Product Description: Presents a realistic, workable plan for defusing a potentially lethal threat from a rogue asteroid or comet. The explosion of a large meteor over Chelyabinsk, Siberia, in February 2013 is just the latest reminder that planet Earth is vulnerable to damaging and potentially catastrophic collisions with space debris of various kinds...read more

A definitive history of the Space Age chronicles humankind's struggle to explore outer space, providing a fascinating look at the Soviet and American space programs from a political, scientific, and human perspective

Using Space to Save Earth Veteran science journalist William E Burrows offers a bold new mission for the U.S. space program: to protect the Earth from the ever-growing number of perils that threaten our way of life--and even our very survival. We are living through one of the most dangerous times in human history. Nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons technology are proliferating, and missile technology is falling into more and more hands. Extreme natural disasters like hurricanes, floods, fires, and earthquakes, are becoming increasingly costly -- not only in dollars, but in lives -- as population expands. Environmental crises threaten to provoke massive famines and widespread social collapse. Asteroids the size of battleships streak within striking distance of the earth every year.  One strategy offers the best hope of protecting us from all of these dangers -- a revitalized national space program that coordinates efforts in global defense, in environmental protection, in communications, and in military security. The Survival Imperative offers an impassioned argument for this bold initiative.  To demonstrate the urgency of his cause, Burrows presents a vivid scenario: an impact by a moderately large asteroid that triggers a series of nuclear exchanges, environmental devastation, and the slow disintegration of civilization. And he examines the existing space program from the heady days of the Moon landing through the political compromises that have characterized the history of NASA in the 35 years following our retreat from the Moon. Most of all, Burrows warns that the primary obstacle to achieving a true planetary defense program is not financial or scientific, but social--an unwillingness to acknowledge the urgency of the crisis, and to take the political risks needed to address it. The question, says Burrows, is not whether we can do it, but whether we will act before it's too late.

The author of Deep Black and By Any Means Necessary takes a close-up look at the U.S. space program and explains why it should be used to protect us and the planet from a growing number of perils, including environmental crises, asteroid strikes, terrorist threats, and others. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Learning Programming Using Visual Basic.NET, by William Burrows, teaches students programming while using VB to illustrate the concepts and techniques. This text uses Windows Forms for Visual Basic programming. Beginning with fundamental programming concepts and gradually moving toward complex methods, this text guides students through realistic end-user applications that they will encounter in the real world...read more

One of the great untold stories of the Cold War is revealed in full detail for the first time, introducing readers to the clandestine air war against Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans that resulted in hundreds of casualties and secret prisoners of war written off as fatalities. Reprint.

One of the great untold stories of the Cold War is revealed in full detail for the first time, introducing readers to the clandestine air war against Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans that resulted in hundreds of casualties and secret prisoners of war written off as fatalities. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Written in cooperation with NASA, an illustrated history of the U.S. space program integrates firsthand accounts by such participants as Buzz Aldrin, Eileen Collins, and Homer Hickam with full-color photographs that capture pivotal moments in human space exploration, from Alan Shepard's first flight, to the moon landing, to the latest revelations of the Hubble Space Telescope and Mars Global Surveyor. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: McGraw-Hill Programming Business Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0; William E Burrows and Joseph D Langford (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The uncontrolled--and potentially lethal--proliferation of strategic nuclear, chemical, and biochemical weapons in the Third World is researched in detail by the acclaimed author of Deep Black and a producer for NBC News.

Photographs from the Voyager space probe bring home to readers the red spot of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, sideways spinning Uranus, irenic Neptune, and other astronomical phenomena, explained by a veteran science reporter.

Chronicles NASA's odyssey of planetary discovery, from the Viking mission to Mars to the Voyager probe, which travelled three billion miles, photographed all the outer planets but Pluto, and was never more than a minute behind schedule

Examines how space technology is being used for espionage, discusses the clashes between the Air Force and the CIA for control of the vast system, and details the rivalry between Washington and Moscow

Examines how space technology is being used for espionage, discusses the clashes between the Air Force and the CIA for control of the vast system, and details the rivalry between Washington and Moscow