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Astronomy

Long Space Age The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War

MacDonald Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300219326, Yale University Press, May 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

An economic historian argues that privately funded space exploration is not a new development, but a trend beginning with the astronomical observatories of the nineteenth century. Over the last half-century there has been a rapid expansion in commer...

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Astronomy

All These Worlds are Yours The Scientific Search for Alien Life

Willis Jon

ISBN: HB: 9780300208696, Yale University Press, November 2016
232 pp., 21x14 cm

Where would you look for alien life? An astronomer and science popularizer explains the basics of astrobiology to outline five plausible scenarios for finding extraterrestrials Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth tran...

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Astronomy

Journey of the Universe

Swimme Brian, Tucker Mary Evelyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300209433, ISBN: HB: 9780300171907, Yale University Press, November 2014
192 pp., 25x15 cm

Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars...

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Astronomy

Galileo Watcher of the Skies

Wootton David

ISBN: PB: 9780300197297, ISBN: HB: 9780300125368, Yale University Press, October 2013
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet fo...

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Astronomy

Realm of the Nebulae

Hubble Edwin, Kirshner Robert P., Carroll Sean M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187120, Yale University Press, April 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In less than a century, the accepted picture of the universe transformed from a stagnant place, comprised entirely of our own Milky Way galaxy, to a realm inhabited by billions of individual galaxies, hurtling away from one another. We must thank, in...

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Astronomy

New Universe and the Human Future How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World

Abrams Nancy Ellen, Primack Joel R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181241, ISBN: HB: 9780300165081, Yale University Press, June 2012
256 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 72 colour illus.

After a four-century rupture between science and the questions of value and meaning, this groundbreaking book presents an explosive and potentially life-altering idea: if the world could agree on a shared creation story based on modern cosmology and...

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Amazing Nature

Moon A Brief History

Brunner Bernd

ISBN: PB: 9780300177695, Yale University Press, October 2011
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 93 black&white illus.

Werewolves and Wernher von Braun, Stonehenge and the sex lives of sea corals, aboriginal myths, and an Anglican bishop: in his new book, "Moon", Bernd Brunner weaves variegated information into an enchanting glimpse of Earth's closest celestial neigh...

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