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Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if life forms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might their langu...

Drawing on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASAs robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the...

The remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts'Lifts the curtain on the moment when Neil Armstrong's one small step for man expanded...

Covering the complete Association of Marine Electric and Radio Colleges (AMERC) syllabus for Electrotechnology Officers (ETOs), the book is divided...

'LOEB IS AN ASTRONOMICAL SHERLOCK HOLMES' Washington Post'A JOY IN CONJECTURE AND AN OMNIVOROUS SPIRIT OF INQUIRY. . . CARL SAGAN WOULD HAVE LIKED ...

Ever since people began cultivating cereal crops 10,000 years ago grain had to be ground down, or milled, into flour to make bread. Up to the Roman...

Imagine a network of extraterrestrials in radio contact with each other across the universe, superior beings who hail from advanced civilizations q...

This third edition of the SME Mining Engineering Handbook reaffirms its international reputation as the handbook of choice for todays practicing mi...

Covers the fundamental science of grinding and polishing by examining the chemical and mechanical interactions over many scale lengths Manufacturin...

A successful underground project is one where relationships are strong, the objectives as understood by each party are met or exceeded, and the wor...

Refighting the Pacific War looks at how World War II in the Pacific might have unfolded differently, giving historians, authors and veterans the op...

The book explains sound insulation in buildings at a level suitable for both graduate students and expert consultants. Theoretical models are set o...

*An instant New York Times Bestseller*'One of the most exciting tales of our time... It's the next tech frontier, and Vance turns it into a thrille...

Continuing in the footsteps of the pioneering first edition, Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing, Second Edition explores the most up-to...

This book is a comprehensive account of the most recent developments in modern ophthalmic optics. It makes use of the powerful matrix formalism to ...

Three experts in the field of thin-film optics present a detailed and self-contained theoretical study of planar multilayers and how they can be ef...

This book provides a self-contained introduction to the simulation of flow and transport in porous media, written by a developer of numerical metho...

Historically, the commercial space launch industry focused primarily on putting payloads, such as satellites, into orbit, using launch vehicles tha...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the classification, geology and exploration of asteroids and meteorites. Topics ...

Specialty metals are essential to the manufacture and performance capabilities of certain Department of Defense (DOD) weapon system parts, due to t...

In an easy-to-grasp, holistic manner Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science, Third Edition unravels the technical mysteries that regularly challe...

This book presents current research in the field of space science. Topics discussed include research on the aerodynamics of large bolides; solar dy...

X-ray scattering techniques are a family of non-destructive analytical techniques which reveal information about the crystallographic structure, ch...

The successful launches of SpaceShipOne raised the possibility of an emerging U.S. commercial space tourism industry that would make human space tr...

News accounts of miners losing their lives as a result of accidents at underground coal mines have appeared more often in recent years. The methane...

This book examines the 2011 edition of U.S. Geological Survey''s Mineral Commodity Summaries (MCS), which includes information on events, trends an...

This book explores conventional prompt global strike and long-range ballistic mission options. Prompt global strike (PGS) would allow the United St...