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This book gives a scientific account of all aspects of the game of golf and answers the questions which occur to all who play the game.  The mechanics of the swing and the impact of the club on the ball are explained. Together these decide the range of the ball - which is shown to be the most important factor for success.  The aerodynamics of the...

Fred Hoyle was a down-to-earth, argumentative Yorkshireman who became the voice of British astronomy. For fifty years, he spoke out for astronomy in the newspapers, on government committees, at scientific meetings, in popular books and on the radio. He devised the steady-state theory of the universe and worked out how the elements are formed in the...

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Family and Community in the Slave SouthLife in Black and White provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life        in the American South--weaving the fascinating personal stories of planters and        slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites, into a powerful portrait of        southern society from the mid-eighteenth...