bury it forever?"Intriguing", "action-filled" and "cleverly crafted", Reunion leads to the upcoming spy action-thrillerLove Is For Tomorrow.

"Dead End the Musical” is a powerful and entertaining adaptation of “Dead End,” Sidney Kingsley’s landmark 1935 stage production. Like Kingsley’s play, “Dead End the Musical" shines a light on the social ills of a time and place that still resonate today: poverty, crime, class struggle, and economic and social inequality. It is also a story about justice and redemption, love and desire, hopes and dreams.This concept album has a cast of 16 including the Dead End Kids, featuring twen...

The Essential Classical Guitar Scale Book can be used by all guitarists no matter where you are on your path to mastering the instrument. For the teacher and student, this book is essential because it is a complete and codified scale system that can be used to learn proper finger placement, coordination, music theory, practice techniques, and a general knowledge of the guitar fretboard. In addition to the traditional 2 and 3 octave scales, modes, whole tone, and diminished scales are cover...

New Techniques for Management of 'Inoperable' Gliomas radically challenges the assumption that certain gliomas cannot be removed with modern techniques, contesting stereotypical thinking and establishing new paradigms in the field. Gliomas are primary brain tumors which are often fatal. Recent data has demonstrated that despite the fact that surgery cannot cure gliomas, patient survival is substantially improved by removing as much of the tumor as possible. This fact has raised the imperat...

In Paris, a secret meeting between the widowed Kerrie and a British investigative journalist turns into a larger reunion than planned - past lovers, spies and former Special Forces all present.But will this reunion uncover the mystery of her husband's death or bury it forever?"Intriguing", "action-filled" and "cleverly crafted", Reunion leads to the upcoming spy action-thriller Love Is For Tomorrow.

Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from pancreatic cancer. Liz was a force of nature; she was also a nurturing force, as is evidenced by this collaborative collection of chapters written by many of her closest colleagues and former students. The book covers a brilliant ca...

This volume explores what evolutionary theory can contribute to our philosophical understanding of virtue and vice.The last twenty years have seen an uptick in philosophical discussions of the biological and cultural evolution of morality. Yet, there has been surprisingly little discussion of virtue ethics and the evolution of human character, even though human virtues are almost certainly one of the markers of our species’ distinctive sociality. This volume investigates the evolut...

For anyone who has ever looked up at the stars and wondered what it all means, Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space is indispensable. In this audio, Asimov's gift for popular and entertaining exposition has never been better deployed, with his succinct answers to the most intriguing questions about planets, stars, and galaxies. What are quasars? How was the Earth formed? Puzzled by pulsars? Perplexed by the Big Bang? Bewildered by black holes? Asimov has answers everyone can un...