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Astronomy, space & time
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Complete color global maps and high-resolution mosaics of Jupiter's four large moons - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto - are compiled for the first time in this important atlas. The satellites are revealed as four visually striking and geologicall..
131.48£
A series of short, accessible books examining amazing aspects of space, brought to you by Royal Observatory Greenwich. The beautiful and elusive sights of the aurorae are considered some of Earth's most mesmerising phenomena, but have you ever wonde..
15.26£
Brand: National Geographic Society
Explore the star-studded cosmos with this fully updated, user-friendly skywatcher's guide, filled with charts, graphics, photographs, and expert tips for viewing -- and understanding -- the wonders of space. Stargazing's too much fun to leave to ast..
19.32£
Brand: Guardian Faber Publishing
The awe-inspiring history of humanity told through our relationship with stars and the night sky.'Excellent . . . This books makes you rethink the traditional story of the history of astronomy . . . Effortlessly readable.' BBC Sky at Night'Stuart Cl..
16.71£
A series of short, accessible books examining amazing aspects of space, brought to you by Royal Observatory Greenwich. Black holes. What even are they? In brief, a black hole is a region of spacetime so curved by gravity that even light cannot escap..
13.73£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
A Brief History of Time for the 21st CenturyAt the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It's time to explore our universe's most mysterious inhabitantsBlack Hole..
28.43£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe. At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, t..
31.03£
Brand: GoodKnight Books
ISBN: 9780744049183Publisher: DKImprint: Dorling KindersleyPublished date: 26 Oct 2021Language: SpanishNumber of pages: 224Weight: 845gHeight: 241mmWidth: 205mmSpine width: 23mm..
33.47£
Brand: National Geographic Society
Blast off with the perfect combination of facts, stories, photos, and fun all about what lies beyond Earth's atmosphere-SPACE!This book has everything to captivate space enthusiasts: Tons of fun facts, exciting games, hands-on activities, hilarious ..
36.74£
Brand: ECW Press
Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program a program that quickly let its people accumulate skill and p..
22.03£
Brand: OUP Oxford
This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass extinction that happened about 65 million years ago, a..
13.25£
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Based on field notes made by the author during his own career as an amateur astronomer, this unique guide covers both the traditional and novel approaches to studying the night sky. In addition to the more standard techniques, it discusses the lates..
52.54£
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Over the past decade, modelling the panchromatic emission of galaxies has become one of the key tools in measuring their properties. As new and next-generation facilities progressively herald a new era in observational astronomy, we face new and spe..
112.49£
Brand: Princeton University Press
This book brings together a number of lectures given between 1993 and 1999 as part of a special series hosted by the Federal University of Pernambuco, in which internationally established researchers came to Recife, Brazil, to lecture on classical o..
114.64£
Brand: OUP Oxford
Simone Marchi presents the emerging story of how cosmic collisions shaped both the solar system and our own planet, from the creation of the Moon to influencing the evolution of life on Earth. The Earth emerged out of the upheaval and chaos of mas..
24.44£
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Cometography is a multi-volume catalog of every comet observed throughout history. It uses the most reliable orbits known to determine the distances from the Earth and Sun at the time a comet was discovered and last observed, as well as the largest ..
243.65£
Brand: Princeton University Press
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories...
50.04£
Brand: OUP Oxford
An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. ..
46.42£
Brand: Springer Publishing
This book is for the amateur astronomer who wants to know about the astrophysical nature of deep sky objects. The information is presented in a concise format and is equally valuable when used as background reading or, alternatively, at the telescop..
50.59£
Brand: OUP Oxford
The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. ..
13.53£
As long as animals and humans have roamed the Earth, our moon has captivated their attention and their imagination. That celestial body that sometimes conceals all but a thin sliver of itself from us, then slowly grows into a luminescent globe, gent..
13.93£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
In CONSTELLATIONS, award-winning astronomy writer Govert Schilling takes us on an unprecedented visual tour of all 88 constellations in our night sky. Much more than just a stargazer's guide, CONSTELLATIONS is complete history of astronomy as told b..
31.36£
This collection includes the following 5 complete books featuring renowned physicists Roger Penrose (Nobel Laureate), Paul Steinhardt, Scott Tremaine, Justin Khoury, and Rocky Kolb providing fully accessible insights into cutting-edge academic resea..
34.65£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is a pivotal figure in the birth of modern science, the astronomer who "stopped the sun and set the earth in motion." Born in Poland, educated at Cracow and then in Italy, he served all of his adult life as a church a..
11.18£