Pencil, paper and stars the handbook of traditional and emergency navigation by Buchan, Alastair

Table of Contents: “…An excellent art -- Another kind of sailing -- The first navigators -- All in the mind -- Passage planning -- A home made magnetic compass -- Direction from the sun -- Direction from the stars -- Direction from the moon -- Telling the time -- Dead reckoning and estimated positions -- Coastal navigation -- Home made sextants -- Sextant corrections -- Meridian sights -- Latitude from polaris -- Longitude -- Plane sailing -- Chartmaking -- Signs of landfall -- Accuracy.…”

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Curiosities of the Sky by Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929

“…The windows of absolute night -- Star-clouds, star-clusters, and star-streams -- Stellar migrations -- The passing of the constellations -- Conflagrations in the heavens -- Explosive and whirling nebulae -- The banners of the sun -- The zodiacal…”
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The Indian Fairy Book: From the Original Legends by Mathews, Cornelius, 1817-1889

“…The Celestial Sisters -- The Boy who Set a Snare for the Sun -- Strong Desire and the Red Sorcerer -- The Wonderful Exploits of Grasshopper -- The Two Jeebi -- Osseo, the Son of the Evening Star -- Gray Eagle and his Five Brothers -- The Toad-Wo…”
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Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science by Buckley, Arabella B., 1840-1929 (Arabella Burton)

“…The magician's chamber by moonlight -- Magic glasses and how to use them -- Fairy rings and how they are made -- The life-history of lichens and mosses -- The history of a lava stream -- An hour with the sun -- An evening among the stars -- Little beings from a miniature ocean -- The Dartmoor ponies -- The magician's dream of ancient days.…”
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Indian Fairy Tales

“…The lion and the crane -- How the Raja's son won the Princess Labam -- The lambikin -- Punchkin -- The broken pot -- The magic fiddle -- The cruel crane outwitted -- Loving Laili -- The tiger, the Brahman, and the jackal -- The soothsayer's son -- Harisarman -- The charmed ring -- The talkative tortoise -- A lac of rupees for a piece of advice -- The gold-giving serpent -- The son of seven queens -- A lesson for kings -- Pride goeth before a fall -- Raja Rasalu -- The ass in the lion's skin -- The farmer and the money-lender -- The boy who had a moon on his forehead and a star on his chin -- The prince and the fakir -- Why the fish laughed -- The demon with the matted hair -- The ivory city and its fairy princess -- Sun, moon, and wind go out to dinner -- How the wicked sons were duped -- The pigeon and the crow.…”
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Voyages to the planets by Fraknoi, Andrew, Morrison, David 1940-, Wolff, Sidney C.

Table of Contents: “…Cosmic Samples and the Origin of Planetary Systems. 14. The Sun: A Garden-Variety Star. 15. Life in the Universe. …”

Glorious greetings by Twelvetrees, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Part 4 Papercraft: heart through the window; bon voyage; stand-up goose; stand-up pig; 3-D star; pop-up sun, bee and flowers; sun through clouds; new baby jacket; world of clay; fluffy-tailed cat; gallery; apple card; sea monster; big mouth hippo; loopy lion; starfish; windows on the world; pop-up snowflake; daisy card; flower heart; birthday scroll; bubbly fish. …”

Around the world 80 dream vacations by Stoppa, Simona

The nautical almanac 2016

Indonesia rising the repositioning of Asia's third giant

Vocabulary drills jamestown's reading improvement by Fry, Edward B.

Table of Contents: “…Meeting Words in Context: By Sun and Stars -- 10. Word Study -- 11. Meeting Words in Context: Where Do All the Wild Birds Go? …”

Voyage through space by Graham, Ian 1953-

How science works by Harvey, Derek, Jackson, Tom 1972-, Smith, Ginny, Sturgeon, Alison, Woodward, John 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- How plants fuel the world -- How plants grow -- Respiration -- The carbon cycle -- Aging -- Genomes -- Genetic engineering -- Gene therapy -- Stem cells -- Cloning -- Space -- Stars -- The Sun -- The solar system -- Space flotsam -- Black holes -- Galaxies -- The Big Bang -- How big is the universe? …”

How to track and navigate by Wilson, Neil

Masterplots II.

Table of Contents: “…Du Bois -- The speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The speeches of Malcolm X -- The spook who sat by the door / Sam Greenlee -- The sport of the gods / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The spyglass tree / Albert Murray -- Squabble and other stories / John Holman -- Stars in my pocket like grains of sand / Samuel R. …”
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