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Both novice and advanced skywatchers will value this comprehensive and easy-to-use guide to the brilliant and ever-changing sights of the southern sky by night. Readers are introduced to the many and varied objects in the sky and their movements and changing appearances, as well as the ancient myths and legends entwined around the groupings of stars. Featured in this book are two groups of sky charts, designed so that readers can move easily between them. The 24 skyviews show the appearance of the whole night sky every two weeks (or at each hour of sidereal time). The 20 sky charts show particular areas of the night sky in detail and are accompanied by explanatory text. This new edition also features: • digitally re-drawn skyviews, sky charts and map of the surface of the Moon • a table of planet positions up to 2017
Southern sky (Astronomy) --- Southern hemisphere astronomy --- Astronomy
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Ideal for astronomers worldwide, the fourth edition of this classic atlas features new Moon maps, new data and enhanced charts.
Stars --- Astronomy. --- Astronomy --- Atlases, Astronomical --- Physics --- Southern Hemisphere --- Northern Hemisphere
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Using the latest methods in digital photography and image processing, The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas presents the whole sky through large-scale photographic images with corresponding charts. Each double-page spread shows a section of the night sky and is accompanied by an inverted chart highlighting and naming double stars, variable stars, open clusters, galactic and planetary nebulae, globular clusters and galaxies. The 82 large-scale charts, with a scale of 1° per cm, identify over 1500 deep-sky objects and 2500 stars. Providing a giant mosaic of the entire sky, this unique atlas is unparalleled in detail and completeness, making it indispensable for visual observers and astrophotographers.
Stars --- Astronomy. --- Astronomy --- Atlases, Astronomical --- Southern Hemisphere --- Northern Hemisphere --- Hemisphere, Northern --- Earth (Planet) --- Hemisphere, Southern
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The world is in the midst of profound social and economic change driven by the dynamic emerging powers of the developing world. The 2013 Human Development Report, "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World" analyzes this phenomenon in detail, examining the development strategies, policies and future prospects of more than 40 developing nations that experienced remarkably strong human development gains over the past two decades. This publication is the companion volume to the 2013 Report. It is an edited collection of nine original research papers commissioned during the writing of the 2013 report from some of the world's most eminent economists, demographers and social scientists, representing different yet complementary disciplines in the field of human development.
Southern Hemisphere --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Social policy. --- E-books --- Hemisphere, Southern --- Earth (Planet) --- Social Policy --- Economic Policy --- Political Science --- Southern hemisphere --- Social policy --- Economic policy --- Political science
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Population and Development offers an expert guide on the demographic transition, from its origins in Enlightenment Europe through to the rest of the world. Tim Dyson examines how, while the phenomenon continues to cause unsustainable population growth with serious economic and environmental implications, its processes have underlain previous periods of sustained economic growth, helped to liberate women from the domestic domain, and contributed greatly to the rise of modern democracy.
Southern Hemisphere --- Southern hemisphere --- Hémisphère sud --- Population --- Economic development --- Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Economics --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Demography --- Malthusianism --- Economic aspects. --- Economic aspects --- History. --- Social aspects. --- History --- Social aspects --- Développement économique --- Aspect économique --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Population - Economic aspects --- Population - Economic aspects - History --- Economic development - Social aspects --- Southern Hemisphere - Population - Economic aspects --- Development studies --- Human geography
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This comprehensive introduction, complete with free, networkable CD-ROM, integrates climatology and meteorlogy to study the atmosphere. Includes many illustrations and case studies and additional interactive material on the CD-ROM.
Atmospheric physics. --- Climatology. --- Meteorology. --- Aerophysics --- Meteorology, Physical --- Physical meteorology --- Atmospheric science --- Aerology --- Climate --- Climate science --- Climate sciences --- Science of climate --- Southern Hemisphere --- Hemisphere, Southern --- Earth (Planet) --- Climate.
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Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, particularly sixteenth-century Europeans were especially concerned with why dry land existed. This book investigates why sixteenth-century Europeans were so interested in water's failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been. Analyzing biblical commentaries as well as natural philosophical, geographical, and cosmographical texts from these periods, Lindsay Starkey shows that European sea voyages to the Southern Hemisphere combined with the traditional methods of European scholarship and religious reformations led sixteenth-century Europeans to reinterpret water and earth's ontological and spatial relationships. The manner in which they did so also sheds light on how we can respond to our current water crisis before it is too late.
History of civilization --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe --- Discoveries in geography --- Reformation. --- Religion and science --- Water --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Social aspects --- Southern Hemisphere --- Discovery and exploration
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Astronomy --- Southern sky (Astronomy) --- Astrophysics --- Astronomical Society of Australia --- Southern hemisphere astronomy --- Astronomy. --- Astrophysics. --- Astronomical Society of Australia. --- Astronomical physics --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Physical sciences --- Space sciences --- Engineering --- Satellites, Space Probes & Technology
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