Dwarf Planet Pluto Books

• Endangered Plants
  Nature
  Botany
  Fossils
  Grassland
  Pests and Parasites
   
  

  FOSSIL PLANTS PB (Smithsonian's Living Past)

  An amazing look at plants of the past through an examination of the fossils that remain. Long before there were animals on the earth, many kinds of plants covered the prehistoric planet. The soft ...  > read more
• Atmosphere
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Sun
  Physics
  Solar Flare
  Quantum Physics
   
  

  Physics of Solar System Plasmas (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series)

  Physics of Solar System Plasmas provides a comprehensive introduction to the plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics that are needed to study the solar wind and magnetosphere. The text includes a ...  > read more
• Weapons Technology
  Space Policy
  Space Exploration
  Engineering
  Space Probes
  Astronomy
   
  

  Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

  Like cheap, shiny space suits and bug-eyed rubber monsters, nuclear-powered spaceships today seem like little more than laughably naïve 1950s science fiction tropes. It might have been ...  > read more
• Dinosaurs
  Fish
  Marine Biology
  Fossils
  Frogs and Reptiles
  Nature
   
  

  Sea Dragons: Predators Of The Prehistoric Oceans

  In the days when dinosaurs dominated the earth, their marine counterparts-every bit as big and ferocious-reigned supreme in prehistoric seas. In this entrancing book, Richard Ellis, one of the ...  > read more
• Space Station
  Space Policy
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
  Astronomy
   
  

  ISScapades: The Crippling of America's Space Program: Apogee Books Space Series #59 (Apogee Books Space Series)

  Covering the International Space Station’s (ISS) inception through the launching of the first two components nearly two decades later, this insider’s account details its demise from a ...  > read more
• Origin of Life
  Healthy Aging
  Zoology
  Charles Darwin
  Biodiversity
  Disaster Plan
   
  

  Early Life

  Early life attempts to tell the stories of primitive life. The text conveys some of the excitement in the current attempts to reconstruct the opening chapters of life on the planet Earth, long ...  > read more
• Cosmology
  Big Bang
  Seeds
  Solar System
  Solar Energy
  Educational Policy
   
  

  Horizons With Infotrac: Exploring the Universe

  In this revised and updated Sixth Edition, Mike Seeds has two goals. First, he wants to show students their place in the universe-not just their location, but their role as planet dwellers in an ...  > read more
• Extinction
  Sun
  Dinosaurs
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Astronomy
  Fossils
   
  

  The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science

  Nemesis is the name given by scientists to a (theoretical) small companion star to our sun. Every 26 million years, Nemesis's orbit brings it close enough to the sun to bombard our solar system with ...  > read more
• NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Policy
  Solar System
  Space Probes
  Eris (Xena)
   
  

  ROVING MARS: SPIRIT, OPPORTUNITY, AND THE EXPLORATION OF THE RED PLANET

  Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASAs Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves ...  > read more
• Sustainability
  Environmental Issues
  Environmental Policies
  Global Warming
  Computer Modeling
  Climate
   
  

  The Limits to Growth

  In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global ...  > read more

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