A thrilling Star Trek: The Original Series adventure featuring Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise in a strange battle for dilithium crystals against the Klingons. Dilithium. In crystalline form, the most valuable mineral in the galaxy. It powers the Federation’s starships...and the Klingon Empire’s battlecruisers. Now on a small, out-of-the-way planet named Direidi, the greatest fortune in dilithium crystals ever seen has been found. Under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, the planet will go to the side best able to develop the planet and its resourses. Each side will contest the prize with the prime of its fleet. For the Federation—Captain James T. Kirk and the Starship Enterprise. For the Klingons—Captain Kaden vestai-Oparai and the Fire Blossom. Only the Direidians are writing their own script for this contest—script that propels the crew of the Starship Enterprise into their strangest adventure yet!
In this companion volume to Merlin's Tour of the Universe, Neil de Grasse Tyson presents a completely new collection of questions and answers about the cosmos for stargazers of all ages.
It’s just right. Our very own Goldilocks planet . . . . Follow a young girl as she explores these questions in this gorgeous book about the wondrous search for another Goldilocks planet.
Star Trek: How Much for Just the Planet?
This book is a must-read for anyone who has ever dreamed of finding other planets like ours—and perhaps even life like ours—in the cosmos.
Captain Picard must save a planet from slavery!
Today, the training of American astronauts is almost taken for granted, but prior to 1961 no one knew whether humans could function in space at all. Space suits, working in...
Both the Federation and the Klingons are in a contest for the right to develop the planet Direidi for dilithium crystals. Captain Kirk represents the Federation.
She was a psychologist but had only four regular patients. She used her bedroom as an office, though she longed to have one in town. “Someplace beautiful,” she would say. ... My son tells me he doesn't want to live with me anymore.
“ Fritz Haber and Chaim Weizmann , Jewish chemists employed in the invention of new weapons that the Germans and British used against each other . At a time when predictions of world starvation were reaching a crescendo , Haber had done ...
In addition to charting global trends and showing how they are connected, this book articulates how we can live more sustainably in the future.