Popular astronomy and space Books

<p><strong>In <em>Astrology for Everyone: What It Is and How It Works</em>, Evangeline Adams opens the heavens to readers with a clear and engaging exploration of all twelve Zodiac signs, offering insight into how astrology...

<p><strong>Discover your cosmic identity with <em>Astrology: Your Place in the Sun</em>, Evangeline Adams' timeless guide to the Sun's powerful influence over the planets, the signs of the Zodiac, and your unique place in the...

<p><strong>Embark on a celestial journey with this timeless collection of Evangeline Adams' three classic works: <em>Astrology: Your Place in the Sun</em>, <em>Astrology: Your Place Among the Stars</em>, and...

Over the last 15 years or so there has been a huge increase in the popularity of astrophotography with the advent of digital SLR cameras and CCD imagers. These have enabled astronomers to take many images and, indeed, check...

Humanity is emerging into a Greater Community of worlds. Contact has begun and our isolation in the universe is over. This is the greatest event in humanhistory, and yet we are unaware and unprepared.Humanity has reached a critical threshold in its...

Did you know that there are thousands, or possibly millions, of undiscovered planets out there? But before you can expand your knowledge to the unknown, you first have to know the planets already discovered. This educational book features the planetary...

The night sky is so beautiful, with its constellations and the occasional meteors passing too. Wouldn't it be great if your child sees these heavenly bodies for more than they are? Train your child to see the knowledge in beauty. This is a powerful book...

Look up the sky, and marvel at the patterns the natural world has to offer. Learning about constellations is a great introduction to astronomy. This book makes the subject a piece of cake, because it presents information in a pre-processed manner. This...

Take a look at the night sky, what do you see? You see the moon wax and wane; and you probably want to know why. So this book will help you understand that. Here, your child will be introduced to why the moon changes, and what these changes are called...

Is there really a man on the moon? Is it really made of cheese? Let's talk about the moon, but without the myths and legends. Rather, let's talk about its truth and what benefits it gives the Earth and us. This educational book will inform your child of...

The following is a collection of mysterious reports from Georgia covering the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mysterious airships in the Flap of 1897, Balls of Fire in Dyas, the Flying Woman of Acworth, the Lady Who Made the Star Go Out, and more.

Robert Lynd's collection of memories, "The Book of This and That," is a deliberate compilation of his numerous essay thoughts, skillfully condensed right into a single on hand volume, designed to be low cost for readers of every age. The memories within...

It was written by way of Louis Legrand Noble. "After Icebergs with a Painter" is a charming journey tale. Noble talks about his ride to the Arctic with the American panorama painter William Bradford. The book tells about their trip into the cold waters...

Cosmology is the study of the origin, size, and evolution of the entire universe. Every culture has developed a cosmology, whether it be based on religious, philosophical, or scientific principles. In this book, the evolution of the scientific...

Visual Astronomy introduces the basics of observational astronomy, a fundamentally limitless opportunity to learn about the universe with your unaided eyes or with tools such as binoculars, telescopes, or cameras. The book explains the essentials of time...

What does it take to consider a planet potentially habitable? If a planet is suitable for life, could life be present? Is life on other planets inevitable? Searching for Habitable Worlds answers these questions and provides both the general public and...

This classic, historical book is a detailed study of the effect of the movement of the planets on human character. Extensively illustrated with explanatory diagrams, forming a complete how-to-guide that is still practical and useful today. A must have...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

A total solar eclipse is considered to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But why would an astronomical event be of interest to you? Being in the Shadow describes what it is like to experience one of nature’s most spectacular events, using...

Algol is a triple system containing a 70 hr eclipsing binary (K IV and B8 V) in a 694 day orbit with an A V star. The X-ray emission from this system (Schnopper et al 1976) is thought to be associated with a corona surrounding...

Proceedings of the 129th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, May 10-15, 1987

Along with its companion book, The Observational Amateur Astronomer, this is a comprehensive guide for every amateur astronomer who wants to do more than just stargaze. Each chapter has been written by a well-known professional...

I. COSIIIC GAMMA RAYS AIm COSIIIC DUnmos L. Scarsi GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY -- AN OVERVIEW OF THE GALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION: THE ORIGIN AND CONFINEMENT OF COSMIC RAyS •••••••••••• 1 P. L. Biermann PHOTON AND NEUTRINO-EMISSION FROM...

This volume contains a series of lectures presented at the 5th Course of the International School of Astrophysics held in Erice (Sicily) from July 1st to July 14, 1979 at the "E. l1ajorana" Centre for Scientific Culture. The...

IAU Symposium 97, Extragalactic Radio Sources, was held at Albuquerque, New Mexico August 3-7, 1981. It was co-sponsored by IAU Commissions 28, 40, 47 and 48 and by URSI Commission J. Financial and organizational support were...

This book contains the invited and contributed lectures presented at a meeting organised in the context of the XVIII general assembly ofthe IAU, held in Patras, August 19, 1982. Roughly one hundred scientists attended this...

The millimetre and submillimetre spectral region (300 to 3000 Ilm or 1000 to 100 GHz) was until recently one of the few spectral regimes not fully opened up for astronomical studies. Thanks both to improvements in detectors and...

The last major conference on infrared astronomy was the IAU Symposium No. 96 in June 1980. Since then, the discipline has continued to mature and to contribute to all branches of astrophysics. One particular area of growth has...

The idea of this Colloquium came during the XVIIth General Assembly of the I. A. U. at Montreal. The meeting was organized under the auspices of I. A. U. Commission 5 (Documentation and Astronomical Data). The Scientific...

Interest world-wide in the provision of new observational astro­ nomical facilities in the form of ground-based optical telescopes of large aperture has never been higher than exists at present. The benefits to be gained from...

E. Tengstrom G. Teleki The IAU symposium no 89, 'Refractional Influences in Astrometry and Geo­ desy' , was held at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, during August 1 through August 5, 1978. It was a joint meeting of IAU and...

The primary inducement for organizing an international Conference on 'Image Processing Techniques in_Astronomy' was the fact that the recording microdensitometer VAMP ('Vol Automatische Micro Photometer') of the Utrecht...

337 F(e) = (z) where the angle between the directions III and 112 is equal to 8. r is the angular diameter effective distance of the epoch for recombination. F (8) ~ve have F(e) : f (e) ~ (S" ) e. . ~ is a Bessel function. It...

The IAU Symposium No. 55 on 'X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy' has occurred, not entirely by coincidence, at an important moment in the development of these new branches of observational astronomy. In X-ray astronomy the data from...

The next major step in millimetre astronomy, and one of the highest-priority items in radio astronomy today, is a large millimetre array with a collecting area 2 of up to 10 000 m . A project of this scale will almost certainly...

The information received from BeppoSAX, Chandra and other instruments in the last two years has more than doubled the number of samples of Gamma-Ray Bursts localized and followed up for afterglow search. This has also increased...

This Night Sky Observation log book/ diary is a perfect way of recording the objects that you observe in the night sky. Great for writing and recording your stargazing experiences. Each page contains space for you to record: Date, Time, Location...

There was an outcry, screaming, and havoc in the courtyard of earth with the rising up the darkness of deep night. Meanwhile, the dialogue between mother earth and son Cloud was also increasing in the form of request and soliciting. The crying of animals...