The definitive guide based on the author's surveys and Cuban Hydrographic office data. The information in this pilot has been assembled by Nigel Calder during several visits and extended cruises in Cuba. Nigel Calder is well known as the expert on Cuba, author of various text books on boat maintenance and contributes frequently to yachting press.
Calder is among the most effective science popularizers. His authorship is well matched with this publisher. Exquisite color photos consume more space than the text. An inviting book, friendly to the lay reader. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Drawing on interviews with more than two hundred researchers, a lively examination of modern science offers accessible coverage of such fields as physics, biology, and medicine, addressing a wide range of topics while explaining the relationships between disparate fields of study. (Science & Mathematics)
"Based on Henrik Svensmark's research at the Danish National Space Center, this book outlines a new theory on global warming: that an interplay of the Sun and cosmic rays - sub-atomic particles from exploded stars - seem to have more effect on the climate than man-made carbon dioxide."--BOOK JACKET.
Nigel Calder's landmark book has been acclaimed for making Albert Einstein's theories of relativity accessible to the public. The universe that Einstein built is an astonishing skyscape of bent starlight, high-speed astronauts, black holes, stormy galaxies, and exploding spacetime. Today it seems more certain than ever that we live in the cosmos he described?yet often we still fail to understand it. "Einstein's Universe" unlocks the secrets of an astounding vision of the world. How can a black hole keep you young? Why does a falling person feel no force of gravity? Answering these and many other questions, "Einstein's Universe" makes plain the debt that humanity owes to the man who completely reshaped our ideas of energy, time, and motion.
Offers a collection of predictions concerning the world of 2004 from a variety of distinguished futurists, scientists, and fiction writers, including Herman Kahn, Arthur C. Clarke, and Freeman Dyson
