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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777034803321

Autore

Byrne Charles J. <1935->

Titolo

The far side of the moon [[electronic resource] ] : a photographic guide / / Charles J. Byrne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2008

ISBN

1-281-10795-6

9786611107956

0-387-73206-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 pages)

Collana

Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series

Disciplina

523.3

523.30222

Soggetti

Moon Photographs from space

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The Far Side of the Moon -- The Spacecraft Missions and Images -- The History of the Moon and its Features -- Regions of the Far Side -- Nomenclature and Conventions of this Book -- The Western Far Side Region: Earth-rise, Tsiolkovskiy, Gagarin, and the Mendeleev Basin -- The Korolev Basin Region -- The South Pole-Aitken Basin and the South Polar Region -- The Northwestern Far Side Region: The Moscoviense Basin -- The Eastern Far Side Region: Birkhoff to Hertzsprung -- The North Polar Far Side Region -- The Orientale Limb Region -- The Near Side Megabasin.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a companion to Byrnes's award-winning Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon (Springer, 2005). It provides comprehensive coverage of the far side of the Moon, and is the first book that collects photographs from all five Lunar Orbiter missions: Clementine, Apollo, Luna, Zond, and Nozomi. As in the previous book, the scanning artifacts of the Lunar Orbiter photos have been cleaned. The photographs show each part of the far side in the most favorable resolution and sun angle. There are many high-altitude oblique photos that provide a feeling of being in space; this book is more like a photographic tour of the far side than an atlas.  The striking differences between the near and far side have been a major



mystery for astronomers but this book suggests an explanation: a massive early impact on the near side produced the Near Side Megabasin; an impact so large that its rim is on the far side. The floor of this basin established the canvas for the portrait of the Man in the Moon and its ejecta prepared the far side for the rugged array of basins and craters shown in these photos. Since many professional and amateur astronomers direct their telescopes to the near side of the Moon; these photos provide a unique opportunity to become familiar with the far side!

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910733714503321

Titolo

Perspectives on Academic Persian / / edited by Abbas Aghdassi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

9783030756109

3030756106

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages)

Collana

Language Policy, , 2452-1027 ; ; 25

Disciplina

491.55

Soggetti

Education and state

Language policy

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Educational Policy and Politics

Language Policy and Planning

Language Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction: Perspectives on Academic Persian -- Chapter 2. Historical Grounds for a Rational Grammar in Academic Persian -- Chapter 3. Amendments to Linguistic Interdependence Hypothesis: Moderating Role of Affective variables in L1 (Persian)-L2 (English) Academic Reading Relationship -- Chapter 4. Writer-reader Interaction in Written Discourse: A Comparative Corpus-based Investigation of



Metadiscourse Features in English and Persian Academic Genre -- Chapter 5. One Concept, Many Names! Analyzing a Serious Challenge Lying ahead of the Formation of Academic Persian Vocabulary -- Chapter 6. Neologisms in Contemporary Persian Approved by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature: A Case Study of Epidemiology Terms -- Chapter 7. The Promises of Action Research to Develop Persian for Academic Purposes Teachers’ Professionalism -- Chapter 8. Promoting the Status of an Academic Language: Participant Interaction -- Chapter 9. Application of Frame Semantics to Teach Persian Vocabulary to Non-native Speakers -- Chapter 10. Academic Writing for Academic Persian: A Synthesis of Recent Research -- Chapter 11. Moving Forward in Writing a Persian Academic Text: An Introduction to Cohesive Devices -- Chapter 12. Representations and Uses of Conjunctions in Persian Learners’ Academic Writings: The Predictive Power of Saadi Foundation Writing Rubric.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the idea of Academic Persian in the growing competition of many Middle Eastern languages to produce and highlight their academic discourse. Similar to academic English, most West Asian languages including Persian, Turkish, and Arabic are developing new styles and genres to produce academic texts. The book addresses a major question: "What is academic Persian?" Intended for researchers, experts, analysts, policy-makers, and students in Persian, Iranian studies, and Islamic studies, as well as Near Eastern languages and Middle Eastern cultures and languages, the book includes numerous technical contributions on the emerging markets involving west Asian languages. Since indexing, abstracting, crawling, metrics, citations, and visibility are becoming hot issues for academics, service providers (e.g., publishers) and policy-makers (e.g., university heads), a knowledge of academic Persian will help readers to grasp what Persian, and other similar languages, require in academic markets.