Space Science

What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know? There are many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645466973Author Gregg D ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Thorpe BowkerPublisher Thorpe BowkerWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

This guide to celestial navigation has been popular ever since it first appeared in 1969. Revised in 1982, Celestial Navigation is a quick, easy, and thorough explanation (with realistically worked problems) of the practice of celestial navigation at...

This book provides an overview of the origins of the Apollo program and descriptions of the ground facilities, launch vehicles and spacecraft that were developed in the quest to reach - and return from - the surface of the moon. It will serve as an...

This book presents experiments which will teach physics relevant to astronomy. The astronomer, as instructor, frequently faces this need when his college or university has no astronomy department and any astronomy course is taught in the physics...

Thomas William Webb (1807-1885) was an Oxford-educated English clergyman whose deep interest in astronomy and accompanying field observations eventually led to the publication of his Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes in 1859. An attempt 'to furnish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621480709Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588346254Author Michael SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

`splendidly provocative ... enjoy it as a feast for the imagination.' John Gribbin, Sunday Times Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way round? The universe began with the Big Bang -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278128Author Brian GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906833176Author Immanuel VelikovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Paradigma LtdPublisher Paradigma LtdWeight(grams) 506gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement of women in science. One of the great lingering mysteries of the universe is dark matter. Scientists...

This second edition has been updated and substantially expanded. Starting with the description of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, this cogently written textbook introduces the reader to the astronomy of galaxies, their structure, active galactic nuclei,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118147979Author John GribbinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062508355Author Brian SwimmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Over the past decade, astronomers, planetary scientists, and cosmologists have answered - or are closing in on the answers to - some of the biggest questions about the universe. David J. Eicher presents a spectacular exploration of the cosmos that...

Quantum gravity is perhaps the most important open problem in fundamental physics. It is the problem of merging quantum mechanics and general relativity, the two great conceptual revolutions in the physics of the twentieth century. The loop and spinfoam...

Most astronomers and physicists now believe that the matter content of the Universe is dominated by dark matter: hypothetical particles which interact with normal matter primarily through the force of gravity. Though invisible to current direct detection...

Scientific Astrophotography is intended for those amateur astronomers who are looking for new challenges, once they have mastered visual observing and the basic imaging of various astronomical objects. It will also be a useful reference for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594482557Author Joel R. PrimackFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon-to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471513377Author Philip S. HarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928060116Author Wes JamrozFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Troubadour PublicationsPublisher Troubadour PublicationsWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)...

Our knowledge of Mars has grown enormously over the last decade as a result of the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and the two Mars Rover missions. This book is a systematic summary of what we have learnt about the geological evolution...

This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 Km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of asteroids and the likelihood of future Earth-impacts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524763626Author Guy ConsolmagnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ImagePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

An "intriguing and accessible" (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really...

What can you measure and what are your limits when orbiting in space? Learn about what physical quantities you can measure and what types of sensors you can buy or build. We cover the 5 essential design limits as well: power, bandwidth, resolution,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692378694Author AwodeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Bekh, LLCPublisher Bekh, LLCWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Gravitational lensing is a consequence of general relativity, where the gravitational force due to a massive object bends the paths of light originating from distant objects lying behind it. Using very little general relativity and no higher level...

In the 1960s and 1970s deep space missions were dispatched in pairs in case one was lost in launch or failed during its journey. Following the triumphs of the Viking landings on Mars in 1976 and both Voyagers spacecraft successfully surveying the outer...

Inflationary cosmology has been developed over the last twenty years to remedy serious shortcomings in the standard hot big bang model of the universe. This textbook, first published in 2005, explains the basis of modern cosmology and shows where the...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.The third edition of this indispensable book in radio interferometry provides extensive updates to the second edition, including results and technical advances from the past decade; discussion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906069025Author Angela MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The Squeeze PressPublisher The Squeeze Press

On July 21, 1969, the first man set foot on The Moon. When Neil Armstrong was asked if this made him feel big, he answered: "No, it made me feel really, really small." 50 years later, this publication celebrates that special moment that put life on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750330336Author Francoise CombesFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648914829Author HowexpertFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint HowexpertPublisher HowexpertWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556054600Author Niamh BrennanFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Wyndham Hall PressPublisher Wyndham Hall PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Initially composed by Poe as a public lecture towards the end of his career and considered by him the culmination of all his life's work, Eureka is an extended treatise about the creation, existence and the ultimate end of the world. An idiosyncratic...

Professor Herman Bondi, one of the proponents of the Steady State Theory, presented this volume as an account that would establish cosmology as a distinct branch of physics. First published in 1952, just a few years after the term 'the Big Bang' was...