Net Trek

Packed with concise high-interest descriptions, handy side-bars and eyecatching graphics, this is the first comprehensive listing of online Trekker interest groups, conferences, forums, games and trivia. It covers the Internet, the major commercial services, including CompuServe, America Online and Prodigy, and hundreds of bulletin boards.

Twenty million people are currently online--and this book will be their TV Guide. Lively, easy-access format with helpful grapohics--and a unique rating system--enables users to save time and money by prescreening their options. Covers 60,000 bulletin boards, 9,000 networks, 500 libraries, and all commercial services.

Hierdie reeks van 4 historiese boeke deur P.J. van der Merwe herleef weer deur middel van digitale druk-tegnologie. Die oorpronklike boeke is geskandeer en is nou beskikbaar in druk- en PDFformaat, as 'n stel of individueel. Die ander boeke in die reeks is Die Noordwaartse Beweging van die Boere voor die Groot Trek (1770-1842) en Die Trekboer in die Geskiedenis van die Kaapkolonie (1657-1842).

Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice collects fourteen articles connecting popular media with academic inquiry, illustrating the connections between the future world of Star Trek and current issues in international law, law and justice, and the American legal system. It makes an ideal text to teach students interdisciplinary academic concepts using a familiar, popular media phenomenon.

The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek offers a synoptic overview of Star Trek, its history, its influence, and the scholarly response to the franchise, as well as possibilities for further study. This volume aims to bridge the fields of science fiction and (trans)media studies, bringing together the many ways in which Star Trek franchising, fandom, storytelling, politics, history, and society have been represented. Seeking to propel further scholarly engagement, this Handbook offers new critical insights into the vast range of Star Trek texts, narrative strategies, audience responses, and theoretical themes and issues. This compilation includes both established and emerging scholars to foster a spirit of communal, trans-generational growth in the field and to present diversity to a traditional realm of science fiction studies.

There s a new amusement park in town. Come on in and find out allthe exciting ways you can have fun with math in everyday life.Wander through the fractal forest, take a ride on the M?obius-striproller coaster, and get dizzy learning about how math makes theTilt-A-Whirl possible. The more activities you try, the more you lllearn how cool it can be to see the world through the eyes of amathematician. Once you ve sampled some of the interesting and unique projects inMath Trek, from untangling unknots to winning games with weird diceto figuring out secret codes, you ll see that every trip to theMathZone is an exciting adventure!

The first book of its kind for the largest national park in the United States. Six times the size of Yellowstone National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias welcomes 40,000 visitors every year, and each of them will maximize the visit with this all-new guidebook. Detailed information is provided for navigating fifty of the best hiking routes through 13.2 million acres of Alaskan wilderness. The book is organized by type of trip: day hikes, frontcountry treks (starting from road-accessible trailheads), and remote backcountry treks (accessible via fly-in). There are detailed maps and black and white photographs as well as sidebars and narratives about river crossings, navigation, bear safety, wildlife, seasonal changes, and finding the routes.