International Space Station Books

• Geography
  Nature
  Life Sciences
  Wild Animals
  Biology
   
  

  A Field Guide to Pacific States Wildflowers: Washington, Oregon, California and adjacent areas (Peterson Field Guides(R))

  Here are descriptions and illustrations of 1,492 species from 77 families - virtually all of the wildflowers found from British Columbia to Baja California, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific ...  > read more
• Sun
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Solar Flare
  Earth Science
  Astronomy
  Geology
   
  

  The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began

  In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph ...  > read more
• Moon
  NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Policy
  Space Exploration
  Space Station
   
  

  On the Moon: The Apollo Journals (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

  This book explains how the Apollo crews learned to work on the lunar surface. Its lively and informative text draws heavily on transcripts and photographs to illustrate points. It puts the reader on ...  > read more
• Fossils
  Early Humans
  Origin of Life
  Cultures
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
   
  

  The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

  In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four ...  > read more
• Forest
  Trees
  Ecology
  Nature
  Land Management
  Evolution
   
  

  Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England

  An original portrait of New England's forests, tracing their evolution from precolonial days to the present through a study of the patterns we see today.Landscape is much more than scenery to be ...  > read more
• Mars
  Space Missions
  NASA
  Space Policy
  Space Exploration
  Solar System
   
  

  A Traveler's Guide to Mars

  A Traveler's Guide to Mars revitalizes the Red Planet, leaving readers with the urge to don a spacesuit and take a long trip. With the look and heft of a guide to someplace you might actually go, the ...  > read more
• Health Policy
  Environmental Issues
  Environmental Policy
  Environmental Policies
  Ocean Policy
  Sustainability
   
  

  Essentials of Environmental Health

  Environmental threats are occurring on a worldwide scale. Dramatic pictures of the devastating effects of natural disasters lead the nightly news. Stories of chemical spills and contaminated ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Anthropology
  Ice Ages
  Archaeology
  Cultures
  Fossils
   
  

  Aegean Art and Architecture (Oxford History of Art)

  The amazing discovery of the 'first European civilization' in Crete, Greece and the Aegean islands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was beyond what anyone had imagined. ...  > read more
• Aviation
  Vehicles
  Engineering
  Thermodynamics
  Space Probes
  Materials Science
   
  

  Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion (2nd Edition)

  In this textbook, the authors show that a few fundamental principles can provide students of mechanical and aeronautical engineering with a deep understanding of all modes of aircraft and spacecraft ...  > 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

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