Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A full executive summary of A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence Krauss. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary, and cutting...
by Owen Cotton
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Have you ever wondered why our Galaxy has a spiral structure?
How do we even know its shape at all?
What is 'Dark Matter' and why do we think it exists?
Why can 'infra-red' and 'radio' astronomy reveal things that normal astronomy cannot?
Answering these and many...
Out of this World
Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Stephen Webb, author of WHERE IS EVERYBODY?, takes the interested amateur on a thrilling and enlightening tour of the amazing, even bizarre, new ideas of modern physics, including alternatives to the Big Bang, parallel universes, and an imaginary trip to the other side of the black hole.
by Carrie Nugent
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
For the first time, scientists could have the knowledge to prevent a natural disaster epic in scale—an asteroid hitting the earth and in this exciting, adventuresome book, Carrie Nugent explains how.
What are asteroids, and where do they come from? And, most urgently: Are they going to hit...
Unified Principles of Physics
Black Holes, Galactic Structure, Gravity, and Dark Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The search for the “Unified Principles of Physics” which describes all that we see has long been the quest of many scientists and the general public. Newton, Einstein, Hawking and many more have all put their ideas into the flow of time … But many unanswered mysteries remained … These mysteries...
by Maz Shams
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
21st Dec, 2012What’s the reality behind 2012 predictions? Is it really going to happen what they showed in the movie? Who were the Mayans? How did they predicted our future? What are the doomsday predictions ? How did all this fuss originated? Where are the scientific facts?This book...
by Vladimir Rubtsov
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
The purpose of the book is a dual one: to detail the nature and results of Tunguska investigations in the former USSR and present-day CIS, and to destroy two long-standing myths still held in the West. The first concerns alleged “final solutions” that have ostensibly been found in Russia or elsewhere....
Networks on Networks
The Physics of Geobiology and Geochemistry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Order from chaos is simultaneously a mantra of physics and a reality in biology. Physicist Norman Packard suggested that life developed and thrives at the edge of chaos. Questions remain, however, as to how much practical knowledge of biology can be traced to existing physical principles, and how...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall | Summary and Analysis Book Preview:The interrelationships of every part of existence fascinates so many people, and Lisa Randal has used her skill as a cosmologist and physicist to bring some of those interconnections to life. She’s concerned with the...
Building Habitats on the Moon
Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Designing a habitat for the lunar surface? You will need to know more than structural engineering. There are the effects of meteoroids, radiation, and low gravity. Then there are the psychological and psychosocial aspects of living in close quarters, in a dangerous environment, far away from home....
by Stephen Hawking
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.**
My...
Extreme Cosmos
A Guided Tour of the Fastest, Brightest, Hottest, Heaviest,Oldest, and Most Amaz ing Aspects of Our Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
**A top astronomer explores the universe through the lens of its most jaw-dropping extremes. **
The universe is all about extremes, and in this engaging and thought-provoking book, astronomer Bryan Gaensler gives a whirlwind tour of the galaxies, with an emphasis on its fastest, hottest, heaviest,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - is the Gemini spacecraft press reference book, providing comprehensive information on all aspects of America's second manned spacecraft program which paved the way for the success of the Apollo lunar...
by Frank G. Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In "Shades of Grey: Observations from the Crossroads of ET Contact and Human Culture," noted UFO historian, researcher and author Frank G. Wilkinson explores the implications of such diverse extraterrestrial topics as the Grey Alien Presence, the likelihood of a faked US Government ET invasion, the...