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Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes
Springer 2007; US$ 23.99This book investigates the idea that the distant future evolution of our Sun might be ???controlled??? (literally, asteroengineered) so that it maintains its present-day energy output rather than becoming a highly luminous and bloated red giant star ??? a process that, if allowed to develop, will destroy all life on Earth. The text outlines how asteroengineering... more...
Terraforming
Springer 2009; US$ 23.99Often used as the narrative premise in science fiction novels, terraforming is the process by which an uninhabitable planet might be converted into one capable of supporting life. This book proposes an exploration on the topic of terraforming. It presents what is physically possible and hints what might conceivably be put into practice. more...
The Large Hadron Collider
Springer 2010; US$ 27.99It may at first seem that the world of subatomic physics is far removed from our every day lives. Isn't it all just a waste of time and taxpayers' money? Hopefully, all who read this book will come to a different conclusion. Collider physics is all about our origins, and this aspect alone makes it worthy of our very best attention. The experiments... more...
The Physics of Invisibility
Springer 2011; US$ 23.99The ability is see is fundamental to our very existence. How true our perceptions really are depends upon many factors, and not least is our understanding of what light is and how it interacts with matter. It was said that the camera, the icon of light recording instruments, never lies, and in the day of the glass plate and celluloid roll-film this... more...
Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2005; US$ 32.99The essays in this collection challenge the predominant image of working class people in higher education by providing a series of analyses and personal commentaries from a wide range of working class academics. Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks imparts a critical and substantial narrative about what it means to be from the working class... more...
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