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Shaping Science Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA's Teams
ISBN: HB: 9780226691084, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
In "Shaping Science", Janet Vertesi draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions appear to feature robotic expl...
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£36,00
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Coloring the Universe An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space
ISBN: HB: 9781602232730, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
200 pp., 26.7x26.7 cm, 200 colour plates
With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture and can found everywhere,...
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£37,50
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Seeing Like a Rover How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars
ISBN: HB: 9780226155968, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 colour plates, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings
In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Rover first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape. But those images are much less straightforward than t...
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Secret Science Spanish Cosmography and the New World
ISBN: PB: 9780226055404, ISBN: HB: 9780226675343, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 tables, 10 colour plates, 14 halftones, 5 line illus.
The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes i...
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Time Travel and Warp Drives A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space
ISBN: PB: 9780226045481, ISBN: HB: 9780226224985, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 9 line illus.
Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for...
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£13,50
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How We See the Sky A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night
ISBN: PB: 9780226345772, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 66 halftones
Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars – if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today's casual observer knows far less about the sky than d...
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Physical Processes in Circumstellar Disks around Young Stars
ISBN: PB: 9780226282299, ISBN: HB: 9780226282282, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
440 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 15 halftones, 78 line illus., 12 colour illus.
Circumstellar disks are vast expanses of dust that form around new stars in the earliest stages of their birth. Predicted by astronomers as early as the eighteenth century, they weren't observed until the late twentieth century, when interstellar ima...
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£56,00
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£149,00
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Geographies of Mars Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet
ISBN: HB: 9780226470788, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 39 halftones
One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life forms on the distant red planet – a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long sin...
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On Sunspots
ISBN: PB: 9780226707167, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
410 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 108 halftones
Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or m...
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£42,00
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Three Steps to the Universe From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter
ISBN: PB: 9780226283487, ISBN: HB: 9780226283463, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
If scientists can't touch the Sun, how do they know what it's made of? And if we can't see black holes, how can we be confident they exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, science fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle thes...
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