Astrophysics

Like the Earth and planets, stars rotate. Understanding how stars rotate is central to modelling their structure, formation and evolution, and how they interact with their environment and companion stars. This authoritative volume, first published in...

Is the current state of our Galaxy primarily the result of its initial conditions or is it the product of a lifetime of complex interactions with its environment? Gathered in this volume are papers presented at an international meeting in Granada, Spain,...

The stars that form a halo around our Galaxy are intriguing; they have abundances of elements that suggest they are old. The properties of these 'hot stars' and similar stars in other galaxies challenge the well-established theory of stellar evolution in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681744087Author James R WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool PublishersWeight(grams) 255g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643274775Author Leo RodriguezFormat HardbackPage Count 121Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool PublishersWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643277158Author Joshua ColwellFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool PublishersWeight(grams) 1g

This is a compendium on the remote sensing of space plasmas via energetic neutral atoms (ENAs). Covered are plasmas just above Earth's upper atmosphere, around other planets, at the heliospheric boundary, and in the local interstellar medium. ENAs stem...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643270012Author Joel L. SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool PublishersWeight(grams) 525g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353449353Author Arthur William ClaydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986489506Author Charlie MarinoFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Erudite First EditionsPublisher Erudite First EditionsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886675535Author Manohar Narayan PurohitFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681740324Author Lutz HuwelFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool PublishersWeight(grams) 525g

The study of dark matter, in both astrophysics and particle physics, has emerged as one of the most active and exciting topics of research in recent years. This book reviews the history behind the discovery of missing mass (or unseen mass) in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643277479Author Charli M SakariFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool PublishersWeight(grams) 333g

From prehistoric times, mankind has looked up at the night sky, and puzzled at the changing positions of the stars. How far away they are is a question that has confounded scientists for centuries. Over the last few hundred years, many scientific careers...

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The Sun, which is our own star at the center of the Solar System, gives rise to all life on Earth and is the driver of photosynthesis in plants and the source of all food and energy for living things. As seen with the naked eye, the Sun appears as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648288876Author Dr Ashok SaxenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book is intended to be a course about the creation and evolution of the universe at large, including the basic macroscopic building blocks (galaxies) and the overall large-scale structure.This text covers a broad range of topics for a graduate-level...

This is not science fiction. It's a voyage on the arrow of time to the coming fifty years. The legendary palindromic character Mr. Qfwfq from Italo Calvino's collection of short stories, The Cosmicomics, will go with us - he who knows all the answers but...

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The development of man's understanding of planetary motions is the crown jewel of Newtonian mechanics.This book offers a concise but self-contained handbook-length treatment of this historically important topic for students at about the third-year-level...

Of Clocks and Time takes readers on a five-stop journey through the physics and technology (and occasional bits of applications and history) of timekeeping. On the way, conceptual vistas and qualitative images abound, but since mathematics is spoken...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782917260166Author Brian WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint ProdinnovaPublisher ProdinnovaWeight(grams) 113g

The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin - huge...

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In the 25th Century, the effects of overpopulation and global warming on Earth have led to the formation of human colonies on the Moon, Mars and elsewhere in the Solar System, yet the limited number of viable places forces humanity to look to the stars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770676626Author Janett Lee WawrzyniakFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

'If you want to remember why you once fell in love with the idea of the cosmos, or want to fall in love with it for the first time, then this book is for you' ObserverFrom Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, this is a...

Introduction to Close Binary Systems provides a comprehensive survey and guide to the fast-moving field of multiple, specifically binary, stars, with an up to date account of research around 'close', i.e. interacting pairs. Such interactions allow direct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410224897Author R T JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams) 726g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643273778Author Rainer DickFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool PublishersWeight(grams) 333g

In this book we will look at what planetary nebulae are, where they come from and where they go. We will discuss what mechanisms cause these beautiful markers of stellar demise as well as what causes them to form their variety of shapes. How we measure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789994982462Author Hamed KasmaeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Eliva PressPublisher Eliva PressWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643274737Author Leo RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 121Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool Publishers

This book presents a brief compilation of results from nearly a century of research on the globular star clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).It explores the techniques and limitations of the observations, the successes and challenges of the models,...

Space medicine has been an important component of the success of human spaceflight and will continue to play a critical role in the future ventures. To prepare for the day when astronauts will leave low Earth orbit for long-duration exploration missions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953728128Author Peter StrassbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Full Court PressPublisher Full Court PressWeight(grams) 122g