Search results for “[subject: space-science-space-exploration]”

• Author(s): Joel R. Primack • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyIn this strikingly original book, a world-renowned cosmologist and an innovative writer of the hist...

• Author(s): Arthur C. Clarke • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: ClassicsThe classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick's immortal film--an...

• Author(s): Charles A. Randall Jr • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Space Science - Astronomy

• Author(s): Alan Boss • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyWe are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe -- we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets aroun...

• Author(s): Steven Squyres • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomySteve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the...

• Author(s): Chris Carberry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Space Science The production and consumption of alcohol has played a significant role in human society since the dawn of civili...

• Author(s): Michael Summers • Publisher: Smithsonian Books • Publisher Imprint: Smithsonian Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyThe past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the...

• Author(s): John Billingham • Publisher: University Press of the Pacific • Publisher Imprint: University Press of the Pacific • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyLife in the Universe was originally published by the National Aeronautics and Space A...

• Author(s): Sanford Kwinter • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralAn exploration of twentieth-century conceptions of time and their relation to artistic form.In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a crit...

• Author(s): Piers Bizony • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Aeronautics & AstronauticsLadies and gentlemen, start your spaceships with this book that explores an exciting new era of s...

• Author(s): David Meerman Scott • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Space Science - GeneralOne of the most successful public relations campaigns in history, featuring heroic astronauts, press-savvy rocket scien...

• Author(s): Sonia A. Hirt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentWhy are American cities, suburbs, and towns so distinct? Compared to Euro...

• Author(s): Miriam Greenberg | Penny Lewis • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsUrban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have b...

• Author(s): Jean-Noel Bassior • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Before Star Trek, there was Space Patrol. Science fiction television has its roots in t...

• Author(s): Gyrus • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyA bold vision of cosmology mapping how the pole star became associated with political power, religious rapture, and socia...

• Author(s): Gary Westfahl • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Film - GeneralFilmmakers employ various images to suggest the strangeness of outer space, but protective spacesuits most...

• Author(s): W. David Lee | Jeffrey Drazen | Phillip A. Sharp • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyAn argument that technology accelerates biological discover...

• Author(s): Wyman | Richard • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyGlobal Climate Change and Life on Earth focuses on the greenhouse effect and its relation...

• Author(s): Robert McParland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock As technology advances, society retains its mythical roots--a tendency evident in rock music and i...

• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyRagnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In The Last Three Minutes, Pau...

• Author(s): Karen C. Seto | Anette Reenberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)International experts examine the effects of urbanizati...

• Author(s): Constance Classen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyCompellingly demonstrates the relationship between sensory and gender orders, highlighting the gender politics behind such sens...

• Author(s): Davydd Greenwood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - PhysicalThe theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of h...

• Author(s): C. S. Friedman • Publisher: Daw Books • Publisher Imprint: Daw Books • BISAC: Science Fiction - Space OperaThis lauded work of science fiction and New York Times Notable Book of the Year explores a universe where genetic mutations ha...

• Author(s): Sherry Turkle | William J. Clancey | Stefan Helmreich • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer SimulationHow the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and desig...

• Author(s): David Keith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Global Warming & Climate ChangeA leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technol...

• Author(s): Sylvia Noble Tesh • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralOrdinary citizens frequently organize around environmental issues on ...

• Author(s): C. J. Cherryh • Publisher: Daw Books • Publisher Imprint: Daw Books • BISAC: Science Fiction - MilitaryThe Hugo Award-winning classic sci-fi novel, now available in a trade edition. The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the s...

• Author(s): William B. Meyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)An analysis that offers evidence to challenge the widely h...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: MIXIG • Publisher Imprint: MIXIG • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyThe Calculus of Consent, the second volume of Liberty Fund's The Selected Works of Gord...

• Author(s): Harvey Green • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: World - GeneralA rich, authoritative look at a material that plays an essential role in human culture Wood has been a central ...

• Author(s): Kelly McGonigal • Publisher: Avery Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Avery Publishing Group • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Personal Growth - HappinessBased on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wil...

• Author(s): Barbara J. Shapiro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralBarbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, sh...

• Author(s): David Huron • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThe psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's e...

• Author(s): Jon Agar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceAn examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine."In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the me...

• Author(s): Patrice Debre | Patrice Debra(c) | Patrice Debr? • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyThe most extensive, balanced, and detailed account of P...