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How does the Galaxy Work?

"This volume presents a multi-disciplinary approach to the physical mechanisms which structure the shape, evolution and ...

ISO Science Legacy

This book recounts results obtained via the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) on comets, in the close environment of pre-main ...

IT Security Controls : A Guide to Corporate Standards and Frameworks / Virgilio Viegas, Oben Kuyucu

Gives an overview of the major standards and frameworks, and a proposed architecture to meet them. The book identifies and ...

Intelligent Life in the Universe

This book addresses the possible origins, development and fate of intelligent life in the universe. The author presents a ...

Island Universes : Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies

This book contains an up-to-date review of the structure and evolution of disk galaxies from both the observational and theoretical ...

Isolated Neutron Stars: from the Surface to the Interior

This book collects the contributions presented at the conference Isolated Neutron Stars, held in London in April 2006. It ...

Jets from Young Stars

This volume contains the edited lecture notes of the First JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars: Models and Constraints, ...

Lasers, Clocks and Drag-Free Control : Exploration of Relativistic Gravity in Space

Over the next decade the gravitational physics community will benefit from dramatic improvements in many technologies critical ...

L’osservazione delle stelle variabili = The observation of variable stars

The observation of variable stars is one of the main contributions that amateur astronomers can offer to science and this ...

Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images

Professor Greg Parker's astronomical photographs are widely known for their excellence, and a selection of them has recently ...

Mars, A Cosmic Stepping Stone : Uncovering Humanity’s Cosmic Context

The questions of our origin and cosmic abundance of life are among the compelling facing humanity. For all of the difficulties ...

Measuring Human Trafficking

Measuring Human Trafficking needs to be read by scholars, professionals, and policymakers in the criminology and human rights ...

Multiple Stars Across the H-R Diagram : Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 12-15 July 2005

Stars show a marked tendency to be in systems of different multiplicity, ranging from simple binaries and triples to globular ...

Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution

The possibilities of astronomical observation have dramatically increased over the last decade. Major satellites, like the ...

Neutron Stars 1

The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. With masses comparable ...

New Light on Dark Stars

There has been very considerable progress in research into low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets during the ...

Nurturing Science-based Ventures

The challenge is to nurture entrepreneurial skills and ambitions in science and engineering academic students in the hope ...

Origins : How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe Began

The biggest questions in astronomy are those of how the planets, stars, galaxies, and the Universe were formed. ORIGINS describes ...

Parting the Cosmic Veil

Astronomers have used telescopes, operating at the visible wavelengths that we see with our eye, to reveal the true extent ...

Pattern Asterisms

Orion is a familiar constellation. He even looks like a hunter – at least it’s easy to visualize his belt and sword.Since ...

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