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Carole Stott, Giles Sparrow

Pick up the new edition of this robust and practical interactive star gazing kit and find everything you need to observe, understand and enjoy the night sky. Use the interactive planisphere wheel to navigate around the entire sky, it'll show you what to see, when, at any time of the night and year. A handy visual guide contains everything you need to get started, find out where to look for stars, planets and other celestial bodies. Whether you're a complete beginner or an accomplished astronomer, this is your up-to-date guide to star gazing.

Lucy-Ann McFadden, Paul Weissman, Torrence Johnson

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Will Gater, Anton Vamplew

For anyone who's ever looked at the night sky and wanted to know more about the galaxy around them, The Practical Astronomer shows readers how to discover and understand the mysteries of the solar system and beyond. Illustrated throughout with detailed photographs and illustrations, and using clear, easy-to-follow text, The Practical Astronomer takes you on a step-by-step journey from the basics of what can be seen with the naked eye, to how you can view more distant objects such as the planets of the solar system, and even galaxies far, far away-all in your own backyard.

ANDREW F INGLIS

Satellite Technology

Richard Rhodes

Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.

Terence Dickinson

"The Universe and Beyond" is a factual, up-to-date guide to the universe, written by bestselling astronomy author, Terence Dickinson. This book includes the most recent astronomical discoveries and events using imaginative astronomical illustration in addition to dramatic photography from the Hubble Space Telescope, space probes and the largest observatories on Earth. This fourth edition has been carefully reviewed, revised and brought up-to-date with new text and photographs. The chapter on cosmology is significantly expanded to include new information about the origin of the universe and the large-scale structure of the universe. Also included are over thirty new photographs of planets, nebulas, galaxies and galaxy clusters. Every major topic of astronomy is described clearly and concisely. "The Universe and Beyond" addresses the questions that arise most often from those with a fascination for the night sky. Brimming with color illustrations, the book includes the...

Ron Martin

Money and the Space Economy Contributor list Pietro Alessandrini Leslie Budd Gordon Clark Sheila Dow Richard T. Harrison Alan Hudson Roger Lee Colin Mason Jane Pollard David J. Porteous Barney Warf Neil Wrigley Alberto Zazzaro Money is central to understanding the space economy. Not only does money itself have its own geographies, but these in turn help to shape the geographies of economic activity more generally. Across the global economy banking systems and money markets are being restructured. A new economic geography of money and finance is emerging, reflecting, among other things, the momentous changes that are taking place in the world?s financial systems, particularly the impact of globalisation, deregulation, privatisation and technological change. Money and the Space Economy brings together leading geographers and economists working on money to highlight the changing geographies of banking, the forces underpinning and threatening international financial centres, the...

Evalyn Gates

a??Splendidly satisfying reading, designed for a nonspecialist audience.a??a??Kirkus Reviews, starred review Evalyn Gates, a talented astrophysicist, transports readers to the edge of contemporary science to explore the revolutionary toola??a??Einsteina??s telescopea??a??that is unlocking the secrets of the Universe. Einsteina??s telescope, or gravitational lensing, is so-called for the way gravity causes space to distort and allow massive objects to act like a??lenses,a?? amplifying and distorting the images of objects behind them. By allowing for the detection of mass where no light is found, scientists can map out the distribution of dark matter and come a step closer to teasing out the effects of dark energy on the Universea??which may forever upend long-held notions about where the Universe came from and where it is going. 8 pages of color; 40 b/w illustrations.

D. G. Kaskaoutis, H. D. Kambezidis, K. V. S. Badarinath, Shailesh Kumar Kharol

Dust storms are considered natural hazards which affect ecosystems for a short-time interval ranging from a few hours to a few days. Due to the significant impact of dust outbreaks on climate, human health and ecosystems, numerous studies have been conducted throughout the world with differing instrumentation and techniques focusing on the investigation about such events. Focusing mainly on the Sahara desert, this book provides a short review on the recent knowledge about the dust aerosol optical and physico-chemical properties, the seasonal variability of dust outbreaks, the dust source regions, the main pathways towards Southern Europe, which is mostly influenced, and the main results of similar studies. The authors provide a new methodology to the scientific community for the dust transport monitoring using a combination of satellite data and back-trajectory analysis for the identification of coarse-mode aerosols, Sahara dust (SD) events and the analysis of the dust-transport...

The future of the Earth will be determined by a variety of physical factors, including increases in the luminosity of the Sun, loss of heat energy from the Earth's core, perturbations by the other bodies in the Solar System and the biochemistry at the Earth's surface. The planet will continue to undergo glaciation cycles and will produce a supercontinent in 250?350 million years. After 1?2 billion years from now, the steady increase in solar radiation will result in the loss of the oceans and the cessation of continental drift. In four billion years from the present, a runaway greenhouse effect will occur. By that point, most if no all of the life on the surface will be extinct. The ultimate fate of the planet is most likely to be absorbed by the Sun in about 7.5 billion years, after the star has entered the red giant phase.