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  • Human Missions to Mars

    Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet

    de Donald Rapp ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    In this book, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from a technological perspective. He divides the mission into a number of stages: Earth’s surface to low-Earth orbit (LEO); departing from LEO toward Mars; Mars orbit insertion and entry, descent and landing; ascent from Mars; trans-Earth injection from Mars orbit and Earth return.A mission to send humans to explore the surface of Mars has ... Leer más

    $161.99 USD

  • Bubbles, Booms, and Busts

    The Rise and Fall of Financial Assets

    de Donald Rapp ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book provides a thorough explanation of the nature and history of booms, bubbles and busts in financial markets. The first part of the book deals with financial booms and bubbles and how they emerge, develop and collapse. It describes the distribution of wealth, inflation, rationality of bankers, monetary and fiscal policy, the role of central banks, tax policies, social security, US federal, ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Ice Ages and Interglacials

    Measurements, Interpretation, and Models

    de Donald Rapp ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a detailed review of terminations of ice ages, including a very attractive theory based on dust deposits on ice sheets. While other books on ice ages are mostly short, popular, and non-technical, the only book that attempts to deal with the broad issues of what we know about past ice ages and why they occur is the book by Muller and MacDonald (M&M), published by Praxis. However, ... Leer más

    $152.09 USD

  • Bubbles, Booms, and Busts

    The Rise and Fall of Financial Assets

    de Donald Rapp ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book deals at some length with the question: Since there are many more poor than rich, why don’t the poor just tax the rich heavily and reduce the inequality? In the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the topic of inequality was discussed widely. Ending or reducing inequality was a prime motivating factor in the emergence of communism and socialism. The book discusses why ... Leer más

    $40.49 USD

  • Human Missions to Mars

    Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet

    de Donald Rapp ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    A mission to send humans to explore the surface of Mars has been theultimate goal of planetary exploration since the 1950s, when von Braunconjectured a flotilla of 10 interplanetary vessels carrying a crew of atleast 70 humans. Since then, more than 1,000 studies were carried outon human missions to Mars, but after 60 years of study, we remain in theearly planning stages. The second edition of ... Leer más

    $215.99 USD

  • Use of Extraterrestrial Resources for Human Space Missions to Moon or Mars

    de Donald Rapp ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents a detailed, independent review of essentially all the technical aspects of “in situ resource utilization” (ISRU), offering the first in-depth discussion of the issues of crew size, ascent from Mars, and ISRU processes. It also provides data on lunar ISRU not previously available to the public.This new edition provides a short synopsis of the Mars mission, and discusses various ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Touch of Magic, A

    de Andrew Lam, Aimee Bender, Donald Barthelme, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Saki, W. W. Jacobs ...
    Narrado por James Naughton, Anthony Rapp, Bernadette Quigley, Dana Ivey, Daniel Gerroll, Jerry Zaks, John Lithgow, Maria Tucci, Rene Auberjonois ...
    Series series Selected Shorts

    Completo

    2 hora 13 minutos

    By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.Andrew Lam's "The Palmist", performed by James Naughton. A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller and a teenage boy.W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw", performed by John Lithgow. A wonderful ghost story about a trinket with terrible powers.Saki ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    Photographs from the Archives of NASA

    de Nirmala Nataraj, Bill Nye ...
    "Might be just the book to bring out your inner astronomer . . . over 250 pages of breathtaking images from the past 50 years of NASA's space exploration." — ParadePreface by Bill NyeThis magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than two-hundred breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science ... Leer más

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  • Case for Mars

    de Robert Zubrin ...
    Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream-the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit.Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed. Leading space exploration authority Robert Zubrin has crafted a daring new blueprint, Mars Direct, presented here ... Leer más

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  • The Interstellar Age

    Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

    de Jim Bell ...
    The story of the men and women who drove NASA’s Voyager spacecraft mission—the farthest-flung emissaries of planet Earth—told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.Voyager 1 left our solar system in 2012; its sister craft, Voyager 2, did so in 2018. The fantastic journey began in 1977, before the first episode of Cosmos aired. The mission was planned as a grand tour beyond the moon; ... Leer más

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  • How It Works Book of Space

    de Imagine Publishing ...
    From the Sun and the Moon to black holes and faraway galaxies, the Book Of Space takes you through the wonders of the solar system and beyond. If you want to discover how the International Space Station was built or what happens when a star dies, then this is the book for you. Packed with amazing facts and answers to lifes biggest questions, the Book Of Space is a must for anyone interested in ... Leer más

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  • Titan Unveiled

    Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored

    de Ralph Lorenz, Jacqueline Mitton ...
    This beautifully illustrated volume reveals the startling discoveries about Saturn's largest moon made by the Cassini-Huygens probe in 2005.In the early 1980s, when the two Voyager spacecraft skimmed past Titan, Saturn's largest moon, they transmitted back enticing images of a world concealed in a seemingly impenetrable orange haze. Scientists speculated about its mysteries for years. Finally, in ... Leer más

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