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Textbook on Spherical Astronomy by W. M. Smart
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £77.22This well-established textbook gives a general but comprehensive introduction to positional astronomy. Originally based on the author's lecture courses at Cambridge University, it is intended primarily for undergraduates, but, due to its comprehensive... -
Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization by Cameron M. Smith 9781461411642
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £28.73Emigrating Beyond Earth puts space colonization into the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the technologies and strategies needed to colonize space, the authors examine the human and societal reasons for space colonization. They make... -
Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon by James Benford 9781939051295
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939051295Author James BenfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Lucky Bat BooksPublisher Lucky Bat BooksWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm... -
The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program: Unfulfilled Dreams and Missions that Never Flew by Davide Sivolella 9783031196522
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £32.79In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA's path for the decades to come. This imaginative vision was shattered less than six months later when, on... -
An Introduction to Star Formation by Derek Ward-Thompson 9780521630306
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £57.22Guiding the reader through all the stages that lead to the formation of a star such as our Sun, this advanced textbook provides students with a complete overview of star formation. It examines the underlying physical processes that govern the evolution... -
First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe by Richard Preston 9780812991857
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812991857Author Richard PrestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)... -
Astrophysics of Planet Formation by Philip J. Armitage 9781107653085
Booksplease Price: £38.41The study of planet formation has been revolutionized by recent observational breakthroughs, which have allowed the detection and characterization of extrasolar planets, the imaging of protoplanetary disks, and the discovery of the Solar System's Kuiper... -
Introductory Quantum Physics And Relativity by Jacob Dunningham
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76'The authors have done an exceptional job. ItaEURO (TM)s probably more accurate to describe this text as an introduction to both non-relativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics ... This book was a lot of fun to read and digest. I definitely recommend... -
Plasma Simulations by Example Lubos Brieda 9781032176147
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08The study of plasmas is crucial in improving our understanding of the universe, and they are being increasingly utilised in key technologies such as spacecraft thrusters, plasma medicine, and fusion energy. Providing readers with an easy to follow set of... -
Theory of Orbits: Volume 1: Integrable Systems and Non-perturbative Methods by Dino Boccaletti 9783540589631
Booksplease Price: £81.02Half a century ago, S. Chandrasekhar wrote these words in the preface to his l celebrated and successful book: In this monograph an attempt has been made to present the theory of stellar dy namics as a branch of classical dynamics - a discipline in the... -
Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Physics and Astrophysics by James B. Seaborn 9780387982953
Booksplease Price: £46.58For the last eighteen years, I have been teaching an introductory course in as trophysics. The course is intended for nonscience majors satisfying a general education requirement in natural science. It is a physics course with applications in astronomy... -
Welcome to the Universe: The Problem Book by Neil Degrasse Tyson 9780691177809
RRP: £118.00Booksplease Price: £92.52Here is the essential companion to Welcome to the Universe, a New York Times bestseller that was inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course for non-science majors that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott... -
42 Reasons to Hate the Universe: (And One Reason Not To) by Chris Ferrie 9781728272825
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you... you were right!Yes, the universe we live in is cosmically beautiful and mysterious and all that crap. But it's also a bit of an asshole. After all, remember that you are just a group of atoms... -
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking 9780553802023
Booksplease Price: £24.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780553802023Author Stephen HawkingFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell... -
Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight by Chris Dubbs 9780803216105
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £27.24U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff 2013 Professional Reading List Selection Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishment of a government-run space program, and the Ansari X PRIZE-winning flights of SpaceShipOne, the... -
Orbital Mechanics by John E. Prussing 9780195078343
Booksplease Price: £73.97In the planning of any space mission, whether manned or unmanned, one of the most important problems to solve is the orbital mechanics of the spaceflight-how to get the spacecraft from here to there. Sometimes the problem is a relatively simple one: for... -
Relativity: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity by Hans Stephani 9780521010696
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £71.43Thoroughly revised and updated, this textbook provides a pedagogical introduction to relativity. It is self-contained, but the reader is expected to have a basic knowledge of theoretical mechanics and electrodynamics. It covers the most important... -
Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos by Robert Osserman
RRP: £13.35Booksplease Price: £12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385474290Author Robert OssermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Principles of Plasma Diagnostics by I.H. Hutchinson
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £75.08This book provides a systematic introduction to the physics behind measurements on plasmas. It develops from first principles the concepts needed to plan, execute, and interpret plasma diagnostics. The book is therefore accessible to graduate students... -
Hawking Radiation: From Astrophysical Black Holes To Analogous Systems In Lab by Francesco D. Belgiorno 9789814508537
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £96.72'The book can be a good introduction to research in the area of black hole physics. Also, it can serve as a source book for the established researcher in the field. The book contains an extensive bibliography the contents of which are amply cited... -
Neutrino Physics Kai Zuber 9781032242200
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24When Kai Zuber's pioneering text on neutrinos was published in 2003, the author correctly predicted that the field would see tremendous growth in the immediate future. In that book, Professor Zuber provided a comprehensive self-contained examination of... -
Large-Scale Structure of the Universe by P. J. E. Peebles 9780691209838
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89The classic account of the structure and evolution of the early universe from Nobel Prize-winning physicist P. J. E. PeeblesAn instant landmark on its publication, The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe remains the essential introduction to this vital... -
Project Apollo: Exploring the Moon by Robert Godwin 9781894959377
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894959377Author Robert GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Apogee BooksPublisher Collector's Guide PublishingWeight(grams) 116g -
New Eyes on the Sun: A Guide to Satellite Images and Amateur Observation by John Wilkinson 9783642228384
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.17Information collected by satellites recently sent by the USA, the European Space Agency, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Russia to monitor the Sun has changed our knowledge and understanding of the Sun, particularly its effect on Earth. This book... -
Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts by Colin Burgess
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £46.58The names of the seven Mercury astronauts were announced in April 1959 amid a flurry of publicity and patriotism. This work provides biographical details of all thirty-two finalists for the seven coveted places as America's pioneering astronauts. All of... -
Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics by Frank Wilczek 9780393305968
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11Devoted to sharing their own delight and awe before the fundamental mysteries of the cosmos, Frank Wilczek (winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics) and science writer Betsy Devine also have a serious purpose: to reveal to the lay reader how a... -
Plasma Physics: An Introduction by Richard Fitzpatrick
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Encompasses the Lectured Works of a Renowned Expert in the FieldPlasma Physics: An Introduction is based on a series of university course lectures by a leading name in the field, and thoroughly covers the physics of the fourth state of matter. This... -
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind by Kitty Ferguson 9781250139368
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250139368Author Kitty FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Unraveling the Universe's Mysteries: Explore sciences' most baffling mysteries, including the Big Bang's origin, time travel, dark energy, humankind's fate, and more. by Louis Anthony del Monte 9780988171800
Booksplease Price: £13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988171800Author Louis Anthony del MonteFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Louis A. del MontePublisher Louis A. del MonteWeight(grams)... -
Life As We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and synthesis of) Alien Life by Peter Ward 9780143038498
Booksplease Price: £19.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038498Author Peter WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 217g -
Astrobiology: An Introduction Alan Longstaff 9781439875766
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.85Astrobiology is a multidisciplinary pursuit that in various guises encompasses astronomy, chemistry, planetary and Earth sciences, and biology. It relies on mathematical, statistical, and computer modeling for theory, and space science, engineering, and... -
Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics by John N. Bahcall
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.26The field of astrophysics is in the midst of a technologically driven renaissance, as fundamental discoveries are being made with astonishing frequency. In the last decade, new detectors in space, on earth, and deep underground have, when coupled with... -
Fly Me to the Moon: An Insider's Guide to the New Science of Space Travel by Edward Belbruno 9780691128221
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.61When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze. This is chaos in action. In Fly Me to the Moon, Edward Belbruno shows how to harness the same principle for low-fuel space travel--or, as he puts it, "surfing... -
An Introduction to Radio Astronomy by Bernard F. Burke 9781107672604
Booksplease Price: £47.56Written by two prominent figures in radio astronomy, this well-established, graduate-level textbook is a thorough introduction to radio telescopes and techniques. It is an invaluable overview for students and researchers turning to radio astronomy for... -
Gravitation: Foundations and Frontiers by T. Padmanabhan
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £72.49Covering all aspects of gravitation in a contemporary style, this advanced textbook is ideal for graduate students and researchers in all areas of theoretical physics. The 'Foundation' section develops the formalism in six chapters, and uses it in the... -
Planet Earth: Cosmology, Geology, and the Evolution of Life and Environment by Cesare Emiliani
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £62.22The next few decades are likely to witness deep environmental crises, crises we will be able to cope with only through a clear understanding of the complex, delicate system of which we are part. Fortunately, the great advances made in all fields of... -
Stellar Structure and Evolution by Rudolf Kippenhahn 9783642302558
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £86.44This long-awaited second edition of the classical textbook on Stellar Structure and Evolution by Kippenhahn and Weigert is a thoroughly revised version of the original text. Taking into account modern observational constraints as well as additional... -
Here Be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life by David W. Koerner 9780195128529
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £55.15It is only recently that advances in chemistry, physics, and biology and in their application to space and the space sciences, have provided scientists with the tools to make accurate and well-informed predictions about the possibility of life on other... -
Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies by Bernard E. J. Pagel
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £67.39The distribution of elements in the cosmos is the result of many processes, and it provides a powerful tool to study the Big Bang, the density of baryonic matter, nucleosynthesis and the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies. Covering many... -
Fundamentals of Plasma Physics by Paul M. Bellan 9780521528009
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £73.41This rigorous explanation of plasmas is relevant to diverse plasma applications such as controlled fusion, astrophysical plasmas, solar physics, magnetospheric plasmas, and plasma thrusters. More thorough than previous texts, it exploits new powerful...