Uranus

1991-09 Science

Author : Jay T. Bergstralh
Release : 1991-09
Genre : Science
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Download or read book Uranus written by Jay T. Bergstralh. This book was released on 1991-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uranus occupies a unique niche in the history of western thought; for while the planets from Mercury to Saturn had been known since pre-antiquity, Uranus was the first to be discovered, in 1781, through scientific investigation. Contemporary investigation of Uranus culminated in the Voyager 2 encounter in 1986. The results of that achievement, as well of concurrent research on the planet, are reviewed by 84 international authorities in this massive volume. Because Uranus' remoteness has prevented its being studied as intensively by earth-based observation as have other members of the solar system, most of what is known about the planet—its magnetic field and magnetosphere and satellites—were learned from the Voyager data, which is viewed here from a variety of perspectives. While the book is intended to serve as a comprehensive review, it also reports a substantial amount of original research results not previously published.

An Apartment on Uranus

2020-01-28 Social Science

Author : Paul B. Preciado
Release : 2020-01-28
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 138/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book An Apartment on Uranus written by Paul B. Preciado. This book was released on 2020-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism. Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the “third sex” and the rights of those who “love differently.” Following Ulrich, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he might live beyond existing power, gender and racial strictures invented by modernity. “My trans condition is a new form of uranism,” he writes. “I am not a man. I am not a woman. I am not heterosexual. I am not homosexual. I am not bisexual. I am a dissident of the gender-sex binary system. I am the multiplicity of the cosmos trapped in a binary political and epistemological system, shouting in front of you. I am a uranist confined inside the limits of technoscientific capitalism.” This book recounts Preciado's transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., but it is not only an account of gender transitioning. Preciado also considers political, cultural, and sexual transition, reflecting on issues that range from the rise of neo-fascism in Europe to the technological appropriation of the uterus, from the harassment of trans children to the role museums might play in the cultural revolution to come. An Apartment on Uranus is a bold, transgressive, and necessary book.

Uranus

2020-07-21 Fiction

Author : Ben Bova
Release : 2020-07-21
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Uranus written by Ben Bova. This book was released on 2020-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus, the first of his Outer Planets trilogy. On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet Uranus, political idealism conflicts with pragmatic, and illegal, methods of financing. Add a scientist who has funding to launch a probe deep into Uranus‘s ocean depths to search for signs of life, and you have a three-way struggle for control. Humans can’t live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a sanctuary above the distant planet Uranus. He invites ”the tired, the sick, the poor“ of Earth to his orbital retreat where men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from the world. The billionaire who financed Haven, however, has his own designs: beyond the reach of the laws of the inner planets Haven could become the center for an interplanetary web of narcotics, prostitution, even hunting human prey. Meanwhile a scientist has gotten funding from the Inner Planets to drop remote probes into the “oceans” of Uranus, in search of life. He brings money and prestige, but he also brings journalists and government oversight to Haven. And they can’t have that. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Uranus

2003 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Dana Meachen Rau
Release : 2003
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 997/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Uranus written by Dana Meachen Rau. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly describes the discovery, composition, planetary motion, moons, and efforts to study the planet Uranus.

A Look at Uranus

2003 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Salvatore Tocci
Release : 2003
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Download or read book A Look at Uranus written by Salvatore Tocci. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history and discovery of the planet Uranus.

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