Other Technologies & Applied Sciences

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first man on the moon, this book for the first time ever looks at the artefacts left behind on the mo...

This simplified guide to the night sky includes seasonal GLOW-IN-THE-DARK charts to the stars and constellations and introduces the reader to the s...

Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination amon...

Uncommon Warriors examines all of the 500 unique miscellaneous auxiliary and unclassified miscellaneous vessels of the US Navy, providing individua...

Estuaries are of high socioeconomic importance with twenty-two of the thirty-two largest cities in the world located on river estuaries. Estuaries ...

As the Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe unleashed their full might against the island of Malta, the civilian population was in the eye of the st...

Stepping Stones to the Stars is the story of manned spaceflight from its inception to the era of the Space Shuttle. It begins with a short history ...

Mining's dramatic and dangerous nature is reflected in the hundreds of specialized tools and artifacts shown in over 500 color photographs and disc...

The field of complex photonic media is truly interdisciplinary, inevitably overarching multiple topics of physics, chemistry, nanotechnology, mater...

Coastal regions present a complex dynamic web of natural and human related processes. Although coastal zones are narrow areas extending a few kilom...

Airpower is credited with success in Afghanistan, Desert Storm, and Serbia, but in Vietnam all of America's aerial might could not defeat a vastly ...

The production of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons can be affected by several sources of damage under subsurface conditions that can hi...

A revised edition of the New York Times bestselling classic: the epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who ...

The invocation of fifth columns in the political arena -- whether contrived or based on real fears -- has recurred periodically throughout history ...

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of natures soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. S...

On April 5, 1945, more than sixty black officers of the U.S. Army Air Forces were arrested for entering a whites-only club at Freeman Field, Indian...

The worlds leading textbook on astrobiologyideal for an introductory one-semester course and now fully revised and updatedAre we alone in the cosmo...

A brief guide to the real science of interstellar travelWith known exoplanets now numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship...

In 2014, when Lucy Sargisson was promoted to professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Nottingham, she ...

A beyond-cool look at the world of high-end audio design for passionate collectors, obsessive audiophiles, and design fans At a time when sales of ...

Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported t...

Fatty acids are important compounds in food analysis, since they are samplespecific. They can be used as markers or their profile can be used as ...

HARVESTING FOODS from WEEDS Food science is a rapidly changing and complicated subject. This new series addresses the current state-of-the-art conc...