Astronomy, space & time
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Astronomy, space & time
Paperback. This generous selection from Galileo's writings contains all the essential texts. Newly translated by Mark Davie and William R. Shea, the contents include full representation from his scientific masterpieces, his contributions to the debate on science and religion, and key documents from his trial before the Inquisition in 1633. Translator(s): Davie, Mark. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages, drawings and diagrams by Galileo. BIC Classification: 3JD; PDX; PGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199583690
- ISBN
- 9780199583690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.49
€ 14.99
€ 12.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226320090
- ISBN
- 9780226320090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.42
€ 20.99
€ 18.42
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375757662
- ISBN
- 9780375757662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Paperback. This volume takes the reader on an amazing voyage through time, beginning over five million years ago, in a cloud of interstellar dust. The text explores the origins of life and provides an overview of the search for planets outside the solar system, especially for habitable ones. Translator(s): Dunlop, Storm. Num Pages: 301 pages, 53 black & white illustrations, 250 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PGS; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 194 x 17. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642225512
- ISBN
- 9783642225512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.33
€ 88.33
Hardback. 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: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141725
- ISBN
- 9780691141725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.67€ 104.74
€ 137.67
€ 104.74
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
€ 81.67€ 64.31
€ 81.67
€ 64.31
Paperback. This book provides detailed research on over 100 annual and periodic meteor streams. It includes details of their discovery, important observations and orbits, and gives a full picture of the duration and location of each meteor shower. Series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Num Pages: 362 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461478966
- ISBN
- 9781461478966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.44
€ 59.44
Paperback. This book explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. The story of pulsars is brought right up to date with the recent announcement of a new breed of pulsar, Rotating Radio Transients. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy. Num Pages: 190 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PG; PHR; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 341.
- Publisher
- Praxis
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387765600
- ISBN
- 9780387765600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.76
€ 41.99
€ 34.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AQ; PGT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 126 x 7. Weight in Grams: 84.
- Publisher
- Wooden Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition Uk.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904263609
- ISBN
- 9781904263609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.28
€ 9.28
paperback. Series: Briefings. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: PD; PGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714529707
- ISBN
- 9780714529707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. "A short, excellent account of [Leavitt's] extraordinary life and achievements."-Simon Singh, New York Times Book Review Series: Great Discoveries. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: PG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 174 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780393328561
- ISBN
- 9780393328561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.50
€ 16.99
€ 15.50
Hardcover. Editor(s): Managadze, George. Num Pages: 297 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PGS; PS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 259 x 182 x 21. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613245101
- ISBN
- 9781613245101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 305.67€ 208.85
€ 305.67
€ 208.85
Paperback. Physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time: nonlocality - the ability of two particles to act in harmony no matter how far apart they may be. If space isn't what we thought it was, then what is it? In Spooky Action at a Distance, the journalist George Musser sets out to answer that question. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13 black and white illustrations, 2 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: PDZ; PGK; PHQ; PHR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 2. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780374536619
- ISBN
- 9780374536619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.46
€ 19.99
€ 17.46
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 351
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814780237
- ISBN
- 9780814780237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.91
€ 37.99
€ 34.91
Hardcover. This philosophical investigation of time advances two arguments defending the view that "time rolls relentlessly": it discusses the fundamental differences between spatio-temporal location and other physical properties; and tackles the problem, why is the past so much better known than the future? Series: Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333614914
- ISBN
- 9780333614914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.72
€ 128.72
Hardback. An engaging defence and critique of the various arguments from both science and religion on the fine-tuning of the Universe. Num Pages: 388 pages, 49 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PDX; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107156616
- ISBN
- 9781107156616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.73
€ 38.73
Paperback. In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives as well as reports by practitioners in major aid organizations about the concrete work that their organizations have been carrying out. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JNF; PGC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 421.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349383733
- ISBN
- 9781349383733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.10€ 47.53
€ 53.10
€ 47.53
Paperback. As 'distributed' astronomical projects multiply, this text on how to produce professional-quality space imaging will be welcome to many amateurs equipped with today's powerful telescopy. It offers a thorough grounding in the scientific principles and methods. Series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Num Pages: 333 pages, 51 black & white illustrations, 46 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PGG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 361
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461451723
- ISBN
- 9781461451723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.10€ 48.00
€ 53.10
€ 48.00
Paperback. In this richly illustrated book, Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft and Theoretical Physicist Stefan Vandoren describe the enormous diversity of natural phenomena that take place at different time scales. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 270 x 14. Weight in Grams: 866.
- Publisher
- World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Singapore
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789814489812
- ISBN
- 9789814489812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Hardcover. In Cooperation with Prof. Leos Mervart and Dr. Andreas Verdun Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Num Pages: 464 pages, 28 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 922.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540407508
- ISBN
- 9783540407508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.66
€ 70.66