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The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology: Celebrating Stephen Hawking's 60th Birthday
by G. W. Gibbons and E. P. S. Shellard and S. J. Rankin  Publisher Comments Based on lectures given in honour of Stephen Hawking?s sixtieth birthday, this book comprises contributions from some of the world?s leading theoretical physicists. It begins with a section containing chapters by successful scientific popularisers...
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The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began
by Stuart Clark Publisher Comments In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and...
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To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)
by Chris Gainor Publisher Comments Although the dream of flying is as old as the human imagination, the notion of actually rocketing into space may have originated with Chinese experiments with gunpowder in the Middle Ages. Rockets as weapons and entertainment, whether sprung from science...
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Fundamentals of Astrodynamics
by Roger R Bate Publisher Comments Teaching text developed by U.S. Air Force Academy and designed as a first course emphasizes the universal variable formulation. Develops the basic two-body and n-body equations of motion; orbit determination; classical orbital elements, coordinate...
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Hiding in the Mirror: The Quest for Alternate Realities, from Plato to String Theory
by Lawrence M. Krauss Publisher Comments An exploration of mankinds fascination with worlds beyond our ownby the bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek Lawrence Krauss an international leader in physics and cosmologyexamines our long and ardent romance with parallel universes, veiled...
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An Introduction to Space Weather
by Mark Moldwin Publisher Comments Space weather is an emerging field of space science focused on understanding societal and technological impacts of the solar-terrestrial relationship. The Sun, which has tremendous influence on Earth's space environment, releases vast amounts of energy...
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Astrophysics in a Nutshell
by Dan Maoz Publisher Comments A concise but thorough introduction to the observational data and theoretical concepts underlying modern astronomy, Astrophysics in a Nutshell is designed for advanced undergraduate science majors taking a one-semester course. This well-balanced and up...
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The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen W Hawking Publisher Comments Stephen Hawking?s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time, introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to readers all over the world. Now, in a major publishing event, Hawking returns with a lavishly...
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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
by Roger Penrose Publisher Comments Since the earliest efforts of the ancient Greeks to find order amid the chaos around us, there has been continual accelerated progress toward understanding the laws that govern our universe. And the particularly important advances made by means of the...
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Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age
by W. Patrick McCray Publisher Comments When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the Moonwatchers, these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional...
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Astrophysics Is Easy
by Mike Inglis Publisher Comments Astrophysics is a subject that is often - with some justification - regarded as extremely difficult, requiring at least degree-level mathematics as a prerequisite to its understanding. Consequently, many amateur astronomers just don't bother, and miss...
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America in Space: NASA's First Fifty Years
by Steven J. Dick and Robert Jacobs and Constance Moore and Anthony M. Springer and Bertram Ulrich Publisher Comments NASA launches a yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary in the fall of 2007, and Abrams is privileged to publish this visual history of its many achievements in manned and unmanned space travel. Written and edited by a team of experienced NASA...
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Springer Series in Materials Science #107: Organic Semiconductors in Sensor Applications
by Daniel A. (edt) Bernards Synopsis Organic semiconductors offer unique characteristics such as tunability of electronic properties via chemical synthesis, compatibility with mechanically flexible substrates, low-cost manufacturing, and facile integration with chemical and biological...
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Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel
by Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy Publisher Comments Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be...
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Canada's Fifty Years in Space: The Cospar Anniversary (Apogee Books Space)
by Gordon Shepherd Publisher Comments Detailing the last 50 years of the Canadian space science program, this extensive history explores everything from the aurora borealis studies of the late 1950s to the current Radarsat-1 and Canada’s involvement with the NASA Phoenix mission. The...
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NASA: The Complete Illustrated History
by Michael H. Gorn Synopsis The first illustrated history of NASA ever to be published, this book tells the remarkable story of space exploration from the early twentieth century to the present day....
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Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies
by Bernard E J Pagel Publisher Comments A lucid, wide-ranging graduate textbook on the topical subject of galactic chemical evolution - by a pioneer of the field....
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An Introduction to Astrobiology
by Iain (edt) Gilmour Publisher Comments An elementary university text about life in the universe for introductory courses in astrobiology....
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Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun with CDROM
by David L. Goodstein Synopsis In this breathtaking lecture, Richard Feynman, one of the century's greatest physicists, uses nothing more advanced than high-school geometry to explain why the planets orbit the sun elliptically rather than in perfect circles. Photos & diagrams....
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Rare Earth : Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe (00 Edition)
by Peter Ward Publisher Comments Maybe we really are alone. "Likely to cause a revolution in thinking" (The New York Times), "a stellar example of clear writing" (American Scientist), and "a startling new hypothesis" (Library Journal) This book, revised and with a new preface, makes us...
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