Astrophysics

As Commander of the International Space Station, Chris Hadfield captivated the world with stunning photos and commentary from space. Now, in his first book,...

drawing On The Current Cross-pollination Of Geology, Biology, And Astrophysics, origins Makes The Astonishing Astronomical Discoveries Of Recent Years Come...

There Are Few Industrialists In History Who Could Match Elon Musk's Relentless Drive And Ingenious Vision. A Modern Alloy Of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howa...

An intimate history of Earth and the quest for life beyond the solar systemFor 4.6 billion years our living planet has been alone in a vast and silent univ...

New York Times Bestseller - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Audible and AmazonIn the spirit of Steve Jobs and Mone...

if You Decide To Go To The Moon, Writes Faith Mcnulty, Read This Book First. It Will Tellyou How To Get There And What To Do After Youland. The Most Import...

Ever wondered what space is really like? Thanks to his 25 years of training for, flying in, consulting on, and writing and speaking about space, astronaut a...

Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson Presents His Views On The Future Of Space Travel And America's Role In That Future, Giving His Readers An Eye-opening Man...

Using Data From Very Recent Scientific Discoveries, The Author Reveals The Six Numbers Upon Which All Physical Reality Rests, From Atomic Structure To Human...

As New Groundbreaking Research Suggests That Climate Change Played A Major Role In The Most Extreme Catastrophes In The Planet's History, Award-winning Scie...

A prize-winning popular science writer uses mathematical modeling to explain the cosmos.In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating gui...

Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her...

Formerly The Domain Of Fiction, Moving Human Civilization To The Stars Is Increasingly Becoming A Scientific Possibility--and A Necessity. Whether In The Ne...

In This Rich, Irreverent, Compelling History, Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Takes Us From Ancient Miletus To Medieval Baghdad And Oxford, Fr...

Collects Writings From Several Leading Theoretical Physicists And Cosmologists That Offer An Overview Of Our Scientific Understanding Of The Universe As It ...

With 250,000 copies in print since its initial publication in 1983, NightWatch has become a standard reference guide for stargazers throughout North Ameri...

WHAT ARE THESE GRACEFUL VISITORS TO OUR SKIES? WE NOW KNOW THAT THEY BRING BOTH LIFE AND DEATH AND TEACH US ABOUT OUR ORIGINS. Comet begins with a breatht...

About the Author\Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the author of the #1 bestselling Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, among other books. He is ...

The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in W...

In You Are Here, astronaut Chris Hadfield creates a surprisingly intimate and compelling visual essay about the planet we live on, choosing the best from t...

gene Kranz Was Present At The Creation Of America's Manned Space Program And Was A Key Player In It For Three Decades. As A Flight Director In Nasa's Missi...

The goal of this book is to allow you to begin with a "blank sheet of paper" and design a space mission to meet a set of broad, often poorly defined, object...

As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler’s law of planetary motion and Newto...

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says ac...

This Is The First Comprehensive, Yet Clearly Presented, Account Of Statistical Methods For Analysing Spherical Data. The Analysis Of Data, In The Form Of Di...

In this extraordinary Baedeker—accessible, up-to-date, and prodigiously illustrated with photographs from Mariner 9, Viking, Pathfinder, the Hubble Space ...

NATIONAL BEST SELLERA stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Stat...

Stephen Hawking’s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time, introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to reade...

A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away... It Was A Time Of Excitement. Angry Birds, Star Wars, And National Geographic United To Take Their Fans On A Ga...

Along With Caltech Physicist Mlodinow (the Drunkard's Walk), University Of Cambridge Cosmologist Hawking (a Brief History Of Time) Deftly Mixes Cutting-edge...

50 Things to See with a Small Telescope explores the planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae visible from your own backyard! The book includes easy to follow s...

• Is there really such a thing as a blue moon?• What time is it at the North Pole?• Why don’t woodpeckers get concussed?• Why don’t snorers wake...

Written In Simple And Accessible Language, This Non-technical Introduction To Cosmology, Or The Creation And Development Of The Universe, Explains The Disci...

The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s gr...

In this illuminating book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics—the search for the laws of nature—losing its way....

Viewers Of Fox's Cosmos Have Recognized Neil Degrasse Tyson's Talent For Guiding Them Through The Mysteries Of Outer Space With Clarity And Enthusiasm. Brin...

During the last twenty years, dramatic improvements in methods of observing astrophysical phenomena from the ground and in space have added to our knowledg...

The award-winning former editor of Science News shows that one of the most fascinating and controversial ideas in contemporary cosmology―the existence of...

In the sequel to his best-selling Inflight Science, Brian Clegg offers a spectacular tour through the human body. He explores mitochondria, in-cell powerh...

Physics Does Not Have To Be Daunting. This Book, Complete With Practice Questions And Answers, Forms A Course Which Will Take You From Beginner Or Intermedi...

A revised edition of the New York Times bestselling classic: the epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the ...

In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe...

He read the classics but he adored pulp science fiction. He had no academic credentials but he was a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Ae...

Exploring the Night Sky is aimed at novice star gazers anxious to expand their astronomical repertoire beyond the Big and Little Dippers. Dickinson has de...

By Robert Godwin. Includes Index.Categories: Engineering & Transportation Engineering AerospaceAstronautics & Space Flight

Elon Musk, The Entrepreneur And Innovator Behind Spacex, Tesla, And Solarcity, Sold One Of His Internet Companies, Paypal, For $1.5 Billion. Ashlee Vance Ca...

Emphasizing microscopic physical and chemical processes in space, and their influence on the macroscopic structure of the interstellar medium of galaxies, t...

In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine mill...