Book

A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is a leaf, and each side of a leaf is a page. A set of text-filled or illustrated pages produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book, or e-book.

Books may also refer to works of literature, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or newspapers. The body of all written works including books is literature. In novels and sometimes other types of books (for example, biographies), a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, and so on). An avid reader of books is a bibliophile or colloquially, bookworm.

A shop where books are bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 unique titles had been published. In some wealthier nations, printed books are giving way to the usage of electronic or e-books, though sales of e-books declined in the first half of 2015.

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Book (disambiguation)

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side.

Book or Books may also refer to:

Book (graph theory), a split graph consisting of p triangles sharing a common edge

Book (law school), a common award given by some law schools

Book (musical theatre), the spoken dialogue of a stage musical

Book (surname)

Bob Books (American football) (1903–1954), American football player

Book (wagering), a set of odds for the possible outcomes in betting

To Book Wallpaper, a step in pasting wallpaper, to activate the paste

Book, Louisiana, a community in the United States

Book, a 1997 memoir by Whoopi Goldberg

Shepherd Book, a character in the Firefly television series and the following film Serenity

Book's Covered Bridge

Books (EP), a 2004 Extended Play music recording by Belle & Sebastian

The Books, an American band

J. B. Books, a character in the film The Shootist

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2009 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2009.

Events

April 21 – UNESCO launches the World Digital Library.

May 1 – Carol Ann Duffy is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first woman appointed to the position; she is also the first Scot and the first openly gay occupant of the post.

May 5 – Posthumous publication of J. R. R. Tolkien's narrative poem The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún in alliterative verse based on the 13th century Poetic Edda and probably written in the 1930s.

May 16–25 – Ruth Padel becomes the first woman ever elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford but resigns nine days later after she is alleged to have been involved in what some sources refer to as a smear campaign against Derek Walcott, her leading rival for the post.

August 10 – Standard orthography for writing in the Silesian language is adopted in Cieszyn, at a meeting of the Standardization Committee of the Silesian Language.

October 8 – Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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List

A list is any enumeration of a set of items. List or lists may also refer to:

People

Places

List auf Sylt, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt

Enumerations

Electoral list, a grouping of candidates

Listicle, an article in list format

Mailing list, collection of names and addresses to send material to multiple recipients

Task list, sometimes a to-do list, a prioritization strategy for time management

Computing

Comma-separated values, sometimes character-separated values, a file type that stores tabular data in plain-text form

Electronic mailing list

List (abstract data type), sometimes called a sequence

Organizations

List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

SC Germania List, German rugby union club

Other uses

List (watercraft), the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship

Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted

List, an alternative term for roll in flight dynamics

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Homecoming (Heroes)

"Homecoming" is the ninth episode of the first season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes.

Plot

The episode begins with Claire and her friend Zach walking into the high school amphitheater with lunch as Claire's former cheerleader friends wait anxiously for the results of the Homecoming Court vote. Claire downplays the entire ritual, but Zach encourages her to check the posting and see if she had won. To Claire's surprise, she has been voted Homecoming Queen, with her main rival, Jackie, merely a member of the court. Astonished, Claire and the rest of the cheerleaders turn around to see much of the student body proclaiming congratulations and support for Claire. She later discovers that Zach had been campaigning for her, working to win the "unpopular vote" by letting everyone know that Claire is not like the popular Jackie. Jackie, however, spoils the moment in an attempt to deflate Claire's victory by poking fun at Zach. Claire, beginning to see the importance of Zach's friendship to her, promptly punches Jackie in the face.

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Flight dynamics

Flight dynamics is the study of the performance, stability, and control of vehicles flying through the air or in outer space. It is concerned with how forces acting on the vehicle influence its speed and attitude with respect to time.

In fixed-wing aircraft, the changing orientation of the vehicle with respect to the local air flow is represented by two critical parameters, angle of attack ("alpha") and angle of sideslip ("beta"). These angles describe the vector direction of airspeed, important because it is the principal source of modulations in the aerodynamic forces and moments applied to the aircraft.

Spacecraft flight dynamics involve three forces: propulsive (rocket engine), gravitational, and lift and drag (when traveling through the earths or any other celestial atmosphere). Because aerodynamic forces involved with spacecraft flight are very small, this leaves gravity as the dominant force.

Aircraft and spacecraft share a critical interest in their orientation with respect to the earth horizon and heading, and this is represented by another set of angles, "yaw," "pitch" and "roll" which angles match their colloquial meaning, but also have formal definition as an Euler sequence. These angles are the product of the rotational equations of motion, where orientation responds to torque, just as the velocity of a vehicle responds to forces. For all flight vehicles, these two sets of dynamics, rotational and translational, operate simultaneously and in a coupled fashion to evolve the vehicle's state (orientation and velocity) trajectory.

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