The Unforgotten Sisters

Gabriella Bernardi

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Astronomy
• Taking inspiration from Siv Cedering's poem in the form of a fictional letter from Caroline Herschel that refers to "my long, lost sisters, forgotten ... Lees meer

From Radio-Phobia to Radio-Euphoria

Ilya Obodovskiy

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• This book gives a detailed discussion of the initial enthusiasm triggered by the discovery of x-rays and radioactive radiation which later turned into... Lees meer

Lunar and Interplanetary Trajectories

Robin Biesbroek

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronautical Engineering
• This book provides readers with a clear description of the types of lunar and interplanetary trajectories, and how they influence satellite-system des... Lees meer

Enhancing Hubble's Vision

David J Shayler, David M Harland

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Space Exploration
• This book tells the story of the four missions to maintain Hubble's successful operation. Between 1997 and 2009 these repaired, serviced and upgraded ... Lees meer

Rosetta: The Remarkable Story of Europe's Comet Explorer

Peter Bond

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Space Exploration
• In 2014, Rosetta became the first mission to orbit a comet and to deploy a lander onto its surface. This is the story of ESA's pioneering comet explor... Lees meer

The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet

Justin B. Hollander

• E-book | Engels | Springer Praxis Books
• Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on Mars. To make it a reality, h... Lees meer

Space Shuttle Challenger

Ben Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books
• This book will take readers back to a time when the Space Shuttle represented the dawn of a new age in space travel, a time when the fabled final fron... Lees meer

Lunar Domes

Raffaello Lena, Christian Wöhler, Jim Phillips, Maria Teresa Chiocchetta

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books
• It provides a collection of images for a large number of lunar domes, including telescopic images acquired with advanced but still moderately intricat... Lees meer

Deep Space Flight and Communications

Claudio Maccone

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronautical Engineering
• The majority of books dealing with prospects for interstellar flight tackle the problem of the propulsion systems that will be needed to send a craft ... Lees meer

Light Scattering Reviews 5

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Environmental Sciences
• Light scattering by densely packed inhomogeneous media is a particularly ch- lenging optics problem. In most cases, only approximate methods are used ... Lees meer

State of the Universe 2008

Martin A Ratcliffe

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books
• State of the Universe 2008 captures the excitement and vibrancy of modern astronomical research. It details discoveries made from the world's leading ... Lees meer

Space Exploration 2007

Brian Harvey

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books
• This book is the first regular space exploration annual. It provides an annual update on recent space launches, missions and results, to be published ... Lees meer

Optical Properties and Remote Sensing of Multicomponental Water Bodies

Helgi Arst

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Marine Science and Coastal Management
• Pollution in lakes and particularly oil spills in oceans and coastal waters is a global problem. This will be the most up-to-date book using remote se... Lees meer

Stability of Life on Earth

Kirill Y Kondratyev, Kim S Losev, Maria D Ananicheva, Irina Chesnokova

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Environmental Sciences
• In Stability of Life on Earth , Professor Kondratyev and his team show that the concept of biotic regulation is of fundamental importance in solving a... Lees meer

Species Richness

Jonathan Adams

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Environmental Sciences
• This is a readable, informative and up-to-date account of the patterns and controls on biodiversity. The author describes major trends in species rich... Lees meer

Solar System Update

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Geophysical Sciences
• This book, the first in a series of forthcoming volumes, consists of topical and timely reviews of a number of carefully selected topics in solar syst... Lees meer

Light Scattering Media Optics

Alexander A Kokhanovsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Environmental Sciences
• The theory of the scattering of light by small particles is very important in a wide range of applications in atmospheric physics and atmospheric opti... Lees meer

Physical Oceanography of the Dying Aral Sea

Peter O Zavialov

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Geophysical Sciences
• Physical Oceanography of the Dying Aral Sea describes the background, present crisis state, and possible future of this peculiar inland water body fro... Lees meer

Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development

Vladimir F Krapivin

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Environmental Sciences
• This book opens new approach to the study of global environmental changes having unfourable character for peoples and other living systems. Main advan... Lees meer

Volcano Deformation

Daniel Dzurisin

• Boek | Duits | Springer Praxis Books | Geophysical Sciences
• Volcanoes and eruptions are dramatic surface man- telemetry and processing, and volcano-deformation ifestations of dynamic processes within the Earth,... Lees meer

The Handbook of Sidescan Sonar

Philippe Blondel

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Geophysical Sciences
• Seafloor surveying with acoustic remote sensing has become a powerful tool for researchers and professionals seeking knowledge about the structure and... Lees meer

Globalization and Sustainable Development

Vladimir F Krapivin

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Environmental Sciences
• A characteristic of the present global ecological situation is increasing instability or-- put another way--a crisis in the civilization system, the g... Lees meer

Global Warming - Myth or Reality?

Marcel LeRoux

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Environmental Sciences
• In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global Warming: Myth or Reality? Ma... Lees meer

Russian Planetary Exploration

Brian Harvey

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books
• This is the first book bringing together the Soviet Union and Russia's exploration of the planets. The book assesses the scientific haul of data from ... Lees meer