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  • Physics and Chemistry of Circumstellar Dust Shells

    by Hans-Peter Gail, Erwin Sedlmayr ...
    Series Book 52 - Cambridge Astrophysics
    Circumstellar dust, the astronomical dust that forms around a star, provides today's researchers with important clues for understanding how the Universe has evolved. This volume examines the structure, dynamics and observable consequences of the dust clouds surrounding highly evolved stars on the Giant Branch. Early chapters cover the physical and chemical basis of the formation of dust shells, ... Read more

    $127.99 CAD

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  • First Light

    The Search for the Edge of the Universe

    by Richard Preston ...
    Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California to peer to the farthest edges of space ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Cosmic Web

    Mysterious Architecture of the Universe

    by J. Richard Gott ...
    A gripping first-person account of how scientists came to understand our universe's mysterious structureJ. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies—a magnificent structure now called the "cosmic web" and mapped extensively by teams of astronomers. Here ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Seeing in the Dark

    How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonder

    by Timothy Ferris ...
    In Seeing in the Dark, a poetic love letter to science and to the skies, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers. He recounts his own experiences as an enthralled lifelong amateur astronomer and reports from around the globe -- from England and Italy to the Florida Keys and the Chilean Andes -- on the revolution that's putting millions in touch with the night sky. In addition, Ferris ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Beyond The Galaxy: How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way And Discovered The Entire Universe

    by Ethan Siegel ...
    A look up at the night sky reveals a treasury of wonders. Even to the naked eye, the Moon, stars, planets, the Milky Way and even a few star clusters and nebulae illuminate the heavens. For millennia, humans struggled to make sense of what's out there in the Universe, from all we can see to that which lies beyond the limits of even our most powerful telescopes. Beyond the Galaxy traces our journey ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Cosmology

    by Barbara Ryden ...
    This second edition of Introduction to Cosmology is an exciting update of an award-winning textbook. It is aimed primarily at advanced undergraduate students in physics and astronomy, but is also useful as a supplementary text at higher levels. It explains modern cosmological concepts, such as dark energy, in the context of the Big Bang theory. Its clear, lucid writing style, with a wealth of ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • A New Astronomy (Illustrated)

    by David Todd Ph.D. ...
    Astronomy is the science pertaining to all the bodies of the heavens. Parent of the sciences, it is the most perfect and beautiful of all. Sir William Rowan Hamilton, the eminent mathematician, has called astronomy man's golden chain between the earth and the visible heaven. This noble science is to man a possession both old and ancestral, passing with resistless progress from simple shepherds of ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Telescope in the Ice

    Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole

    by Mark Bowen ...
    IceCube Observatory, a South Pole instrument making the first actual observations of high-energy neutrinos, has been called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved.Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Impact of Discovering Life beyond Earth

    Edited by Steven J. Dick ...
    The search for life in the Universe, once the domain of science fiction, is now a robust research program with a well-defined roadmap, from studying the extremes of life on Earth to exploring the possible niches for life in the Solar System and discovering thousands of planets far beyond it. In addition to constituting a major scientific endeavor, astrobiology is one of the most popular topics in ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Religions and Extraterrestrial Life

    How Will We Deal With It?

    by David A. Weintraub ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In the twenty-first century, the debate about life on other worlds is quickly changing from the realm of speculation to the domain of hard science. Within a few years, as a consequence of the rapid discovery by astronomers of planets around other stars, astronomers very likely will have discovered clear evidence of life beyond the Earth. Such a discovery of extraterrestrial life will change ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Mystery of the Seven Spheres

    How Homo sapiens will Conquer Space

    by Giovanni F. Bignami ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In this book, Giovanni Bignami, the outstanding Italian scientist and astronomer, takes the reader on a journey through the “seven spheres”, from our own planet to neighboring stars. The author offers a gripping account of the evolution of Homo Sapiens to the stage where our species is developing capabilities, in the form of new energy propulsion systems, that will enable us to conquer space. The ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Unforgotten Sisters

    Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel

    by Gabriella Bernardi ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Taking inspiration from Siv Cedering’s poem in the form of a fictional letter from Caroline Herschel that refers to “my long, lost sisters, forgotten in the books that record our science”, this book tells the lives of twenty-five female scientists, with specific attention to astronomers and mathematicians. Each of the presented biographies is organized as a kind of "personal file" which sets the ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD