[PDF] The Core Of The Sun eBook

Author : Johanna Sinisalo
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802190235

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The Finnish author of Troll: A Love Story delivers a work of “scathing satire . . . that sits somewhere between Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut” (NPR). The Core of the Sun further cements Finlandia Award–winning author Johanna Sinisalo’s reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country’s unique take on it, dubbed “Finnish weird.” In an alternative historical present, The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated to menial labor and sterilized so that they do not carry on their “defective” line. Vanna, raised as an eloi but secretly intelligent, needs money to find her sister, who has disappeared. Vanna forms a friendship with a man named Jare, and they become involved in buying and selling a stimulant known to the Health Authority to be extremely dangerous: chili peppers. Then Jare comes across a strange religious cult in possession of the Core of the Sun, a chili so hot that it is rumored to cause hallucinations—a temptation so enticing that it just might divert the addicted Vanna from her quest . . . “A chilling tale reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale . . . A fascinating story centered on gender politics.” —The Washington Post

Author : John A. Eddy
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780160838088

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" ... Concise explanations and descriptions - easily read and readily understood - of what we know of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and Sun-Climate."--Dear Reader.

Author : T. Roca Cortes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521563079

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The complex internal structure of the Sun can now be studied in detail through helioseismology and neutrino astronomy. The VI Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics was dedicated to examining these powerful new techniques. Based on this meeting, eight specially-written chapters by world-experts are presented in this timely volume. We are shown how the internal composition and dynamical structure of the Sun can be deduced through helioseismology; and how the central temperature can be determined from the flux of solar neutrinos. This volume provides an excellent introduction for graduate students and an up-to-date overview for researchers working on the Sun, neutrino astronomy and helio- and asteroseismology.

Author : Eric Priest
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521854717

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This advanced textbook reviews the complex interaction between the Sun's plasma atmosphere and its magnetic field.

Author : Johanna Sinisalo
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0720610044

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Another haunting novel of eco-speculation from Johanna Sinisalo, the award-winning author of Troll and a powerhouse of the Finnish science fiction and fantasy scene It is claimed Albert Einstein said that if bees disappear from the earth, mankind has four years left. When bee-vanishings of unprecedented scale hit the United States, Orvo, a Finnish beekeeper, knows all too well where it will lead. And when he sees the queen dead in his hives one day, it's clear the epidemic has spread to Europe, and the world is coming to an end. Orvo's special knowledge of bees just may enable him to glimpse a solution to catastrophe: he takes a desperate step onto a path where only he and the bees know the way but it propels him into conflict with his estranged, but much-loved son, a committed animal activist. A magical plunge into the myth of death and immortality, this is a tale of human blindness in the face of devastation—and the inevitable.

Author : Pierre-Yves Bely
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 131661526X

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Contains 250 questions and answers about astronomy, particular for the amateur astronomer.

Author : Michael A. Seeds
Publisher : Brooks Cole
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN :

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In this fully updated new Seventh Edition, Mike Seeds shows students their place in the universe - not just their location, but their role as planet dwellers in an evolving universe. He also emphasizes how science works, as opposed to simply teaching facts about astronomy. This enthusiastic author inspires students' imagination, sense of wonder, and excitement about new discoveries. At the same time, Seeds strives to arm students with a solid understanding of the process of science. Crafting a story about astronomy, Seeds hopes that students will be able to ask questions of nature and gradually puzzle out the beautiful secrets of the physical world.

Author : Johanna Sinisalo
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1555847374

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This internationally acclaimed winner of the Finlandia Award is “a brilliant and dark parable about the fluid boundaries between human and animal” (The Boston Globe). Angel, a young photographer, comes home from a night of carousing to find a group of drunken teenagers in the courtyard of his apartment building, taunting a wounded, helpless young troll. He takes it in, not suspecting the dramatic consequences of this decision. What does one do with a troll in the city? As the troll’s presence influences Angel’s life in ways he could never have predicted, it becomes clear that the creature is the familiar of man’s most forbidden feelings. A novel of sparkling originality, Troll is a wry, beguiling story of nature and man’s relationship to wild things, and of the dark power of the wildness in ourselves. “[An] imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy . . . The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosed postmodern desire.” —Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post Book World

Author : Mioara Mandea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108418481

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An interdisciplinary review of research in geomagnetism, aeronomy and space weather, written by eminent researchers from these fields.