Найти книгу: "Astrology to Astronomy - The Study of the Night Sky from Ptolemy to Copernicus - With Biographies and Illustrations"

For countless millennia humans have read the future in the night sky and seen the effects of celestial movement here on Earth, this was astrology, the very first attempt to understand the stars and planets. In a very short amount of time mankind has come from the practice of astrology through the work of countless great men and women to the fully fledged scientific study of astronomy and cosmology. This book follows the train of thought and discovery taken by a few people. Including biographies of Ptolemy and Copernicus.

Астрономическая энциклопедия.Книга известного популяризатора астрономии Патрика Моора.Много фотографий,имеется алфавитный указатель. The new Philip's Astronomy Encyclopedia is one of the most comprehensive, authoritative and accessible books on astronomy. In more than 3000 alphabetically organized articles and over 500 photographs and diagrams, it covers everything and everyone from the Anglo-Australian Observatory to Fritz Zwicky. Its 464 pages include a host of major articles on subjects such as our Galaxy, the Sun and planets, optical and radio telescopes, stars, black holes, astrophysics, observatories, astronomical photography, space programmes, the constellations and famous astronomers. Supporting these articles are shorter entries on planetary features and satellites, asteroids, observational techniques, comets, satellite launchers, meteros, and subjects as diverse as life in the Universe and the structure of meteorites. Scores of tables list the brightest stars in the major constellations, annual meteor showers, major variable stars, dwarf stars, energy production processes in the Sun, and other relevant data. Philip's Astronomy Encyclopedia is written by more than 100 leading astronomers from the world's universities and observatories, each an expert in a specialized field of knowledge. They have produced an up-to-date and reliable popular reference work for 2001 and beyond.

In the debut of literature's most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall. With this investigation begins the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Если вы изучаете английский язык или свободно на нем говорите, у вас есть замечательная возможность услышать на языке оригинала захватывающий рассказ доктора Ватсона о его первой встрече с Шерлоком Холмсом, а затем проверить свое понимание произведения, прослушав русский перевод. Текст неадаптирован. Английскую версию читает Joseph Samuel Bagley (Великобритания)

Комплект из книги и аудиофайлов предлагает вам погрузиться в захватывающий мир детективов Артура Конан Дойля. Вы сможете услышать и прочитать на языке оригинала один из самых запоминающихся рассказов писателя о блестящих расследованиях Шерлока Холмса – «Этюд в багровых тонах». Свое понимание неадаптированного текста можно проверить, прочитав или прослушав перевод произведения на русский язык. Читая и слушая тексты на английском языке, сравнивая их с переводом на русский, можно по достоинству оценить мастерство писателя и одновременно улучшить свои навыки чтения, а также восприятия на слух иностранной речи. Для работы над текстом в конце книги предлагаются упражнения и словарь. Книга будет интересна и полезна школьникам, абитуриентам, студентам, преподавателям, а также всем, кто изучает английский язык самостоятельно.

Although new ventures’ competitive positioning and their founders’ social networks are both recognized as important in the context of transition economies, not much is known about their multiplicative effect on performance. We build on the strategic management literature and social network theory to develop theoretical predictions about the role of competitive strategies and social capital for entrepreneurial performance. These are tested with survey data from Bulgaria. We find that both the venture’s competitive strategic positioning and the founder’s networking positively influence performance. The hypothesized moderating effect of networking for the relationship between differentiation strategy and performance received only tentative support. Contrary to expectations, we find a negative moderating effect of networking for the relationship of cost leadership with performance. These results suggest that the entrepreneur’s network plays a role in shaping how strategies influence performance by possibly upholding differentiation and deemphasizing cost leadership strategy. Implications for managerial practice and public policy are discussed.