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Learn about planets, stars and black holes in The Astronomy Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Astronomy in this overview guide to the subject,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389798Author Professor Alexandre KoyreFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750323383Author Professor Miroslav FilipovicFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992600099Author MS Jonathan PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Onus BooksPublisher Onus BooksWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions. In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy...

In The Rocket Men authors Rex Hall and Dave Shayler review this Soviet demonstration of technological progress from both the developmental and operational aspects which were clouded in secrecy and in direct contrast to the high profile American programme...

This book offers an intimate guide to the Milky Way, taking readers on a grand tour of our home Galaxy's structure, genesis, and evolution, based on the latest astronomical findings. In engaging language, it tells how the Milky Way congealed from blobs...

What happens at the end of the life of massive stars? At one time we thought all these stars followed similar evolutionary paths. However, new discoveries have shown that things are not quite that simple. This book focuses on the extreme -the most...

This book provides an in-depth and self-contained treatment of the latest advances achieved in quantitative spectroscopic analyses of the observable outer layers of stars and similar objects. Written by two leading researchers in the field, it presents a...

The Structure and Evolution of Galaxies is a concise introduction to this fascinating subject providing the reader with the fundamentals in a clear and accessible style. This user-friendly text assumes some prerequisite knowledge of astronomy, with the...

Do a little armchair time travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing Through Hyperspace, you need not be a mathematician...

The Middle East was both the birthplace of astronomy and the centre for its development during the medieval period. John M. Steele traces the development of the Late Babylonians' ingenious schemes for modelling planetary motion. He reveals how medieval...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890482930Author Theony CondosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Phanes Press,U.S.Publisher Phanes Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839383601Author A J KingstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Pastor Publishing LtdPublisher Pastor Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486428833Author Allyn J. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974144382Author Dr Frank CrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Polaris BooksPublisher Polaris BooksWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471133247Author Cesare EmilianiFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Magnetic fields permeate our vast universe, urging electrically charged particles on their courses, powering solar and stellar flares, and focusing the intense activity of pulsars and neutron stars. Magnetic fields are found in every corner of the...

The observational component of astronomy is an exciting and vital part of any astrophysics degree. With the advent of low-cost astronomical cameras and remote and robotic operation, more students than ever have the opportunity to observe and perform...

The study of astronomy offers an unlimited opportunity for us to gain a deeper understanding of our planet, the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy and the known Universe. Using the plain-language approach that has proven highly popular in Fleisch's other...

As with the author's recent books Extreme Explosions and Under a Crimson Sun, the complex topic of star clusters is broken down and made accessible with clear links to other areas of astronomy in a language which the non-specialist can easily read and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928060154Author Wes JamrozFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Troubadour PublicationsPublisher Troubadour PublicationsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957279919Author Nicholas KollerstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Astro IndustriesPublisher Astro IndustriesWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

Cosmologists have reasons to believe that the vast universe in which we live is just one of an endless number of other universes within a multiverse-a mind-boggling array that may extend indefinitely in space and endlessly in both the past and the future...

Is There Life On Mars? will help you start to answer 20 of the most perplexing and fascinating questions about the universe, such as: Why do the planets stay in orbit? Was Einstein right? What is Dark Matter? Are we made from Stardust? Is there...

Could Einstein have possibly anticipated directly testing the most captivating prediction of general relativity, that there exist isolated pockets of spacetime shielded completely from our own? Now, almost a century after that theory emerged, one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620456361Author Philip S HarringtonFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Trade Paper PressPublisher Trade Paper Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680920383Author Andrew FraknoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 1200Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams) 2712gDimensions(mm)...

The scale of the cosmos can be baffling, with distances so vast and timescales to long that it's easy to dismiss them as being completely divorced from our everyday life. But in this new book Dr Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939681577Author Rupert SheldrakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing...

In 1996 Meade, the world's largest astronomical telescope manufacturer, introduced the ETX, a low-cost and genuinely portable instrument capable of results close to the theoretical limits of optical performance. Since then several different models have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750337298Author Saeqa Dil VrtilekFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics...

A complete six-year primary Maths course that takes a problem-solving approach to teaching young learners the skills they need to become confident mathematicians. A* Problem-solving approach encourages students to actively explore new mathematical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918860460Author George OhsawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Ohsawa (George) Macrobiotic Foundation,U.S.Publisher Ohsawa (George) Macrobiotic...

This "accessible and always entertaining" (Booklist) combination of history, pop science, and in-depth reporting offers a fascinating account of the asteroids that hit Earth long ago and those streaming toward us now, as well as how prepared we are...

Using the power of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, this unique, illustrated guide is filled with engaging exercises that deepen your knowledge of the solar system, help you take necessary pauses every day, and foster a renewed sense of presence in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393971494Author A S EddingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Hawk PressPublisher Hawk PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

Venus is the brightest 'star' in the night sky and it has been observed since ancient times. Often dubbed Earth's 'twin', it is the planet most similar to the Earth in size, mass and composition. There the similarity ends: Venus is shrouded by a dense...

Einstein's theories of special relativity and general relativity form a core part of today's undergraduate (or Masters-level) physics curriculum. This is a supplementary problem book or student's manual, consisting of 150 problems in each of special and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941983003Author Fred EspenakFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Astropixels PublishingPublisher Astropixels PublishingWeight(grams) 689gDimensions(mm)...