The New Worlds : Extrasolar Planets
Exoplanet, extrasolar planet, exoEarth, exojupiter: neologisms still absent from many dictionaries. These terms are, however, ...
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The Observers Year
There are 365 nights in every year (366 in a leap year!) and from an amateur astronomer’s point of view, no two are alike.And ...
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The Outer Planets and their Moons
This volume gives an integrated summary of the science related to the four giant planets in our solar system. It is the result ...
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The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Recent Scientific Results and 2nd Generation Instrumentation : Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 4-8 April 2005
Long-baseline interferometry has been traditionally regarded as a very technical method with a limited number of applications. ...
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The Search for Life Continued : Planets Around Other Stars
Barrie Jones addresses the question "are we alone?", which is one of the most frequently asked questions by scientists ...
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The Sky is Your Laboratory
For the experienced amateur astronomer who is wondering if there is something useful, valuable, and permanent that can be ...
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The Sun : A User's Manual
The Sun is an account of the many ways in which our nearest star affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the ...
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The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate
This book presents the lectures notes of the 34th Saas-Fee Advanced Course "The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate" given ...
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The Unintended Consequences of Technology: Solutions, Breakthroughs, and the Restart We Need / Chris Ategeka
In The Unintended Consequences of Technology: Solutions, Breakthroughs and the Restart We Need, accomplished tech entrepreneur ...
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Thermodynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Based on a university course, this book provides an exposition of a large spectrum of geological, geochemical and geophysical ...
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Topics in Gravitational Dynamics
This set of lectures collects surveys of open problems in celestial dynamics and dynamical astronomy applied to solar, extra-solar ...
Lire la suiteTowards a Cleaner Planet
The world has entered a period of significant changes regarding the future of energy generation, mainly caused by the apparent ...
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Towards a Natural Social Contract Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation for a Sustainable, Healthy and Just Society
This book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with ...
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Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets
In the last two decades of the 20th century, we obtained our first detailed look at a cometary nucleus and detected objects ...
Lire la suiteTransformational Change for People and the Planet : Evaluating Environment and Development
This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development ...
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Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change
The goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to investigate ...
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Ultraviolet Radiation in the Solar System
The Sun is our main source of UV radiation and its description occupies the first two chapters of the book. The Earth is ...
Lire la suiteUn anno intero sotto il cielo
There are 365 nights in a year (366 if leap) and for the amateur astronomer there are never two alike. The sky every night ...
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Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them
This book tells the story of two giants and a dwarf. The giants, Uranus and Neptune, are mostly huge balls of gas, and they ...
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Vegetation-Climate Interaction
This book has been written with the aim of providing an accessible introduction to the many ways in which plants respond ...
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