Thomas F : 389 books

An artificial Jurassic world spins through space, kilometers long and made to order, build to endure for an eternity. An enticing mystery for the humans of the Heinlein exploratory mission, it holds deadly secrets from the universe’s savage past. INSIDE THE MILES-LONG SPACESHIP IT WAS 160...

A MILES-LONG SPACESHIP ON A JOURNEY BETWEEN THE STARS          After establishing communications with the sentient dinosaurs aboard the gigantic alien warship Dragonstar, the human exploration forces were ready to reveal their accomplishments to an eager...

The Stunning Conclusion to the Dragonstar Series! A STARSHIP OF DINOSAURS ... WITH A HUMAN CARGO The 160-million-year-old, world-sized starship with its crew of sentient dinosaurs mystified humankind when it entered our solar system. Careers and even governments rose and fell in the...

Explores the places you will find insects and what types of insects live in a city environment.

Jack Starling, a young American, has been in Copenhagen for four months and washes dishes at Divan I, an upscale restaurant in Tivoli Gardens. He has no work permit and his job is technically illegal but no one seems to care that much and he needs the work since he has moved in with his girl friend,...

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to forging and blacksmithing, originally intended to be used by teachers of industrial arts. It was written by a master craftsman in wrought metal and contains a wealth of useful tips and simple instructions for making a variety of objects and tools....

Kendig, Chernick’s Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children is the definitive medical reference book to help you confront critical challenges using the latest knowledge and techniques. You’ll get the state-of-the-art answers you need to offer the best care to young patients. Tackle...

This book is a picture guide to fossil plants and a few fossil marine organisms found in close association with the coal measures in southwestern Virginia. The fossils are sorted by groups and located as to coal seam horizon and geographic location. Short descriptions of each group of plant types...

All superintendents are at risk for an unanticipated departure and it can happen at any time in a career. Thriving as a Superintendent: How to Recognize and Survive an Unanticipated Departure is a resource for active and aspiring superintendents, which explores issues surrounding superintendent unanticipated...

One Minute Asthma is an easy-to-read guide that can help people with asthma stay out of the emergency room, out of the hospital and as active as everyone else. Accurate, clear, and illustrated with line drawings and charts, One Minute Asthma covers the basics of asthma and the medicines used to treat...

This textbook, aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students, introduces the basic knowledge required for nanomedicine and nanotechnology, and emphasizes how the combined use of chemistry and light with nanoparticles can serve as treatments and therapies for cancer. This includes nanodevices,...

如果你是羅傑．克勞利《1453：君士坦丁堡的陷落》的忠實讀者 就不能錯過講述這座榮耀之城3000年史的史詩巨作 它，曾是凱撒之城，也曾是蘇丹之都， 千百年來屹立在歐亞的十字路口上，看盡成王敗寇、世事滄桑 湯瑪士．麥登是個說書人，本書將細說從頭自西元前七世紀希臘時代建城 直到二十一世紀的現代土耳其，橫跨近三千個歲月的伊斯坦堡千年史 伊斯坦堡佇立於歐洲之端，遙望亞洲海岸，三千多年來始終以世界十字路口城市之姿傲立，歷史上從未有其他城市長久位處世界舞台的核心，擔當諸多偉大帝國與多元文化之都。在本書中，讀者將親眼目睹改變世界歷史的男男女女，包括亞歷山大大帝、君士坦丁大帝、狄奧多拉皇后、征服者穆罕默德二世、蘇萊曼大帝及現代土耳其國父凱末爾。此外讀者也將見證雄偉的狄奧多西城牆、裝飾華美的聖索菲亞大教堂，以及三千年來伊斯坦堡的改變與重生。 正如其橫跨歐、亞的地理位置，伊斯坦堡永遠在諸多兩極中來回擺盪，是東西文明的交會點與戰場：歐洲與亞洲、希臘文化與波斯文化、東羅馬與西羅馬、羅馬公教與希臘正教、基督教與伊斯蘭教。千年中它曾是帝國榮耀之都，但也曾數度淪為罪惡淵藪之城；它曾擁有基督教世界堡壘之稱的狄奧多西城牆，但也曾數度遭外敵或內奸長驅直入，五十萬人的繁華之都轉瞬成為一片廢墟。伊斯坦堡的迷人之處就在其多文化的融合角力，以及不斷變動的歷史，前者讓人目不暇給，後者則令人掩卷嘆息。 本書是近年少見以伊斯坦堡史為核心的通俗歷史作品。美國聖路易大學歷史系教授，專研歐洲中世紀史的湯瑪士．麥登，以傑出的文字能力、淵博的地中海文明知識、三十多年進出伊斯坦堡的實地考察經驗，傳承西方的說書人傳統，為伊斯坦堡寫下一卷令人驚嘆的傳記，捕捉該城市數世紀以來的榮耀與挫敗、繁華與崩殞。《榮耀之城．伊斯坦堡》不只是一座城市的故事、一部單純的城市史，更是近三千年來，東西方文明在世界的十字路口衝突、併吞、建設、妥協、相互影響的故事，在在可以給予我們驚喜與反省。 【專家導讀、各界推薦】 倫敦大學國王學院博士、中興大學歷史系助理教授│范姜士璁　專文導讀 「轉角國際」專欄作家│王健安 作家│阿潑 「故事：寫給所有人的歷史」網站主編│胡川安 歷史學者、政治評論家│胡忠信 「說書Speaking...

This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world—intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic—creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History...

YOU ARE an astronaut turned into a machine, and now searching for your stolen humanity... a woman volunteering to be frozen for a hundred thousand years to await the return of your lover... survivor of a holocaust stumbling over a nightmare landscape toward a dream-like city shimmering in the distance......