Explore the "science" behind monsters! Showcasing creatures that continue to frighten and fascinate us, this fascinating book examines imaginary monsters from mythology, movies, comics, and literature. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and Lori Oczkus, and featuring TIME content, this book includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table of contents. The detailed sidebars, fascinating images, and Dig Deeper section prompt students to connect back to the text and encourage multiple readings. Check It Out! includes suggested resources for further reading. Aligned with state standards, this title features complex content appropriate for students preparing for college and career readiness.
This book details the history of special effects and CGI in films, and examines the innovative special effects used in movies like King Kong, The Iron Giant, Westworld, Alien, Tron, The Abyss, Toy Story, Jurassic Park, and Inception. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this high-interest nonfiction book includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table of contents. The intriguing sidebars, fascinating images, and detailed Reader's Guide prompt students to connect back to the text. The Think Link and Dig Deeper sections develop students' higher-order thinking skills. The Check It Out! section includes suggested books, videos, and websites for further reading. Aligned with state standards, this title features complex and rigorous content appropriate for students preparing for college and career readiness.
Here are clear explanations of how to make superb astronomical deep-sky images using only a DSLR or webcam and an astronomical telescope – no expensive dedicated CCD cameras needed!The book is written for amateur astronomers interested in budget astrophotography – the deep sky, not just the Moon and planets – and for those who want to improve their imaging skills using DSLR and webcams. It is even possible to use existing (non-specialist astronomical) equipment for scientific applications such as high resolution planetary and lunar photography, astrometry, photometry, and spectroscopy. The introduction of the CCD revolutionized astrophotography. The availability of this technology to the amateur astronomy community has allowed advanced science and imaging techniques to become available to almost anyone willing to take the time to learn a few, simple techniques. Specialized cooled-chip CCD imagers are capable of superb results in the right hands – but they are all very expensive. If budget is important, the reader is advised on using a standard camera instead. Jensen provides techniques useful in acquiring beautiful high-quality images and high level scientific data in one accessible and easy-to-read book. It introduces techniques that will allow the reader to use more economical DSLR cameras – that are of course also used for day-to-day photography – to produce images and data of high quality, without a large cash investment.
2020 Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards At eighteen years old, with no high school diploma, a growing rap sheet, and a failed relationship with his estranged father, Timothy J. Hillegonds took a one-way flight from Chicago to Colorado in hopes of leaving his mounting rage and frustration behind. His plan was simple: snowboard, hang out, live an uncomplicated life.The Distance Between chronicles how Hillegonds’s plan went awry after he immediately jumped head first into a turbulent relationship with April, a Denny’s coworker and single mother. At once passionate and volatile, their relationship was fueled by vodka, crystal methamphetamine, and poverty-and it sometimes became violent. Mere months after moving to the mountains, when the stakes felt like they couldn’t be higher, Hillegonds learned April was pregnant with his child. More than just a harrowing story of addiction and abuse or a simple mea culpa, The Distance Between is a finely wrought exploration of, and reckoning with, absent fathers, fatherhood, violence, adolescent rage, white male privilege, and Hillegonds’s own toxic masculinity. With nuance and urgency, The Distance Between takes readers through the grit of life on the margins while grappling with the problematic nature of one man’s existence.
This book covers the structural analysis and design of buried gravity flow conduits, including traditional pipes, arches, box conduits, and buried bridges with spans up to 80 ft (25 m) and greater. The text primarily covers concrete, corrugated metal, and plastic conduits but is generally applicable to other materials. Applications include culverts, storm drains, sewers, and pedestrian and vehicular crossings.The book is intended to introduce the subject to practitioners new to the field, as well as provide detailed information for those with prior experience. The opening chapter presents historical background and basic design models to introduce important concepts and then follows with chapters devoted to materials, soils, soil-conduit interaction, and guidance on the use of finite elements for analysis. Then design methods for evaluating soil-conduit systems are presented, along with guidance on important considerations during installation. The book concludes with field experiences of when things went wrong and why.Analysis and Design of Gravity Flow Conduits and Buried Bridges offers a unified and comprehensive guide for practicing engineers working on buried pipe design, private consultants, and product manufacturers, as well as researchers in the area.
A variety of air pollutants are emitted into the atmosphere from human-caused and natural emissions sources throughout the United States and elsewhere. These contaminants impact sensitive natural resources in wilderness, including the national parks. The system of national parks in the United States is among our greatest assets. This book provides a compilation and synthesis of current scientific understanding regarding the causes and effects of these pollutants within national park lands. It describes pollutant emissions, deposition, and exposures; it identifies the critical (tipping point) loads of pollutant deposition at which adverse impacts are manifested.
Term paper due tomorrow? Haven't got the time to look through hundreds of pages of a reference book in order to format your paper correctly? Are you a SLACKER? Then this is the guide for you Professor Floogle's Tips presents the rules of English usage in ranked order, with the most important rules listed first. In fact, all of the rules are important, but failure to follow the MOST important rules is more likely to attract the wrong kind of attention to your paper (i.e., red marks or corrections) and result in a lower grade. While no writing guide can absolutely guarantee you a better grade, as a broad generalization if you at least follow the first 25 tips the grade on your paper should be at least a "B". If you follow all 101 Tips, you are assured a better grade, at least for the grammar used in your paper. You would hope that the thoughts and ideas you express in your paper would influence the grade you receive. It may be unfair but is nevertheless true that people judge what you say (your ideas, concepts, and synthesis) by how you say it (your writing style, grammar, and presentation). This guide helps you get your paper looking good, allowing you to concentrate more on the content (or, be done quickly).
A city isolated at the centre of a great desert is an ideal place for a dictator to arise and control its unfortunate inhabitants. We join the story many years after this has happened and, since Mr Erepsin Ville's ascension to power, things have gone from bad to worse; his recent decline in mental health being the main cause of everyone's trouble. Believing that everyone and everything is against him, he's lately passed numerous laws to seek to control every movement and action of the citizens under his care. Now police balloons inhabit the skies and patrol groups roam the many streets and cobbled lanes of Clearwash City. More laws appear every day and their increasing demands are weighing heavy on the hearts of the people. On top of all this, however, there's been a recent ban on washing - brought about by a rumoured shortage from the state's official water reserve, controlled by Erepsin himself. Advanced ancient technology, now lost to the people, once ran a huge waterworks that fed the people with fresh, clean water. Its been closed for many years and the people are only kept alive by Erepsin's secret and personal supply. Through his many laws and his incredible contraption which he calls the "Free Flowing Foamy Flusher Machine" (with which he performs his public medieval styled executions) Mr Erepsin Ville holds the people in an iron grip; rewarding those who are loyal to him and hunting down any who would offer resistance. Life is a mess for anyone who wants to have a normal existence. The people of Clearwash City would do better if they created a single united front against their enemy, but with eighty two official and unofficial rebel committees and sub-committees, they hardly pose a unified threat. There is one rebel council however, which has recently emerged from amongst the crowd, and this group seems to now speak for the majority of the rebellion. Rising through the ranks of this council is a young lady from the nobility who has caught everyone's attention. Despite the risks to life and limb, we find that this plucky female leader and her small band of loyal followers are willing to face the perils necessary to free the city from its bonds. This story follows their covert operation as they enter the old waterworks in an attempt to get it working again, but with disastrous results for everyone. Everything is stacked against them, secret police, informers, electronic sniffer devices, execution flusher machines, ancient old buildings falling down around them and floods that can sweep them away. Above all of this, however, is the tyrannical rule of Mr E who would love nothing more than to catch them red handed in their soapsud rebellion and put them on public trial for his general amusement and entertainment. Our unlikely heroes find their friendship key to everything. They learn that salvation often lies in the most unexpected deed and that never giving up is always the route to freedom, even when staring failure in the face
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