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Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts by Colin Burgess
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £46.92The 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: £17.13Apologies 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
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.81Apologies 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
RRP: £18.85Booksplease Price: £15.37Apologies 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: £92.67Astrobiology 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: £14.77When 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... -
A Traveler's Guide to the Stars by Les Johnson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25A brief guide to the real science of interstellar travelWith known exoplanets now numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship and Breakthrough Starshot advancing the idea of interstellar travel, the age-old dream of venturing forth... -
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: £69.05Covering 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: £59.64The 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
Booksplease 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: £55.68It 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: £63.94The 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: £69.97This 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... -
Astrophysical Techniques C.R. Kitchin 9781138591202
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78Long used in undergraduate and introductory graduate courses, Astrophysical Techniques, Seventh Edition provides an accessible yet comprehensive account of the innovate instruments, detectors, and techniques employed in astronomy and astrophysics... -
Exploding Stars and Invisible Planets: The Science of What's Out There by Fred Watson 9780231195409
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.64What happens to space and matter near a black hole? Where did the moon come from? How do we know what stars are made of? Are we alone in the universe?In Exploding Stars and Invisible Planets, Fred Watson, an award-winning astronomer, presents the most... -
Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks: How beliefs contaminate our opinions: an astrophysicist's perspective by Hilton Ratcliffe 9781612641652
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £15.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612641652Author Hilton RatcliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Muse Harbor PublishingPublisher Muse Harbor PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Introduction To The Theory Of The Early Universe: Hot Big Bang Theory by Dmitry S. Gorbunov
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £58.28This book is written from the viewpoint of a deep connection between cosmology and particle physics. It presents the results and ideas on both the homogeneous and isotropic Universe at the hot stage of its evolution and in later stages. The main chapters... -
Hawking On The Big Bang And Black Holes by Stephen W Hawking 9789810210793
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.84Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has made important theoretical contributions to gravitational theory and has played a major role in the development of cosmology and black hole physics.Hawking's early work,... -
Eyes on the Universe: The Story of the Telescope by Patrick Moore 9783540761648
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £32.77Eyes on the Universe is an illustrated history of the telescope, beginning with pre-telescopic observatories and the refractors of Galileo, Lippershey and Digges, and ending with the most modern instruments including - of course - the Hubble Space... -
Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds by C. R. Kitchin 9781461406433
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.83Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds probes the basis for possible answers to the fundamentals questions asked about these planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. This book examines what such planets might be like, where they... -
Theoretical Astrophysics: Volume 3: Galaxies and Cosmology by T. Padmanabhan 9780521566308
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £68.25This volume provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of cosmology and extragalactic astronomy at an advanced level. Beginning with an overview of the key observational results and necessary terminology, it goes on to cover important topics... -
On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea: A Scientific Novel by Michael Carroll 9783319177588
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.46Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of the most detailed knowledge on the moon's geology, volcanology, meteorology, marine sciences and... -
Cosmical Magnetic Fields: Their Origin and their Activity by E. N. Parker
Booksplease Price: £70.61This well known and widely used landmark text explores the universal spontaneous generation of magnetic fields in astronomical bodies and the agitation of the bodies by those fields. The general properties of magnetic fields, their appearance throughout... -
Revealing the Heart of the Galaxy: The Milky Way and its Black Hole by Robert H. Sanders 9781107039186
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.77Written in an informal and engaging style, this volume traces the discoveries that led to our understanding of the size and structure of the Milky Way, and the conclusive evidence for a massive black hole at its center. Robert H. Sanders, an astronomer... -
High-Energy Astrophysics: A Primer by Jorge Ernesto Horvath 9783030921583
Booksplease Price: £34.47This textbook is designed to serve as a link between the basic disciplines of physics and the frontier topics within high energy astrophysics, aiming at a level of difficulty congruent with that of other physics topics studied at undergraduate level... -
Life Support Systems for Humans in Space by Erik Seedhouse 9783030528584
Booksplease Price: £46.28Life support systems are an integral part of crewed spacecraft designs and habitation systems. This textbook introduces the LSS capabilities that sustain humans who live and work in space, and it is written at a level appropriate for both undergraduate... -
The New Martians: A Scientific Novel by Nick Kanas 9783319009742
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.13The year is 2035, and the crew from the first expedition to Mars is returning to Earth. The crewmembers are anxious to get home, and ennui pervades the ship. The mood is broken by a series of mysterious events that jeopardize their safety. Someone or... -
Fluxgate Magnetometers for Space Research by Gunter Dr Musmann 9783839137024
RRP: £22.90Booksplease Price: £21.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783839137024Author Dr Gunter MusmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 254mm *... -
An Introduction to Close Binary Stars by R. W. Hilditch 9780521798006
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £73.78Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. They are of fundamental importance because they allow stellar masses, radii and luminosities to be measured directly, and explain a host of diverse and energetic phenomena including X-ray binaries,... -
The Traveler's Guide to Space: For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists by Neil Comins
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £73.17If you have ever wondered about space travel, now you have the opportunity to understand it more fully than ever before. Traveling into space and even emigrating to nearby worlds may soon become part of the human experience. Scientists, engineers, and... -
Introduction to Stellar Dynamics by Luca Ciotti
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £48.36The study of stellar dynamics is experiencing an exciting new wave of interest thanks to observational campaigns and the ready availability of powerful computers. Whilst its relevance includes many areas of astrophysics, from the structure of the Milky... -
The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space by Michelle Evans 9781496229847
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the... -
The Structure and Evolution of the Sun by Giuseppe Severino 9783319649603
Booksplease Price: £46.58This book equips the reader with a coherent understanding of the structure of the Sun and its evolution and provides all the knowledge required to construct a simplified model of the Sun.The early chapters cover key aspects of basic physics and describe... -
The Comprehensibility of the Universe: A New Conception of Science by Nicholas Maxwell 9780199261550
Booksplease Price: £41.41The Comprehensibility of the Universe puts forward a radically new conception of science. According to the orthodox conception, scientific theories are accepted and rejected impartially with respect to evidence, no permanent assumption being made about... -
Stellar Evolution Physics by Icko Iben 9781107016576
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £85.17This volume explains the microscopic physics operating in stars in advanced stages of their evolution and describes with many numerical examples and illustrations how they respond to this microphysics. Models of low and intermediate mass are evolved... -
Supernovae, Neutron Star Physics and Nucleosynthesis by Debades Bandyopadhyay 9783030951702
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £46.74This book deals with the interdisciplinary areas of nuclear physics, supernovae and neutron star physics. It addresses the physics and astrophysics of the spectacular supernova explosions, starting with the collapse of massive stars and ending with the...