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  • Stellar Magnetism

    by Leon Mestel ...
    Series Book 154 - International Series of Monographs on Physics
    Ongoing studies in mathematical depth, and inferences from `helioseismological' observations of the internal solar rotation have shown up the limitations in our knowledge of the solar interior and of our understanding of the solar dynamo, manifested in particular by the sunspot cycle, the Maunder minimum, and solar flares. This second edition retains the identical overall structure as the first ... Read more

    $102.99 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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  • An Introduction to Astronomy - Take a Journey from Earth to the Moon, from the Sun to the Planets, to the Universe and Beyond

    by Forest Ray Moulton, Ph.D. ...
    An Introduction to Astronomy by F.R. Moulton - The definitive text for learning about the amazing science of Astronomy. The progress of mankind has been marked by a number of great intellectual movements. At one time the ideas of men were expanding with the knowledge which they were obtaining from the voyages of Columbus, Magellan, and the long list of hardy explorers who first visited the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • General Relativity 4: Astrophysics & Cosmology

    Advanced Topics

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    All of modern astrophysics and cosmology stands on the foundation of General Relativity that is best expressed in tensors. This book, and its prequel General Relativity 3, present the clearest, most comprehensible, and most complete introduction to the tensor calculus of differential topology, which Einstein used to explain the cosmos. Derivations that are difficult to find elsewhere, are all ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Infinite Cosmos

    Questions from the frontiers of cosmology

    by Joseph Silk ...
    From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe. Such awe is shared by astrophysicists, too, as they seek to understand its nature, and whether it has any limits. In The Infinite Cosmos, Joseph Silk, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University, cosmologist and well-known science writer, brings together the modern understanding of the Universe, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Introduction to Cosmology

    by Barbara Ryden ...
    This second edition of Introduction to Cosmology is an exciting update of an award-winning textbook. It is aimed primarily at advanced undergraduate students in physics and astronomy, but is also useful as a supplementary text at higher levels. It explains modern cosmological concepts, such as dark energy, in the context of the Big Bang theory. Its clear, lucid writing style, with a wealth of ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Book On Space: Asteroids and Meteors

    Planets Book for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Astronomy & Space Books
    What is outer space like? This book has pictures and a few facts in text available for your children to ponder over! The use of pictures and the amazing layout will encourage active participation in the creation of memories rich in learning. If you have an early reader, use this book as a practice tool too. Go ahead and secure a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Little Book of Black Holes

    by Frans Pretorius, Steven S. Gubser ...
    Series series Science Essentials
    Dive into a mind-bending exploration of the physics of black holesBlack holes, predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality—a ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Physics of the Plasma Universe

    by Anthony L. Peratt ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Today many scientists recognize plasma as the key element to understanding new observations in near-Earth, interplanetary, interstellar, and intergalactic space; in stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies, and throughout the observable universe. Physics of the Plasma Universe, 2nd Edition is an update of observations made across the entire cosmic electromagnetic spectrum over the two decades ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Extra Dimensions in Space and Time

    by Itzhak Bars, John Terning ...
    Series series Multiversal Journeys
    In physics, the idea of extra spatial dimensions originates from Nordstöm’s 5-dimensional vector theory in 1914, followed by Kaluza-Klein theory in 1921, in an effort to unify general relativity and electromagnetism in a 5 dimensional space-time (4 dimensions for space and 1 for time). Kaluza–Klein theory didn’t generate enough interest with physicist for the next five decades, due to its problems ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of COMSAT

    Technology, Business, and Government in Satellite Communications

    by D. Whalen ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    After pioneering this technology and growing the market, COMSAT fell prey to changes in government policy and to its own lack of entrepreneurial talent. The author explores the factors which contributed to this rise and fall of COMSAT. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Amazing Unity of the Universe

    And Its Origin in the Big Bang

    by Edward van den Heuvel ...
    Series series Astronomers' Universe
    In the first chapters the author describes how our knowledge of the position of Earth in space and time has developed, thanks to the work of many generations of astronomers and physicists. He discusses how our position in the Galaxy was discovered, and how in 1929, Hubble uncovered the fact that the Universe is expanding, leading to the picture of the Big Bang. He then explains how astronomers ... Read more

    $44.99 USD