Astrophysics

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681749570Author Jason J. NishiyamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool PublishersWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774858769Author Carolyn EdgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bengion CosalasPublisher Bengion CosalasWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938812798Author Peter StrassbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Full Court PressPublisher Full Court PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681740546Author Marc S. SeigarFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool PublishersWeight(grams) 333g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643278001Author Andrea AlbertFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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

Time is considered as an independent entity which cannot be reduced to the concept of matter, space or field. The point of discussion is the "time flow" conception of N A Kozyrev (1908-1983), an outstanding Russian astronomer and natural scientist. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887333922Author Aashni JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 358g

Have you ever seen a comet? It is a marvelous experience, one that all humans can share, that spawns a deep yearning to understand the spectacle.Have you ever wondered what comets are and why astronomers spend so much time studying them? Now, a comet...

"Interplanetary Outpost" follows the mission architecture template of NASA's plan for Human Outer Planet Exploration (HOPE), which envisions sending a crew to the moon Callisto to conduct exploration and sample return activities. To realize such a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781436346818Author Charles E AnzaloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782917260142Author Yakov PerelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint ProdinnovaPublisher ProdinnovaWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684561339Author Mark SottileFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643277110Author Joshua ColwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool PublishersWeight(grams) 333g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781443414272Author Ray JayawardhanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollinsWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627055314Author David C JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Morgan and Claypool Life SciencesPublisher Morgan & Claypool...

How does it happen that billions of stars can cooperate to produce the beautiful spirals that characterize so many galaxies, including ours? This book reviews the history behind the discovery of spiral galaxies and the problems faced when trying to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643273815Author Rainer DickFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Morgan & Claypool PublishersPublisher Morgan & Claypool PublishersWeight(grams) 333g

This book will explore the fundamentals of spacecraft charging: why it occurs, when it occurs, where it occurs, how to measure it, and its side effects. It will discuss state-of-the-art spacecraft charging technologies, which will be explained in detail...

This book is, in a sense, a sequel to David Seargent's first Springer book Weird Astronomy (2010). Whereas Weird Astronomy extended over a broad range of purely astronomical topics, the present work concentrates on phenomena closer to home; the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456835187Author Gerald SiegleFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439217337Author William B GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 608g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990384007Author Mae JemisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 632Imprint Dorothy Jemison Foundation for ExcellencePublisher Dorothy Jemison Foundation for...