An Apartment on Uranus

Author: Paul B. Preciado
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1635901138
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
A “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism. Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the “third sex” and the rights of those who “love differently.” Following Ulrich, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he might live beyond existing power, gender and racial strictures invented by modernity. “My trans condition is a new form of uranism,” he writes. “I am not a man. I am not a woman. I am not heterosexual. I am not homosexual. I am not bisexual. I am a dissident of the gender-sex binary system. I am the multiplicity of the cosmos trapped in a binary political and epistemological system, shouting in front of you. I am a uranist confined inside the limits of technoscientific capitalism.” This book recounts Preciado's transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., but it is not only an account of gender transitioning. Preciado also considers political, cultural, and sexual transition, reflecting on issues that range from the rise of neo-fascism in Europe to the technological appropriation of the uterus, from the harassment of trans children to the role museums might play in the cultural revolution to come. An Apartment on Uranus is a bold, transgressive, and necessary book.

Uranus

Author: Jay T. Bergstralh
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816512089
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1104

Book Description
Uranus occupies a unique niche in the history of western thought; for while the planets from Mercury to Saturn had been known since pre-antiquity, Uranus was the first to be discovered, in 1781, through scientific investigation. Contemporary investigation of Uranus culminated in the Voyager 2 encounter in 1986. The results of that achievement, as well of concurrent research on the planet, are reviewed by 84 international authorities in this massive volume. Because Uranus' remoteness has prevented its being studied as intensively by earth-based observation as have other members of the solar system, most of what is known about the planet—its magnetic field and magnetosphere and satellites—were learned from the Voyager data, which is viewed here from a variety of perspectives. While the book is intended to serve as a comprehensive review, it also reports a substantial amount of original research results not previously published.

Uranus

Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250296552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus, the first of his Outer Planets trilogy. On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet Uranus, political idealism conflicts with pragmatic, and illegal, methods of financing. Add a scientist who has funding to launch a probe deep into Uranus‘s ocean depths to search for signs of life, and you have a three-way struggle for control. Humans can’t live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a sanctuary above the distant planet Uranus. He invites ”the tired, the sick, the poor“ of Earth to his orbital retreat where men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from the world. The billionaire who financed Haven, however, has his own designs: beyond the reach of the laws of the inner planets Haven could become the center for an interplanetary web of narcotics, prostitution, even hunting human prey. Meanwhile a scientist has gotten funding from the Inner Planets to drop remote probes into the “oceans” of Uranus, in search of life. He brings money and prestige, but he also brings journalists and government oversight to Haven. And they can’t have that. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Uranus

Author: Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756502997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Briefly describes the discovery, composition, planetary motion, moons, and efforts to study the planet Uranus.

A Look at Uranus

Author: Salvatore Tocci
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780531122501
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109

Book Description
Looks at the history and discovery of the planet Uranus.

Uranus

Author: Seymour Simon
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688099297
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Introduces, through text and photographs, the characteristics of the seventh planet in the solar system.

Uranus

Author: Chaya Glaser
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 9781627245678
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
"In this book, readers are introduced to the planet Uranus"--

Uranus

Author: Colleen Sexton
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1612112129
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
The planet Uranus has a bright blue-green color because of methane gas in its atmosphere. Young children will learn about the discovery of Uranus, how it has been explored, and why it is tilted on its side!

Uranus

Author: L. L. Owens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781609543891
Category : Uranus (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An introduction to Uranus that describes the planet's orbit, rotation, and atmosphere and discusses how scientists study it.

Planet Uranus

Author: Christine Taylor-Butler
Publisher: Children's Press
ISBN: 9780531253649
Category : Uranus (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Introduces the planet Uranus, discusses its history, its composition, and its role in the solar system.