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“john baross”

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  • Planets and Life

    The Emerging Science of Astrobiology

    Edited by Woodruff T. Sullivan, III, John Baross ...
    Astrobiology involves the study of the origin and history of life on Earth, planets and moons where life may have arisen, and the search for extraterrestrial life. It combines the sciences of biology, chemistry, palaeontology, geology, planetary physics and astronomy. This textbook brings together world experts in each of these disciplines to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the field ... Read more

    $103.39 USD

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  • Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

    by Janna Levin ...
    The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe.Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Atom

    An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond

    by Lawrence M. Krauss ...
    The story of matter and the history of the cosmos from the perspective of a single oxygen atom, told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today.Through this astonishing work, he manages to stoke wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our ecosystem, and us. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Physics: The Ultimate Adventure

    by Ross Barrett, Pier Paolo Delsanto, Angelo Tartaglia ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book explains - in simple terms and with almost no mathematics - the physics behind recent and glamorous discoveries in Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles (e.g. Higgs bosons) and Complexity Theory. En route it delves into the historical landmarks and revolutions that brought about our current understanding of the universe.The book is written mainly for those with little ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • A New Astronomy (Illustrated)

    by David Todd Ph.D. ...
    Astronomy is the science pertaining to all the bodies of the heavens. Parent of the sciences, it is the most perfect and beautiful of all. Sir William Rowan Hamilton, the eminent mathematician, has called astronomy man's golden chain between the earth and the visible heaven. This noble science is to man a possession both old and ancestral, passing with resistless progress from simple shepherds of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Universe in a Mirror

    The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It

    by Robert Zimmerman ...
    The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most stunning images of the cosmos humanity has ever seen. It has transformed our understanding of the universe around us, revealing new information about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the very existence of black holes, among other startling discoveries. But it took an amazing amount of work and perseverance to get the first space ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Explorarea sistemului solar și dincolo de

    Exploring the Solar System and Beyond in Romanian

    by Nam Nguyen ...
    Explorarea sistemului solar și obiectivul Dincolo este de a umple mintea cu un avans de a cunoaște dezvoltarea științei planetare în epoca modernă Space cu această carte electronică.EBook este ușor de utilizat, răcoritoare și este garantat să fie interesant! Puteți citi această carte electronică, fără nici o cunoaștere prealabilă a unor evenimente trecute sistemului nostru solar. Multe lucruri vor ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Can You Play Cricket on Mars?

    And Other Scientific Questions Answered

    by Patrick Moore ...
    Can You Play Cricket on Mars? answers questions like: is there a dark side to the Moon? What happens when a comet hits the Sun? Do the Martian canals have any water in them? Is the Moon hot inside? What would happen if the Sun were to collide with a black hole? Mars has polar ice caps: could polar bears live there? If I could go back to the time of the dinosaurs, would the sky look the same as it ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Large Hadron Collider

    Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe

    by Martin Beech ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    It may at first seem that the world of subatomic physics is far removed from our every day lives. Isn’t it all just a waste of time and taxpayers' money? Hopefully, all who read this book will come to a different conclusion. Collider physics is all about our origins, and this aspect alone makes it worthy of our very best attention. The experiments conducted within the vast collider chambers are at ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Science: Image In Action - Proceedings Of The 7th International Workshop On Data Analysis In Astronomy "Livio Scarsi And Vito Digesu"

    by Bertrand Zavidovique, Giosue Lo Bosco ...
    Series series The Science And Culture Series - Astrophysics
    The book gathers articles that were exposed during the seventh edition of the Workshop “Data Analysis in Astronomy”. It illustrates a current trend to search for common expressions or models transcending usual disciplines, possibly associated with some lack in the Mathematics required to model complex systems. In that, data analysis would be at the epicentre and a key facilitator of some current ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Hawking Radiation 2

    by Roman Andie ...
    One must bring in some basic notions of quantum theory if one wants to reduce de- and reconstruction to quantum physics. The key mathematical fact is that in quantum theory each particle in many-particle state corresponds to a tensor factor of state space of the entire system. This notion is very difficult to explain without actually having a lecture series about quantum theory and I prove in the ... Read more

    $8.03 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Synthesis of the Elements

    The Astrophysical Quest for Nucleosynthesis and What It Can Tell Us About the Universe

    by Giora Shaviv ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book describes the origins and evolution of the chemical elements we and the cosmos are made of. The story starts with the discovery of the common elements on Earth and their subsequent discovery in space. How do we learn the composition of the distant stars? How did progress in quantum theory, nuclear physics, spectroscopy, stellar structure and evolution, together with observations of stars ... Read more

    $143.09 USD