Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
Publisher :
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 1582881847
Pages : 738 pages
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Author : Tom Easton
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2006-10-01
ISBN 10 : 9780809512058
Pages : 354 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (89 users)
Download Off the Main Sequence PDF by Tom Easton Full Free and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Easton has served as the monthly book review columnist for Analog Science Fiction for almost three decades, having contributed during that span many hundreds of columns and over a million words of penetrating criticism on the best literature that science fiction has to offer. His reviews have been celebrated for their wit, humor, readability, knowledge, and incisiveness. His love of literature, particularly fantastic literature, is everywhere evident in his essays. Easton has ever been willing to cover small presses, obscure authors, and unusual publications, being the only major critic in the field to do so on a regular basis. He seems to delight in finding the rare gem among the backwaters of the publishing field. "A reviewer's job," he says, "is not to judge books for the ages, but to tell readers enough about a book to give them some idea of whether they would enjoy it." And this he does admirably, whether he's discussing the works of the great writers in the field, or touching upon the least amongst them. This companion volume to "Periodic Stars" (Borgo/Wildside) collects another 250 of Easton's best reviews from the last fifteen years of "The Reference Library." No one does it better, and no other guide provides such lengthy or discerning commentary on the best SF works of recent times. Complete with Introduction and detailed Index.
Author : Martin Harwit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-14
ISBN 10 : 9781475720198
Pages : 626 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (475 users)
Download Astrophysical Concepts PDF by Martin Harwit Full Free and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My principal aim in writing this book was to present a wide range of astrophysical topics in sufficient depth to give the reader a general quantitative understanding of the subject. The book outlines cosmic events but does not portray them in detail-it provides aseries of astrophysical sketches. I think this approach befits the present uncertainties and changing views in astrophysics. The material is based on notes I prepared for a course aimed at seniors and beginning graduate students in physics and astronomy at Cornell. This course defined the level at which the book is written. For readers who are versed in physics but are unfamiliar with astronomical terminology, Appendix A is included. It gives a brief background of astronomical concepts and should be read before starting the main text. The first few chapters outline the scope of modern astrophysics and deal with elementary problems concerning the size and mass of cosmic objects. However, it soon becomes apparent that a broad foundation in physics is needed to proceed. This base is developed in Chapters 4 to 7 by using, as ex am pIes, specific astronomi cal situations. Chapters 8 to 10 enlarge on the topics first outlined in Chapter I and show how we can obtain quantitative insights into the structure and evolution of stars, the dynamics of co~mic gases, and the large-scale behavior of the universe.
Author : Carl J. Hansen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
ISBN 10 : 9781468402148
Pages : 446 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (468 users)
Download Stellar Interiors PDF by Carl J. Hansen Full Free and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That trees should have been cut down to provide paper for this book was an ecological afIront. From a book review. - Anthony Blond (in the Spectator, 1983) The first modern text on our subject, Structure and Evolution of the Stars, was published over thirty years ago. In it, Martin Schwarzschild described numerical experiments that successfully reproduced most of the observed properties of the majority of stars seen in the sky. He also set the standard for a lucid description of the physics of stellar interiors. Ten years later, in 1968, John P. Cox's tw~volume monograph Principles of Stellar Structure appeared, as did the more specialized text Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nuc1eosynthesis by Donald D. Clayton-and what a difference ten years had made. The field had matured into the basic form that it remains today. The past twenty-plus years have seen this branch of astrophysics flourish and develop into a fundamental pillar of modern astrophysics that addresses an enormous variety of phenomena. In view of this it might seem foolish to offer another text of finite length and expect it to cover any more than a fraction of what should be discussed to make it a thorough and self-contained reference. Well, it doesn't. Our specific aim is to introduce only the fundamentals of stellar astrophysics. You will find little reference here to black holes, millisecond pulsars, and other "sexy" objects.
Author : Marc L. Kutner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-31
ISBN 10 : 0521529271
Pages : 612 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (529 users)
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Author : David A. Weintraub
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
ISBN 10 : 9781400836130
Pages : 381 pages
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Author : Marshal H. Wrubel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-09
ISBN 10 : 9783642459085
Pages : 832 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (642 users)
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Author : Robert C. Bless
Publisher : University Science Books
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : 0935702679
Pages : 788 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (72 users)
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Author : Michael Zeilik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-14
ISBN 10 : 0521800900
Pages : 586 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (8 users)
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Author : Stefan Wurm
Publisher : ATICE LLC
Release Date : 2020-03-10
ISBN 10 : 9781951894009
Pages : 492 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (951 users)
Download The Human Condition PDF by Stefan Wurm Full Free and published by ATICE LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a very short period, only a few hundred years, our understanding of the cosmos, our planet Earth, the evolution of life on it, and the beginnings of our very own human endeavor have radically changed. These revolutions in science and technology have dramatically altered our societies in many ways. For quite some time it seemed as if our planets resources were unlimited. Today we know that this is not the case. Human civilizations are shaping our planets future in ways that have profound consequences for all other life on Earth as well as for us. We need to reflect broadly on what defines our human condition if we wish our societies to be successful in navigating a future that cannot be just ours but must include the broad diversity of life on Earth without which humankind will not survive. This book tells the story of how we discovered the universe, how we learned about our planet and the life evolving on it, how humanity emerged from pre-history, and what some of the future of our civilizations could hold.
Author : C.R. Kitchin
Publisher : CRC Press
Release Date : 2005-07-21
ISBN 10 : 085274580X
Pages : 386 pages
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Author : Wali Kameshwar C
Publisher : World Scientific
Release Date : 1995-03-31
ISBN 10 : 9789814549653
Pages : 500 pages
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Download Pascos '94 - Proceedings Of The Fouth International Symposium On Particles, Strings And Cosmology PDF by Wali Kameshwar C Full Free and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995-03-31 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume is sixth in the series of international conferences covering the fission, quasi-fission, fusion-fission phenomena and synthesis of superheavy nuclei, mainly at low or near barrier energies. Both experimental and theoretical issues are covered. The topics are discussed by a group of participants, and an overview of the current activities in the field is given.
Author : S Raby
Publisher : World Scientific
Release Date : 1994-10-10
ISBN 10 : 9789814602488
Pages : 628 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (814 users)
Download The Building Blocks of Creation PDF by S Raby Full Free and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994-10-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particle physics and cosmology are united in the standard hot big bang model. This volume contains pedagogical lectures on the experimental and theoretical status of the standard models of particle physics and cosmology as well as their extensions, with an overall focus on the strong interplay between these two fields. Contents:The Standard Model (W J Marciano)Selected Topics in Effective Field Theories for Particle Physics (A G Cohen)Light Quarks Masses and Mixing Angles (J F Donoghue)Heavy Quark Masses, Mixing Angles, and Spin-Flavour Symmetry (M Neubert)Introduction to Supersymmetry (D R T Jones)Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and Grand Unification (H P Nilles)Probing the Effective Flavor Lagrangian of GUTs (L J Hall)An Introduction to Technicolor (K Lane)The Conflict between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity (L Susskind)The Standard Cosmology (J A Frieman)Dark Matter Experiments (D O Caldwell)An Introduction to Large-Scale Structure (R J Scherrer)Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics: Theory of Neutrino Oscillations (S P Rosen)Stellar Neutrinos: Supernovae and Solar (D N Schramm)and other papers Readership: Particle physicists and astrophysicists.
Author : Michael Perryman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 10 : 9780521514897
Pages : 695 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (521 users)
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Author : James Newsome Pierce
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 9781599424514
Pages : 247 pages
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Author : Mark Farrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-27
ISBN 10 : 9781316634929
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (316 users)
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Author : Stephen Webb
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1999-03-18
ISBN 10 : 1852331062
Pages : 364 pages
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