Rosie the hen leaves the chicken coop and sets out for a little walk. Right behind her is the fox, slyly trying to catch up with her. Rosie's walk is quiet, uneventful and eventually leads her back to the coop, blissfully unaware of the fox's travails as he tries -- unsuccessfully -- to navigate the obstacle course that Rosie has led him through.

The Fox is after Rosie, but Rosie doesn't know it. Unwittingly, she leads him into one disaster after the other, each funnier than the last. To enjoy Rosie's walk as much as Rosie does, just look inside!

This collection of the legendary thinker’s radio broadcasts brings together some of his most accessible and fascinating thinking Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of rad...(展开全部)

A Walk on the Widers Side Other people die of mumps Or general decay, Of fevers, chills or other ills But Wilders walk away. That's the little ditty they all sing in the quaintly picturesque New England village of Wilders Lane. That's part of the mystery too, of course. You see from pre-Revolutionary War times on, members of the Wilder family never die; they walk way-disappear ...(展开全部)

A Walk on the Widers Side Other people die of mumps Or general decay, Of fevers, chills or other ills But Wilders walk away. That's the little ditty they all sing in the quaintly picturesque New England village of Wilders Lane. That's part of the mystery too, of course. You see from pre-Revolutionary War times on, members of the Wilder family never die; they walk way-disappear ...(展开全部)

<BLOCKQUOTE> "How about a story? Spin us a yarn." Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. "I could tell you an extensively strange story," I warned. "Oh, good!" Gram said. "Delicious!" And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic.</P></BLOCKQUOTE> As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her ow...(展开全部)

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route and Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left

The recent years have seen breathtaking progress in technology, especially in the receiver and digital technologies relevant for radio astronomy, which has at the same time advanced to shorter wavelengths. This is the updated and completely revised 5th edition of the most used introductory text in radio astronomy. It presents a unified treatment of the entire field from centim...(展开全部)

This substantially rewritten and expanded fourth edition outlines the most up-to-date methods and tools of radio astronomy. Tools of Radio Astronomy gives a unified treatment of the entire field of radio astronomy, from centimeter to sub-millimeter wavelengths and using single telescopes as well as interferometers. The basic physical principles are described and a complete outl...(展开全部)

This 6th edition of “Tools of Radio Astronomy”, the most used introductory text in radio astronomy, has been revised to reflect the current state of this important branch of astronomy. This includes the use of satellites, low radio frequencies, the millimeter/sub-mm universe, the Cosmic Microwave Background and the increased importance of mm/sub-mm dust emission. Several deriva...(展开全部)