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ISBN: 9780691158075 - Strange New Worlds

Strange New Worlds
Ray Jayawardhana

ISBN10: 069115807X ISBN13: 9780691158075
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia of speculation, have astronomers... More

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ISBN: 9780292743731 - Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico

Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico
Susan Milbrath

ISBN10: 0292743734 ISBN13: 9780292743731
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 08 May 2013
Offering a major new interpretation of the enigmatic middle section of the Codex Borgia, Milbrath demonstrates that this ancient painted text is the most important historical record of pre-Columbian astronomy and natural history in central Mexico... More

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ISBN: 9780674072824 - The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
John Edward Huth

ISBN10: 0674072820 ISBN13: 9780674072824
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What else is lost when technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way? Illustrated with 200 drawings... More

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The Space Book
Jim Bell

ISBN10: 1402780710 ISBN13: 9781402780714
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co Inc Sterling
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Apr 2013
How did the Universe begin? Are there other Earth-like planets out there? Are we alone? This title answers these questions for those interested in the worlds beyond our planet. It presents 250 of the astronomical events, from the formation of... More

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Mirror Earth
Michael D Lemonick

ISBN10: 080277900X ISBN13: 9780802779007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA Walker & Co
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
The dramatic race to find an Earth-like planet capable of sustaining life as we know it. In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they detected three planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. The planets were nothing like Earth, however... More

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Magnetoseismology
Frederick W Menk, Colin L Waters

ISBN10: 3527410279 ISBN13: 9783527410279
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Apr 2013
This book provides a comprehensive account of magnetoseismology - the tool to monitor space weather. Written by researcher on the forefront of this field, it conveys the physics behind the phenomena and the methods to detect and investigate... More

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ISBN: 9783527409778 - Celestial Dynamics

Celestial Dynamics
Rudolf Dvorak, Christoph Lhotka

ISBN10: 3527409777 ISBN13: 9783527409778
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Apr 2013
Written by an internationally renowned expert, this monograph is unique in conveying the sophisticated tools needed to calculate exo-planet motion and interplanetary space flight. Uses the software Mathematica, including supplements for practical... More

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Stardust
Sun Kwok

ISBN10: 3642328016 ISBN13: 9783642328015
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Apr 2013
In accessible, informative language, this book describes stunning discoveries in astronomy and solar system science showing that complex organic compounds, formed in and ejected from old stars, could have played a central role in the origin of... More

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ISBN: 9783642361333 - Astrophysics at Very High Energies

Astrophysics at Very High Energies
Felix A Aharonian, Lars Bergstrom, Charles D Dermer Roland Walter, Marc Turler

ISBN10: 3642361331 ISBN13: 9783642361333
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 17 Apr 2013
This book reviews recent progress in gamma-ray astrophysics and multi-messenger astronomy. Includes research on the sources of GeV and TeV photons gleaned from measurements made by new instrumentats, new work on detection of dark matter and more. More

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China in Space
Brian Harvey

ISBN10: 146145042X ISBN13: 9781461450429
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Apr 2013
This book details China's current space program and looks at its ambitious future. It includes coverage of much generally unknown information on the missions, personalities, spacecraft, launchers, budgets, and future plans. Rockets were invented... More

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