Astronomy, space & time

Transgender Identities

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This volume offers vivid accounts of the diversity of living transgender in today's world, representing the cutting-edge scholarship in transgender studies. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology and gender and sexuality studies.

Transgender identities: towards a social analysis of gender diversity

by Hines, Sally, Sanger, Tam

fromRoutledge research in gender and society

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This volume offers vivid accounts of the diversity of living transgender in today's world, representing the cutting-edge scholarship in transgender studies. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology and gender and sexuality studies.

The sky at night

by Moore, Patrick, North, Chris, (Chris E.)

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Featuring sections on the solar system, cosmology, the bizarre and unexplained, space missions, the Moon, and more, this title offers journey into space for the novice astronomer and the lifelong stargazer alike.

Colliding worlds: how cosmic encounters shaped planets and life

by Marchi, Simone

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Drawing on the latest research, Simone Marchi describes the vital role that collisions in space have played in the formation and evolution of the solar system and inner planets. Comparing the evidence from the surfaces of our planetary neighbours, he explains the impact of these…

Astronomy of the Milky Way: the observer's guide to the Southern Sky

by Inglis, Mike

fromPatrick Moore's practical astronomy series

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This second edition of Mike Inglis's classic guide to observing the Milky Way in the Southern Hemisphere updates all of the science about the target objects with new findings from the astrophysics field. In addition, the book boasts a larger format with entirely re-drawn maps. N…

The planet factory: exoplanets and the search for a second Earth

by Tasker, Elizabeth

fromBloomsbury sigma series

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"The Planet Factory tells the story of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars outside of our solar system. Discover the specks of dust that circle a young star come together in a violent building project that can form colossal worlds hundreds of times the size of the Earth; the chan…

Introduction to cosmology

by Ryden, Barbara Sue

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This second edition of Introduction to Cosmology is an exciting update of an award-winning textbook. It is aimed primarily at advanced undergraduate students in physics and astronomy, but is also useful as a supplementary text at higher levels. It explains modern cosmological co…

Solar energetic particles: a modern primer on understanding sources, acceler…

by Reames, D. V.

fromLecture Notes in Physics

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This concise primer introduces the non-specialist reader to the physics of solar energetic particles (SEP) and systematically reviews the evidence for the two main mechanisms which lead to the so-called impulsive and gradual SEP events. More specifically, the timing of the onset…

Astronavigation: a method for determining exact position by the st…

by Zischka, K. A.

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This book acts as a manual for the ancient methods of navigating by the stars, which continue to provide the sailor or pilot with a timeless means of determining location. Despite the prevalence of GPS, a comprehensive set of formulae that can be evaluated on any inexpensive sci…

The special theory of relativity: foundations, theory, verification, applications

by Christodoulides, Costas

fromUndergraduate lecture notes in physics

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This book offers a comprehensive, university-level introduction to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. In addition to the purely theoretical aspect, emphasis is also given to its historical development as well as to the experiments that preceded the theory and those perform…

The evolution of applied harmonic analysis: models of the real world

by Prestini, Elena

fromApplied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis

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A sweeping exploration of the development and far-reaching applications of harmonic analysis such as signal processing, digital music, optics, radio astronomy, crystallography, medical imaging, spectroscopy, and more. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, examples, and material n…

The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

by 't Hooft, Gerard

fromFundamental Theories of Physics

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This book presents the deterministic view of quantum mechanics developed by Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft. Dissatisfied with the uncomfortable gaps in the way conventional quantum mechanics meshes with the classical world, 't Hooft has revived the old hidden variable ideas, but…

The cellular automaton interpretation of quantum mechanics

by Hooft, G. 't

fromFundamental Theories of Physics

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This book presents the deterministic view of quantum mechanics developed by Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft. Dissatisfied with the uncomfortable gaps in the way conventional quantum mechanics meshes with the classical world, 't Hooft has revived the old hidden variable ideas, but…

Das Rätsel Dunkle Materie: auf der Suche nach dem Unsichtbaren

by Kapferer, Wolfgang

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Mit diesem Buch begeben Sie sich auf die spannende Suche nach der Dunklen Materie, die nach dem aktuellen Stand der Forschung den Großteil der Masse unseres Universums ausmacht. Der Autor erklärt anschaulich, welche Schlüsselbeobachtungen dazu geführt haben, eine unsichtbare Mas…

The history of celestial navigation: rise of the Royal Observatory and nautical almana…

by Seidelmann, P. Kenneth, Hohenkerk, C. Y.

fromHistorical & cultural astronomy

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This edited volume charts the history of celestial navigation over the course of five centuries. Written by a group of historians and scientists, it analyzes how competing navigation systems, technologies, and institutions emerged and developed, with a focus on the major players…

Limiting outer space: astroculture after Apollo

fromPalgrave studies in the history of science and technology

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Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period.

Anton Pannekoek: ways of viewing science and society

fromStudies in the History of Knowledge

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Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics was radica…

Anton Pannekoek: ways of viewing science and society

fromStudies in the History of Knowledge

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Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics was radica…

Mirror Earth: the search for our planet's twin

by Lemonick, Michael D.

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"In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they detected three planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. The planets were nothing like Earth, however: They were giant gas balls like Jupiter or Saturn. More than five hundred planets have been found since then, yet none of th…

Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN: With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn

by Rafelski, Johann

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This book shows how the study of multi-hadron production phenomena in the years after the founding of CERN culminated in Hagedorn's pioneering idea of limiting temperature, leading on to the discovery of the quark-gluon plasma -- announced, in February 2000 at CERN. Following th…