David E Toomey

Amelia Earhart's Daughters: The Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age

Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet

Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet

Amelia Earhart's Daughters: The Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age

Scientific and Technical Communication: Theory, Practice, and Policy

Scientific and Technical Communication: Theory, Practice, and Policy

The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics

Amelia Earhart's Daughters: The Wild And Glorious Story Of American Women Aviators From World War II To The Dawn Of The Space Age

In 1942, with war raging on two fronts and military pilots in short supply, the U.S. Army Air Force enlisted a handful of skilled female aviators to deliver military planes from factories to air bases--expanding the successful program to include more than one thousand women. These superb pilots flew...

Foot Massage for Dummies: Give the Best Foot Massage Ever! (Refrigerator Magnet Books for Dummies)

These compact magnetic books, based on the popular For Dummies series,deliver concise information in a handy, portable packageno larger than a credit card. Theinnovativedesign allows the book tofold out to provide 26 pages ofuseful facts, figures, trivia, and other essential information.The colorful...

Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own by Toomey, David published by W. W. Norton & Company (2013)

By David Toomey Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own (1st First Edition) [Paperback]

Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight Into Hurricane Janet

In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantanamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet - a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. In the wake of World War II, the Air Force and the Navy discovered new civilian are...

The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics

The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time? Since H. G. Wells' 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. What would happen if a time traveler tried to change history? Would some for...

Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own

“Weird indeed, and not a little wonderful.”—Nature In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in Antarctic ice...

By David Toomey - The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics

Imitations of spacetime, Einstein's radical idea;'Unphysical time machines, Pastward time travel...seriously,Paradox, Cosmic strings, A parade of time machines, The absence of time travellers and much more.'