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The most complete guide to viewing eclipses-including details on every solar and lunar eclipse through 2017
Want to observe the most fleeting eclipse phenomena, take dramatic photos, and keep a detailed record of the experience? Now you can be prepared. This comprehensive one-stop resource covers everything you need to know about solar and lunar eclipses-why they happen, how to view them, how to photograph them, even when and where they will occur...
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A complete guide to solar eclipses for the general public with detailed coverage of the 2017 and 2024 total eclipses over the U.S. Well timed for the August 2017 eclipse over North America, it shows how, when, and where to see the coming total solar eclipses, how to photograph and video record them, and how to do so safely.--
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"Damon Pierce se encuentra en una encrucijada vital: su carrera como abogado en California, aunque brillante, no acaba de satisfacerle y se halla en pleno divorcio con su mujer. Por ello, acepta sin dudarlo la llamada de ayuda de Marissa Brand Okari, una mujer con quien mantuvo una relación años atrás. Marissa está casada ahora con Bobby Okari, el carismático líder de un grupo opositor al gobierno autocrático que rige en su país, Luandia....
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Help Naare get the element of surprise over bounty hunter Dengar with the Eclipse Fighter featuring an opening minifigure cockpit and a transform function that reveals hidden spring-loaded shooters. There’s also a speeder to help Dengar make a quick getaway. This set includes 2 minifigures. -- LEGO.
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The Ascent tracks two Byelorussian peasant soldiers - one on the path to redemption, the other to hell - as they try to evade Nazi forces during World War II.
Wings: Suffocated by modern-day living, a buttoned-down headmistress reminisces about her glory days as a World War II pilot.
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Seeing a total solar eclipse ('totality' - when the sun is fully obscured by the moon) is a bucket-list event, generating a sense of wonder and even an 'end-of-the-world' sensation. New from Bradt, Solar Eclipses 2024-2027 is the only guide to cover the world's next three total solar eclipses, arguably nature's most incredible spectacle. Written by an eclipse expert, this guide offers potential eclipse-tourists and eclipse-chasers alike everything...
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On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon. The book explains why eclipses happen, reveals their role in history, literature and myth, and introduces us to eclipse chasers, who travel with ecstatic fervor...
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Divided into segments, this program is designed to reinforce and support a viewer's comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams, and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Kids will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts, providing them with a model for how to appropriately use the words. Related words are also used and reinforced with visuals and text.
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The great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu is best known for the stately, meditative domestic dramas he made after World War II. But during his first decade at Shochiku studios, he dabbled in many genres--including the crime film, which resulted in this trio of magnificently shot and edited silents. Heavily influenced in narrative and visual style by the American movies that Ozu adored but already envincing the compassion and confident precision of...
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Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her relationship with Edward, both vampires, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.