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

• Author(s): Caleb Scharf • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - Space ExplorationA leading astrobiologist argues that space travel is an evolutionary event at least as important as life's first journey...

• Author(s): Malcolm Walters • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyHidden beneath the sterile surface of Earth's neighboring planet may be the keys to unlocking the origins of life in the univ...

• 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): John S. Lewis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyWhile we worry over the depletion of the earth's natural resources, the pollution of our planet, and the challenges presented b...

• Author(s): Chris Lintott • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyA "riveting real-life Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (The Telegraph), told "with an engaging voice, a diverting sense of hum...

• Author(s): John S. Lewis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyRain of Iron and Ice shows us the unmistakable evidence--from spaceprobe flybys of the planets to the scars on our own Earth--o...

• Author(s): Lloyd Motz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyAn amazing journey from our moon to the most distant stars, revealing the magic and majesty of our universe.

• Author(s): Lloyd Motz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyTrace the development of astronomy from early Greek stargazers to the ambitious pioneers: Brahe, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton - ...

• Author(s): Paul Halpern • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyAn amazing journey throughout the universe in a search for other planets and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

• Author(s): Teasel Muir-Harmony • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - GeneralThe moon landing was an important moment in history, but many forget what was happening behind the scenes -- discover the g...

• Author(s): Patricia Barnes-Svarney • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyA look at the creation and composition of asteroids and the frightening eventuality of a collision with the earth.

• Author(s): Richard Morris • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyFrom the formation of the universe to the theory of matter to life on earth, Richard Morris delivers a clear and concise pictu...

• Author(s): Mitchell Begelman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyThis ingenious book is the account of an epic astronomical journey, a tale told by an early-twenty-first-century human sail...

• Author(s): Barry Parker • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyFrom award-winning science writer Barry Parker, the only book to consider chaos theory in all areas of astronomy.

• Author(s): Barry Parker • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyThe author combines "the history of Mauna Kea, the Hawaiian 13,795-foot-high site of nine telescopes, with vignettes of the astr...

• Author(s): Richard Baum • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyPresented for the first time in popular form is the fascinating true story of the search for the phantom planet Vulcan. As with ...

• Author(s): David Grinspoon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyUntil very recently, all we really knew about Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor, was that it was roughly the same size an...

• Author(s): Paul Halpern • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - Cosmology"A rich and rewarding history of one of the most astounding ideas in physics and astronomy" (Marcia Bartusiak) - that the univer...

• Author(s): Arthur Upgren • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyDo you sometimes wonder why the sky at dusk is filled with color, or how the moon controls the tides? Why do stars twinkle and ...

• Author(s): Roberto Trotta • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyAn astronomer "who writes like a poet" (Wall Street Journal) gives a sweeping, "beautifully written" (Nature) inquiry into how...

• Author(s): Philip M. Dauber • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyFrom the Back CoverScientist believe that we would not be here if it were not for three great cataclysms in the early histor...

• Author(s): Barry Parker • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyAn accessible overview of the evolution and development of our universe -- from the Big Bang to cosmic strings.

• Author(s): James D. Stein • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyOur fascination with numbers begins when we are children and continues throughout our lives. We start counting our fingers and...

• 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): John Farrell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologySometimes our understanding of our universe is given a huge boost by one insightful thinker. Such a boost came in the first half...

• Author(s): Martin Rees • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyThe genesis of the universe elegantly explained in a simple theory based on just six numbers by one of the world's most renowned ...