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Effects of space weather on technology infrastructure
Springer 2004; US$ 109.00The highly variable conditions in the Earth-related space environment, including the Sun, the interplanetary medium and the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-atmosphere system, are collectively known as space weather. In the recent past we have experienced that space weather influences the performance and reliability of space- and ground-based technological... more...
Impact!
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 26.00Most scientists now agree that some sixty-five million years ago, an immense comet slammed into the Yucatan, detonating a blast twenty million times more powerful than the largest hydrogen bomb, punching a hole ten miles deep in the earth. Trillions of tons of rock were vaporized and launched into the atmosphere. For a thousand miles in all directions,... more...
Spontaneous Current Sheets in Magnetic Fields
Oxford University Press 1994; US$ 169.99Expanding upon the ideas first proposed in his seminal book Cosmical Magnetic Fields, Eugene N. Parker here offers the first in-depth treatment of the magnetohydrodynamic theory of spontaneous magnetic discontinuities. In detailing his theory of the spontaneous formation of tangential discontinuities (current sheets) in a magnetic field embedded in... more...
Teaching and Learning Astronomy
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 39.00This volume highlights astronomy in the curriculum, and addresses how the teaching and learning of astronomy can be improved world-wide. This valuable overview is based on papers and posters presented by experts at a Special Session of the International Astronomical Union. more...
Fundamentals Of Solar Astronomy
World Scientific Publishing Company 2005; US$ 75.40There are several textbooks available on solar astronomy which deal with advanced astrophysical aspects of solar physics, and books which provide very elementary knowledge about the Sun. This book will help to bridge the gap. It aims to stimulate interest in solar astronomy, presenting at one place the basic methods and techniques used in the field,... more...
Dust In The Universe
World Scientific Publishing Company 2005; US$ 75.40The study of dust in the universe is an exciting area in current astronomy. Dust formed during an earlier epoch could be different from that formed at a later time, but the nature and composition of dust is not presently understood in its entirety. The comprehensive study presented in this book provides a much needed critical analysis of different... more...
Mathematical instrumentation in fourteenth-century Egypt and Syria
BRILL 2003; US$ 247.00An illustrated Arabic treatise, with an English translation and detailed commentary, on the construction of over 100 various astronomical instruments, many of which are otherwise unknown to specialists. It was composed by Najm al-Din al-Misri, a rather shadowy figure, in Cairo around 1330 CE. more...
Planets to Cosmology
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 26.00Reviewing some of the most important open questions in astronomy today, world experts examine how the HST can uniquely contribute to astronomical observations during the next few years. This book presents a collection of review papers for professional researchers and graduate students in astronomy and astrophysics. more...
Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics
Springer 2006; US$ 299.99The search for dark matter in the universe has established itself as one of the most exciting and central fields of astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology. The lectures and talks in this book emphasize the experimental and theoretical status and future perspectives, stressing in particular the interplay between astro and particle physics. more...
Planet Formation
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 34.00This volume addresses fundamental questions concerning the formation of planetary systems in general, and of our solar system in particular. Drawing from recent advances in observational, experimental, and theoretical research, it summarises our current understanding of the planet formation processes, and addresses major open questions and research... more...









