Space on Earth : Saving Our World by Seeking Others

Charles Cockell
Hardcover - $41.95

Many environmentalists think going into space detracts from solving problems here on Earth. Many astrophysicists feel environmentalism hampers their exploration and settlement of space. Actually environmentalism and space exploration have one and the ...

The Hole in the Universe : How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything

K. C. Cole
Paperback - $23.95

The award-winning author of "The Universe and the Teacup" brings the arcane and academic down to the level of armchair scientists in this entertaining and edifying search for nothing at all.

Is the Universe Open or Closed? : The Density of Matter in the Universe

Peter Coles
Paperback - $117.95

This controversial book examines one of the most fundamental questions of modern cosmology: how much matter is there in the Universe? This issue affects theories of the origin and evolution of the Universe as well as its geometrical structure and ult ...

After Sputnik : 50 Years of the Space Age

Martin Collins
Hardcover - $54.95

From John Glenn's spacesuit, to the space shuttle "Enterprise," to SpaceShipOne, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum possesses the "real stuff"— the things that mark the history of the space age. Here, these artifacts make vivid the f ...

Joint Evolution of Black Holes and Galaxies

M. Colpi
Hardcover - $338.95

Understanding galaxy formation and evolution is one of the major goals of physical cosmology. In particular, the collapse of the first stars and pre-galactic systems may set the conditions for the formation of the most exotic objects in the universe, ...

Round Trip to Orbit : Human Spaceflight Alternatives

Congress of the United States Office of
Paperback - $54.95

Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Volume XVI : Reports on Astronomy, Part II

G. Contopoulos
Hardcover - $483.95

The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later

Edvige Corbelli
Hardcover - $420.95

This book presents the proceedings of a conference held in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the Initial Mass Function (IMF) concept by Ed Salpeter along with Ed Salpeter's 80th birthday. It provides a vast amount of informat ...

An Introduction to Cosmochemistry

Charles R. Cowley
Paperback - $96.95

This upper-division textbook describes the composition and evolution of material objects in the universe. The survey begins with a discussion of terrestrial materials and ends with the composition of quasars and distant galaxies. There are two main t ...

Allen's Astrophysical Quantities

Arthur N. Cox
Hardcover - $210.95

Thoroughly updated by an internationally renowned team of 90 astronomers and astrophysicists, this edition includes twice as much material as the previous. This data source includes general constants and units; atoms, molecules, and spectra; observat ...