Asteroids
How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space
ISBN: HB: 9780300231922,
Yale University Press,
July 2021
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Human travel into space is an enormously expensive and unforgiving endeavor. So why go? In this accessible and authoritative book, astrophysicist Martin Elvis argues that the answer is the asteroid exploration, for the strong motives of love, fear, a...
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22.50 GBP
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Einstein on the Run
How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist
ISBN: PB: 9780300254990,
Yale University Press,
February 2021
376 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 33 black&white illus.
376 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 33 black&white illus.
In autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while occasionally stepping out for walks or to play his violin. But how had Einstein come to abandon h...
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Celestial Mirror
The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II
ISBN: HB: 9780300246278,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
168 pp., 26,6x22,8 cm, 163 colour illus.
168 pp., 26,6x22,8 cm, 163 colour illus.
Between 1724 and 1730, Maharajah Sawaii Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories, called Jantar Mantars, in northern India. The four remaining observatories are an extraordinary fusion of architecture and science, combining...
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Dispatches from Planet 3
Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
ISBN: PB: 9780300248302,
Yale University Press,
March 2020
320 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 50 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 50 black&white illus.
The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological "tales" by multiple award-winning science writer Marcia Bartusiak. In thirty-two concise and engrossing essays, the author provides a d...
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Star Stories
Constellations and People
ISBN: HB: 9780300241280,
Yale University Press,
November 2019
208 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 34 black&white illus.
208 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 34 black&white illus.
We can see love, betrayal, and friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert on cultural understandings of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an unconventional atlas of the night sky, introducing readers to tales beloved for gene...
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25.00 GBP
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Reaching for the Moon
A Short History of the Space Race
ISBN: HB: 9780300230468,
Yale University Press,
July 2019
256 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 19 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 19 black&white illus.
At the dawn of the space age, technological breakthroughs in Earth orbit flight were both breathtaking feats of ingenuity and disturbances to a delicate global balance of power. In this short book, aerospace historian Roger D. Launius concisely and e...
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22.50 GBP
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Mapping the Heavens
The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
ISBN: PB: 9780300227031,
Yale University Press,
July 2017
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 14 colour illus., 33 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 14 colour illus., 33 black&white illus.
This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries-the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at...
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In the Shadow of the Moon
The Science, Magic, and Mystery of Solar Eclipses
ISBN: HB: 9780300223194,
Yale University Press,
June 2017
328 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 32 black&white illus.
328 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 32 black&white illus.
In anticipation of solar eclipses visible in 2017 and 2024, an exploration of the scientific and cultural significance of this mesmerizing cosmic display.
Since the first humans looked up and saw the sun swallowed by darkness, our species has been c...
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All These Worlds are Yours
The Scientific Search for Alien Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300208696,
Yale University Press,
November 2016
232 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
232 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
Where would you look for alien life? An astronomer and science popularizer explains the basics of astrobiology to outline five plausible scenarios for finding extraterrestrials Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth tran...
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27.50 GBP
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Journey of the Universe
ISBN: PB: 9780300209433,
Yale University Press,
November 2014
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars...
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11.99 GBP
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