Best almanacs & yearbooks according to redditors

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u/TheBB · 17 pointsr/askscience

Earth rotates (nearly) freely in space around a principal axis of rotation which, as you say, we know as the north-south axis. If you were to apply some torque to the Earth to change that, the rotation would change to some other axis. In other words, you wouldn't really see any more complicated behaviour than today, just a different axis, and there would be new "north" and "south" poles.

That's the boring answer. Now for something slightly more interesting.

Now as it happens the Earth does actually not rotate freely. It is subject primarily to tidal forces from the Moon and the Sun, but also a few others. This causes the axis of rotation to change over a period of roughly 26,000 years, an effect known as axial precession or precession of the equinoxes. The apparent north pole, currently in the vicinity of the star Polaris, will trace a circle over 26,000 years. The center point of that circle is the "orbital" north pole, i.e. the axis around which the Earth orbits (not rotates). This looks similar to how a spinning top sometimes slowly spins around its own axis of rotation, if you set it spinning with a slight tilt on a surface.

There are other changes to Earth's rotation too, they are called nutation, the principal effect of which varies over about an 18 year period.

So yes, it is possible to have such complicated rotation and in fact it already happens. However I do not wish to speculate on how exactly precession and nutation would look like if you modified the Earth's primary axis of rotation and/or angular momentum.

Source: Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac.

u/noenaim · 9 pointsr/Detroit

"The Detroit Almanac" the Free Press made for the tricentennial back in 2001

https://www.amazon.com/Detroit-Almanac-Peter-Gavrilovich/dp/0937247340

u/clever_user_name · 9 pointsr/nba
u/[deleted] · 9 pointsr/nba

Their book is pretty great. Silly writing that makes basketball players sound like Norse gods and lots of awesome artwork.

u/Timbit42 · 7 pointsr/canada

The first paragraph: "Toronto, with a population of 2.79 million people (5.5 million in the GTA - Greater Toronto Area) is heralded as one of the most multicultural cities in the world and is ranked as the safest large metropolitan area in North America by Places Rated Almanac."

Link to Places Rated Almanac: https://www.amazon.ca/Places-Rated-Almanac-Classic-Finding/dp/0979319900

u/Generic_Username46 · 4 pointsr/formula1
u/ExtonGuy · 3 pointsr/askscience

If the characters wake up with an astronautical book or data base, then the positions of the moon and planets would be the best bet for telling the date and location. The stars would give them only the latitude, not the longitude. Although the astro almanac is recalculated for each year, it should be accurate enough to project the equations a few hundred years into the future. If you need a few thousand years, then you need a long-term epidermis, like JPL DE431 (covers years 13201 BC to AD 17191). Of course, you need a computer to run it on.

https://www.amazon.com/Explanatory-Supplement-Astronomical-Almanac-Urban/dp/1891389858

https://www.amazon.com/Astronomical-Almanac-Year-Nautical-Office/dp/0707741920/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=XRMFS7E3NGSC2CT46FQC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory_Development_Ephemeris

u/lisavanreddit · 3 pointsr/femalefashionadvice

I got Lonely Planet's Where to Go When in hardcover for myself, and I always see people rifle through it: https://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Planets-Where-Go-When-ebook/dp/B01MCZ9PRP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542663231&sr=8-1&keywords=where+to+travel+when

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Have you tried home automation things for your in-laws? Maybe switches they can control on their own in their house, or a Rachio smart sprinkler system or a Nest thermostat?

u/WhiskyBadger · 3 pointsr/sports

Search for stade francais rugby calender, it's not bad

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/2918504076/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile

u/NyQuil012 · 3 pointsr/AskReddit

A raincoat. Or a sweater.

EDIT: also, American to English won't help. She needs an American to Scottish dictionary.

u/Darkaardvark · 3 pointsr/nba

I'd recommend The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac. It covers style and personality for a lot of the stars in the league (it was made in 2008), and is incredibly insightful, funny, and beautifully illustrated. This diagram, on Tim Duncan is an example of what it's like.

u/LionelEssrog · 2 pointsr/Screenwriting

You could do worse than picking up a copy of this. I haven't read a copy in a good few years, but it used to have a pretty exhaustive list of literary agents included - many of whom represent screenwriters.

In the meantime, have you looked into local funding agencies? Creative England are a good jumping off point for seeking out things like development funding or networking - there used to be more localised regional screen agencies, but most have now been folded into CE.

u/BreakOutTheBigGuns · 2 pointsr/nba

FreeDarko's Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac: Styles, Stats and Stars in Today's Game has an amazing section on Sheed. They post his stats before/after getting teched up, and they're astounding.

Goes from being really good to basically being one of the best big men of all time.

u/awamboldt · 2 pointsr/nba

Here's some reading material that you might find interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/FreeDarko-Presents-Macrophenomenal-Basketball-Almanac/dp/1596915617/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301638666&sr=8-1

Appreciating good basketball is important, but it's the art of the game, and really that of any pro sports, which makes it worth watching. Part of the art of the game are the storylines that unfold in sports.

As a Bulls/Packers fan I have been pretty blessed as far as the art and story of the game go with the GOAT in Michael Jordan, a guy that appears to be an all time great in Aaron Rodgers, Super Bowl wins, great playoff series like Bulls vs. Celtics 2009, etc.

It's something that is hard to explain, but the art, story, and the entertainment it provides is something great that comes from sports, and should not be denied to just viewing the game from a purely practical standpoint.

u/FreddyDeus · 2 pointsr/freelance

First of all, you need to invest in a copy of the Writer's and Artist's Yearbook.

The section for illustrators is very small, but contains excellent advice. It also contains a comprehensive list, with contact details, of all UK press and broadcast media. This is it's real strength.

It also contains advice regarding getting an agent (a good idea if you want to make a living out of illustration), what you can expect from them etc. It is the bible for self-employed or freelance commercial artists and writers. Well worth £15 or so.

I can't recommend an industry body to you, as I'm not an illustrator. But I can give you an example of a similar organisation to which I belong, which is the Society of Authors. I don't know if you'd be eligible for membership as an illustrator, but if you can find a similar, respectable organisation, I'd recommend it.

The W&A Yearbook should also contain a list of stock image libraries, although you can search for these online easily. Consider the type of work they do and perhaps, when you have little commissioned work on, maybe create images for a stock library. Most do not pay up front, but you will receive usage fees should they be licensed by a client.

Also, there is a W&A yearbook for children's publications. You shouldn't ignore this market. Children's publications consume a lot of illustration, as I'm sure you can imagine.

u/Hickesy · 2 pointsr/writing
u/homoyoudidnt · 1 pointr/broslikeus

I bought his 2017 calendar and it's quite possibly the best purchase I have made all year.

u/nothatssaintives · 1 pointr/Screenwriting

I used the Writer’s and Artist’s yearbook, which included a list of agents with contact info and what type of material they were looking for. Also tells you if they’re open to submissions.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078JM9F18/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_q0DhDbZD36NGA

u/ProjectSquirrel · 1 pointr/freebooks

And this is the UK link:

The 2015 Formula 1 Season In Quotes

u/joaoluizsn · 1 pointr/writing

Well, solidify the idea you want to convey first, then, make a map or something so you can travel through all those characters you like to create, place them, on the stories, fiction, non-fiction, western, drama, etc, etc,
some things that may help you:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Fiction-Writers-Readers/dp/0452281547

http://www.amazon.com/On-Becoming-Novelist-John-Gardner-ebook/dp/B00AB7NYZU

http://www.amazon.com/The-Writers-Journey-Structure-Edition/dp/193290736X

u/and1thousand · 1 pointr/sixers

Where did you get that? Is that from a FreeDarko publication or something? (FreeDarko is an old basketball blog.) It looks like something that could come out of this book I have by the FreeDarko writers.

u/msaleem · 1 pointr/nba

Start with The Art of a Beautiful Game by SI's Chris Ballard. It will make you fall in love.

I also recommend both the books from FreeDarko collective (buy them in hardcover for the fantastic artwork).

u/jaa101 · 1 pointr/explainlikeimfive

The sun's position in the sky is constantly changing, including its declination (latitude). Every year navigators buy themselves a new Nautical Almanac which allows them to work out the sun's declination at any time during the year to the nearest 600th part of a degree (tenth of an arc-minute). In turn this allows them to determine latitude to the nearest tenth of a nautical mile, though difficulties in observation and other sources of error mean that being within half a nautical mile is good work.

Once you have the sun's noon (maximum) altitude in degrees above the horizon (corrected for several sources of error) and you've worked out the sun's declination at the instant of that observation (using the Almanac), working out your latitude is not much more than subtraction. You have to be careful about whether the sun's declination is north or south and whether you are north or south of the equator, but it's no harder than keeping track of plus and minus signs during any arithmetic. No trigonometry is required here.

Longitude from noon sights comes from working out what time of day the sun was highest. You have to stand there with the sextant for several minutes watching the sun go up and then down. You might take several timed readings and later work out when you think it reached its highest altitude. This time, plus the sun's longitude (SHA from the Almanac) give you your longitude. At the equator four seconds corresponds to a nautical mile so it's challenging to be more precise than that.

See this sample spread giving the position of the sun, moon and planets every hour for a three-day period. There are further tables at the back of the Almanac that make it easy to interpolate the figures to come up with an accurate position for any time during the hour.

u/littlebugs · 1 pointr/Parenting

Leslie Patricelli's Potty book was a favorite, as well as Mercer Mayer's The New Potty (from the Little Critter series).

For the second grader, Captain Underpants, Bone, or no, wait, a copy of The Guinness Book of World Records is always a HUGE hit for second-fourth grade boys.

u/Eli-T · 1 pointr/Everton

He wrote the Everton Miscellany and published a diary covering an entire season.
He was also a regular contributor for When Skies are Grey, both the print version sold outside the game and the online version whilst it lasted.

Where the hell have you two got this idea that he might be someone who just pops out to have a dig at the team when we're doing badly?