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  • China’s Strategy in Space

    by Stacey Solomone ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book addresses why China is going into space and provides up- to-date information on all aspects of the Chinese Space Program in terms of launch vehicles, launch sites and infrastructure, crew vehicles for space exploration, satellite applications and scientific exploration capabilities.Beyond mere capabilities, it is important to understand how Chinese aerospace leaders think, how they make ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution

    Science and Technology in Modern China

    by Chunjuan Nancy Wei, Darryl E. Brock, Cong Cao, Yinghong Cheng, Susan Greenhalgh, Michael A. Mikita, Sigrid Schmalzer, Stacey Solomone0, Rudi Volti1, Yibao Xu2, Dongping Han3 ...
    China is emerging as a new superpower in science and technology, reflected in the success of its spacecraft and high-velocity Maglev trains. While many seek to understand the rise of China as a technologically-based power, the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s may seem an unlikely era to explore for these insights. Despite the widespread verdict of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution as an ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    Technology and Applications of Exploration Balloons Floating in the Stratosphere and the Atmospheres of Other Planets

    by Nobuyuki Yajima, Naoki Izutsu, Takeshi Imamura, Toyoo Abe ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The aim of this book is to introduce scientific ballooning to the many people who are interested in the use of balloons for scientific applications. The book offers a basic understanding of the engineering details and the scientific research giving rise to balloon activities going on today. Above all, the book will serve as a guidebook for young scientists and researchers seeking to become ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Dawn of Small Worlds

    Dwarf Planets, Asteroids, Comets

    by Michael Moltenbrey ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book gives a detailed introduction to the thousands and thousands of smaller bodies in the solar system. Written for interested laymen, amateur astronomers and students it describes the nature and origin of asteroids, dwarf planets and comets, and gives detailed information about their role in the solar system. The author nicely reviews the history of small-world-exploration and describes ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Australia's Little Space Travellers

    The Flight Shaped Tektites of Australia

    by Don McColl ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a showcase for the incredibly well-preserved flight-textured tektites of southern Australia, which are the world’s finest known examples. It provides an overview of their forms and flight features, which can be expected to appear, at least in part, on any objects falling from space. Some of these specimens are so perfectly shaped that it is hard to believe that they have been ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Space Manifold Dynamics

    Novel Spaceways for Science and Exploration

    Edited by Ettore Perozzi, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science

    $152.09 USD

  • Selected Military Writings of Mao Tse-tung

    by Mao Tse-tung ...
    This is an incredible collection of all of Mao's great military works. This book was originally published by the Foreign Language Press in Peking in 1967. This is all of Mao's military writings from 1928 to 1949. Including such important works as "On Protracted War" and "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War." These are the source documents from which all of the military thought and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Formation, Evolution, and Dynamics of Young Solar Systems

    Edited by Martin Pessah, Oliver Gressel ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book's interdisciplinary scope aims at bridging various communities: 1) cosmochemists, who study meteoritic samples from our own solar system, 2) (sub-) millimetre astronomers, who measure the distribution of dust and gas of star-forming regions and planet-forming discs, 3) disc modellers, who describe the complex photo-chemical structure of parametric discs to fit these to observation, 4) ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • The Moon's Near Side Megabasin and Far Side Bulge

    by Charles Byrne ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Since Luna and Lunar Orbiter photographed the far side of the Moon, the mysterious dichotomy between the face of the Moon as we see it from Earth and the side of the Moon that is hidden has puzzled lunar scientists. As we learned more from the Apollo sample return missions and later robotic satellites, the puzzle literally deepened, showing asymmetry of the crust and mantle, all the way to the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments

    Edited by Maxim Khodachenko, Helmut Lammer ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In this book an international group of specialists discusses studies of exoplanets subjected to extreme stellar radiation and plasma conditions. It is shown that such studies will help us to understand how terrestrial planets and their atmospheres, including the early Venus, Earth and Mars, evolved during the host star’s active early phase. The book presents an analysis of findings from Hubble ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Habitability of Other Planets and Satellites

    Edited by Jean-Pierre de Vera, Joseph Seckbach ...
    Series Book 28 - Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
    Is the Earth the right model and the only universal key to understand habitability, the origin and maintenance of life? Are we able to detect life elsewhere in the universe by the existing techniques and by the upcoming space missions? This book tries to give answers by focusing on environmental properties, which are playing a major role in influencing planetary surfaces or the interior of planets ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Weird Worlds

    Bizarre Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond

    by David A. J. Seargent ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    “Weird Worlds” is the third book in David Seargent’s “Weird” series. This book assumes a basic level of astronomical understanding and concentrates on the “odd and interesting” aspects of planetary bodies, including asteroids and moons. From our viewpoint here on Earth, this work features the most unusual features of these worlds and the ways in which they appear “weird” to us. Within our own ... Read more

    $31.99 USD