Product Description: This Crossover book (adults like it too) is a coming-of-age mystery, a sequel to Ron Miller's Award-winning novel A Broken Reed. Both are set in the backroads of Alabama during the 1950's, and both are inspired by actual events, and boys who liked fast cars, drive-ins, and were just beginning to notice the local girls...read more

Product Description: "Huge, towering clouds build up in the sky it's a super cell. The Doppler radar indicates that the system is rotating. But is there a funnel? Is it touching the ground? Only a storm chaser can confirm when a tornado is present and help meteorologists warn nearby towns...read more

Product Description: "In the sixth century B.C.E., the Greek philosopher Anaximander theorized that Earth was at the center of the cosmos. That idea became ingrained in scientific thinking and Christian religious beliefs for more than one thousand years...read more

Product Description: Merriam Press Military Monograph 122. Second Edition (February 2012). On November 13, 1982, Ron Miller personally leased an L-1011 from Delta Airlines and took 300 Vietnam Veterans to the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D...read more

Product Description: For many centuries, people around the world have been predicting the world coming to an end. Often, these prophesies are said to have roots in science; others are based on religious or mythic beliefs. This book will take a broad look at theories of catastrophism, investigating historic theories of the end of the world, fake science related thereto, and the real science of catastrophic changes in Earths environment and in the universe...read more

Product Description: Join Ron Miller, as he delivers a deeply personal and vibrant recollection of his formative years. The 1900s housed some of history's most interesting groups of people. There was the roaring twenties, prohibition, WWII, and the baby boomers...read more

Product Description: Seven Wonders of the Mysteries of Space includes the topics of Black Holes (massive gravity holes from which not even light can escape); Age of the Universe (12 to 15 billion years old?); Time Travel/Wormholes (entering the non-accelerated end of the transversable wormhole, one would emerge from the accelerated end into the future); Dark Energy (while gravity works to hold things together, dark energy works to pull the universe apart); Life on Other Planets (are there other planets capable of developing/sustaining the kind of life present on Earth?); Dark Matter (all the black stuff in outer space between planets); and the Suns Atmosphere (hotter in the thermosphere than on the surface defying the law of thermodynamics)...read more

Product Description: This title includes these seven wonders: solar flare (large explosion in the sun's atmosphere); a total solar eclipse (when the sun is totally obscured by the moon); a neutron star (star composed of neutrons that has collapsed under its own gravity); a supergiant star (among the most massive stars); a supernova (stellar explosion that is more energetic than a nova - a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity); a black hole (region of space from which nothing, including light, can escape); and a nebula (cloud of gas and dust in space)...read more

Product Description: Our solar system is full of wonders, and this book tells about seven wonderous objects that have traveled through it. They are: Ceres, the largest asteroid; Ganymede, a large Earth-grazing (but misses) asteroid; the famous Halley's comet (an ice ball whose history goes back to 1066); the Borealis Basin of Mars, (a giant crater formed by an ancient asteroid impact); the magic shooting stars of the Perseid Meteor Shower; the Kuiper Belt, home of comets; and the mysteries of Pluto (planet or asteroid?)...read more

Product Description: The seven wonders of the rocky inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) are: the 16-mile-high mountain on Mars; a Martian canyon 3-4 miles deep; Earth's very large moon; the true facts about lovely Venus; the Mars-filled sky of its tiny moon, Phobos; Mercury, with the most erratic of all orbits in our solar system; and the wonder of life on Earth...read more

Product Description: The seven wonders of giant planets of the solar system (Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune) are: the many rings of Saturn; the violent storm that is the Great Red Spot of Jupiter; the volcanoes discovered on Jupiter's moon Io; the landscape of Uranus's moon Miranda containing the highest cliffs in the solar system; the giant crater on Mimas, a moon of Saturn; the wild electrical displays on Saturn, and the amazing mystery of an underground sea on Jupiter's Europa...read more

Product Description: Seven Wonders beyond the Solar System includes these wonders: Tarantula Nebula (a giant star factory); Crab Nebula (a supernova remnant); PSR B1257+2 (the mysterious pulsing star); VY Canis Major (largest known star); GJ 1214b (the most Earthlike extrasolar planet); IC 1101 (the biggest galaxy); and the Sculptor Supercluster (the largest structure in the universe)...read more

Chronicles the discovery and exploration of the planet Saturn and discusses its rings and moons, and its place in the solar system.

Explores the history of space exploration, from the first tentative attempts to fly rocket-powered vehicles to the astronauts who left their footprints on the Moon.

Explores the history of rocketry, from the first development of rockets as toys over one thousand years ago to their modern uses in war and space exploration.

Chronicles the origin and discovery of Uranus, Neptune, and their moons and discusses explorations and composition of these distant gas giants.

Engineers used science to create useful objects. The engineering wonders that are discussed in this books are the Empire State Building, the Panama Canal, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Channel Tunnel, the Saturn 5 Rocket, Three Gorges Dam in China, and microscopic nanomachines.

Product Description: Over the years, plays, poetry, movies, and television have portrayed Cleopatra as an ambitious woman who used her beauty to seduce powerful men. But is this the real Cleopatra? This book shows how she used her intelligence, personality, and drive in a tragic attempt to restore Egypt to the greatness it had known under the great pharaohs of old...read more

Product Description: Two mysterious deaths by the train station… Enter Montclair “Speedy” Wheeler—long-haired hippie type, prodigal grandson returned, apparent heir to the family’s textile fortune, and self-appointed seeker of the truth. But Speedy has obstacles to overcome—a corrupt infrastructure in local politics, his own bombastic personality, and a dark secret from the family’s past that may cause his own demise...read more

Product Description: This book will cover the ins and outs of digital art. It begins by discussing what digital art is and how it is different from and similar to traditional art. Then it presents the history of digital art, how it has changed over the years, how it works (pixels, DPI, resolution, etc...read more