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Kitcikisik (the Great Sky) : stories that fill the night / by Buck, Wilfred.; Buck, Mistawasis.;
"Kitcikisik / Great Sky: Stories That Fill the Night Sky, is a Cree perspective on stars and constellations. For millennia, humans have stared into the night sky and wondered. Every culture on the face of Nikawiy Aski, Mother Earth, have their own connections to the vast night sky. The Ininew (Cree) of North America hold sacred the many tales and teachings the various constellations in Ininew Cosmology reveal. Indigenous Star Knowledge and the identification of constellations is a fluid and dynamic concept. As one begins to understand the depth of knowledge Indigenous People hold pertaining to the stars, a wholistic picture begins to develop about our existence and our (humans) part in that dynamic fluid concept - reality. The dynamic of fluidity is presented in the various stories associated with certain groups of stars. Kitcikisik / Great Sky are these stories. Cree and Cree syllabics, images, diagrams, constellation maps, original artwork are included in Kitcikisik."--
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Astronomy; Cree mythology; Constellations; Stars; Animals, Mythical;
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A life's work [videorecording] / by Darden, Bob,1954-on-screen participant.; Licata, David,film director.; Soleri, Paolo,1919-2013,on-screen participant.; Milarch, David,on-screen participant.; Milarch, Jared,on-screen participant.; Tarter, Jill C.,on-screen participant.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.;
Jill Tarter, Robert Darden, David Milarch, Jared Milarch, Paolo Soleri.What's it like to dedicate your life to work that won't be completed in your lifetime? Fifteen years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused on four projects and the people behind them in an effort to answer this universal question. The subjects include Jill Tarter, Director of the SETI Institute, who has been involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence since the 1970s; David and Jared Milarch, father and son tree farmers and co-founders of the Champion Tree Project, who clone old-growth trees to combat climate change; gospel music archivist Robert Darden, who founded the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, an organization that is trying preserve at-risk recordings from the black gospel music tradition; and Paolo Soleri, controversial architect behind Arcosanti, a town designed to test his theories about housing an overpopulated planet. We discover what inspired them to begin, what obstacles they face, what drives and sustains them, and how they measure success of an endeavor they will not live to see completed.E.DVD.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Personal narratives.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; SETI Institute.; Champion trees; Extraterrestrial beings.; Gospel music; Life on other planets.; Radio astronomy.; Sound recordings;
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Her space, her time : how trailblazing women scientists decoded the hidden universe / by Ghose, Shohini,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Her Space, Her Time shares the stories of women in physics and astronomy whose work expanded scientific understanding yet whose accomplishments are largely overlooked--creating a thrilling account of scientific discovery, inspirational leadership and persistence in the face of overwhelming challenges. In shaping her narrative around the science that fascinated them and the social context in which they worked, award-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose champions these remarkable women's contributions, which loom even larger given the misogyny and discrimination they faced. Ghose's canvas stretches from the 19th century to the present and includes many women whose work led to Nobel Prizes that were ultimately awarded to men. Among this list of impressive scientists: Henrietta Leavitt and Margaret Burbidge, who helped discover the big bang and the cosmic calendar; Anigaduwagi (Cherokee) aerospace scientist Mary Golda Ross, who helped make the Moon landings possible; atom splitter Lise Meitner; Bibha Chowdhuri, who discovered two fundamental particles; and Harriet Brooks--a Canadian physicist whose impact on radioactivity research was compared to Marie Curie's, but who felt that marriage, not science, was the choice she had to make. Engaging and inspirational, Her Space, Her Time is threaded through with Ghose's own experiences in science--women in STEM still face the same kind of challenges her subjects encountered--and driven by the imperative to make the invisible visible, ensuring that the names of these women who pursued science against all odds will never be forgotten"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Astronomers; Discoveries in science; Physicists; Sex discrimination in science.; Women astronomers; Women in astronomy.; Women in physics.; Women physicists;
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Atlas of the night sky / by Dunlop, Storm; Tirion, Wil; Rukl, Antonin;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223), Internet addresses (p. 223-224) and index.
Subjects: Constellations; Astronomy; Constellations; Astronomy;
© 2005., HarperCollins,
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Bright objects : a novel / by Todd, Ruby,author.;
"A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a debut novel that blends mystery, astronomy, and romance, perfect for fans of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Comets; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Secrecy; Small cities; Widows;
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Jupiter / by Hansen, Rosanna.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 45) and index.Describes the unique features of Jupiter, its place in the solar system, and what space missions have taught scientists about Jupiter.
© 2010., Lerner,
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Neptune / by Fleisher, Paul.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 45) and index.Describes the unique features of Neptune, its place in the solar system, and what space missions have taught scientists about Neptune.
© 2010., Lerner,
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Uranus / by Vogt, Gregory.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 45) and index.Describes the unique features of Uranus, its place in the solar system, and what space missions have taught scientists about Uranus.
© 2010., Lerner,
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Saturn / by Waxman, Laura Hamilton.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 45) and index.Describes the unique features of Saturn, its place in the solar system, and what space missions have taught scientists about Saturn.
© 2009., Lerner,
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Mercury / by Vogt, Gregory.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 45) and index.Describes the unique features of Mercury, its place in the solar system, and what space missions have taught scientists about Mercury.
© 2010., Lerner,
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