Автор: Brian Harvey
Издательство: Sрringer
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 0387218963
Количество страниц: 344
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme, from its origins to the present-day federal Russian space programme. Brian Harvey describes the techniques devised by the USSR for lunar landing, from the LK lunar module to the LOK lunar orbiter and versions tested in Earth’s orbit. He asks whether these systems would have worked and examines how well they were tested. He concludes that political mismanagement rather than technology prevented the Soviet Union from landing cosmonauts on the moon. The book is well timed for the return to the moon by the United States and the first missions there by China and India.
Автор: Muriel Gargaud, Purificación López-Garcìa, Hervé Martin
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 2011
isbn: 052176131X
Количество страниц: 546
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this highly interdisciplinary book brings together a broad array of scientists. Thirty chapters assembled in eight major sections convey the knowledge accumulated and the richness of the debates generated by this challenging theme. The text explores the latest research on the conditions and processes that led to the emergence of life on Earth and, by extension, perhaps on other planetary bodies. Diverse sources of knowledge are integrated, from astronomical and geophysical data, to the role of water, the origin of minimal life properties and the oldest traces of biological activity on our planet. This text will not only appeal to graduate students but to the large body of scientists interested in the challenges presented by the origin of life, its evolution, and its possible existence beyond Earth.
Автор: John Carman
Издательство: Continuum
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 0826458955
Количество страниц: 241
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Unlike most textbooks on heritage which discuss the creation of heritage as a cultural phenomenon or offer practical guides to heritage practices, Archaeology and Heritage takes a fresh approach by providing an introduction to themes in the field of heritage as it relates to the material legacy of our past. A survey of current approaches to theorizing archaeological practice presents some ideas about how we understand and relate to the remains, sites, structures and buildings that have come to our present from the past.The book is divided into seven chapters, each preceded by a short interlude which considers the types of literature and ways of talking about heritage which characterize that approach. For those not already acquainted with recent archaeological theory, the book provides a brief introduction to current trends. Each chapter is in turn divided into key points indicated by sub-headings, and these key points are reiterated at the end of each chapter and are followed by a list of suggested readings.
Автор: John S. Bowman; General Editors: John S. Bowman and Maurice Isserman
Издательство: Facts on File
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 0816052573
Количество страниц: 160
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This book examines some of the earliest accounts of Egyptian and Mesopotamian explorations, as well as covering the Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians, and other ancient peoples. It concludes at the beginning of the Middle Ages, when much of Earth's lands and seas were 'known', but many civilizations remained unknown to one another. The coverage includes: The first watercraft; Herodotus's travels and his history of the world until his time; The lighthouse and library of Alexandria; Alexander the Great's accomplishments as a warrior and an explorer; and, China's and Japan's roles in exploration, including the spread of Buddhism.
Автор: Umberto Eco , Alastair McEwen
Издательство: Secker
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 0436205173
Количество страниц: 438
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, Beauty has been conceived for a vast and diversified readership: taking in painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, the decorative arts, novels and poems, it offers a rich and intelligent panorama of this huge subject. It traces the philosophy of aesthetics through history and examines some of the many treatises that have sought to define it. Beauty is Umberto Eco at his most captivating and eclectic: we read not only of Botticelli and Michelangelo but of how the fashion of the 1960s owes much to ancient Egyptian dress, and how ancient Roman and eighteenth-century hairstyles have much in common. It makes the familiar new, and sheds a brilliant new light on the unfamiliar. Illustrated in full colour throughout and produced to the highest standards, Beauty is an indispensable book.
Автор: Кондаков Н. П.
Издательство: Прага
Год издания: 1929
Количество страниц: 455
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
Изданная посмертно книга великого русского ученого Никодима Павловича Кондакова (1844-1925), представляет собой курс лекций, читанный автором в Карловом университете.
Автор: коллектив
Издательство: Наука
Год издания: 1977
Количество страниц: 321
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
В книге раскрывается суть германской политики "Дранг нах Остен" в эпоху империализма, внешнеполитические концепции кайзеровской Германии, а также курс "восточной политики" с момента образования Германской империи в 1871 г. до конца первой мировой войны. В работе показано воздействие германской экспансии на общественно-политическое развитие стран и народов Центральной, Восточной и Юго-Восточной Европы, реакция различных социальных слоев на германскую угрозу. Использованы новые материалы, раскрывающие ответственность германского империализма за развязывание первой мировой войны. Настоящая монография подготовлена сектором истории международных отношений в Центральной и Юго-Восточной Европе Института славяноведения и балканистики АН СССР.
Автор: сост. Т. Андрущенко, С. Гальченко
Издательство: Мистецтво
Год издания: 2002
Количество страниц: 224
Язык: другой
Формат: DJVU
В начале альбома небольшой рассказ на украинском языке об истории Национального музея Тараса Шевченко с фотографиями некоторых экспонатов. Основное содержание альбома – это картины и рисунки Т.Г.Шевченко. Подписи под ними на украинском и английском языках. Заключает альбом комментарии к экспонатам, картинам и рисункам на украинском языке. И в конце резюме на английском, русском, немецком и французском языках.
Автор: Don Troiani, Earl J. Coates, James L. Kochan,
Издательство: Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg,
Год издания: 1998
isbn: 0811705196
Количество страниц: 242
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
This sweeping tour through American's military provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of the soldier of the colonial wars, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. 260+ photos, 75 in color.
Автор: Большаков А.И.
Издательство: Государственное архитектурное издательство
Год издания: 1948
Количество страниц: 94
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
Предлагаемая брошюра "Лепные работы" рассчитана в помощь молодым архитекторам, техникам-строителям и мастерам, выполняющим работы по формовке, отливке и постановке на место лепных украшений. Брошюра даёт основные практические указания, методы и рецепты по устройству форм, отливке в них гипсовых, мастичных и цементных деталей, по постановке на место, устройству шаблонов и изготовлению гладких гипсовых моделей без орнамента.