Product Description: The exploration of our solar system is one of humanity's greatest scientific achievements. The last fifty years in particular have seen huge steps forward in our understanding of the planets, the sun, and other objects in the solar system...read more

Product Description: In the summer of 2016, the Greenland ice field melts and sea levels rise by more than 20 feet. In a few weeks, over a billion people worldwide become homeless. Civilization as we know it ceases to exist and begins to free fall back into the Dark Ages...read more

Product Description: Profiling hundreds of spacecraft, launchers, manufacturers and operators, this publication provides a global view of the development, application and support of space-based systems. Human, communications, imaging, scientific, research and development and other space applications are covered...read more

Product Description: A look at space that's out of this world! The DK Guide to Space takes the reader on a fascinating journey through our universe, using the latest space photography from the Hubble Telescope in a large format to create a dramatic guide to the exploration of space...read more

Product Description: -Are you trying to get away from your job or profession for a week? -Are you single and thought you'd stay that way? If the above is true then don't read this book because this wealthy young lawyer sets out on a peaceful and quiet vacation and unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful calamitous nurse whose adopted father does his best to get her married off to the frist available and qualified...read more

Product Description: In this fascinating and well-written text Peter Bond describes the development and evolution of space stations. Particular emphasis is placed on the International Space Station, beginning with the revolution that began in 1970, when Salyut 1, the world's first space station was sent into orbit by the Soviet Union...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Armchair astronauts can soar into outer space and join those who have journeyed far from Earth. Photographs from hundreds of U.S. and Russian space missions past and present vividly convey the remarkable experiences of traveling in a rocket ship--the trials and dangers, excitement and glory, and even what it feels like to sleep and eat upside down and live in a weightless, yet strong, body...read more

Product Description: By using all the latest NASA space photography large on the page to create a guide to the exploration of space, this book attempts to take the reader on a journey through our universe. It includes all the latest theories, observations and discoveries and the photographs supported by illustrations explain complex ideas of astronomy, cosmology and space exploration...read more

This is the story of space travel, starting with the first man to go into space, Yuri Gagarin, and continuing with the other 250 people who have since followed him. The book tells their epic tale, a testimony to one of mankind's greatest achievements. It covers the entire space age since the launch of the Sputnik, giving an up-to-date account of the first third-of-a-century of manned space flight. It also speculates on the future for space travel, discussing "the next great human adventure, the settlement of Mars". The foreword is written by US Senator Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut, and one of only 12 men to walk on the Moon.