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Télécharger le livre : 100 Years of Planetaria
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100 Years of Planetaria
Katherine Boyce-Jacino , Matthew Mcmahon , Pedro M. P. Raposo , Mike Smail
This book marks the centenary of the remarkable invention of an opto-mechanical planetarium projector, the Zeiss Mk I. In May 1925, the first public planetarium opened at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. In the ensuing decades, this invention spread all over the world,...

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Parution : 2025-01-30
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28,47 €
Télécharger le livre : Chaotic Dynamics in Planetary Systems
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Chaotic Dynamics in Planetary Systems
Sylvio Ferraz-Mello
The main theme of the book is the presentation of techniques used to identify chaotic behavior in the evolution of conservative mechanical systems and their application to astronomical systems. It results from graduate courses given by the author over the years both at...

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Parution : 2023-12-31
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68,56 €
Télécharger le livre : From Radio-phobia to Radio-euphoria
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From Radio-phobia to Radio-euphoria
Ilya Obodovskiy
This book gives a detailed discussion of the initial enthusiasm triggered by the discovery of x-rays and radioactive radiation which later turned into fear and repulsion in a significant part of the global population up to the 21st century.After a historical review, the...

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Parution : 2023-12-11
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34,80 €
Télécharger le livre : Scientific Debates in Space Science
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Scientific Debates in Space Science
Warren David Cummings , Louis J. Lanzerotti
This book features several of the significant scientific debates and controversies that helped develop space science in the early space era. The debates led to significant new understandings of the constituents and processes occurring beyond Earth’s atmosphere, and...

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Parution : 2023-12-07
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58,01 €
Télécharger le livre : Music and Astronomy
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Music and Astronomy
Maurizio Agrò
This book explores the profound and ancient relationship between music and astronomy. Throughout history, Music has occupied a significant place among the disciplines of the Quadrivium, which also include Geometry, Arithmetic, and Astronomy. The captivating bond between...

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Parution : 2023-12-04
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28,47 €
Télécharger le livre : Japan In Space
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Japan In Space
Brian Harvey
Guided by genius engineer Hideo Itokawa, Japan’s space program began with small scientific satellites more than 50 years ago. Since then, its space probes have travelled to the Moon, Venus, the asteroids and even a comet. The country launched weather satellites to warn...

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Parution : 2023-11-16
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34,50 €
Télécharger le livre : Planet Earth, Past and Present
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Planet Earth, Past and Present
Michael Carroll
The Earth is not the world it once was, and it is not the world it will always be.   This book describes the exciting, complex, and occasionally baffling history of our own planet. Over the course of its 4.5 billion years, Earth has undergone astonishing...

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Parution : 2023-10-18
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36,91 €
Télécharger le livre : Freezing of Lakes and the Evolution of Their Ice Cover
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Freezing of Lakes and the Evolution of Their Ice Cover
Matti Leppäranta
This book updates the first edition for the status of knowledge in the physics of lake ice and the interactions between the ice cover and the liquid water underneath. Since the first edition was written in 2013, there has been a lot of progress in the field, in...

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Parution : 2023-07-05
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168,79 €
Télécharger le livre : Spacecraft that Explored the Inner Planets Venus and Mercury
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Spacecraft that Explored the Inner Planets Venus and Mercury
Thomas Lund
A series of increasingly capable spacecraft were sent to explore the inner planets Venus and Mercury. The history of that planetary exploration is traced in this book along with the evolution of sophisticated spacecraft that unveiled long-sought secrets of the planets....

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Parution : 2023-07-03
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126,59 €
Télécharger le livre : America's First Eclipse Chasers
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America's First Eclipse Chasers
Thomas Hockey
In 2017, over 200 million Americans witnessed the spectacular total eclipse of the Sun, and the 2024 eclipse is expected to draw even larger crowds.In anticipation of this upcoming event, this book takes us back in history over 150 years, telling the story of the...

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Parution : 2023-05-27
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39,02 €
Télécharger le livre : To The Stars
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To The Stars
Umberto Cavallaro
This book is the second edition of Women Spacefarers and tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program. Beginning with the orbital flight of USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and continuing to the...

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Parution : 2023-05-23
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : Genius
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Genius
Roberto Manzocco
Genius is a fascinating topic. Everyone has an opinion on it, but not a lot of clarity. Much has been written on the subject - biographies, autobiographies,  technical books, popular science books, and practical manuals - but genius in all of its dimensions has yet...

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Parution : 2023-04-02
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28,47 €
Télécharger le livre : Gemini 5
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Gemini 5
David J. Shayler
This third book of the Gemini mission series focuses on the flight that simulated in Earth orbit the duration of an eight-day Apollo mission to the Moon. After the proof-of-concept test flights Gemini 1, 2 and 3 (as described in GEMINI FLIES!) and the success of...

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Parution : 2023-03-07
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34,80 €
Télécharger le livre : The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner's Guide to Settling the Red Planet
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The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner's Guide to Settling the Red Planet
Justin B. Hollander
Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on Mars. To make it a reality, however, these dreamers are in sore need of additional conceptual tools in their belt—particularly, a rich knowledge...

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Parution : 2023-02-01
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36,91 €
Télécharger le livre : A Brief History of Nuclear Reactor Accidents
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A Brief History of Nuclear Reactor Accidents
Serge Marguet
Are you afraid of a nuclear reactor accident? Should you be? This book will arm you with the scientific knowledge necessary to make a rational and informed opinion on the subject, without having to be an expert in nuclear physics. Written so that a non-specialist can...

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Parution : 2023-01-23
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31,64 €
Télécharger le livre : Human Missions to Mars
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Human Missions to Mars
Donald Rapp
In this book, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from a technological perspective. He divides the mission into a number of stages: Earth’s surface to low-Earth orbit (LEO); departing from LEO toward Mars; Mars orbit insertion and entry, descent and landing;...

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Parution : 2023-01-01
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137,14 €
Télécharger le livre : The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program
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The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program
Davide Sivolella
In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA’s path for the decades to come. This imaginative vision was shattered less than six months later when, on January 13, 1970,...

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Parution : 2022-11-26
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47,46 €
Télécharger le livre : NASA's Voyager Missions
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NASA's Voyager Missions
Ben Evans
2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager probe launches. Launched into space in 1977, these twin probes explored the farthest reaches of the Solar System before venturing on a one-way journey beyond, all the while testing the bounds of science, robotic exploration...

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Parution : 2022-08-23
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36,91 €
Télécharger le livre : Solar Surveyors
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Solar Surveyors
Peter Bond
This is the story of humankind’s quest over centuries to learn the true nature of the most dominant object in our Solar System: the Sun.Award-winning science writer Peter Bond describes in detail how our ideas about the Sun have changed over the millennia, starting with...

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Parution : 2022-07-29
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42,19 €
Télécharger le livre : Saints and Sinners in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion and Art in Western Culture
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Saints and Sinners in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion and Art in Western Culture
Michael Mendillo
In this book, Boston University Professor of Astronomy Michael Mendillo takes readers deep into the annals of history, showing how visual depictions of the heavens evolved in tandem with science and religion throughout much of Western culture. With unprecedented scope...

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Parution : 2022-04-04
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36,91 €
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