2,515円 For everyone who’s curious about what’s new under (and over and around) the stars. Douglas Adams famously pronounced in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that the answer to life, the universe, and everything was 42. Quirks & Quarks, whose approach to science owes almost as much to Adams as it ...

0円 What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large? In recent years, debates about the role and direction of English departments have mushroomed into a broader controversy over the public legitimacy of literary c...

5,707円 Almost every amateur astronomer who has taken the pursuit to its second level aspires to a fixed, permanent housing for his telescope, permitting its rapid and comfortable use avoiding hours of setting-up time for each observing session. A roll-off roof observatory is the simplest and by far the ...

1,400円 Chinese Astrology Predictions and Feng Shui for 2013 is a fresh, new, easy to understand approach to chart your course through the Year of the Water Snake. Whether you are just getting acquainted or you have studied for many years you will find here an informative analysis of how the year will im...

4,857円 What are some of the connections that bind us to the stars? How have these connections been established? And how have people all around the world and throughout time reacted to the night sky, the sun and moon, in their poetry, mythology, rituals, and temples? This book explores the influence of t...

619円 A Space Opera. An ambitious, incredible – Space Opera! A science-fiction story which occasionally breaks off into song – a genuine space opera. Quite possibly Aldiss’s strangest novel, and that is saying something.

10,331円 This book provides an introduction to the theory of relativity and the mathematics used in its processes. Three elements of the book make it stand apart from previously published books on the theory of relativity. First, the book starts at a lower mathematical level than standard books with tenso...

2,078円 Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet. Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. 13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light years wide. It contains over 100 billion galaxies, each...

3,450円 Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, met...

1,050円 A ciência nos revela um mundo muito diferente daquele imaginado até hoje. Darwin desvendou a evolução das espécies; Galileu vislumbrou um Universo vasto pela primeira vez; o DNA guarda o segredo da vida. E não sobrou espaço para os deuses antigos. Inspirado em Carl Sagan, o jornalista Augusto Xav...

3,402円 Federal patronage of science was never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution, but they did seek to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Art” by granting inventors patent rights. However, direct subvention to scientists and scientific organizations was not considered appropriate a...

7,931円 Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Second Edition, explores key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle over the last four billion years. This updated edition features exciting new information on Earth and planetary evolution and examines how all subsyst...