Planet Eris (Xena) Books

• Solar System
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Space Policy
  Astronomy
  Space Probes
   
  

  Moons and Planets

  Author William Hartmann has fully updated this text, which retains a comparative approach to the principles of planetology, including organization by physical topic rather than by planet. This unique ...  > read more
• Trees
  Forest
  Botany
  Nature
  Ecology Research
  Biodiversity
   
  

  Michigan Trees, Revised and Updated: A Guide to the Trees of the Great Lakes Region

  Now in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees has been, since it was first introduced in 1913, the must-have reference book for anyone who wants to know about the trees of this unique North ...  > read more
• Earth Science
  Geology
  Early Climate
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Oceanography
   
  

  The Seashell on the Mountaintop

  Seventeenth-century scientists were baffled: How did the fossils of seashells find their way to the tops of mountains? Nicolaus Steno, hailed by Stephen Jay Gould as “the founder of ...  > read more
• Conflict
  Information Technology
  Ethics
   
  

  An Introduction to Planetary Defense: A Study of Modern Warfare Applied to Extra-Terrestrial Invasion

  This book describes a serious look at defending the planet in the event of an extra-terrestrial invasion. Travis Taylor, et al, have written the definitive book on the defense of earth against a ...  > read more
• Space Station
  Space Policy
  Space Probes
  Space Exploration
  NASA
  Astronomy
   
  

  The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space: Apogee Books Space Series 12 (Apogee Books Space Series)

  Rocket man, I think it's going to be a long, long time. When Princeton physicist Gerard K. O'Neill published the first edition of High Frontier back in the mid 1970s (just four years after "Rocket ...  > read more
• Solar System
  Extrasolar Planets
  Cosmology
  Astronomy
  Astrophysics
  Solar Energy
   
  

  Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond (with ThomsonNOW, Virtual Astronomy Labs Printed Access Card)

  ASTRONOMY: THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND and its accompanying learning tools ThomsonNOW and Virtual Astronomy Labs shows you your place in the universe, not just your location, but also your role as a ...  > read more
• Influenza
  Bird Flu Research
  Bird Flu
  Cold and Flu
  Virology
  Viruses
   
  

  The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu

  A “brilliant” and “fascinating” investigation of the looming avian flu pandemic—and how we arrived at the brink of a global health catastrophe—The New York ...  > read more
• Space Policy
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Astronomy
  Space Missions
  Solar System
   
  

  Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization

  Humans are not native to the Earth. So posits astronautical engineer Bob Zubrin in the opening of Entering Space. We're native to just a small sliver of it, the spot where our species originated in ...  > read more
• Birds
  Charles Darwin
  Early Humans
  World Development
  Early Birds
  Evolutionary Biology
   
  

  Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird

  Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Domesticated since the dawn of man, they’ve been used as crucial communicators in war by every major ...  > read more
• Cosmology
  Big Bang
  Astrophysics
  Astronomy
  Quantum Physics
  Physics
   
  

  One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos

  Don't let the large size and lush graphics fool you--One Universe is no coffee-table book. This grand tour explores the staggering vastness of space and the incomprehensibly tiny pieces that fit ...  > read more

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