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Astrobiology, History, and Society: Life Beyond Earth and the Impact of Discovery
ISBN: 9783642435409 / Angielski / Miękka / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses important current and historical topics in astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The first section covers the plurality of worlds debate from antiquity through the nineteenth century, while section two covers the extraterrestrial life debate from the twentieth century to the present. The final section examines the societal impact of discovering life beyond Earth, including both cultural and religious dimensions. Throughout the book, authors draw links between their own chapters and those of other...
This book addresses important current and historical topics in astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth, including the search for extraterres...
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644,07 |
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Advanced Statistical Methods for Astrophysical Probes of Cosmology
ISBN: 9783642444548 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thesis explores advanced Bayesian statistical methods for extracting key information for cosmological model selection, parameter inference and forecasting from astrophysical observations. Bayesian model selection provides a measure of how good models in a set are relative to each other - but what if the best model is missing and not included in the set? Bayesian Doubt is an approach which addresses this problem and seeks to deliver an absolute rather than a relative measure of how good a model is. Supernovae type Ia were the first astrophysical observations to indicate the late time...
This thesis explores advanced Bayesian statistical methods for extracting key information for cosmological model selection, parameter inference and fo...
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201,24 |
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Biochirality: Origins, Evolution and Molecular Recognition
ISBN: 9783642447372 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early History of the Recognition of Molecular Biochirality, by Joseph Gal, Pedro Cintas Synthesis and Chirality of Amino Acids Under Interstellar Conditions, by Chaitanya Giri, Fred Goesmann, Cornelia Meinert, Amanda C. Evans, Uwe J. Meierhenrich Chemical and Physical Models for the Emergence of Biological Homochirality, by son E. Hein, Dragos Gherase, Donna G. Blackmond Biomolecules at Interfaces: Chiral, Naturally, by Arantzazu Gonzalez-Campo and David B. Amabilino Stochastic Mirror Symmetry Breaking: Theoretical Models and Simulation of Experiments, by Celia... Early History of the Recognition of Molecular Biochirality, by Joseph Gal, Pedro Cintas Synthesis and Chirality of Amino Acids Under Interste... |
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1207,67 |
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An Introduction to Star Formation
ISBN: 9781107483521 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guiding the reader through all the stages that lead to the formation of a star such as our Sun, this advanced textbook provides students with a complete overview of star formation. It examines the underlying physical processes that govern the evolution from a molecular cloud core to a main-sequence star, and focuses on the formation of solar-mass stars. Each chapter combines theory and observation, helping readers to connect with and understand the theory behind star formation. Beginning with an explanation of the interstellar medium and molecular clouds as sites of star formation, subsequent...
Guiding the reader through all the stages that lead to the formation of a star such as our Sun, this advanced textbook provides students with a comple...
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298,87 |
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Kepler and the Universe: How One Man Revolutionized Astronomy
ISBN: 9781633881068 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pioneering German scientist and a pivotal figure in the history of astronomy. This colorful, well-researched biography brings the man and his scientific discoveries to life, showing how his contributions were every bit as important as those of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton.
It was Kepler who first advocated the completely new concept of a physical force emanating from the sun that controls the motion of the planets--today we call this gravity and take it for granted. He also established that... A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pioneering German scientist and a pivotal figure in the ...
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149,32 |
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Light Scattering Reviews 8: Radiative Transfer and Light Scattering
ISBN: 9783642440304 / Angielski / Miękka / 634 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Light scattering review (vol 8) is aimed at the presentation of recent advances in radiative transfer and light scattering optics. The topics to be covered include: scattering of light by irregularly shaped particles suspended in atmosphere (dust, ice crystals), light scattering by particles much larger as compared the wavelength of incident radiation, atmospheric radiative forcing, astrophysical radiative transfer, radiative transfer and optical imaging in biological media, radiative transfer of polarized light, numerical aspects of radiative transfer.
Light scattering review (vol 8) is aimed at the presentation of recent advances in radiative transfer and light scattering optics. The topics to be co...
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603,81 |
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Astronomy of Today
ISBN: 9781508857440 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is too often supposed that it is impossible to acquire any useful knowledge of Astronomy without much laborious study, and without adventuring into quite a new world of thought. The reasoning applied to the study of the celestial orbs is, however, of no different order from that which is employed in the affairs of everyday life. The science of mathematics is perhaps responsible for the idea that some kind of difference does exist; but mathematical processes are, in effect, no more than ordinary logic in concentrated form, the shorthand of reasoning, so to speak.
It is too often supposed that it is impossible to acquire any useful knowledge of Astronomy without much laborious study, and without adventuring into...
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34,83 |
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Meteorite: Nature and Culture
ISBN: 9781780234977 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the rarest things on earth, meteorites carry an air of mystery and drama while having left a pervasive, outsized mark on our planet and civilization. In Meteorite, Maria Golia tells the long history of our engagement with these sky-born space rocks. Arriving amid thunderous blasts and flame-streaked skies, meteorites were once thought to be messengers from the gods. Worshipped in the past, now scrutinized with equal zeal by scientists, meteorites helped sculpt Earth's features and have shaped our understanding of the planet's origins. Prized for their outlandish qualities,...
Among the rarest things on earth, meteorites carry an air of mystery and drama while having left a pervasive, outsized mark on our planet and civiliza...
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95,57 |
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Quantum Enhancement of a 4 Km Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Detector
ISBN: 9783319176857 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work in this thesis was a part of the experiment of squeezed light injection into the LIGO interferometer. The work first discusses the detailed design of the squeezed light source which would be used for the experiment. The specific design is the doubly-resonant, traveling-wave bow-tie cavity squeezed light source with a new modified coherent sideband locking technique. The thesis describes the properties affecting the squeezing magnitudes and offers solutions which improve the gain. The first part also includes the detailed modeling of the back-scattering noise of a traveling Optical...
The work in this thesis was a part of the experiment of squeezed light injection into the LIGO interferometer. The work first discusses the detailed d...
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402,53 |
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On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea: A Scientific Novel
ISBN: 9783319177588 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of the most detailed knowledge on the moon's geology, volcanology, meteorology, marine sciences and chemistry are gathered together here to paint a factually accurate hypothetical future of early human colonization on this strange world. The views from Titan's Mayda Outpost are spectacular, but all is not well at the moon's remote science base. On the shore of a methane sea beneath glowering skies, atmospherics researcher Abigail Marco... Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All o... |
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100,60 |
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Rocket Ranch: The Nuts and Bolts of the Apollo Moon Program at Kennedy Space Center
ISBN: 9783319177885 / Angielski / Miękka / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The era of the Apollo/Saturn missions was perhaps the most exciting period in American space exploration history. Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center were buzzing with activity. Thousands of workers came to town to build the facilities and launch the missions needed to put an American on the Moon before the end of the decade. Work at KSC involved much more than just launching rockets. It was a place like none other on Earth. Technicians performed intricate operations, and hazards abounded everywhere, including lightning, fire, highly-toxic fuels, snakes, heat, explosives, LOX... The era of the Apollo/Saturn missions was perhaps the most exciting period in American space exploration history. Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space ... |
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181,11 |
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Some Aspects of the Formation of the Solar System
ISBN: 9783319178301 / Angielski / Miękka / 75 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is devoted to the problems that occur when attempting to understand and construct a concise representation of the original conditions, composition and dynamics of the evolution of the Earth-Moon system in the form in which it is seen today. This volume will perhaps contribute to a better understanding of what is necessary to research the dynamics of the Solar system. This book is devoted to the problems that occur when attempting to understand and construct a concise representation of the original conditions, co... |
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201,24 |
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Physical Cosmology
ISBN: 9780691646961 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in the early days of big telescopes and photographic plates. Modern man, by means of radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray astronomy, can penetrate the universe to depths never before explored. P.J.E. Peebles has written a pioneering work in this newly defined area of investigation. Intended to bridge the chasm between classical textbooks on cosmology and modern developments, Physical Cosmology serves as a guide to current points of debate in a rapidly changing field. Originally published in... Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in the early days of big telescopes and photographic plates. Modern man, by mea... |
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731,67 |
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Homogeneous Relativistic Cosmologies
ISBN: 9780691645209 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing a variety of theoretical cosmological problems, and emphasizing a mathematical approach, this volume nicely complements Peebles' Physical Cosmology (Princeton Series in Physics, 1971). Ryan and Shepley have concentrated on the structure of models of the universe. By using a modern terminology that emphasizes the operator nature of vectors and tensors, as opposed to their components in a particular coordinate system, the authors develop modern tensor analysis to the point where it can be applied to general relativistic cosmology. They then use it to describe... Addressing a variety of theoretical cosmological problems, and emphasizing a mathematical approach, this volume nicely complements Peebles' Phys... |
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795,08 |
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The Light at the Edge of the Universe: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Cosmology
ISBN: 9780691635910 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Will the universe expand forever? Or will it collapse in a Big Crunch within the next few billion years? If the Big Bang theory is correct in presenting the origins of the universe as a smooth fireball, how did the universe come to contain structures as large as the recently discovered "Great Wall" of galaxies, which stretches hundreds of millions of light years? Such are the compelling questions that face cosmologists today, and it is the excitement and wonder of their research that Michael Lemonick shares in this lively tour of the current state of astrophysics and cosmology. Here... Will the universe expand forever? Or will it collapse in a Big Crunch within the next few billion years? If the Big Bang theory is correct in prese... |
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853,61 |
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Mathematical Methods for Geophysics and Space Physics
ISBN: 9780691170602 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Graduate students in the natural sciences--including not only geophysics and space physics but also atmospheric and planetary physics, ocean sciences, and astronomy--need a broad-based mathematical toolbox to facilitate their research. In addition, they need to survey a wider array of mathematical methods that, while outside their particular areas of expertise, are important in related ones. While it is unrealistic to expect them to develop an encyclopedic knowledge of all the methods that are out there, they need to know how and where to obtain reliable and effective insights into these... Graduate students in the natural sciences--including not only geophysics and space physics but also atmospheric and planetary physics, ocean scienc... |
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390,22 |
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Die Entschlüsselung Der Wirklichkeit: Ist Das Universum Ein Programm Und Gott Der Programmierer?
ISBN: 9783662461389 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Naturgesetze sind nicht alles - sie allein erzeugen noch kein Universum. Die Regeln allein setzen das Spiel nicht in Gang es fehlt die energetische Ursache. Schliesslich ist ein virtuelles Spiel nicht mit einem realen Spiel identisch, schreibt Imre Koncsik. In der Natur bedeutet das, dass die Gleichungen, die die Naturgesetze abbilden, gelost und ausgerechnet werden mussen. Damit legt sich der Gedanke nahe, dass das Universum als eine gigantische Rechenmaschine oder ein Programm aufgefasst werden kann. Der Autor nimmt seine Leser mit auf eine spannende und anspruchsvolle Reise... Naturgesetze sind nicht alles - sie allein erzeugen noch kein Universum. Die Regeln allein setzen das Spiel nicht in Gang es fehlt die ener... |
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187,38 |
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Production Yield of Muon-Induced Neutrons in Lead: Measured at the Modane Underground Laboratory
ISBN: 9783319185262 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work presented in this book is a major step towards understanding and eventually suppressing background in the direct search for dark matter particles scattering off germanium detectors. Although the flux of cosmic muons is reduced by many orders of magnitude in underground laboratories, the remaining energetic muons induce neutrons through various processes, neutrons that can potentially mimic a dark matter signal. This thesis describes the measurement of muon-induced neutrons over more than 3 years in the Modane underground laboratory. The data are complemented by a thorough modeling of...
The work presented in this book is a major step towards understanding and eventually suppressing background in the direct search for dark matter parti...
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402,53 |
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The Making of Copernicus: Early Modern Transformations of a Scientist and his Science
ISBN: 9789004281103 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors to Making of Copernicus examine by the study of particular examples how some of the myths surrounding Copernicus came about and whether they have held their validity or have vanished altogether. Are there links between a real or postulated transformation of images of the world and the application of metaphors in science, especially the metaphor of scientific revolution? What were the interactions and conflations in science and literature that led to Copernicus being set on a pedestal or being cast down from it, and how did they come about? Is there on the other hand...
The contributors to Making of Copernicus examine by the study of particular examples how some of the myths surrounding Copernicus came about an...
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569,42 |
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Das Leben Der Sterne: Teil II: Junge Stellare Objekte Und Sternenalltag
ISBN: 9783658091729 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Essential beschreibt die Entwicklung junger stellarer Objekte nach der Protosternphase und knupft nahtlos an den ersten Teil der Essentials-Serie uber Das Leben der Sterne an. Im Folgenden werden Bedingungen formuliert, unter denen die jungen Sterne die Hauptreihe im Hertzsprung-Russell-Diagramm erreichen. Die grundlegenden kernphysikalischen Prozesse des Wasserstoffbrennens, in Form der Proton-Proton-Reaktion und des CNO-Zyklus, werden ausfuhrlich diskutiert und entsprechende Voraussetzungen definiert. Eine Ubersicht ausgewahlter optischer und physischer Veranderlicher sowie ein Ausflug...
Das Essential beschreibt die Entwicklung junger stellarer Objekte nach der Protosternphase und knupft nahtlos an den ersten Teil der Essentials-Serie ...
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56,40 |