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Boldly go where no man has gone before and discover the real science behind the cyborgs, starships, aliens, and antimatter of the Star Trek galaxy. « Star Trek » is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. It has changed our cultural landscape in so many ways since it first aired in 1966. The franchise has generated billions of dollars in revenue, leading to a wide range of spin-off games, novels, toys, and comics. "Star Trek" is noted for its social science, too, with its progressive civil rights stances and its celebration of future diversity that began with The Original Series, one of television's first multiracial casts. The book explores one of the greatest science-fiction universes ever created and showcases the visionary tech that inspired and influenced the real-world science of today. The perfect Star Trek gift for fans of the franchise, this book addresses many unanswered, burning questions,

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From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poemThe Owl and the Nightingale, one of the earliest literary works in Middle English, is a lively, anonymous comic poem about two birds who embark on a war of words in a wood, with a nearby poet reporting their argument in rhyming couplets, line by line and blow by blow. In this engaging and energetic verse translation, Simon Armitage captures the verve and humor of this dramatic tale with all the cut and thrust of the original.In an agile iambic tetrameter that skillfully amplifies the prosody and rhythm of the original, Armitage’s translation moves entertainingly from the eloquent and philosophical to the ribald and ridiculous. Sounding at times like antagonists in a Twitter feud, the owl and the nightingale quarrel about a host of subjects that still resonate today—including love, marriage, identity, cultural background, class distinctions, and the right to be heard. Adding to the playful, raucous mood of the barb-trading birds is Armitage, who at one point inserts himself into the poem as a “magistrate . . . to adjudicate”—one who is “skilled with words & worldly wise / & frowns on every form of vice.”Featuring the Middle English text on facing pages and an introduction by Armitage, this volume will delight readers of all ages.

Birds --- Debate poetry, English (Middle) --- Adultery. --- Age of the Earth. --- Age of the universe. --- Aircraft. --- Alien Technology. --- Alien visitation. --- Alpha Centauri. --- Apollo program. --- Aptitude. --- Aristotle. --- Arthur C. Clarke. --- Astrology. --- Astronomer. --- Astronomy. --- Atomic number. --- Author. --- Authorship. --- Baking. --- Billion years. --- Chemical element. --- Complication (horology). --- Cosmic microwave background. --- Courtesy. --- Crone. --- Crop circle. --- Designer. --- Dirge (Transformers). --- Disgust. --- Dwarf planet. --- Earth's orbit. --- Earth. --- Embarrassment. --- Exoplanet. --- Foe (novel). --- Galileo Galilei. --- General relativity. --- Genre. --- Geocentric model. --- Gravity. --- Harassment. --- Horoscope. --- Hour. --- Hubble Space Telescope. --- In Death. --- Indiscretion (Star Trek Deep Space Nine). --- Intention. --- International Astronomical Union. --- Interstellar medium. --- Kepler's laws of planetary motion. --- Lament. --- Light-year. --- Literature. --- Martian. --- Medieval poetry. --- Mercury (planet). --- Meteorite. --- Microorganism. --- Microsoft. --- Military aircraft. --- Misery (novel). --- Misfortune (folk tale). --- Monologue. --- Moon rock. --- Mount Wilson Observatory. --- National Air and Space Museum. --- Neptune. --- Neutron. --- Newton's laws of motion. --- Orbit. --- Pierre-Simon Laplace. --- Pity. --- Poetry. --- Prediction. --- Radiometric dating. --- Residence. --- Result. --- Rodent. --- Science. --- Scientist. --- Self-awareness. --- Singing. --- Skepticism. --- Slinky. --- Spacecraft. --- Spiral galaxy. --- Tactic (method). --- Technology. --- Tendril. --- The Owl and the Nightingale. --- Tit (bird). --- To the Moon. --- Trickster. --- Two Birds (Awake). --- Uncertainty. --- Unidentified flying object. --- Uranium-238. --- Wild boar. --- William the Conqueror. --- Year. --- Yokel.