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Black holes : the key to understanding the universe / by Cox, Brian,1968-author.; Forshaw, J. R.(Jeffrey Robert),1968-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes. Today, across the universe, at the heart of every galaxy, and dotted throughout, mature black holes are creating chaos. And in a quiet part of the universe, the Swift satellite has picked up evidence of a gruesome death caused by one of these dark powers. High energy X-ray flares shooting out from deep within the Draco constellation are thought to be the dying cries of a white dwarf star being ripped apart by the intense tides of a supermassive black hole--heating it to millions of degrees as it is shredded at the event horizon. They have the power to wipe out any of the universe's other inhabitants, but no one has ever seen a black hole itself die. But 1.8 billion light years away, the LIGO instruments have recently detected something that could be the closest a black hole gets to death. Gravitational waves given off as two enormous black holes merge together. And now scientists think that these gravitational waves could be evidence of two black holes connecting to form a wormhole--a link through space and time. It seems outlandish, but today's physicists are daring to think the unthinkable--that black holes could connect us to another universe. At their very heart, black holes are also where Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is stretched in almost unimaginable ways, revealing black holes as the key to our understanding of the fundamentals of our universe and perhaps all other universes. Join Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw in exploring our universe's most mysterious inhabitants, how they are formed, why they are essential components of every galaxy, including our own, and what secrets they still hold, waiting to be discovered.
Subjects: Black holes (Astronomy);
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Bright young women [sound recording] / by Knoll, Jessica,author.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Sutton Foster, Imani Jade Powers, Corey Brill, Chris Henry Coffey."Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in Bright Young Women. The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the man papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killer--and that he's struck again. Determined to find justice, the two join forces as their search for answers leads to a final, shocking confrontation"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Bundy, Ted; Florida State University; Serial murderers; College sorority members; Serial murders;
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Bloody genius / by Sandford, John,1944 February 23-author.;
"Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back-- and his mouth-- as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford's "madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries" (New York Times Book Review)"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Flowers, Virgil (Fictitious character); Murder; Universities and colleges; Detective and mystery stories;
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Planets, Stars, and Galaxies : a visual encyclopedia of our universe / by Aguilar, David A.; Daniels, Patricia,1955-; Pulliam, Christine.; National Geographic Society (U.S.);
Subjects: Astronomy;
© c2007., National Geographic,
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The mystery of the grinning gargoyle / by Warner, Gertrude Chandler,1890-1979.; VanArsdale, Anthony.;
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Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Boxcar children (Fictitious characters); Brothers and sisters; Orphans; Universities and colleges; Gargoyles;
© 2014., Albert Whitman,
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Rat city : overcrowding and urban derangement in the rodent universes of John B. Calhoun / by Adams, Jon,author.; Ramsden, Edmund,author.;
"How a landmark experiment in rat behavior changed the way we think about cities. In the decades following WWII, the American metropolis was in peril. Modern high rises hastily erected to replace slums became incubators of criminality, while civic unrest erupted across the nation. Enter John B. Calhoun, an ecologist employed by the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of overcrowding. Calhoun decided to focus his study on rats. From 1947 to 1977, Calhoun built a series of sprawling habitats in which a rat's every need was met -- except space. As the enclosures became ever more crowded, resident rats began to react to social stress, culminating in the terrifying world of Universe 25: a rodent habitat where escalating social disorder collapsed to violent extinction. Did a similar fate await our own teeming cities? Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden's Rat City is the first book to tell the story of maverick scientist Calhoun and his now-viral experiments. Following the rats from the baiting pits of Victorian London to the laboratories of NIMH, and Calhoun from rural Tennessee to inner-city Baltimore, Rat City is an enthralling mix of dystopian science and urban history. Social design, housing infrastructure, a burgeoning current of racism in city planning: Calhoun influenced them all, and Rat City connects Calhoun's work to the politics of personal space, the looming threat of global overpopulation, and the eclipsing of environmental psychology by pharmaceutical psychiatry. As the "war on rats" continues to be waged around the world, and our post-pandemic society reevaluates the necessity of urban living, the riveting story of Rat City is more relevant than ever"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Calhoun, John B.; Ethologists; Human beings; Human ecology.; Overpopulation.; Rats; Rats; Urban ecology (Sociology);
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The birth of time : how we measured the age of the universe / by Gribbin, John R.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Cosmology; Cosmochronology.;
© c1999., Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
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Dark matter and the dinosaurs : the astounding interconnectedness of the universe / by Randall, Lisa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A renowned particle physicist draws on original research into dark matter to illuminate the surprising connections between deep space and life on Earth.
Subjects: Cosmology.; Dark matter (Astronomy);
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The potency of ungovernable impulses / by Older, Malka,1977-author.;
When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin -- who's up for a prestigious academic position at a rival Jovian university but has been accused of plagiarism -- Pleiti agrees to investigate the matter. Yet what appears to be a case of an attempted reputational smearing devolves into something more dangerous and deadly.
Subjects: Lesbian fiction.; Queer fiction.; Science fiction.; Novels.; Danger; Harassment; Lesbians; Space colonies; Universities and colleges;
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What to consider if you're considering college : new rules for education and employment / by Coates, Kenneth,1956-; Morrison, William R.(William Robert),1942-;
Includes Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: High school students; Postsecondary education.; Education, Higher; Education, Higher.; Universities and colleges; High school students;
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