Overview :The Sun may be a mass of incandescent gas, but in the plasmatic reaches of its solar winds spins another seemingly glowing (but relatively m... Read More
Overview :Saturn is the showpiece planet of our solar system. It may not be the largest, nor the smallest, nor even the only planet with rings. But it... Read More
Overview :An inviting expedition across our galactic neighborhood, from Mercury to the Sun's furthest satellites, complete with the latest discoveries... Read More
Overview :An inviting expedition across our galactic neighborhood, from Mercury to the Sun's furthest satellites, complete with the latest discoveries... Read More
Overview :A thrilling guide to the celestial drama and scientific wonder of eclipses. For millennia, solar eclipses have stirred awe and fear. Once s... Read More
Overview :In this unique and fascinating history of science, acclaimed popular science writer William Sheehan - who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowshi... Read More
Overview :No other planet has so fired the human imagination as Mars. The possibility of life on the planet was an obsession in the 19th century. It i... Read More
Overview :Twenty years after the Viking missions of the '70s, we are finally going back to Mars. No fewer than ten missions are planned for the period... Read More
Overview :For millenia humans have considered Mars the most fascinating planet in our solar system. We've watched this Earth-like world first with the... Read More
Overview :This first full-length biography of Edward Emerson Barnard tells the remarkable tale of endurance and achievement of one of the leading astr... Read More
Overview :FOLLOWING years of discontent over Home Rule and the Easter Rising, the deaths of two Royal Irish Constabulary policemen in Soloheadbeg at t... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This w... Read More
Overview :Using the "Parallel Lives" approach adopted by the Greek biographer Plutarch, noted historian of astronomy William Sheehan contrasts the liv... Read More
Overview :Written by William Sheehan, a noted historian of astronomy, and Christopher J. Conselice, a professional astronomer specializing in galaxies... Read More
Overview :The true story of one of the oldest plantations in central Virginia and the people that lived there over a span of centuries. This story is ... Read More