Neptune Books

• NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Space Policy
  Moon
  Space Station
   
  

  Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

  In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an ...  > read more
• Astrophysics
  Stars
  Galaxies
  Astronomy
  Black Holes
  Solar System
   
  

  Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, An (2nd Edition)

  An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Second Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the dramatic changes and advancements in astrophysics that have occurred over the past decade. The ...  > read more
• Environmental Issues
  Sustainability
  Environmental Policies
  Nature
  Ecology
  Land Management
   
  

  Essential Environment: The Science behind the Stories (2nd Edition)

  KEY MESSAGE: Essential Environment: Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories retains all the popular features of the landmark first edition—including its integrated ...  > read more
• Space Station
  Space Policy
  Space Missions
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
   
  

  Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space

  An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all—outer spaceIn the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a ...  > read more
• Space Station
  Space Policy
  Astronomy
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
   
  

  The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist's Guide

  “I didn’t think about the dangers before going into space, but now I realize how hazardous it is!”–Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, first person to walk in spaceWith the opening of ...  > read more
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  Apollo

  Out of print for fifteen years, this is the classic account of how the United States got to the moon. It is a book for those who were part of Apollo and want to recapture the experience and for those ...  > read more
• Geology
  Earth Science
  Origin of Life
  Healthy Aging
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Zoology
   
  

  Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe

  "Do you feel lucky? Well do ya?" asked Dirty Harry. Paleontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee think all of us should feel lucky. Their rare Earth hypothesis predicts that while simple, ...  > read more
• Nature
  Origin of Life
  Charles Darwin
  Evolutionary Biology
  Healthy Aging
  Cosmology
   
  

  History of Life

  The living world today contains all kinds of creatures that do unexpected things-- we have come to expect that there were complex and unusual ways of life in the past, and that evolution took some ...  > read more
• Space Station
  Space Probes
  Space Exploration
  NASA
  Space Policy
  Space Missions
   
  

  This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Modern Library Paperbacks)

  More comprehensive than The Right Stuff, more critical than Apollo 13, This New Ocean is a near-perfect history of the men (and occasional women) who have "slipped the surly bonds of Earth." Eminent ...  > read more
• Origin of Life
  Nature
  Healthy Aging
  Anthropology
  Early Climate
  Batteries
   
  

  Life of the Past (4th Edition)

  This comprehensive introduction to the history of life on Earth explores the basic principles and processes, the rich history of past life forms -- marine and terrestrial -- and the major events that ...  > read more

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