1,723円 'Aloha, A! What begins with A? There is Antarctica, Azerbaijan, algal blooms, and alluvial fans. Astronauts appreciating awe-inspiring views of Earth from above. And these ancient Appalachian ridges in America intersected by an azure river in autumn!' We've all looked up at clouds and found faces...

777円 From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable. We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly m...

1,500円 Extrait : "QUAERENS. Vous m'avez promis, ô Lumen ! de me faire le récit de cette heure étrange, étrange entre toutes, qui suivit votre dernier soupir, et de me raconter comment, par une loi naturelle, quoique si singulière, vous revîtes le passé dans le présent, et pénétrâtes un mystère qui est r...

1,933円 El coet és, d'una banda, el motor tèrmic més antic d'entre els enginyats pels humans i, de l'altra, l'únic que ha possibilitat que l'astronàutica esdevingués una realitat, ara fa poc més de cinquanta anys. Aquesta petita obra és una introducció a la gènesi i al principi operatiu dels coets espaci...

1,493円 Cincuenta años después de que el Sputnik sobrevolara la Tierra a menos de 1.000 km de altitud, circunstancia que despertó dosis similares de recelo y admiración, la exploración espacial sigue sustentándose en cohetes que obtienen su empuje de reacciones químicas. Este texto aborda, de forma a la ...

6,076円 In the nineteenth century the beauty of the night sky is the source of both imaginative wonder in poetry and political and commercial power through navigation. The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy examines the impact of astronomical discovery and imperial exploration on poets including Barbauld...

1,122円 This wonderful book contains a translation of Plutarch's 'Lives' told in simple language with a special topic index. Plutarch's seminal work upon which this text is based, provided an illustration of Greece and Rome that has been immortalised in the works of Shakespeare and of Goldsmith; a pictur...

7,900円 Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book is a theoretically informed study of the lived experience of FG students and draws on their voices to demonstrate how their insights interface with what we, as educators, t...

6,076円 The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emer...

6,076円 While featuring field-based examples in multiple disciplines, including political science, anthropology, communication, psychology, sociology, law and teacher training, this book presents real cases of conflict work. Explained are concepts underlying conflict transformation and strategies that ha...

5,496円 The planets fascinate us, and naturally we care about our own Earth, and things like how well we can forecast the weather and whether climate is really changing. Exploring the Planets offers a personal account on how the space programme evolved. It begins in the era of the first blurry views of o...

2,536円 Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before. Smolin posits that a process of self organization like that of biological evolution shapes the universe, as it develops and eventually reproduces through b...