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hardcover. One Time Fits All tells the story of the development, integration, and obstacles overcome in setting an the International Date Line, establishing the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and adopting Daylight Saving Time-including their global impacts on how the general public keeps time today. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 tables, 36 illustrations, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; PDX; PDZ; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756426
- ISBN
- 9780804756426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.04
€ 87.04
paperback. Our solar system is bigger and more complex than we can easily imagine. But our sun is an unremarkable middle-sized, middle-aged-star - just one of the millions that make up the Milky Way galaxy. This Little Guide gives a small glimpse into that immensity. Num Pages: 128 pages, ILLUSTRATED. BIC Classification: PG. Dimension: 101 x 90 x 11. Weight in Grams: 50.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nightingale Press
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903056271
- ISBN
- 9781903056271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.16
€ 6.16
Hardcover. Editor(s): Kreitler, Paul V. Num Pages: 183 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 265 x 188 x 19. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594544606
- ISBN
- 9781594544606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 270.86€ 182.76
€ 270.86
€ 182.76
Hardback. Editor(s): Blain, J. Val. Num Pages: 255 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: PGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 261 x 184 x 28. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594542435
- ISBN
- 9781594542435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 228.65€ 169.93
€ 228.65
€ 169.93
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461409281
- ISBN
- 9781461409281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.09
€ 38.99
€ 34.09
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, TBD. BIC Classification: PGK; PHVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465065912
- ISBN
- 9780465065912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 20.13
€ 29.99
€ 20.13
Paperback. The first comprehensive graduate-level textbook on one of the most dynamic areas of contemporary astronomy - the study of 'active galactic nuclei'. Num Pages: 256 pages, 60 b/w illus. 12 tables. BIC Classification: PGM; PHVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 188 x 14. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521479110
- ISBN
- 9780521479110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.59
€ 74.59
Paperback. Planetary Science is an exciting, fast-moving, interdisciplinary field with courses taught in a wide range of departments, including astronomy, physics, chemistry, earth sciences and biology. Planets and Planetary Systems is a well-written, concise introductory textbook on the science of planets within our own and other solar systems. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: PGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 12. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470016930
- ISBN
- 9780470016930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.65
€ 73.65
Paperback. Provides readers with the skills they need to write computer codes that simulate convection, internal gravity waves, and magnetic field generation in the interiors and atmospheres of rotating planets and stars. This book describes how to create codes that simulate the internal dynamics of planets and stars. Series: Princeton Series in Astrophysics. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 color illus. 19 halftones. 23 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: PBWH; PGC; PHVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141732
- ISBN
- 9780691141732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.08€ 63.31
€ 82.08
€ 63.31
paperback. Presents what may well be the first fully integrated theory of time Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; JMR; PDZ; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814726860
- ISBN
- 9780814726860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.15
€ 28.15
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718829643
- ISBN
- 9780718829643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.69
€ 30.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 105 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 8. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 105
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606921142
- ISBN
- 9781606921142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.14€ 44.37
€ 62.14
€ 44.37
hardcover. Features over one hundred and fifty colour illustrations that have been specially commissioned to help the reader understand what have become popular mythic images of our century, but which nonetheless remain difficult, abstract ideas to grasp. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 254 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1036.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Bantam Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780593077184
- ISBN
- 9780593077184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 20.83
€ 29.99
€ 20.83
Hardcover. Astronomy in India: A Historical Perspective Editor(s): Padmanabhan, Thanu. Num Pages: 162 pages, 37 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; PDX; PGC; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 285 x 212 x 15. Weight in Grams: 846.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer, India, Private Ltd India
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788184899979
- ISBN
- 9788184899979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardback. Takes you on a tour of the Universe. En route, this title stops off to gaze at 100 amazing sights - from asteroids to zodiacal dust and from orbit around the Earth to beyond the most distant galaxies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: PGK; WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 287 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1100.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Welbeck Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780978376
- ISBN
- 9781780978376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.47
€ 33.99
€ 22.47
Hardcover. In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies - telegraphy, photography, cinematography - this title locates the reverberations of this 'perceptual moment' throughout culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX; PGZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226093185
- ISBN
- 9780226093185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 77.81
€ 93.81
€ 77.81
Paperback. Aims to provide a non-mathematical description of the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids and comets of the solar system. Discussion is based on results obtained from recent space probes to Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and Uranus. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PGS; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 193 x 26. Weight in Grams: 864.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471850342
- ISBN
- 9780471850342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 281.62
€ 281.62
Hardback. What is time? How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives? In this lively introduction, Barbara Adam explores the changing ways in which time has been understood and how this knowledge is embedded in cultural practices. Series: Key Concepts. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745627779
- ISBN
- 9780745627779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.97
€ 64.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 colour & 92 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; JFC; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271019048
- ISBN
- 9780271019048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 35.88
€ 45.99
€ 35.88
paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, 54 b/w photos. BIC Classification: PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811736169
- ISBN
- 9780811736169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.14
€ 17.99
€ 15.14
Hardcover. Editor(s): Rossi, Matteo. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 181 x 21. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621000570
- ISBN
- 9781621000570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.50€ 113.56
€ 166.50
€ 113.56
Hardback. This comprehensive account of the last ten years' scientific results on high-redshift galaxies summarizes and critically discusses the wealth of observational data as well as the methods which made it possible to study these distant and faint objects. Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Num Pages: 366 pages, 4 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PG; PHP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540758235
- ISBN
- 9783540758235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.58
€ 125.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 163. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Arcturus Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KOG0000766
- ISBN
- 9781784286613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, 12ill. BIC Classification: PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226848822
- ISBN
- 9780226848822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.38
€ 36.99
€ 29.38