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Sir Patrick Moore

Throughout his distinguised career, Patrick Moore has, without a doubt, done more to raise the profile of astronomy amoung the British public than any other figure in the scientific world. As the presenter of The Sky at Night on BBC television for nearly 50 years he was honoured with an OBE in 1968 and a CBE in 1988. In 2001 he was knighted 'for services to the popularisation of science and to broadcasting'.The BBC first aired The Sky at Night in ...

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Patrick Moore

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Cold Iron

The dead don't stay down in New Amsterdam. Somebody's making sure of it.August 1947. A heat wave has the city by the throat. At ten past midnight, Jake Morrison gets the call: industrialist Thomas Kellerman is dead in his locked penthouse, sixty floors above Wall Street, drained white without a drop of blood spilled. An hour later, the corpse gets out of its chair and goes for the detective who called Jake in.Jake came home from Omaha Beach with shrapnel ne...

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Patrick Moore

Some patterns are meant to stay hidden.For three years, Border Patrol Agent Ray Mendez has been obsessively tracking the strange geometric patterns that appear in the desert—the same mysterious anomalies his wife Maria was researching before she vanished without a trace. Everyone thinks he's chasing ghosts, but Ray knows these patterns hold the key to finding her.When a mysterious woman named Cass emerges from the desert with circuitry glowing bene...

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Lulu Moore

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Mia Madison, Patrick Zeller

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The New York Lions

My name is Jupiter Reeves, and I am a fraud.It's not that what's written about me isn't true. I am the greatest third baseman of my generation, possibly ever. I am surly and unapproachable. I do have a constant scowl with an armor of tattoos.To the outside world, I play my role as the bad boy of baseball like I was born to do it. But when the doors are closed, and you boil it down, I'm nothing more than a man who lost his heart to...

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Patrick Moore

This candid memoir of addiction and recovery shares an intimate chronicle of life from Midwestern childhood to NYC's drug-fueled underground.Patrick Moore's account of life as a crystal meth addict combines heartbreaking honesty with rare insight and surprising humor. It chronicles a twenty-year trip stretching from Moore's lonely childhood in Iowa to the day he sits, naked, in a Los Angeles rental, hallucinating about psycho-robbers while talking to a possum he's ...

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Patrick Moore

Drawing on his vast knowledge and direct experience of most of the key events in astronomy and space exploration during this century, Patrick Moore takes a sideways look at the historical reports and contemporary thought behind a wide range of astronomical topics. The Wandering Astronomer presents his personal accounts of the towering characters of 20th-century astronomy, intriguing facts about puzzling astronomical phenomena, and amusing stories about the quirkier side of astronomy and sp...

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Patrick Moore

Filled with data about the Earth, Moon, the planets, the stars, our Galaxy, and the myriad galaxies in deep space, this invaluable resource reveals the latest scientific discoveries about black holes, quasars, and the origins of the Universe. It includes maps supported by detailed tables of the names, positions, magnitudes, and spectra of the main stars in each constellation along with key data on galaxies, nebulae, and clusters. MNASSA wrote, "This book fills a niche � with detailed astro...

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Patrick Moore

He is naked in his bathroom. Fresh vomit stains his beard, hands, feet and legs. He cries uncontrollably - screaming, drunk as hell, with a good amount of Xanax, vodka, Soma and beer in his system, desperately wishing the pain would subside. He cant move. Its as if he is paralyzed. Perhaps he just wants to be gone? Not deadjust not living right now.Its no secret that pain from a divorce can create intense feelings of shame and confusion. It can feel as though youre trapped, scared ...

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Patrick Moore

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Physics and Astronomy (R0)

When I became the producer of the Sky at Night in 2002, I was given some friendly advice: “It’s a quiet little programme, not much happens in astronomy.” How wrong they were! It’s been a hectic and enthralling time ever since:, with missions arriving at distant planets; new discoveries in our Universe; and leaps in technology, which mean amateurs can take pictures as good as the Hubble Space Telescope. What a privilege it is to work on a programme with such a huge heritage! I am constantly...

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Patrick Moore

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Physics and Astronomy (R0)

Eyes on the Universe is an illustrated history of the telescope, beginning with pre-telescopic observatories and the refractors of Galileo, Lippershey and Digges, and ending with the most modern instruments including - of course - the Hubble Space Telescope. Written by Dr Patrick Moore CBE, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the world's longest-running television programme, the BBC's The Sky at Night, the book takes an enthusiastic look at the development of astronomical...

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Patrick Moore, John Watson

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Physics and Astronomy (R0)

Sir Patrick Moore, CBE, FRS has long been the scourge of those people selling low-cost astronomical telescopes via mail-order catalogues and non-specialist stores. Ten years ago the quality was appalling and disappointment would have been almost guaranteed - but times have changed, and having surveyed some the best and worst of today's inexpensive mail-order catalogue and main-street astronomical telescopes Patrick has admitted to being astonished by how good some of them are. Today, the b...

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Lulu Moore

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Monica King, Patrick Zeller

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New York Players

I have a secret.Twelve years ago I crushed on my teammate's little sister, before firmly putting her in the friend zone. Which then became the best friend zone. And my teammate became more of a brother.But now we have two problems.One. I just found out she's been crushing on me too, and my feelings have come hurtling back like a puck heading for the net.Two. She's my doctor and I'm her patient.So we have some hurdles to get through. And I need to con...